THE LAST TIME I believed in a conspiracy theory was
following the death of President Kennedy, and I clung to it right up to the
time I watched the film JFK; Oliver Stone's long winded attempt at trying to
prove Lee Harvey Oswald to have been a patsy working for either the CIA or Cuba[1],
and concluding that it was not Harvey's rifle that fired the fatal shot, but
whoever was lurking on the 'grassy mound' as the president's cavalcade passed.
American
conspiracy theorists are, like Oliver Stone, of a usually Left-wing liberal bent
who think the US government are up to all kinds of schemes to eliminate those
who get in their way – especially liberals like himself, and JFK.
From
time to time governments of whatever ideological bent, try to keep information
they do not wish the public to be made aware of, secret. In the UK, under the
thirty-year rule (said to have been put in place for reason's of national
security) documents are kept hidden until the rule has, like an insurance
policy, matured and the actors in the proceedings are probably dead.
WHEN I HEARD THIS MORNING on Sky News that the UK
has been asked to contribute a further £1.7 billion to the EU, while Germany
and France get a rebate; I smelt a conspiratorial rat at work.
I
thought to myself, it must be a stitch-up. A conspiracy had been concocted
between Downing Street and Brussels to spike Nigel Farage's' guns in the
forthcoming Rochdale by-election where the latest poll puts his party 13 points
clear of the Tories.
It
would go like this. Brussels would insist that the UK should have to pay this
extra contribution because of the UK's economic success; and at the same time
Germany and France should be given a rebate for the failure of their economies.
Well…I ask you. What better foil could Cameron have, than to have himself and
his party made even more unpopular - but
then there would follow a sudden victory over Brussels; a victory brought about
by 'negotiations' which gave Cameron his victory over the £1.7 billion
taxpayer robbery? Well, we will all have to wait and see.
But
a fellow conspiracy theorist on this issue, insists that indeed a conspiracy is
afoot; but it is not one of Cameron's making. My brother came up with the
following. He suggested that Brussels wanted Cameron out, come the next
election and a more pliable Miliband put in his place. Milliband would never
allow, for instance, an In/Out referendum; and therefore represented the EU's best hope for keeping the UK safely
within the federalist concoction.
Think
about it. Cameron has offered an In/Out referendum if he wins next May after negotiating
EU reforms – a process the EU is fearful of, if only because whatever reforms
they agree to with the UK; other member states will demand the same changes,
thus causing such a volcanic eruption within the EU that its very existence may
be left in doubt - better therefore Milliband governing the UK than Cameron –
or at the very least, not Cameron.
As
a conspiracy theory this makes far more sense than my own. Perhaps, instead of
Cameron, the idea behind this demand for more funds is meant to help Milliband.
After all, on Sky News this morning when Ed Balls was asked what he would do
about this budget increase; Balls wittered on about Cameron alienating himself
from the negotiating process with our European partners. He never once said
that he stood full square behind challenging such an unfairness.
SO THERE ARE convincing and unconvincing conspiracy
theories surrounding the £1.7 billion
demand from the UK. Between the two, I favour my brothers. In doing so I do not
insinuate or even infer that Ed Milliband is part of the conspiracy, but a mere
willing associate of anything pro-European. Brussels are the political puppet
masters in all of this, which Cameron is finding to his cost, and Milliband, if
elected will find to his own.
Both
Cameron and Milliband are being, in one way or another, used by Brussels to the
EU's advantage. They are both instinctive supporters of the European Union and
our membership of it; but are both trying to either hold on to or gain power
within the UK, and Brussels is trying to manipulate it to their own advantage,
and in doing so they have come out in Miliband's favour. Milliband is an
innocent in all of this, for his natural EU impulses will willingly serve the
interests of the social democratic European Union in any event.
The EU wants Milliband. He has proven himself
a creature of the trade unions; so perhaps he has strings that can be pulled by
Brussels. Well I would not be surprised if Ed did Europe's bidding. After all,
he disdains an In/Out referendum, even on Cameron's spurious grounds.
So Ed
is the perfect servant of Brussels, one who can be guaranteed to turn the UK
under the much longed for Federal Union into a mere province of the greater
European Union, where the nation state becomes a thing of the past; where it
becomes a province, divided into regions instead of counties.
This
is the supposed nightmare scenario of European federalism. A dystopian vision
concocted by Europhiles throughout the Union beginning after the Second World
War in order to restrain further military conflict of the type that brought
forth two World Wars on European soil within 40 years .
So
in order to avoid further such conflict in the future… so the theory goes: we
have to, according to the EU, abandon our national sovereignty and nationhood,
and be immersed into a federal union within Europe where national democracy has
no place in the scheme of things. Is this the future the British people whish
to be part of. A future bereft of nationhood, and the abandonment of ancient
counties? I very much doubt it.
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