Dishonouring the noble British war dead: Another great dossier of European Empire treachery

Over the last forty-eight hours, we've seen a vast surge in visitors to the Clock Tower, home of The Talking Clock. Hope you're all enjoying - or at least taking comfort from - finding a fellow patriotic libertarian's thoughts.

We know why people were here and so we didn't blog excessively, so that stories would not get buried in the mass of opinion.

It does mean that a lot of European Empire treachery has slipped by without comment or opinion.

Or had.

The much hyped sovereignty bill and the 'referendum lock' finally made an appearance in the House of Commons.

Europe Minister David Lidington - who seemed to be enjoying his job a great deal when we watched his video on the Foreign Office website - told the Daily Mail: "Had this Bill been in force at the time, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Nice, Maastricht and the Single European Act would have all required a referendum. That should give the public more confidence that they cannot have powers taken from them without a referendum."

Well no, David, it doesn't. It's a lying, cheating, bare-arsed piece of theatre.

As the Daily Mail goes on to explain: "But in each case it will be up to ministers to decide whether the measure in question constitutes a transfer of power or not."

Now, roll up... roll up... a coconut and a Harry Enfield CD on offer for one lucky winner who can tell us which lying cheating scumbags lied to the people - not only of Britain but of all other European nations - when they said the Lisbon Treaty was... oh, do we have to bother? Let's just call them untrustworthy, lying, cheating, treacherous scumbags. It's so much easier and far less repetitive.

UKIP's Nigel Farage says: "[The Government] talks about sovereignty, whilst its other face promises Brussels any and everything that the EU wants."

One of the few Conservative MPs worth of the name 'conservative' - Douglas Carswell - again spoke for the nation when he mocked the proposed legislation. He said: "Under this bill, it is for ministers to decide what constitutes a transfer of power. This is meant to create the optical illusion of being Eurosceptic. This is smoke and mirrors."

Even the taxpayer funded, EU-loving, leftist propaganda institute - the BBC - confessed: "The government will be able to transfer some powers from Britain to the EU without a referendum under new proposals, despite promising the public would get to vote on any such move."

And their leftist colleagues at The Guardian mocked: "However, the bill published today would enable ministers to avoid a referendum in certain circumstances if they judged that the transfer of power was not significant. These would include cases where EU bodies were given the power to impose new requirements, obligations or sanctions on the UK."

On his own website, Douglas Carswell launched an absolutely spot-on critique of his own party. He wrote: "Since May, there have been five new transfers of power to Brussels - creating the European External Action Service, extending the European Arrest Warrant, increasing our EU budget contribution, EU regulation over the City, and EU oversight over British budgets. On not one of these occasions have ministers admited that power was being transferred. So what hope is there in a "referendum lock" that can only be triggered if ministers are prepared to admit that what their civil servants have agreed to ceded to the EU is significant?"

Any Conservative Party activists regularly reading this blog may well, by now, know that the only way to prevent electoral obliteration is by making someone like Douglas Carswell leader.

The majority of the British people wish to be led by a patriot protecting British interests, not by a self-serving traitor.

They could, of course, come over to UKIP. Re-elected leader Nigel Farage has given further comment, saying of the new masquerade: "Now we learn that the Government reserves the right to decide what is, and what isn't a transfer of sovereignty, and even then it will take a vote in the House of Commons to offer a referendum. It is designed solely to placate Tory members who are utterly disillusioned with his government's habitual capitulation to Brussels. And it just won't work. After all so far his Government has given away an EU budget increase, has allowed prisoners the vote, handed over the Navy to the French, and that is just in the last few weeks. If none of these are handing over sovereignty, I wonder what he [William Hague] thinks is?"

Yes, Nigel. Quite.

Let's see if William Hague is going to do anything about this - reported by the Daily Mail and surely a further transfer of significant powers?

"The European Parliament has launched a controversial new power grab, demanding the right to make tax raids on Britain. MEPs said they would approve a 2.9 per cent rise in the Brussels budget – demanded by David Cameron rather than the 6 per cent originally proposed – but only if they get powers to raise taxes. At present European funds come from member state governments but now the European Parliament wants to tax individuals across Europe directly to pay for its pet projects," they report.

Don't forget, that 2.9% increase David Cameron was after for his EU buddies will: "still cost the British taxpayer an extra £435million."

In the House of Commons, MPs surrendered yet more sovereignty in the week. 296 traitors voted in favour of "the surveillance and co-ordination of economic policies". In other words, the EU will dictate what a British Chancellor of the Exchequer can and cannot have in the national budget.

Only forty MPs voted against.

Any Conservative Party members want to remind me how many MPs you have again? Three hundred and how many?

Forty MPs - from all parties - voted against.

Don't believe it's a surrender of sovereignty? Go see what Douglas Carswell says.

And while politicised students were rioting in a move designed to disrupt Government and civilised society for the benefit of the Labour Party's image against tuition fees...

Britain added it's name to a statement released to reassure markets that, should Ireland slip into bankruptcy, the EU will guarantee Irish debts to the tune of... 100%. The whole shebang.

As the The Guardian reported: "While Britain continues to resist any financial involvement in a rescue, it is understood other EU countries insisted it become a signatory to the statement to underline the wide-ranging support for the Irish government."

With economies all over Europe still crippled and everyday folk losing their jobs, taking pay cuts, and enduring reductions in their standards of living, Bill Cash MP reveals that: "the European Commission has recently proposed to raise the salaries of 50,000 EU civil servants by 0.4% in 2011."

Of course, the salaries of EU civil servants are financed by we, the people.

In the United Kingdom, VAT will rise from 17.5% to 20% in January - supposedly due to the train wreck of a domestic economy.

And yet the EU - which we don't want to belong to - keeps coming along and taking more and more and more.