The Tory Party have a shiny new leader - David Cameron.

But what is his stance on the EU and the Maastricht Treaty?

First -what is the EU and Maastricht Treaty all about?

The EU was promoted after WW11 as the institution to prevent Germany going to war again. As Germany hasn’t gone to war since then it is frequently claimed that the EU has kept peace in Europe for 60 years. The risk of war, however, came from the Soviet Union not Germany. It was NATO that ensured peace as the EU had no competent military capability whatsoever with which to protect Europe.

The EU was fraudulently sold to the UK public in a 1973 referendum as ‘just a Free Trade Agreement’. Edward Heath (the then Tory Prime Minister) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were fully, and secretly, aware that it was nothing of the sort. more  It was to be a full political union to make a European Super-State to rival the USA and the Soviet Union. It now seems to have been hijacked by the extreme Socialist Parties of the EU. However for this to happen all of the UK sovereignty and political power of any significance would have be passed over to the EU in Brussels. The way the structure of the EU was set up meant that this power would be passed to faceless, unelected bureaucrats in the European Commission (a sort of EU ‘civil service’ or more closely the old Soviet Politburo). They are essentially self-selecting and not accountable to anyone but themselves.

Our political power and sovereignty continues to be quietly transferred in small increments (perhaps over 70% so far) in the hope that it will not be noticed until too late.

There is an elected, but more or less toothless, European Parliament that will have the sovereignty. However the political power will go to the European Commission. The EU parliament has virtually no power to do anything much but rubber stamp, unaltered, all Directives that are issued by the unelected European Commission.

It is a bureaucrat’s paradise - with knobs on.

The Maastricht Treaty is the formal treaty to confirm and implement this transfer of power and sovereignty. It has, within its pages, a so called ‘ratchet rule’ whereby any political power transferred from any member country to the EU cannot be returned under any circumstances.

It is effectively an instrument to purge the UK (and Europe) of National Parliamentary Democracy and replace it with a self-selecting European Oligarchy and a token elected EU Parliament.

It is the opinion of many in the European Commission that the ‘democratic experiment’ in Europe has failed and we must now move into a ‘post democratic society’.

So what about The Maastricht Treaty and Mr Cameron?

We have had a series of exchanges with the Conservative Party HQ to find out what Mr Cameron would do about the Maastricht Treaty if he came to power in the UK.

His office stated that he will not withdraw from the Treaty but he will re-negotiate for the return of many of our political powers e.g. ‘regain control of our fisheries.’

A core condition of the Maastricht Treaty is that such powers, once transferred to the EU, cannot be returned. It is just not possible to re-negotiate for the return of control of our fisheries from within the Maastricht Treaty. Indeed the French and Spanish would split their sides laughing at the very notion.

There is no middle way. We either withdraw from the Treaty or see total control of the UK passed to the EU and effectively the UK nation states of England, Scotland Wales and Ireland (and also the European states) will then cease to exist.

We are intrigued as to know how Mr Cameron and the Tory Party think that they will be able to re-negotiate to reclaim control of our fisheries from within the Maastricht Treaty.

There is space waiting for them in The Europrobe for the Tory Party to explain how they intend to do it. (Dec 2005)

A situation of great interest, and developing nicely, is that of the position of the Tory MEPs in the EU Parliament.

Mr Cameron has instructed them to detach themselves from the EPP group in the EU parliament. (The EPP group is made up of Europhile ‘right of centre’ MEPs from several countries who, although they want Free Trade, they are Federalists and wish to see the full implementation of the Maastricht Treaty). However most of these Tory MEPs are committed Europhiles because they were selected (not elected) on that basis by a previous Europhile Tory committee.

18 of the 27 have bluntly refused to comply with Mr Cameron’s order. Most of the others seem to be waiting to see which way the wind blows.

He cannot allow them too blatantly, or even covertly, defy him without completely losing all his credibility and authority as leader.

However, he has no authority whatsoever to replace them with MEPs who are more in tune with this apparently new Tory Party policy on the EU.

There is simply no possible compromise position – the Europhile MEPs must either follow Mr Cameron’s lead and lean towards Euro scepticism (which, as committed Europhiles, goes against their dogma) or resign as MEPs. (They won’t of course – the perks are far too generous to lose and would also lose their influence to help establish the new European Soviet).

If they do not then Mr Cameron will forever be a ‘lame duck’ leader.

The response from Conservative HQ is ……………….???