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Titolo: AS FEARLESS IRISH ARE ABOUT TO LIBERATE IMPRISONED, VOICELESS EUROPEANS FROM THE DRACONIAN EU NIGHTMARE, ARE EU LEADERS PLANNING TO DOUBLE-CROSS IRELAND AFTER REFERENDUM? - ‘The Great Lisbon Tax Ambush’ – ‘Vote No To Giscard's Lisbon Swindle’ - ‘EU To Halt 'Sensitive' Debates Until After Irish Referendum’ – ‘Like A Gold Coin On A Dunghill, The Truth About The EU’ – ‘Europe Hasn't Gone Away, And Sceptics Smell Blood’ - ‘British EU Referendum Fight Goes To High Court’

AS FEARLESS IRISH ARE ABOUT TO LIBERATE IMPRISONED, VOICELESS
EUROPEANS FROM THE DRACONIAN EU NIGHTMARE, ARE EU LEADERS PLANNING TO
DOUBLE-CROSS IRELAND AFTER REFERENDUM? - ‘The Great Lisbon Tax Ambush’
– ‘Vote No To Giscard's Lisbon Swindle’ - ‘EU To Halt 'Sensitive'
Debates Until After Irish Referendum’ – ‘Like A Gold Coin On A
Dunghill, The Truth About The EU’ – ‘Europe Hasn't Gone Away, And
Sceptics Smell Blood’ - ‘British EU Referendum Fight Goes To High
Court’
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The Great Lisbon Tax Ambush
By Shane Ross,
Irish Independent,
June 8, 2008.
The Scene: the Elysee Palace, June 20 (next Saturday). A private
breakfast celebration for five heads of state: Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela
Merkel, Silvio Berlusconi and Gordon Brown are already seated.
French flunkey: "Madame et Messieurs: Monsieur le premier ministre
d'Irlande, Brian Cowen."
Applause as a triumphant Taoiseach enters the room.
Sarkozy: "Taoiseach, you are the toast of Europe. Yesterday was a
historic victory for European democracy."
Cowen: My arse it was. You cute whores ducked a referendum. Left me
carrying the can. We pulled the fat out of the fire at the eleventh
hour. No thanks to your Finance Minister, Nicolas, sounding off about
her mad plans for tax harmonisation. I presume she will be sacked?
Silence.
Gordon Brown: How did you do it? I can't even win a by-election, let
alone a referendum.
Cowen: We mastered the art of glib slogans. We kept information to a
minimum. We used weighty words like 'Good for Ireland, Good for
Europe' and meaningless mantras like 'For Jobs, the Economy and
Ireland's Future'.
Fooled the Irish people. We told them the minimum about what was in
the treaty. We brought President Barroso to Dublin to scare the
bejaysus out of them. Long term, it cost us in street 'cred'. We
buckled in front of the farmers. The campaign was all strokes and no
substance.
But you guys pulled the ultimate stroke -- by insisting it was not a
new constitution, just a treaty.
Berlusconi: Stroke politics. Mamma Mia. That's the language I love.
You and I are going to get along famously. Could you depend on the
media? For the next election would you consider buying the entire
Irish media? I find it helps when you're in a tight spot.
Cowen: Not yet.
Well, its great to be feted by the Big Five.
Anyone else coming to today's celebration ?
Angela Merkel: No, we thought we would keep the party tight. We have
some discreet business to do today. Welcome to the inner circle.
Cowen: (Gobbles an entire croissant in one mouthful). Thank you. We in
Ireland knew that our devotion to the European cause would be
recognised in a tangible form.
For a start, perhaps you could slip us a few bob to keep the farmers
sweet? We may not be able to keep our promise to them. They bought
into Lisbon at the last moment. What little package have you cooked up
for Ireland?
Merkel: Glad you asked. Yes, we have prepared a package, a document
for you to read.
Give it to him, Nicolas. We thought you could sell it to the Irish
people .
Cowen: Thank you very much. What is in it ?
Merkel: Just a few paragraphs about tax.
Berlusconi: Tax? What's tax? We in Italy pay the least tax in Europe.
