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	MAJOR ISSUES BULLETIN

BRITAIN and EUROPE

The Culture of Deceit

Christopher Booker

[With our FREEDOM and BIRTHRIGHT now in jeopardy we turn once more to the sterling work of an Englishman like so many others who have been fighting for three decades or more to protect our HERITAGE. Though the work was published in 2001 it is as important today in February 2007 ]

The Strange Case of the Werner Report.

It is not often a British Prime Minister remains active in politics long enough to be caught out by secret papers released under the 30-year rule from the time he was in office. But such a case in January 2001 when the Public Record Office at Kew opened files relating to Edward Heath's application to join the Common Market in 1970.

The most striking of these documents were those reflecting the Heath's Government's reaction to something called

' Werner Report'

.In 1969, the Council of Ministers had commissioned the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Pierre Werner, to draw up a plan to move the Common Market [as it was then called] forward to full economic and monetary union. As luck would have it, his confidential report began circulating in Brussels in October 1970, just as Britain's negotiations to enter the European Economic Community were getting under way.

In the British Foreign Office, as we can now see, the Werner Report rang fearful alarm bells. A secret briefing note to Mr.Heath from Con O'neill, the senior civil servant responsible for Europe, explained that, if implemented, Werner's proposals would have enormous political repercussions. They envisaged

"a process of fundamental political importance, implying progressive development towards a political union".

The long - term objectives of economic and monetary union, it was made clear to Mr Heath,

"are very far-reaching indeed"

going

"well beyond the full establishment of a Common Market".

The Werner plan could lead to

"the ultimate creation of a European federal state, with a single currency. All the basic instruments of national economic management (fiscal, monetary, incomes and regional policies) would ultimately be handed over to the central federal authorities. The Werner report suggests that this radical transformation of present Communities should be accomplished within a decade [by 1980?]

Such a political and economic union, possibly also including a Common Defence Policy, would thus involve a massive loss of national sovereignty, which would ultimately leave member states with somewhat less power

"than the autonomy enjoyed by the States of the USA"

But what alarmed the Foreign Office was not the contents of the Werner Report. Mr Heath and his [traitorous] ministers did not throw up their hands in horror and

"good heavens, we had no idea this was what the Common Market is about. We could not possibly accept such a thing"

On the contrary when Geoffrey Rippon, the minister in charge of our negotiations, went to see M.Werner on October 27, the minutes of their discussion show that Rippon went out of his way to congratulate him on his report, which he said

"well stated our common objectives". privately, her Majesty's Government had no objection to the political union Werner was proposing. (PRO/CAB 164/771)

[Well as we have shown on our FRONT PAGE -Geoffrey Rippon -Roy Jenkins and Edward Heath had been NAZI agents for at least 30 years since they were together in Balliol College-Oxford . They were reported to MI5 because of their suspicious activities by the Master of Balliol- Lindsay. Full details on our BULLETIN BOARD.]

The only real concern of Mr Heath and his colleagues was that this plan should NOT be talked about too openly in public, because this might so inflame public opinion that it would be much harder to persuade Parliament and the British people that it was in their interests to join what they were being assured was no more than a 'Common Market', intended to boost TRADE.

It was vital, Mr Rippon urged on M. Werner that this goal of political and economic union should be achieved only in a

"step by step approach"

because

"it was natural for the people to be afraid of change"

and

"part of his problem in Britain was to reassure people that their fears were unjustified".

When these documents were released 30 years later, this was confirmed by a retired Foreign Office official Sir Crispin Tickell, who had played an intimate part in Britain's Common Market negotiations as Geoffrey Rippon's private secretary and was present at the meeting with Werner. In a BBC interview Tickell frankly admitted that, although worries over Britain's loss of sovereignty had been

"very much present in the mind of the negotiators",

the line had been "the less they came out in the open the better.

Here was chapter and verse to show how politicians and civil servants had been party to a quite deliberate attempt to hide from the British people what Britain's entry into the Common Market was letting them in for. So successful were they at burying the Werner report, indeed, that when 30 years later the journalist Hugo Young came to compile This Blessed Plot his lengthy and detailed history of Britain's relations with Europe, he did not even mention it.

To be continued

[You haven't heard the last of it!]

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Britain and Europe: The Culture of Deceit-

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