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25/10/2000
The following statement was released by SANITY to the media today:

New proposals, just released by the European Commission for inclusion in
the Nice Treaty due to be signed in December, include:

1.  A new statute for political parties - which will give the EU power
to finance parties of which it approves, and ban those which it
disapproves of.  A "requirement of recognition" will be required by all
political parties - thus purporting to make all opposition illegal.

2.  New powers which will allow the EU to remove the voting rights of
member countries if they "threaten" to breach the EU charter of
fundamental rights - such a decision to be taken by qualified majority
voting.  This is an extension of the powers taken at Amsterdam, when an
actual breach was required, and a majority of 14 to 1 was required.
After Nice, only a "threat" will activate the penalty, and any majority
will suffice.

3.  The creation of the European Public Prosecutor, complete with an
armed para-military police free to act in any member state with full
diplomatic immunity. 

This is plainly the first step to the introduction of Corpus Juris which
will also be possible once the UK concedes its veto on justice and home
affairs - freedom, security and justice in Eurospeak. 

Despite parliamentary questions, letters to the Home Office, and
hundreds of SANITY supporters drawing the attention of magistrates
across the UK to this threat to the British constitution, the Blair
government has consistently refused to pledge its commitment to
retaining the UK veto over justice and home affairs.

A SANITY spokesman said today "No-one can now be in any doubt whatsoever
that what is being planned for the Nice Treaty is treason.  If these
proposals are signed by the British government they will overthrow the
constitution of the United Kingdom, permit foreign armed forces to
exercise power over British nationals in Britain, destroy political
debate and free speech, and create the blueprint for a form of
dictatorship.  Nice must be stopped at all costs."

(ends)

 


tderikson@bigfoot.com
Further background information and the implications of these proposals
are available from Torquil Dick-Erikson via his e-mail address above.



CARP - media statement - 26 September 2000

Local Parishes Vote to Keep the Pound

As the Danes prepare to go to the polls to vote on the euro, first
results from UK parish polls on the same question have shown a
consistently high level of support for the pound.

In the first seven parishes to declare, the average vote in support of
the pound was 93.94%.  The average turnout was 20.4%.  In some parishes
the turnout comfortably exceeded local election turnouts in recent
years.

Parish polls have been held so far in Cornwall, Essex and Lincolnshire.
Others are expected in the next few days in Devon and Dorset.

The great majority of the 100 or so parishes targetted by CARP have been
obstructed by district councils in a series of disorganised and
inconsistent responses.  Many are being disputed.  Meanwhile, the net
effect has been to deprive electors in many parts of the country of a
chance to vote on this critical issue, whilst allowing others to express
their opinion.

"It is abundantly clear that the true purpose of the obstructionism
encountered by CARP was to hide from electors the high level of spending
on euro preparations already being undertaken by county councils in
particular, and to conceal the level of public opposition to the euro",
said a spokesman for CARP (the Campaign Alliance for Referendums in
Parishes). 

"However, CARP activists and tens of thousands of electors now know that
their councillors are spending public money on euro preparations in
flagrant disregard of the wishes of their electors.

"They also know that local councillors can be required to make good the
public purse if they are subsequently found to have misapplied public
funds.  Since the likelihood of the UK ever joining the eurozone is
receding rapidly by the day this premature and unauthorised expenditure
may ultimately be recovered from those councillors responsible for it."

Local CARP organisers who have been refused a poll are now placing
questions with councillors, and asking district auditors to investigate
and explain expenditure on euro preparations.

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1/09/2000
1.    Looks like C.A.R.P. will have excellent coverage in The Sunday
Telegraph this week. it was due to be in last week but please don't blame me
for letting the last Kray out of prison on the Saturday and bumpping the
article because of space.

2.    Progress with C.A.R.P. is proving fantastic - last figures - 46 Motion
Passed = about 200,000 people will now have a referendum in 46 parishes. 4
failed - 2 were for technical reasons and there are about 60 more meetings
to go in the next few days.

At the present rate that means that approaching 500,000 people will join in
the referrendum parish by parish.


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