Ukip's leader Nigel Farage
What is so awful about asking the people of a country how they wish to be ruled and by whom, asks Nigel Farage.
José Barroso, president of the European Commission, has told us that the reason for the European Union is to stop Germany invading France. Again. Now Berlin has realised that Paris is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian Grenadier, that’s dealt with, so what reason for the EU’s continuation can there be?
Quite, there isn’t one, but as ever with bureaucracies and political structures, the expiry of their reason for existence never means the expiry of their existence.
What we thought, what we were told, we were joining all those years ago – a Common Market to open up the markets and riches of Europe to us and our trade – has become an over-arching government. One that has taken to itself the powers to determine how we may light our living rooms, how many hours we may legally work and even where we may put our rubbish. Our own Parliament at Westminster has become a mere county council, enacting by rote decisions made elsewhere.
Tony Benn’s questions about power have uncomfortable answers when we ask them of the EU. “What power do you have? How? For whom? With what limits and how do we get rid of you?” To which the answers are: “Too much, they took it, themselves, very few and we can’t”.
That isn’t the set of answers that we want to have in a democracy or a free and pleasant land. At the very minimum, we need to be able to take powers back, exercise them for ourselves and, most importantly, we have to be able to get rid of those in power in some manner, all of which are extremely difficult at present.
The passage of the Lisbon Treaty will make them impossible in theory, let alone in practice. For the treaty becomes self-amending: never again will it be necessary to put the collation of ever more power into Brussels to the popular vote. Not that the results of such previous queries have been listened to; no one listened to the rejection by the French, by the Dutch and no one is listening now to the Irish rejection. Every time the people have insisted on a halt to integration, they have been force-fed yet more, as if they are silly geese who really ought to want to be foie gras. Read full article…
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