Albert Burgess

Letter from Eileen Vagg (House of Lords Reform Team) 14th October 2011

Dear Mr Burgess

Thank you for your letter of 5 September to the Justice Secretary. The Deputy Prime Minister has responsibility for Constitutional reform. I am responding as a member of the team working on House of Lords reform.

You have suggested that previous legislation to reform of the House of Lords was in conflict with the concept of exclusive cognisance of each House of Parliament. The right of exclusive cognisance is intended to protect each House in respect of the conduct of its internal workings and procedures.

Parliamentary sovereignty, however, makes Parliament the supreme legal authority run the UK, allowing It to create or end any law. Generally, the courts cannot overrule its legislation and no Parliament can pass laws that future Parliaments cannot change, Parliamentary sovereignty is the most important part of the UK constitution. Parliament passed legislation in 1999 to remove the majority of the Hereditary peers from the House of Lords. This legislation was about composition of the House of Lords, not its operation. The House of Lords consented to the Legislation by passing the Act. This was entirely in accordance with the concept of exclusive cognisance.

Ref Baron Mereworth v Ministry of Justice

My Lord
You will have noted that the public benches in your court were full for this hearing; this was because although you were hearing an application by Baron Mereworth in his private capacity, it is also of some major public importance. The people in the public area of the court had travelled some considerable distance to see this case I from Oxfordshire another man from Lincoln and others equally as far.

Dan Majestic writes from London: Today we present a press release provided to us by a group of individuals, who have helped to initiate court proceeding in order to dispute the legality of the 1999 House of Lords Act, passed in the Commons during the premiership of Tony Blair that had banned a large number of hereditary peers from sitting in the upper chamber:

‘While the two most senior judges in Britain, namely the Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge and the Master of the Rolls Lord Nueberger, have recently publically disagreed on the issue of whether or not the domestic laws of the United Kingdom take precedence over laws made outside the country by the Court of Justice of the European Communities (CJEC). The Lord Chief Justice, who is a well known republican, has told the judiciary of England and Wales that they have no option other than to administer the Laws passed in Luxemburg, while the Master of the Rolls, who is the keeper of the Rolls of Law, has informed the judiciary that they can ignore edicts passed by the CJEC, because the United Kingdom’s domestic laws are supreme and the judges should will not entertain a case in the British courts that challenges this.

THE Daily Express today becomes the first national newspaper to call for Britain to leave the European Union.

From this day forth our energies will be directed to furthering the cause of those who believe Britain is Better Off Out.

The famous and symbolic Crusader who adorns our masthead will become the figurehead of the struggle to repatriate British sovereignty from a political project that has comprehensively failed.

After far too many years as the victims of Brussels larceny, bullying, over-regulation and all-round interference, the time has come for the British people to win back their country and restore legitimacy and accountability to their political process.

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Following the debacle of the Lisbon Treaty – disgracefully imposed upon the public without the referendum they were promised by the three main political parties – many had expected matters European to take a lower profile in British politics.
 
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Special Branch in Norfolk Constabulary, have said treason has been reported in six force areas and one force has refered the papers to the Crown Prosection Service in London, to see whether a prima facie case of treason has been made out. I expect the CPS are currently sitting on their hands.