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Late last year whilst conducting a debate with a student of EU matters and obviously a fervent EU supporter, I began to realise that for some, the EU was not a political matter but was verging on a religious passion, and to question the EU at all was almost heretical doctrine.

As all common sense arguments were dismissed one after the other out of hand, it was a matter of “belief beyond reason” that held this person to their cause.

The belief that the EU ideal was beyond reproach that Euro-sceptics were non-believers who needed to be look upon with pity whilst their education was corrected. Or failing that treated as children who had to be led along the path of righteousness, towards the light of eulogy for the EU. Or failing even that, to be ignore whilst those who understood these lofty matters made the world better for all.

Today in the telegraph Robin Harris has noted this religious outlook! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/…/ixopinion.htmlPart of what he has to say is worth repeating…
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“This leaves, however, one still more intriguing question. Why, in the end, do Messrs Blair and Mandelson care so much about achieving a European mega-state, when there is so little political advantage, and so much political complication, in the project? Perhaps the truth lies deeper than the conventional explanations suggest. Euro-enthusiasm fills for Mr Blair and Mr Mandelson the moral gap that has yawned since they tore up their early doctrinaire socialist roots.

European federalism is another of those secular religions, like communism or fascism, whose attractions prove so great because they reassure people who have lost their inner bearings that they are still on the winning side of History. Its proponents display the self-righteousness, the intolerance of dissent, the assumption that ends will justify means - including the subversion of a country’s democracy - that their counterparts so enthusiastically practised”.

To me the EU is no more than a political movement, that could possibly just! Have some justification if, and only if it were reformed and based on clear democratic principals, instead of being as it indubitable is, at its core the undemocratic institution it is.