Viva the UK

JOSE MANUEL BARROSO, the unelected European Commission President and one time Maoist, has exercised his bureaucratic lungs once more to attack the British Tories and their counterfeit Eurosceptics. He rightly suggests that true Eurosceptics in the UK should vote for Ukip. After all when it "comes to being against Europe people prefer the original to the copy".  He  also suggests that were the Eurosceptics to win the argument and his European super state fails to materialise, then  Europe would be taken back to the same divisions that created the First World War and "the trenches".

            

            The whole  raison d'être for the creation of  a European federal political and monetary union has been that the existence of the EU has prevented the addiction to war between nations in Europe; and full Federal Union will make such conflicts impossible.

            

             First of all the peace in Europe ever since the ending of the Second War was kept by NATO (with America being the greatest contributor). The EU was an impotent force and did very little if anything to stave off internal aggression; yet the myth continues to be propagated by the Europhiles that the union has prevented wars from breaking out in Europe for the past 68 years - it has not.

            

              In fact, I suggest that a federal Europe will be more prone to internal squabbles between what were once nations, than had the history of European nation states. The trouble is the people of Europe have been led by the nose by Europhiles such as Barroso, Nick Clegg, David Cameron, and Ed Miliband.

IN THE BRUSSELS hub they use phrases such as the 'post-democratic' age for 'modern' Europe. If this Orwellian reference to the EU's future does not prick up more than few ears of true democrats, and make them go back to the drawing board if they support European Federalism; then there is more to come to convince them.

            

              A Europe without nation states is the prospect offered up; to be replaced by a continent of regions. In England nine such regions will replace all of the English counties; each with a partially elected regional council whose candidates will be chosen through the wretched party list system; and once elected will have no power of enacting laws and legislation; but merely (like the European parliament today) rubber stamping the decisions made by Brussels - the post democratic age indeed.

           

             The British Parliament will no longer have a function. The regional councils will be the one and only vehicle of 'representation'. There will, once the full realisation of what the Barroso's have intended for the people of Europe, be a resistance.

            

              In the UK with our 2,000 year island history and 300 year democracy (however limited it was until women were given the vote); if the English people discard such a history to become a series of regions within a Federal European Union then they will have dug the grave of their very hard won democracy.

JOSE MANUEL BARROSO, one time prime minister of Portugal (in office
6 April 2002 – 17 July 2004) is eager to cement the continent into a super state; but if he thinks this will bring an end to internal military conflict - then he (like his many admirers throughout the ruling classes of the EU -  including the UK) will face disillusionment.

            

             Nationalism as Nigel Farage says, comprises, "Those of us who believe in national democracy [that] do not want to take us back to the Western Front or 1914. Those of us who believe in national democracy will say to you that it is a healthy assertion of identity." A healthy assertion of national identity indeed. National identity is our passport; it embraces our culture and our history; a history that has woven our character as a nation. The nation state is our home - not a super region within a European superstate under the governorship of European bureaucrats operating as functionaries within a Kafkaesque hell-hole.

THE ENGLISH PEOPLE MUST REALISE            before it is too late, that they are being wheedled and cajoled toward the oblivion of their nationhood; for nationhood is what European Federalism seeks to stamp out. The EU wants the abolition of all the nation states within the continent of Europe. Even America, which would defy such an arrangement if applied to the USA - as it was once tried during their civil war by the South; now insists that we British would be better off as a region instead of a nation.

            

            Seven out of ten of our businessmen, whose national loyalties are tied to the profit motive, believe we will be better off as a mere region of Europe, instead of a nation without Europe.

            

            They simply dismiss this historically great nation in the search for greater profit. They cannot look beyond the business opportunity (as businessman have sadly done in the past), when seeking to prosper under various dictatorships of both the Left and the Right.

            

            Businessmen will adapt to any market opportunity despite the cost in human terms to liberty. Our businessmen do not care whether we as a nation sink or swim, providing they flourish. They have no loyalty other than to their own self interest, and would not care one way or the other if the English people were left without any functioning democratic voice. Richard Branson, the Virgin mogul has recently signed a newspaper letter supporting our continued membership of the EU.

            

             He, no doubt, like many of the other signatories, probably spends more time abroad than he does do at home. These signatories have no nation to speak of; their loyalties are to their bank balances. Branson owns an island (I believe somewhere in the West Indies) which he has more loyalty to than the UK. Businessmen of Branson's stature see the world as their opportunity. While those of us who live in the world see our nations as our one and only home.

SO IGNORE THE businessmen, as well as the one time Marxist Barroso, all of whom incongruously find themselves in alliance with the other; and remain cemented to the nation state and defend and protect it.

            

             The nation state was the outcome of the combining of tribalism and regionalism. The time line between the two resulting in the nation state cost many thousands of lives in the evolution of the United Kingdom - and it is worth preserving.

           

             

  

           

           

           

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