Long live the black economy.
Cowen: Jaysus. Is this the old document about tax harmonisation, about
how to raise Ireland's corporation tax to the level of yours at 30 per
cent, Angela?
Is this the ominous tax proposal from the Commission that failed to
surface before our referendum so as not to scare Irish business?
I will not even read it.
Sarkozy: No, no it is a variation on the theme.
Cowen: (Reads. Starts having convulsions.) You guys know I could never
sell this piece of deceit to the Irish people. Quite the opposite: we
will be vetoing any hike in our business taxes. It would bankrupt
Ireland's already fragile economy.
Hey lads, this is hardly the way to show gratitude to us for digging
you out of a hole.
Sarkozy: Eaten croissants are soon forgotten.
Merkel: The introduction of the new tax will be staggered. We will
dress it up as being "Good for Ireland, Good for Europe". So will
you.
Cowen: You guys must be joking?
Gordon, surely you do not buy into this treachery?
Gordon: Umm, in principle we are not against it -- nor in favour. In
practice, a scary number of UK companies are thinking of locating in
Ireland. They are causing us sleepless nights. We need similar tax
status to Ireland. We see the merits in fair tax for all.
Cowen: Perfidious Albion. Forget it, lads. We will not hesitate to use
our veto.
We are not for turning on tax harmonisation. All the US multinationals
would take flight. What else have you to offer Ireland?
Sarkozy: Another croissant?
Merkel: We had been having a discussion before you arrived. We
resolved that your veto could not last forever. So we decided to offer
you a palliative for the day it goes.
Cowen: Merde. You will send me back to Dublin empty- handed.
Do your worst. I am off.
Merkel: Just a moment, before you lose the cool. If you insist on the
veto, we might have to look at other areas of common interest.
You have an odd outfit in Ireland called FAS , I believe. It is due to
receive €200m from Europe. We thought all that money for training
seemed on the generous side.
We even noted that FAS was slated in a recent report for giving such
bad value. Perhaps we should look again at our funding for FAS? We
could suspend it -- pending an investigation.
Cowen: You bastards.
Sarkozy: Be pragmatic, Taoiseach. In 10 days' time France will take
over the EU presidency.
We have energetic plans to help Ireland's ambition to be a 'knowledge
economy'.
We had already earmarked billions for your universities, for Irish
business and for research to make you the Silicon Valley of Europe.
We have committed €184bn towards your National Development Plan.
It would be such a pity if we had to divert this largesse to the new
Eastern members, just because you insist on the veto.
Cowen: You will leave Ireland an industrial wasteland. The
multinationals will vamoose. They need a highly educated workforce,
above all else.
They are already belly- aching about our infrastructure -- much of it
funded by Europe. They do not come solely for the tax rate. We need
the other components, too.
If you go ahead with this threat, we will create mayhem. Ireland's
Commissioner will block this proposal. We will obstruct it on the
European Council . Our MEPs will take it to the floor of the
parliament.
Sarkozy: That will be difficult.
As you know, the Lisbon Treaty dictates that you have no Commissioner
at times, that your clout on the Council will be halved.
And Ireland will be but a pimple in the parliament.
You are now the eunuchs of Europe.
Cowen: You are a crowd of effers.
Sarkozy: Mais mon ami, that is what you voted for. Merci bien. You
have done Europe a great service.
Berlusconi: Precisely. I applaud your honest campaign, your strokes.
And thank you for keeping mum about the treaty really being the
rejected constitution in another guise. Quite a stroke. They never
rumbled you.
So, let us talk turkey about tax.
Cowen: Is there anything else to eat for breakfast?
Sarkozy: You were quite enough.
SOURCE: 
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/the-great-lisbon-tax-ambush-1401908.html
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Vote No To Giscard's Lisbon Swindle
by Shane Ross,
Irish Independent,
June 1, 2008
WOULD you like to join the Lisbon "loo-las?" Or even the growing ranks
of the brain dead?
Sign up while you can; you will join the French loo-las and the Dutch
brain dead. Both nations rejected the European constitution -- the
Lisbon Treaty under another name.
