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Tory MPs call on David Cameron to claw back swathes of powers from EU
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 9:00PM GMT 12 Jan 2013 | Patrick Hennessy

Posted on 01/12/2013 4:42:19 PM PST by Olog-hai

David Cameron will this week be urged by a leading group of Conservative MPs to push for Treaty changes to help claw back swathes of powers covering crime, justice and policing from the European Union.

The Fresh Start Group will call for the repatriation of more than 130 powers which it claims are vital to retain “national democratic accountability”, protect British interests and resist the rise of the EU superstate.

The call comes in a manifesto by the group—the leading Euroskeptic parliamentary body—to be published on Wednesday ahead of a major speech by the Prime Minister on Britain’s future relationship with Europe. …

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1 posted on 01/12/2013 4:42:23 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The EU, trying to do by treaty what Napoleon and Hitler were not able to do by force of arms.


2 posted on 01/12/2013 4:47:18 PM PST by omega4412
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To: Olog-hai

they might as well be talking to a brick wall


3 posted on 01/12/2013 4:53:18 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Olog-hai

A couple of the states tried to do that back in the sixties, the eighteen sixties.

Good luck Britain.


4 posted on 01/12/2013 6:39:31 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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