EU Bill Amendments rejected by 314 votes to 39

The debate in Parliament yesterday became somewhat woolly with the best contribution coming from John Redwood MP who managed to convey the importance of the issue in a proper historical context and highlight the past fluidity of Sovereignty while regrettably leaving the impression that it was somehow divisible.

I absolutely believe that Sovereignty is indivisible, belongs to the people, is loaned to Parliament between general elections and impossible to abnegate, this latter being the most important as it, quite disastrously, is nevertheless the founding principle of the EU.  Mr Redwood likened the movement of Sovereignty during the Glorious Revolution from the Crowned Monarch to the Crown in Parliament adding to my mind the concept of fluidity.

If it is fluid but indivisible, then for the time being I will liken it to a slinky toy descending a staircase. The component parts are nevertheless at odds, consisting in my mind of the Monarchy, Parliament, the EU Council, the UK Courts and the European Courts complicated by the clash of authority between those authorities and accentuated by conflicts between the source of plenipotentiary powers (used to neuter Parliament within the EU), the Privy Council and the Executive, particularly if acting as authorised under the Civil Contingencies Act.

One certainty is that the British people had 314 elected traitors in the House of Commons last evening.

Another warning to MPs on the EU Bill - Danes cleared to sue their PM over Lisbon!

EU Observer has the report that the Prime Minister of Denmark can be sued by 28 citizens for breaking their Constitution over passing the Lisbon Treaty without a referendum, read here.

As the EU splits apart and the wealth of the people of Europe is everyday increasingly trashed, all elected officials should look to the likely future consequences of their own actions, which in some cases, such as in the UK, amounts to clear treason.

The latter point will be particularly important this evening in the House of Commons after the shortened debate (thanks to the presumably deliberate stupidity of the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, tabling a meaningless question on bankers bonuses) when MPs will vote on Britain's already abnegated sovereignty in the EU Bill.

A message for Britain in an anguished Irish Times editorial!

The entire leading article from yesterday's Irish Times, titled "Was it for this?" may be read here, the lesson for we English, particularly your typical Tory MP, comes in this paragraph:

"The true ignominy of our current situation is not that our sovereignty has been taken away from us, it is that we ourselves have squandered it. Let us not seek to assuage our sense of shame in the comforting illusion that powerful nations in Europe are conspiring to become our masters. We are, after all, no great prize for any would-be overlord now. No rational European would willingly take on the task of cleaning up the mess we have made. It is the incompetence of the governments we ourselves elected that has so deeply compromised our capacity to make our own decisions."

EU Commissioner Barnier refuses to appear before MPs

The influential Frenchman charged with dismantling the worldwide influence, capabilities and wealth creation of the City of London has refused to appear before MPs in Westminster to explain the new regulatory bodies and their powers which will begin work on the foregoing objectives from the beginning of next year.

Perhaps now MPs and Parliament will begin to grasp the full extent of the disaster they have delivered to our once Sovereign nation and vote to begin reversing this calamity.

A report is in the Daily Telegraph, linked here. Background from the Commons here. The following quote is from the former City Minister in 2009 reported in the Guardian, linked here:

Myners said: "What we could not live with is an agreement at a European level that would have had domestic fiscal consequences for domestic governments.

"That is why sSupervision of individual institutions must remain a matter for national supervisors. We will strongly defend this principle at the forthcoming European Council meeting."

Barnier's 12th October 2010 speech to the World Federation of Exchanges, only available from his Europa website in French, which says it all in terms of the ideas of the Commissioner and the relevance the EU will in future have on a globalised world's markets.

Trying to get the information with a trick I sometimes use when trying to keep English speakers aware of the underhand activities of the evil EU, ie deleting "fr" in the url of pdf documents with "en" only achieves the following result with this document:

The information you requested is not available in the language of your choice. To access the information in one of the available languages, please select one of the following links

So this is how the City of London, Europe's main financial hub, is to be kept abreast of the thinking of the unelected official who has ultimate control of those who will regulate the City.

ECOFIN to debate US plan to end Europe's dominance of the IMF, etc.

