So Where’s That Referendum Mr Cameron?

Before the General Election, you may recall that we were repeatedly assured, despite all evidence to the contrary, that David Cameron was actually really rather conservative and eurosceptic, and that he would show his true colours once in office.

Commentators within the right-wing media assured their readers that obtaining office was absolutely vital, and that in a press dominated by the BBC and the liberal-left then Mr Cameron was forced, hands behind his back, to kowtow to the liberal elite in order to not so much gain their support, but pacify their criticism.

Not to worry we were earnestly told. If the Conservatives portrayed themselves as the heirs to Blair and moved to the Left on a number of supposedly minor, largely irrelevant social and economic issues then the BBC and Guardian would be totally wrong-footed.

All that hugging of hoodies, understanding rather than punishing criminals, reneging on referendum pledges, capitulation to equality and diversity, dictatorial control of party candidate lists, promises to match Labour’s state spending plans, attacks on selection by academic ability, the protection of the bloated welfare state, sexual liberalism, ‘investing’ yet more of our money in the lumbering and inefficient NHS bureaucracy, further commitments to maintaining British troops in Afghanistan, and so on – it was all a front to deceive Parliament’s gatekeepers in the liberal media establishment into allowing the Tory party back into office.

Dave really didn’t mean it at all. Honest. Upon entering the door of Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister, his leftist visage would dissipate, and as if by a miracle, a great light would shine down upon him from the heavens and seconds later the real David Cameron would re-emerge to govern as a real, true-blooded Tory eurosceptic rather than under the very limp-wristed social democrat policies by which he had been elected.

Many of us didn’t believe it then, and of course even more are, if slowly, beginning to realise the truth now. David Cameron is not a conservative; he is a social democrat. He was elected as one and he will govern as one. Thus, the circle is now complete. The transfer from Blair and Brown to Cameron has seen the personnel change, but the policies have not – and they won’t change.

It therefore comes as little surprise that our Prime Minister has ruled out a Referendum vote on the proposed creation of a new EU Treasury, revealed today by the Daily Mail. That supposedly robust euroscepticism from our boy Dave is looking rather thin on the ground isn’t it? The Mail comments:

In a move likely to infuriate his party, Mr Cameron has already ruled out the prospect of giving the British public a say on the plans for a superstate. The Prime Minister will argue that a referendum on the proposals is unnecessary because the changes would only affect the countries in the single currency. But that stance was dismissed yesterday on the grounds that the plans will still have a profound effect on Britain by radically changing the nature of the EU, effectively shackling the UK to any new institutions. Tory MPs branded the likely changes ‘bigger than Maastricht’ – the treaty which led to the creation of the European Union and the single currency – and demanded a referendum.

In reality, Cameron’s referendum lock on transfers of power to the European Union was always a sham. When it was announced, the measure was used in an attempt to put the EU issue to bed, at a time when Mr Cameron was coming under sustained attack for his reneging on his commitment of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

The lock itself is utterly meaningless as the Government can simply deny that a transfer of power will occur, as many European states did with the Lisbon Treaty, and therefore deny a referendum. A more useful measure would be to ask the Government in what situations a transfer of power would exist to allow a referendum? I don’t think Mr Cameron and company would like that though.

Instead, while Dave continues to break his pledges and further increase the size of our national debt, the European Union lurches on with its usual attempts to further ever closer union in this latest ‘beneficial crisis’ in the Euro zone. Don’t expect our MPs and castrated Parliament to come riding to the rescue either. It’s mass economic default that lies ahead, or ever closer union (courtesy of Dave). Whichever way you look spells disaster on a grand scale.

Prepare For The Worst

You cannot be betrayed by those that you do not trust. Labour’s predictable reluctance and later refusal to fulfil their promise of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty was not a betrayal because we had never placed our trust in them by voting their representatives into office.

What is more, the Labour Party, as a whole, are ideologically in favour of the European project and ever closer union between EU member states. They are willing backers of the increasing burden of unaccountable regulation that arrives daily from Brussels and now enthusiastically support ‘the destruction of a thousand years of history’ as their former leader Hugh Gaitskell once pertinently observed. They do little to disguise their views on the issue.

