“National sovereignty is the root cause of the most crying evils of our times… The only final remedy for this supreme and catastrophic evil of our time is a federal union of the peoples…”
Words on the wall in the EU Parliament’s Visitors Centre in Brussels, Belgium.
The upcoming Brexit referendum is of historic importance, not only for the UK in its relationship with the EU but of the impact of this referendum result on the whole world. I contend strongly that a free sovereign UK again will be a positive result for the world. Britain’s continuing membership will help to perpetuate and worsen the present sorry state of affairs.
To understand the nature of the beast we are dealing with just look at the quote at the beginning of this article. Unless you understand the DNA of the EU you will keep falling for the deception. For the EU is possibly the biggest deception or delusion this country has ever faced. The only thing that will stop us from being consumed by the EU is a casting aside of apathy and a little willingness to look at the bigger picture, and that includes taking a historical perspective.
The level of lies, deception and delusion surrounding the EU is enormous. There is always a spirit in Europe that rises up to try to take control of the continent. It has had various guises through the ages and can use any form of government or strategy to effect that control. You only have to look at the history of Europe to realise this. The Roman Empire was an early example when the legions of Rome got to Hadrian’s Wall but interestingly no further. Military power was the driving force. Then during the Middle Ages the controlling spirit worked through a political and religious hierarchy notably represented by the Roman Catholic Church. Later on we had Napoleon trying to conquer Europe through military power but taking a step too far by trying to take on Russia.
The most obvious recent manifestation were the Nazis. Again, a controlling spirit trying to take Europe by terror, Jew hatred and military power. The very same spirit just morphed into something different after the war, but this time it’s a little bit more subtle, using ‘peaceful’ methods to get its way, using words like ‘federalism,’ ‘pooling of sovereignty,’ ‘subsidiarity,’ ‘qualified majority voting,’ ‘progressive,’ ‘anti discrimination’ and ‘equality’ to get its way.
The EU is like a totalitarian monster trying to disguise itself in a velvet cloak, but it’s unceasing activity is to destroy the nation state. You can be absolutely sure that it aims to do this to what is left of the U.K. despite our history. Go to Brussels, to the very centre of the project, and read the words from the beginning of this article that quotes a British civil servant, Philip Kerr, later known as Lord Lothian, who loved federalism and internationalism and thought the nation state was the cause of all the world’s problems. This demonstrates the core DNA of the EU and needs to be exposed for all the world to see.
Also unless you can see you are dealing with a bully who will make ridiculous threats you will not get far. European Commission chief Jean Claude Juncke has actually just said there is no plan B, that ‘the UK will stay in the EU as a constructive and active member of the Union.’ Right now the UK needs a statesman of the highest calibre with great farsightedness, someone with the prophetic insight of Churchill, but we haven’t got that type of person in a Prime ministerial role. Every politician that enters Westminster is in danger of coming under the same spirit of control that emanates from Brussels, because this nation has opened a gateway to that spirit when we entered the Common Market. Thank God for UKIP who have provided a safety valve for dissent and indeed the chance of a referendum.
The EU has been trying to operate as one superstate for years. The single market is an example of that. We hear about being excluded from the single market if we leave the EU, but that shouldn’t surprise us. Any sovereign country has a single market with no trade barriers. In the UK there is a single market if you like, although we are compromised by Europe. So goods and services are freely traded across county and regional boundaries, between England, Wales and Scotland every day, without any tariff barriers. That’s what happens when you have one country. If we left the EU we would leave the single market and have to arrange a trade deal with the EU. That’s ok, it’s what any other country outside the EU does if they want to trade with Europe. Sure there may be tariffs or taxes involved at some point working both ways, but that’s what happens between sovereign nations. It certainly wouldn’t be in the interests of either side to set unnecessarily high trade barriers.
Another example is not being allowed to discriminate against workers from across the EU in terms of employment and benefits in favour of your own nationals. Of course that will happen because the EU is trying to build one country where you cannot discriminate in favour of your own people, for we are all EU citizens with EU passports.
Then we have child benefits for migrant families. We send child benefit payments ‘abroad’ for migrant families. The latest deal proposes that payments are indexed to individual countries’ costs off living so that a Polish family is not getting the same number of pounds as a Bulgarian family who are probably getting a ‘kings ransom’ at present rates given the low cost of living in Bulgaria. Again the EU is trying to act like a single state where payments are just sent home to wherever home is in ‘Europa.’
What have they offered us? Not very much at all. When dealing with a bully you have to go in hard and face them down head on, confronting them with a list of demands as long as your arm including taking back control of our fishing industry, industrial policy, energy policy and full control of our borders, and clipping the wings of the European Court of Justice to overrule Britain in any way. David has managed to secure a deal on migrants, to disallow in work benefits for in work migrants for up to four years, an emergency brake, but then this is subject to the agreement of the European Parliament and agreement of other governments to activate the brake. Exactly how many migrants is this going to stop from entering the UK, especially if they come from much poorer countries and are coming essentially to earn a living? A mere cosmetic exercise, especially as the Living Wage is coming on stream soon.
In view of all this David Cameron is a bit like a puppy sitting at the foot of the table of his master eagerly awaiting a few crumbs from the table. Quite insulting to him and the British people. Unfortunately Cameron is another gatekeeper for the European project, utterly under the thumb of the big bully of Brussels. You could also argue he is like a magician trying to perform a trick with smoke and mirrors. It has always been a dream of mine for a UK Prime Minister to stand up in Parliament and tell the EU to get lost. I will have to wait a little longer. But perhaps in the meantime the British people will make that unnecessary by rising up in courage and voting ‘out.’ Let us hope so!