Nationalists know only too well that the European Union is undemocratic and very dangerous.

Below you will find an interesting article published in Pravda written by a columnist disillusioned with the EU.

It’s worth a reading because it proves anti-EU ideas are spreading fast to countries that used to support the European Union.

The Monster that is the European Union

The European Union is the most undemocratic of institutions which exists only to serve the interests of those who for some reason are unable or unfit to enter the political hierarchy in their own member states and who pander to the interests of a clique of schemers and dreamers living in cloud cuckoo land under some demented illusion of a Quixotic chimera: a united Europe.

I was born outside the European Union in a country whose government had the bright idea to enter, without holding a referendum. I moved from this country to another one in Europe but outside the Union – Portugal. Again, the Government of this country decided to join. Without asking anyone. Nobody asked me where or how the money should be spent, nobody asked my opinion as to whether the structural funds were being well applied.

The US economist Michael Porter was asked to write a report, which was received with a scoffed sneer of derision by the Government of the then Prime Minister Anibal Silva (now President of Portugal), the man who claimed rarely to be in the wrong and usually in the right, through whose hands billions of Euros passed.

For what? The immediate result was a policy of public works which has gone on unabated in Portugal since the mid-1980s without producing any tangible results other than socio-economic indicators which become ever more depressing as countries like Cyprus and Malta move up the table and Portugal flounders and sinks lower and lower.

It is ironic that today a group of ex-Ministers of Finance of Portugal should be visiting President Silva, when it was precisely he who was the father of massive public spending in Portugal. Nobody asked me if I wanted Maastricht, nobody asked me if I wanted Nice, nobody asked me if I wanted the Treaty of Lisbon. Nobody asked me if I wanted to join the Euro and promptly see prices shoot up three-, four- or five-fold while salaries remained the same.

Nobody told me in any political manifesto that the ones who really control my pension and standard of living, the ones who really control the amount of taxes I pay at the end of the day are some faceless anonymities working in some rating agency on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean called Moody’s or Standard and Poors or Fitch.

They are the ones who unilaterally and anti-democratically attach some credit rating to Spain or Portugal or the Republic of Ireland or Italy or Greece (suppose we call them SPRIGs, symbolizing hope, instead of the derogatory “PIGS” which is an insult to those of us who worked hard all our lives in these countries?) And this credit rating has a direct effect on the coupons (interests) attached to the bonds, or national debt both at maturity (when the time for payment expires) and also upon the ability to sell new bonds (which affects income).

Nobody asked me if I wanted such a ludicrous scheme imposed on me, nobody told me that the financial system being created was unsustainable and subject to speculative raids. Not one single Government or European Institution has protected me even though I have spent decades fulfilling each and every single prerequisite that has been placed upon me.

Now as I near the age to receive my pension, because of the weird and wonderful anti-democratic European Union and its enlightened Eurocrats, I do not even know if I will have one. I do not know if I will receive my holiday subsidy. I do not know if the income I am supposed to receive will be available.

If this is the European Union, then I believe it is time to move one third and final time outside it and this time, never to come back in again.

John WHITEHOUSE

PRAVDA.Ru

http://www.moscowtopnews.com/

GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS

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Friday 2^nd, October 2009 is the day the Irish people will again be told to cede their sovereignty and freedom to the European Union.

They were allowed a referendum in 2008, and they voted “No.” They have now been told to vote again.

Ireland, the only one of  27 EU member States where the citizens were allowed a direct vote on their future.

In the other 26 countries, which together with Ireland make up the European Union, governments – and not the people – have already decided to transfer their national sovereignty to Brussels.

The EU leaders want Ireland to vote “yes.” They are forcing the Irish to vote again and again until they do say “yes.”

In the past weeks and months, politicians from all over Europe, including Ireland’s own government ministers, have been threatening the Irish people with the consequences of a second “No” vote. It would have serious economic repercussions, although they have not been too specific about what these repercussions will be.

The fact the Irish are being forced to hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty (Constitution) is indicative of the nature of the EU and the manner in which it “consults” people.

The EU is in the habit of giving recalcitrant populations another go if   they initially fail to see that what the EU leaders have decided is best for them.

What will happen in Ireland is important, because a “yes” vote would mean that the Lisbon Treaty will be in force (unless the Czech Republic refuse its ratification) and more powers would be handed to the unelected bureaucrats running the EU.

We did not have the option of a referendum in our own country the responsibility for this can firmly be laid at the door of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown; for Blair it was, who promised one, and then reneged on it when he realised that the majority of British voters would reject it out of hand. We don’t need to remind people about the treachery of our elected politicians, doing otherwise would be pointless.

