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“Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation” (Jean Monnet communication, 30 April 1952).

“It is impossible to solve problems between European States who preserve full sovereignty. We are convinced that our times must see the creation of vast units like the United States and the USSR, and to establish a [world-wide] organisation to ensure co-operation between all those vast units. It is this organization which will create the new world order.” (Jean Monnet, communiqué of 22 August 1962).

“There are some in this country who fear that in going into Europe, we shall in some way sacrifice independence and sovereignty. These fears, I need hardly say, are completely unjustified”. Edward Heath on taking Britain into the then Common Market in 1972

A Very interesting post, linking two recent news items and the Nazi regime it just goes to show that history teaches us that those who wish to create tyranny have only to look back to find the methods.

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle

Well, what can one say, after the furore and outcry about Prince Harry wearing a Swastika arm band at a fancy dress party and the subsequent calling for the banning of Nazi SYMBOLS and REGALIA by politicians. We now have a ‘right of passage proposal published by the Home Office.
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Citizenship Subjets!
Tim Worstall has picked up on this piece in the Guardian

All teenagers face citizen pledge at 18

There’s something vaguely disturbing about the idea of State coming of age days and citizenship affirmation ceremonies…In the UK we are not citizens of the UK. Sorry, but no we’re not. We are citizens of the European Union, but our position in the UK is as subjects of Her Majesty. By having a ceremony about citizenship we are therefore denying the very thing that we are supposed to be celebrating, our membership of this nation.

I also have reservations about this; it smacks somewhat of social engendering or more to the point the government bestowing citizenship upon us, firstly as Tim Worstall points out we are not citizens but are subjects, we are born into this community with the rights and responsibilities that go with this identity, it is not within the governments powers to grant us anything in fact it is the governments sworn oath to protect those rights we are born with.

According to the Guardian the scheme is part of a wider package designed to help young people from different communities grow up with a sense of common belonging, including a sense of inclusive British citizenship and an understanding of people from other ethnic and religious backgrounds.

The package includes a drive to improve the quality of citizenship classes in schools, a framework for the teaching of religious education, and opportunities for young people from different back grounds to learn and socialise together. Ministers hope that out-of-school activities can be used to reduce segregation in schooling.

So this clearly is about social engineering

However it does have one good thing and that is a pocket-size guide to the British constitution this will cause some confusion because the politicians would like us to believe we do not have a British Constitution other than the supremacy of parliament, which is not a constitution but a usurpation of the Constitution, and if they do include those document that go towards making the Constitution “The Magna Charta The Declaration of Rights The Bill of Rights the Coronation Oath” they are also going to have some explaining to do re: the EU for one thing.

On a different point entirely, and as a conservative with a small “c” I do not say this lightly, but it is becoming ever more apparent that the Liberal Democrats are seriously taking on the job of true opposition to this government, on several fronts, it is the Lib-Dem`s who are making the basic conservative argument against the governments plans and not the Conservatives who seem to accept everything no matter how intrusive from this administration.

On this again we can see a basic conservative argument against these plans being argued by the Lib-Dem`s when their home affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten, says he felt uneasy about the idea of citizenship ceremonies for young adults: “It’s for parents and schools to create a sense of responsibility in young people, not for the state to patronise 18-year-olds with a ceremony which they are unlikely to attend anyway. These are issues which should have been tackled at school, not in a quick-fix ceremony.

Where are the Conservative Party? Gazing at their navels whilst allowing another party to develop the arguments that they should be promulgating as conservative issues.

A ‘rapid reaction farce’

A group of MEP`s have decided to take it upon themselves to set up a ‘rapid reaction force’ run by MEP`s to try and put an EU spin on the European Constitution debate.
They claim the right to interfere in internal referendums too, in their words defend the Constitution because no European government is doing it.

“Within three hours, or at least within the same day, we want to react to lies and distortions about the Constitution”, stated Jo Leinen, head of the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee.

Speaking to the EUobserver, Mr Leinen, a German Socialist MEP, said he and a group of MEPs had taken it upon themselves to be the watchdogs on utterances about the Constitution as nobody else is doing it.

Mr Leinen’s other companions in this exercise include the President of the European Parliament, Josep Borell, as well as the authors of the report endorsing the Constitution - Inigo Mendez de Vigo and Richard Corbett, to help the group of eight MEPs keep an eye on debate in 25 member states, European Parliament offices in the member states will “pick up” any information they consider to be a lie and pass it back to the group.

If we take a step back and give this a little bit of thought it becomes clear that the EU is the product of the member states, although the Constitution will change the basis of the EU and make it a state separate and superior in law to its members, at present that is not the case. What we on have the table is a proposal coordinated by the EU itself, for a contract between itself and its members, there are two sides in the contract which asks for its members to grant the EU more powers and set it up as an overarching government of all 25 member states.

Each referendum in a member country therefore is in fact a completely internal matter, each country must decide for itself if it wishes to go down the route that this Constitution sets out. The EU parliament as part of the EU is representing one side of the contract that is being debated; as such it has no part to play in the internal debates. Therefore the EU parliament and Commision should mind its own business and not attempt to interfere.

Quite clearly the EU itself having set out its demands, is not intending to stand on the sidelines and allow us to make up our own minds on the subject; they are going to push as much EU propaganda our way that they can afford to buy with our money. As shown by the EU parliaments vote on the Constitution last week and their big party to celebrate the outcome of that vote which because the EU parliament does not have a place in the debate cannot affect the outcome a single jot, these people are going to try to dictate the internal debate as much as they can, they are going to try to confuse the issues as much as they can they are going to lie to us as much as they can.

In fact the lies are evident right from the begging of the EUobserver article and the lie is evident in the very reason stated for their “Rapid Reaction farce” which to remind, was to defend the Constitution because no European government is doing it, when in fact every EU government is defending and promoting the Constitution they have all signed it, and where they are allowing a referendum the governments are all on the yes side they are all going to be pushing for ratification.

The British government is certainly going to be spending “serious amounts of money” promoting the Constitution in fact just today as reported at EU Referendum they have announced they are hiring a PR agency to extol the virtues of EU membership and explain why the European constitution is a “success for Britain”.

The Financial Times has come up with a scoop. The government, using taxpayers’ (i.e., our) money, is
A Foreign Office memo, obtained by the FT, reveals that the government is embarking this month on an “extensive communications campaign” on the EU referendum.

As part of the offensive, the FT tells us, it has hired Geronimo PR, a London-based firm which has handled previous government campaigns to increase awareness about the “benefits” of EU membership and the “facts” about the constitutional treaty.

Times Online - Newspaper Edition
Britain’s rebate and our net contribution to the growing EU budget
From Mr Ashley Mote, MEP for South East Region (Independent)

Sir, The attack by Dalia Grybauskaite, the European Budget Commissioner, on the British rebate (report, January 14) portrays the EU as a source of charity. She appears committed to the redistribution of wealth.

The EUs income is determined not by need, nor even according to any planned budget. It is based merely on percentages of Customs duty and VAT collected by each member state, and a percentage of that country`s GDP. The more each country thrives, the more the EU takes. The reverse is also true.

By any normal standards, EU budget planning is non-existent. There is no meaningful relationship between income, need and expenditure. As a result, vast surplus funds sit idle under the EU`s control, far beyond even unanticipated contingencies like the tsunami disaster.

Much of the excess has been accumulated at British taxpayers expense.

Yours sincerely,
ASHLEY MOTE