Meanwhile, millions of conservatives will feel deeply betrayed by the Conservative Party; an organisation in which they had placed their trust and support, often over decades, through the ballot box and paid membership. Cameron’s climb down on his formerly ‘cast iron’ guarantee of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty has signalled that the party no longer represents their interests.

Even after all that has happened many millions of people will continue to consider the Conservative Party to be ‘eurosceptic’ – a phrase that supposedly betokens a stance of disapproval and opposition to the European Union and all its works. In reality however, ‘euroscepticism’ has revealed itself to be nothing more than a facade for Conservative politicians both past and present to make vaguely anti-EU statements in opposition, only for them to betray their voters and capitulate to the perpetual slow motion coup d’état of ever closer union once safely in Government.

Tomorrow, David Cameron will announce his party’s new stance on the European Union. Do not expect much. Despite knowing for months that the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty would be likely, they had not prepared for such an eventuality. Such planning does not exactly bode well for their performance in Government.

In his statement tomorrow, much will be made by Cameron of Labour’s deceit in reneging on their promise of a referendum. Much will be made of how the Treaty will have been implemented into EU and our law by the time of any UK General Election in which the Conservatives could obtain office. Little however will be made of what the Conservatives might do about this. It will all be rather vague. Pointers will be made to the repatriation of powers, though without specifics or indeed how this will be achieved.

Cameron is therefore set for an historic moment. As Gerald Warner in the Daily Telegraph noted, he will be the first British leader to have ratted on his commitments before even taking office. Warner also remarked that:

There is always some shambling excuse, some pseudo-sophisticated ‘reason’ for submitting to humiliation: we cannot have a referendum on a ratified treaty… It would lead to our ejection from the European Union… We mustn’t let Labour back in… The illusion of inevitability – a fundamental Marxist tenet – has successfully been foisted upon British voters by the Frankfurt School Marxists who control the EU.

Despite Team Cameron’s best efforts to sideline the major issues surrounding our membership of the European Union, they have come back to bite him in the backside – as we knew they would.

A Thousand Years Of History

Our late Indian summer is at an end and the first chilled winds of October bring with them tidings of Ireland’s eventual capitulation to the unceasing machine of European integration.

Despite a valiant rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish last year in the face of overwhelming opposition from their entire political class, the media and big business, the nation that once sought independence from British rule has been bullied into accepting rule from distant Brussels.

Only Poland and the Czech Republic have yet to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, and it will likely not be long before they do. As the Czech President Vaclav Klaus sadly noted to waiting journalists:

The Irish had the last chance to say something about Lisbon… because after today’s Irish referendum there will never be another referendum in Europe.

And slowly but surely, as day turns to night, the EU’s slow motion coup d’état takes effect. Our sovereignty has been strangled, our independence dissolved. Squandered are centuries of hard won liberties, rights and freedoms – so often without our knowledge or even a care. It is, as Hugh Gaitskell so accurately predicted, to be the end of a thousand years of history.

Yet, there is hope. We, as a nation, are still capable of saving ourselves from the jaws of defeat as we have so many times before. Perhaps it will be that resilience of character and spirit that sees us through again – but only if we will it to be so. For there will be no-one else behind us to catch us should we falter or fall; no foreign intervention to rescue us from our fate.

That decision is up to us now. Either we wake from our delusions of a benevolent European Union, realise that our future as a truly democratic nation lies in grave danger, and resolve to act – or we slowly subside into bureaucracy, and foreign rule by an unelected state, a fate for which we will only have ourselves to blame.

The Real Reason

Despite public protestations from most EU leaders and Commissioners to the contrary, it is becoming increasingly clear that the only public vote on the Lisbon Treaty will not be respected.

Vice President of the EU Commission, Margot Wallström has given the game away and admitted the real reason why the elite feel it is perfectly acceptable to ignore the Irish Referendum result on the Lisbon Treaty.

Speaking in a debate on the Lisbon Treaty in which anti-treaty MEPs held a protest, Ms Wallström told the EU Parliament:

Don’t forget the European leaders have invested a lot of political capital into this whole procedure.

So, there you have it. The European political elite can safely ignore Irish public opinion because they have put a lot of effort into securing their Constitution. That must make it alright then.