The European Union is the nightmare dream of people with old minds

 

Freedom & justice walk hand in hand

Any and all treaties with the EU are in flagrant breach of the written British Constitution.

The European Union is the nightmare dream of people with old minds

Top left clockwise, EU promoters and grandees Angela Merkel, Valéry d’Estaing, Edward Heath (deceased), Jacques Chirac.

Brits fight back against the EU’s threat to liberty & prosperity

DECEIVED BY POLITICIANS

The European Union was falsely sold to the British people as a Common Market. The politicians of the time said there would be nothing political about it even though they knew otherwise.

The European Union pretended to be just a free-trade area, but it has become a managed trade area with protectionist tariffs that raise the price of goods, a political agenda that decimates individual liberty, and oppressive trade protections that devastate Third World peoples.

The EU is an insidious political project that threatens the existence of Britain and the well being of the British people. The EU plans to swallow nation states and create a political superstate. Five EU treaties provide for an EU economy, EU Army, police force, legal and judicial system, diplomatic service, taxes, anthem, and flag – in short, all the attributes of a nation state.

The EU apparently built its centre in Strasbourg to evoke Breughel’s Tower of Babel.
Image: Next Crusade

Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky remarks, “If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union.”

DICTATED TO BY UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS; HARD-EARNED MONEY LOST TO CORRUPTION

The unelected bureaucrats of the EU now make over 70% of British laws. These laws are not debated in the British Parliament. They are not in the best interests of the British people. They pass directly on to Britain’s statute books.

Meanwhile the EU’s fiscal house is a mess. The EU’s Court of Auditors will not sign off on them. Vast sums of money are unaccounted for, suggesting that millions of pounds of the taxpayers’ hard-earned money is disappearing into the pockets of EU kleptocrats. Even when these frauds involve companies set up in Britain by EU operatives, Britain’s Serious Fraud Office refuses to investigate.

MOST RECENTLY RELEASED EU CORRUPTION REPORT (2004 – YES THEY ARE SLOW IN RELEASING REPORTS) IS HERE
POLITICIANS SELL COUNTRY FOR PERSONAL GAIN

The three main political parties in Britain are all committed to staying in the EU. Two of the main parties have supported the project for years by signing EU treaties. This makes it hard for them to imagine exiting the EU, despite the fact that an exit would not be difficult to arrange and public opinion polls indicate a majority of Brits support leaving. Many British politicians seem to have a personal interest in the EU project: A growing number of them have signed onto the EU gravy train for its lavish salaries, perks, and pensions.

EU MIGRATIONS SWAMP BRITAIN

Brits like to rescue people, and they are quite good at it, but there is a physical limit to how many people can squeeze into the lifeboat of one rather small country.

Photo: Association for Rescue at Sea

Because the EU controls immigration policy, the British Government cannot control or refuse steep population migrations from all over Europe. Water shortages and overcrowding have become real threats to the well being of Brits and to the beauty of their country. The Human Rights Act, which is EU-inspired, means that nearly everyone entering Britain is entitled to stay. The same act means that criminals now have more rights than victims, and that the courts decide social policy.

The UK Independence Party advocates the free movement of goods, and the free movement of people who are travelling. UKIP is opposed to the transmigration of millions of people which would threaten the culture of every country in the EU, including but not limited to the cultures of Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Ireland.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn spoke powerfully for these nations when he said, “Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colours and bears within itself a special facet of divine intention.”

EU ABANDONS SUCCESS AND FREEDOM

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, “To lose freedom may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both freedom and prosperity looks like carelessness.”

The EU detests Britain’s Common Law, but the Common Law is the highly successful foundation of law in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, and other prosperous countries. (There is no country in the world using British Common Law that is not successful.) The Common Law protects both freedom and prosperity, yet the EU wants to destroy it.

