41
per cent of people in Britain think we would be better off
OUT OF
THE EU
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50 years on, the EU champagne has lost
its fizz
by
Andrew Alexander
COLUMN
CELEBRATING a flop is a tough business,
as every theatrical impresario can tell you. the audience is cool, the
critics hostile, the cast demoralised and the drinks at the first-night
party flow mainly to drown sorrows.
The 50-year 'celebration' of the Rome
treaty has been rather like that, with the same flavour of forced
cheerfulness. perhaps strangers embraced in the streets, maybe there are
fireworks up and down the land. But if so I didn't notice.
The ode to gloom no doubt owes
something to an opinion poll which shows that 41 per cent of people in
Britain think we would be better off out of the EU, against 25 per cent
who believe we are better off in
IN TERMS OF SIMPLE ECONOMICS THE
CASE FOR LEAVING IS CAST IRON.
MUST WE?
To have an effective influence on other
people's affairs you have to allow them to influence your own. Which is
what has happened, with consequences which may, without undue
exaggeration be deemed consistently appalling.
Try as one might, it is hard to think
of anything in our own affairs which has been better decided because of
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recommendations/demands/pleas
/proposals/instructions or anything else
from Brussels.
GO ON, I DEFY YOU TO DO IT.
(Please don't send in a list of the
things which have been decided for the worse, I do not have time to read
them all)
The face of innocence made an
appearance we in former Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, a key adviser
when we signed up, claiming not to have realised when we signed up,
claiming not to have realised that membership would allow Brussels to
interfere in our affairs.
YET THE TREATY CALLED FOR 'AN EVER
CLOSER UNION'.
Strange to relate, that actually meant
what it said. Ever closer could only mean ever more integrated, ever
more centralised and all that has led up to EU
controls
- infiltrating our daily lives.
We few,- we unhappy few pointed all
this out at the time and repeated it during the
[1975] Common Market Referendum
-of which it might be said that the
standard of official lies was unmatched until Tony Blair took up the
issue of Iraq.
In any case , membership involved, on
the spot and without equivocation,
TWO MAJOR ACTS
ABANDONING CONTROL OF OUR OWN AFFAIRS
[FIRST]- We
gave up our rights over British fishing waters and controls of what
trawlers do.
[SECOND]-
And we signed up to the Common Agricultural Policy [CAP]
which meant yielding to whatever food policies the Community decided
upon
But the claim - by both parties was
maintained that
INDEPENDENCE
-WAS ASSURED.
And all sorts of mugginses believed it,
especially, one might add, those in FLEET STREET
Many years down the line, we unhappy
few have been proven RIGHT, and NOT JUST IN BRITAIN
-The less-than-wild-celebrations across
the EU have also been dogged by
OPINION POLLS
A CLEAR MAJORITY THINKS POWERS SHOULD
BE TAKEN BACK FROM BRUSSELS.
[We wish a number of British Pro-EU
MEP's particularly of the so-called Conservative variety would at last
think again about their confidence in changing the EU as they are so
taken up with what they claim they have achieved and have given the
opinion that they have all the time in the world. Not month's if the
June 2007 -ratification of the Declaration of Berlin takes place in our
House of Commons though it would be a harder to pass through the House
of Lords.]
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AS FOR THE EURO
As for the euro, seen by so many EU
enthusiasts as the great triumph, a majority within the member nations,
if only a narrow one, would like to
GO BACK TO THEIR OWN CURRENCIES
OF THE 14 NON-MEMBERS, MAJORITIES IN
11 NATIONS ARE OPPOSED TO JOINING.
The intellectual case against the euro
remains as strong as ever. It cannot make sense for the European Central
Bank to set the same rate of interest for countries with inflation as
for those facing recession.
LET US BE FAIR TO CHANCELLOR GORDON
BROWN
-who kept us out of the euro when Tony
Blair was so desperate to get us in. That enormous Treasury study which
Brown commissioned laid out all the pluses and minuses of MEMBERSHIP.
But there is good reason to believe he
had made up his mind
NOT TO JOIN
-before he even commissioned the
report. The promise to decide only after deliberating on its content was
a con
-BUT A GOOD ONE
FOR A CHANGE.
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THE PEOPLE HAVE
SPOKEN-IS THE EU COMMISSION LISTENING?
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Ditch the EU
TREATY after IRISH REJECTION
SAY VOTERS
by
Daniel
Martin
Political
Reporter
[Daily Mail-Wednesday, June
18,2008]
MORE THAN HALF of voters believe Britain should
drop the controversial European Treaty in the wake of its
rejection in last week's
IRISH REFERENDUM'
The poll comes as the Tories launch a last-ditch
bid in the
HOUSE of LORDS
today to delay the
RATIFICATION OF
THE TREATY.
And
10,000 people
have signed a
PETITION
on the
DOWNING STREET-
WEBSITE
within the past few days
JUNE16-2008
, calling on the
GOVERNMENT
NOT TO RATIFY THE BILL
[WHY DON'T YOU?]
Downing Street
website is
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Abandon-Lisbon/
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JUNE 18-2008
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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/Optout
Details 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
[PETITION OPEN UNTIL
OCTOBER 08]
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Let the people speak!
www.makeitanissue.org.uk
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www.noliberties.com
[Latest Addition - June07]
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www.eutruth.org.uk
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www.thewestminsternews.co.uk
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www.speakout.co.uk
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Daniel Hannan - Forming an OPPOSITION
to the EU
www.telegraph.co.uk.blogs
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GORDON BROWN WANTS TRUST-BUT WHY WON'T
HE TRUST YOU?
HELL ON EARTH IN IRAQ
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67% want powers back from
EU-ICM poll-June 21-2007-95%
of British people want a
REFERENDUM
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PETITION
FOR A
REFERENDUM
SIGN TODAY ON LINE
telegraph.co.uk/eureferendum
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July 18-2007
VOTE
-2007
TO
LEAVE
THE
EUROPEAN
UNION
WITH THE ONLY PARTY WITH A MANDATE
TO SET YOU
FREE
THE
UK
INDEPENDENCE PARTY
www.ukip.org
THE QUESTION THAT THE
VOTER MUST ANSWER
‘DO
YOU WISH TO BE GOVERNED BY YOUR OWN PEOPLE, LAW AND CUSTOM OR BY THE
CORRUPT ,EXPENSIVE UNACCOUNTABLE AND CORRUPT ALIEN BUSYBODY BRUSSELS’
-SIMPLE IS IT NOT?
TO RECLAIM YOUR DEMOCRACY DON'T VOTE
FOR THE TRIPARTITE PARTIES IN WESTMINSTER
BUT
SMALL PARTIES THAT SPEAK THEIR MINDS
WITHOUT SPIN AND LIES.
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ONLY
PRO-PORTIONAL
REPRESENTATION
WILL
BRING
DEMOCRACY
BACK
TO
THE
ENGLISH
PEOPLE
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SCOTLAND
-ITS PARLIAMENT -WALES-ITS
ASSEMBLY-ENGLAND-STILL
AWAITS ITS PARLIAMENT-WHY?
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Home
Rule
for
Scotland
WHY
NOT
HOME
RULE
for
ENGLAND
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