THE EU COMMISSION PRESIDENT, Jose Manuel Barroso does likes winding us up. This one time Maoist has suggested the UK gives financial support to Greece as we did with Ireland; although, he is gracious enough to admit, we are not “obliged” to because we had the good sense to refuse membership of his club euro.
Having created this mess Mr Barroso and his comrades now talk as if the approaching disaster is an act of nature instead of human folly. He blithely says, 'There is great danger of the crisis spreading to other euro-countries.
'Then the whole euro area - with the economies and the prosperity of all - could stumble…’
In other words, he and his colleagues have, in creating the euro, now exposed the rest of the world to the consequences of their actions: ‘…It does not concern any longer Greece alone. It is about securing the euro as a whole…’. Still he clings to the idea of saving his wretched euro: but now all must man the lifeboat in order to do so, including the UK; to save Greece by pouring further billions into keeping her afloat, on penalty of suffering her fate if we ignore Mr Barroso’s invitation to help with the bailing out.
Greece, Spain, Italy, and Mr Barroso’s Portugal; all should never have been allowed to join. The heart ruled the head; “solidarity” - that left over of European socialism was allowed to override sound economic advice. But they went ahead anyway and launched the euro.
Now Barroso talks as if he and his colleagues never went far enough instead of going too far; now Barroso talks of ever deeper European unification, both political and economical. It was not his fault or the fault of the people who thought like him that the Western world today is on the brink of a financial crises; a crises believed to be the worst in our country’s history. It was the eurosceptics, notably the British who stalled the European project at every turn. It was perfidious Albion that they accuse of leading the charge against Europe’s Napoleonisation, just as it did in the 19th century.
I can remember when the words, European Federalism, brought forth much scorn from the Europhiles within all the British political parties. Whenever a Eurosceptic warned of European federalism in this country; the Europhiles that commanded the political decision-making at the time (and still do today), would then ridicule such suggestions. Ken Clarke in his John Major period used to endlessly mock his Right-wing back benchers when they warned against such a development.
BUT BARROSO now demands that such a development should happen as quickly as possible in order to have a European wide central economy where economic decisions are left to the European Central Bank to decide, instead of individual national parliaments. Which is where political union comes in, and should have been in before the euro was ever contemplated – let alone introduced.
Barroso’s argument seems to be that only under European Federalism could the so-called “pig” nations have shrugged off this assault. They would have done so by being part of the political European Federation, where the nation states would have been absorbed into the “Borg” mentality of Federalism. In other words the “pig” nations would have been automatically bailed out by the more economically prosperous parts of the federation, particularly those in the north of Europe.
This madness seems to be without any end. The lesson is still not learnt. The collapse of the euro zone, and the pilfering of, mainly, the hard earned German taxpayers money to prop it up is indeed noble (I forgo the word stupid).
Eighty per cent of Germans are against giving Greece ever more money to help them become solvent. Yet Angela Merkle is determined to hand over ever more of her peoples taxes to shore up Greece; a country that hates the Germans because of what happened during the Second World War.
Could Barroso give me or anyone else a definitive reason for why the German taxpayer is to be expected to pay such exorbitant amounts to a people that not only hates them, but has a primitive economy compared to all of northern Europe? All, it seems to me, that head Commissioner Barroso is offering, is a never ending fountain of money being channelled to countries like his own that should never have been part of the euro experiment.
I FEEL THAT OUR political elite in the UK are as determined as Barroso to forfeit our country’s national identity. It is all about timing as far as the UK’s establishment is concerned; something which Barroso does not understand and should have understood before his interview with Germany’s Bild magazine.
The UK’s route to securing a mere county council within a Federal Europe, was bound to be tortuous because of the UK’s history. But Europe and Mr Barroso can be assured that whomsoever takes control of the UK, they will willingly lead their once proud nation into the ignominy of cantonization.
There are millions of our nation’s citizens who would and should oppose such a deliberate diminution and eventual disappearance of our nationhood - to be replaced by a meagre rubberstamping system of local government.
We are an anti- federal nation still proud of its past. For how much longer this will remain the case depends upon future generations who are soon to be given pro-European lessons in the classroom. This latest wheeze, I read, is now under consideration - to paraphrase the Jesuits; give me a child of seven, and I will give you a catholic for life.
Barroso and federalists like him seek to compound the folly of the euro, by speeding toward a United States of Europe. This man once governed a country that is today not far behind Greece in terms of her sovereign debt. Portugal’s economy, like Greece’s should never have been given entry to such a project as the euro. Like almost every region in southern Europe, Portugal is still a decade or more away from the wealthy northern nations; but even this would depend the level of competency her future politicians are able to bring to her development.
Barroso tried and failed. So what happened? He became the EU commission’s president; who now spouts federalism as if it were a variant of his earlier Marxism. Indeed, he now pursues his own version of Historical Materialism, in terms of the historical inevitability of full political and monetary union. Barroso has, as with his earlier, ideological proclivities, once more bet on the wrong horse.
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