nourishing obscurity

There are those who flatly refuse to see and then there are those who would like to see but don’t think they’ve seen enough to justify leaving the EU.  These are the people I’m addressing now.

The Road to EU Serfdom was a respected blog [on the right] some years back and then he just stopped.  It was a bit like Wat Tyler’s Burning our Money, in that it catalogued each new piece of wastage as it came out.

As a new blogger at the time, I looked at this constant stream of corruption and wastage and thought yeah, yeah but wasn’t all that enthused – it was all happening “over there”.  This is the sort of thing Serf posted in 2007:

Typical bullying arrogance in this statement by Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Huebner.

The European Union’s failure to revive its constitution risks dividing the bloc and undermining the richer old members’ willingness to finance development of the poorer newcomers.

Translation: Vote for the treaty or we will stop paying you money. She does offer hope however:

Unless the EU agrees on a treaty to replace the charter rejected by Dutch and French voters in 2005, a group of countries may decide to move ahead with integration faster than others.

Or this:

Whilst the implications are a little scary, its nice to see the reality of the EU painted so starkly.

Le Monde gives prominent coverage to a judgement made yesterday by the Conseil d’Etat – France’s supreme court for administrative justice – which granted European law an effective “constitutional immunity”. This means EU acts transposed in France have legal supremacy, even if they conflict with the French Constitution.

So, what we see from that blog is an unaccountable body, corrupt and undemocratic who make policy in closed committee and then get it rubber stamped.  Still not enough for us to leave.

13th Spitfire gets us a tad closer with his chart of which aspects of UK life we control and which aspects the EU controls.  This is a fragment:

Even then, if the EU was a democratic body in which the voice of the constituent peoples was heard, if it was just an Economic Community which favoured European nations in trade, its originally stated purpose, then fine, OK.  The vehement opposition would not be so vehement.  But this is not what it’s about.  There are three very nasty aspects:

1.  The way it is trying to be a super-state and not a democratic one.  Where do we even start here?  No power ever passed to the EU Commission has ever been given back.  The people running the EU are precisely the people who funded the upheavals in the C20th.  Churchill referred to them;

2.  The cost to us of membership, the giving up of our subsidies, the large number of poor countries now sponging off Germany and us and the whole thing;

3.  The breaking up of England into nine parts and the central funding, from Brussels, of those parts – increasing all the time [see chart above];

4.  The way Blair/Brown simply adopt EU directives which become national policy, the committee which thought it up expires, the policy is then pushed out to the regions of the UK for adoption – everything from the role of the army to the shape of your power pugs.

There simply is no advantage to us being in there.  Free travel?  Speak to someone coming form France to Britain today – relatively straightforward.  Going back to France?  Anyone in a jumping off terminal knows what you go through to get back.

This is the thing with Brown – he almost gleefully takes the draconian EU directives, which the EU is fully expecting other nations to challenge and the Italians to ignore but not Brown and co – oh no, they not only fully implement every last provision but add some more for good measure.

That’s why we are, per capita and per GDP, the lowest performing nation in Europe.

People in the UK blame Brown for almost anything and it’s not entirely wrong but what is not recognized is that he is in thrall to Europe and has been since just before June 1991.  Together with the debt he’s run up and the emptying of the coffers, he simply has no room to move.  If the EU wants a new power, his job is to ask, “How high?”

Europe is not the EU – different other animal.  With Brown now handing over the running of the Port of Dover to the French, thereby negating every gain since Agincourt – a Scot handing over part of England’s heritage, don’t you love it – we have a quisling who is doing what Napoleon and Hitler mounted a massive force to try to achieve – he’s meekly handing over the country, especially England.  Could you see him handing over part of Scotland?

Now personally, I quite like the idea because it might get run properly for a change instead of losing money hand over fist plus I quite like the idea of French patisseries, cafes and the like adorning the waterfront.  Hell, I have no problem whatsoever with French culture and as for the women …

So why am I so vehemently anti-EU?  For the reasons above, for the reasons of this not being a French or a German thing but something coming out of the sewers of Europe – the scum [excuse the word please] which have their greedy eyes on us and would break us into a subservient ex-nation of dole-receiving cogs in the greater machine.

This is not UKIP lunacy, this is not nutter politics, it’s not even conspiracy theory – for goodness sake, the evidence is extensive.  It is not even that.  It is that what is being imposed is not benign, not nice at all.

That’s why.

Some bedtime reading.

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