101 REASONS FOR LEAVING THE EUROPEAN UNION

1. The "hush up."
Cabinet papers pre-1970 show the Heath government to have had full knowledge of the EEC being a long-term plan for a unitary European State with its own currency; but the facts were suppressed by this and succeeding governments with the deliberate intention of keeping the nation in the dark.

2. Surrender of sovereignty.
On 14th December 1960 the Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir, Britain's senior legal officer, warned Edward Heath of the implications of signing the Treaty of Rome: "To satisfy the requirements of the treaty, Parliament could enact legislation which would give automatic force of law to any existing or future regulations made by the Community It is clear that the Council of Ministers could eventually make regulations which would be binding on us even against our wishes It is the first step on the road which leads to the federal state I must emphasise that in my view the surrenders of sovereignty involved are serious ones these objections ought to be brought out into the open."

3. The end of Britain.
That the consequences of membership had been realised by some at Westminster about this time is apparent from a speech in 1962 by Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party, who, rightly identifying "the desire of those, who created the European Community, for a political federation. That is what they mean, that is what they are after", added that this would bring about "the end of Britain as an independent European State the end of a thousand years of history."

4. The big lie.
Edward Heath's 1971 White Paper on joining the EEC deceived Parliament and people with its false statements that "there is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty", and that Britain's sovereignty would somehow be "enlarged by sharing."

5. Ministry of Propaganda.
Between 1970 and 1972 the Heath government directed a secret propaganda offensive, known as the Connaught Breakfasts, in which Cabinet ministers, Foreign Office heads of Department, civil servants, media managers and journalists, in conjunction with the European Movement, carried on a TV, radio and newspaper campaign to swing round strongly opposed public opinion to acceptance of the EEC, public money being used in the process.

6. Unconstitutional.
The 1972 Act which took Britain into the EEC was in breach of the Constitution, in that the government allowed no prior consultation of the electorate by special General Election or Referendum, as is required under the Constitution for Parliamentary measures involving constitutional change, the precedents being those of 1831/2 and 1910.

7. Unconstitutional.
By passing the 1972 European Communities Act, Parliament unconstitutionally attempted to renounce its legal sovereignty, so as to make the British people subject to enactments of outside agencies, and ending its own ability to put into effect the expressed wishes of the electorate.

8. Unconstitutional.
In doing so, it deliberately and wrongfully denied the ultimate sovereignty of the people, of which Parliament is constitutionally both servant and defender, and which at the end of each Parliament's term is returned to its possessors.

9. Unconstitutional.
It is a cornerstone of the Constitution that no Parliament is or can be bound by enactments of its predecessors; but the Act of 1972 unconstitutionally purported (Section 2.4) to be mandatory upon all succeeding Parliaments.

10. Unconstitutional.
The Act of 1972 is unconstitutional in the wider respect that falsehood and deception was employed to secure its enactment, contrary not only to the spirit of the Constitution, but of all legislative procedure whatsoever.

11. The test case.
The Metric Martyrs' appeal against their conviction is based on the fact that the 1985 Imperial Weights & Measures Act, which permits trading in pounds and ounces, constitutionally takes precedence over the earlier Act of 1972 which made us members of the EU; and it is thus a test case not only between British and EU law, but of whether the 1972 Act can have abrogated the Constitution.

12. Indestructible.
Any supposition that the Act in some sense abrogated or annulled the Constitution is untenable, since (apart from the 1972 Act itself being unconstitutional both in its content and process of enactment) the unique unwritten British Constitution is not law, but essentially an honoured understanding and consensus in those who have created and live under it as to the proper conduct of Parliamentary affairs, and thus incapable of being set aside by
legal means.

13. Our twilight hour ?
By subjecting the British people to decrees other than the laws enacted by their own legislature, the Act contravened the undertaking in the Coronation Oath "to govern the peoples of the United Kingdom according to their laws and customs"; the provisions of the Treason Act, 1795, against engaging in actions "tending to the overthrow of the laws, government and happy constitution" of the United Kingdom, and those of the Treason Felony Act of 1848 condemning any who attempt to "deprive or depose our most gracious Lady the Queen from the style, honour or royal name of the imperial crown of the United Kingdom"; and the Privy Counsellor's Oath "To bear faith and allegiance to the Crown and defend its jurisdiction and power against all foreign persons or states."

14. A royal commoner.
Allegiance to H.M. the Queen is in effect allegiance to Brussels, since, through the Queen's EU citizenship and accountability in her own courts to superior EU law, Her Majesty has vassal status, and an Oath of Allegiance to her now stands "subject to the Commission's tolerance" so long as she and her nation do not show themselves disloyal to the sovereignty of the European Union.

15. Unconstitutionality.
The chief reason for the Labour government's calling a Referendum in 1975 was the unconstitutionality of the European Communities Act.

16. Bizarre.
A retrospective Referendum upon an Act of Parliament was without precedent in British history, and partook of the nature of inertia salesmanship, especially since accompanied by the dispatching of government literature to every household with the disinformation that the Act had been purely a free trade agreement, and urging a "Yes" vote: a species of official activity also without precedent, and just as questionable.

17. The great divide.
Britain's becoming and remaining a member of the EU, and the methods employed to this end, resulted from the emergence of what Lord Goodhart memorably described as "a political establishment" with purposes disturbingly opposed to the wish of the electorate; his book Full-Hearted Consent (1976) ironically gaining its title from Mr Heath's assurance during the 1970 General Election campaign that, if there were a future possibility of entering the EEC, no government would take their nation into it "without the full-hearted consent of Parliament and people."

18. Vote as EU please.
The political establishment's continuing activities have brought about a situation, new to British politics, in which the widespread public hostility to the EU's increasing encroachments is denied party political expression, the policies of the major parties all being favourable to membership.

19. Polling Days.
In a nationwide MORI opinion poll carried out on behalf of the British Democracy Campaign between 15th - 21st March, 2001, in which 1805 adult respondents were questioned face to face in their homes, 52% of those offering an opinion declared themselves in favour of Britain's leaving the EU now, 71% wanted a Referendum on continued membership, and 75% considered that the British people had not received sufficient information on the implications of our being in the EU.

20. Mobile Goalposts.
Through the deeper irregularity of its plan to proceed by stealth in stages through a series of treaties until the European State was a fait accompli before its populations had come to realise what was
going on, the EU has developed into a concept and institution far other than what was voted on in the 1975 Referendum, and so without democratic validation in this as in other countries.

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