101 REASONS FOR LEAVING THE EU - Part 2

 

We wish to express our indebtedness and gratitude to those who in books and articles have sought to alert the Nation to its Danger, and whose observations are reflected or summarised here: in particular,

 

Rodney Atkinson and Norris McWhirter

for Treason at Maastricht

 

Adrian Hilton for The Principality and Power of Europe

 

Lindsay Jenkins for The Last Days of Britain

And

 

For the late Lord Shore of Stepney’s

Separate Ways

 

 

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50 marching orders

 

In specifying that matters affecting peace keeping are determined by majority vote, the Amsterdam Treaty weakened Britain’s control over her armed forces, her veto lapsing once a strategy for deployment is agreed, so that the possibility exists of her committed forces becoming involved in conflicts contrary to her proper interests, or being unable to contribute to her own defence.

 

51. critical tasks

 

A stated purpose of the European Army in the ‘’Petersburg tasks’’, as being its use in undefined’’critical situations’’, or, in the French Prime minister Lionel Jospin’s more specific phase, ‘’to maintain internal security’’ (9^th May 2000), needs to be viewed in the light of the fact that the EU’s treaties asserting the primacy of its law offer no mechanism for a member state’ withdrawal; of the question how the EU would force its laws on a recalcitrant state; and, particularly, of the history of nations liberating themselves, sometimes by violent means, from artificial conglomerates.

 

52. lost in pool

 

The most familiar example of the verbal deception constantly used by the EU’s proponents has been the notion of ‘’sharing’’ or ‘’pooling’’ of national sovereignty, despite the fact that, amongst the things incapable of being ‘’pooled’’ and kept, are an individual’s secret, a husband’s wife, and a nation’s sovereignty, the pooling of sovereignty actually dissolving it, since the nation concerned can thereafter be outvoted and overruled.

 

53. treaties of subjugation

 

A recurring plea for the EU is that Britain has never really been independent, but always depended on the past on treaties of alliance with other countries, and so is merely doing as before; but while former treaties have been agreements as to a line of policy for a period, leaving untouched the sovereignty of the participants, the EU treaties involve actual surrender to the EU of constitutional powers and of sovereignty itself, and thus the loss for ever of Britain’s independence.

 

54.   sovereign provinces?

 

The commitment of the signatories of the Treaty of Rome to the creation of an ultimate political union in a European State, to which their electorates would not have consented, was disguised by the treaty’s use of the unspecific and indefinite phrase’ ever closer union’’, which can be variously interpreted, and seems to imply no more than good neighbourliness and friendly co-operation between member states.

 

55. double talk

 

The emerging European State is constantly referred to by EU politicians ‘’as a union of sovereign states’’; but the word sovereign, denoting absolute supremacy, dominion or jurisdiction, cannot apply to states which, having yielded up the powers constituting their sovereignty, have thereby become provinces of the institution now possessing their former sovereignty and exercising it over them.

 

 

56.   hold on….

 

The common assertion that ‘’three million jobs depend on our being in the EU’’ is deceptive, in what these jobs depend on is trade; that Britain being the EU’s biggest market, trading arrangements will readily be forthcoming between the EU and an independent Britain; and that, in order to trade with any state, one does not have to join it.

 

57. metaphors assorted

 

Appeals tha Britain must not be left behind, miss the bus, or stand on the sidelines, but get on board, jump in the driving seat, exercise leadership, fight our corner, and be at the heart of Europe, belie the truth that Britain will have greater influence on Europe and in the world outside the European State as an independent nation, than inside it as a province; instances of tail wagging dogs being somewhat rare.

 

58. paper victory

 

The chief means of securing the merging European State’s dominance has been the torrent of its directives and mandatory regulations, affecting and gradually changing nearly all aspects of Britain’s industrial, commercial and national life, which Parliament at Westminster has been powerless to question, and almost as unable to scrutinise, the number being over 30,000 since 1973.

 

 

59. grace and favour

 

Although the EU and British Government spokesmen have urged that ‘’subsidiarity’’ will remedy the ‘’democratic deficit’’ through the decentralization of power, powers once apportioned to the EU, the so called ‘’acquis communautaire’’, belongs to it for ever and cannot be touched; and any such minor freedoms as its lower structures may be allowed will have been bestowed, not as of right, but as concession from the governing authority.

