All attention is focussed on the Euro, as it is primarily being blamed for the troubles in Europe. Whilst much of that is true, the Euro was always a destructive construct, but as a true Frankenstein's monster it is running out of control.
Rather than forcing a united Europe run by an unelected, undemocratic technocratic elite, on the nations of Europe, it is devouring itself. Sowing discord and destroying economies. Stupid people do stupid things. But the Euro was not the only part of this project founded on a lie.
The whole idea of a United States of Europe (as they love to call it, even though it is based on a soviet model), was that all the people's of Europe would come together as a single country and there would be no more war in Europe. This was the grand plan of the French and Germans, which is big of them, as the two countries who caused most of the wars were France and Germany.
But more than this was the fundamental lie that the people of Europe had some common identity. This has taken such root that British people buying property in Spain are genuinely surprised to find, that the law there is different. They had been told that we are of a 'shared experience'.
These individual nations, we were told were the cause of war and could be again, but this too was a lie. Britain is a nation that has every right to hold its head up with pride. It has never succumbed to revolution, even when it was very much the vogue (1848) and it has stepped in only to save Europe from Tyranny; against Spain (Elizabeth I), Napoleon's France and twice against Germany.
These were not national wars and the difference between Britain and the others shows why. Britain fought to end oppression and then went home. Spain, France and Germany all launched wars to acquire an Empire, to seize the property of others. They say little under the sun is new and so today we see France and Germany trying to build an Empire again, this time through political trickery.
Due to the hegemony of (so called) socialism over the last few decades, not much in the shape of intelligent political thought has been in evidence. Consequently, the totalitarian machinations of the EU have been allowed to succeed. But the crisis with the Euro has forced the Empire builders into the light and it has become apparent to the Irish, the Greeks, the Italians and others that they have become subject peoples.
No longer can the fiction be maintained and the nature of the EU as a Soviet Union is being laid bare, as they order proud nations to bend to their will, replace elected governments with their own placemen and demand compliance.
Britain has saved Europe many times before and we are being called again. By showing leadership and leaving the EU, immediately we will set a course for others to follow, to regain their liberty and a right to trade and grow to the benefit of their people. The day of the self important elite is over; we should never have allowed it in the first place.
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Monday, 20 August 2012
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Why The EU?
Countries operate and function in different ways, this we hold to be manifestly true. This is not to say that different nationalities cannot form a separate cohesive identity, as the United States proves. There, people from very different backgrounds came together, but all identify as Americans.
Europe does not have this urge; the current occupants of Greece on the whole, did not recently arrive there, nor with Italy, or Spain or Britain. So where did the desire to unite Europe come from? That it came from a belief in central planning is part of the story, but the driver lay elsewhere.
We are of course told that it was a construct to make impossible another European war, the inference being that once all nations are committed together they will not fight a 'civil war'. There was indeed a fear of renewed war and this was a way to deal with it, but the fear was still of Germany.
Should Germany rebuild, it may well become expansionist again, as it had twice already. France suggested that if much of German machinery and output of coal and food was given to them, then Germany would be held down successfully. How very noble of a country that had done so little to combat the Germans, but a deal siding with them, including fighting the allies who eventually won their country back for them.
Unable to thus hold the Germans in check and facing 'allies' who accepted the need for West German reconstruction, including an economy that would grow, the French fell back on Plan B; unification. They felt that they could hold down the Germans by creating a united Europe, led by them naturally, thus co-opting any new German strength by guile rather than main force.
Keeping Britain out was of course, important, but we showed little interest anyway. By the 1970's France had the project well under way and in their sway and so could entertain a new British interest. Their continued coolness was abated in part by the knowledge that Britain was led at that time but a supremely naive and stupid person, Ted Heath.
Willing to pay almost any price, this political infant signed Britain up and gave away much, including our fishing rights, thus condemning the whole fishing industry of the islands to doom and the whole economy eventually.
Today we have the whole continent brought to its knees by the political folly of politicians following a French model, for French aggrandisement that has been overtaken by events and by a powerful Germany, again.
Perhaps the French should have followed their other instinct after WW2, to form an anti Anglo-Saxon alliance with the USSR. Another great idea.
Europe does not have this urge; the current occupants of Greece on the whole, did not recently arrive there, nor with Italy, or Spain or Britain. So where did the desire to unite Europe come from? That it came from a belief in central planning is part of the story, but the driver lay elsewhere.
