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WHAT IF BRITAIN HADN'T JOINED THE EUROPEAN UNION
Daily Mail SATURDAY ESSAY by Christopher Booker
On the 50th anniversary of the EUROPEAN UNION, a devastating analysis of what it's REALLY COST US.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the TREATY of ROME -which launched what was eventually to become the EUROPEAN UNION. Whatever our European partners may get up to in commemorating this historic moment [calamity], in two month's time., it is safe to predict that the celebrations here in Britain will be pretty muted. It is unlikely that cheering crowds will be turning out to watch fireworks exploding over the Thames. Although all our major political parties are totally wedded to our MEMBERSHIP -of this vast political project, the EU's own polls have consistently shown that the PEOPLE of BRITAIN are less happy to be part of it than those of any other country in EUROPE.
[The dissenting voices from the PAST to our entrapment into the EEC]
[In 1963 the French President Charles de Gaulle declared that it would be impossible for Britain to join the EU because of its CUSTOMS -CONSTITUTION and HISTORY.]
Also In 1963 in Britain - Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery 'I say we must not join Europe.'
Harold Wilson in 1961-To consider the Common Market in simple black and white terms.
Letter from Lord Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor warning of the danger to the country's SOVEREIGNTY, to Edward Heath, prior to the acceptance by Parliament of the TREATY of ROME.]
Mr George Thomas-Lord Tonypandy - Previous Speaker of the House of Commons-1976-83 -supports our Ancient Constitution and against our involvement in the so-called Common Market in fact a pseudo for the United States of Europe.
BE WARNED-'THE LIES of 1975-THAT STILL HAUNT US
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Perhaps it may be timely therefore to mark this anniversary in our own way today, by asking what Britain would be like TODAY if, all those decades ago, our then-political leaders, such as Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath, had NEVER taken us into it in the FIRST PLACE.
If we had NEVER entered the 'Common Market' back in 1973, would we now, as the Europhiles like to tell us, be just an impoverished little island standing sadly alone on the edge of Europe, gazing in envy at the success of the great project we were SO FOOLISH NOT TO JOIN? Or is it possible that we might in 2007 be living in a Britain significantly richer, happier, freer, more democratic, more self-respecting and more at ease with itself THAN IT IS TODAY?
To imagine how Britain might have fared if we had never been drawn inti 'EUROPE' -but remained on the outside as an INDEPENDENT Nation, like Norway and Switzerland - the two countries which have persistently refused to join -we must consider both what we are meant to have gained and also what we have lost. And here we immediately come up against a paradox. The most obvious thing we didn't gain on entering the Common Market was the one benefit we were told was the main reason for joining When Macmillan first decided to take us in back in the early Sixties, it was because Britain was suddenly suffering from a severe loss of self-confidence. As U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson observed in the forties, -BRITAIN HAD LOST AN EMPIRE AND NOT YET FOUND A ROLE'.
POLITICALLY and economically we seemed as a nation to be spiralling downwards -and this was just when we could see those original six Common Market countries having made a miraculous recovery from the chaos of World War II.
The PROMISE was that , by going into partnership with them, we might learn the secret of their newfound dynamism -and for this we were prepared to turn our back on so much of what over the centuries had given Britain her unique place in the world. In particular, by throwing in our destiny with Europe, we were expected to turn away from the English-speaking world and abandon our close historic and economic ties with the worldwide Commonwealth with which we conducted nearly half our overseas trade. The paradox was that when in the 1980sm, we did eventually rediscover the secret of economic success, in that transformation which took place under Mrs Thatcher this had nothing whatsoever to do with our MEMBERSHIP of what had by then become the 'EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'. Britain's renaissance, which by the late 1990s had made us again the fourth-largest economy in the world was entirely homegrown. And by this time that original equation which had drawn us into 'EUROPE' in the FIRST PLACE had been almost ENTIRELY REVERSED.
It was now those Continental countries whose economies were suffocating under all the problems Britain had solved by her own efforts in the 1980s -while most of the countries across the world whose economies have in the past decade been bounding ahead, from America to Australia to India , are part of that English speaking world and Commonwealth on which we had decided to turn our backs. In hindsight, we can see that , had we remained outside the European project, as it has become increasingly sunk in economic gloom, we could have remained a natural part of what became the most dynamic sector of the global economy.
