Bill completes its passage
Unreported by the media, the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill completed its passage through the Commons yesterday evening, and after the Bill has been through the formality of Royal Asssent and become an Act the UK government will deposit its instrument to ratify the radical EU treaty change agreed by EU leaders on March 25th 2011.
Anyone who watched what passed for a "debate" in the House of Commons would understand how our Parliament has got us into such a godawful mess with the EU over the past forty years, and would see that unless and until there is a major clearout of the Commons we can only expect a continuation of the same.
I could pick out a number of MPs who managed to come up with ill-informed and irresponsible and often self-contradictory nonsense yesterday evening, but I would highlight the speech by the supposed "eurosceptic" Jacob Rees-Mogg, which starts at Column 97 here:
Even though I watched him speak I still can't say whether he was trying to be satirical - maybe he wasn't sure himself what he was trying to do - but his speech verged on the childish and was not at all amusing.
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