Monday 19 November 2012

The Preservation Society

Today David Davies Tory MP gave a very important speech which I reproduce here in full:
It gives me great pleasure and it's an honour Ladies and Gentlemen to be invited to give a speech on the merits of jam to you as the President of the Jam Preservation Society. It's a society that I've long been proud to be associated with and will continue to do so.

In truth however I don't actually like jam. It's ghastly stuff. I know little about cooking and when I'm hit with a blast of warm air which smells of caramel, mouthwatering, burnt-sugar fruitiness that reminds me of toffee apples, I want to be sick. Who on earth thought of making jam with so much sugar? What a terrible idea.
Even worse is the use of seasonal and organic produce which is locally grown. What's that about? It means that you won't find strawberry jam simmering away in the kitchen in December but have to put up with eating fig jam with rum in August and September. For God's sake.
In summary, I hate jam, I disagree fundamentally that sugar is used in the process but I'm here to emphasis that I'm proud to be a member of the Jam Society which forces people to eat the stuff.
Naturally Mr Davis didn't actually say that, but he might as well have done:
On what powers we should take back and halting the acquis communautaire: "We should seek the repatriation of a whole range of powers to create a new relationship between Britain and the EU.  We should take back all of our justice and home affairs powers.
We should take back immigration powers. We should take back control of social and employment legislation. We should give our government the final say on health and safety legislation.  And we should protect Britain from financial regulation designed to punish the UK’s success.  We should take back all of these things and more, and take them back permanently... But this of itself is not enough.

It is no good simply negotiating away the things we do not like about Europe only to face a future in which EU institutions, backed up by ever more prevalent qualified majority voting, continues to erode our national interest. We need a permanent, universal opt-out that allows us to escape the damaging effects of costly and unnecessary EU laws.
If we do not like a new law, Parliament should be able to reject it. Some will say this is impossible. I categorically disagree."

3 comments:

  1. I naively thought Mr Davis was one of the few good guys. Obviously he isn't.

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  2. @JiC Unfortunately not, there are a couple of exceptions but sadly it's what happens.

    Davis' priority is his party first and foremost - thus is the urgent need to separate out backbenchers from the govt - avoiding the conflict of interest between trying to climb the greasy pole and representing their constituents.

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  3. I think that he is worse than many JIC...

    He adds legitimacy to those that claim to be antagonistic to the EU but choose to remain in the most pro-EU party. He's the type that "split" the Anti-EU vote... ha ha...

    The honest ones would be moving somewhere else, like Roger Helmer.

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