World Delusions of Politicos And Their Media Whores

The UK's world role: Great Britain's greatness fixation

Britain has no such potency [ie as important world power]. Yet we still struggle to adjust to our reality. We can propose, as we shall be doing in three important London meetings this week, but we cannot dispose. Every day, the descant of the Chilcot inquiry reminds us of where the refusal to recognise this truth can humiliatingly lead. Our national interest should be to play our important role as a true, trusted and committed European partner on the world stage. No longer the greatest. Just one great among others. Good enough ought to be good enough. The people get it. If only the politicians did too.

'We can propose...'? 'We'? - what 'we' is this? We, the people, won't be proposing anything at all. We are not struuggling to 'adjust' to any reality. The 'we' of those sentences is the corrupt political class, which has no relation to the populace of the country.

I'm pretty sick of being told Britain has lost its role because it is no longer an imperial power. I'm even sicker of idiots telling us we should drown our sovereignty and identity within the EU in some sort effort to retain our international standing.

This is the waffle of vain politicians and their toadies in the media. As far as my own experience goes, the people don't give a fig for the loss of imperial power or for Britain's 'importance' or role in the world. Gordon Brown is but the latest in a line of Prime Ministers bloated with vanity who strutted around on the world stage proclaiming the greatness of Britain when all they were really doing was saying 'Look at me, aren't I a great world statesman?'

This country would be better off if our politicians concentrated on domestic matters and improving the lot of the people and let the rest of the world get on with its own affairs and wars by itself (especially American wars). That includes the EU. There is no such thing as a European identity. And Europe will never be a nation, whatever the EU does, whatever its apologists say.

The people aren't deluded. The politicians are.

The Gradual Abolition of Britain

The EU are keen to banish fears that its regional policy will lead to the bypassing of national governments and the establishment of a 'Europe of Regions'. The truth, of course, is rather different.

The regional layer of government is already in place (Prescott's tentative foray into democracy on the matter a few years ago resulted in a resounding no - which was completely ignored). Regions are able to apply directly to the EU for funding which isn't supplied by central government. Our money goes to Brussels, collected nationally through VAT and other mechanisms; then the regions cadge some of it back.

In addition to the dividing of England into eight regions, there is also another administrative imposition, under the INTER-REG programme that 'helps Europe’s regions form partnerships to work together on common projects'. It was this that the Daily Mail was railing against earlier in the year.

Brussels' claims that all this is scaremongering is typical mendacity from the unelected anti-democrats who legislated on wonky fruit, denied that they had done so, then when confronted with the truth suddenly said they had relaxed those regulations.

Such is the mendacity of our own spineless politicians, however, that they continue to carry out the behest of the EU without making any mention of their political masters. Take a look at the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill 2007: top of the first page: 'Change from two tiers to one tier of local government'. Bye bye county councils and counties; bye bye District Councils, etc. Hello to big amorphous, distant blocs.

Meanwhile Brown and his cretinous crew have been going on about 'Britishness' and British values (all the while avoiding talk about England, which will end up without a national government of its own, unlike Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) - presumably in a vain attempt to make people feel better when they realise what's actually happened.