Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's blast on the trumpet against the fascist tendencies of the EU oligarchy is one to cut out and keep. It should be a set text in every school in the United Kingdom. Especially every law school.
Its headline is Gordon Brown is preparing to break the law over Ireland’s EU vote.
True. But why?
A comment on A E-P's blog writes:
I
wonder if it, at least in part, stems from being accustomed to wielding
huge discretionary power. Most of our law is now made by politicians
through secondary legislation – Parliament passes broad enabling Acts,
allowing the government to operate much more freely of Parliament.
Britain's whole relationship with the EU is founded on this basis, as
must be the case for all the other EU members: we pass the treaties
into law and the EU leaders are then collectively invested with massive
discretionary powers, free of the constraints of their electorates and
Parliaments.
Most of
the unimpressive modern generation of Europe's senior professional
politicos (as well as being over-promoted political midgets compared
with their predecessors) have absolutely no experience of the cold
winds of the real world in which ordinary citizens have to live, on
tight budgets, without red carpets and special advisers, chefs and
chauffeurs.
They are an
international club of comfortable, smug, taxpayer-funded jet-setters,
bowed-to and oiled up to by place-seekers wherever they go, like
mediaeval princes. The sort people died to overthrow in ages past.
Ever
since the founding fathers of the United Europe project persuaded six
nations to emasculate themselves… just a little bit, at first…
decades ago, it has been clear that the domestic political stage was a
lesser platform than it had been in the days of empires. It was not so
easy for third-rate politicians to strut the world stage.
So,
they said to each other, let us build ourselves a new Empire in which
we can appoint each other to princely status without interference from
the ignorant peasantry who simply do not understand the realities of
world politics. The little people, unlike ourselves, are incapable of thinking geopolitically, or philosophically.
We shall distract
them with an agenda comprising various 'rumours of domestic war'. We
will concentrate their minds on matters of immediate self-interest like
'the cost of living' and 'health care'. 'Forty-five minutes to save the
health service' might be a useful slogan.
The Iron Curtain is tissue-thin and will not last, and when it falls we shall need a new global enemy with which to frighten them into passivity while we advance The Project. A Good Cause, through which to enslave them. 'Global Warming,' said the Socialists. In
searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that
pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and
the like would fit the bill. – The First Global Revolution”, Club of
Rome, 1991, page 104. ]
And so The Project advanced, attracting new generations of even tinier would-be princes, for whom the appearance of greatness was enough. (They could never, ever aspire to actual
greatness.) One's own country was not a wide enough grandstand but a
whole continent, now, on a par with the United States of America? Oh,
yes.
All politicians are
power junkies. If you can't get the power, then get the next best thing
- its trappings. Join the club where you associate only with people
like yourself, away from that madding crowd of smelly, awkward,
questioning electors who know that they pay for your self-important
lifestyle and can throw you out into the cold darkness… out of power.
So,
entrench yourself in power, beyond their reach. Detach from them
altogether. Remove their residual powers over you. Invalidate the
electoral process (but be careful never to seem to abolish it). Make
elections irrelevant by removing your own powers to a safe place, out of reach: 'pooling sovereignty' with other nations.
BUT. Arrange that the transferred powers remain in your hands and those of your peers in The Club: other heads of government and a claque of appointed officials. Make the first duty of those officials the preservation and extension of the powers of the Club.
In
this way, your charmed life can continue, far away from the critical
gaze of the little people whose freedoms you may now abuse with impunity,
and who must live by a massive rule-book whose million rubrics would
put even those of Charlemagne and Ramses in the shade. You will have
removed their right of criticism and of redress. They will now have to
accept whatever you give them, complain as they may.
You
have replaced a rag bag of awkward, inefficient, fractious old
'democracies' with a united supranational, smoothly efficient
group-dictatorship, an Aristotleian Oligarchy, whose administration is
entirely controlled by you and 'the colleagues' and whose chief purpose
is the elimination of differences between 'these and those', between
'here and there', so that all may work together under the instructions
of the bureaucrats for the perpetuation of the Club for its own sake
and for your aggrandisement.
Sign here.
Aah.
A new dawn has broken, has it not? And now for the appointment of the new President.
Heil Hitler.
Hattip Prodicus
