NEWS ........

Dateline 26th June 2006

INTRODUCTION

The only issue in British politics which really matters is the European Union and whether Britain is still a sovereign democratic country making its own laws and electing its own law makers. And on that issue it has been virtually impossible to obtain clear policy statements from either the Michael Howard or David Cameron leaderships. But behind the scenes individuals do write to the Tory Party leader and many of those letters receive replies. This is one such reply and it reveals at best a confusion in policy and at worst a continued betrayal of the basis of Conservatism - the democratic sovereignty of the British people and the integrity of our 800 year old Parliament.

Just before the last election in 2005 The British Declaration of Independence www.bdicampaign.org contacted Conservative Central Office and, eventually, after a long and contorted discussion with the "policy experts" we were able to confirm that the modern Conservative Party (at that time led by David Cameron's sponsor, Michael Howard) does not believe that the British people should elect their law makers and does not believe in the democratic powers of the British Parliament to make or unmake our laws.

The following letter from a Mr David Beal in David Cameron's office demonstrates that nothing has changed. The Tories are all at sea on the very issue that once gave them legitimacy - their devotion to democratic national sovereignty. As Edward Spalton wrote recently to William Hague, following the latter's desire to change what is wrong with the EU:

There was a young man who said "damn"
It appears to me that I am
A creature that moves
In predestinate grooves
Not merely a bus but a tram

And that is a euro-federalist, nation state destroying, imperialist tram taking the British Conservative Party to the end of the line - and the knackers yard!

LETTER FROM DAVID CAMERON'S OFFICE ON TORIES AND THE EU
(With repudiating comments in italic by Rodney Atkinson)

June 2006

Dear XXXX

Thank you for writing to David Cameron - I'm replying on his behalf.

We have never pretended that all is well with the European Union. (Yes you have - by committing irrevocably (as it repeatedly says in the Treaties) to remaining within its British-Constitution-destroying clutches. Who would tolerate such a situation if they did not believe the advantages were overwhelmingly superior to the loss of British democracy!?)

Indeed we have long campaigned for its reform and modernisation. (Knowing - or perhaps even worse NOT knowing - that neither are permitted. Even if they were permitted the necessary unanimity for change to eg the budget, the CAP or CFP would NEVER be forthcoming since there are too many snouts in the trough).

It does too much and too much of what it does do, it does badly. (In other words if the EU did a good job of ruling Britain the loss of British democratic sovereignty would be fine!)

Even the new EU trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, has said that if European regulation matched best practice, Europe's productivity would grow by 2 to 6 per cent (Financial Times, 11 November 2004). It is partly for these reasons that David Cameron has said that EU reform should have three components. For Britain, the first priority must be the return of powers over employment and social regulation. (Why? - if all that is required is more efficiency of economic management in the EU, which the Tory Party claims is why we are staying in? If the Party wishes to return powers on employment and social regulation why not on the CAP and the Common Fisheries Policy which have done even more damage? And of course there is absolutely no mechanism for returning such powers - without first re-asserting the sovereignty of the British Parliament and people - which only the British Declaration of Independence, to which the Tory Party refuses to sign up, achieves)

Second, the EU must abandon the hubristic constitutional project once and for all. (The project has not only NEVER been abandoned it continues unabated, red in tooth and claw. Just because the formal EU Constitution has been rejected does not mean that it does not exist de facto anyway. It was after all the Tory Party which created that EU Constitution in 1972 - The European Act - and in 1992 through the Maastricht legislation. The EU Constitution has daily been growing ever since through unaccountable bureaucrats and an activist and highly political Court of Justice, all of which have the backing of the Conservative Party)

Third, we must give the EU a clear remit to enforce trade and open markets. The EU has more remits than all the 25 other former countries governments put together - which is why we are all so powerless and therefore undemocratic. The EU NEVER achieves anything worth while but its failure always leads to it acquiring more power "to put things right" at the centre. It fails economically and socially but the EU Establishment is not interested in success in those fields. It merely seeks constitutional and fiscal power so that it can expand its imperialistic "country called Europe".

