EU Now after our Crown Estates , that means our oil ,gas , shale , minerals

timberfox

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Jan 5, 2008
This is being kept awfully quiet by the SNP is this so the fat controller gets more power or more wages from his EUSSR bosses

EU threatens Essential Sovereignty:

Time for that Referendum Dave?

Hidden in an amendment within a huge report on the EUs Common Fisheries policy, It's been discovered an attempt by Brussels to seize control of the UK seabed, owned by the UK Crown: A power grab that should trigger a UK Referendum.

The vast majority of the mineral rich seabed, inside the 12 mile limit of British Territorial Waters, is Crown Estate, or property of the Crown and the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall.

Yet Amendment 63 would permit the EU to claim ownership via a direct power grab, without any consultation or prior approval from British people, the British Parliament or the Queen.

Under David Camerons Referendum Lock this should be subject to a direct appeal to British voters.

Speaking in the debate in Strasbourg this morning, Stuart Agnew MEP, the UKIP fisheries spokesman, said of the amendment, tabled by a Spanish MEPs,

"The British people, Parliament and Her Majesty the Queen will also be alarmed to discover that Amendment 63 would create a new power without a word of objection by Her Majesty's Government or the Tories.

That power is sovereignty over the seabed as opposed to merely controlling the fish in the water above it. Any new power must mean a UK referendum.

Therefore if this amendment is carried it must be the subject of a UK referendum under Mr Cameron's referendum lock.

Later Mr Agnew said, If this legislation is passed, then Cameron is duty bound to give us that vote under his own law.


This is the type of thing we will be subject to if the fat controller gets his way and takes us into the EUSSR

Thoughts people ??
 
Initial thoughts are that its not just Sneaky Salmond thats keeping quiet, its all the parties apart from UKIP.

Another is that an amendment has one helluva long way to go before it even has a chance of becoming law or policy and its not clear if this is an amendment to the current EU Common Fisheries policy, which would mean little chance of it going all the way or to a new EU Common Fisheries policy which would have nae chance.

Well done to wee UKIP for spotting it though, Im sure the current government, with its army of civil servants pouring over every page of Brusselstome would have missed it and all the other MEPs wouldnt have been told about it if it ever came up for debate.

Either way the UK with one vote is worse placed at defeating the amendment, assuming it got to that stage, than it would with two votes.