TONY Blair is preparing to hand key powers on law and order to Europe

[NewGuy]

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=357302004

Election fear sparks rush to EU deal

BRIAN BRADY
WESTMINSTER EDITOR


TONY Blair is preparing to hand key powers on law and order to Europe in a bid to avoid disaster at the General Election, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

The Prime Minister has been told by advisers that he must take steps to help push through the controversial new European Constitution because the issue - if left unresolved - will cost Labour dozens of seats at the election.

Blair’s advisers, including his trusted pollster Phillip Gould, say it would be better for the government to suffer a short-term barrage of criticism on Europe now rather than let the matter cost it dear at the polls next spring.

Labour is already resigned to heavy losses in the European elections in June, which the Conservatives will present as a referendum on the European Constitution, that they have labelled an attack on a thousand years of British sovereignty.

In a bid to ‘kill off’ the issue, the Prime Minister is preparing to compromise over the so-called ‘red lines’ he set out last year as non-negotiable when it came to the UK signing up to the new European Constitution.

Scotland on Sunday understands that the UK will cede key powers over law and order to Europe in a bid to agree the constitution, talks on which collapsed amid great acrimony at an EU summit last December.

There is more, but the key questions are:

What does this mean for how the US deals with them?
What does this mean for how we deal with the EU?

Are we all alone in the world now?

Interesting questions.

 

[Avatar4321]

this is a bit interesting because from what ive heard the UK doesnt want to give up its soviergnty to the EU.

 

[NewGuy]

If you watch closely the EU and its interactions with aLL nations, including the US, it would appear the only resistence the EU REALLY gets is for stalling purposes- not actual differences in practice.

The US is changing laws to follow EU precident. Our money is slipping against the Euro as we make more deals with the EU.

Blair is in even tighter. It is a very slick campaign, but it is clear all are on the same page.

 

[Zhukov]

It's unfortunate England is so close to Europe.

They have managed to go from a global empire encompassing 30 million kilometres and a fourth of the world's population, to just another cog of the Old World socialist machine in about 60 years, and all because of their proximity to Europe.

Talk about culture shock.

No, this doesn't mean we are all alone in the world. Perhaps England alligned with Italy, and the eastern states will actually produce a situation more conducive to our global military aims. Perhaps not. At any rate, they are all still members of NATO.