Enter your email address to subscribe:

Sunday, 27 November 2011

Does UK want Turkey in EU to boost qualified majority voting weight?

Archbishop Cranmer ponders whether our masters are insane - insanity being a pathology they increasingly exhibit.

Why else would they be so keen for Turkey to join the EU, despite the public's and the EU's antipathy for the idea.

But if the Turks join the EU and flock to the UK like everyone else, the UK will surely, over time, become the most populous country in the EU (should it survive that long).

We cannot assume that our 'masters' are so impossibly stupid that they cannot envisage this scenario as being a probability.

Therefore, we have to wonder whether increasing the UK population with Turks, as a means of having bigger boots under the EU table, is one of the FO's goals:  the increased population would boost our qualified majority voting (QMV) leverage, or what there is of it.

Are there any whistle-blowers out there who might care to shed some light on this?

Related: 
Update: In response to The Slog's intel and commentary (above-linked), the esteemed Dr Denis Cooper said:
Denis Cooper
The intra-eurozone ESM treaty signed by the governments of the 17 eurozone states on July 11th is not yet in force.

And it can’t come into force unless and until the necessary EU treaty change has come into force, and that necessary EU treaty change agreed by EU leaders on March 25th:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:091:0001:0002:EN:PDF

can’t come into force unless and until it has been ratified by all 27 EU member states.

And it can’t be ratified by the UK unless and until Parliament has approved it through an Act.

So if you want to do something practical to try to stop this in its tracks, lobbying MPs to block the Bill, and maybe insist that the treaty change should be put to a UK referendum, is the obvious option.

I’ll repeat that sequence of legal steps:

UK Bill to approve EU treaty change agreed on March 25th -> UK Act -> UK ratification of EU treaty change -> EU treaty change can come into force -> ESM treaty can come into force.

3 comments:

Oldrightie said...

http://tgr.ph/m8A8Sx

Durotrigan said...

More information on the drive to get Turkey, as well as other Middle Eastern and North African states into the EU can be found here: http://durotrigan.blogspot.com/2011/11/arab-spring-and-euromed.html

and here: http://durotrigan.blogspot.com/2011/02/80-million-turks-on-move-and-it-wont-be.html

The second link contains video footage of various members of the House of Commons (including in the Government) commenting on this issue.

Fausty said...

Thanks for providing the links. :)

Related Posts with Thumbnails