And so the betrayals begin

One of the things that EUsceptics like myself and others pointed out was that it opened the way to a massive raft of EU legislation being able to simply go through our parliament on the nod, without being scrutinised. We pointed out that even were such legislation to be not in the best interests of the country, it wouldn't matter anyway, it's not like our parliament had the power to even move a comma from such legislation.
Of course we were told by EUphiles that we were wrong, that such things couldn't and wouldn't happen and anyway the EU was simply full of fluffy goodness and that we were worrying over nothing, everything would be fine in EUland and who cares if a few ancient rights were trampled over such as habeus corpus, the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, after all we would be "allowed" new rights instead of taking them for granted.

You know, the odd thing is, it turns out we were right, amazing isn't it?

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The government has been accused of treating Parliament "with contempt" in its fast-tracking of European measures to track alleged terrorist finances.

In an urgent question, the chairman of the Commons European scrutiny committee Michael Connarty said MPs had been denied the time set to examine opting in to EU measures under the Lisbon Treaty.

The Linlithgow and East Falkirk MP called for a statement from the government on the "breach of undertakings" to Parliament regarding the timescale of the opt-in developments.

Treasury minister Sarah McCarthy-Fry told the Commons that the agreement had "significant national security benefits".

Connarty said the events had been a "very bad start to the new process" on the assurance of the Lisbon Treaty.

"It's quite clear that someone is treating this Parliament with disdain and contempt," he said.

"Parliament is in fact being treated with contempt, possibly by the government."

He added: "Once again we are worried that the European Union will push these things aside and the government will just fall over and let them do what they wish."

Shadow Treasury minister Mark Hoban said it had been a "serious breach of an important undertaking" by the government and that Parliament had been assured that opt-in decisions would be given eight weeks of scrutiny.

"Let us be clear - as we speak there is no law in place to prevent terrorist suspects from accessing frozen assets despite the prime minister's repeated assurances, " he said.

"As a result of its incompetence, the government has failed in its primary duty to protect its citizens."

 Yes, that's right, our MP's are being ignored when it comes to pushing through EU legislation, they're citing "security" and these are the opt in decisions that the government made over Lisbon, you know that minor treaty that we were promised a referendum on by all major political parties only for them to renege on their word. Well now our MP's are seeing the wonderful world of Lisbon coming home to roost as they are denied time promised to them to scrutinise provisions of EU legislation and watch said measures go through at the nod by a government that sold us out in the first place.

In this instance I just hate being proven right and saying I told you so is cold comfort to me.