So, when Mr Cameron says he wants to repatriate powers ceded to the EU over
the years, how far is he prepared to go? The European Union Act 2011 was
intended to reassert the sovereignty of Parliament as the supreme law-making
body in the land. This measure was promised by Mr Cameron when the Tories were
in Opposition as a way of burnishing his Eurosceptic credentials, both with his
party and with the country at large, following the controversy over the
abandoned pledge to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The Act, he said, would “make it clear that ultimate authority stays in this country, in our Parliament… Never again should it be possible for a British government to transfer power to the European Union without the say of the British people in a referendum.” That may be true for the future, but the past has already been sold.
It is, of course, always open to Parliament to reassert its sovereignty by repealing the 1972 European Communities Act and leaving the aegis of the ECHR. Somehow, I don’t see that happening. In which case we will have to live with the fact that if we want to sit at the top table we will have to eat what is put in front of us, however unpalatable. Telegraph.
TIME TO LEAVE!
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