From
time to time especially in times of crisis we have had to consider regional
government of the U.K. but not one of these schemes involved the national
government giving up its responsibility for governing the country, and no one
could ever have envisaged a government
surrendering that responsibility voluntarily to a foreign power. This
has been happening in ever increasing proportions since Devolution 1998 because
of the support given by the entire main stream political parties to the
implementation of EU regional policies, which they know if followed through to
their conclusion will see the break up of our nation state. The introduction of
regional devolution and its effect on national government is seen more
prominently when it is pointed out that Scotland and Wales although nations
within the UK are in fact recognised regions of the EU, and because of this
it’s Brussels, not the UK government that decides and rules over 80% of the laws
on which their government base their domestic policies. These Laws and rules
allow our regions to introduce policies of discrimination against one another
at home in the UK but not against other regions outside in Europe, imagine
England balkanised into the suggested EU regions without an English parliament
to protect it, it will be game set and match to Europe and goodbye to England’s
unity forever as regions fight each other to establish their own identities, a
text book case for divide and rule within the United Kingdom. The truth is not
being told, these EU laws do apply equally to England’s
local government, and you can’t assume anymore that those applying and managing
England’s laws
are still making them, they are not, and they can’t bend them either for fear
of enormous law suits and fines from the EU. These laws are so rigid that they
are being rubber stamped into law by UK government ministers using Enabling
Acts and Statutory Instruments, and since they may not under any circumstances
be changed, amended, altered, or repealed in any way, so they get very little and
most often no debate at all in the UK parliament. Most important is the fact
that once power is devolved from national government to regions the power to
govern them is passed to the EU, and once devolved to the EU it can not be
taken back no more than you can take devolved powers back from Scotland
and Wales. England’s
regionalisation is a keystone, although it won’t be admitted in the EU’s long
term plan to stop us acting as an independent nation. EU official papers make
no reference to England
at all only the regions of it, and the proposed city regions deceitfully being
introduced under the combined authority banner is the first step in doing just
that. Devolution / decentralisation within England
is not national devolution as granted to Wales
and Scotland
nor should it be so regarded, England
has no parliament and no political recognition neither in the United
Kingdom nor the EU. What these protagonists
for regionalism fail to tell the public is that what they are proposing for England
is going to take the country back more than a thousand years to a time of England’s
dismemberment, and internal conflict. Devolution in reality has come to mean
the power to administer according to strict directives and laws, most of which
are decided and enforced by the EU and it will be the responsibility of city
mayors to see that these are adhered to, and if local businesses think they can
get preferential treatment they should think again because they can’t.
Europhiles want to create these regions ASAP before England wakes up and starts
demanding its own parliament to defend itself, because they know if they can be
established before March 2017 when the UK government loses its veto over 43 of
the most important areas of self government to Qualified Majority Voting (we
are in the transition period of the Lisbon Treaty which started from 1st
November 2014) then it will be almost impossible whatever government gets in to
disband them. We need an EP. ASAP not regions and will David Cameron call the
referendum before March 2017? It should include a vote for an English
Parliament.
J.Stanhope. West
Mid Campaign for an English Parliament
