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So who are the masters now?

So who are the masters now proclaims the front page of the Daily Telegraph We’ll halt Howard’s curb on migrants”. How gratifying it is to have confirmed on the front page of the Telegraph today who is really in charge of this country.

Is how Richard North begins his post on the announcement yesterday that the EU commission, has “threatened” to block Michael Howard’s “tough immigration controls” if the Tories win the election.

“This really brings home the realities of power in this our former independent nation state.”

What is specially significant is the comment that, “Europe’s intervention in what has become a major issue in the election campaign took Westminster aback. MPs and officials were unaware of how much national sovereignty on immigration and asylum had been transferred to Brussels”.

That is a staggering statement and it takes David Rennie in a page 9 “analysis” to explain what has happened. “How did Britain end up binding its immigration policy to the European Union.

The chilling response to his own rhetorical question is: “…bit by bit, without great public controversy and with the full agreement of British officials led largely by David Blunkett”.

Dr North then drives home the point that this is not an isolated occurrence but works right across the raft of all policies, as indeed Monnet intended with his “Method” and although some would like us to believe this has now been dropped, that is patently a nonsense because we can see its workings on a daily basis;

“That is the way the system works, right across the board… bit by bit. A steady stream of measures, each of them complex and obscure, building incrementally. The final destination is never declared openly and each measure is treated separately, until the project is complete, and the trap springs shut.

Apologists for the EU will claim that the member states have approved the measures, so this is not “Brussels” imposing the measures. It is simply “sovereign nation states co-operating together”.

But what this demonstrates is that a group of officials and one minister can effectively work together to take over the agenda without the bulk of MPs or officials being aware of what is going on.

In fact what is going on is constantly denied and those of us who take the time to explain what is going on are derided as little Englanders or Xenophobes or even Swivel Eyed Loons.

The commission is making it very clear that it is now the master – the general election is an irrelevance.