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Scotland Yard Must Act

Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Yates
Director of Intelligence
Metropolitan Police Service
New Scotland Yard
London

December 2008 

I refer you to my letter of 28 November, the latest in a series of exchanges following my visit to Scotland Yard last year with John Gouriet, when we drew your attention to the prima facie case of malfeasance against the Prime Minister and other members of his Cabinet.

Since my letter of last month my attention has been drawn to the manner in which our current government exploits the invented principle assuming the automatic assent of the Monarch to all new statute law.

Specifically I draw your attention to the way in which the Cabinet arranged for the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty to receive the Monarchâ?Ts signature within hours of the bill completing its passage through parliament, after which it was immediately flown to Rome.  This unseemly haste had a clear political purpose.  It ensured that no member of the public, let alone any political organisations, could mount a protest against British ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.  As an aside, I might add that such an unusual, if not unique, series of events underlines the governmentâ?Ts recognition that they were acting against the popular will of the British people

This brings me to the issue of automatic assent. 

Is not the claim of automatic assent itself treason?  â?oThe highest known crime [treason] aims at the very destruction of the Commonwealth itselfâ? â?" Jowitt.  Edward VII refused to sign the Parliament Act 1911 as unconstitutional.  Before that Queen Anne refused her assent to a bill in 1707. 

The phrase automatic assent has never been made statute law, either before or after 1707.  There is no trace of it in Hansard, nor in the records of the Privy Council.  There is no record either of its being debated. 

I draw your attention to these matters in addition to those already in your possession.  Automatic assent of the sovereign to statute law has no basis in law itself and its exploitation by our current government should, in my view be thoroughly investigated and tested under the law concerning malfeasance.

Please consider this additional material along with all previous correspondence.

Ashley Mote MEP