Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-10-25-Speech-2-027-000"
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"en.20161025.3.2-027-000"2
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"Madam President, this report calls for an EU mechanism on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights. It is an own-initiative report – an MEP’s wish list. It has no legislative effect; it is just hot air. It was pointless to write and equally pointless to debate. However, Britain needs no lessons in democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights. Britain had a democracy founded on parliamentary government that evolved over 800 years. Our democracy was undermined by transferring supremacy of law-making from our parliament to the European Union. We had the rule of law – our law – which evolved over a thousand years. The rule of our law was undermined by EU law and the supremacy of the European Court of Justice. We had fundamental rights, established under such things as Magna Carta, the common law, habeas corpus and the Bill of Rights. Our rights and freedoms are being destroyed by such things as the European Arrest Warrant that allows British citizens to be arrested, extradited and imprisoned in corrupt foreign countries merely on the basis of vague accusations without any supporting evidence. If the British people want their democracy, the rule of their law and their fundamental rights back, then we must leave the European Union as quickly as possible. Brexit means now, not in two and a half years’ time or longer."@en1
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