As The Lisbon Treaty has now been ratified by the governments of all 27 members states, (I say governments because the 500m people of those members states with the exception of 4m Irish, were denied a say on the matter), the Treaty will come into force at midnight tonight.
At 00:01 on Tuesday 1st December 2009, the empire is born. The first legally constituted institutions of the EU State are now being put into place, despite all the denials from our politicians that the EU would NOT become a state..
One of the most powerful of those new Institutions is the Court of Justice of the European Communities. It has therefore just pronounced its arrival via the empire's first press release, and the changes that will now take place as a result.
To give you a taster, here are the first couple of paragraphs. (highlights mine)
1. Changes in the organisation of the Court and the appointment of its Members.
The European Union, which will henceforth have legal personality, will replace the European Community. Accordingly, under the Treaty of Lisbon, the 'pillar' structure will disappear and the Union will have a new institutional framework. As a result, in common with the institutions to be renamed, the whole court system of the European Union will be known as the Court of Justice of the European Union, comprising 3 courts: the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal.
So where now is the British Crown Court? the County and Magistrates Court? Did Jack Straw tell you all some porkies?
Here, read the whole thing for yourself, and be as disgusted and angry as I am. I now await the flood of new regulations that have been waiting in the wings for this day, for a flood there will indeed be.
If you want an interpretation of what we will be losing, what will be changing, then read this, it will only make you tremble with anger.
But don't just sit there and fume, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
You can TRY to make a change happen if you really want to. You can join the Albion Alliance, a pressure group set up to petition Parliamentary Candidates to stand up and speak for the people rather than their party, and demand and work for a referendum on the UKs relationship with the EU. Not in 5 years time when there will be nothing left of the UK, but now, within 1 year of a new parliament.
Albion Alliance needs all the grassroots support that it can get. Make your voice heard now.
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