SATURDAY ESSAY by Daniel Hannon
Saturday, May 30-2015
The
General
Election
has only
just
finished,
but the
EU
referendum
campaign
is
already
under
way'
The first settled which party would be in
office, the second will settle whether elections in Britain
matter at all.
With the United Kingdom be an INDEPENDENT
NATION [or NATIONS!], trading with its friends on the
Continent while living under its own laws? Or will it be
a part of a country called Europe?
David Cameron is touring EU capitals,
making the case for relatively modest reforms. So far, his
counterparts have played along, making a big fuss before the
cameras over what they know to be trivial changes.
Yet they haven't changed their minds about
the EU's destination [an ever-closer political union.]
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel whom
the PM met yesterday, has been admirably frank. We need a
political union, which means we must gradually cede powers
to Europe
[Our MAGNA CARTA RIGHTS!] and give Europe
'CONTROL'
she said recently. We
cannot just stop because one or other doesn't want to join
in YET!
The French Foreign
Minister, Laurent Fabius, also made clear that
political integration was
not up for
discussion.
'It is as if you joined a
football club, and then half-way through the match started
playing rugby.' he said after hearing from Mr Cameron.
Actually, that's pretty much how rugby got started and its
now a sport that connects Britain to the growing markets of
the English-speaking world rather than to the declining WEU,
but I doubt this is what Mr Fabius meant.
The trouble is that we don't seem to be listening to what EU
leaders are saying. As in the past, we are ignoring events
on the Continent,
leaving things until almost too late
So far, the two-week old debate seems almost like a repeat
of the 1975 EEC referendum. It's as if the intervening 40
years have taught us
NOTHING!
as if
we were still talking about participation in a
COMMON MARKET
[TRADE not SLAVE]
rather than about the political amalgamation EU membership
now involves.
AS in
1975, the multinational giants and mega-banks are telling us
that we must not leave; and as in 1975, the Confederation of
British Industry is pretending that its Euro-fanaticism is
typical of British business as a whole.
Last
week, the Aviation giant Airbus UK got in on the act,
vaguely hinting-though, of course not actually saying-that a
British withdrawal from the EU might result in the firms
future investment here being reviewed.
[Few
would fail to understand that major businesses have no
interest whether the country they obtain their WEALTH! and
PROFIT! - is FREE! In fact, they make even
greater returns if it is a DICTATORSHIP! and as Mr Hannan
states later in this article]
'The
multi-nationals see EU rules as a useful way to raise
barriers against small competitors, who can't afford the
compliance costs. A glance at the EU's lobbying register
tells me that, last year, Airbus spent
EUROS 500,000 -£360,000
on
making its case in Brussels, employiong ten lobbyists.
It's
hardly surprising that such a company should want to keep
the
STATUS QUO
So Let's get one thing straight at the outset. No one is
talking about Britain leaving the EUROPEAN MARKET. I don't
know of a single Eurosceptic who wants to put up trade
barriers against our allies in Europe. What we want is FREE
TRADE rather than POLITICAL UNION.
On the contrary, EU
leaders keep telling us that the alterative to our current
EU EU membership is a
free-trade only relationship.
The idea that we'd face trade barriers if we pulled out
exists only in the press releases of the British pro-EU
campaigners. They know that its a straw man - though that
doesn't stop them bashing away at it for all they're worth.
How
can I be sure that our trading relationship would not
change? Because every state in Europe, whether or not it is
in the EU, participates in the single market:
NORWAY-ANDORRA-TURKEY-SWITZERLAND-SERBIA-CHANNEL ISLANDS and
so forth.
The only exceptions are Belarus and Russia, which have
instead chosen to form a Euroasian union.
Are we
to believe that only the United Kingdom would be excluded?
That we'd be penalised despite the fact that, over the 43
years of our membership, we have bought more from the other
member states that we have sold to them, to the tune of
£40,000,000 a day.
It's
hardly normal, after all, for salesmen to chase away their
customers.
What are the big corporations worried about? if our
continued access to the single market is secure either way.
why are they bothered about whether we take part in the
various non-trade aspects of the EU, such as FOREIGN
AFFAIRS-ENERGY POLICY-IMMIGRATION and CRIMINAL JUSTICE?
[Well! there is the present contribution made to the EU
BUDGET by the UK which will have to be shared by the 6
remaining CONTRIBUTORS which might rock the boat if some
decide
ENOUGH is ENOUGH!
and we might in a short while see the EU wobble and
collapse!]
TO FIND OUT MORE GO TO:-
-
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Say-no-scaremongers-referendum-doom-merchants-lining-insist-Britain-t-survive-outside-EU-Twaddle-says-leading-MEP-Dani...
22
hours ago ...
Twaddle, says leading
MEP Daniel Hannan
.... 'If you took a
blank sheet of paper
and wrote down all the
benefits that derive
from EU .... weekend
at the top shop
with his three-year-old
sister Harper Spent
Saturday with
her ...
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BETRAYAL
' Wooden walls once protected
the shores of England and its Freedom-Law and Custom ,but
since 1973, the replacement steel walls could no longer
protect our English Heritage, because our deceitful
traitorous politicians were wooden-headed, instead of steely
patriots.'edom,
[COMMENTS IN BRACKETS AND CAPS ARE OURS!
JUNE 30-2015