Britain is being converted to the EU’s Napoleonic model of justice, corpus juris, which gives little protection to the individual against the state, where there is no presumption of innocence, where you can be tried repeatedly for the same offence, and where jury trials are rare. The European Arrest Warrant means that a Brit can be accused of a crime that is not an offence in Britain, be arrested by foreign police at his home in Britain, and be held in a foreign jail pending trial under a code of justice that disregards habeas corpus.

Incredibly, EU police (Europol) are themselves immune from prosecution for any personal criminal acts. This flies in the face of nine hundred years of British realism, for it was in 1100 that Brits forced their Kings to recognise that no one, not even a King is above the law.

Two hundred thousand pages of regulations (the Acquis Communitaire) are strangling small British businesses. “Regulatory creep” and uncertainty about what regulations mean depress business. Taxes in Britain have been raised to create what EU bureaucrats call tax convergence. These regulations and taxes are creating a drag on the British economy that hurts all British citizens.

Photo: Cimmerian@istockphoto.com

Imports from outside the EU are taxed, so goods from Australia, America, and Asia are more expensive in the EU than anywhere else in the world. Brits once bought good cheap agricultural products from Australia and New Zealand. Now preference is given to heavily subsidized and very expensive French farmers. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidizes French farmers by billions every year, while British farmers are being bankrupted.

The average British family’s food bill is one thousand pounds a year higher because of EU tariffs.

Photo: shazie28@istockphoto.com

Britain had 90% of the EU’s fish stocks. They used to be conserved and managed by Brits, and once produced a sustainable catch, supporting thousands of fishermen and their families and feeding Brits. EU treaties gave British fishing stocks to the Spanish and French who overfished and destroyed them.

UNFUNDED PENSION LIABILITIES MEAN DISASTER FOR OLD AND YOUNG

“Unfunded pension liabilities now average some 285% of GDP, more than 4 times the officially published public debt figures. Total public liabilities now exceed assets in most EU countries, and are causing runaway debt service. Europe’s present social model is unsustainable because it is based on the robbery of future generations.” (Brussels Journal)

Photo: alephx01@istockphoto.com

According to the Brussels Journal, “If social policies are kept unchanged, tax hikes of as much as 5 to 15 percentage points will be necessary over the next couple of decades merely to avoid the rate of indebtedness increasing any further. Unfortunately, this will just kill growth completely,” raising unemployment, breeding inflation, making property worth less, and creating social turmoil on an unprecedented scale.

EU STEALS INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND REPRESENTATION

Britain has been divided into EU regions, and the traditional counties are being trashed. In the EU, England is no longer herself, the real and legendary nation of freedom, but has been divided into nine regions. These EU regions receive funding from and are responsible to the EU, thus bypassing elected representatives in Westminster. They are governed by appointed (not elected) regional assemblies, which, astonishingly, are private bodies not approved by Parliament. Individual rights, individual redress, and individual representation are disappearing as unaccountable eurocrats take over. To keep up to date, check EU Referendum where Richard North and Helen Szamuely post daily.

It’s interesting that the people of Gibraltar, originally came from Genoa, Malta and from the great scattering of the Jews of Europe. Multi-racial, but not multicultural, the British Gibraltarians affirmed in a national referendum that despite Spain’s threats they would remain British.

“It is an example,” writes Peter Hitchens, “of how people grow attached to the small and the particular, the friendly and the neighbourly – and of how the wretched Marxoid idea of a world without borders, with one language, one currency, one diet, one law and one way of doing everything is deeply unattractive to most of us.” Peter Hitchens

This wretched Socialist superstate is the nightmare we want to escape.

IN SUMMARY

•Britain now makes only a quarter of its own laws. The rest are made by unelected Brussels bureaucrats.

•The EU has rampant fraud and corruption.

•The EU depresses economies with excessive regulation.

•The EU will destroy British freedoms. EU-wide police and military can threaten British citizens.

•All EU police are immune from prosecution for any crime.

•The size of government and taxes will continue to increase.

•The EU has destroyed Britain’s fish stocks and fishermen.

•EU Regionalisation will destroy Britain.

•The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) makes food expensive, and is destroying British farmers.