However, it would be wrong for Britain to leave the EU. The EU does much that is worthwhile. It allows people and goods to move freely across Europe. (This, believe it or not, you young ones, happened long before the EU existed, as did free movement of people - like this writer! - to take up work in other European countries. Indeed the greatest improvement in the economic and trading position of Europe occurred before the 1957 Foundation of the EEC. And the greatest disaster for Europe's economy was the period following the 1992 Maastricht Treaty which created the "European Union" in all its glory and in all its mass unemployment).

Just as importantly it has brought stability and has helped to entrench democracy in newly free countries. (You mean newly destroyed countries like the once Czechoslovakia and the once Yugoslavia where the EU helped the ethnic cleansing of millions and the establishment of a fascist regime in Croatia and a militant Muslim presence in Bosnia and Kosovo. The Poles had a democratic Constitution for a few years after the break up of the Soviet Empire but then lost it to the European Union. Most of their laws were dictated to them by the EU even before they agreed to enter. So many in fact that they had to pass a new law which said that laws not translated into Polish were applicable anyway - although how anyone was supposed to know what the laws were was not explained!)

That is why we believe it is right for Britain to remain a positive member of the European Union, leading its reform. David Cameron hopes that you will continue to support the Conservative Party which has the vision and determination to bring about change in the EU so that people like yourself find the EU a help not a hindrance in their lives. (The UK cannot be a positive member of an organisation which seeks our destruction. We have never reformed anything in the EU. But the EU has decomated our economy and our constitution. The schoolboy nature of these remarks is quite breathtaking - indeed it is a disgrace to democracy and the British people that such constitutionally ignorant, historically absurd and democratically illiterate nonsense can emanate from the head office of a British political party. The only "leading" that any British Government has done in Europe is to

lead the British people down the garden path about their democracy
lead the British Parliament by the nose into constitutional oblivion
lead the Tory Party to disaster by surrendering its principal pillar of British sovereignty
lead Britain to a disastrous balance of payments and budgetary payments crisis with the EU

If that is vision and determination then Stalin was a capitalist, Britain is a democracy and pigs can fly)

On the EPP, we take a fundamentally different approach to the key institutional and constitutional questions relating to the future direction of the European Union than that taken by the EPP. The EPP remains committed to a federal European Union and still wants the EU Constitution brought into force. (Indeed it does. The whole Christian Democrat movement on the European Continent has little in common with Conservatism in Britain or indeed Scandinavia. But it was the Tory Party's assumption since Edward Heath and in effect continued today by David Cameron by his slavish commitment to the EU that they do. But it is not just on federalism that they differ from Conservatism it is on their vision of CORPORATIST capitalism that contrasts with ours. Corporatism underlay European Fascism and it underlies the European Union's structures and politics today. This is catastrophic for Conservatism - and for the Constitution of the British people. But merely leaving that Parliamentary grouping means little more than a - necessary - gesture. Until the Tory Party can overtly re-assert the sovereignty of the British people through a clear act of the British Parliament - as the unique and powerful British Declaration of Independence www.bdicampaign.org does, then everything else is mere commentary on the passing of a once great nation state.)

We are also fully aware that the Government is taking power away from local people towards unelected regional bureaucrats by stealth. Despite the resounding 'no' to regional government in the North East referendum, regionalisation continues by stealth. Strategic Health Authorities, Ambulance Trusts, Fire Control Rooms, Police Forces are all undergoing expensive and wasteful regional restructuring…….The thrust of our policy should be towards greater local autonomy, greater local accountability, and less interference from central government in local affairs. (There is absolutely no consciousness here that it was the Conservative Party, by its constitutional surrenders to the EU (which, like 1940s Fascism, has resurrected the "regional principle" in order to destroy nation states) by its active involvement in regional assemblies and its refusal to repudiate the EU's powers in our land, which is itself totally responsible for the democratic disasters it now decries.)

Thank you again for taking the trouble to write.
(Thanks to the Conservative Party for no longer taking the trouble to want to govern a sovereign British people!)

Yours sincerely,
David Beal
Correspondence Secretary
David Cameron's Office
House of Commons
London SW1A 0AA