The Last Ditch And Getting It Right On The EU

The Last Ditch: Again, Wat posts the graph that matters. Precisely.

Why the EU needs the Brits.

Our cash.

Obvious.

M. Lellouche, you didn't ought to talk to us like that.

Stuff 'em.

As noted also by Burning Our Money. With that graph.

It Takes Three Thick Guardian Journos To Get It Wrong

Cameron promises bruising battle with EU as Czechs sign Lisbon treaty | World news | The Guardian

Arguments over the new rule book have consumed the EU elites for so long that the Lisbon treaty is certain to be the last such big reform of the way the union works for a long time. It is aimed at streamlining EU decision-taking, through a new system of voting that enhances Germany's muscle as the EU's biggest country and the abolition of national vetoes in many policy areas.

No, it isn't, you useless hacks.

And the EU doesn't need another treaty because this one gives them all the powers they need to do anything they want.

The article bears not one but three names: Ian Traynor, Nicholas Watt and Patrick Wintour. And they still get it wrong.

To paraphrase what old computer geeks would say: RTFT - Read The Fucking Treaty.

Tais-Toi, Lellouche, Vous Etes Un Con

French Europe minister Pierre Lellouche labels David Cameron's EU plans 'autistic' - Telegraph

Mr Lellouche said he was reflecting Nicolas Sarkozy's "sadness and regret" at David Cameron's recently-announced plan to strengthen British sovereignity, warning it would "castrate" the country's position within the EU.

His outburst reflects the growing sense of frustration with Britain's reluctance to fully engage with the union, and is all the more potent because it comes from a keen Anglophile.

The UK has no real 'influence' in the EU, never had and never will. The Franco-German axis decide everything and they don't want the Brits taking an active part (see earlier post concerning D'Estaing's comments in Le Figaro).

Interesting also to note that Lellouche and his colleagues are so against national sovereignty, isn't it? I bet none of our highly-educated media kids don't bother to think about that.

Cameron may have been spitted by this mularkey but Lellouche's frothing rhetoric reveals the delusions that sustain all the EU elite:

"It is a time of tumultuous waters all around us. Wars, terrorism, proliferation, Afghanistan, energy with Russia, massive immigration, economic crisis," he said. "It is time when the destiny of Europe is being defined – whether or not we will exist as a third of the world's GDP capable of fighting it out on climate, on trade, on every Goddamn issue on the surface of the Earth.

"We need to be united, otherwise we will be wiped out and marginalised. None of us can do it alone. Whether you're big or small, the lesson is the same. And England's risk is one of marginalisation. Irrelevance."

This is the kind of shit the media reproduce like those little toadies who follow a bully around in the playground, going up to the victims and poking them again.

An apposite quote from John Redwood:

Many people writing to this site do not think Mr Hague has gone far enough in his proposals to wrestle some power back from the EU. Meanwhile a French Minister has resorted to unpleasant language to attack the Conservative position. Expect more of this in the days ahead, as Labour’s friends on the continent are primed to condemn the UK Opposition, and as Eurofederalists on the continent join in a chorus of disapproval of the Conservatives and their anti federal allies.

And a question to anyone, particular you tossers in the media: when was the last time you remember a British minister publicly castigating a member of France's opposition party?

A Black Day For Britain

A black day for Britain - UK Independence Party

As a follow-up to my last post: Nigel Farage makes the same point that this is now up to us, since our politicians have let us down:

"We have known for weeks that Vaclav Klaus would in the end sign the Lisbon Treaty.

"It is truly extraordinary that David Cameron is not able to tell us immediately what he will do. It is incredible that the wannabe Prime Minister of this land was praying that he would be saved by a man in Prague Castle.

"It was never his job. We in this country will only be saved by our own efforts. We cannot and should not rely on the goodwill of others.

"And as we certainly cannot rely upon the good will of our political class. We will have to do it for ourselves."

So What's To Be Done Now? Lisbon, EU

Article 3a of The Lisbon Treaty: "The Member States shall facilitate the achievement of the Union's tasks and refrain from any measure which could jeopardise the attainment of the Union's objectives."

John Redwood MP » Lisbon lies

The EU has declared war on the UK. The conspiracy to make sure Lisbon comes into effect without giving the UK people the vote they were promised by all three main parties in the 2005 election will increase the distrust of the organisation and its power loving political elite. The way it ignored referendum results against the constitution in France and Holland, claimed that the Constitution had been abandoned when it had just been renamed, and then thrust it on the unwilling Irish by making them have a second vote has reminded us all here just how much the elite hates democracy and despises the views of the people. There will be a price to pay.

So what's to be done? What do we, as Britons, do to begin to release ourselves from this gigantic con-trick while our politicians argue about how to handle he PR?

It strikes me that the real movement for change will have to come from us: we can no longer rely on our political class to do anything about it. Some sort of renegotiated relationship may be possible (despite what the woolly brigade say - all Treaties can be broken, and, besides, the EU wants our cash) but my own instinct is for withdrawal - the EU is a corrupt organisation which cannot be reformed.

We need to use our imaginations on this and be single-minded. Burn the bloody EU flag ceremoniously every year. Bombard our MPs with anti-EU demands; persistently take local government to task for its implementation of EU diktats; write to the local papers drawing attention to the undemocratic work of the EU; publish leaflets, pamphlets, blogs, etc, targeting the EU and highlighting its effects. Anything, for God's sake, anything to make these people suffer and to generate growing public awareness and anger.