Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-11-14-Speech-2-246"
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"en.20061114.36.2-246"2
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"Madam President, looking at the Commission’s programme for 2007, I am struck not just by the new areas in which the EU seeks to strip more power away from my country and from the ex-EU slaves and eunuchs who run it, but by the brief mention of the term ‘constitutional treaty’. My submission is that the hidden agenda and programme for 2007 will include a resurrection of the constitution, that slain vampire, after a small blood transfusion. The nationals of those countries who rejected it will be told to vote again because they did not understand that it was compulsory.
The Commission hopes to obscure the principal issue, namely its quest for legal personality or EU sovereignty. Yet every year the EU takes more of the powers of nationhood.
I object to the concept that British nationals are assumed to be in favour of all this power theft, without being allowed to vote on the subject. I also note a proposal from the Council to improve cooperation between EU police and security forces. This contains a proposal about sharing information at European level, including sharing with Europol. This has been questioned and resisted before. It is an infringement of the rights of British nationals, some of whom already have an EU criminal record for plane-spotting. My countrymen want an honest answer to the question of what the EU thinks it is and what happened to the concept of trade."@en1
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