From my daily briefing: Tomorrow, the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50: delivering on the verdict of the British people to leave the European Union. We stand on the threshold of a significant moment for Britain as we begin the negotiations that will lead us towards a new partnership with […]
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Labour, the SNP and an impending constitutional crisis?
The Conservative Party is working hard to expose the chaos that will ensue if Labour are put in power by the SNP: In particular: 1) Income tax cut for 30m people. 2) The deficit cleared. 3) Two million more jobs. 4) A home of your own. 5) The State Pension […]
Read MoreParliament today – Voting System and Boundaries
Today, we have the second reading of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. It is proposed that the Bill should go to a committee of the whole House, as the Academies Bill did. No doubt this will be opposed. Opposition amendments have been tabled opposing the proposed boundary changes […]
Read MoreDan Hannan: My plan to sabotage the EU national anthem
Dan Hannan reports on the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee, which has just voted to restore the EU’s national emblems and to give them greater prominence than before. This despite explicit provisions to the contrary in the Lisbon Treaty, added to get it through after the EU Constitution was democratically […]
Read MoreThe Plan: Twelve months to renew Britain
Daniel Hannan MEP and Douglas Carswell MP go for it: Hannan and Carswell show how a future government could actually shift powers back, from Brussels to Westminster, from Whitehall to town halls, from the state to the citizens. Their plan aims to restore honour and meaning to the ballot box. […]
Read MoreA sad reflection
Catching up with Question Time, the following occurred to me as facts most of us could agree: The Lisbon Treaty is not called a constitution The Lisbon Treaty is virtually impossible to read The Lisbon Treaty is nearly identical in substance to the document that was called a constitution The […]
Read MoreNotre Europe and World governance
From the introduction to Notre Europe in Plan B: How to rescue the European Constitution: Europe and World Governance: As an original model of governance in an increasingly open world, the European Union has a role to play on the international scene and in matters of world governance. Notre Europe […]
Read MoreEurope’s democracies neuter themselves
The madness of parliaments’ keenly handing democratic accountability to an unaccountable bureaucracy. At least electorates are catching on now, but is it too late? read more | digg story
Read MoreConstitutions and democracy
Mark Mardell points out that the French are changing their constitution to avoid a referendum: The French politicians from both houses were meeting to change the constitution so they could go ahead with the adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon. I do wonder at the imperative among Europe’s political elite […]
Read MoreBrown and Miliband insist it’s not the same, but …
“Parts of the Lisbon Treaty, signed by Gordon Brown last month, are no different from the abandoned EU Constitution, a report by MPs has said.” And of course, most of the other leaders of EU states have admitted the Lisbon Treaty is the democratically-rejected Constitution, dressed up to sidestep democracy. […]
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