EU REFERENDUM
LAWS, DEMOCRACY, SOVEREIGNTY

Leaving Means Having Our Own Laws and Lawmakers Again

IF YOU KNOW THE FACTS, YOU CAN DECIDE

SO WHY IS NO-ONE TELLING VOTERS WHAT 'REMAIN' WILL LOOK LIKE?

• The EU mutates and grows every year. Often in a significant ways. Generally unreported on British TV.
• 19 of the 28 countries are now in the Eurozone. They share the common currency: the Euro.
• All other members except UK and Denmark must join in the end – Treaty rules.
• The Eurozone is in crisis and the EU's only solution is economic and political union – one state.
• This was always the intention of the EU's founders from the beginning - now it's coming.
• Last year the EU set out a plan, described in many official documents, to achieve it.
• The EU plans to merge all 19 Eurozone countries’ economies and policies by 2025 – only 9 years away.

So by 2025, 19 Eurozone nations will effectively become one country.
You didn't know this? That's because British TV almost never reports such things.

• Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, the Netherlands, etc will cease to exist as sovereign, self-governing countries.
• This is fact. States which can't control their budgets, their banks, their taxes, their borrowing, their benefits, their social policies, their borders, and their foreign policy, obviously cannot be considered to be sovereign nations.
• The UK will then be on the outside of everything. The German-dominated 'United States of Europe' will reign, and yet we'll still be expected to pay ever-growing contributions.
• The British people will feel like extras, having to pay to appear in someone else’s foreign movie.

Sounds alarmist?  This future is fully-documented by the EU.

For the EU, ‘One Direction’ means one country.
A Financial and Political Union of all member states:
A ‘United States of Europe’.

In the end the UK will be forced to join this political and financial union.

When that happens the Pound will go, your taxes, benefits and laws will come from an unelected government in Brussels, your armed forces will be under foreign Generals, you’ll have the EU anthem and fly the EU flag, and an EU President will inevitably become Head of State instead of your Queen.

Mr Cameron can say what he likes about our supposed 'special status', or our supposed opt-outs from 'ever closer union', Schengen, and the Eurozone. It won't make any difference. The EU has a long history of ignoring agreements and referendum votes, and of taking ever more power. In the end we'll have to join.

IMPORTANT : Only vote to Remain if the future above is what you want.

[Sources: There are hundreds of EU documents about this. Possibly the most important recent one is the EU "5 Presidents’ Report" from last year: https://ec.europa.eu/priorities/publications/five-presidents-report-completing-europes-economic-and-monetary-union_en | Other links: http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/deeper-and-fairer-economic-and-monetary-union_en | On EU powers and democracy: http://facts4eu.org/facts/laws_and_democracy.htm]

Under Referendum law, the Government was forced to issue a report, on the last day before the official Referendum period started on 15th April 2016.

The conclusions from the report are so damning the Government 'buried' it. We've read the 96 pages and here are the key facts for you:-

No Overall Control Of Our Borders: "Member States cannot impose unjustified restrictions on individuals exercising their rights of free movement." UK can't stop EU migrants & families coming in: "EU law gives... all other EU nationals rights to enter, live and work in another EU Member State, as well as to their family members and their dependants." Permanent Migrants: "After five years... [they] automatically acquire the right of permanent residence in that [EU] country, at which point they are no longer required to be a worker, self-employed, a jobseeker, self-sufficient or a student." EU Laws Govern You: "Once an EU Directive has been agreed, all Member States have an obligation to make national laws that give it effect." "Regulations contain detailed legal rules. Once made, regulations have the force of law in the UK." Charter of Fundamental Rights: "At a domestic level, where it is not possible to interpret domestic primary legislation consistently with an enforceable right, domestic courts or tribunals can disapply the offending provision in the domestic primary legislation." This is deliberate Civil Service gobbledygook for saying that EU laws and the other obligations of the 'Fundamental Rights' Charter take precedence over UK laws. UK Prevented From Defending British Jobs: "EU rules prevent Member States imposing restrictions on the quantity of imports and exports of a particular item." (For example, we can't ban cheap, state-subsidised steel from EU countries breaking the rules.) We could go on and on with examples from this 96 page document. It was produced by civil servants for the Government. Even though it's called 'Rights and Obligations', it focuses on rights and ignores a great number of obligations. (For example, nowhere does it mention that the Chancellor of the UK has to submit his Budgets to the EU before he announces them in Parliament. The EU knows our Budget before we do.) Although it's a one-sided propaganda document to make the Government's case sound better, even the Civil Servant mandarins couldn't hide all the bad news. So the Government buried it. However we thought you'd like to know the facts.

