Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Parliamentary Immunity

Specifically, the disapplication in the United Kingdom of anything passed by the European Parliament but not by the majority of those MEPs certified as politically acceptable by one or more seat-taking members of the House of Commons.

Thus, we should no longer be subject to the legislative will of Stalinists and Trotskyists, of neo-Nazis and neo-Fascists such as Marine Le Pen, of members of Eastern Europe’s kleptomaniac nomenklatura, of people who believe the Provisional Army Council to be the sovereign body throughout Ireland, or of Dutch ultra-Calvinists who will not have women candidates. 

Jacques Cheminade, a supporter of Lyndon LaRouche, managed to collect the signatures of 500 civic dignitaries in order to make it onto the ballot for the last French Presidential Election. Next up, a Strasbourg seat. Isn't the EU marvellous? Such a moderate, centrist cause, isn't it?

Ed Miliband should propose this legislation at the same time as he calls for a straight In-Out referendum on the day of next year's European Elections, but to come into effect regardless of the outcome of that or any other referendum.

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