The Lisbon Treaty Myths

I thought I would do some research today into the Lisbon Treaty as many people seem to be under the illusion that from December 1st 2009 the United Kingdom would loose powers to the European Union under the Lisbon Treaty, but what I have actually found shows that isn’t in fact the whole truth at all.

Parties like the BNP and UKIP have put out many stories proclaiming that the UK has lost the power to change it’s laws or to even put any news laws on the statute book, well this couldn’t be further from the truth because as part of the Lisbon Treaty both the UK and the Irish Republic have opt-out under the Lisbon Treaty meaning that should the E propose any new law that we believe goes against the UK’s National interests we can simply invoke our opt-out power and therefore NOT enact said laws.

But there are a few things that people don’t know about the Lisbon Treaty in that it actually adds new powers to me and you as individuals and gives us powers and rights to challenge new laws and even effect changes to current or newly propossed laws;

Here are a few things you may not know about the Lisbon Treaty and the powers it hands over to us as individuals:

You can ask the EU to act

The Lisbon Treaty includes a Citizen’s Initiative. This gives EU Citizens the opportunity to petition the European Commission for a change in policy, which could ultimately lead to new legislation. For a petition to be valid, it needs to contain one million signatures from a number of different EU countries

Your MP can challenge the EU if it oversteps the mark

The Lisbon Treaty strengthens powers which make sure that the EU only acts on an issue where it can add value to national or regional level action. This is the principle of subsidiarity, which keeps decision making as close as possible to the Citizen. The Lisbon Treaty makes national parliaments – the watchdogs of the EU – draft laws. If parliaments feel the EU is overstepping the mark they can request an amendment or even a withdrawal of the law.

My voice in Europe

The Lisbon treaty ensures the European Parliament, which is made up of MEPs that you elect, has more of a say in the EU’s policy-making. The European Parliament will have to approve much more EU legislation. This means you can lobby your MEP if you have concerns about a draft EU law.

So as you can see from the above far from removing power from individuals and Governments it actually gives you more power than ever before.

Where the Lisbon Treaty may have it’s downsides it also has it’s upsides to you as an individual, so you really do have the power to change things all you need to do is stand up and exert that power.

In conclusion then the Lisbon Treaty doesn’t actually give the EU more rights to rule over member states it actually in effect hand us the voters more power to question the EU and to force them to make changes.

With this in mind you can now see that parties such as the BNP and UKIP who are begging for your vote based on untruths and warping of the actual treaty don’t want to inform you of the facts that you have been given more power, they want to to remain in the dark simply because they know you wouldn’t vote for them if you knew that the Lisbon Treaty actually gives you the voter some more power over the EU Parliment.

So they are NOT really the honest politicians they claim to be as they just forget to mention these very important details to you in their electioneering materials.

Just another reason to Vote No To The BNP in 2010

Source: http://votenotobnpin2010.blogspot.com/2 … reaty.html