Gavin Williamson was sacked as defence secretary (Image: Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
As Cabinet Secretary, running his prime minister like a clockwork orange, head of the National Security Committee and, by the by, president of the Special Forces Club, Sir Mark actually runs the entire country now. Add to that a passionate pro-EU fanatic. Our emergence from the EU remains stultified. I think two and two still make four. Or have things changed since my schooldays? So a conundrum for those with a taste for constitutional esoterica. Should any unelected mandarin have that much unchallenged power in a supposed democracy? As they say in exams: Discuss.
Now it seems there is more in store. Remember the Treaty of Lisbon? In December 2007 Gordon Brown slunk into a cellar in Lisbon and signed it for all of us. We were told it was just a tidying-up exercise – whatever that is. Now I am told there are certain provisions that come into force next year and they are not optional but compulsory.
One is the EDU. The European Defence Union has been lusted after for years by the true fanatics, including British ones.
It provides for the complete unification of all the continent’s armed forces under centralised command. It would provide the UK with another lethal constitutional crisis. We actually do not have a “standing
