I wasn’t going to write a blog today - I often don’t at the weekend - but then I found
this piece in the Telegraph: Ed Miliband nails his colours to the Euro-mast and says a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union is wrong.
He says Labour will always stand up for the national
interest.
So it was in the national interest to bankrupt the
country by subsidising already-failed heavy industries, preventing investment in new
industries and new jobs? It was in the national interest that for a decade or
more under Labour’s influence there was a strike somewhere in the country on
any working day you’d care to mention? And it was in the national interest to
borrow more than any government in history with no plan to ever pay back the
debt, at the same time as deliberately opening our borders, bringing in cheap
labour to displace a generation of British workers for a lifetime and create
state dependency on hitherto unknown levels?
And his answer to the trouble and strife and socially
engineered mischief engendered under Labour’s collusion with the EU is… more Labour and more EU?
“A diverse, multi-ethnic Britain is one of things that makes
our country great”, he says. This not long after he admitted Labour got
immigration wrong. Just as the miners’ strike devastated Labour's core
communities, their version of multiculturalism – monocultural ghettoes – has once
again brought blight on their own most steadfast voters. Just how much contempt
does labour have for its loyal but confused constituents?
If it were just Labour there would be little to fear. Surely
the penny must drop at some point that the left’s pickpocketing ways cannot
continue when all the pockets are sewn up? But it’s not just Labour is it?
David Cameron may be squirming a little just now, but sure as eggs is eggs he
will find a way to renege on his hollow promise to offer a choice. And the whispered
referendum pledge by Nick Clegg just five
years ago has also fallen by the wayside.
For forty years I have seen referendums offered and the
offers whisked away, replaced by failed negotiations which have always ended up
with us further up to our nuts in Europe’s guts. For forty years I have never
seen a reasoned justification for ignoring the clear will of that portion of
the population who have a strong and informed opinion. What I have seen is Jean
Monnet’s plan for a Federal Europe advanced by stealth, year on year.
I can't believe anybody voted for this.
We CAN exit the EU. And we CAN do it with little strife
and we CAN take control of our own affairs and it WILL bring us greater prosperity
and a sense of nation once again. But first we have to take control of our
political classes who, it is quite clear, currently have all their strings
pulled by Europe. To be in the pay of a
foreign power, working to undermine the true national interest has a name. And
until Tony Blair changed the law, it was a hanging offence.
