Myth of ‘European citizenship’ exposed
‘European citizenship’ has been exposed as a myth, says local MEP Paul Nuttall today.
The European Union has no right to claim that it has citizens, the Government has confirmed in a response to a written question.
“The EU has often claimed that it has created European citizenship, in its own right. But in answer to a question by independent Labour Peer Lord Stoddart of Swindon the Government has now confirmed that you cannot be a European citizen without first being a citizen of a nation state,” said Mr Nuttall UKIP Euro-MP.
“I am delighted that this clarification exposes European citizenship as a myth and confirms that national citizenship has primacy, no matter what the bureaucrats in Brussels would like us to believe,” he added.
“Brussels spends billions of pounds on propaganda trying to convince us to love the EU and be happy obedient little citizens. We are not citizens of the European Union and the sooner the UK leaves the better for us all,” said Mr Nuttall.
Lord Henley, Minister of State at the Home Office, responding to Lord Stoddart’s question, said, “Article 9 of the Treaty on the European Union states that ‘every national of a member state shall be a citizen of the Union.
Citizenship of the Union shall be additional to national citizenship and
shall not replace it’.
“The European Union therefore only derives its citizens from its constituent member states, and cannot claim to have citizens in its own right.”
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From “Making us just EU Citizens? Will the EU give itself the same power as the USA eventually?”
Secondly, the USA is still a collection of States working together, where as the EU makes the laws we obey and seems to have designs on becoming one big State, this through the destruction of Nation States and their Parliamentary system and eventually governing directly through the EU Regions all ready set up. We are aware that already proposed are elected mayors and proposed elected Chiefs of Police etc. Can we REALLY afford this Extra layer of Governance we have never had before? Perhaps we will not longer requires two full Houses of Parliament though soon, for our Parliament might well be in Brussels as will our Government?
We notice that almost all American Citizens are very proud of their flag and anthem and most of all they seem very proud to be Citizens of the United States of America. But how did they get to be USA Citizens when they too came from different States?
Could it happen to us? Remember The United States as early as 1789 in Art. I, sec. 8, clause 4 of the Constitution of the United States it was provided: ‘The Congress shall have Power . . . to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.
Does anyone believe that the EU will not give ‘itself’ the power eventually? Will you be asked? Would any British Government ask you? Were you asked by Prime Minister John Major if you wanted to be an EU Citizen? For goodness sake think about it all very carefully, is tHIS what you REALLY WANT?
Where is my contribution to your article Paul? You write,
“The European Union has no right to claim that it has citizens, the Government has confirmed in a response to a written question” But The EU believes it has the right because it belives the UK in agreeing to the EU Treaties , the British Governments have agreed to that Right.
Where did the UK Concensus Forms end up Paul? The UK of the EU?
Hi,
what great news at last we in the UK can be considered as citizens of Europe but not yet as citizens of the UK!!