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The man in charge of the EU Commission in Britain
Jim Dougal: 05 July 2004
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“The bureaucracy in the Commission is stifling
However I spent two years in London pushing paper around my desk, generally the same pieces of paper recirculated, dealing with rules which appeared more to impede communication than facilitate it.
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It should be the Government’s job to present its European enterprise to its people. That it has neglected this role is reflected in the numbers of people in the UK who actually believe that the European Union will have an anthem praising the EU “motherland”. Or that the Commission is insisting that kilts worn by men in Scotland must be classed as “women’s wear”; or that when you climb a mountain the landscape must, by European edict, be littered with signs telling you that you are high up. And why does a great proportion of the UK population believe this nonsense? Because they have been told so by much of the media and some politicians. Two and three quarter million people voted for the United Kingdom Independence Party. Many of them believe it.
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A lost referendum and eventual withdrawal from the EU is now a possibility, by default. If our Government wants to be at the heart of Europe, to be decision-makers, it must take the initiative, and it should be on the offensive now. It has, after all, signed up to any European legislation adopted in this country. British ministers should have the guts to explain why to the people. And they must initiate the debate. It cannot and will not be done by outsiders

How could a Brussels Commission spokesman, as he did, extrapolate from the pathetic European election turnout that the people wanted the European Parliament to have more power?

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As a new Commission is established, EU governments should ensure that Brussels is there to serve the member states, not promote its own agenda. That’s what governments are elected to do”.

So the man charged with selling the EU to the British has accepted that his job is impossible.

No wonder he finds it so difficult when he totally misunderstands the problems. Like all Euro maniacs, he attempts to undermine the Euosceptic case by making stupid comments like

“the numbers of people in the UK who actually believe that the European Union will have an anthem praising the EU “motherland”. Or that the Commission is insisting that kilts worn by men in Scotland must be classed as “women’s wear”; or that when you climb a mountain the landscape must, by European edict, be littered with signs telling you that you are high up”.

He then extrapolates his own stupidity by doing exactly what he accuses the Brussels Commission spokesman of doing, reading what he wants into the UKIP vote.

Does Mr Dougal really think, people voted for UKIP as an act of solidarity with Scottish manhood, or that we believe we are going have to sing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, first thing in the morning and before bedtime. Or because we do not want to see signs stuck halfway up a mountain, or the one he didn’t mention, we want to eat bendy bananas, These are all Euro myths perpetrated by Euphiles just so that they can knock them down, Straw Men!

Does he really think that is where the Euosceptic argument lays? The Europhiles really need to get a grip, This from the man whose job it was to sell the benefits of the EU.

He is right though on one point, it is the Governments job to explain to the people who elected them, why they are giving away the power to do the job they are elected to do? Why they are tying their own hands, and the hands of any future British Government we elect, which by they way is totally against the British Constitution and is therefore illegal. Why the papers Tony Blair is going to sign in Rome in November are so great for Great Britain.

To Paraphrase Olive Cromwell when he ejected the Rump Parliament, “ a corrupt, self-serving institution— a regime intent on perpetuating its own power— ‘It is not fit you should sit here any longer—you have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. You shall now give place to better men. ‘You are no parliament! Some of you are corrupt, unjust persons—how can you be a parliament for God’s people? Depart, I say, and let us have done with you