All the insiders in Ireland are backing Lisbon. Their message is
poisonously patronising. Those opposing it were dismissed as "loo-las"
by Bertie Ahern and branded as brainless by the nation's sycophants-in-
situ, the big employers group, Ibec. Join the loo-las. Wear the
insults as a badge of honour.
A battle is being waged between the insiders and the rest. Ordinary
people are puzzled. Precisely as was planned by the Lisbon
propagandists.
The tactics of the treaty's champions are clear: sow confusion; imply
that the detail is too complex for mere mortals; put your trust in
your wise politicians who understand it; dismiss any opposition as the
"loony left"; hope the label sticks and bulldoze the treaty through
the polls.
Here in Ireland, Lisbon lovers are following the road set by the lofty
French patrician, ex-president Valery Giscard d'Estaing. The pompous
Giscard let the cat out of the bag last year. With a contempt for his
people -- now infecting the elite in Ireland -- he made a devastating
observation.
Listen to Giscard, gloating at the euro schemers' crafty coup of
reviving the rejected European constitution by stealth. Triumphant,
after the wording of Lisbon was agreed, the ex-president muttered:
"Public opinion will be led -- without knowing it -- to adopt the
policies we would never dare present to them directly. All the earlier
proposals will be in the new text but will be hidden or disguised in
some ways."
Decoded: this proposal has already been rejected. So it's time for a
bit of sleight-of-hand. This time, we are calling it a "treaty"
instead of a "constitution". In that way, we will duck a referendum.
Giscard thought Lisbon far too important to be left to the French
rabble.
Brian Cowen and Enda Kenny are disciples of the d'Estaing school of
democracy. They are relying on slogans. Like the former president of
France, they are quietly peddling a package already rejected by the
French and Dutch people.
The deception is not working. Ordinary people here are beginning to
rumble Ireland's European junkies. Few of us, including the Taoiseach
and Charlie McCreevy, have read the Lisbon Treaty in full -- but we
are starting to click that the insiders are pulling a stroke: keep the
punter in the dark; then hurry the treaty through the hurdles.
Ireland is waking up. The Yes camp's message that Lisbon is merely
"tidying up the democratic process" is a nonsense. Lisbon is dynamite.
It will copperfasten the entire European establishment's grip on
power. The pro-Lisbon consensus in official Ireland is staggering. Not
a single significant political figure has taken a stand against the
treaty. The trades unions are onside, the IBEC sycophants are onside,
the exporters are onside. Most of them are either directly supported,
linked or even funded by the government.
But the much maligned loo-las have done their homework. They are
beginning to communicate a sober message. Lisbon is no "tidying up"
job. It is a step too far. And Ireland will lose out. Like how?
Like, we will lose a commissioner. For five out of 15 years Ireland
will be without a voice at the Commission. The response from the Yes
lobby -- that all countries will suffer the same fate -- is hardly a
reason for approving Ireland's loss. It is like comforting an invalid
who is about to lose a leg with the good news that everyone else in
the hospital will lose one too. Hardly a reason to volunteer for an
amputation.
Where would Ireland rate in Europe without the strong voice of current
Commissioner Charlie McCreevy? Down in the relegation zone. Or maybe a
mere spectator.
Worse still, we will lose half our vote on the European Council.
Now imagine Ireland's mute voice in future years when we have no
commissioner, when our voting rights on the council are halved and
when our representation in the European parliament is insignificant.
At the same time, Germany's voting strength will double.
It sounds bad. It is bad. David Begg of ICTU (and the Lisbon-
infatuated Irish Times) and Brendan Butler of IBEC will not tell you
about this nasty little surrender of power. Instead, they are the guys
entrusted with administering anaesthetic to the people.
Last week, Brendan foolishly described the Lisbon Treaty as a "no
brainer". The implication is clear. Leave your critical faculties
behind. Sleepwalk into the chasm.
The IBEC business eunuchs' sole task is to soothe the nation's nerves
about the 12.5 per cent tax rate. Reassure us that the font of
Ireland's prosperity is in no danger after Lisbon.
