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A Warning Voice

We have a pro-European and anti-Constitution majority in the UK. So says Dr Caroline Lucas Green Party MEP for South-East England. I wonder how Dr Lucas knows this rather interesting statistic, or in fact the following; Until recently the EU has only changed and adapted at a pace which is acceptable to Europe’s citizens.

As the Pro-EU protagonist will insist on calling the EU Europe as if they are one and the same thing when they are patently not, I will insist on defining their Europe as the EU. I will not allow them to associate my dislike for this undemocratic unaccountable institution called the EU, with either the countries or the peoples of the European continent; I am pro-Europe but totally anti-EU.

As one of the major complaints about the EU is that it does not depend on the democratic choice of the people but is designed to remove the ability of the people to have any control of the process of EU integration, it is interesting that this view should be promulgated by an EU MEP. One who nevertheless goes on…?

“The cheerleaders of the proposed EU constitution – including the 500 MEPs who voted in favour of it in Strasbourg this week – are putting the entire project of European co-operation in danger.
In their zeal for further integration, they risk driving a nationalistic wedge between member countries and could jeopardise the real benefits the EU has brought in terms of coming together to address the social and environmental problems that can only be tackled through international co-operation.”

A rejection of the internationalism implicit in European integration and a return to nationalism would be a disaster for Europe and the wider world. If the political class does not address the legitimate concerns of the sceptical public about the EU then nationalism could be the result.”

This is itself an indication of the thinking that totally misses the real problems of the EU as seen through the eyes of a Eusceptic.

The EU is nothing to do with international or European co-operation, something that is recently shown by the quick and efficient agreements between America Australia Japan and Indian governments, who without removing one iota of their individual authority decided to act as one to bring first aid on a massive scale to the Tsunami victims, none of these governments gave away the ability to decide for themselves what was best for their own countrymen to an overarching authority, none of these sovereign countries removed the ability of their citizens to change their governments or their policies, by acting through international co-operation on this one issue.

Nationalism is not dirty word self-government, independence, freedom, choice, are not dirty words they simply mean the ability of self-determination. For the EU this may well be a disaster, because the EU would deny all of these beliefs in its drive to control the peoples of Europe, but these are the ideas we have fought and died for over the generations, these are the concepts that we understand to mean the freedom to choose to live in the way we wish, so who really cares if the EU does not appreciate the strength and power of self determination and as it does not then why should we care what those in power think.

Until those who are part of this undemocratic process accept that the people have a basic right to decide their own government and to be ruled by their own laws, there is simply no way forward for the EU, it is destined to founder on the rocks of democratic power, and if the people that are being forced to support this unaccountable institution are not to be allowed to control the process, this construct will sink in the sea of voices that will rise up in protest at the indifference these so called leaders show for the very basic rights of all free men.

There is only one way this system has existed thus far, and that is by denying the people a voice, as the first stirrings of the waves of protest to come, start to cause alarm bells to be sounded in the faction of the indifferent, and unaccountable they should understand that it will be useless for the apologists for the intergrationalist to claim a mandate they simply do not have, because they and their despotic techniques will be swept away on the crests of the rising antipathy their methods have wrought.