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All in a Flap over that Flag
Europhobia has a post about a pub landlord in Worthing, who has been prevented from flying the EU Flag
“>”A totalitarian foreign power which, with the help of Quislings in Westminster, intends to take over our country“

The flag was spotted by a UKIP supporter who complained to the Council about the “foul emblem”, which apparently offends him when he has to walk past it. The Council ruled “The EU flag is not a national flag and thereby falls within the same category as any advertising-type flag. These require advertising consent from the council.”

I take a diferent view of this, than that expressed by Europhobia, because Worthing Borough Council, god bless them, have in fact hit the nail on the head, The European flag, later adopted by the EU is used for advertising the EU, it is part of a massive propaganda campaign instigated by the EU Commision in order to shape and manipulate public opinion on the merits of European integration.

The EU takes our money then returns some of it to us in the form of loans or grants for selected projects, just as long as those in receipt of the money enhance or support the EU project.

Worthing Council have said that the EU is not a state but I do not think we need them to tell us that, everybody associated with the construct will happily confirm that the EU is not a state, in fact they go out of their way to show it is not a state, even as we see a continual competence creep and an extension of the EU into the very fabric of our society, even as it takes on all the trappings of a state.

This is why we need to have an open discussion about our place in the union.

I would say that at some point the EU will become a state that is certainly the aim of the Union and has been since the beginning. We would be further down this road except for the French, who refused to allow the political arm of the EU to develop and voted it down in the 50s this instead was replaced by “The Monnet method”:. Or political integration by stealth.

Although Design for Freedom, largely written by Peter Thorneycroft MP, 1947
No government dependent upon a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifice, which any adequate plan must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences, not asked…to make changes of which they may not at first recognise the advantages themselves..

Which effectively describes the Monnet method

Should we not therefore decide now that we do or we do not wish to be part of that state, rather than allowing this integration by stealth continue until we suddenly wake up and find the Britian is no longer capable of running its own affairs, that our government cannot make any decisions on what is best for Britian without first checking to see if they will be allowed to do so, from their masters in Brussels.

If any people have doubts about the intentions of the EU the following might help clarify the situation.

This from
BUILDING A POLITICAL EUROPE 50 proposals for tomorrow’s Europe Dominique Strauss-Kahn Chairperson of the Round Table “A sustainable project for tomorrow’s Europe”
formed on the initiative of the President of the European Commission

The question of a further move towards a political Europe arises again today. First of all, because the Union has gradually extended its areas of competence (agriculture, VAT harmonisation, internal market, euro, etc.) and has thus assumed growing political weight. Then, because the expectations of the Union are now clearly political: economic prosperity, through completion of the internal market via the euro; progress in social matters (with the “social agenda”) and on the environment (with the “strategy of sustainable development”); police and justice (within the justice and home affairs pillar);
diplomacy and defence (with the European security and defence policy). The question of the ultimate purpose of the European venture is therefore facing us again: should the Union return to the long-term political vision of the founding fathers, who regarded the “concrete achievements” as a “first step in the federation of Europe”5? Or should it continue along the path on which it has embarked and propose no more than a framework for ever-closer cooperation between independent States?

Bringing out the feeling of belonging to the Union. There can be no democracy without demos, without a European people. This people exists, it shares a model of society. But it is not always aware of it. The report proposes three lines to promote the creation of European awareness: they concern mobility of people, education and culture

Strand XVII: reinforcing the feeling of belonging to the Union
􀂾 Proposal 42: introduce into university courses the compulsory completion of at least one
year of study within the Union outside the country of origin
􀂾 Proposal 43: promote mobility between national civil services.
􀂾 Proposal 44: launch the debate about granting Union citizens the right to vote in national
elections in the country in which they reside.
􀂾 Proposal 45: introduce the teaching of European history in schools.
􀂾Proposal 46: support the European museum project.
􀂾 Proposal 47: complement civic education at school with awareness of European values
and presentation of Union institutions.
􀂾 Proposal 48: institute compulsory learning of a second European language at primary
school.
􀂾 Proposal 49: increase significantly the European Union budget contribution to culture,
first and foremost in the form of financial support for the production of European works.

They might have included flying the flag for the EU.

