British MEP: How to bypass a British ‘no’ vote

The European Union should change the way it enacts European treaties in order to ensure a British “no” vote doesn’t stop the whole EU, senior British Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament Andrew Duff wrote to Jerzy Buzek, head of the European Parliament, on March 3.

“As you will be well aware, the British Parliament is about to enact a law which will install and entrench referendums as part of the UK’s national ratification process for all amendments of the European Union treaties,” he wrote. “The effect of this law will be to severely delay and complicate all future treaty revision—a process which is already lengthy and complicated enough.”

In order to stop the will of his own nation’s Parliament being carried out, Duff suggests that the EU change its laws so that a treaty is enforced once it’s been ratified by 80 percent of EU nations. Presumably, this would mean that EU treaties would come into force in Britain even if Parliament votes no. The fact that Duff is suggesting this is a reflection on the growing anti-EU feeling in Britain. This kind of skullduggery will only increase that feeling.

Expect to see Britain out of the EU soon.