CONSERVATIVE PARTY POLICY ON THE EUROPEAN UNION

Dateline: 8th October 1999

Despite the welcome condemnation of the European Union by William Hague and Lady Thatcher at Blackpool, there has really been no change in Conservative Party policy.

It is no use William Hague crying "not ruled by Europe" if all he is committing to is "this far and no further" since the fundamental constitutional destruction of our parliament, country and democracy is based on the provisions of every European Treaty from 1972 onwards which his party signed and which he will not repeal.

In so doing he accepts European Union rule and the 'acquis communautaire" which binds us indefinitely ("irrevocably and irreversibly" as the treaties stipulate). Indeed it is the Maastricht Treaty which he will not repeal which can force through the iniquitous corpus juris (by mere majority vote against our will) which has even managed to awaken the sleepy British judiciary to the horrendous dangers of European Union rule (see House of Lords Report on Corpus Juris).

Equally the Conservative Party cannot condemn the treatment of General Pinochet because he, like every British subject, can now be extradited to any European country without any prime facie evidence of guilt, because it was the Conservative government that signed the relevant European Conventions and enacted the 1989 Extradition Act.

There was also praise at the Conference for the Shadow Chancellor Francis Maude who actually signed the iniquitous Maastricht Treaty and has repeatedly refused to regret the fact.

With "anti" EU leaders like this can any British democrat really have much confidence in the future?