From the other side of the channel all we hear is bad
news. The Eurozone lurches from one crisis to another. Greece is threatened by Germany
on an almost daily basis. Every country will be compelled to take in ‘its fair share’
of angry young muslim men of fighting age. The EU project is in danger, so let’s
have more EU, etc... From our side all we have heard for forty-plus years is
complaints about every part of the EU you can mention; farmer, fishermen and
factory worker numbers have tumbled and much of it blamed on the European Commission,
or was it the European Parliament, or the European Council... or the other one,
the Council of the European Union?
Most of us will never know the difference between the institutions,
which is sinister in itself, but suddenly, now the damaging effects are
starting to be recognised by a wider audience – there is a popular rejection in
many countries against this central diktat – suddenly they’re saying it’s not
so bad. Yesterday the one-man political superpower known as David Miliband bleated
like a five year old pleading for an ice cream “But if we leave we won’t have any power!” But, of course all the
power is in the hands of the institutions – I forgot to mention the Court of Justice of the European Union, the
European Central Bank and the European Court of Auditors (although there is no actual
evidence the last one even exists.)
This is the EU as a spousal abuser – ‘when did you stop
beating your wife?’ is of course a fallacious question; they have never stopped.
But now in typical victim fashion the beaten partner pleads for the abuser –
but what would we do without him? Where would I live? Think of the children!
Cue the concerned but sanctimonious relatives – in my day
we’d have stuck it out, divorce is the easy way out, a union is for life – and an
avalanche of advice which is meaningless without the facts of the abuse. The
IMF’s intervention sounded like the herald of the apocalypse – How selfish of
you! Think of the effect on the extended family! What about us? – they cried,
with a rending of garments and a frankly demented list of the travails of Hades
that await. On the one hand they have been saying outside the EU, Britain will
have no power and become an insignificant, side-lined nation. On the other our
leaving will send shockwaves round the world and wake even Job’s Behemoth from
the depths.
Consistently cancerous and consistently wrong in its
predictions, the IMF is a meddler a supposed big gun brought in to bolster the
campaign – who’s all in this together now? – in reality it is just another
faceless, unaccountable body. But it is time for this battered wife to wake up,
leave and find refuge away from the harm and strike out for her own, regardless
of the consequences. The life coaches always urge you to do what is right for you.
Think of the children!
As for the IMF, they are as relevant and wrong as MFI and
if we buy now we will most certainly pay later; believe now pay nothing for a
year but then keep on paying and paying and paying... until the bailiff turns
up. Nope, I’m not buying their special offer, even if it finally is the Closing
Down Sale.
The EU is a dictatorship that controls it's citizens with an iron fist but has no control over anything else. The EU only does tyranny anything else is beyond it capabilities except chaos of course. That it does in abundance. The UK can and does do chaos we do not need help from the EU for that. As for authoritarian government the UK is so so on that but obviously many do not feel that we are capable to go the whole hog by ourselves. So would rather defer that to the EU as they are so good at it.
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