If you believe that, then you believe that Giscard d'Estaing works for
St Vincent de Paul in his spare time.
The hour after Lisbon is passed, the 12.5 per cent tax rate will be in
peril. Business please note.
I was alerted to the real threat to the tax rate on Wednesday when I
received a well-argued editorial from the Church of Ireland Gazette.
Hardly the work of Brendan's "no brainers" or Bertie's "loo-las".
The author was deeply worried by Lisbon. He gave good reasons, but the
most startling reminder on the tax front resurfaced.
Last December the European Commission plotted to bury its proposals on
corporate tax until after the Irish referendum. If the news of their
plans escaped it could scare the Irish horses.
So the Commission conspired to compel Ireland to vote in the dark. Or
as the editor put it: "Vote first, learn later."
Maybe the brainless loo-las are beginning to uncover a few skeletons.
The plot to undermine our tax regime is under way. By bribery or
blackmail. Either the veto will be by-passed with an "enhanced co-
operation zone" or Ireland will be threatened in other areas like
agriculture, grants or education. But we will not hear the truth until
we have voted in favour of our tax tormentors.
For the next 10 days we will be the focus of Europe. European junkies
will butter us up or threaten us -- like President Barroso did last
week. A bit of stick and plenty of carrot.
The disenfranchised French and Dutch, spectators in Giscard's
democratic swindle, are depending on us.
We in Ireland carry the can for all 27 peoples. We will decide the
fate of the treaty because citizens of all the others have been denied
the same privilege. It is an awesome responsibility. Opinion polls
elsewhere show that many countries would reject the treaty if they
were allowed a vote. That alone should make us think twice about
voting Yes.
Even more seriously, if in any doubt about Lisbon's content we should
vote No. To support a measure which we do not understand is folly.
And a No vote will give us a unique chance to renegotiate a deal which
is not in Ireland's interests.
Source: 
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/shane-ross/vote-no-to-giscards-lisbon-swindle-1393761.html
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EU To Halt 'Sensitive' Debates Until After Irish Referendum
BreakingNews.ie
17 April, 2008.
A letter instructing EU staff to postpone "politically sensitive
discussion" on the Lisbon Treaty until after the Irish referendum has
been leaked to No campaigners, according to the editors of VoteNo.ie.
A copy of a letter sent by Jo Leiman MEP and chair of committee on
Constitutional Affairs outlines instructions to hold discussions on
potentially controversial implementation plans in secret, or to halt
them altogether, until after Irish voters have gone to the polls.
A statement from the editors of the VoteNo.ie website read: "There
were already rumours that a silent agreement to do this was in place,
but this letter is clear evidence of that fact."
The letter concludes: "It would therefore appear highly advisable that
any document concerning the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon
which addresses politically sensitive matters be examined only when it
becomes sufficiently clear that the Treaty will enter into force."
Kieran Allen, editor of 
voteno.ie
 said: "This document proves what No
campaigners across Europe have been arguing for months, that the
elites of Europe hold nothing but contempt for the democratic rights
of people of Europe.
"So terrified are they that Irish voters will follow the French and
Dutch people and reject this reformed European Constitution (Lisbon),
that they are deliberating concealing information.
"A leaked email earlier week confirms the Irish government’s support
for this strategy. Fianna Fáil in particular has pursued a deliberate
campaign of ignorance and misinformation in an attempt to con Irish
people into a Yes vote," said Mr Allen.
Source: 
http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/?c=IRELAND&jp=mhojidkfausn&d=2008-04-17
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Like A Gold Coin On A Dunghill, The Truth About The EU
Daily Mail, UK,
8th June 2008
Peter Lilley's message is clear - 80 per cent of Britain's laws are
now made in Brussels and Parliament has no power to reject or amend
them
Amid the silly soap opera that now passes for British politics, in
which we are supposed to care more about hairstyles and mannerisms
than about the country, there was one moment last week when a decent
man said something important. The brief flash of truth shone out like
a gold coin on a dunghill.
The man was Peter Lilley, older and wiser than when he used to sing
daft songs to Tory conferences. Mr Lilley looks to me as if, like
several others, he is trapped in the Unconservative Party and would
blossom like an irrigated desert if only he could escape from it.
