The British Lion Under Attack. From The European Union

June 29, 2009

Thomas Mathew writes: If the Labour government in Britain genuinely wanted to reform the House of Lords, like it has always claimed, it would have never contrived to use trickery to finesse everyone into believing that it had amended and, in effect, revoked every hereditary peer’s right (Letters Patent) to sit in the chamber by passing legislation known as the House of Lords Act 1999. An act of wilful vandalism and total folly.The master plan of Labour commissars was and still is to destroy the British constitution in order to replace it with the constitution of the European Union, the so-called Lisbon treaty, the terms of which were initially agreed on June 18th 2004 and then were slightly amended when the people of France and Denmark said, ‘No’ to it in referendums. At the moment all member states of the EU, with the exception of Ireland, have approved the treaty/constitution. Once the Irish have succumbed to the pressure from Brussels and voted in favour of the document in the forthcoming second referendum, it would come into force and every member state of the EU would lose its sovereignty to Brussels.

The unelected bureaucrats in Brussels are so desperate that they keep moving the goal posts. Were they to follow the rules of spoof, which finishes with the last two players in the game playing the best of three to determine who has lost, there might be some justification for insisting on a second referendum taking place. However, every time a member state has voted ‘No’ in a referendum it was told to get its acts together and come up with the right answer by voting ‘Yes.’

The Labour government that had promised the voters to hold a referendum on the new EU constitution used trickery and deceit to break its promise, claiming that the Lisbon treaty was not a constitution but just a treaty that would help the enlarged EU run smoothly. It is a lie, a blatant lie. The Lisbon treaty is the EU constitution and it poses a serious threat to all member countries.

But in order for Britain to be dragged into the EU the treacherous government of Gordon Brown needs to dismantle the country’s unwritten constitution, the basis of which is Magna Carta, and break up the whole legal fabric of the country’s institutions. Tony Blair started this job and left it to Brown to finish it. This act of treachery is taking place in full view of the nation, gripped by recession and tied up by political correctness and a huge personal debt that hangs above people like a hangman’s noose. Not to mention that the Conservative party, run by people who have no idea what the duties of the opposition are, is doing absolutely nothing to prevent Labour from dismantling Britain.

In line with its devious strategy the Labour government, driven by a mad socialist idea that the whole world should be ruled by a single government, had announced recently that it is considering creating an elected House of Lords. All of a sudden, a flood of supportive letters appeared in the media, as if by order from above. The one thing I have learnt from reading these letters is that a great deal of confusion exists as a result of Labour spin-doctoring the country into submission and convincing everyone that the unelected chamber was a ‘danger to democracy’ and that the government was actually doing a favour to the country by dismantling it. Not a word was ever mentioned that the hereditary peers were actually carrying out their duties as councillors to the Crown, not to 10 Downing Street.

The majority of the peers accepted their fate with remarkable ease. However, on September 29, 2008 Lord Laird of Artigarvan, a cross-bencher Life Peer asked in a written question: ‘By what means Letters Patent creating peerages can be changed; and in what legislation that has occurred?’ The Lord President of the Council (Baroness Ashton of Upholland) responded on behalf of the government: ‘The effect of Letters Patent creating peerages can be changed by legislation which has that specific effect. It cannot be changed by legislation of general application.’

This unequivocal and definitive answer is a clear statement by the government that it had acted unconstitutionally by using the House of Lords Act of 1999 to falsely claim that it had the right to amend and revoke every hereditary peer’s Letters Patent, when this was clearly not the case. The government also erred by using this act as its authority to order the security passes of the hereditary peers to be withdrawn in order to prevent them being able to carry out duties as councillors to the Crown.

The reality is that the upper house has never been properly convened since 1999. The mystery remains why peers sitting in the House of Lords have to date chosen not to oppose the government’s actions collectively and take their case to the Queen. Although it has to be said that individual attempts by the peers to complain to the government about the illegality of their dispersal was met either with silence or polite refusal to discuss the matter. In effect, a coup has happened in Britain targeting the House of Lords and, eventually, the monarchy itself.

When I attempted to explain to some people what is going on, they demonstrated total ignorance of the situation. They said that no one would dare to even contemplate removing the monarchy. How naïve and childish of them! They should be protesting and demanding that the government stops undermining the House of Lords.

But what the people, who planned and executed this constitutional outrage, do not understand is that they have already dug their own political graves and, in a short space of time, will be ‘buried’ in them, because without the consensus of the people it is impossible to destroy a constitution without causing internal conflict, maybe even a short and brisk civil war. Britain could do with one.

In order to prevent possible strife every peer – and the word peer means equal – must demand that security passes are immediately made available to them so that they can all perform their duties as councillors to the Crown.

(StirringTroubleInternationally explains: Letters Patent are used to create peerages and must explicitly name the recipient of the title and specify the course of descent. The exact meaning of the term is determined by common law. Letters Patent are not absolute; they may be theoretically amended or revoked by a specific act of parliament. However, the only known case of Letters Patent being amended by an act of parliament was that concerning the Duke of Marlborough in 1706.)

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