SO IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED by an opinion poll. Eighty per cent of the British public would like to have a referendum on Europe. Of course the Populus poll for the Times only corroborated what the British public all knew anyway; but it was nice to have it emblazoned over the front page of Monday’s Times.
In recent days politicians who were once frightened of letting the people who elect them have their say on their nation’s destiny, are now making the right noises; but these only take the form of hints.
The euro crises has moved things forward, and in Europe the politicians are now navigating the continent to full economic and political union. The United States of Europe (USE), which many British Europhiles believed were decades away, is now confronting the British people and they will not go quietly into their nation’s last goodnight, without the chance to have a vote on their destiny.
Lord Tebbit suggests that the whole euro crises was the deliberate creation of the European political elite, in order to make full European Union the only option left out of the current crises. Whether such devious means were deployed or not. The euro crises does seem to have worked in the Europhiles favour.
Another couple of months of this crises, and countries within the union will be begging for full political and monetary union. Driven by fear, nations will sell their histories at bargain basement prices, and hand over their independence to a central authority to which they will be made accountable. They will no longer have any say on how the taxes that are now raised nationally will be distributed among their own peoples; and despite what the politicians may tell them, national parliaments (if they exist all) will be, in terms of their status, of no higher merit than a county council.
Lord Tebbit is no conspiracy theorist and should be listened to. He has spent the last 20-years warning of what is now about to happen and has always been seen as a Right-wing extremist for his troubles by his Europhile contemporaries such as Kenneth Clarke; whose haughty dismissal, even today, of a referendum on in/out Europe leaves one thinking that the onetime bulldog of the Tory party has become almost rabid in his support of the USE.
IF THE BRITISH public were given their referendum on an in/out question and the people voted yes, then democrats like myself would have to live with the consequences – at least the people would have had a say on their destiny and not have had a decision made for them by politicians.
All of those, like myself want, is the voice of the British people to be heard. Such a formidable transition cannot be left to the judgement of politicians. The nation state is at stake and the nation must be heard. Anything less would invite and legitimise social unrest which I for one would not wish to see.
It is now in our politician’s hands. They must announce an in/out referendum. All politicians from all parties must now give the people what the Populus poll is telling them they want.
The sooner they are given their say, the better for the country. It is no good hoping, as the Europhiles within all the political parties do, that events will turn in their favour and the euro crises will become a nasty little dream. This nasty little dream may turn into a nightmare for the British Europhiles; but for the rest of Europe’s Europhiles, such events will force the hand of the 26 members (the UK being exempt for the moment) into signing away their national identity.
It is pathetic, pitiful, and contemptible that the middle class baby-boomer 1960s generation in this country should have themselves been so willing to so easily dismiss the sacrifices their fathers and mothers, made during the Second World to keep this country free and independent. It is shameful that the legacy their parents left should have been so easily trashed by their offspring.
As the poll demonstrates, it is the social liberal elite that represents the two in ten who oppose the referendum. Small in number they may be. But it is their influence that matters considering the power they wield in the nation’s institutions – including parliament.
In ages past such a small elite would have comprised the aristocracy whose influence we all know was paramount. Today we have the social liberal select few who taint every institution in modern Britain and bares comparison to the earlier nobility.
I DO NOT BELIEVE that the English public can so easily be enticed into giving up their nationhood and its 1,000 year history as effortlessly as those who wish it to happen supposes. If I am wrong, then so be it. But I will only know if my compatriots are given a say through a referendum.
I find it frightening that the people of France, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Austria, and Belgium, could so easily disband the architecture of their nation sates. The architecture that has given them their very cultural identity as citizens in this world of nations.
National identity will go immediately if a USE is introduced. But the loss of cultural identity will take many further decades to achieve, during which period the generations will no doubt be ‘educated’ into the Bork.
The nation state, whether it be the United Kingdom or the United State of America, still has a long life before it. The nation state represents the traditions and cultures of an indigenous people whose history involved the very protection of their nation through military sacrifice, when the nation is threatened.
The British people will hopefully be given their say on the relinquishing of their national identity. It is, however, a matter of timing as far as those who wish such a process not to occur. The current crises, they believe, will be overcome, and the need for a referendum will diminish as a consequence.
Such is the naiveté of the British Europhile, that they hopelessly believe that their ambitions will attract the support of ordinary British people. If not, then somehow or other they will, through fear, help drag the UK into a USE.
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