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TREASON, CAMERON ADMITS TO IT

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TREASON, CAMERON ADMITS TO IT.

In the House of Commons debate and afterwards Cameron and others have talked of the repatriation of powers from the EU. This is an admission that we surrendered powers to the EU and those powers must be those which form our Sovereignty or part thereof which is an admission that high treason was done in that surrender, as it stripped the Queen of those powers.

Does no one recognise high treason in the first House of our legislative assembly, which includes many lawyers as well as the Lord Chancellor and Attorney General?

The absurdity must strike the Queen as hilarious, given her penchant for absurdity - as was her recent visit to Australia. XXXXXXX D

THIS IS TREASON -

this man and his wife are paid by the EU

Nick Clegg issues fierce rebuke to Tory right over Europe

Deputy prime minister says coalition will not take back powers from Brussels and calls EU debate a 'dangerous distraction'

• Daniel Boffey
• guardian.co.uk, Saturday 29 October 2011 20.30 BST
• Article history

Nick Clegg has described Eurosceptics' aim as 'economic suicide'. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA

Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, has launched a full-frontal attack on Conservative Eurosceptics within the coalition, describing their aims as "economic suicide" and ruling out a "headfirst" charge towards a repatriation of powers from Europe.

In a direct challenge to Tories calling for a redrawing of the UK's relationship with Europe, the Liberal Democrat leader dismisses calls for a raid on Brussels' powers as a futile distraction. Writing for the Observer, Clegg mocks those who believe this country would survive outside of Europe based on the so-called "special relationship" with America. "Eurosceptics tend to gaze longingly across the Atlantic, but the Americans are interested in us, in large part, because of our sway with our neighbours," he writes. "We stand tall in Washington because we stand tall in Brussels, Paris and Berlin."

Sources close to Clegg also dismissed claims by David Cameron over the weekend that the Foreign Office was reviewing every aspect of Britain's membership of the European Union in preparation for a potential treaty change coming out of the eurozone crisis.

The official told the Observer: "This would be to misunderstand what the coalition agreement says." Instead Clegg writes that Britain would avoid opening the "Pandora's box" that comes with "tampering with the EU's founding texts", and describes talk of such moves as "dangerous distractions".

The deputy prime minister's forthright intervention makes it clear that Britain's relationship with Europe could yet prove to be the most dangerous faultline within the coalition. It comes after a torrid week in parliament in which the eurozone crisis has led to renewed calls from the Eurosceptic wing of the Conservative party for a partial or total withdrawal from the European Union. Last Monday, 81 Conservative MPs defied a three-line whip to vote against the government and for a referendum on EU membership.

Clegg writes: "So far the debate has been dominated by two extremes. On the one hand, there are some who see an opportunity for a more centralised EU, built around a tighter, quasi-federalist core. On the other are those who imagine a chance for the UK to draw away from the union. They relish the prospect of a unilateral raid on Brussels' powers. The irony is that both options require treaty change: Europhiles and Europhobes are clamouring for the same thing.

"As always, neither extreme of the argument is right. Both would have the UK give up our place at the European top table, sacrificing the influence essential to our prosperity. It is only by having a loud voice in a united Europe that we can promote the open economy that will deliver growth. Being shoved to the margins, or retreating there voluntarily, would be economic suicide: a sure-fire way to hurt British businesses and lose jobs."

Such sentiments provoked a furious backlash last night from Tory backbenchers, who rebelled against the government on Monday on the possibility of a referendum over Britain's place in Europe. Nadine Dorries, MP for Mid Bedfordshire, said she believed Cameron's government was driving forward on a repatriation of powers and that Clegg now needed to reassess whether he could continue in the coalition government. She said: "Nick Clegg is demonstrating how totally divorced and remote he is from the opinion of the vast majority of the country which may indicate actually why the vast majority of the country don't vote Liberal Democrat."

Philip Davies, Tory MP for Shipley, described Clegg as "a little European", adding: "If Nick Clegg wants to wed his party to the European project, that is fine: he has already presided over the bombing of his party in the opinion polls. That is a matter for him, but I will be damned if he is going to drag us down with him. His party makes up one-sixth of the coalition, we don't have any need for the tail to be wagging the dog."

Nick de Bois, the Tory MP for Enfield North, said: "I hope we have learned at least one thing from last week, that there is a growing need for and acceptance of the case for repatriation of powers from Europe. This does not have to be a headlong charge, but there is no doubt in my mind that it must happen."