In a number of recent UK Column News programmes, excerpts have been taken from Christopher Story’s 2002 book, The European Union Collective. Here is a particularly interesting excerpt on the sovereignty of the UK’s head of state. Quite a bit of text, but the last sentence makes it worth reading.

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“In November 2000 – after a correspondent who had taken care to prepare his case thoroughly, had written to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair; to the then Leader of the Opposition, William Hague; to the Leader of the House of Lords, who was then Baroness Jay; and to the Lord Chief Justice and other official office-holders and dignitaries – asking: ‘Is Her Majesty the Queen Sovereign?’, he received either no answer at all, or else a non-committal, weak, diversionary reply. Mr Blair, being unable to answer the question himself, redirected the enquiry to the Home Office, which likewise prevaricated. Indeed, a hallmark of the Blair Government has been its Ministers’ arrogant reluctance to answer letters and parliamentary questions. Likewise, Mr Blair has reportedly made a point, on occasion, of ‘standing the Queen up’ by failing to turn up on time, or at all, for his weekly scheduled audiences.

The position under English law, of course, is that Her Majesty remains Sovereign until the moment of her death, when sovereignty will pass automat- ically to the next rightful heir to the British Throne. However, the Prime Minister’s problem appears to be that since, under Article 17 of the Maastricht Treaty, the Queen is a ‘citizen’ of the European Union, her Sovereignty has been usurped. Those UK Ministers and officials who permitted this scan- dalous state of affairs to develop are accordingly prima facie traitors and ought to be indicted for treason. But so far as President Herzog of Germany has been concerned, his status as a ‘citizen’ of the EU Collective appears to be entirely acceptable, because the EU is just a ‘mask’ for emerging ‘Greater Germany’.

When, following the correspondent’s letters to selected leaders, an attempt was made by Christopher Gill MP in January 2001 to put down a question asking the Prime Minister whether Her Majesty is Sovereign, the Table Office at the House of Commons replied in the following astonishing language: ‘Last night you sought to table a question to the Prime Minister concerning the effect of the UK’s membership of the European Union on the constitutional position of Her Majesty the Queen. You will recall that I explained I would need to check the admissibility of the question with other colleagues before it could be tabled. It has been pointed out to me that the question as drafted in effect seeks the Prime Minister’s view on the interpretation of the law, in this case the Treaties of the European Communities and associated European treaties and UK legislation. It is not possible to table questions to Ministers seeking interpretation of the law, as this is a matter for the appropriate courts, not Ministers’.

It would accordingly appear to be unclear whether Her Majesty the Queen is Sovereign – and, by extension, whether any legislation passed by the Westminster Parliament since Britain made the mistake of joining the European Communities in 1972, is valid. For evidently until the matter is decided by ‘the appropriate courts’, the question of whether Her Majesty is Sovereign and thus able to act as Head of State and hence give the Royal Assent to legislation passed by the Westminster Parliament, remains up in the air. This Kafkaesque situation reflects the fact that, as noted, under the Collective Treaty, all residents of the European Union are its citizens; and the Queen is a resident of the European Union. Therefore, if EU law has precedence over British law, the Queen, being an EU citizen, is not Sovereign. Welcome to a classic example of the fundamentally demented chaos that is bound to result from all revolutionary experiments in political collectivisation.”

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