IT IS SIMPLE REALLY: if you care little for your nationhood, its sovereignty, and most significant of all, your democracy; you are duty bound to vote to remain inside the EU. But I think many people who naturally just want to get on with their day to day lives are not predisposed to any detailed study of the European Union; and why on earth should they be?
Such people would balk at the disassembling of their national identity and all that is concomitant with it. A federal union of the type many of the EU commissars look to and have already adumbrated is America[1]: we are however not dealing in states which we wish to become part of a union, but nations with their different tongues and cultures being turned into states before they become part of a Greater Europe. What in effect Brussels is attempting is nothing more than an empire – what they hope will be a peacefully adopted one; but an empire nevertheless: but it is nations that are the units and not states that are now being primed to join the Borg collective.
There is nothing new or modern in the aims of the EU: did not Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany, all at one time or another have Empires and colonies? What the EU hopes is that their road will be a far gentler introduction to the same concept. They wish to expunge the very soul (nationhood, sovereignty, and democracy) out of each and every nation and turn them into cantons ruled centrally from Brussels. You cannot have a federation of nation states unless you allow those nations to remain independent with their own laws and customs: it would not work. Of course, each canton may be allowed to keep its national name plate; but to what purpose? It would be ostensible and little else.
NOW WE COME TO Peter Mandelson, who along with his onetime master, are far more interested in the pecuniary prospects for themselves in this nation becoming absorbed into a federal union within Europe. He has now entered the debate. I would have thought that Cameron would have tried to persuade him to steer clear of it; but in the past couple of weeks things have not been going well with the remain campaign which is why all they have is 'Operation Fear' as Boris rightly refers to their attempts to win this argument using the hyperbole of dread and horror. And it may end in the work - for we are still three months away from the 23rd of June.
The remain campaign, so far, has only fear and abuse to use against those favouring Brexit. They have no credible and rational argument to make. They can only frighten and scare the British people;[2] it is all they have. I would like to believe that at some period during this debate they can summon up a convincing argument for this nation giving up its sovereignty, for I would really like to hear it.
Now Peter Mandelson has entered the debate. He was if you remember the puppet who was Blair's Wormtongue who secreted his venom among the media like a poisonous snake threatening and cajoling on behalf of his puppet master. He it was who first admitted that Tony Blair deliberately encouraged mass immigration into the country to replace the diminishing Labour voting working class, and to put a poker up the arse of the Tories. He now thinks he still has (if he ever did) an influence among the electorate, and so has given an interview to Radio Four; where he uses extraordinary language.
He does little more than issue bile in the form of accusing Brexit campaigners of 'fantasy politics' and talking 'absolute rubbish'; and Brexit would cause an 'immediate economic shock' and suggests a long, costly and messy divorce. This, if I am to believe the Daily Telegraph, is the extent of his contribution. If the divorce is long and messy; it will be because of people like Ted Heath, Ken Clarke, Michael Heseltine, Tony Blair, and of course, himself, who fostered us all out to an anti-democratic European fantasy.
Mandelson truly believes that all Europhiles are on the side of history, and those of us who disagree with them are living in the past and running scared of the Brave New World that the likes of him are seeking to create. Mandelson has been part of the Brussels' commentariat – a commissioner, no less, taking up the trade portfolio – not exactly an objective observer; rather a wiling, and well-rewarded member of the club.
Mandelson, like New Labour, belongs in the past. He is part of the past just as the European Union is. This Union does not represent any kind of modernity but rather just another chapter in the European continents decline – a recognised decline, and the EU is a desperate formula to arrest it. Of course, if it had worked – if the euro had worked, even then a federal union would have had to have gone through the kind of turmoil that America had to go through before it could all itself a union.
THE EU IS NOT THE great hope for the continent. It has no competitive guts; it is instinctively socialist when it comes to the free-market. It ties any entrepreneurialism up in red tape; it regulates like a laxative and makes the continent uncompetitive to the point where they have to rely on the one successful member of the club of 27.
Germany is the golden goose that keeps laying the eggs of gold; and it continues to do so because of the hard working and ambitious German people; whose leader, after spending billions to bail out the euro, last year invited to come live with her people one million immigrants from outside of the union, thus encouraging wave after wave to follow.
Mandelson is one of yesterday's men whose smooth tongue has lost its appeal to a rightly cynical British public - once bitten twice shy, as they say. When he was a European commissioner he was, of course, appointed: in the EU the ballot box is like a clove of garlic to a vampire. The box is only produced every five (?) years to elect a parliament that is all but sterile; an assembly whose sole purpose is to rubberstamp the Commissions decisions in payment for a generous salary and fringe benefits; with the freedom to abuse them when any EMP is tempted to do without so much as a slap on the wrist. No wonder our politicians at Westminster are emulating such crooked behaviour: if they can do it, then why not us?
The EU should be avoided at all cost. It will end in tragedy; and I would ask the British people to go with their instincts and their natural cynicism toward politicians; an approach which has served them well in the past. Do not listen to the Blair's and the Mandelson's; do not think that any politician or businessman is your superior in what you believe to be right for your nation. Both politicians and businessmen are not what they seem to be. For instance, over the coming weeks leading up to June 23, an assortment of well-heeled businessmen will paint a dire prospect for this country if we chose to leave. They did, if you remember, put their heads above the parapet to frighten the Scots into remaining part of the UK.
Ask any such high ranking businessman before you debate with them whether his or her company receives (like for instance the BBC) 'payments' from the EU. The group of business people who bring more in taxes to this country than the much larger ones[3] are small businesses; the un- complacent ones who work all hours to keep their families in a comfortable standard of living. These are the people which EU red tape does the greatest harm; ask them if they want us to remain in the EU.
Mandelson should have long been forgotten by now: his time has passed just as Ken Clarke's, Michael Heseltine's and poor old John Major.
[1] Although those opposed to the anglosphere on the commission would deny any such allusion.
[2] As Cameron tried to do (successfully as it turned out) during the Scottish independence referendum.
[3] Here I make reference to tax avoidance that has troubled the electorate since 2008 when the latest recession began. We have Amazon
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