'Surrendering our democratic system if we choose to remain in another vote'

The speech is entitled ’The Hour of European Sovereignty’ in which he says that the EU must become a more ‘sovereign actor’ in international relations. He said much the same thing last year so it is clearly the direction the EU is intent on taking.

The general definition (Google) of a sovereign state is ‘being represented by one centralised government having sovereignty over a geographic area…. international law defines a sovereign state as having a permanent population, defined territory and one government…. neither dependant nor subject to any other power or state’.

Now that we are in such a predicament over Brexit since the Salzburg meeting, many of us may be having doubts about Brexit with the threat over jobs, house prices and all the other disasters predicted by Remainers.

But can we really stay in an EU that will gradually take away our parliamentary democracy and substitute it with an ever-growing centralised Brussels government that I already find difficult to recognise as a democratic government at all.

I did not vote for M.Junkers or any of the power brokers in the Commission, which he heads (I can’t even name one). I never get to see or vote on any of the important issues they are proposing like a European army, enlarging the EU membership, closer monetary union including greater use of the Euro etc.

In our parliamentary system all these important issues would be laid before me at a general election in the form of Conservative/Labour/LibDem manifesto and I could cast my vote accordingly.

But all of this is missing in M.Junkers idea of democracy, he seems to avoid the difficulty of having an electorate decide what goes on, by side lining us.

So if it comes to another vote on whether to remain or leave just remember that if we remain we will be surrendering our democratic system that has served us well for centuries and the effects will be felt by generations to come.

Ed Treadwell, Chilbolton