Blair placing at risk our defence alliances with free English –speaking nations.

 

In the Comment Column of the Daily Telegraph on Monday the 22nd of November 2004 an article appropriately titled: -

 

Save us from an EU army

 

What else has to happen to convince our politicians that a EU army is not a threat but a reality? It was five years ago that Romano Prodi told a newspaper: ‘if you don’t want to call it a European army, fine. “You can call it Margaret, you can call it Mary-Ann.”

 

 

Yet we are still in denial.  The Tory defence spokesman, Nicholas Soames, speaks rather touchingly of the need for “any EU defence contribution” to be “under the NATO umbrella”.  Tony Blair, in the run-up to the signing of the EU Constitution, declared that autonomy in the field of defence was one of Britain’s “red-lines”.  Already, though forces with EU cap-badges are patrolling Macedonia and the Congo.

 

In 10 day’s time, the EU will deploy 7,000 soldiers in Bosnia [This country according to that optimist Paddy Ashdown who has been running the country that they must learn to live together has realised that it is for the inhabitants to decide their future and not for interfering foreigners to intrude in what is none of their business. We will now have our soldiers changing their cap-badges to EU command from NATO with all the extra risk involved.]

 

These troops are answerable, neither to NATO, nor to any national capital, but to the EU’s politico-military structures. Lest any doubt remain, Article 15 of the proposed European Constitution reads: -

 

“The Common Foreign and Security Policy shall cover all aspects of foreign policy and all questions relating to Europe’s security” (Our italics).

 

As we report today, Britain will join a new 3,000-strong EU elite Strike Force (each of these three words flirting with the Trades Descriptions Act.

 

Do not make the mistake of thinking that the CFSP affects only such troops as are explicitly seconded to EU command.  On the contrary, European law dictates whom the MoD may hire:  yesterday’s news dwelt on the ruling that 8,000 Commonwealth Servicemen would be obliged to take British nationality without mentioning the reason -that European Law forbids us to discriminate in favour of “third country nationals”.

 

It lays down our disciplinary procedures, forcing us to use civil law rather than courts martial. [We have the results in our country at present with the Trooper found not guilty of an offence twice by the Army yet the Attorney General is proceeding with prosecution at the Old Bailey and this from the same Attorney General who said the war was illegal.]

 

It tells us whom we may fire: a judgment five years ago held that women who left the Services as a result of being pregnant must be compensated in defiance of the terms of their contracts. [What a mad mad world we now live in?]  And worst of all, it distorts our defence procurement, emphasing pan-European defence schemes, such as the ludicrous Eurofighter, over more cost –effective projects.

 

 There are good reasons why we should co-operate with our European allies on defence matters. We are doing so: British troops are currently active in, among other things, an Anglo-French air corps, an Anglo-Italian rapid reaction force and an Anglo-Dutch amphibious unit. None of these required EU intervention: all were agreed bilaterally.

 

[Well when one sees the disproportionate contribution by Britain and the lack lustre attitude of many of the other EU countries the defence of which will in the main be  on our own troops. As we have said elsewhere it is not worth the death of a single aircraftsman to become involved with EU defence intentions – only through Nato should our co-operation be given .]

 

What is unfolding is qualitatively different from such collaboration.  We are in the process of creating an autonomous EU military capacity separate from NATO and above any single nation-state.   For Tony Blair, it is a handy way to demonstrate his European credentials while remaining outside the single currency.  But for the rest of us, it means that our strategic interests- and in particular, our alliances with other free, English-speaking nations-are being tossed aside for the sake of Euro-dogma.

 

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[Surely this cannot be the same Daily Telegraph voicing these comments after all it was only weeks ago that they acclaimed our Tony Blair a Statesman ]

 

For  those who wish for more Independent information of the dangers of our links with the European Army we have on our Bulletin Board the following:

 

Eurofacts –Notebook- No 6

 

‘Why Britain’s security is put at risk by the Euro Army.’

 

 

and 7

 

 

‘Not worth the life of a single British aircraftsman.’

 

 

 

 

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Daniel Hannan - Forming an OPPOSITION to the EU

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