West Sussex County Times

All laws in our Parliament

- RAY TOOTS

Following the debate (County Times letters) about whether Churchill would have wanted to join an emerging EU super state. As seen from the link below, in his Collected Essays, Volume II Churchill and Politics, he said:

“We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.”

On 11th May 1953 (Hansard) he said:

“We are not members of the European Defence Community, nor do we intend to be merged in a Federal European system. We feel we have a special relation to both. This can be expressed by prepositio­ns, by the prepositio­n ‘with’ but not ‘of ’ - we are with them, but not of them. We have our own Commonweal­th and Empire.”

But now we know much more about the agenda of EU

rulers who are not directly elected and so the debate is somewhat academic. Much more important now is the question, “do we want to see the end of our nation state”, which is the EU agenda?

That question has never been asked of the people and it is they (not Parliament) who the Monarch gives his/ her Oath to at the Coronation. So if there must be another referendum then why not ask that question? Don’t we want all laws proposed in our Parliament, by MPs, who are accountabl­e to us?

But no one should continue in denial about the EU agenda and the fact that our Parliament is being progressiv­ely emasculate­d.

https://winstonchu­rchill. org/publicatio­ns/ finesthour/finest-hour-104/ witand-wisdom-12/

http://hansard. millbanksy­stems. com/commons/ 1953/ may/11/foreign-affairs #S5CV0515P0_19530511_ HOC_220

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