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[2]
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,
adding further to Ukip's popularity. 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, anyone but 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 surely 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, just as they do
the Unite trade union in the UK.
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 tutelage of a 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 and in
thrall to the Brussels' Commission.
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 20 years causing the deaths of
countless millions.
So
in order to avoid further such future conflicts… so the theory goes: we have
to, according to the EU, abandon our national sovereignty and nationhood, and
become immersed into a federal union within Europe where nationhood,
sovereignty, and even democracy has no place in the scheme of things. Is this
the future the British people wish to be part of? A future bereft of
nationhood, national sovereignty, and the abandonment of ancient counties and
traditions - I very much doubt it. But if they do then let them have a
referendum before they gift their children and grandchildren such a future.
THIS IS THE only option on offer for the people of
the UK if we remain part of the journey to a federal Europe while remaining a
member of the EU. European federalism is being presented in almost prosaic terms,
if at all. A federal Europe means the ending of the nation state within the
continent of Europe. Yet the LibLabCon triumphret are between them seeking to
steer their parties toward such an eventuality without losing as much electoral
support as they can manage.
The
leadership of all the three main parties have long since bought into a federal
Europe, but they know the British people are more sceptical. Until Ukip appeared
as a genuine threat to the Tories… Cameron then effectively saw them as fools
and idiots. But now, since the rise in their popularity, which has been maintained
by the events of last May and in Clacton; he has promised an IN/OUT referendum if
he cannot bring about reform of the EU before 2017, if he wins the next
election.
Cameron
believes in the EU. He is intelligent enough to understand what a federal union
means to the nation state; and yet, as a Conservative, he still remains
supportive of its aims; and if it had not been for Ukip, he would have no doubt
continued to follow the same map route of every other of the main parties
within the UK, as well as the rest of Europe.
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