We may vote in MEPs as a form of window dressing to give the EU some appearance of being a respectable democracy. However, the law making emanates from a group of Brussels-based functionaries known as the European Commission who are unelected and unsackable. The grouping in Strasbourg are simply there to give a semblance of democracy but is in fact just a talking shop. The latest breaking news is the step-by-step removal of Habeous Corpus and its replacement by Corpus Juris – see yesterday’s (31.3.10) headlines on the trial without Jury. This is the precedent they wish to set using their normal ratchet-like introduction of unpopular and unannounced law making. Why did they recently wish to hold people without trial for so long? I imagine it is probably another example of European law-creep being attempted and falls in line with the Napoleonic Code of presumed guilt and then having to prove that you are innocent – Corpus Juris. Just one example of our loss of sovereignty!
