The death of Britain? The UK’s constitutional crisis

The death of Britain?:

John Redwood, MP for Wokingham and Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, argues in his dramatic new book, that the United Kingdom is in the grip of a constitutional revolution and claims that unless the British people wake up and insist on British parliamentary democracy the end-result will be a nation in tatters. Redwood states that the Labour government has adopted much of the European agenda as its own, willingly advancing the cause of more European government. He cites the adoption of the Social Chapter and the European Charter of Human Rights as a bowing to the European model alongside the plans for proportional representation, the undermining of the monarchy and the changing of the House of Lords into a compliant government quango. He claims that devolution Labour-style will devolve more power not to people but to administrators and politicians. Redwood means this book as an alarm call to the British people to wake up to 'threats to their freedom'.

The book is split into three parts. Part I A country being torn up by its roots, examining how the treaties bringing together the member states set out a blueprint for a new country called the European Union and examines different constitutional arrangements in federal states. Part II Labour's European Revolution covers the monarchy, House of Lords reform, The Commons, proportional representation and devolution and Part III Britain's future? covers British business and the single currency.