Because what he said was important, there have been far too few
reports of it. Hansard for Tuesday, June 3, at 3.35pm, will give you
the details, if you want them.
But his clear, hard message was that 80 per cent of our laws are now
made in Brussels, and Parliament has no power to reject or amend
them.
If you wonder why our Post Offices are all closing, it’s thanks to an
EU directive. So is the increasingly hated Data Protection Act. So are
Home Improvement Packs and fortnightly bin collections.
In 15 years’ time our Parliament will have only two functions left –
to raise taxes and declare war – admittedly things that our current
politicians are rather keen on.
Mr Lilley’s mischievous suggestion is that MPs’ pay should be cut each
time they hand over authority to others. Incredibly, many MPs don’t
know what is going on. If they ended up on the wages paid to district
councillors – which is all they really are now – they might care more.
His own stark words cannot be improved upon: ‘Few voters, or even
members of this house, fully realise how many powers have been, or are
about to be, transferred elsewhere. There are three reasons for this.
The first is that governments of all persuasions deny that any
significant powers are being transferred.
The second is that, once powers have been transferred, Ministers
engage in a charade of pretence that they still retain those powers.
Even when introducing measures that they are obliged to bring in as a
result of an EU directive they behave as though the initiative were
their own.
‘Indeed, Ministers often end up nobly accepting responsibility for
laws that they actually opposed when they were being negotiated in
Brussels.’
So now you know. Not since Dunkirk, 68 years ago, has our national
independence been so imperilled. But back then, we could see the
danger. Now most of us pretend it isn’t there.
Source: 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024863/Like-gold-coin-dunghill-truth-EU.html
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Europe Hasn't Gone Away, And Sceptics Smell Blood
The result of the Irish referendum on the Lisbon treaty could well end
up putting British membership in doubt
by Jackie Ashley,
The Guardian, UK,
June 9, 2008.
From my backyard to a fullblown crisis about Britain's place in the
world? It is not impossible. If the Tories are coming back, then so is
Europe - the issue nobody has been talking about lately. Like the
perfect storm, a series of smaller events are in danger of linking up
in a way that could have momentous implications. One passionately pro-
European friend tells me Britain's membership of the EU could soon be
in question. I'm starting to think that he's right.
Let's begin in the backyard. My local paper - the Richmond and
Twickenham Times - which is usually full of complaints about yobbery
on buses or rubbish collection problems, carries an angry letter
denouncing the Liberal Democrats for backtracking on a manifesto
promise to vote for a referendum on the new EU treaty. (Yes, the
promise was for a referendum on the proposed new constitution, which
either is, or is not, the same as the current Lisbon treaty, depending
on your point of view). The letter warns local Lib Dem peers - Lords
Razzall and Watson, Ladies Tonge and Hamwee - that all eyes will be on
their votes in the Lords on Wednesday, when the final stages of the
European reform (amendment) treaty bill are being debated.
Labour has similarly backtracked on a promise to hold a referendum,
arguing that Lisbon is different. Despite their lordships' dislike of
being taken for a ride, the government is likely to win with or
without those Lib Dem peers. This will mean that, from Britain's point
of view, ratification of the new treaty goes ahead without a popular
vote.
Meanwhile, Monday sees a strange case in the high court. The
millionaire businessman and Tory donor Stuart Wheeler has been granted
permission to seek a judicial review of Gordon Brown's decision not to
hold a referendum. Interestingly, Wheeler has already been told by Mr
Justice Owen, at an earlier hearing, that he has "an arguable case",
having applied to get the decision reversed on the basis of "the
underlying fundamental principles of good administration, fair play
and straight dealing with the public".
The government does not seem unduly worried about the outcome. Based
on previous cases, the judges are unlikely to decide it is their role
to reverse a decision of parliament - though since this is all about
protecting the sovereignty of parliament, these are murky waters. But
somebody's worried: Wheeler's legal attack has meant a huge amount of
time and effort for Foreign Office officials. In fact, I'm told, the
man in charge of Europe at the Foreign Office has been spending five
hours a day preparing the case against Wheeler's challenge. There is
also the not unnatural fear that this court case will trigger a
further bout of foaming from the Eurosceptic press, in particular the
Mail and the Murdoch papers.
