From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Blair following Bush's lead on immigration? 

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/9970/

Tony Blair wants to hand the European Union radical new powers in his last
act as Prime Minister, it emerged today.

The Prime Minister has welcomed controversial plans to bring back the
troubled EU constitution by the back door - totally bypassing the need for
public referendums on sweeping new powers for Brussels.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested ditching the name
"constitution" from the title and instead calling it an
"amending treaty˘ - to avoid having to seek the approval of voters.

French and Dutch voters rejected the original plan - which would hand
Brussels the power to represent individual countries at the UN and change
national laws - two years ago.

Britain's voting rights would be reduced by a third under the scheme and
our hard-won veto on European directives would be torn up. Britain could
also lose the right to impose quotas on immigration.

Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said: "If Tony Blair thinks he
can hoodwink the British people by smuggling in the rejected EU consitution
under another name, he had better think again.

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