We can only wait and hope for the best, and prepare for the worst.

We want to use this space to give credit to the only political party that can claim the moral high ground: Sinn Fein.

Sinn Fein, the party run by Gerry Adams is the best hope we have to stop a treaty that would end what is known as Great Britain, as a Union of Nation States.

It’s sad and ironic that a bunch of assassins responsible for the death of many innocent people on British soil, are now the only people who are doing something to save our nation, even if by default.

Of course we still blame them for what they did, and they haven’t paid for their crimes, (we pay them to not attend Parliament) but!, unlike the other three parties, they have always been honest about their hatred for British people, and they always made it clear they would represent the interests of the Catholic Irish.

It’s really very sad that we should wish good luck to Sinn Fein, but for that we must blame NuLabour  for its treachery and the Conservative Party for its cowardice.

GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS

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Ireland and Great Britain are two different islands with a few things in common. One of those is that they are both ruled by a treacherous political elite committed to giving away sovereignty to the undemocratic, authoritarian EU against the wish of voters.

What is going on in Ireland now is a reminder of the contempt elected politicians have for the people that elected them.
In June 2008 Irish voters rejected the Lisbon treaty in a referendum but government, far from respecting their wish, is forcing them to vote again next autumn. The result of this consultation will have effect well beyond Ireland as a no vote will have consequences for the whole european project.

Here in the UK native Britons can only wait and hope for the best, thanks to Gordon Brown who first promised a referendum but then changed his mind when he realised the majority of Britons would have voted no. Worse still one of the most influential figures against this treaty is Gerry Adams, the leader of the Sinn Fein. It’s a sad irony of history if a man, who not long ago was behind a violent terrorist campaign in which plenty of people have been killed on British soil, is now the best hope we have to prevent this country from disappearing into the european superstate.

A lot it’s at stake.

Even if already 80% of our laws are made in Brussels, with the Lisbon treaty decisions in crucial areas such as defence, foreign policy, immigration will be made by unelected EU commissioners and the Parliament will have less power than a parish council.

The Irish, unlike the British, tend to be more pro-european but lately they became more sceptical. One argument used against popular consultations on EU policy is that voters are too stupid to understand such complex matters and they use elections to punish politicians for reasons that have nothing to do with Europe. Even if this is true, the Irish have a lot to be unhappy with. After many years of strong economic growth, they are in the middle of a severe recession caused by the membership of the Euro.

When Ireland adopted the single currency, lower interest rates caused a housing and credit bubble that sparked a consumption boom fuelled by debt. The following credit crunch had a devastating effect on the Irish economy. Unlike Britain, Ireland cannot devaluate its currency, cut its interest rates or print more money so the Irish government has very little space for  manouvre.

The ruling coalition is very unpopular and they have no chance to be re-elected so now they are using any dirty trick to convince the Irish to vote yes. The latest is to deny absolute equality of airtime to opposing sides of the referendum debate during editorial coverage but instead to give equal time to all the political parties. The problem is that more parties are in favour of the treaty than against so, in practical term, the yes side will receive much coverage that the no side.

Nothing new, after all the story of the European Union is a tale of spin, lies and deception, in Britain as well as in Ireland.

GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS

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I sometimes wonder what we are coming to. The House of Commons voted on it. The House of Lords gave its verdict on it. Now we face an unexpected legal challenge. Wouldn’t it be easier to play by the rules and get rid of the Lisbon Treaty altogether or at least allow the British people to have a say. If we had had a referendum at the very beginning we would not need to witness such a shameful legal spectacle having the courts judging the legality of what has been approved by Parliament.

It cannot be good for democracy to have a system in which the British Electorate is taken for a ride without being democratically consulted and then see Parliament descend into what looks very much like a couple having their marital affairs been exposed in public during divorce proceedings.

Why cannot we have a Prime Minister with enough political moral stamina to call a referendum? Prime Minister, let us have a referendum. Let the People speak and whatever the verdict you could then say: the British People have spoken and this is what the People have decided. No legal challenges, no shambles, just the will of the Electorate expressed with ballots.

The obstinacy of the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown MP reminds us of the obstinacy of Robert Mugabe. Mugabe wants things to go his way, whatever the consequences by whichever means.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown MP, we are not in Zimbabwe. We are in Britain and in Britain of all places, we should have a say and we expect our Prime Ministers to be ready and willing to consult the Electorate and to be ready and willing to respect the will of the Electorate.

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