Straight Talking From UK. I. P. Not Like Cameron Then. Or The M.S.M.

EU ELITE AFRAID OF GIVING
PEOPLE A SAY
Friday, 29th October 2010
The EU elite has been condemned by UKIP
for planning to make changes to the Lisbon
Treaty in such a way as to avoid triguring
referendums across member states.
Two moves have been tentatively agreed.
EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy
is to be tasked with exploring whether such
a limited change can be done via a
simplified revision procedure, in which EU
leaders can make the change without
having to call a full Intergovernmental
Conference (IGC) - involving negotiations
between the governments, consultations
with the European Parliament and the
participation of the European Commission,
which could open a Pandora's Box of other
new proposals.
Mr Van Rompuy would also explore
whether legally this can be done without
the tweak having to be presented to
national parliaments for approval, which
would almost certainly grind down the
process, or even further, whether such a
move would provoke referendums in some
countries, notably Ireland, which maintains
a constitutional requirement that any shift in
powers from Dublin to Brussels be
approved in a vote by the people.
UKIP chairman and MEP Paul Nuttall, in
Brussels for the summit, rounded on the
attempts to change without consultation.
He said: "These EU politicians are absolutely
terrified of the people. They will do
anything to avoid the people having a say in
a referendum.
"We will now see the undignified spectacle
of Herman Van Rompuy scurrying around,
taking legal advise in a desperate effort to
ensure that changes they intend to make to
the Lisbon Treaty does not require
referendums in member states.
"I foresee a challenge to this EU sleight of
hand by citizen groups in Ireland at the very
least.
"This matter is too important to agreed by a
political elite at the expense of ordinary
people who will pick up the bill."