This piece is not however, about the World Cup. No, it is about how we were finally conquered as a nation, not by armies, but by that modern phenomenon, the bureaucrat. For the politicians of this country have collectively betrayed its history and the many hundreds of thousands who died creating it. They did so by first of all signing a plethora of agreements that would eventually rescind our very nationhood. I speak of course of our membership of the European Union, and how this island people were lied into compliance with that rescinding.
None of the main British political parties are blameless. They have all come round to the idea of European federalism, and the ultimate destruction of the European nation state. The political class of course cannot come out and say what they know to be true because, particularly in this country, there would, one hopes, be opposition to such an eventuality. As a Euro-sceptic nation, our politicians have to show levels of deviousness that perhaps other members on the continent need not trouble themselves with.
We had, for instance, the last government denying us a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, despite a manifesto promise to do so. Now I see that the European Commission is demanding that every nation has to present them with their budgets before they announce them to their respective parliaments and people.
The rope around our citizen's necks is becoming ever tighter. Soon our main parties will have delivered us into the arms of a United States of Europe. At which point our vote at national elections will be pointless. Our parliament will become nothing more than a super county council, overseen and overridden by Brussels; just as today our local councils can be overridden by our national parliament.
The nation state must be protected; its powers must never be challenged by any institution other than its national parliament. This formula is and has always been the bedrock of any democracy. If we were to succumbed to what our political elite requires of us, our franchise will be rendered meaningless because of its impotence within a Federal state of Europe.
If we cannot exist on our own in the world then it is up to our politicians, from whatever of the main parties, to explain just why they think we cannot survive without our incorporation into a federal Europe - their explanation will at least allow the people to make judgement.
Over the past few months the European currency has come under sustained pressure from the financial markets; Greece, Spain and Portugal (none of whom should ever have been allowed to join in the first place), are all facing social unrest because of the unpopular decisions having to be made by their respective governments, in order to reduce their large deficits.
Yet, given all of this, our politicians still cling to the hope that we will one day join the Euro. Even at the height of the markets assault on the Euro, Peter Mandelson refused to abandon his infatuation with the wretched single currency by letting it be known that we would one day be joining it.
The European Union is corrupt and has a shaky democratic foundation. The European parliament is a very expensive debating chamber whose members surpass even our own parliament in creative accountancy when it comes to their expenses. Whereas, in some European countries (particularly in the south), a scandal actually equates too paying your taxes.
This whole misadventure was meant to remedy the continents historical legacy of conflict. I can understand why the likes of Ted Heath, one of the main architects of closer political Union was so determined to bring this country closer to Europe. Like many of his political contemporaries, he fought in the bloodiest of all European conflicts and was determined not to see a repetition.
Today in our schools, the Second World War is part of the history curriculum, but whether it is aimed at the understanding of history, or is used to promote European Union is, to me, debatable. But no matter how idealistic the motives, there will always be conflict on the continent of Europe, and it will on occasion spill over, as it has done in the past, into military conflict. For the European Union will be just as open to European alliances as the Europe of nation states.
European nation states evolved almost Darwinian-like into their cultural entities. For centuries we had a lose arrangement of self interest between nations. Alliances were formed based upon the perceived national interest of each nation and their culture. This, despite contemporary opinion, worked
The Second World War, following upon its predecessor caused a general rethinking of this status. It is due to these two earthshaking events that it was concluded that Europe must become One - a superstate to rival America. This appealed to both Germany and France. For France it captured the spirit of the code Napoleon. For a modern Germany it would mean an end to its assertiveness, the kind that lead to two world wars.
Europe is and can remain the greatest free trade area in the world. But only if each country is left with its own independent future, free from the collective idealism that haunted communism. Friendship and alliances are better than forced marriages.
If we as a nation, are intent upon our national insolvency through European Union, then do it so democratically through a national referendum, and be honest with the voter. If our politicians favour a Federal Europe, then let them persuade the electorate through a referendum, instead of this dishonest creep, creep toward our national demise that has been the pattern knitted by our politicians for the past 35 years.
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