European Justice

From the Telegraph:

It has often been claimed that the project of “ever-closer union” within the EU is over, killed when the Lisbon Treaty was rejected by the Irish, the only people who had the chance to vote on it. That’s a big mistake. The Eurocrats think integration is inevitable and essential – and they are certainly not going to let it be derailed by anything as vulgar as the fact that most of the EU’s citizens do not want it.

Perhaps the best example is an imminent change to the justice system, designed to make it easier for one state to imprison citizens who live and work in another. Under the present rules, the Government is not obliged to hand over a British citizen who has been convicted of a crime in another EU country. There are very good reasons for that. The procedures of justice are not of a uniformly high standard across the EU.

Yes, we’ve been shouting about this. A trial which you did not know about, where you were not able to present evidence, where there was no jury, in a country where the entire judicial system is entirely corrupt. But still the UK Government must hand you over to serve the sentence imposed.

No, we really do not want to be part of such a system. Forget the economics now, the very basis of civil liberty, the right to a fair trial, has now been breached. We’ve got to get out.