 

60. carve up

 

An important part of the process of consolidating rule from Brussels is the setting up, by unofficial self-appointed ‘’ constitutional conventions’’, and with government encouragement, of artificial EU regions and ‘’parliaments’’ within Britain, to be funded in some respects by grants from Brussels rather than Westminster, in keeping with the Roman principle of ‘’divide and rule’’.

 

61. take -over

 

An informal and highly successful method of extending its authority has been Brussels’ creation of regulatory agencies or ‘’networks’’, using the already existing Civil Service organisations and staffs of member states, but requiring them by mandatory EU regulations to report to the Commission, work according to its guidelines, and constantly apply EU law: so including them in its own bureaucracy with minimum effort and expense, and with no outward sign of their having been taken over.

 

62. get them young

 

Since the plan is, by necessity, as much concerned with the conquest of minds as with the acquisition of territory, children and college students are receiving special attention through EU school literature, and university professorships under the Commission’s ‘’Jean Monnet Project’’ (102 by May, 2001) - funded by Brussels, which also has the final say in who is appointed to these posts (We now know the significance of the expression the ‘Enemy Within’. See further details on bulletin- Constitutional No.12).

 

63. hook or crook

 

The EU’s huge spending on propaganda and ‘’information services’’ (in 1996 amounting to £200 million) funds an extensive range of projects, from ensuring the Swedish ‘’Yes’’ vote organisers had Twenty times the finance of the ‘’No’’, to producing one-sided publications (contrary to Section 407 of the 1996 Education Act) like ‘’Partners in Europe’’ for all schools, or ‘’The Raspberry Ice Cream War’’ cartoon booklet, ‘’a comic for young children on a peaceful Europe without frontiers’’, or for younger children the colouring book ‘’Lets Draw Europe Together’’, with a slogan’’Europe, our future’’ and picture of an infant carrying an EU banner and wearing a 12 starred nappy, to awarding grants through the secret Committee of the Soul of Europe organisation to British Churches’’ which explicitly promote the integration of Europe.’’ (This Nazi example of conditioning the young is only the beginning of the ungodly and untrueful message which the despotic and corrupt and parasitic members of the EU Propaganda Ministry have in store for any misguided Soul who fails to see through their Lies and Deceit.)

 

64. muffled media

 

A disturbing feature in the sphere of communication has been the consistently trivialised and EU-biased treatment of the Europe issue itself in the TV and radio media especially, but also in much of the Press, a situation confirmed with respect to the BBC by an (unreported) independent survey commissioned by Lord Pearson of Rannoch, accounted for by T Spectator (1st July 2000, p.24) as top-down institutional bias, and explicable only in terms of official and media collusion.

 

 

65. beached at nice

 

Provisions of the Nice Treaty, explained as necessary for EU enlargement, but whose real purpose was to speed integration through extension of qualified majority voting which had already minimised Britain’s veto there to a mere 8.4%

 

66. a game of forfeit

 

As a consequence of Nice, Brussels can, amongst other things, sign international treaties binding on Britain without her agreement, take over her seats on international bodies, appoint to positions in the EU persons to whom she might object, make changes in the operation of EU courts increasing their power over her own, and oblige her to provide financial help for member states in economic difficulty; while Britain surrenders the ability to subsidise its industries, to regulate the water companies, and to decide its own policy on Immigration matters, leaving her without effective control over which and how many people are let into the country.

 

 

 

67. retractable rights

 

Despite earlier denials by Blair administration, the Charter of so called Fundamental Rights will both become part of EU law and form the basis of a European State Constitution; but these ‘’rights’’, far from being absolute and inalienable as under UK law, are held as being conferred under the Charter, and capable of being withdrawn in the case of any person if this is deemed in the interests of the European State.

 

68. dangerous dissent

 

Much the same treatment extends to member states, since, under the provisions of the Treaty of Amsterdam (article F.1), dissent expressed by a state’s political party, or by that state’s elected government, and judged to be contrary to the ethos of the EU can lead to that government’s being pilloried, and its electorate deprived of their rights under the Treaty, including voting rights: a procedure which incidentally can render any state’s veto inoperative, but which is in principle objectionable as authoritarian and anti-democratic.

 

 

69. but some are more equal

 

To these actual and potential encroachments upon liberty must be added the EU’s assumption of powers to take action to marginalize or otherwise suppress political parties, or what it terms religious ‘’sects’’ (the word on the Continent usually applied to Protestant churches), which might be regarded as coming into conflict with concepts to be upheld under the European State.

 

70. absolutism

 

Arrangements for the victimisation or suppression by any means of political parties or religious organisations are unknown and alien to the Western democracies, being incompatible with individual liberty and freedom of thought and speech which their constitutions and parliaments exist t6o protect and promote.

