WHY THE EU MUST DISMANTLE BRITAIN

Most citizens of Britain, who are angry at the meddling of Brussels, nevertheless fail to examine the situation from the European viewpoint. Britain, it would seem, is part of Europe only through an accident of geography. Consider the following:

* Germany and France geopolitically find it hard to secure their borders. Their alternative is to seek buffer zones around their nations, or, more effectively, control the continent of Europe altogether. Britain, on the other hand, is an island and easily defended.

* Britain was the first truly global, maritime power. Today, as before, the majority of her trade is GLOBAL, chiefly with her erstwhile colonial and Commonwealth partners, NOT WITH EUROPE, whose economies are PROVINCIAL and currently stagnant and contracting.

* Europe has historically resented what it sees as Britain's 'destabilising influence' on continental economies because of her massive strength. It galls jealous European nations that Britain has traditionally been powerful enough to call the shots. Wars in the past, such as the Napoleonic, WW1 and WW2, have been started by European powers in order to secure their future economic and political stability. These measures ultimately failed. Today, the tactics have changed.

* Europe recognises that if Britain were subdued and broken up, a greater proportion of the UK's coveted world trade, including her prodigious art market, massive financial/pensions sector, hi-tech industries, and her oil and fish resources could be controlled for the first time by the dominant continental powers.

* Europe also bitterly resents Britain's allegiance with the United States, with whom Britain has always enjoyed huge trade, security and strategic interests.

* Peace has been kept in Europe for the past fifty years, not through ambitions to create a unified Europe, but through the willingness of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to act as a European military watchdog.

* NATO is a military alliance of nations dominated by the two leading powers formerly comprising 'the Allies' during World War 2 - namely the United States of America and Great Britain.

* The EU understands that if she can dismantle Britain and absorb her, USA influence in Europe will dwindle and France and Germany will once again be able to reprise their original roles as the strongmen of Europe and secure their borders accordingly. Every action performed by the EU is done with this ultimate goal in mind.