This brings us to the really critical event of the week: Thursday's
Irish referendum on the treaty. Ireland is the only European country
to be holding a popular vote this time, and until recently a yes
verdict had seemed a safe bet. After all, the business community, the
media, the mainstream parties and, after some hesitation, the farmers
have all declared themselves in favour. But some opinion polls are now
casting doubt on the outcome. It seems a combination of scare stories
and a fairly well organised campaign against the treaty may be
triumphing. There have been endless claims that agreeing to Lisbon
will bring in not only abortion (still illegal in Ireland) but also
higher taxes.
According to Hugo Brady of the Centre for European Reform, there are
two further factors that could tip the balance. There has not been a
strong pro-European campaign in Ireland this time round. Then there's
the influence of the British press. British tabloids are penetrating
the Irish market, while the Irish Independent takes syndicated
coverage of European issues from our own anti-European Daily
Telegraph.
So what if Ireland votes no on Thursday? Does it really matter? The
likelihood is that, after a bit of panic and several more summits, a
few extra clauses and protections are added to the treaty and Ireland
is told to go and vote again, in a year or so's time. That may do the
trick, though patience is wearing thin in Brussels. But Ireland could
vote no a second time. Then things would get really interesting.
There is a strong view that after struggling to get this treaty for so
long, the rest of Europe would simply decide to go ahead without the
Irish. Easy enough for France, or Germany, but more problematic for
Britain. If the whole process is drawn out, we might have the Tories
back by then. They are still committed to a referendum - and I think
they have a case - but have been strangely quiet on Europe recently.
They say they don't want to pull out of Europe, while opposing further
integration.
But, given the strong views of the rank and file party members, it's
hard to see the leadership arguing against a new model for Europe that
saw Britain and Ireland in a slow lane, along with Norway, while the
rest of Europe charged ahead. Though it hasn't been discussed, a
combination of Irish popular scepticism and a new Tory administration
in London would be hugely important.
Alternatively, if the decision is only a year or so away, it could be
Gordon Brown who has to make it. One of Brown's legacies will be that
he kept us out of the euro, which looks like a good decision. But what
does Brown think about Europe? No one is certain. True, he has been
sounding more pro-European, and is planning to make a supportive
speech. But if it came to it, would he risk the wrath of the
Eurosceptic press?
I have jolted quite a long way down a winding path into the future;
but it is a perfectly plausible path. Just as Europe finally puts all
the arguments about its own constitution behind it, and starts to get
to grips with the issues that really matter - climate change,
international terrorism and China's role on the world stage - it is
possible that Britain will absent herself from these decisions.
The current political talk at Westminster is that Europe has "gone
away", that it is boring and no one wants to talk about it. Certainly,
it is inconvenient for all the parties, for different reasons. But
that's just when you need to concentrate. Those who oppose the
European project scent an opportunity. Come to think of it, I think
the Eurosceptics are not so much foaming as salivating. They smell
blood. And this time, I think they may be right.
Source: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/09/ireland.eu
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EU Referendum Fight Goes To Court
Mr Wheeler said voters had a "legitimate expectation" of a vote
BBC News, London.
8 June, 2008.
Millionaire Stuart Wheeler is going to the High Court later to
challenge the government's decision not to hold a referendum on the
EU's Lisbon Treaty.
Gordon Brown has ruled out a public vote, saying the treaty does not
alter the UK's constitution.
But Mr Wheeler, 73, has won the right to a judicial review of that
decision. He says the public had "a legitimate expectation" of a
referendum.
The government has said it is "confident" its case is strong.
In March, MPs voted by 346 votes to 206 to approve the EU (Amendment)
Bill.
The Bill - now in the Lords - will ratify the Lisbon Treaty, which was
drawn up to replace the EU constitution after that was rejected by
French and Dutch voters in 2005.
