Campaign for an Independent Britain

Membership of the European Union is undemocratic because the European Commission, which is unelected, has the monopoly of proposing all EU legislation which it does in secret. It also has the power to issue regulations which are automatically binding in all member states. The Commission is made up of 27 Commissioners who are appointed four five years at a time and has 37 branches or Directorates General each run by a Director General. Director Generals are the real bosses and they can rule for many years.

The Committee of Permanent Representatives is a shadowy body where the national horse trading on the Commission’s legislative proposals and its meetings also take place in secret. The agreed versions of their proposals go to the Council of Ministers and European Parliament for approval.

The Council of Ministers is made up from ministers from member states who are elected in their own state so there is an element of democracy in it, but Britain has only 8.4% of the votes in these meetings.

The European Parliament is a sham which has been set up to give the pretext of democracy but the Parliament cannot propose legislation as a normal parliament would, all it can do is either delay or simply block it.

The European Court of Justice is inaptly named as it is not an independent court of law at all; it is the engine of “ever closer union of the peoples of Europe” it is financed by the EU and has the final say on all EU matters.

Britain’s membership of the European Union is unconstitutional for several reasons. Firstly it causes her Majesty The Queen to be in breach of her coronation oath in which she promised to govern the peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland “according to their respective laws and customs”.

It also contravenes the Bill of Rights Act 1689 which provided for freedom of speech and debate and that proceedings in Parliament “ought not to be impeached or questioned in court or any place out of Parliament”.

It is in breach of the Act of Settlements 1700 section 4 which states that “the laws of England are birthright of the people”. It also breaches the principal established in the 1932 case of Vauxhall Estates v Liverpool Corporation IKV733 that “no Parliament may bind its successors” as section 2.1 of the European Communities Act 1972 provides that all obligations created by the European Union treaties can be enforced in Britain and without further enactment thereby giving the European Commission the right to create new laws which are binding on the citizens of the United Kingdom without reference to our own Parliament.

Membership of the EU is also in breach of the Magna Carta which provides that “no free man shall be disseised of his liberties of free customs nor will we not pass upon him but by law of the land.”