Here is why, put very simply. There are many other reasons why she should not be PM, but this is the most important.
Ms May said in 2012 that – as Home Secretary – she would be happy to invite lethally-armed, paramilitary units owing allegiance only to Brussels onto British soil.
Once here they would obviously obey any ECJ rulings and ram alien laws down our throats, by main force. It would amount to a military occupation.
I feel it is of paramount importance that the Conservative membership be informed of this before they vote for their and the country’s new leader.
I give below the Hansard reference, just in case people think that I made it all up. I quote from page 15-16 of my submission to the House of Lords ref the European Arrest Warrant and other Justice measures in 2013. The submission contains the Hansard reference. The full text of that submission can be seen here.
One measure of particular interest, which HMG has declared it intends to opt into, is Council Decision 2008/617/JHA on the improvement of cooperation between the special intervention units of the Member States of the European Union in crisis situations. “Special intervention units” are obviously going to be units of the French Gendarmerie, the Spanish Guardia Civil, the Italian Carabinieri, etc – ie the very components of the European Gendarmerie Force.
Whereas the previous [Labour] government refused to answer the Parliamentary questions, [put to it by Lord Pearson and by Bob Spink MP], as to whether it would give consent to the deployment of the Eurogendarmerie on British soil, the present government received a similar question as follows:
Criminal Proceedings: EU Law (Hansard, written answers for 11/06/2012)
Mr Raab: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to EU Council Framework Decision 2008/675/JHA, in what circumstances she envisages that the UK would request special intervention units from other EU member states to operate on UK soil. [110125] James Brokenshire [on behalf of the Home Sec. Theresa May]: The United Kingdom’s response to any incident will be individually tailored to the nature and scale of that incident. Should we identify the need to seek the support of our allies in managing a crisis situation, we would of course do so. [emphases added]
The government should be warned that with this attitude it is recklessly playing with fire. The “special intervention units from other EU member states” that “of course” they would ask to intervene on British soil would be the very self-same units that make up the European Gendarmerie Force. Unless we exercise the opt-outs now, and keep them, we will be “subject to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, and the enforcement powers of the Commission”. These powers could at some stage go beyond the power of fining non-compliant states, and could include command of the Eurogendarmerie, at present reporting to the Council of the Ministers of the participating states (CIMIN). The Commission could see an increase in the array of “enforcement powers” at its disposal, to include Europol and the Eurogendarmerie.
The point is that once the armed, paramilitary, Eurogendarmerie are inside the country, no British government can ever order them to leave, for they will only obey orders from their masters in Brussels.
For the people of Britain it will feel like being under military occupation by a foreign power, imposing alien laws on us. At that point British participation in the EU project will no longer be voluntary. Our sovereign right to withdraw, never denied by any British participants in the debate, will have gone.
This reply by the Home Office, given in 2013 when there was no question of Brexit, shows how dangerous Ms May is. Whether she be just unforgiveably ignorant of the consequences of her words, or be fully aware of the consequences (in which case the reflections on her character are even worse), she is utterly unfit for purpose.
She must be stopped at all costs from becoming PM. On yesterday’s voting record it looks as if the choice before the Tory membership will be her or Andrea Leadsom.
Whatever Ms Leadsom’s possible shortcomings (and I have to say she did put on a good performance at the Wembley debate), they surely pale into insignificance before the abject irresponsibility of someone who was prepared to ask lethally-armed, paramilitary units of a foreign power, which claims supremacy over us and over our Parliament, to enter the country. This could take us back to the days of Charles I.
It constitutes a danger to our national security.
Thank goodness UKIP treat Carswell so appallingly. As a Blairite I sleep well at night knowing that no other MPs will flip to the childish UKIP.
The Tories are about to make a total mess by electing May. This golden opportunity handed to them by the hard work of UKIP is about to be ignored or at best watered down by the likes of May. George Galloway described her as John Major in a skirt – it is the first time that I’ve found myself agreeing with Galloway
I must say I disagree with George Galloway on this one.
She reminds me more of Tony Blair. She even looks a bit like him!
(Imagine a recent mugshot of Tony with a wig.)
Two strikes already: EU army and talking with Branson. How many more will come to light?
There is now way she should be leader, firstly she backed Remain…that should have barred her from the race altogether otherwise what did we actually win on June 2rd. I voted for radical change not more of the same NWO tripe.
Sorry, should have June 23rd.
Theresa May is the ‘stability and continuity’ candidate for leadership, which is Strike One against her, because the people have voted for radical CHANGE, not business as usual and certainly no backsliding or ‘modifying’ the referendum result.
Strike Two against her is her failure to back Brexit despite making speeches about immigration that convinced many people she saw the problem and would support the obvious solution. Her decision to back Remain shows cowardice, hypocrisy, lack of integrity.
Strike Three against her is the fact that she was prepared to request the intervention of a foreign law-enforcement body on British soil, as pointed out in the above article.
Strike Four consists of a series of poor decisions regarding who is allowed to enter or stay in this country. Apparently, a British-descended sick grandmother coming from South Africa to be looked after by her British family is to be denied the right to stay. Her family had to submit her cause to a Change.org petition and hope for enough signatures to make an impression on the Home Office. Meanwhile, how many undesirables with no connection to Britain at all have been allowed to stay with no quibbles? We often hear about these people after they’ve committed crimes, including murder. And why is Geert Wilders refused permission to visit the UK, while Islamist sympathisers are allowed in to preach ant-west, misogynistic, homophobic rhetoric in mosques?
Theresa may be the favourite with Con MPs, but let’s hope she’s less popular with the grassroots of the party.