Also defines Proaganda as used in the report.
Federalist Thought Control: The Brussels Propaganda Machine

There can never be a pan-European democracy unless there is a European people-a European public consciousness, a European public opinion and a European political discourse. Yet they are central to any claim the EU may make to genuine popular consent and to democratic legitimacy. They are therefore an integral part of the attempt to create a country called Europe.

Large sums of taxpayers money is being devoted to a propaganda exercise in order to shape and manipulate public opinion on the merits of European integration. A vast range of material is sent directly to the public from taxpayer-funded network of organisations taking forward an integrationist agenda.

The EU itself believes that it has a mission to educate the public. Helpfully, senior representatives of the European Commission have not been shy in claiming a role in a campaign to ‘educate’ the public as to the advantages of EU membership. In an interview on the BBC’s Breakfast with Frost the former EC President Jacques Santer said: We have as politicians to inform the population and train them in this direction”. More importantly, those who would doubt our claim that the EU is engaged in a long term project to shift the public’s loyalties from the nation-state to the EU’s institutions and underpin the newly emerging European State should consider the following details from the many treaties, reports and plans to foster ‘European consciousness’:
• The Adonnino Report 1985, where Pietro Adonnino MEP proposed numerous methods to promote the integration of Europe.
• The ambitions of the EU culturalists were also set out in the Maastricht Treaty 1992, which enshrined such goals as “the dissemination of the culture and history of the European peoples”. Funding was made available for such activities so long as the recipients could demonstrate the activity had a European dimension.
• The EU’s de Clercq Report 1993 devised initiatives to ensure that:
“…European identity must be ‘ingrained in people’s minds’ as a ‘good product’ using marketing techniques and that certain social categories, particularly ‘women and youth’, should become ‘priority target groups’. More controversially, it suggested that newscasters and reporters must themselves be targeted, they must themselves be persuaded about European Union…so that they subsequently become enthusiastic supporters of the cause.”
This ties in with a parallel report by the Commission’s Media and Culture Directorate, which showed that money has been made available for the media to promote “a more positive line towards Europe”.
• The Pex Report 1998 called for measures to “increase awareness of the achievements and advantages of the Union and foster public support for the forthcoming stages of the integration process”. In particular it proposed targeting of the “least favoured” elements of society to persuade them of the glory of the EU. Later that year, a report on the Commission’s Euro communication and information strategy stated that acceptance of the Euro will be decisive for pursuing European construction. It demanded extra funding, some of which was directed to campaigns in the UK. It established ‘Euro mediators’ for disadvantaged sections of society, while the role of children as information multipliers was acknowledged. Women were to be targeted because “they manage the finances of the family, go shopping, etc.”
• The inclusion in The Amsterdam Treaty 1998 of provisions relating to cultural matters demonstrated the determination of the EU to “deepen the solidarity between their peoples” by establishing “a citizenship common to nationals” of all member states. Cultural integration lies at the heart of the drive towards “ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe”. Key to this process is the provision that the EU must take cultural aspects into account in all other policies.
• Agenda 2000 observed that “the consent and support of European public opinion to enlargement is a clear pre-requisite for the realisation of the project. This will require, during the pre-accession period, a substantial public information effort in both the present and the acceding member states”.
So there you have it, straight from the horse’s mouth: the EU is deeply committed to waging a propagandist war on those who oppose its integrationist ambitions.

We do not take issue with the studying of other cultures, societies, peoples and languages. On the contrary such links are culturally valuable and indispensable to the formation of a broader mind. We take issue when the EU flag is hoisted upon these studies, and Europe treated as being synonymous with the EU. There is no room for programming primary school pupils that they the are Euro-citizens of tomorrow and any authorised schools project must be balanced.

For more information on EU Propaganda we are all paying for through our taxes.

More on EU Propaganda:
How the EU uses education and academia to sell integration

The golf-ball as a symbol of integration

The mythology of the EU – Countered

The EU’s propagandist use of Europe’s Churches

What is happening, further to my post here to British political life coming too. Labour fought against this tooth and nail, now it a good idea all of a sudden. We vote Labour and get Tory and Conservative and get, well who knows what, but certainly not conservative. One thing is certain which ever we vote for we get EU.

Times Online - Britain:

“New plan for one million to buy homes splits Labour”

The dispute is casting a shadow over Downing Street’s plan to put housing at the top of Tony Blair’s third-term agenda, with property ownership expected to be one of several “new offers” underpinning Labour’s next manifesto.

