The Talking Clock: Lord Salisbury puts pressure on Cameron over EU

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Monday, 27 July 2009

Lord Salisbury puts pressure on Cameron over EU

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Lord Salisbury has put pressure on David Cameron to start adding more specifics to the Conservative Party's policies regarding the European Union.

Lord Salisbury tells the newspaper: "He has to begin urgently to put a bit of flesh on this rather vague 'we will not let it rest’ policy. What does it mean? Are we going to renegotiate our relationship with the EU? We need a clear idea of where we are going and how we will get there. He knows the EU is a disaster, a great idea that has taken a wrong turn and urgently needs reforming. All of his instincts are pushing him towards doing something and in the end I hope that he is brave".

One of the interesting thoughts Lord Salisbury also reveals concerns the House of Lords. He suggests that the reformed House of Lords should have the power to call referendums on important constitutional or 'irreversible' decisions.

This latter idea chimes well with this blog. We think it's high time that the United Kingdom had a Constitutional Court comprised - not of the judiciary - but of the three estates: the people, the Lords and the Sovereign.

If Germany can have a Constitutional Court that says: 'you ain't taking over our country without our say' to the European Union, why the hell can't a historic country like ours have the same?

Answer? We can. Just not under this appalling Labour Party shower of totalitarian, authoritarian, nationhood betraying idiots.

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- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
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- Prince Harry

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"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

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Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Monday, 27 July 2009

Lord Salisbury puts pressure on Cameron over EU

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