Has the EU Tide Turned?

Norris McWhirter senses that people are
finally waking up to the EU threat to Britain.

The first week of May 2003 may well go down in this country's history as the time that it really began to dawn on the British people that the European Union was planning within months to terminate the country's nine centuries of self-governance. Never before has the existence of Britain as an independent nation been depicted as being in such stark danger.

Two mighty tabloid newspapers bestirred themselves in the cause of democratic freedom and against our being ruled by unelected and undismissable overseas politicians.

The Daily Mail and The Sun are the two most read daily newspapers in the country with circulation figures of 2,400,000 and 3,460,000 copies respectively. They have now moved from being hostile to Brussels to becoming outright advocates of defeating the devious devices and ruthless intentions of the continental clique which is so determined to end our very being.

On 18 May, the newspaper with the highest circulation in Britain - News of the World (3,865,000 copies) - also published a stinging attack on Brussels' politicians. Add to this powerful stance that of the two largest trade unions - Unison (with 1.3 million members) and the Transport and General Workers Union (with 850,000 members).

Stung by this sudden swing against their secretive, sly, 'ever closer union' policy, the Government has resorted to blurting out uncoordinated retorts. Erstwhile Minister for Europe, Peter Hain, of Twickenham memory, said that the charges by the fast growing anti EU lobby were "baloney". The term, more usually spelt boloney, is of uncertain origin, but may be associated with sausages from Bologna in Italy.

On the 19th May the Prime Minister was in a huddle with the former French President, Valerie Giscard d'Estaing, who collects £176,400 salary as is the EU custom, tax free, for chairing the 105 strong Brussels committee which on June 20, will present the EU 15 prime ministers with his final draft of a pan European constitution, on which Mr Blair and Mr Straw adamantly refuse to allow the British people a referendum.

The whole squalid spectre reflects how far present-day politicians have departed from the old belief that politicians were servants of the electorate and governed only by consent. At long last and very late in the day an almighty row is beginning to brew.
Freedom Today, June/July, 2003