In taking that mighty gamble back in the 1960s and 1970s it has very much looked as though we backed the wrong horse - and ,simply in economic terms, we have paid a COLOSSAL PRICE FOR IT. Switching the main focus of our trade away from the English-speaking world had turned out to be very one-sided deal indeed. In the past 30 years, so much more do our European partners sell to us than we sell to them that we have run up a staggering deficit on our dealings with the EU -amounting to £300Billion
Without our trade with America and the rest of the world-[Details on EDP Front-Page] for which we do not need to take on the deadweight of all those EU DIRECTIVES REGULATIONS -estimated to cost us a further £120Billion a year. -we should long since have gone bankrupt. The ultimate PROOF of how well we might have survived outside the EU is that even TODAY, Both Norway and Switzerland, two of the richest countries in Europe, export a higher percentage of their products to the EU than we do, WITHOUT HAVING TO JOIN IT. But this is only a small part of what we have given up as the PRICE for belonging to the EUROPEAN UNION. When we look at how much else we have lost, we can see just how different Britain might look TODAY -IF WE HAD NEVER JOINED.
The REAL SACRIFICE we have made in submitting to the EU's system of 'supernational government' is that of the right to decide SO MANY OF OUR OWN LAWS AND POLICIES. IF WE HAD NEVER JOINED: We would have the most efficient and prosperous agriculture in Europe, as we did before we had to submit to the cockeyed rules of a Common Agricultural Policy -CAP drawn up primarily to serve the interests of FRANCE. [At this stage we draw your attention to our Front-Page at its lowest level for more details of IF WE HAD NEVER JOINED.] Continuation of Essay: Drawing on the experience of those 11 years when, as Prime Minister, she saw the REAL NATURE of the 'EUROPEAN PROJECT' at FIRST HAND Mrs Thatcher wrote in her last BOOK that the attempt to create a European Super-state would be seen in the future as having been 'the greatest folly of the modern era' She went on to say that for Britain, 'with her traditional strengths and global destiny', to have become part of it, would come to be seen as having been 'A POLITICAL ERROR OF THE FIRST MAGNITUDE'. The fact is that , at a time when political judgment of our leaders had been warped by the political and economic decline they were led into taking a gamble we can now see, 30 years later, to have spectacularly failed.
[WE REMEMBER the time well and voted NO to the suspiciously named Common Market and at that time LIES -LIES and more LIES were bounded about by politicians who ONLY considered their political careers and though many knew the TRUTH deceived the ELECTORATE. WE have on our front page details of the crucial vote in the House of Commons when a number of Conservative MPs sided with the LIERS . There were some voices at the time who told the TRUTH such as Tony Benn - Enock Powell- Eric Heffer and others of Integrity but they were shouted down by the CONSPIRACY. We cannot accept that so many politicians were not aware of the full intention of the 1972 European Communities Act or the other Treaties since that date particularly the Maastricht Treaty which opened the door to the United States of Europe. If one looks at the publications available at the time and the warnings from men of Integrity it will be found that the TRUE intentions of the Common Market where already in current use among politicians - the idea had been around since the late 1930s. For many of them now to say that they did no know what was intended was a mortal blow to the Independence of the greatest and longest Democracy since the time of Athens those thousands of years ago. No we will take no excuses from politicians who that day in 1972 sold their country to a foreign power and years later now say it was an unfortunate mistake.] WE thank the Daily Mail and the excellent summary by Christopher Booker which was of the usual high standard which will remind many who have not given a thought to the European Project to see the TRUTH which has been hidden from the General Public by the Media particularly the BBC and sections of the Press for over 50 years.
* Some titbits from the past.
Press-1961 Daily Mail circulation -2,610,487 Daily Telegraph circulation - 1,248,961
Burke said : there were Three Estates in parliament; but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far they all. Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson, 1787.
Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson. 1962
* * * [Font altered-Bolding &Underlining Used-Comments in brackets] JANUARY/07
A final reminder that there is a part summary on our Front-page under 'IF WE HAD NEVER JOINED:' which is not included with the above essay.]
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* 13th October,2007
So You Want Out Of The EU
THEN WHY NOT SIGN THE RENUNCIATION of EU CITIZENSHIP http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/OptoutDetails from petition creator With the signing of the Maastricht Treaty the people of Britain were given DUAL CITIZENSHIP -both EUROPEAN and BRITISH The extra tier of citizenship was thrust upon the people without their consent -and in many cases knowledge. The PEOPLE of GREAT BRITAIN should be allowed the option of opting out of the EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP if they so wish. The GOVERNMENT will then be able to provide those who have opted out with BRITISH DOCUMENTATION -only such as British (not EU) passports, driving licences and other national documents. EU laws will also NOT APPLY to those who HAVE OPTED OUT OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP
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