NEWS ........

Opinion Polls purport to show that majorities of Scots and English both want independence. But independence means extinction for both since neither an English nor a Scottish Parliament can replace the British Parliament where sovereignty (independent self-Government) really lies. Any attempt to create an English Parliament would (initially in effect and gradually in law) finish off that sovereign British Parliament and the United Kingdom itself. Since that Parliament permitted the European State to govern in Britain it alone can reverse that situation. The end of that Parliament would mean the removal of the power to reverse - which is precisely why the European Union wants it and has invested billions in such an outcome. And that is precisely why we created the British Declaration of Independence (www.bdicampaign.org) to assert British sovereignty over all foreign powers - permanently.

Opinion polls are of course open to manipulation by those who commission them or those who carry them out. There was a very good episode of Yes Minister when the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby demonstrated the manipulative power of an opinion pollster on the hapless young civil servant, Bernard!

When we at the British Declaration of Independence asked MORI to carry out a Poll for us (see the (for the political class) embarrassing results on www.bdicampaign.org) the extent of such manipulation became evident.

The question we wanted to ask the people was designed to be in the same mould as when they were asked "Do you want to be part of the European Common Market?". Our question was "Do you want the British Parliament to make your laws?" The answer would of course be Yes and thus they would vote for the removal of the powers of the European Union which PREVENTS our Parliament making our own laws.

But MORI, like the whole of the British political Establishment, are supporters of the Euro-State and refused to put the question unless we added "this would mean leaving the EU". We did so - and MORI still got the answers they did not want! When I subsequently asked MORI if they would, in the same spirit of clarity, add to the question "Do you want the Euro?" the words "This would mean the abolition of the Pound" they refused. The unpleasant fascism inherent in this attitude was expressed by the man who ran MORI, the Blair ally and recipient of a Knighthood for services to the State - Bob Worcester!

I believe the opinion poll purporting to show support on both sides of the border for "independence" for both England and Scotland does not express the views of the vast majority of either - no more than a recent opinion poll published by the BBC represented the views of North East England on regional Government. Not long ago the North East voted 78% to 22% against. Now the BBC expects us to believe that North Easterners want what they so dramatically rejected. Nevertheless the fact that very many Scots and English seem to have fallen into the regional nationalist trap set by those who seek the destruction of our country is deeply troubling. Never have so many been so misled by so few.

There is only one source of sovereignty (and hence democracy) in Britain and that is the Westminster Parliament to which all the sovereign British people send their representatives. The new would-be Government in Brussels knows this and encouraged break away "pseudo sovereignties" (there is of course only one sovereignty for them and that is in Brussels) in Scotland, Wales and the English regions. The creation of the Scottish and Welsh "parliaments" or regional assemblies was the first step. The resulting resentment would bounce the English (driven by naive English nationalists) into an English (regional) parliament.

Finally with so many powers devolved to those regional pseudo Parliaments the real, Westminster Parliament would be a de jure (by law) Parliament but not a de facto (in effect) Parliament. In a further debasement of our Westminster Parliament the building in which it is housed would be used for the New English (regional) Parliament - doubtless with the EU flag flying from it. And we all know (even from squatters rights in domestic law) that if we do not exercise our sovereignty and continue to delegate it to others then it can be legally taken from us and our rightful Parliament becomes no Parliament at all - and then our sovereignty and country are no more.

"Independence" for either Scotland or England would mean the final destruction of each and the final end of British sovereignty. Indeed Norris McWhirter and I pointed out in 1994 that the Act of Union (which recognised only one Parliament in Westminster) had been apparently repealed by the European Union Treaties which took power from that Parliament and created superior powers elsewhere - or rather that is what the treaties illegally purported to do! It now seems that for once - and perhaps too late - the Labour and Tory parties have awoken to the fatal consequences of the obnoxious train of events that they themselves started when they in effect surrendered our country and democracy in 1972.

The politicians have lost control of events today because they surrendered their right to govern in 1972 (Accession to the Treaty of Rome) and 1992 (Treaty of Maastricht). Since then they have not been governors but puppets. Too late, they don't like it - but will they ever get up off their bellies and fight?

Rodney Atkinson 27th November 2006