Members of European Parliament have commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Lisbon Treaty and the legally binding Charter of Fundamental Right. Brexit Party MEP Jonathan Bullock thanked colleagues in the European Parliament in Strasbourg for securing Brexit on behalf of Britain with a key European treaty.
The Brexit Party MEP insisted the European Union contributed to securing the Brexit referendum for the British people with the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009.
The Treaty was the first body of European law to introduce a mechanism to grant member states the right to give up their membership of the bloc and leave – the so-called Article 50. Addressing colleagues in the European Parliament during the monthly Strasbourg plenary, Mr Bullock stunned his fellow MEPs: "If it hadn't been for the Lisbon Treaty, it is quite possible we would not have Brexit now.
"So perhaps we should be grateful you decided to expand your power, you started creating a superstate and you ignored nation-states, democracy and voters.
"Let us remember what Margaret Thatcher said in her Bruges Speech – that Europe shouldn't become an institutional device to be constantly modified according to some abstract intellectual concept."
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