NICK CLEGG IS the Merkozy’s man on the inside. After last week’s sulk over Cameron’s rejection of European overtures, he is demanding that the prime minister ‘re-engages with Europe’. According to a leaked e-mail in the hands of the Daily Mail, the honourable gentleman has authorized a leading City lobbyist, Roland Rudd, to try and get the various heads of blue chip firms to sign a letter demanding that Cameron ‘re-engages’ with Brussels.
When it comes to Europe, Clegg cannot be trusted. He reminds one of those trade union leaders in the 1970s who courted the Soviet Union in the same way Clegg does a Federal Europe today.
I believe that when he returned from Europe last week the prime minister should have called a general election, with a referendum attached to settle this issue once and for all. Instead, he now has a coalition partner who sees no future for this country outside of it becoming a European county council. I believe the phrase ‘pygmy nation’ was Clegg’s description of a Britain left ‘on the outside’ of Europe.
I distrust all MPs; but I reserve a particular distrust for those that are driven by a cause that damages our national interest; and Nick Clegg’s cause does exactly that. But so overwhelming is his belief in it, that he will see no betrayal in going behind the prime minister’s back…even as far as the Elise.
This business with the e-mail is merely the opening salvo. More will indeed follow as Clegg tries to do what he can to undermine his coalition partners position over Europe. Cameron was the first prime minster to use the veto – something of a diplomatic faux par as far as the EU are concerned…not even the ‘Iron Lady’ dared use, the VETO!
Nick Clegg was always bound to have been untrustworthy on Europe from a Tory viewpoint. But, the weakness for power, overcame Cameron after the last election when coalition politics raised its ugly head for only the second time in nearly 40 years.
TO BE FARE TO CAMERON, the present eurozone crises (once prophesised by the sceptics) was, at the time of the last election, yet to appear on the radar. So David Cameron sought out Lib Dem support for an administration to govern the country.
It was an unholy alliance for both parties, and the Labour party must have gained comfort from both its formation and Gordon Brown’s annihilation as prime minister and party leader. But as usual, the Labour party messed up by, and not for the first time, choosing the wrong man for the job – or should I say the wrong Milliband?
Today Europe once more dominates the political agenda. Nick Clegg, has, as other liberals have done before him, turned toward a European power…as did the Whigs, in standing against Wellington’s pursuance of Napoleon during our last conflict with France.
We are a nation and must remain one; just as the United States is a nation and must remain one. President Obama would not see the United States reduced to the status Nick Clegg, the Merkozy and the Brussels hive, wishes the UK to be reduced to. So why are we any less important as a nation than the USA?
If the euro zone is in crises; the crises has not come about without warning from the British. Yet, whatever happens from now on; ever since David Cameron’s worthy rejection of the Merkozy; if the euro zone collapses the British will be held to blame…it is in the nature of Europe to blame the British.
Nick Clegg, has behaved like some teenage and ‘impressionable Marxist’, by swearing his fealty to the ideology of the modern European project, and its eventual encapsulation of Britain into its Federalist architecture .
THE LEADER OF the Liberal Democrats does not exemplify any kind of reality other than that of his own stupidity. The British are the British. Ever since Cameron’s rejection, poll after poll have supported his stance. We have a rich history that has built our nation’s success, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dead. Yet those of us who wish to keep the nation state in existence are regarded as the ‘extremists’ in this debate. We are the xenophobes, the little Englanders out to rain on Nick Clegg’s parade.
But it was not sceptics who masterminded the euro, but Nick’s comrades. At the time, the ‘extremists’ warned of the perils of a single currency, but were ignored by the ‘moderates’ who were about to create the worst financial disaster in Europe’s history. Who seems the more extreme now; the sceptics or the Europhiles?
The ambitious Nick Clegg is manoeuvring himself into a nice little earner in Europe when he stands down from his leadership role – but alas, Cameron has now tarnished this ambition in the eyes of the European elite. So Clegg has to work twice as hard to convince them that he remains the complete European federalist, and has tried to prove this by his anti-Cameron rhetoric, and the parliamentary sulk that left Cameron to face the Commons alone. Thankfully the damage that could so easily have been done by Clegg’s infantilism was not taken advantage of by the tragic Ed Milliband, who, like Neil Kinnock, on many similar parliamentary occasions before him, exposed his inadequacies for leadership in front of the whole nation.
WHEN BRITAIN WAS isolated by, and at war with Napoleon, the Whig radicals did what Nick Clegg has done. They supported the French. Wellington referred to these appeasers as ‘croakers’ and they made a nuisance of themselves at every opportunity.
Today, despite David Cameron’s veto, we still face being absorbed into the ‘Borg’ that is European federalism.
After over 1,000 years of, at times, a precarious nationhood, those who still believe in its existence, are, according to Nick Clegg, ‘extremists’ for defending their sovereignty.
The extreme position is surely the one that seeks to take away our national sovereignty - not the position that seeks its retention. But to hear Nick Clegg, one would hardly think so.
He calls such an arrangement a ‘pygmy nation’. Why, he sounds like the little French corporal himself! What arrogance! What loathing he must have for his nation for using such a description. Only someone who has been nursed throughout his life into the faith of European federalism could so dismiss his country without thought for the offence he may have committed.
Over the Christmas (sorry seasonal) period, Cameron must at least consider going to the country. For the longer he remains in partnership with Clegg, the weaker his position will become. The euro crises has undermined whatever pact with the Liberal-Democrats he agreed to at the last election. Clegg, if not Cameron, realises this, and he will do whatever is needed to bring about the federalisation of Europe.
Cameron has to decide as to whether he, like the majority of the English people, still believe in the nation state, or he believes, as his own party’s Europhiles believe, that the nation state has outlived its historical usefulness and we must absorb ourselves fully into Europe.
If it is the former, then he must go to the country to have it underwritten by popular vote. If it is the latter, then we become a testy and rebellious people once more; as we were under Charles I.
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