I do not often mention corruption in the EU because I feel there are far more things wrong with that construct than the unaccountability of its funds. However I did notice these two letters in the times, and have thoughts the same myself. When I hear that the EU Commision is sending observers to check that other countries election are fair, I am always reminded that they themselves are not elected and not accountable, so who are they to jump on their high horse about others.

Times Online - Comment

Romania shows up EU corruption
From Mr Tom Fane
Sir, Mr Chris Davies, MEP (letter, December 9), is concerned that Romania should not be admitted to the EU because “corruption in Romania remains serious and widespread”.

This is the EU whose own accountants have failed to sign off the EU accounts for ten years because they cannot trace where most of the funds have gone; the EU which sacks whistleblowers such as Marta Andreasen and Paul van Buitenen (now an MEP) when they point out widespread fraud.

I suspect that Romania has nothing on the EU.

Regards,

From Mrs Val Cowell

Sir, I am unimpressed by crocodile tears from Chris Davies over corruption in Romania.

Last May, UKIP MEPs, with help from their colleagues in France and the Netherlands, presented to the European Parliament a motion of censure to be served on the European Commission regarding its failure to act over massive financial fraud in the EU’s statistical office.

Chris Davies voted against the motion, as did many UK Labour and Conservative MEPs.

Yours faithfully,

It has often been said that Tony Blair is the best Conservative Prime Minister this country has ever had, the only problem I have with that is Blair is not a Conservative, and to suggest he is, is a slur on real Conservative values. Which is why I feel a little hesitant to describe Michael Howard as the best labour opposition leader this country has ever had, but I will pursue the analogy in spite of my misgivings, and even if real Labour supporters are insulted.

The Conservative party are not producing real Conservative policies, they are instead on the run from the power of the present administration and its allies in the media, they have in fact been eviscerated by the constant change of leadership the basic argument over the EU and the anti Tory media, so much so that they are frightened to stand up and say what is wrong with New Labours rush to destroy all that once made Britain a free society. They are terrified of being branded reactionary by standing on real Conservative policies which are based on the freedoms of the individual to choose their way of life without interference from the government.

It now seem that despite facing resignation threats from members of his Shadow Cabinet (which must be a misnomer because you must have substance to cast a shadow) Michael has announced that the Conservatives will support the Governments scheme to force ID cards on the population of this country. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4093583.stm

Yet again Howard is going to make himself and his party look stupid, undermine any opposition to the scheme and expose shadow ministers to ridicule, because despite giving their backing to ID cards, the Conservatives pledged to hold ministers to account over the precise purpose of the scheme.

So it is halfway house Howard on the march to nowhere again, why on earth would anyone wish to vote for this man to be Prime Minister is beyond me. The fact that the Conservative forced a parliamentary crisis over fox hunting, yet meekly allowed the Civil Contingencies Bill through without real opposition is indication enough that the Conservative party no longer believes in conservative values. I have to agree with Kilroy-Silk who said the Consevative Party is dying and we should kill them off. Then perhaps from the ashes of this disreputable rabble a new party might emerge which is not going to be afraid to be what their title claims, Conservative!

Banks plan pan-European wholesale mortgage lender
By Grant Ringshaw (Filed: 15/06/2003) Telegraph

These things take time to mature under the tutelage of the EU.

EC unveils plan for the Euromortgage
By Edmund Conway
(Filed: 14/12/2004)

The EC’s Forum Group on Mortgage Credit said an effective single European market for mortgages could mean cheaper loans for all.
However, the paper neglected to warn that homebuyers could see the price of their mortgage rocket because of exchange rate fluctuations.

Oh good cheaper mortgages, this must be great news for everybody? Well there is another way of looking at it, and true to form Dr North at EU Referendum cuts strait to the problem this sort of initiative will have for those of us who do not want to adopt the Euro.

But it would also mean serious inroads into the monetary sovereignty of member states, who rely on being able to fine-tune interest rates to cool over-heated housing markets, and damp-down consumer spending when it threatens to get out of control.

That is the trouble with partial campaigns. To mix metaphors outrageously, once you cuddle up to the tar baby, you have to go all the way. Like the impossibility of being a bit pregnant, as far as the EU is concerned, there is no such thing as a little bit of integration.