Wednesday - June 25, 2008

High Court rejects bid to block EU treaty.  (This Sceptered Isle)

I know I’m always banging on about how I think England is losing it’s sovereignty.  Well, that’s because I believe it is.
It won’t all finish in my lifetime cause I’m fairly old now.  It’ll take a bit more time to happen but I think unless things reverse, it will eventually happen.

And the same can be said for the USA, where no matter where you look, it sure looks like the left is in control.  NOT a good thing for any of us.

Their strength (the left) is in how easily ppl have accepted political correctness.  Politicians apologize at the slightest hint that someone in their party has been critical of a member of a minority. Gasp!  Good example this week is London’s mayor,Boris Johnson.  Showing a loss of that which would make him manly, he quickly distanced himself from a perfectly innocent aide who said nothing.  But of course the professional victims come out of their holes with dripping fangs etc. and like any politician Boris abandoned one of his people.  The USA isn’t any different.  Look what happened to Trent Lott a few yrs ago.
Over what?  Nothing.  And he crawled and he apologized and wept. Didn’t he?  And he also said nothing.

I guess that’s how it starts. And everybody accepts what we can’t change and so things continue while we diversify, make nice to foreign countries less civilized and who wouldn’t exist but for the UK and USA.  And genuflect at the alter of multi-cultism.  No, that isn’t spelled wrong.  That’s how I see it.
I suppose this is as good a place as any to quote Drew.  “Gak.”

LONDON (Reuters) - The High Court rejected a lawsuit on Wednesday that sought to halt the country’s approval of an EU reform treaty.

Businessman Stuart Wheeler had brought the case to try to force the government to block the ratification of the Lisbon treaty, which seeks to streamline decision-making in the 27-member bloc.

“We have found nothing in the claimant’s case to cast doubt on the lawfulness of ratifying the Lisbon treaty without a referendum,” the judge, Lord Justice Stephen Richards, said in his ruling. He also refused Wheeler leave to appeal, saying: “We are satisfied an appeal has no prospect of success.”

Wheeler immediately said his lawyers would take the case further and apply to the Court of Appeal for permission to challenge the verdict.

The Lisbon treaty is already in jeopardy because it was rejected this month by Irish voters in a referendum and must be adopted by all 27 EU members to take force.

The treaty replaces an EU constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005. This time around, Ireland has been the only country to allow its voters a say in a referendum.

The British government had promised a referendum on the EU constitution before it was scuppered, but says it did not need one on the Lisbon treaty, and parliament has now approved it for ratification.

The government says it stands by the principle that the treaty cannot come into force without Irish consent, but other EU members are still entitled to proceed with ratification.

The High Court judge called on the government last Friday to delay the formal ratification of the until he had ruled on the legal challenge.

(Reporting by Peter Graff and Kate Kelland, editing by Keith Weir)

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