Posts Tagged ‘treaty’
Why the EU is like China
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on March 13th, 2009
It has been suggested to me privately, that my last post was not accurate because “The comparison is ridiculous. I don’t think EU imposes any birth control policies on UK teenagers for example.”
So here is my response:
The comparison is specific: The EU does not allow the votes of the electorate, the results of plebiscites or the will of the populace to decide what it does. Worse, when an electorate opposes something, the EU claims that it was a protest about an unrelated issue.
The EU is currently instituting all the major objectionable features of the Lisbon Treaty (formerly known as the Constitutional Treaty) despite “No” votes in three member countries and so the failure to ratify the treaty in national parliaments. If the EU cared what the people thought it would make the following changes tomorrow:
1. It would offer a referendum on the EU Constitutional Treaty;
2. It would cease all implementation activity on Constitutional Treaty proposals that are being carried out elsewhere;
3. It would allow elections for the Commission which performs a role much like the cabinet / President of most countries in the world and so should be elected.




