The EU an Anti-democracy Organisation Part1
The EU an Anti-democracy Organisation
My standpoint of opposing the European Project is based on one single fundamental issue and that is the whole project is constructed on and supported by its being anti- democratic. Anti- democratic, because it is designed to remove the power of the people from any influence. Other than that influence the EU leaders condescend to allow, unlike in a real democracy where it is the people who are protected from the over use of the powers of the state by government. The EU is a false democracy, its leaders decide which freedoms to lend to its citizens and what power over the state and what protections from the state it will allow its citizens. Although at the same time demanding protection for themselves against legal sanctions for their conduct whilst in office.
When occasionally it cannot be avoided and the EU elites are forced to acknowledge the people, it only accepts their expressed wishes, if those are considered the “correct” decision. Otherwise the EU elites reaction is as epitomised in these statements of Giscard d’Estaing:
“rejection of the Constitution was a mistake which will have to be corrected” –
“if the Irish and the Danes can vote yes in the end, so the French can do it too.”-
“It was a mistake to use the referendum process, but when you make a mistake you can correct it.”
These sorts of comments by one of the leaders and main movers of the European Project indicate the deep seated institutionalised anti-democratic nature of the whole project. Making it totally clear that it is not just simply non-democratic as if by accident as a sort of by product of its construction, but its antipathy towards democracy is built into its very framework.
What this means is that short of deconstructing the whole edifice and starting again from the ground up there is very little room to make the EU democratic and therefore acceptable as a form of government and certainly not as the basis for a European state.
The European Political elites are so certain of the basic rightness of their cause that they show themselves only to willing to reduce the concept of democracy to nothing more than a slogan to be used to further their cause.
Even if it were possible to reform the present EU we would still be faced with the question of how it arrived at its present state. As it has only achieved its present state by anti-democratic means, would it not also be anti-democratic to accept the present position, if at some point the present power and authority were to be subject to some EU wide democratic accountability. I hope I have made that last point clear I might have to revise!
The argument offered against consulting the people in a referendum is that the people would not just confine themselves to the single question at hand; for instance (do we accept the Lisbon Treaty). I for one would answer NO, but in considering my answer, I would feel that I had every right to take into account all of the other treaties, where the British people have not been offered a choice. After all, had we been offered a choice then we would have been involved in the process thus making it democratic.
Whether I wanted it or not I was made a citizen of the EU? This was decide for me by the Conservative government when they forced through the
Others may differ on the issue of EU citizenship, and had we been asked at the time, as I accept the principals of democracy I must also live by its principals, and if enough of my countries voters had expressed their opposition to my opinion then I would willing go along with the majority. But as we were not asked then we cannot now be asked to just consider the effects on our citizenship in the Lisbon Treaty without also considering the whole question of our citizenship
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