Fwd: At midnight last night, the United Kingdom ceased to be a sovereign state

December 4, 2009

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>At midnight last night, the United

>Kingdom ceased to be a sovereign state

>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:29:22 -0000

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>War has been declared on the people of Britain.

>This is TREASON - the writing has been on the

>wall for some time. The UK now ceases to exist

>in the eyes of " Europiles " (deliberate mistake

>get the suppositories ready) - traitors in our

>parliament... including titular heads who have

>been determined to bring this to fruition and

>thus have betrayed the people of these Isles.

>Are you prepared to relinquish your heritage,

>your inalienable rights as fought for by your ancestors?

>Read here " Royal Assent given to the Treaty of

>Lisbon "

><http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2008/06/royal-assent-of-treaty-of-lisbo\

n.html>http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2008/06/royal-assent-of-treaty-of-\

lisbon.html

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>At midnight last night, the United Kingdom ceased to be a sovereign state

><http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100018459/at-midnight-last-nigh\

t-the-united-kingdom-ceased-to-be-a-sovereign-state/>http://blogs.telegraph.co.u\

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o-be-a-sovereign-state/

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>We woke up in a different country today.

>Alright, it doesn’t look very different. The

>trees still seem black against the winter sun;

>the motorways continue to jam inexplicably;

>commuters carry on avoiding eye contact. But

>Britain is no longer a sovereign nation. At

>midnight last night, we ceased to be an

>independent state, bound by international

>treaties to other independent states, and became

>instead a subordinate unit within a European state.

>

>Yes, a European state. Take a quick dekko at the

>definition set out in Article One of the1933

>Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties

>of States: “The state as a person of

>international law should possess the following

>qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b)

>a defined territory; © government; and (d)

>capacity to enter into relations with the other states.”

>

>Until yesterday, the EU qualified on grounds

>(a), (b) and ©. Now it has ticked the final

>box. Under the Lisbon Treaty, which came into

>force today, it acquires “legal personality”,

>which gives it the right to sign accords and

>treat with other states. Nor is this right

>simply theoretical: the EU now has a foreign

>minister, a diplomatic corps (the European

>External Action Service) and 160 overseas embassies.

>

>Until yesterday, the EU could not annex

>additional policy areas without a new treaty,

>which needed to be ratified by all its

>constituent nations. Now, it has the so-called

>“passerelle” clause, or self-amending mechanism.

>Parliament, in other words, no longer has the

>final say on extensions of EU jurisdiction. The

>EU derives its authority, not from its 27

>members, but from its own foundational texts.

>

>Until yesterday, Britain could simply walk out

>of the EU by abrogating the Treaty of Rome and

>repealing the 1972 European Communities Act.

>Henceforth, it will have to go through the

>secession procedure laid down in Lisbon. In

>other words – in the minds of Euro-lawyers, at

>any rate, if not of British constitutionalists –

>the EU gets to settle the terms on which its

>members are allowed to leave. Formal sovereignty

>has been shifted from the national capitals to Brussels.

>

>It is appalling, demeaning, disgraceful that

>such a thing should have been done without

>popular consent, and in the absence of the

>referendum that all three parties had promised.

>“There’s no point in crying over spilt milk,”

>you might say. True. But there is every point in mopping it up.

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