"The United Kingdom will be unable to withdraw from" participation in the European Investigation Order - it's a 'Britain forever under tyranny' deal, apparently.

Where's Guy Fawkes when you need him?

Lord Stoddart of Swindon has received a written reply to his question to the Government over the European Investigation Order.

Baroness Neville-Jones tells him: "The European Investigation Order is not an agreement between national Governments but a draft directive of the European Union. Consequently, as and when agreed, the United Kingdom will be unable to withdraw from the directive."

Better Off Out has the rest of the story.

The European Investigation Order is a huge negative against our civil liberties, enshrined in our written national constitution.

What was that about no Parliament being able to bind it's successor?

The Bill of Rights 1689 is always ignored, even though it cannot be as it contains a specific clause stating that it stands for all time:

"All which their Majestyes are contented and pleased shall be declared enacted and established by authoritie of this present parliament and shall stand remaine and be the law of this realme forever."

The Bill of Rights 1689 states that: "And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. So help me God."

The Bill of Rights therefore says that the European Empire is not valid here.

They can't have it both ways. They can't say the European Investigation Order stays forever and yet say the Bill of Rights 1689 - part of our written constitution - doesn't count.

The Bill of Rights 1689 is the written national constitution document that I was born under, and it's the one which I will seek to uphold as an Englishman.

Not some Brussels crap.

So naff off, treacherous Government. You are not a Parliament. You are a pantomime.

And a treacherous, undemocratic one at that. As Lord Stoddart notes: "The Government has over-ridden Parliament so that there has been no discussion in either House on a directive with very serious implications for the British people. So much for Parliamentary sovereignty!"

And as for Brussels? Definitely naff off.