•Britons were deceived into voting for the Common Market in 1974, and have not been given the chance to vote on the EU project since.

•Uncontrolled immigration, mandated by the EU, is driving Britain’s population to unsustainable levels.

ESCAPING THE EU

Brits can escape the EU simply and easily.

1) To escape the EU, Parliament will repeal the European Communities Act of 1972 and leave the EU.

2) When the United Kingdom leaves the EU, it will continue to trade with Europe and the rest of the world. Britain will move into a future of freedom and opportunity. After leaving the EU the United Kingdom could remain in the European Free Trade Area. This is not a perfect arrangement, but it releases our country from the EU’s control while leaving trading agreements in place.

3) You elect MPs who will vote to leave the EU. The Better Off Out Campaign has identified a number of MPs and prospective MPs who will support the repeal of the 1972 European Communities Act.

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The Written Constitution- The Fabian Jack Straw said-WE DID NOT HAVE!

The structure of the oak, the national tree of England, Wales and the United States, evokes the structure of the British Constitution.

Some people claim that Britain does not have a Constitution or that it is unwritten. That’s surprising since the British Constitution was a model for the constitutions of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
John Adams, the lawyer and US President who helped to frame the American Constitution, called the British Constitution the most stupendous fabric of human invention in history.
What did John Adams know? Is that knowledge being kept from the British people? Is the Constitution being betrayed? And how does the British Constitution resemble an oak tree?

A stupendous invention

A constitution describes how government will be organized and its fundamental principles. The fundamental principles of the British Constitution are rooted in the Christian idea that each of us is an individual created by God to be a free moral agent. Just as our family Christmas traditions are unwritten, some parts of the British Constitution are unwritten. However, many crucial parts of the Constitution are written down and have been for centuries. They are:

1) Common Law

2) The Coronation Oath

3) Magna Carta

4) Statute of Westminster

5) The Petition of Right, Declaration of Right and Bill of Rights

6) The Act of Settlement of 1701

7) The Act of Union

We’ll describe the written documents of the British Constitution and its structure and conclude with
Unwritten traditions

1) COMMON LAW

Established by Alfred the Great (AD 871- 899) Common Law has been developed by the British people for more than a thousand years. It is common because it applies to everyone equally.

Common Law is grounded in the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule – treat others as you would be treated. Common Law was developed by British people so they could settle their differences peacefully and fairly.

Common Law incorporates the Charter of Liberties (1100). The Charter makes the Sovereign subject to the law and affirms that no person is above the law. Common Law includes the Council of Westminster (1102), which ended slavery in England. Common Law protects the right established in the Petition of Right (1627) that no person can be arrested for disagreeing with the government. Common Law defends your property rights, your right to self-defence and your right to be secure in your own home – your home is your castle.

Common Law establishes every person’s right to a jury trial and the freedom of juries to declare a person innocent. If a jury believes that a person has been charged under an unjust law, it has the right to acquit. For this reason Common Law is superior to the statute law created by Parliament. In the 17th century the Lord Chief Justice ruled that juries have an inalienable right to freely decide guilt and innocence.

Common Law plainly states that judges are to be guided by precedent – the rulings of previous cases. They are not to make up the law. Where there is no precedent, Common Law dictates that decisions must be made according to principles of fairness recognized by Common Law.

Common Law contributes to the prosperity of Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

2) THE CORONATION OATH

The Coronation Oath is the freely taken and mutual covenant between the British sovereign and the people of Britain. During the coronation ceremony, the people affirm their Sovereign, and the Sovereign swears the Coronation Oath and promises to protect their laws and customs.

First pledged by King Edgar in AD 973, the Coronation Oath binds the Sovereign to deliver justice and fair treatment to the British people. HM Elizabeth II swore to uphold the Common Law and the customs of the people of the United Kingdom.

