Fatal distraction…An EU epic.
By EURSOC One
19 June, 2005
While Europe’s leaders humiliated themselves squabbling over money, taking the whole EU farce to unseen levels of degeneracy over Britain’s rebate.
It is worth reminding ourselves that the British taxpayers, given the choice, would most likely prefer to keep the £12 Billion and give nothing at all to Europe, so the £3 billion of their own money given back to them two years late is small compensation.
It is also worth reminding ourselves that the French and Dutch people gave Europe a resounding ‘no’ just a few weeks ago and those Europeans lucky enough to be asked their opinion were queuing up to destroy the dreaded treaty when their leaders put it into deep freeze, thus denying them a say.
“The French did not vote against the constitution” said Jean Claude Junker, the EU president, proving the adage ... "Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad."
The madmen were out in force at the European budget summit, you could see it in the jerky body language and the contorted faces of Chirac, Blair and all. The blame game, backstabbing and ambushes, the strutting and fretting made psychiatric Napoleons of them all.
Endless media commentary proclaiming a historic opportunity for Blair to reshape Europe misses the crucial point that his position on Europe is probably as illegitimate as Chirac’s in that the vast majority of Brits don’t want Europe at all. A poll by Sky News on the same day as the French referendum put the ‘No’ vote at over the ninety percent mark in Britain.
The French, on the other hand, far from not understanding the issues, understood them perfectly, in fact better than any other European people. The reason is simply that the French already live under the bureaucratic dictatorship that sporned the EU in the first place. France.
The EU is modern France imposed on the rest. The dismal failure of this model is plain for all to see. Not just as an economic model but from all aspects of government. Millions more French had already voted with their feet and now enjoy the benefits that come from living in freer societies.
Meanwhile the dismal attempt to deflect Europe’s lack of democratic legitimacy by haggling over its budget, only serves to drive a wedge between Europe’s leaders and its people.
Since the French ‘no’ vote Europe has become more real than its scheming creators ever imagined and it is beginning to unite against all odds.
Only it is uniting around a new democratic movement. The timeless ability of Europeans to revolt against corrupt and out of touch leaders is what binds them in common history and purpose.
European politics can now be defined on a pan European scale between the established political class on one hand and democrats, of all political persuasions, on the other.
A true peasants revolt…Vive La France.
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