 

71. EuroArrest

 

The EU Arrest Warrant introduced upon the plea of action against terrorism, covering a wide range of 32 offences most of which have nothing to do with terrorism, and soon to apply to any alleged criminal offence carrying a term of imprisonment of one year or more, is a substantial instalment of Corpus Juris, imposed at the opportune moment following the September 11^th terrorist outrage in the United States.

 

72. extradition on demand

 

The Warrant enables any state of the EU to obtain the automatic extradition for trial under its own judicial system of anyone from other member countries, without the production of evidence, and without any court in that person’s country having power to intervene.

( This is no Joke - but fact- which many of our citizens are unaware )

 

73. criminality extended

 

Under the Arrest Warrant, offences previously non-existent in British law now become crimes, under the categories of ‘’swindling’’ and ‘’xenophobia’’.

74.          a doddle

 

‘’Swindling’’ is so vague a notion that it would be easily possible for any litigant who wished to frame some sort of charge against almost anyone on the basis of old figures or accounts. (Welcome to the world of Corpus Juris from across our once impenetrable moat)

 

 

75. opposite of conglomerophilia

 

Is the term’’xenophobia’’, meanng fear of or aversion from foreigners, to be formally employed., as it already is being colloquilly, for the purpose of vilifying those who, believing in their country’s Independence, are against its integration into the European State, their ‘’crime’’ of patriotism constituting a new kind of heresy?

 

 

76. wait and see

 

An MP who inquired what the thus-termed offence of zenophobia consisted of received the government reply that its definition would be a matter for the presiding judge at the defendant’s trial; a statement which, however absurd in itself, is evidence of a threatening development.

 

77. terrorists galore

 

Of equal note is the definition of ‘’terrorism’’ in the EU legislation as an act of intimidation with the intention of’’seriously altering…political, economic or social structures’’, and as the ‘’unlawful seizure or damage to state or government facilities, means of public transport, infrastructure facilities, places of public use and property’’: a category so broad that those engaged in public protests, demonstrations and civil disobedience could now find themselves charged as ‘’terrorists’’.

 

78. euro-and beyond

 

Though repeatedly asked, Mr Blair has refused the reasonable request to publish a statement of the political and constitutional consequences of Britain’s joining the euro; and in his Birmingham speech of 23 rd November 2001, summarily dismissed all such considerations with the words,’’if the economic tests are met, political or constitutional barriers should not prevent us joining’’ : of course, without clarifying what the political and constitutional barriers are.

 

79. curtains

 

Simply stated, the consequence of our joining the euro would be Britain’s inability to conduct monetary policy, the passing of control over taxation and public spending, and thus of our economy as a whole, to the government in Brussels, and since such control underlies a nation’s existence, the end of Britain as an Independent Nation State.

 

80. masters of our fate

 

Britain’s joining the euro would involve up to 80% of her wealth reserves( some £22 billion ) being transferred, together with control of her economic and fiscal affairs, irrevocably into the hands of a number of unelected bankers in Bonn, who by the Amsterdam Treaty (article 108 ), are not obliged to seek or to take instruction from any outside body concerning their conduct of monetary policy or the establishment of interest rates.

 

81.          a leverage for liberty

 

Words of a great prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone, are much to the point: ‘’The finance of a country is ultimately associated with the liberties of the country. It is a powerful leverage by which the English liberty has been gradually acquired. If the House of Commons by any possibility loses power of the control of the grants of public money, depend upon it, your very liberty will be worth very little in comparison. That powerful leverage has been what is commonly known as the power of the purse - the control of the House of Commons over public expenditure’’ (1891)

 

 

 

82. prosperous city

 

Responding to claims that the City of London would suffer if Britain stayed outside the euro, David Llascelles, leading member of a City think-tank, pointed out that in the 3 years since the founder members of the EU locked their currencies together, the City of London had not only flourished, but won the lion’s share of international business denominated in the euro; and that its future independence would be a major asset at a time when it is increasingly difficult for financial centres to differentiate themselves, and would also protect its link with the US and the rest of the world, which represent 2/3 of its total activity, in comparison with the 1/3 of its dealing with Europe ( European Journal, November 2001)

 

83. big deal

 

The visible economic disadvantages of Britain’s EU membership range from the loss of fishing waters (soon to become an EU asset) and damage to fisheries and farming, to the £1,000 penalty upon family budgets through protectionist taxes on food, and the £11 billion per year payment to the EU; but the unseen cumulative effect of the restriction of Britain’s advantageous trade with her natural world markets is far more actually and potentially damaging.

