Friday - December 14, 2007

Bye Bye John Bull

Here, read all about it in the Sun, the paper I stole the headliner from. Love how the fellow is flippin everyone off.

FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband signed the hated EU treaty - hours before Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived in Lisbon.

Mr Brown also later signed the document in a low key ceremony.

The developments come despite an eleventh-hour bombshell that it means surrendering control of Britain’s immigration policy.

The warning was issued to the PM last night as he prepared to wave the white flag over our right to make our own laws.

It emerged tens of thousands of foreigners facing the boot from the UK will be winners.

They will get new rights to overturn decisions by Britain’s Immigration and Asylum Tribunal.

It means failed asylum seekers will be free to take their cases to the European Court of Justice in Strasbourg — giving the final say to unelected EU judges.

And it is all thanks to a treaty critics warn is practically the SAME as the ill-fated EU Constitution, which bit the dust two years ago after the French and Dutch rejected it in referendums.

Some of the wonderful parts of England’s new “constitution” ...

ARTICLE 19:

1. Collective expulsions are prohibited.

2. No one may be removed, expelled or extradited to a State where there is a serious risk that he or she would be subjected to the death penalty, torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

ARTICLE 7:

Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications.

ARTICLE 15:

1. Everyone has the right to engage in work and to pursue a freely chosen or accepted occupation.

2. Every citizen of the Union has the freedom to seek employment, to work, exercise the right of establishment and provide services in any Member State.

3. Nationals of third countries authorised to work in the territories of the Member States are entitled to working conditions equivalent to those of citizens of the Union.

ARTICLE 18:

The right to asylum shall be guaranteed with due respect for the rules of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 and the New York Protocol of 31 January 1967 relating to the status of refugees and in accordance with the Treaty establishing the European Community.

ARTICLE 45:

1. Every citizen of the Union has the right to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States.

2. Freedom of movement and residence may be granted, in accordance with the Treaty establishing the European Community, nationals of third countries legally resident in the territory of a Member State.

So basically they will no longer have any control AT ALL over who lives in their country. Bloody hell.

Is there any good news? Well, the “treaty” isn’t exactly popular ...

Every other EU leader has admitted the treaty is virtually identical to the doomed Constitution. Last night Labour MPs on the powerful Commons Foreign Affairs Committee warned Foreign Secretary David Miliband not to treat voters as fools.

Andrew MacKinlay said of the Constitution: “A majority of the public feel it and the treaty are one and the same.”

Mr Brown faces a bitter Commons revolt in January when he tries to force the treaty through Parliament.

Let’s just pray that a helluva fight starts up in there come the new year.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/14/2007 at 04:11 PM   
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