A burning hot Sunday 21 April 2002 saw around a thousand people march through Central London under the banner "Crown, Pound and Democracy"...

Billed as a march for St. George's Day, it was organised by Pam Barden of the Save our Sovereignty journal*.

This was the third march which this indomitable campaigner has organised in Central London.

The first was on Europe Day, May 9th in 1999, and had been the first anti-EU march of its kind since 1975.

The second march took place on St George's Day in 2000. The foot and mouth crisis put paid to a march in 2001.

Pam Barden told Sovereignty that her main purpose in organising these marches is "to stir things up a bit when it has gone quiet. We want to get people together from all over the country, get them to meet each other and network, and give them a morale boost. We also want to get as much media publicity for the cause as possible."

Indeed, local newspapers throughout Britain did run stories on this march beforehand because the Mayor of London, Ken Livingston, had refused to give any money to this march - even though it was billed as a St. George's Day march, and despite the fact that he had given £100,000, to fund the St. Patrick's Day Parade.

The March left Whitehall Place (upper right below) at 1pm, marched via Parliament Square and arrived in Trafalgar Square around half an hour later. The rally went on to around 3pm.

There was a short snip of the march on the 6 o'clock ITN news.

Pam Barden spoke (below left) as did Christopher Gill of the Freedom Association. Bob Lomas of the Magna Carta Society spoke about the Constitutional position of the EU Treaties [Read his speech here]; Philip Benwell of the Australian Constitutional Monarchy League spoke about Britain's relationship with the EU at the expense of the much larger and wider Commonwealth.

Neil Herron, Metric Martyr, spoke for around fifteen minutes on the democratic threat of the EU. [Read his speech here] As he also told Sovereignty, the value in this kind of march is to convey the importance of what you believe in, and to help others understand that "What they are doing is right and what they are standing for is right. The worst thing is when you feel like you're the lost voice in the wilderness."

Teddy Taylor MP - the only remaining member of Parliament to have voted against all the Treaties - spoke as did Lord Stoddart of Swindon, who's speech was on the coming EU extradition laws. Others speakers included Tory MEP Roger Helmer, author Lindsay Jenkins and Nigel Farage MEP. A wide range of issues were covered - the Euro, metrication, Corpus Juris, CAP, and the CFP.

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.... the Sovereignty view ....

Sovereignty advocates a SANE political relationship with our European cousins.

We also recognise that while the EU is clearly a threat to the self-government of Britain, it is also a fact that the EU takes its orders from the WTO, which takes its orders from powerful corporations, US financial lobbies and other vested interests. These powers are also above and beyond any democratic reach, and are often able to put the financial squeeze on national governments. In effect, our political system ensures that our politicians and our government take their orders from everybody but us!

In this wider sense, the EU is but one arm of an octopus which threatens to strangle us all...

This points to a fundamental problem with our democratic system. Essentially, we, the people, have very limited means to exercise our sovereign power. For example, if we appeal to politicians they claim they can do nothing because this, or that piece of legislation is "EU" or "WTO" law. We're being told that "the EU" is the authority, or "the WTO" is the authority. When it comes to the crunch, our politicians just shrug their shoulders. 'There's nothing we can do' they tell us, and consequently, we the people feel a sense of powerlessness and foreboding.

In effect, we, the people of this country, are being told that faceless, mysterious politicians and bureaucrats - whom we've never seen, largely did not vote for, and couldn't even name - are "the real authority" in this land.

OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM IS UPSIDE DOWN
However, the fact is this: we the sovereign people of this country are the rightful authority in this land. If our politicians tell us they have to take orders from organisations or people higher up, then that means our political system is upside-down.

They should take their orders from us. Our government must listen to us, not to "them". It is accountable to us, not to "them". It should do what we tell it, not what "they" tell it, regardless of whether 'they' are the EU, the WTO, billionaire financiers or whoever.

This is an empowering and liberating realisation.

Our government is the mechanism by which we, the people, get what we want. If, at any time, our government tells us that it cannot do something which we, the people, want, because it is constrained by some higher law, or organisation, then we, the people, must change those laws from the grass roots up. And if we cannot change those laws because the mechanisms by which we exercise our power are limited, then we must change those mechanisms.

As much as we may dislike the EU and the other powers which presently prevail, it is our own government which is responsible for our situation; and it is through our own government that we must - and will - assert our authority and power as sovereign people.