| Let’s have a national referendum on Giscard d’Estaing’s “Constitution for Europe” |
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| Let’s have a national referendum on Giscard d’Estaing’s “Constitution for Europe” NOW - Tony Blair has said he doesn't want it until after the Election. What a surprise! |
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| Mr Giscard d'Estaing’s Convention has drawn up a draft Constitution, which would drastically change Britain’s, and indeed every Member State’s, status in the European Union. It is NOT some technical “tidying up” exercise as Government Ministers try to pretend. |
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| The Constitution gives more power to all the existing EU institutions and creates a Europe with more jobs for politicians and less influence for the people. The Constitution concentrates more executive and budgetary power in the very EU institutions which have been the subject of repeated and continuing scandals over mismanagement, waste and fraud. |
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| Many more decisions on foreign policy, criminal justice matters and economic and employment policies will in future be taken in Brussels, not Westminster. The result is a new constitutional order for the Union and its member states, with damaging implications for parliamentary democracy and sensible principles of self-government. |
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| The new Constitution means the EU will have a permanent President and a Foreign Minister on top of the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Court of Justice. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights will become legally binding on British courts and citizens. The European Court of Justice will essentially become the supreme court of all the citizens of the new Union. |
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| Only Mr Blair’s Government pretends that these changes are minor. All the other EU countries openly admit they mean more European centralisation. My view is that we must let the British people decide. Mr Blair cannot be trusted on this. So let’s have a national referendum NOW! |
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