Duncan Smith Offers to Lead EU Superstate Revolt

by Benedict Brogan

Iain Duncan Smith (leader of the UK Conservative party) yesterday thrust himself to the head of a revolt against a European superstate with a call for a "democratic revolution" against the euro and the draft European constitution. He cast himself in the mould of Margaret Thatcher, who, in a speech in Bruges in 1988, promised to oppose a superstate. He offered himself as a "champion" of the rights of national democracies.

In a speech in Prague aimed at the newest EU members, the Tory leader called for a "new Europe" to take over from the "old Europe" of the EU's main founders, France and Germany, which he accused of trying to "bully" Britain and the rest of the union. With conservative leaders from the Czech Republic, and Poland, he published a "Prague declaration" committing their parties to campaign for a referendum on the draft constitution and against any further EU integration.

Mr Duncan Smith expects other European Center-Right parties to endorse the statement.

"The steamroller is out of control," he said. "Those who have fought long to gain their freedoms say we must have a champion to celebrate national democracies. It is a start. We are beginning to fight back. This is our vision: a Europe of national democracies, trading freely with each other and committed to freedom and democracy around the world."

He said: "Parliament has no more right to lay Britain's sovereignty at the feet of a foreign constitution than it has to ban elections. No British government has a right to give away that which it does not own."

He insists that the Tories had no hidden agenda to take Britain out of the EU.
The Daily Telegraph, 11th July, 2003

And this from The Daily Telegraph Editorial

After nearly two years of self imposed silence, Iain Duncan Smith picked a good time and a good place to set out his vision of the future of Europe. The timing was right because yesterday, the draft European Constitution was finalised by Valery Giscard d'Estang. As if to mock this show of unity, a dispute of unprecedented acrimony between the German chancellor and the Italian prime minister showed no sign of abating. Meanwhile the European Commission was engulfed in yet another corruption scandal, while the still greater abuses of the EU's aid budget and the Common Agricultural Policy persist. The economies of the euro zone languish on the brink of recession. Worst of all, the chasm that opened up with America over Iraq has yet to be bridged.

Minister quits to fight EU policy

Michael Wills is to step down as Home Office Minister to launch a crusade against the European Common Agricultural Policy, he announced yesterday.

The MP for Swindon North told The DailyTelegraph in an interview that he would be launching an e-mail petition calling for the end of the 'grotesque protectionist racket.'
The Daily Telegraph 12th July 2003

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: At last, the Conservatives stir themselves, probably to avoid certain political oblivion after the next general election if they don't rediscover their support-base and fast. 60-70% of the British people currently want to leave the EU now they know remaining in it will mean a) a continuance of all the corruption, b) a marginal say in how their nation will be run in future, and c) the surrender of the pound. The others who still support the European Union are mostly trusting souls who believe in the Brotherhood of Man, and have not yet come to grips with the crashingly blatant fraud and criminal activity that passes for European government these days.

If Iain Duncan Smith were to champion the true cause of returning Britain back to her independence, negotiating a free-trade agreement with the nations of Europe (which is what we thought we were joining back in 1973), he will storm home in the next election. Failure to do so will be disastrous for his career and the fortunes of his beleaguered party.

As many of you know, I am not against a 'united Europe'. I am against THIS United Europe, run by scoundrels and criminals who seek to impose totalitarian governance on free nations and peoples. Britain looks on as the eurozone and its risible currency plummets economically but so far has done little. I think Britain and Europe have a marvelous future as independent, self-governing states linked together in a trade Commonwealth where all can benefit. Let's consign this protectionist mafia currently running Europe to the jails where they belong and make their stain on our conscience a thing of the past. Those of you within the Conservative Party, UK Independence Party (UKIP), Democracy Movement and others, take heart! People like IDS are beginning to sit up and do something.

Quite what, remains to be seen. But it is a beginning.

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