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Another good reason not to trust Cameron.

This is what Oliver Letwin told me in an e-mail dated 23/2/10 - "I certainly do not approve of having Corpus Juris imposed on us - and that is one of the reasons why we have committed ourselves to legislating to prevent any further transfer of powers without an act of Parliament following a referendum - by putting a 'referendum lock' on any such move". They are lying to us. XXXXXM

26 February 2010 3:43 PM

'Modifying the treaties without saying so,' and Cameron won't stop it

You have to wonder how our prime-minister-in-waiting is going to get out of this one.

When David Cameron broke his promise that he would ensure the British people had a vote on the Lisbon Treaty once he came to office, he promised instead that they would be given a vote before any further powers beyond the powers in Lisbon were passed to Brussels.

For a lot of reasons, that idea is guff, not least because the Lisbon Treaty has a mechanism for adding powers to the EU institutions without need to have any more treaties.

However, one of the surest ways the EU has for grabbing powers is a method quite beyond anything defined in the Lisbon Treaty. We see it now in the eurocrats' manoeuvrings over Greece. There is no way Cameron can stop this technique, not unless he has a spine of steel and muscle to match. Which, on evidence so far, he hasn't.

Here is how it works. We see it every day in Brussels, but Jean Quatremer, the Brussels blogger for the left-wing French newspaper Libération, has nailed it best.

Today he quotes an unnamed high-ranking EU diplomat as saying: 'La véritable mise sous tutelle de la Grece décidée par l'Eurogroupe le 15 février aurait tout simplement été inimaginable...' Enough of that. What the diplomat was saying was that the eurogroup putting Greece under surveillance, as decided by the Eurogroup on February 15th, would have been quite simply 'unimaginable' some months ago.

The unnamed highly-placed EU diplomat continues: 'We are beyond a simple application of the European treaties, we are in the process of modifying them without saying so, in order to bring about an economic government of the eurozone.'

I prefer it in the original French. You gain the full sinister tone that way. Think of the evil Cardinal Richelieu in the 1939 film, 'The Three Musketeers,' and you have it: 'On est au-dela d'une simple application des traités européens, nous sommes entrain de les modifier sans le dire pour faire entrer dans les faits un véritable gouvernement économique de la zone euro.'

The eurocrats and the euro-fanatical Continental politicians are indeed 'entrain de' modifying the European treaties without saying so, without needing any new laws to be passed, without waiting for any democratic agreement by the member states of the EU. The eurocrats are setting up an economic government of , first, the eurozone, and then the entire EU, with no agreement by any voters anywhere.

And from everything we have learned about Cameron, he does not have what it takes to stop such power-grabbing eurocrats when, or if, he becomes prime minister.

To quote from that famous sinster exchange with Richelieu in the film: 'Your Queen is in danger.'

And much else, too.