May invokes Article 50: may our second national revolution be as glorious as the first

Mar 29, 2017 by

by Archbishop Cranmer:

On 22nd January 1972, Conservative Prime Minister Ted Heath signed the Treaty of Rome, by which the process of UK accession to the EEC began. After hundreds of hours of debate in Parliament, the European Communities Act came into force on 1st January 1973. From Heath’s signature of commitment up to the time of political completion, a year passed.

And a further 44 years passed, during which time the EEC became the EC, which then morphed into the EU. Year after year of “ever closer union” forged economic governance, policy centralisation, social consolidation and judicial amalgamation. “There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty,” Heath assured the British people in 1972. He was right in one sense: given a referendum in 1975, the British people gave their sovereign assent to the project. And given another another referendum 41 years later, the people took it away. If that was what Heath meant be essential sovereignty, he was right. But it was not for the want of four decades of parliamentary collusion in the sovereignty-diminishing imposition of a European ideology which is fundamentally antithetical to the concepts of the nation state and the sovereignty of the people.

On 28th March 2017, Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May put her name to the letter invoking Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which begins the process of UK secession from the EU. This will be completed at the latest by 12.30pm on 29th March 2019. From May’s signature of commitment up to the time of political completion, no more than two years may pass.

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