 

84. gift-horse’s mouth

 

Although just over half of membership costs are returned in Brussels’ grants to the ‘regions’’ of Britain, the EU dictates how the grants are to be spent, so taking over the formal role of Parliament at Westminster, and using the redistribution of what is British money as the means of its growing dominance.

 

 

85. clouded horizon

 

The dangers of membership were demonstrated by the failure of the ERM attempt to link Britain’s currency rate with those of \Europe, estimated to have cost around a million jobs and bankrupted 150,000 businesses; but symptoms like the riing unemployment in France and recession in Germany, and the enormous European pensions debt of £10 trillion ( to remind you that just one trillion is £1000 billion ) , which British taxpayers would have to help remedy, are indications of problems in the making

 

 

86. the euro zone

 

A recent issue of the European Central Bank’s Monthly Bulletin which points to a continuous decline in productive growth in Europe over the last 40 years, and forecasts little if any future growth, promptred Professor Tim Congdon, managing director of Lombard Street Research, to blame’’ the excessive regulation, high taxes and labour market inflexibility found in the eurozone’s member’s, and warn that , if the British people say ‘’Yes’’ to the euro, ‘’they will be burying their nation in a region of policy failure and stagnating living standards, which will suffer drastic relative economic decline in the 21^st century’’ (European Journal, December 2001 )

 

87. a pointer

 

The fact that the protectionism and costly social programmes favoured by its politicians have significantly hindered economic growth in Europe, while in the same period Britain’s avoidance for the most part of such restrictive policies has resulted in what the City terms ‘’eight years of uninterrupted economic growth’’, is a pointer to the European State’s future, and to Britain’s true interests.

 

 

88. sale of birthright

 

Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, once commented,’’ A nation which seeks to trade its political independence for economic gain deserves to lose both’’. If she stays within the emerging European State, and continues to submit to government from Brussels, Britain will lose both her Prosperity and her Independence.

 

89. a question

 

The waste and in competence displayed in its 10-year efforts for reconstruction in the Balkans despite the huge sums spent, typified by such things as the non-materialisation through bad management of projects for water supply and removal of chemical waste , and the construction of motorways in Greece when the need is for a local network of roads, must (according to Andreas Oldag, Sudeutsche Zeitung, January 2002) raise the question of how efficient the EU will be in the administration of public affairs.

 

90. a refusal

 

The EU Court of Auditors, which for many years in succession has heavily criticised the way money is spent, wasted and stolen from the EU budget, has again in 2001 refused to accord its certificate of reiability to the European Commission in view of the high level of mistakes in the budgets fior agriculture and the structural funds, which make up some 50% of the total EU budget ( Handelsblatt, 13Novenber 2001.

 

91. a scandal

 

The cronic tendency to corruption in the EU was highlighted by the revelation in 1998 by Paul van Buitenen, a Commission auditor, of massive fraud in some of the biggest Commission projects, involving close friends and family members of the Commissioners, but though van Buitenen’s disclosure forced the resignation of the entire Commission, almost all had soon reinstated themselves: and two years after Commissioner Neil Kinnock’s appointment to eradicate corruption, Die Welt reported that ‘’little or nothing had been changed…the new Commission is just like the old’’ (5^th April 2000)

 

 

92.. independent Britain

 

There is more prospect of prosperity and security for this country as a member of the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA ), in which Britain and her people would be able to trade world -wide, retain all their historic rights, privileges, and suffer no loss of national independence.

 

 

93. a kinship in liberty

 

Historically, culturally and politically, Britain has far more in common with the English-speaking peoples of the North Atlantic and the Commonwealth countries, who together have imparted to many nations the lesson of liberty, developed the world’s oldest system of representative government, been the first to recognise inviolable and fundamental rights , and created judicial systems free from influence or interference by the state.

 

94. separate ways

 

This profound kinship, and the need to sustain it politically by separateness from Europe, was uppermost in the mind of Winston Churchill when, in his famous Zurich speech in September, 1946, envisioning a future union of the Continental states, he described Great Britain, the British Commonwealth of Nations and ‘mighty America’’ as its prospective ‘’friends and sponsors’’ offering support and help; and observed, ‘’

 

"We are with Europe but not part of it.

We are linked, but not combined.

We are interested and associated, but not absorbed

 

SPIRIT OF ENGLAND

 

 

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