Why do all the 'main' parties love the EU so much?
Poll after poll shows that between 55% and 75% of the British population want to GET OUT OF THE EU, and rejoin a free trade association with Europe (What we voted to join; and which the two richest countries in Europe, Switzerland and Norway, are lucky enough to enjoy). Surely there must be votes in adopting a policy that the public wants? So why, oh why, do our political parties all clamour to be in the European Superstate?
Here are some thoughts:
1. In the old days, we used to make our own laws. Papers before the House of Commons had to be read in detail; and thought about; and debated, at length; often until all hours of the night. Then the laws could, eventually, after scrutiny in the Lords, be passed and made law. That is what MPs used to do and what we paid them to do.
But now, 80% of our laws come directly from the 170,000 (!!!) unelected employees of the European Commission. These fellows have nothing to do but write laws, which they do by the hundred. They are not debated, but presented, often bunched together for speed, and are passed, unread, by MEPs voting as automatons in the European ‘Parliament’. Then these new laws are shunted to Westminster; they are supposed to be scrutinised but few are. Then they become law. So the first answer is sheer idleness: some one else does the work, takes the responsibility off the shoulders of our MPs, that we are paying for…nothing.
2. In the old days, our MPs stood, won, had a job until the next election, then could be fired. It was a precarious life. But, if an MP licks the EU bottom hard enough, he is more or less guaranteed a job in the Commission if dejobulated. Look at Leon Brittain, made redundant by Maggie. Look at Kinnock, rewarded for losing an election (against John Major- what a feat). Kinnock’s wife and children are lords of the rings in Brussels, too. Look at Patton, who could not hold a safe seat, was shunted out to the colonies, came back and lost another safe seat. And look at Mandelson, twice sacked from the British government for unacceptable dishonesty and general slime, rewarded with top jobs, huge payouts, £31500 per year pension after 3 years in the job. Come on, if you were a greedy greasy person only interested in your own advancement, you’d fawn on the Europeans too, wouldn’t you?
3. You would think that, since all the power is in Brussels, our ministers would have less power and would feel frustrated. But this is not so. If a minister, in our old parliamentary system, wanted a certain policy, he had to fight for it; he had to present it and debate it; it would without doubt be challenged, and changed; it would be hard work. But ministers can meet in Brussels and chat among themselves; they can propose what they want and have it rubber stamped through the Commission and the European Parliament, without ever having to work it through parliament. So in this backhanded way, they can by-pass Parliament and scrutiny and get their own baby adopted. There is glory for you!
4. There is a big golden carrot hanging over the superstate: that of being President of the United States of Europe! Blair, in his more modest moments, sees himself in this role. Why did he go to Europe, dolloping back our multi billion pound rebate on the false pretence that he would buy reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP in hand) with it. He knew he would fail, he did fail, and welcomed his failure, because he had bought the favour of the French and German leaders - with our money! Of course he may have competition from Sarkosy, another contender with seriously sun scorched trousers, who came to power pretending right wing ‘pro business pro competition’ and is now an adherent of European and French socialism and protectionism.
5. What about all the good loyal solid British MPs who join to serve their
country? MP’s work is not that rewarding in itself; of course many of them
steal our money in ways that a regular citizen would be locked up for and
don’t need any more. But promotion, jobs, even selection depend on the approval
from on high in the party. The top knobs are busy sniffing round the EU;
and the lesser dogs are sniffing at their own top dogs. Many MPs of all
the main parties know that their leaders are throwing away our sovereignty,
and are embracing the super state; but they do nothing to rock the boat,
or to jeopardise their chance of preferment.
6. The perception of our democracy is that we elect MPs to represent our views. The perception is false. Once elected, MPs fall into the Party Machine and are controlled by the Party Whips, the Rottweilers that keep MPs under party control. Our MPs represent the Party line and impose it on us, the very opposite of what we elect them for. This is how the 3 ‘main’ quisling parties can embrace the EU warmly while 55 to 75% of we voters want Out of the EU.
7. And what about the point that there surely must be votes for the party that expresses the same preference as the people? Surely that is what democracy is? Silly. If all the competing parties agree among themselves to take the same line, as they do, there is nothing to be won by listening to the people, is there? If business leaders agreed such a cartel, they’d be locked up. Surely our MPs could not be so craven? Come on, these chaps are professional politicians, you’d better believe it…..There are about 10 MPs who have principles on this matter.
8. But in spite of these good reasons, surely they seem a bit thin to be the causes of such deep treacheries? Are there other reasons? Is something more sinister going on?
One theory is based on the power of global big business and big supra-national companies, the ones that can afford huge donations to political parties and sponsoring of organisations. These supranational would like to hold sway across the nations, and to have the same rules everywhere; to them undemocratic institutions such as the EU are easier to manipulate and to control than a lot of disparate nations.
And, read Lindsey Jenkins’ “Britain Held Hostage”; the German and French governments also crave control of Europe on their own terms and they likewise find it easier to get the control through the unelected bureaucracy of the EC; they are prepared to put a lot of resource behind it. So all the political parties are bought and infected by this poison, to want and to support the EU; and this supranational government, once in place, becomes virtually irremovable (which ever party is elected in any former nation).
All the leading organisations within a country are infiltrated at the highest levels by a small number of paid converts to the EU cause, paid for by our own taxes thanks to compliant governments. Does this explain, for example, why the Federation of Small Businesses, whose members are almost to a man against the encroaching powers of the EU, are represented nationally by a leadership that is very keen on the EU; and why the TUC is 100% behind the EU in the matter of the Working Time Directive, while a poll of the actual workers shows them 90% against; and why the British Standards Institution, a venerable old body that used to create some of the best structural design codes in the world, are paid by the EU to embrace and to encourage the spread of the ghastly Euro codes, against the wishes of the industries that use their output?
9. So no single cause but a collection of causes: idleness, greed, security of employment, the chance of super-promotion, lack of censure against treachery, the machinations of big business and the national desires of the leaders of 2 of the most powerful nations in Europe: these are the reasons our craven main parties, the Lib Lab Con, are unanimously behind the EU. Ask your own MP, see if he or she has any other reason.
We do not know the answers to all of this. One thing for certain: UKIP is not in the pay of any big business or pressure group. UKIP is the only non-racist non-sectarian party that is resisting the EU. When we start getting votes, we gain power to resist.