They are taking us for fools
By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON
Political Editor
GORDON Brown has been accused of treating us like fools.
It’s worse than that. They really DO think we’re stupid.
Never have so many porkies been told by government ministers than over this EU treaty.
French and Dutch voters overwhelmingly rejected the EU constitution two years ago.
So EU leaders did what they promised not to — they mounted a giant con-trick by rewriting it under a different title. That’s why we need a referendum.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband can trot out the same rubbish about the constitution being dumped until he’s blue in the face. But it’s nonsense.
Ministers would command more respect if they had the guts to be honest about this treaty.
Other EU leaders are happy to admit that it means a pretty seismic handover of power.
And that makes sense.
If you want a United States of Europe, you need members to pool power otherwise nothing would get done.
There’s only one reason to deny it — if you have something to hide.
'90% same' as dumped Constitution
HERE we set out the reasons other EU leaders insist the Treaty is virtually the same as the Constitution.
Ireland’s Bertie Ahern IS holding a national vote because he agrees it is 90 per cent the same.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel says the fundamentals “have been maintained in large part”, while Finland’s Europe Minister Astrid Thors says nothing has altered.
And last week the European Scrutiny Committee forecast that Gordon Brown’s ‘red lines’ will “leak like a sieve”.
MPs predict the European Court of Justice will start to make laws for
Britain based on the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
One red line — on tax and social security — is said to be totally bogus.
The EU will also have power under a ‘ratchet’ clause to dictate to future British governments.
The European Commission will be able able to impose new laws on all nations if a majority of member states agree.
The Treaty will force Britain to surrender extra oil reserves to EU states in emergencies — costing us an estimated £6billion.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/eu_referendum/article362166.ece
JPTF 200/10/19
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