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In July a reader responded to an Independent article, the Independant did not print his letter, I find that unfortunate because I feel Mr Spalton has hit the nail on the head with the problems and the causes of those problems the EU is going to face in being acceptable to many British people who have experienced the deceit for themselves.
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Quote”Subject: Britain, the EU & Jim Dougal
Hopcroft
DerbySir,
Jim Dougal (5 July) has had a hard row to hoe for the Commission because theEU project can no longer be disguised.

In a BBC programme about manipulating British opinion in the Seventies, Roy Hattersley remarked “Not only was it wrong for us to deal superficially with what Europe involved, but we have paid the price for it ever since because every time there is a crisis in Europe people say, with some justification ,

“well, we wouldn’t have beenpart of this if we’d really known the implications”.

Quite so. I have a copy of the 1975 referendum leaflet from the Wilson government. It gives the overwhelming impression that we were voting to stay in a “Common Market”. It used the term thirty nine times and also assured us of the abandonment of Economic and Monetary Union. That was a deliberate lie. Those of us who were mildly europhile had been reassured by Mr. Heath that”no essential loss of sovereignty” was involved. We eventually discovered that we had been consistently misled . The policy of deceit had been set out by Peter Thorneycroft as early as 1947. We would be nudged a little at a time into what can only be called a superstate. The idea was that, by the time we noticed, the process would be irreversible.

There is now a large, implacably hostile minority, in touch with like-minded people across Europe. It is usually better informed than most spokesmen in favour of the EU project. The internet ensures that it can neither be talked down to nor soothed with broad, sunlit platitudes. The Big Idea could have been sold to Britain honestly. With the accretionof fifty years of deceit, it is a dead duck.
Yours faithfully,
Edward Spalton”Unquote

This, ties in with some thoughts on the EU I have been having recently, how is that the British people have accepted this situation when their own Government has been so deceitful for so long.

Well of course, the first point is we have not had a chance to make clear our feelings on the EU because no party has been against it, we have in effect been disenfranchised on this point. But there is more why is it when we do realise that an MP has misled the public that they are not pilloried by the press. I believe the answer lays in the fact that the EU works so far ahead that the MPs who misled us are no longer in power, or no longer hold the position they held, we probably have another government entirely.

Mr Hain`s blandishment that the Constitution was just a tidying up exercise has now been exposed as pure rubbish, but Mr Hain is no longer in charge of EU matters, he has gone on to other things. Keith Vas clearly told us that the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, would have no more legal power than the Beano! where is he now that this document is going to form a large part of the Constitution and be the basis for all laws. It is not just these two MP`s who have been court out lying to the British people, this has been going on for over thirty years and none of the people concerned are in power long enough to have to face the music.