A Conspiracy Against The Public

It seemed like more than just mere coincidence that on the day chosen by I Want A Referendum to stage a mass lobby of MPs in Parliament, lunatic eco-fringe protestors decided to scale the Houses of Parliament.

As it now turns out, it was probably not a coincidence at all. It’s suspected that the eco-protesters were given access to Parliament by either an MP or researcher – an act that was no doubt purposefully staged to divert media attention away from our Referendum Rally taking place below.

This cunning ruse of course worked like a charm. The media (always desperate for scandal and sensation) rapidly made the rooftop protest their main news item. As I returned to Paddington station after the rally, billboards advertising the Evening Standard claimed to have exclusive photographs of the eco-protest. No mention of the far larger and more important EU Referendum rally.

Be that as it may, the Referendum Rally and Lobbying seemed to go well, though obviously the likelihood of us obtaining a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty looks increasingly slim. When I arrived in Westminster just after lunch the day’s events were already in full swing. While the eco-morons chained themselves to the Parliament roof railings, those participating in the Referendum Rally below and waiting to lobby their MP engaged in that most British of things: they formed a long and orderly queue.

Elsewhere at the Methodist Central Hall I listened to a number of speeches by various campaign group leaders including trade unionists, MEPs, and the Director of the I Want A Referendum. The best among these speeches were probably those by Roger Helmer MEP (who gained quite a few laughs from the audience) and the Sunday Telegraph Columnist, Christopher Booker.

However, as Dr Richard North commented on his EU Referendum blog yesterday:

When today’s day return tickets to London are tomorrow’s waste, the issues will still be there. When the Lisbon treaty is ratified, they will still be there. When the European Union brings out its next treaty – which indeed it will – the issues will still be there.

He is completely correct. We need to remember that this will be a long and protracted battle to regain the freedoms and liberties of the democracy our country once was. Today was only one such battle – there will be many others.

Power, Lies & Deception

Intriguing, is it not, how elections halfway across the world elicit greater coverage from our media than the fundamental changes that are about to be undertaken in our own country?

I refer of course to the Presidential Primaries in the United States and the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty currently being rammed through the Houses of Parliament by our Labour administration.

The British media, increasingly obsessed as it is by celebrity, personality, scandal and sensationalism, has revelled in the spectacle of the US Primaries where it gleefully and simplistically portrays the contest as one between black and white, male and female, youth and experience, continuity and change, all to its heart’s content.

The same cannot be said of British media coverage on the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty where there have (thankfully I suppose) only been minor attempts to portray the issue in terms of personalities and scandal – possibly because most of our European Leaders do not have any personalities of which to speak – and in fact, for the most part, journalistic scrutiny has disgracefully been kept to a bare minimum or is practically nonexistent.

As you might imagine, discussion and analysis of the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty would require the examination of many lengthy, important and complex reams of text – something viewed as potentially dull, laborious and unattractive by many in the media class who far prefer the prospect of being able to endlessly fill their columns with prattle about the personal (rather than political) differences between various American Senators in reverent, feverous and excited tones. Yet, in comparison to the US Primaries, the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty will have far greater and more influential affects on us and our everyday lives than the election of any US President.

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Sleepwalking Into Tyranny

There are two YouTube videos that I will be linking to in the course of this post that I believe need to be as widely aired as possible. If you own a blog please write a piece linking to the videos too.

The first video is of a sizable protest made by MEPs of both the Left and Right from many different nations within the EU Parliament in December. The protestors were admirably calling for referendums to be held on the adoption of the Lisbon ‘Reform’ Treaty – a treaty which is essentially identical to the EU Constitution; a stance previously accepted by many MEPs and state governments until it became apparent that the people may in fact vote ‘no’.

In the video you will see the complete intolerance with which the European Parliament treats those protesting for a referendum. Parliamentary officials are ordered to remove Referendum banners and persistent attempts are made to prevent the perfectly legal filming of the event.

The second video assembles extracts from various speeches made by different MEPs in the European Parliament across a number of months. They go some way towards highlighting the complete hypocrisy of those opposing referendums on the Lisbon Treaty and just why the denial of such promised national votes is wholly undemocratic.

The video also highlights the plight of Conservative MEP, Daniel Hannan who has all but been thrown out of the EPP. The comments that he made can be seen in the video. Firstly watch the polite and mild-mannered way in which Mr Hannan compares the undemocratic and probably illegal actions that gave Parliamentary President, Hans Gert-Pöttering arbitrary powers to prevent protest within the EU’s chambers to that of the Enabling Act. Then watch and listen again to comments from Martin Schulz, Graham Watson and Daniel Cohn-Bendit which openly question the mental stability of those calling for referendums on the Lisbon Treaty; claim that such referendum protests were ‘intolerable’ and claim that eurosceptics remind them of Hitler.

Daniel Hannan on his Telegraph blog points out just why this is so utterly hypocritical:

You can see the Liberal leader, Graham Watson claiming that the sceptics’ behaviour “recalls the actions of the Communists in the Russian Diet and the National Socialists in the German Reichstag”. (Can this be the same Graham Watson who claimed that my own far more discreet reference to the Enabling Act “plumbs new depths in UK-EU relations and in the Tories’ approach to democracy in the EU”?) And you can see the Socialist leader Martin Shulz saying that the sceptics made him think of Adolf Hitler. (Can this be the same Martin Shulz who said I should have no home on the European Parliament?)

I’ve always been of the view that references to the Nazi era should be made, as the Common Prayer Book says of marriage, “reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly.” I’ve explained why before in this blog. Even so, I find myself attacked on all sides for making even the most tangential and qualified reference. So why does no one criticise the Watsons and Shulzes who habitually dismiss their opponents as Hitlerite?

This is the true face of the undemocratic European Union. These are the actions which the EU’s most ardent supporters do not want us to see. Without most people realising what is happening we are slowly sleepwalking into tyranny and away from the hard won democratic freedoms which took generations and two world wars to secure.

We Should All Just Give Up

According to Conservative MEP, Dr Charles Tannock in an article on ConservativeHome, he suggests that we should all just meekly accept British membership of the European Union.

While reading Dr Tannock’s article it occurred to me that somewhere before I had previously read very similar comments. It was only a few hours later that I recalled an interview by Euractiv with Reijo Kemppinen made upon his appointment as the EU Commission’s top representative in Britain. During that interview in 2005 Mr Kemppinen remarked:

I am not a missionary. My job is not to convert or preach to people. I am really seriously not interested in selling or promoting positive stories about the EU. My point is that the time has gone when it was useful to debate whether the EU is a good or a bad thing. We need a policy-led debate.

Curious, is it not, that a Conservative MEP who claims he is against further ceding of our sovereign self-governing democratic power to Brussels just happens to take much the same attitude as the EU Commission’s high representative? Well, not really. The European Union is good for the politicians, not good for the people – which is exactly why our political class will do everything in its power to prevent the European project being questioned.