“Jean-Claude Juncker Needs to Go”

SO RAN THE HEADLINE on the Bloomberg newswire. The President of the European Commission has been accused of allowing some of the world's biggest corporations to indulge in tax avoidance schemes while prime minister of Luxembourg.

            
            According to Georgia Graham, the Daily Telegraph's political correspondent, President Junker allowed multinational companies: "…to create complicated structures to avoid billions of pounds of tax when he was Prime Minister of the country." Apparently there are thousands of documents in existence to substantiate Bloomberg's demand that this alcoholic federalist helped orchestrate these tax avoidance schemes. 

            
            For those who will now chorus that David Cameron is vindicated by his opposition to Junker's appointment, had better stop and think for a moment. If Ukip had not pressured Cameron and his party in the way it had, would Cameron have ever bothered to question Junker's appointment in the first place? His party is under threat from Ukip; his promise of a referendum in 2017 after negotiating EU reform… was due to Ukip. Everything he says about Europe from here on in is done with one eye turned toward the Ukip threat to his party.

            
             So let us salute Nigel Farage for stiffening Cameron's spine in the first place; and  using the rhetoric of the rightly Eurosceptic British public, in his opposition to Junker's undemocratic elevation to the presidency of the EU. A presidency that the European Parliament with its pitiful rubber stamping ordinance, approved this wretched dipsomaniac to parade on the world stage on Europe's behalf.

            
             But let us be fair to the EU president. He has his supporters in the UK, and within Cameron's own party. I bring you Kenneth Clarke, now once more divested of ministerial office and reduced to the mere status of an MP. But in his time he was the holder of many important offices of state from Education, to Chancellor of the Exchequer, and finally, to Justice Secretary under David Cameron. I am sure there were other offices, but I cannot take the trouble to look them up on Wikipedia.

               

             Clarke, by his own admission, never read the Lisbon Treaty as besotted as he is with the European Union. Being an infantile Europhile romantic, it is the mere idea that matters to him, and takes precedence over all criticism, as well as whatever the EU sees fit to impose upon his countrymen. So when it was announced that that Jean Claude Juncker was to be made president, Clarke stepped forward: “I am one of a handful of British politicians who knows Jean-Claude Juncker and has known him for many years." The great ci-devant continued in a similar haughty and pretentious fashion.“I am perfectly happy that he's president of the European Commission [memento sis homo] and, more to the point, my prime minister has rung him up and agreed to work with him." It was also Clarke, you may remember who was similarly unequivocal about his support for the euro – and I believe that he has even admitted to still wanting this country to join it eventually.

JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER was a president never ever fit for purpose – even of a chain of brothels. Farage even called him to his face a drunkard in the European parliament. But the Brussels bureaucrats, orchestrated by Germany and France, made sure that this reprobate became president of the EU. If only to cock a snoop at the anti-EU parties that had come to the fore within the European parliament after last May's European elections.

            Cameron was also part of the same EU rebuke, when they defiantly elevated this piss-artist to the throne of the European Union presidency. But once he was appointed, Junker, was immediately phoned by Cameron to be congratulated on his appointment. So before you consider Cameron the hero of the hour – think again.

            
            The feeble Clarke is an EU groupie who is blinded by his obsession; he kow-tows to all and sundry within the EU, and all it comes up with. He lacks any kind of objective judgement on the EU because he has none – he is besotted by the whole EU arrangement.

WE AWAIT CAMERON'S support for Junker's dismissal as EU president, considering his opposition to his appointment in the first place. Perhaps in the days to come when Junker's position becomes ever more untenable to be almost lost - even for the EU commissioners to support; Cameron may eventually decide to join in the call for his resignation. But he waits to see whether Junker can survive; and if he cannot he will spring forth to tell the people he was right all along – when in fact it was Ukip and Nigel Farage who were right all along; because  Farage spoke out long before Cameron did about this appointment in the bluntest of terms. Terms which Cameron refused to replicate.

            
           Cameron is a Europhile, in charge of a party whose many voters are not. He has been drawn into a position whereby he has to walk a tightrope between his party's Europhiles and its sceptics, many of whom have crossed over to Ukip. Every step he takes, including that of challenging  Jean-Claude Juncker, is based upon keeping as many Tory voters out of Ukip's pockets as possible. He has no sympathy for an anti-EU cause, because he himself believes in a pro-EU cause. Which leads to his disingenuousness when making promises about having an In/Out referendum after trying to reform the EU.

            Cameron's promises have never been worth the paper they are printed on. Cameron it was, that promised a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty…but only if it had not been signed up to by the time the Tory's came to power. All this promise represented was a wink and a nod to Gordon Brown to cross the Channel and sign up to it; which he eventually did before the 2010 general election.

            
           Jean-Claude Juncker does indeed need to go …but Jean-Claude Juncker should never have been appointed in the first place; this man knew it was his turn to become El-president; just another unelected insignificant eurocrat that usually qualifies for this role in an institution that is barren of democracy.