It is the Sovereign’s duty to protect the people’s laws and freedoms. The Monarch’s grant of Royal Assent allows an Act of Parliament to take effect. The refusal of Assent is a check on the tyrannical power of Parliament. The Sovereign has a Constitutional duty to refuse Royal Assent to unconstitutional acts of Parliament.

The Sovereign plays a fundamental executive role, as was seen at the beginning of World War II when the King asked Winston Churchill to form a government. In the 1970s HM Elizabeth II plainly told PM Heath to make way for Mr Wilson. Acting on Her Majesty’s behalf, her Governors-General play a critical constitutional role in Canada and Australia.

Six British sovereigns were deselected and deposed because they did not protect the people’s laws and liberties.

The Sovereign is supposed to provide an important balance to the power of Parliament. As we will see, this has been forgotten because for many years it was Parliament that was attempting to check the power of the Sovereign.

3) MAGNA CARTA

In AD 1215, knights, barons, clergy and townspeople established and defended Magna Carta. (The support of the people of the big towns has been forgotten, but it was crucial.) The Great Charter affirmed the people’s rights and liberties, including the right to habeas corpus, the right to trial by jury and protection from excessive fines that would devastate your ability to make a living.

As you have read, trial by jury limits the power of the state by giving the power of establishing guilt or innocence to the people. The British people have repeatedly and successfully inhibited tyranny by declaring men and women charged under despotic laws to be innocent.

In 1297 the Model Parliament confirmed Magna Carta in statute law. Magna Carta remains in force to this day. Along with Common Law and the Coronation Oath, Magna Carta is part of the British Constitution.

Statue of Churchill, facing Parliament

Sir Winston Churchill said about Magna Carta –

“In subsequent ages when the state swollen with its own authority has attempted to ride roughshod over the rights and liberties of the people it is to this doctrine that appeal has again and again been made and never as yet without success”.

4) STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER ENABLING PARLIAMENT

Parliament was established because people wanted honest sheriffs, a say in taxation and a curb on foreign adventures. Henry III had resisted those reforms, including some that the people believed they had already won in Magna Carta.

Henry III went to war. Simon de Montfort captured the king and the prince of Wales in battle. He invited the shires and the towns to vote for representatives to Parliament where the reforms would be discussed and implemented. The first Parliament met on 20 January 1265. In August, Montfort died defending the reforms.

But the reforms did not die.

The Statute of Westminster, AD 1275, would appear to be the foundational document that established Parliament. With the Sovereign and the Judiciary, Parliament forms the third branch of government. Its political parties, cabinet, prime minister and whips have gradually evolved as hoary traditions.

Members of Parliament are elected by the people to serve them. MPs are elected to serve as both representatives of their constituencies and as representatives of all the British people. They are supposed to be the defenders of British liberties. They have no right under the Constitution to usurp the power of the Sovereign with whom the people have entered into covenant.

Canada’s House of Commons
Canada’s Constitution and Her Majesty’s Government in Canada are modelled after the British Constitution.

5) THE PETITION OF RIGHT / DECLARATION OF RIGHT / BILL OF RIGHTS

The Petition of Right (1628) at the beginning of the century and the Declaration of Right and Bill of Rights (1689) at the end frame a century-long effort to constrain the power of the Sovereign and to reaffirm the people’s “liberties and free customs”.

The Petition of Right was won from Charles I by Parliament –

Free men cannot be imprisoned without cause. The Government cannot arrest any man because he disagrees with the Government’s policies. (This protection is fundamental to a free society.) Habeas corpus is not to be denied. No person will be compelled to make loans to the King, and there will be no tax without the approval of Parliament. Soldiers and sailors will not be billeted on civilians, and the Government will not impose martial law during peacetime.

In 1689, the Glorious Revolution was won when William and Mary accepted the people’s Declaration of Right as part of their Coronation Oath.

Mary II

The Declaration of Right limited the powers of the Sovereign and Parliament and all officers and ministers and whatsoever, and reaffirmed certain rights and liberties of the people as their birthright. It was later enacted into statute law by Parliament as the Bill of Rights.

