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An interesting comment from Hugo Miller!

"...we can repeal the 1972 ECA all we want, but Brussels’ response will be simply to say ‘very good, but you

have repudiated a treaty which no longer exists’.

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From: "Hugo Miller"

“Time to Say No” (the pamphlet) and “Leaving the EU” (the DVD) - A Cautionary Warning

To: "Clive Easton" "Ashley Mote"

#### It is with the greatest trepidation that I question Ashley’s analysis, and indeed that of Trevor Coleman and Ian Milne. The difficulty as I see it is that we can repeal the 1972 ECA all we want, but Brussels’ response will be simply to say ‘very good, but you have repudiated a treaty which no longer exists’. Repudiating the Treaty of Rome is frankly irrelevant as we have now ratified the Lisbon Treaty and have agreed to be bound by the terms of that treaty which, for the first time, sets out an ‘approved’ modus operandi if we wish to leave the EU. Lisbon has transmogrified the EU from an intergovernmental association of sovereign nations, which derives its authority from intergovernmental treaties, into a completely new creature, a unitary state, also confusingly called the European Union, which derives its authority from the Lisbon Treaty itself (a.k.a. the Constitution for Europe).

Ok, we can say ‘stuff that, we’re going to stick with repealing the ECA and from that point on we’re not going to recognise the authority of the EU’. Who will resolve this difference of opinion? The ECJ of course. And ok, we can say we’re not going to recognise the authority of the ECJ, and then what happens? Tanks through the tunnel?

My starting premise throughout is that the EU cannot survive without us as a member. It will do anything, and I do mean anything, to keep us in the EU.

If we were foolish enough to adopt the ‘Lisbon process’ for leaving the EU, then for the next two years they will have the power to do anything they like to us while we are excluded from meetings. God only knows what this might entail, but I wouldn’t wish to be living here after they have finished with us.

I have a horrible feeling Hitler was right when he said (quoting Bismark I believe) “All great issues are resolved by blood and iron”.

Hugo Miller ####