Conservative Party donor Mr Wheeler claims a referendum was promised
on the constitution and as, in his eyes, the Lisbon Treaty is
virtually identical, it too should be put to a vote.
The two-day review will be heard just days before voters in Ireland,
the only EU state holding a referendum, go to the polls.   Gordon
Brown has tried to push the constitution in via the back door
Stuart Wheeler
'Rebranding'
Mr Wheeler said in a statement that he hoped to prove the refusal to
hold a referendum was "not only immoral but illegal, too".
"This was a referendum the people of Britain were promised well before
the last election, during it, and after it," he said.
"But instead of fulfilling that promise, Gordon Brown has tried to
push the constitution in via the back door by rebranding a document
and presenting it as a completely different text.
"This is a ridiculous argument."
Government lawyers had argued that neither Mr Brown nor Foreign
Secretary David Miliband had said anything amounting to a promise to
hold a referendum.
But their argument was overruled. After Mr Wheeler won the right to a
review, a Foreign Office spokesman said the decision was not a
surprise as the threshold for deciding whether a case was arguable was
low.
"We are confident of the strength of our case on this occasion and
look forward to putting our arguments before the court in more detail
in due course," he said.
The House of Lords is due to vote on calls for a referendum on 11
June.
The Lisbon Treaty contains many of the reforms outlined in the
constitution, including changes to voting rights and the creation of a
European Council president, but drops the name "constitution", a
reference to EU symbols and an article on the primacy of EU law.
Source: 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7442980.stm
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Did Tsar Nicholas II Of Russia And The Romanov Royal Family Die In The
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Lord of the Worlds, the Owner of all of the creation, Ardalan
Keykavoussi, Tommy Davis, LORD RAMA. (The 19 terrorists who attacked
our nation on September 11, 2001 used a total of 364 aliases.)
In the Name of Allah Most Perverted and Vile, Lord of the wicked: May
the Blessings of Satan be upon His messenger, Muhammad (Piss be Upon
Him), his family, his companions, and his evil followers.
The word kuffar is as pejorative as the word nigger. It is the
favorite Muslim word to describe a non-Muslim. Muslims broke world
records of genocide (270 million victims), slavery, religiously
sanctioned rape, abuse of human rights, and prohibition of scientific
inquiry. Islam forbids Muslim emigration to the lands of the infidels
because a Muslim minority cannot enslave the infidel majority. Despite
this prohibition Muslims emigrate to the West, not as migrants, but as
conquerors. They live in sharia mini-states and expand these mini-
states by terrorizing infidel neighbors and driving them out. Any
society not willing to subjugate itself to Islamic authority is,
according to Muslims, in a state of war, or Dar Al-Harb, with Islam.
Arabic proverb says "first comes Saturday, then Sunday." It means that
Arabs are going to exterminate Jews before they exterminate
Christians. It also means that Israel is the first line of defense
against Islam. Islam, like cancer, has the sole purpose of making more
of itself. It will kill our civilization unless it is cut, poisoned,
and radiated into remission.
“I have been made victorious with terror.” - Muhammad (according to
Bukhari: 4.52.220)
In a poll taken for the Davos World Economic Forum, stunning numbers
of Europeans fear a "threat" from Muslims with whom they "interact":
79 percent of Danes, 67 percent of Italians, 68 percent of Spaniards,
65 percent of Swedes and 59 percent of Belgians. source:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0408/blankley042308.php3?printer_friendly
Europe’s Muslim population is set to increase from around 13% today to
between 22% and 37% of the population by 2025. source:
http://news.scotsman.com/europeanunion/CIA-gives-grim-warning-on.2595505.jp
The average European couple now has fewer than 1.4 babies, compared to
3.6 babies born to the average Muslim immigrant couple in Europe.
Across Western Europe 16 to 20 percent of babies are being born into
Muslim families… By 2025, one-third of all European children will be
born to Muslims… In Italy, 95% of all rapists are Muslims. Eighty-five
percent of all murderers are Muslims… France will have a Muslim
majority in less than 25 years! Another telling statistic is that
although the Muslims are 12% of France's population, 70 percent of a
total of 60,775 prisoners in France are Muslims! All of France's urban
suburbs are being roamed by Muslim black African or Arabic gangs… A
very high proportion of French Muslims are in the underclass, that
segment of the population that relies not so much on education and
work as on welfare and predatory activities. In fact, over one
thousand Muslim neighborhoods are under monitoring throughout France.