Although there is no mention of removing several EU board members from the IMF appearing on the agenda for tomorrow's meeting of ECOFIN, the Euractiv web site covers the matter in some detail and is linked from here. I quote a passage of interest:

Germany, France and Britain have their own seats on the board, while EU members Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Denmark represent groups of countries. Switzerland, although not part of the EU, also has a chair.

The United States' unprecedented move last month to block plans that would have maintained Europe's long-running dominance over the 24-member board will be discussed. The US Senate has also voted to block use of its taxpayers' money for IMF rescues such as the bail-out of Greece.

If the eurogroup of countries wish to be taken seriously as a block with a single currency it follows they should be represented by one board member. Britain and Switzerland with their own currencies should naturally retain their representation.

Turning to greater issues facing the world's economies, a good summary of the total gloom prevailing at the Ambrosetti conference on Lake Como during last Friday and the weekend is available from here.

EU troughing returns full throttle although for once PM Cameron appears ready to make a token protest at the costs of the new EU External Action Service under Lady Ashton according to an FT report, linked here.

On domestic politics we await the resignation of William Hague and hopefully also Andy Coulson. Lib Dems should exert their muscle in both instances. Should Osborne move to the Foreign Office and would David Laws accept the challenge of being Chancellor in such difficult times, perhaps he is the best placed candidate to take the country with him through the drastic cuts and economic turmoil that certainly now lies ahead? Could Nick Clegg risk the possibility of his party's final extinction should Laws fail for the almost certain kudos which would almost certainly follow any success ----- interesting times! Can Cameron risk a revitalised Osborne free from the stigma of certain economic mismanagement and the added gravitas of former Foreign Secretary?

What will Osborne give away tomorrow? Can he politically ever recover if he confirms the Prime Minister's acquiesence to the loss of the powers of taxation ovcr the City of London, as accomplished at the European Council on the 17th June 2010?

Osborne set to seal City's death blow!

AFP have the report on agreement on EU regulation of the City of London reached yesterday, which I quote:

A British government spokesperson welcomed the deal, saying it was "a very good outcome for the UK, fully reflecting the priorities secured by" finance minister George Osborne.

Not content with handing control of Britain's financial services industry to the EU, to go alongside the powers to raise levies on even international institutions already conceded by David Cameron as we reported here and here, the Coalition Government (crisis ridden already as it returns from a long summer of inactivity while the economic crisis has grown and grown, but still merely navel gazing over a lame duck Foreign and First Secretary of State and a crippled head of Downing Street communications) allows ridiculous kites to be flown on regulatory authority, potentially scaring HSBC to leave the country, according to the FT, linked here, George Osborne prepares to concede in Brussels next Tuesday the one supposed remaining principle of the Tory manifesto, no further concessions of Sovereignty to the EU.

I am sorry about the length of the sentence, the mish mash illustrates my complete frustration. How can Cable piss off the banks over proposed legislation the powers of which the Treasury is in the process of giving away to Brussels ......... ALL ON THE SAME DAY?????????

No English Parliament can bind its successors!! END OF!

I watched in stupefaction yesterday as Gordon Brown held a press conference and announced that in future England's Members of Parliament would be subject to statutory controls.

England's Parliament, represented by the Mace, is under the sovereign control of the people of England through the members elected by the people for one single term during which they can legislate as the majority wishes. The same must therefore apply for subsequent Parliaments.

The Party System has tended to undermine this system. A freedom of information request on taxpayer's contributions is now required, one TV report indicated yesterday that such payments presently exceeded two million pounds per year.

Three Scots and a Spaniard meeting in secret conspiratorial conclave in the Palace of Westminster have no power nor authority to make the changes that Gordon Brown indicated in his press conference had been jointly agreed by the three party leaders and the disgraced Speaker yesterday afternoon.

The people of England, whose monarch may give equal weight to the Throne of Scotland as she does to the Throne of England, have never accepted that their Parliament is subsidiary to that of Scotland. The sovereignty of the English people devolved between Parliament and the Monarch is for one single parliamentary term.

The people of England have rightly judged that the present Parliament has lost whatever moral authority it may once have had and it therefore lacks the ability to elect or appoint a new Speaker. The present Speaker has surrendered his powers and cannot continue to 21st June, Parliament must therefore be dissolved immediately and an election be held at the earliest possible moment!

The Times, at least, has reported on the dangerous nature of the changes now proposed here.