In my view, the Labour Government has greatly jeopardised the lives, liberties and security of British citizens by accepting every provision of the Lisbon Treaty. British society still remains under threat from extensive terrorist networks and yet our own Government has signed a European Treaty to further remove controls over national security. This, I feel, continues to mark an invitation to more 7th July bombings.
In the House of Commons’ opposition to the Lisbon Treaty, Bill Cash MP put down hundreds of amendments to oppose, for example, “… Articles 61 to 61I TEC (TFEU) general provisions relating to an area of freedom, security and justice” in the Lisbon Treaty. I think this is an important area that should have been safeguarded from, for instance, EU control over elements of British national security. The Lords “should have” (one would hope) been busy drawing up such amendments to oppose this impact, since it safeguards the security of British citizens.
Here is an example of how the Treaty has made such provisions. The European Foundation’s recently published report, The Lisbon Report: An analysis of the Lisbon Treaty with specific amendments and briefings for the House of Lords refers on page 8 to new Article 61F. This new Article pushes for the development of Member State cooperative arrangements on security under which the drive towards federalist cooperation is first supported actively by the Union as a mode of action going beyond EU law, and second that such super-Union enhanced cooperative agreements will in turn become EU law.
The practice of how enhanced cooperation on national security will eventually become EU law is clear from looking at the way in which enhanced cooperation is always enforced upon the other Member States. Whereas Article 61E states “This Title shall not affect the exercise of the responsibilities incumbent upon Member States with regard to the maintenance of law and order and the safeguarding of internal security”, the Lisbon Treaty introduced a new provision, Article 61 F stating that Member States are free “to organise between themselves and under their responsibility such forms of cooperation and coordination as they deem appropriate between the competent departments of their administrations responsible for safeguarding national security.”
This provision will open the door for a massive increase in EU interference. It is important to note that the Prüm Treaty (remember all the personal data issues) was designed outside the legal framework of the EU by only seven Member States. Neither the Commission nor the other Member States took part in the Prüm Treaty negotiations. However, soon it will be incorporated into EU law. It is obvious that the Contracting States designed the Treaty with the aim of incorporating its provisions into EU law. Therefore, it is implied that a group of Member States reaching an agreement between themselves will subsequently have that agreement incorporated into the EU framework, in much the same way that programmes of enhanced cooperation have operated in the past.
Once the UK has accepted under Lisbon that its national security arrangements, or more importantly its balance between the liberties and security of citizens, will be decided and legislated for by the EU, it is no longer clear how the UK Government can then claim to defend its citizens. Brown and Miliband will have signed this country up to a text which condemns the British people to accept and live by the conditions of a terrorist society.