Seven hundred of those Muslim neighborhoods are listed as "violent"
and nearly 400 hundred are listed as "very violent." Violence ranges
from rape (95% of rapists are Muslim), murder (85% of murderers are
Muslim), theft and looting of cars (58% committed by Muslims) and
street fighting to assault on teachers and civil servants… source:
http://www.masada2000.org/islam.html
"Like children playing with dynamite, Western intellectuals,
journalists, and diplomats fantasize that they are achieving results
in the Middle East with their words, promises, apologies, money, and
concessions. Yet how can such innocents cope… with polities and
societies whose basic ruling ethos is that of the serial killer?… Can
anyone really expect a stable society capable of progress in Pakistan
when a large majority of the population expresses admiration for Usama
bin Ladin? And what about the Saudi system where, as one local writer
put it, the big Usama put into practice what the little Usama learned
in a Saudi school?… The radical forces in the region are not expecting
to retain or gain power by negotiating, compromising, or being better
understood. They believe they are going to shoot their way into power
or, just as good, accept the surrender of those they have intimidated.
That is why so much of the Western analysis and strategies for dealing
with the region are a bad joke." - Barry Rubin, source:
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3952&cid=6&sid=20
"Europe is being targeted for deliberate colonization by Muslim
states, and with coordinated efforts aimed at our Islamization and the
elimination of our freedoms. We are being subject to a foreign
invasion, and aiding and abetting a foreign invasion in any way
constitutes treason. If non-Europeans have the right to resist
colonization and desire self-determination then Europeans have that
right, too. And we intend to exercise it." - "Fjordman" source:
http://www.islam-watch.org/Fjordman/European-Declaration-Independence.htm
It is Islamic violence which threatens Holland and all of Europe.
Exactly as in the 1930s, it is the weakness of European leaders which
allows the threat to grow. Just as the League of Nations refused to
stand up to fascism in pre-WW2 Europe, the United Nations grovels
before Islam today. source: 
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2414
"There does not exist an identifiable body of Muslims, substantive in
number or an outright majority, who could be described as "moderate"
by their repudiation of Muslim extremists. Violence has been an
integral part of Muslim history, irrespective of whether it is
sanctioned by Islam, and Muslims who unhesitatingly use violence to
advance their political ambitions have created a climate within their
faith culture that any Muslim who questions such practice is then
deemed apostate and subject to harm. Consequently, what might pass for
"moderate" Muslims, the large number of Muslims unaccounted for as to
what they think, in practical terms constitute a forest within which
extremists are incubated, nurtured, given ideological and material
support, and to which they return for sanctuary." - Salim Mansur
"Terrorism is not the enemy. The enemy is Islam… For example, if
someone is throwing rotten eggs at you, it is not the “rotten eggs”
but rather the “person” throwing them who is the enemy… Take an atomic
bomb, write the letters R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N on it, and we, gullible
Americans, will welcome it as a religion… The militant Muslim is the
person cutting the head off the infidel while the moderate Muslim
holds the victim's feet… History proves that both militant and
moderate Muslims are invaders working as a team to conquer America…
The war cannot be won unless we clearly identify the enemy as Islam,
and the American government makes a formal declaration of war against
the Religion of Islam." - "Martel Sobieskey" source:
http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1646
"A Muslim apostate once suggested to me a litmus test for Westerners
who believe that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance: try
making that point on a street corner in Ramallah, or Riyadh, or
Islamabad, or anywhere in the Muslim world. He assured me you wouldn't
live five minutes." source: 
http://citizenwarrior2.blogspot.com/2007/10/taqiyya-religious-deception.html
Young Talib beheads Ghulam Nabi: 
http://tinyurl.com/2rb2e3
Latest offerings from the religion of peace: 
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/