However, I would like to correct an inaccuracy, and perhaps clarify our purpose in reporting the Heath government and Mr Alan Campbell MP for:
1) conspiracy to subvert the constitution – the crime of sedition at common law; and
2) conspiracy to hand the country over to a foreign power, the EU – the crime of treason at common law.
Firstly, the inaccuracy: in your report, you label us "former members of UKIP".

In fact, not all members of the group have belonged to this party in the past; and I was at pains to emphasise the fact that we were not acting as mouthpieces for any political party or, indeed, for any organisation, but were simply four British subjects who believe they have been unlawfully robbed of their national independence, and who wish to present, as evidence in support of this belief, official documents released under the 30 years' rule: documents which expose a long campaign of attrition and disinformation carried out by the Foreign Office and the European Movement, ganging up with politicians of all parties and with the media – most notably, the BBC – against the ordinary people of this country.

For instance, in Document FCO/1048 – astonishingly – Foreign Office officials admit that by joining the (then) EEC, "we shall be accepting an external legislature which regards itself as having direct powers of legislating with effect within the United Kingdom", and which "rides roughshod over sovereignty".

However, while knowing full well that the vast majority of British people would baulk at this, they go on to encourage the government to join anyway, on the bizarre assumption that popular "anxiety" over any "loss of sovereignty" (ie, the right of this nation to make its own decisions) can be brushed aside as an ignorant "fear of change and of the unknown" on the part of the hoi polloi.

These foreign office cranks, so at odds with the vast majority of British people both in 1972 and at the present time, believed that the nation would not lose its ultimate right to "withdraw in much less than three decades."

However, they say, "If the point should ever be reached at which inability to renounce the Treaty was clear sovereignty would indeed be diminished".

It is now 36 years since FCO/1048 was written; and we have reached the point where 80 per cent of our laws originate with unelected transnational administrators in Brussels; where our industry, agriculture and fisheries have been systematically destroyed by EU competition laws, and by directives and regulations which we are unable to scrap unilaterally; and where the safeguards of the common law (eg, innocence until guilt is proved; no arrest and imprisonment without evidence; the power of juries to strike down unacceptable legislation imposed by governments that have got too big for their boots) are being abolished, to bring us into line with other EU member states. To cap it all, the Government has just signed us up to a European Constitution, disguised as a treaty.

Mr Alan Campbell considers resistance to this country's loss of the right to make its own laws and its own decisions "battles of the past".

Not so. This is very much an ongoing battle. Treason has already been reported at 24 police stations throughout the country (for example in Devon, by a retired lieutenant-commander of submarine intelligence; in Thames Valley, by a retired special constable; and in Gordon Brown's constituency of Kirkcaldy, by Captain Peter Adams, of the Royal Marines) and these reports will continue.

There have been times in our history when governments running amok over the freedoms of their subjects have had to be brought to heel.

Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights came into being at such times: and more and more people, seeing the devastation which is being inflicted by increasingly dictatorial and intrusive legislation, imposed in a frenzy of mass rubber-stamping, and without popular approval, by whipped representatives of the ruling junta, are convinced that we have once again reached the point when traditional freedoms must be firmly reasserted by a nation whose trust and prosperity is being deliberately, and systematically, abused, and whose respect for Parliament, as a consequence, is fast approaching zero.

Peter Shore spoke prophetically in the Commons, when he said, "When the people feel they are being made subject to laws in which they have played no part and taxes to which they have never consented, respect for both law and government is undermined.

Our tradition for order and peaceful change is based not only on the character of our own people but on an enduring, if tacit, bargain between government and governed that the former will play fair and will be scrupulous in how they deal with the people's rights.

But if governments do not play fair, if they behave in a way people consider to be in itself unconstitutional, there is evidence enough in British history to show we are not a docile people but a very determined and fierce one indeed." (Hansard, European Communities Bill 1972, Second Reading)

GILLIAN SWANSON
Styan Avenue
Whitley Bay


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