The Declaration and the Bill of Rights affirm that suspending or executing laws or taxes without the consent of Parliament is illegal; that the people have a right to petition the Sovereign; that excessive bail and fines cannot be imposed; and that the people (limited at this time to Protestants who were 98% of the population) have the right to bear arms in their defense.

The right to bear arms gives every person the right to meet violence with reasonable self-defence, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm.

The right to bear arms is recognized as a centuries-old shield against tyranny. Every genocide of the 20th century was carried out by governments who first deprived their people of their right to bear arms.

Further, the Declaration of Right and Bill of Rights plainly state That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm.

Giving any foreign body authority over the British people is unconstitutional.

The structure of the English oak is a visual sketch of the organizing principles of the British and American Constitutions. The Constitution has three great branches – 1) the Sovereign (in America, the executive branch), 2) the two houses of Parliament (in America, the legislature) and 3) the judiciary. The three branches are meant to check each other’s power and balance each other just as the three main branches of the oak tree balance each other.
The great supporting trunk of the Constitution is rule by just law. The roots of the Constitution are the people. The earth is their God-given birthright of freedom. The people and their freedom nourish the Constitution, and are nourished by it.

6) THE ACT OF SETTLEMENT 1701

The Act of Settlement affirmed that Common Law is the birthright of the people and may never be taken away. The Act declares that the British people are restored to the full and free possession and enjoyment of their religion, rights, and liberties, by the providence of God. The Act makes one essential idea absolutely clear –

Government cannot grant freedom to the people because freedom belongs to the people by birthright. Government exists not to give the people liberty, but to protect their liberty.

7) THE ACT OF UNION 1707

The Act of Union united the kingdom of Scotland with the kingdom of England and Wales in the United Kingdom. The British Constitution became the constitution for the whole Kingdom, which includes Northern Ireland. Scotland retained some of its laws.

UNWRITTEN TRADITIONS

Freedom of speech is one of the “free customs” and unwritten traditions that belong to the people. It is not specifically described in these crucial documents (aside from allowing free speech in Parliament) because it is viewed as a “free custom” that has always belonged to the people. It is an ancient tradition of the islands.

This did not mean a person would not get in trouble for saying or publishing something which those in authority did not wish said. But if you were arrested, you could push back, as William Penn did, and be defended by a jury.

Most of the time you were not arrested because the great majority of the British people understood that freedom works – it makes people more prosperous and science more inventive, literature more interesting and life more brilliant and happy.

Just as you know your family’s traditions without writing them down, you understand and value your traditions of freedom, which men and women before you defended with their lives.

IN CONCLUSION

The British Constitution that we have described is largely the Constitution which John Adams knew and admired. Its structure of government checked and channeled and balanced power and increasingly defended the people’s liberties. Today the British Constitution is in peril. It may not survive. The biggest threat to its future is clear –

John Adams warned that if a legislature seized executive power that executive power will corrupt the legislature as necessarily as rust corrupts iron. . .and when the legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

By destroying the power of the Sovereign, and refusing to allow the Sovereign to withhold Royal Assent, Parliament has usurped the executive power, and is becoming tyrannical.

Its recent laws regarding race and terrorism are depriving Brits of freedom of speech. Earlier laws have already deprived them the right to bear arms and defend themselves. Its excessive taxation and borrowing to fund its spendthrift ways are depriving working Brits of their property and their property rights.

Parliament’s 2008 approval of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty will destroy the Common Law and the liberties of the British people and make them subservient to Brussels. The EU is constructed like every other would-be tyranny – it asserts that it gives the people their rights. This is false, but it means that it can take them away.
The British Constitution embodies the natural rights and freedoms of the people, which are theirs by birthright. The British Constitution and British liberties will only survive if the people defend them.

American Bill Of Rights- they defend with every breath.

To see the rights and freedoms that came directly from America’s British inheritance look at the US Constitution and the red-lined US Bill of Rights.

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Ministers always preach to us about abiding by the law- then they break every law this country has!

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