Published: Thursday, 31st January, 2008 12:30
Don't give Europe more power over us!
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Dear Sir
Before MPs approve the Treaty of Lisbon they may care to look at its Declaration 17, which claims that EU treaties and laws have “primacy”
over the laws passed by their own Parliament.
Then they should look at Parliament’s official website, which states that it is “the supreme legal authority in the UK”.
From which it seems a logical conclusion that the laws it passes must have “supremacy” in the UK - but how can that be so, if EU treaties and
laws have “primacy”?
Unless there is a subtle distinction between “supremacy”, and “primacy”, which is perfectly clear to the fine minds in the House of Commons, even if it would elude that of the man on the Clapham omnibus.
As Reading West MP Martin Salter has just voted for ratification to proceed, and has no doubt thought about this, perhaps he would be willing to clarify this difference between “supremacy” and “primacy”?
Yours faithfully
Dr D R Cooper
14 Belmont Park Avenue
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 6JS
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