Thursday 11 December 2008

Here They Go Again

The EU has effectively admitted that the Lisbon Treaty was a threat, both to the Irish Republic's abortion law (of which the new political elite there wants rid, anyway), and to her constitutional neutrality.

This double admission has vast implications, because very similar abortion laws exist in many member-states (it is in fact Great Britain's, but not Northern Ireland's, American-style abortion on demand up to and including partial birth that it altogether as aberrant as it is abhorrent, and the normal time limit on the Continent is twelve weeks), and several other member-states are constitutionally neutral.

And the main points remain unadddressed: that this Treaty is a significant loss of national independence (nothing could better encapsulate that than the fact that the right to maintain Ireland's own tax rates now has to be written in as some sort of special arrangement for her), and that the £150 billion that the Irish Republic's fisheries have lost as a direct consequence of EU membership is three times the £50 billion that she have received in EU largesse, a situation about which this Treaty does absolutely nothing.

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