#Arkhaven INFOGALACTIC #Castalia House
It’s strange, isn’t it, how one nationalist-inclined European leader after another has met with fatal accidents. First Haider, now Kaczynski:
Polish president Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria have been killed after their plane crashed on approach to Smolensk airport in western Russia.
Needless to say, David Cameron has absolutely nothing to worry about.
This can’t possibly go wrong:
A shadowy figure lurking in the garden in the early hours. A rattle on a window latch. It must be a burglar. But don’t panic too soon and call the police. That could be them outside. Officers have begun testing windows and doors at night as part of a campaign to increase home security. If they find one open, they are under orders to knock on the door and drag sleepy residents from their beds and lecture them.
Therein lies the difference between a Communist state, a Nazi State and a Nanny Fascist one. In both cases, the hapless citizen is dragged from his bed by the police in the middle of the night. But at least in today’s Britain, the citizen is only subject to a stern lecture. For now, anyhow.
The City belatedly realizes that when they sold out the British people, they sold themselves too. Chancellor Darling’s desperate plea for Brussels to leave London’s financial sector alone has a distinct “please don’t hit me” tone to it and is certain to fall on stone-deaf Franco-German ears:
It is too simplistic to argue that financial centres in Europe are just competing among themselves. The reality is the real competition to Europe’s financial centres comes from outside our borders. And that London, whether others like it or not, is New York’s only rival as a truly global financial centre. No other centre in Europe offers the same range of services: banking, insurance, fund management, law and accountancy. It is in all of Europe’s interests that they prosper alongside their close European partners.
Oh, it is too simplistic? Yes, surely that sophisticated argument will convince the unelected EU ruling class, who are openly drooling at the thought of taking their cut of great river of money flowing through the City, to leave London’s financial firms untouched. Meanwhile, French President Nicolas Sarkozy lost no time in declaring what the end of British sovereignty yesterday would mean for the City: “Do you know what it means for me to see for the first time in 50 years a French European commissioner in charge of the internal market, including financial services, including the City [of London]? I want the world to see the victory of the European model, which has nothing to do with the excesses of financial capitalism.”
In every revolution and betrayal, there is that intriguing moment when the now-useless revolutionary or traitor suddenly realizes that he’s been used and is about to be discarded. I think there are more than a few staunchly Europhilic politicians and bankers who are astonished today at the realization that they are not to be included among the masters of Eutopia.
The bankers and bureaucrats of Brussels have accomplished what Julius Caesar, Philip II, Napoleon, and Adolf Hitler could not do:
From today, as the Lisbon treaty comes into force, we are no longer masters in our own house. Our prime minister, as a member of the European Council, is obligated under this new treaty to promote the aims and objectives of the European Union, over and above those of the UK, and is bound by the rules of the Union.
Of course, this will make no immediate difference. It simply renders de jure what has been de facto for several decades, but the coming into force of the treaty marks an important symbolic turning point. We are no longer an independent country, de jure. Our prime minister and his government are now working for an alien government, based in Brussels.
Not only is the empire on which the sun never set long gone, Britain itself is no more than a conquered island and a subject people. This time, no Nelson, no Wellington, no Churchill arose to defend the British people. It is a tragic moment in history, and one that will cause more tragedy in the future. James Higham explains why even a belated version of the once-promised referendum is unlikely to accomplish anything.
This might be a good thing to remember the next time an American liberal explains that America should follow Sweden’s lead:
The bodies of thousands of rabbits culled every year from the parks in Stockholm’s Kungsholmen neighbourhood are being used to fuel a heating plant in central Sweden. The decision to use Stockholm’s rabbit cadavers as bioenergy to warm Swedes living in Värmland doesn’t sit well with Stockholm-based animal rights activists.
Socialized health care… I suppose you want to murder cute little bunny rabbits too. Why do you hate bunnies, why?
So, it was all for nothing. All the pain, bloodshed and sacrifice has gone for naught. The Rebellion of 1878, the Young Irelanders, the 1919 War of Independence, Sunday, bloody Sunday, the bombings in Belfast, the assassination of Lord Mountbatten, last year’s “No” vote and every other aspect of the long and bitter struggle for Irish independence was to no purpose. On Oct. 3, 2009, the voters of the Republic of Ireland threw away their hard-won sovereignty out of fear, naiveté and greed for nothing more than the deceitful promises of the Eurocrats.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has more on the debacle.
Good on Boris! I don’t believe David Cameron has any intention of holding a referendum unless he is absolutely forced to do so:
David Cameron today dug in over Europe and set himself at odds with Boris Johnson by refusing to say whether the Conservative Party would hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty if it comes into force before the general election. The Tory leader will try to face down his party this week in Manchester by claiming that the Conservatives should have “one policy at a time”: to promise to hold a referendum while the treaty is still being debated elsewhere in Europe.
Daniel Hannan or some other popular Euroskeptic ought to challenge Cameron for the Tory leadership if he will not commit explicitly to holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and abrogating it if the English people vote against the it. Cameron being a moderate EUnik was obviously hoping that the Irish would relieve him of having to take a public Euroskeptic position, but if he won’t, UKIP will become the UK’s second party.
Which they may do anyhow. It’s not as if the EU is going to become any more popular as hope that the European economy is in recovery now slowly dissipates.
Remember this vote the next time someone tells you, with a straight face, that people want to be free:
Irish voters approved the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty in a substantial shift of sentiment, with 67% voting in favor and 33% against, according to the final count announced Saturday…. The Irish last June rejected the treaty—which will establish a permanent president and foreign minister for the EU, and give more authority to Brussels— by 53% to 47% in a referendum.
Fools. Utter, utter fools. They so richly deserve exactly what they’re going to get. Fortunately, given the complete cluelessness of the Irish electorate, this is the last time they’ll be permitted to vote on anything meaningful. I used to wonder how Hitler won overwhelming plebiscites supporting his outrageous centralization and expansion of power. It’s not a mystery anymore.