Comments are evidence we should leave EU

19 March 2008

SOMEBODY recently kindly pointed out to me some statements from three well-known EU politicians, when they were asked about the latest Lisbon 'Reform Treaty'.
I think they speak volumes about the type of organisation we are actually dealing with in the EU and Brussels.
They are: Giuliano Amato, former Italian Prime Minister said at a meeting of the Centre for European Reform on February 21 2007 - "The good thing about not calling it a 'Constitution' is that no one can ask for a referendum on it."
Later, on July 12 2007, he also said that EU leaders - "Decided that the document should be unreadable. If it is unreadable, it is not constitutional, that was the sort of perception. Where they got this perception from is a mystery to me. In order to make our citizens happy, to produce a document that they will never understand!"
Karel de Gucht, Belgian Foreign Minister said on June 23 2007 in Flandreinfo – "The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this Treaty is to be unreadable...The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this Treaty had to be unclear. It is a success."
Finally, Jean Claude Juncker - Prime Minister of Luxembourg, reported in the Daily Telegraph on July 3 2007, said: "Britain is different. Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty, but would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?"
We should leave the EU and get out of it – as fast as we can!

Stan Parr
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