[Sources: "Rights and obligations of European Union membership" Cabinet Office, April 2016, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rights-and-obligations-of-european-union-membership .]

The EU’s Foreign Minister Mogherini and 7 EU Commissioners went to Tehran yesterday for 2 days of cooperation talks with Iran.

No, you didn’t elect Ms Mogherini, not any of the seven Commissioners who went with her. You weren't given the chance. However moves were agreed for:-

1. The EU Investment Bank to start lending to Iran
2. The EU to conduct joint nuclear research with Iran
3. The EU to share science and technology knowledge with Iran

[Sources: EU Commission Statement 16/04 : http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-16-1441_en.htm . ]

The question is simple:-

• When we elect a government, can it enact whatever laws it thinks are in the best interests of the country?

And the answer is equally simple:-

• No it can't - because of our EU membership.

So in practice (which is what counts), we cannot be said to live in a sovereign country.

• The fact is that in 1972 when we joined the EU, an Act of Parliament had to be passed, called the European Communities Act.
• In basic terms, this Act gives Brussels supremacy over our laws.
• Our MPs are therefore powerless to make laws which contradict those of Brussels.
• Mr Cameron can argue about the percentage of laws now made in Brussels - anywhere between 25%-75%, depending on who you believe.
• And Mr Cameron can also argue that Parliament is sovereign because it can still repeal the 1972 Act which gives Brussels supremacy.
• In reality, for 43 years our elected MPs have been powerless on a daily basis to prevent laws from Brussels which we don't want.

So no, in everyday language the UK is not currently a sovereign nation.
But if we vote to leave, it will be sovereign again.

[Sources: European Communities Act 1972: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/68/contents]

• Regulations : 11,547
• Directives : 1,842
• Decisions : 18,545
• Other acts : 2,773
• International agreements : 5,456
• Verdicts from the EU Court of Justice : 15,023

SUB-TOTAL : 55,186

• CEN (European Committee for Standardization) : 14,163
• CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) : 6,519
• ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) : 36,932

SUB-TOTAL : 57,614

112,800 is a lot of laws, regulations, and standards....

[Sources: EUR-Lex (Official EU law site), CEN, CENELEC, ETSI. Analysis performed 30 Jan 2016.]

“The steady and unaccountable intrusion of the European Union into almost every aspect of our lives has gone too far."

"A Conservative government will negotiate for three specific guarantees – on the Charter of Fundamental Rights, on criminal justice, and on social and employment legislation – with our European partners to return powers that we believe should reside with the UK, not the EU."

"We seek a mandate to negotiate the return of these powers from the EU to the UK.”

In six years, no powers have been returned. Leaving means taking back control.

[Source: Conservative Party Manifesto 2010.]

On British calls for a referendum over the latest (Lisbon) EU Treaty:
“Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?”

On Greece's economic meltdown in 2011:
"When it becomes serious, you have to lie.”

On EU monetary policy:
"I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates."

On French referendum over EU constitution:
“If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue’.”

On the introduction of the euro:
"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back."

On eurozone economic policy and democracy:
“We all know what to do, we just don't know how to get re-elected after we've done it.”

On the French and Dutch referendums when the voters said no:
“I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.”

“The EU is like the orchestra playing on the Titanic,” Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said. Bloomberg interview 10/02/16

“I feel that as a historian it is very similar to some very dangerous moments in our history. You know what I mean: it is like the day before World War One,” he said. Donald Tusk, President of European Council, 10/02/16

“For the past few years, the European Union has been operating in permanent crisis mode. Confronted with one challenge after another, we rush from one emergency summit to the next. More than once we have come to the brink of catastrophe, avoiding disaster by the skin of our teeth.” Martin Schulz, President of European Parliament, at the LSE, 05/02/16

“Europe without Great Britain does not count and is not a counterweight against China, against Russia and against the United States” Guy Verhofstadt, Leader, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group of MEPs. 03/02/16

Speaking exclusively to The Independent about the implications of Brexit, Dr Letta (former PM of Italy) said: “The European Union without the UK is not the European Union. The UK’s exit will be the first step in European Union decline.” 11/02/16

“There is an economic and social state of emergency” French President Hollande, 18/01/16

Reading the above, would you want to join the EU if we weren't already members?

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