Why the Pro-EU lobby use smears -with their Guardian
readers they prejudice their case.
A
correspondent from Surrey to the Letters Column of eurofacts on 30th July 2004 has well answered the above lobby in the
following excellent account:
Europe’s ‘useful idiots
‘Dear Sir,
In
your 25th June issue, you ask whether the British really loathe
Europe and cite the Guardian’s attempt to explain the rise in
euroscepticism by pointing to “ the dislike of abroad and contempt for
foreigners”. This
is a smear, which is likely to be used ad nauseam by the liberal
establishment in the run –up to the next election and the referendum on the
European Constitution.
In
resorting to it the Guardian is guilty of encouraging the very fault it
often purports to castigate-PREJUDICE!.
It is disingenuous of its writers to behave as if there were no
distinction to be made between a dislike of foreigners, where this exists, and
a widespread refusal of British people to accept the growing hegemony of an
overweening Brussels-based elite.
As
a British subject who studied at two Spanish universities, later managed an
organisation with French staff for five years and had friendly links with
colleagues all over Europe throughout an entire career, I can claim fairly to
have credentials as a europhile. At
the same time I am opposed to the ever intrusive, political dictatorship, which
the EU has become. So is my French
wife. Like or dislike of foreigners is utterly irrelevant. We have a network of friends, multilingual
and thoroughly cosmopolitan, who share our view.
The
essence of the eurosceptic thinking is this:
Britain must never allow itself to become a mere province
to be pushed around at will by the largely unaccountable institution beyond its
shores. Nor should this country tolerate
decisions, which are against the majority vote of countries whose interests
differ from Britain’s. (This will often be the case in some crucial areas,
notably because of Britain’s more global outlook)
Qualified
majority voting is dangerously on the increase and will become mandatory for
everything in time, with further turns of the ratchet, unless we block the
process for good or opt out of the EU altogether. On past form, British politicians who say otherwise are not to
be trusted.
By the way, one is sometimes amused by those of the EU’s
ardent British supporters who regard themselves as European sophisticates on
the strength for example, of a modest understanding of menu French or a
predilection foe villa holidays in Provence or Tuscany. To borrow from Lenin, they are the EU’s
useful idiots. One has noticed that they tend to be readers of the Guardian.’
(End)
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The proper means of
increasing the love we bear to our native country is to reside some time in a
foreign one. - William Shenstone-Eng.poet
1714-63.
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