QMV EU and UKIP On request of our very own wonderful Averil Brown, Here is UKIPs official reply concerning QMV....... Its good news folks so enjoy! Dear Averil Thank you for your email. The answer to your question is that although the QMV development is terrible for Britain (and terrible for all the member states if they care about their sovereignty) it will not affect our ability to leave the EU. No-one seriously imagines that David Cameron will turn around to the British people (if he wins in 2015) and say: Remember that Referendum I promised to hold? Well Im sorry but the EU has just told me that were not allowed to hold it. Sorry about that. That would be political suicide. There is a simple basic rule: no Parliament can bind its successor. No matter what Cameron signs in Brussels, a future UK government has every right to undo decisions, treaties etc made by its predecessor. If the British people vote for a UKIP government then that UKIP government will pull Britain out of the EU. The little matter of QMV doesnt matter. We can tell them where to put QMV. We have a choice of whether to go along the Article 50 route of the Lisbon Treaty, which means that we gently unpick and disentangle ourselves from the EU in an amicable divorce, taking perhaps a year to do it. Or if they start playing up, trying to discombobulate us, making it difficult, trying to frustrate the process, then we can press the nuclear option and just tell Brussels: Right, thats it. Were now repealing the 1972 European Communities Act, and from that moment we will not be members of the EU. So long and thanks for all the fish (except that the fish were all travelling in the opposite direction, of course, to the Spanish and the French). No-one of intelligence would trust David Cameron on the referendum issue because in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais, he was asked: If the British people have a referendum and vote to leave the European Union will you then withdraw Britain from the EU. His answer was simple: No. David Cameron is not to be trusted, and frankly neither is the rest of the Tory Party on this issue. But whatever its drawbacks QMV will not prevent Britain leaving the EU. Regards David Challice UKIP Head Office
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 13:06:59 +0000
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