Why is UK excluded from EU Leaders’ Summit tomorrow?

The UK in the EU: ALL the obligations - including paying vast annual sums - but NO rights

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27 EU leaders will meet in Transylvania, NOT discussing Brexit, yet Mrs May is NOT invited

Unreported by the BBC so far, there will be a summit of the leaders of 27 EU countries tomorrow, 09 May 2019, taking place in Sibiu, Transylvania. For readers who are unsure, yes, this is part of the EU.

Everyone will be there: Unelected EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, unelected EU Council President Donald Tusk, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Irish T-shock Leo Varadkar, and all the other EU27 leaders including the diminutive Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, leader of a country the size of Kirklees in Yorkshire.

There will however be one absentee:

Mrs Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Fifth largest economy in the World
Second largest economy in the EU
And still a full European Union member

The reason Mrs May will not be there is because she hasn’t been invited.

The summit

The EU Commission described the objectives of this summit thus:

“to set new policy orientation and new priorities for the EU ahead of the European Parliament elections on 23-26 May 2019”

The UK remains a member of the European Union

The UK is still a full member of the EU. The EU expects the UK to continue paying full annual subscriptions until at least the start of 2021, and most likely until the start of 2023, under the surrender treaty agreed by Mrs May.

Yesterday the de facto Deputy Prime Minister David Lidington suddenly announced that the EU Parliament elections will definitely take place. Added to that, there are no realistic signs that any agreement will be reached between the (mostly) anti-democratic MPs in Parliament.

The UK remains a full member of the EU “with all the rights and obligations”, according to the EU Council and Commission Presidents.

Yet the UK has been excluded from this summit.

What the EU Commission said

Speaking yesterday ahead of this important summit, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said:

“When I took office, I said it was our last chance to show Europeans that their Union works for them. I have spent the last five years working tirelessly to deliver on the promises we made. In some areas, I believe we have surpassed expectations, in others, we may have fallen short of them.”

The Commission’s press release goes on to talk about the hundreds of new legal objectives which have been fulfilled in the last five years, (which involve thousands of new laws, directives or other mechanisms, all affecting the UK and its citizens), and then reiterates its five key issues.

The first of these is the EU Defence Union, as we reported last week. The Commission describes this in this particular communique as:

“a protective Europe because peace is power in today's world”

(Bureaucratic gobbledygook for the EU Army.)

“Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?”

Sibiu is a city in Transylvania, central Romania. The reason the summit is being held in Transylvania is because Romania currently holds the rotating 6-month presidency of the EU Council.

As an aside, we think it unlikely that any of the EU leaders will want to be pictured crossing one of the city’s most famous landmarks – the Liars Bridge, built in 1859.

Liars Bridge, Sibiu, Transylvania

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Observations

We have pointed out many times that the EU has excluded the UK from important meetings where the 27 other leaders were present. This is yet another example.

Note: Brexit is NOT on the agenda. It is perfectly understandable that Mrs May should be excluded when the EU27 leaders want to discuss Brexit. This is NOT the case here, nor has it been on many previous occasions in the last three years.

We strongly recommend that an urgent question be asked in the House today, questioning why Mrs May is not flying to Transylvania tomorrow, 09 May 2019.

And finally

Well done to any readers who picked up the reference in the article above to the lyrics of that all-time classic, “Monster Mash” by Bobby Pickett.

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[ Sources : EU Commission | Romanian Tourist Office | YouTube ]

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, 08 May 2019

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Reader Comments 10

1. Not4EU, London , Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 06:36:

Yes, a question must be asked in the House, though in common with the refusal to satisfy the Contempt of Parliament and other questions relating to unlawful and unconstitutional actions, silence will be the response. Why is no-one chasing these non-responses up?
The Govt & the majority of Parliament are no longer even pretending to uphold democracy or act in the interests of this country.
This does appear to add strength to some suspicions. That, under EU law, we did leave on 29th March & that the 'new' Treaty of surrender (for it is not a 'deal') was indeed signed in November, as indicated by May in her appearance before the Committee. The EU are merely implementing that Treaty pending 'ratification' of our surrender. Could that be why they announced yesterday that the EU Parliamentary elections would go ahead but 'hope' that the seats will never be taken up? Why other EU countries will have to do two counts, to include the revised seat allocation to accommodate her possible failure to ratify the surrender/reverse the referendum with another, as instructed by the EU? What's £109m wasted for the glorious EUtopian dream? Just more deceit, smoke & mirrors & treason by our illustrious Parish Council leaders.
The announcement that the elections would take place was yet another 'opportunity' for the Govt to have enacted the decision of three years ago, and even possibly save their Party from oblivion. All they had to say was that we would not participate and we would be 'forced to leave', cleanly on 22nd May & the intervening time would be spent completing the Acts of Parliament, suddenly 'stopped', to achieve a proper legal book of Statutes. That they didn't, just like all of the previous 'opportunities' over the last 3 years to implement the decision, tells all. They are now desperately trying to hide their treason but they are just as incompetent at that.

2. martini , Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 07:02:

Not4EU - I'm interested in knowing more. Do you have a link for the committee hearing when May indicated she's already signed the WA Treaty? I'd like to read it or see a video. If we have already left (I hope!) then that would explain why she wants the treaty to be ratified v quickly. I agree it's smoke and mirrors. Thanks

3. GetMeOut, Bath , Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 07:36:

A real prime minister of the UK would send a representative to the meeting and demand an explanation. But we have Theresa May who displays most symptoms of rabies:
Confusion, bizarre or strange thoughts or hallucinations, weakness, lack of muscular coordination, unusual shyness or aggression, constant irritability/changes in attitude and behaviour.

4. J Slater , Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 08:25:

The EU are breaking their own rules by not inviting Britain to attend this EU Leaders' Summit. The invitation list has omitted just one Member, us. Spooky that. We are entitled to attend this Summit. The EU bang on about following their Rules, clearly not when it suits them to do otherwise. The EU must be told by the British Government that we WILL be attending.

5. Not4EU, London , Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 09:23:

Martini,
the Liaison Commitee, 1st May 2019.
https://parliamentlive.tv/E...
It's towards the end of the excellent points by Bernard Jenkin (second questionner, after Hillary Benn starting approx 15:10/11). She refers to it being signed in November at 15:17:45.

6. kzb , Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 09:36:

Since government/EU elites are headed to their villas in Tuscany until October, and so nothing will be done between now and then, the EU could well ask why we want to attend a meeting about the future of the EU ? Because, as things stand, we are leaving without a deal on 31 October, only very shortly after they come back from Tuscany. They might say, ratify the WA, and then you can come?

7. Chris , Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 10:34:

Re: Countess Theresula
I think she has actually been invited to Transylvania, but she has declined just in case someone hammers a wooden stake through her heart!
In all seriousness though, May really has become the undead Prime Minister, leading a failing Party and a failing Government, where most of her MPs are just as deluded as she is. Yesterday I read that she has threatened legal action against the 1922 committee if they try and change the rules on leadership elections. She really is utterly desperate now.

8. Lady hels. , Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 15:24:

Barmy as a coot. Needs certifying and then she would have to go.

9. barbara Jell , Wednesday, May 08, 2019, 18:43:

Transylvania - isn't that blood sucking vampire country? Sounds about right for the EU.
Yep - Theresa May definitely needs sectioning along with all her brain dead supporters in Westminster. The ultimate horror story, but the buzzards are circling!

10. Adam Hiley , Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 17:38:

to hell with the EU's Summit in a third World dump god get rid of Mad May now imagine Churchill or Thatcher being treated this Way

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