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Richard North at EU referendum points to Lord Pearson`s latest document which is called What is the point of the European Union? Dr North says it is a “brief summary of our relationship with ‘Brussels’ including the case for the United Kingdom to leave the EU, and the case to stay”.

I must admit that I had not read the document, but now I have and I found it a clear and concise evaluation of the case against the EU written in a light-hearted and easy to understand language it is well worth reading.

Dr North explains that “Lord Pearson enumerates the various aspects of the whole project and Britain’s involvement in it, attempts to calculate its financial cost on the basis of Ian Milne’s pamphlet A Cost Too Far?, and merely analyzes the price this country has paid in lost freedom, democracy and the lesser matters of economic competitiveness”

He also mentions a couple of jokes but I found that the whole document was written in a cheerful manner here are just a few gems.

“Please don’t be fooled by the propaganda which says that Parliament can scrutinise and debate EU legislation. Indeed we do, until the cows come home, but we cannot change a comma of it unless that change is unanimously agreed by all the Member States in the Council of Ministers”.

“The Project re-emerged after the Second War and its fundamental idea was (and, believe it or not, still is), that nation states were responsible for the carnage of two World Wars. They must therefore be emasculated, and diluted into a supra-national state, run by a Commission of wise and honest technocrats”.

“Anyone who doubts this should read a brilliant book by Christopher Booker and Richard North, entitled The Great Deception, and published by Continuum Books, which reveals the detailed history of how the people have been misled. The authors have unearthed several internal Foreign Office memos under the 30-year rule. There is one beauty from a senior civil servant in 1971 to a colleague, along the lines of: “Of course this is the end of British democracy as we have known it, but if it is properly handled the people won’t know what’s happened until the end of the century. With any luck, old boy, by then I’ll be dead.”

“It has always been essential to keep the true nature of the Project from the British people. They have to be slowly sucked into the embrace of the corrupt octopus, until it is too late to escape. That is the very essence of the Project, and I hope you will agree it is working pretty well”.