Richard North*, EU Referendum, posts on an article in the Observer, that article referring to one by Jose Manuel Barroso also in the same newspaper, in which he repeats his call for deeper integration within the European Union. He commences his article with a statement that is completely laughable in context:
"Today, on Remembrance Sunday, the United Kingdom commemorates the end of the first world war, which brought four years of intolerable carnage to an end. The second week in November is also the week of the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, when freedom prevailed over totalitarian rule." (Emphasis mine)
That last sentence must rank as the most memorable and delusional quotation of all time. Those words will undoubtedly come back to haunt him when, with the disintegration of the European Union, freedom will indeed prevail over totalitarian rule - only this time people will not make the mistake of exchanging one set of despots for another.
Barroso continues, discussing the need for deepening convergence and integration of the European Union which in his view must also involve deeper democracy:
"I have read with some fascination the recent spate of articles that Europe is being run by officials who are taking over from elected politicians. The reality is somewhat different. Bodies like the European commission and European Central Bank have a duty to act in the common interest, especially when the political and economic stability of the EU is endangered. That means setting out a clear course of action and recommending difficult decisions. But it does not change the fact that European governments take the final decisions and that national parliaments and the European parliament guarantee democratic legitimacy."
How this man has the effrontery to deny that in Greece and Italy recently the governments of those two countries were not allowed to make any decision but were in fact dictated to by the EU and reduced to the state of being protectorates; and then to maintain that national parliaments and the European parliament guarantee democratic legitimacy, stretches logic to unimaginable limits.
Not just today, Remembrance Sunday, but every day that I have to look at this man together with his EU colleagues - who are aided and abetted by our own Quisling politician** - my revulsion for them knows no bounds.
* I would wish to publicly add my voice to those who have welcomed back RN to the blogosphere.
** From Inspector Gadget comes a picture with a most telling comment (and I trust he will forgive me nicking something from the police!)
One thing in common. Not a campaign service medal or bravery award between them.
5 comments:
"Bodies like the European commission and European Central Bank have a duty to act in the common interest, especially when the political and economic stability of the EU is endangered."
Problem is who defines "the common interest"? The EC and the ECB? What separates it from their narrow interests?
Looks like "the common interest" is then defined to be bound up with the continuation of the EU. What if the commons who have this interest, aren't a homogeneous whole, have several interests and happen not to all see things this way?
I see this as an appeal to his EU "colleagues" to get a grip and the recognition that there is no inevitability to the EU. It's a backhanded declaration that he's fearful for his interests.
"One thing in common. Not a campaign service medal or bravery award between them."...and not one of them deserves to be present, let alone given special treatment, at the ceremony.
I hope I live to see a day when they are punished for what they have done, despicable bunch of losers that they are.
c: Nice comment but would add as I did elsewhere in my comments section, this could well be a softening up exercise for our entry into the euro......
jic: keep watching, don't think it may be long now.......
could well be a softening up exercise for our entry into the euro.
Not so certain. Britain is probably the most indebted country in the OECD and would really destabilise the EuroZone. It is way ahead of Greece or Italy and second only to the USA in terms of trade deficit but way ahead of the USA in terms of external banking liabilities - of $700 TRILLUION in Derivatives exposure globally, probably 50% emanated from London
Entry into the Euro?
The Euro really wouldn't want us in anything like the current circumstances to add to its other problems. It's a serious question as to whether there'll be a Euro to enter for much longer.
It would be at least a difficult sell in the UK.
Only EuroLoons like Clegg and Hezzer are calling for it and they look like Hitler sending imaginary divisions into battle.
Stranger things have happened and we are in uncharted waters, but I really don't believe that one's a flier.
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