The Mail reports that the United Kingdom faces a £50billion bill under plans for a new tax raid by Brussels referencing a paper from Open Europe. In the same newspaper we also have an article by Mark Seddon querying why Cameron, Clegg and Miliband have all been so silent on that snippet of news.
Seddon writes:
"From their silence, do we assume they are happy that the unaccountable European Central Bank is now dictating economic policies across the Eurozone which also affect Britain? [.....] Many of our politicians seem incapable of doing anything more than mouthing platitudes. They should be telling voters how they plan to kickstart the economy."
Why would they waste breath on something over which they have no say? How can they plan to kickstart an economy over which they have no control due to oversight of their fiscal plans which are subject to agreement from the EU? In any event, to do so would only undermine all that crap about it being in this country's interests to remain a member of the EU.
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It's easy to think of the EU as a lot of foreigners and Westminster as being bullied into going along with its diktats. In fact, there's ample evidence that our government enthusiastically and loyally sees itself as the EU regional administration for the EU. The EU is more important to them than the UK. They have to pretend that they are independent.
The idea of the EU collapsing is as horrific to them as the idea of being on a ship sinking in mid ocean. Of course they are dead scared it will collapse, of course they will do everything they can to prop it up. They have to keep up the pretence that it's a club the UK is part of for its own reasons, but the pretence is becoming very thin.
There is no possible question that they know exactly how deep EU control is. It cannot be in any way a surprise to any minister, junior minister, private secretary or committee member, which leaves virtually every single MP fully in the know. Yet they all, without exception, maintain the fiction of national sovereignty. It can only be a deliberate conspiracy.
Of course, by political standards of integrity they are not being in the least disingenuous, after all all the EU directives are embedded in national acts of parliament, they haven't been imposed, they were brought to parliament and properly voted on by our representatives. Indeed they would argue that they could be rejected, if the will was there, so that makes them legitimate. On the other hand when you ask why they are simply nodded through without debate they argue that our representatives debated and agreed them in the European parliament, so they have already been accepted.
As you expect, they have an answer for everything.
I hope the EU does impose one or more of its direct taxes, at least that way ordinary people and the media as well as politicians will have to face reality and acknowledge that they are our rulers. Maybe then we will have our say.
c: Good comment and totally agree!
PC: "Maybe then we will have our say." - I wouldn't bank on it......!
"Maybe then we will have our say." I suppose what I should have said, and did mean, is that maybe then enough people will be sufficiently roused so that we will demand our say and not take no for an answer.
PC: Understood.......
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