We are of course told that it was a construct to make impossible another European war, the inference being that once all nations are committed together they will not fight a 'civil war'. There was indeed a fear of renewed war and this was a way to deal with it, but the fear was still of Germany.
Should Germany rebuild, it may well become expansionist again, as it had twice already. France suggested that if much of German machinery and output of coal and food was given to them, then Germany would be held down successfully. How very noble of a country that had done so little to combat the Germans, but a deal siding with them, including fighting the allies who eventually won their country back for them.
Unable to thus hold the Germans in check and facing 'allies' who accepted the need for West German reconstruction, including an economy that would grow, the French fell back on Plan B; unification. They felt that they could hold down the Germans by creating a united Europe, led by them naturally, thus co-opting any new German strength by guile rather than main force.
Keeping Britain out was of course, important, but we showed little interest anyway. By the 1970's France had the project well under way and in their sway and so could entertain a new British interest. Their continued coolness was abated in part by the knowledge that Britain was led at that time but a supremely naive and stupid person, Ted Heath.
Willing to pay almost any price, this political infant signed Britain up and gave away much, including our fishing rights, thus condemning the whole fishing industry of the islands to doom and the whole economy eventually.
Today we have the whole continent brought to its knees by the political folly of politicians following a French model, for French aggrandisement that has been overtaken by events and by a powerful Germany, again.
Perhaps the French should have followed their other instinct after WW2, to form an anti Anglo-Saxon alliance with the USSR. Another great idea.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
EU Dictators
I am confused by the welling of comment about how the Greeks, in particular, are being dictated to by a seemingly uncaring EU (which really means Germany and France). The economic powerhouse in the EU
has always been Germany ( a country that never fails to draw attention to how grateful it is, to all those countries who paid for its rebuilding after WW2, rather than just being horrible to them).
My confusion is based on the fact that the EU has always been a dictatorship, it was intended so to be. The self styled elite of this monster have often bemoaned any interference from electorates, that things would run much smoother if (when) they are unable to vote. Why would Germany not assume that they can and should tell the Greeks, or anyone else offending the political structure established for their benefit, to toe the line?
It cannot be a difficult concept to realise; the fact that such a stupid idea as the single currency is being kept alive artificially should surely point out that good government, the welfare of the populations of Europe and common sense do not affect the EU. No, good little Europeans will forget their former identity and obey instructions. They will do as the leaders say.
The question is rather, what limit is there to their ambitions and this time, if they take military action, who can stop them?
has always been Germany ( a country that never fails to draw attention to how grateful it is, to all those countries who paid for its rebuilding after WW2, rather than just being horrible to them).
My confusion is based on the fact that the EU has always been a dictatorship, it was intended so to be. The self styled elite of this monster have often bemoaned any interference from electorates, that things would run much smoother if (when) they are unable to vote. Why would Germany not assume that they can and should tell the Greeks, or anyone else offending the political structure established for their benefit, to toe the line?
It cannot be a difficult concept to realise; the fact that such a stupid idea as the single currency is being kept alive artificially should surely point out that good government, the welfare of the populations of Europe and common sense do not affect the EU. No, good little Europeans will forget their former identity and obey instructions. They will do as the leaders say.
The question is rather, what limit is there to their ambitions and this time, if they take military action, who can stop them?
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Eurosceptic Cameron
If a bloke in a red jacket, with a black hat and surrounded by a pack of dogs says he is against fox-hunting, he is probably pulling your leg. When David Cameron says he is a Eurosceptic, he also isn't being entirely straight. As a committed friend of the European Union, who is prepared to be a tad less than truthful about offering referenda to the population to support these friends, David Cameron is a Eurosceptic in the same way that the moon is made of green cheese.
His constant promises of repatriating powers from the EU has the ring of Blair about it; he repeatedly says it, hoping that at some point we will come to think that he has actually done it. He must have, surely, by now. Nope, no intention. Talking tough because he is weak.
Those involved in the EU meet and talk about the Euro crisis, focussed just on saving their idiotic monetary construct. Not at any point to do they actually consider the real situation and what has to be done. They are only, only interested in their own positions. Sickening. Germany keep complaining that Merkel is compared to Hitler. Not by me and not that I have seen. The comparison is with Hitler's Germany, with the Kaiser's Germany; a country that wanted to dominate Europe, just as it does today. Nein, nein says Merkel, the Germans don't want to take over Europe, it is just that everyone should do what Germany says.
This strange world where the whole of the Eurozone should become Greater Germany, but no 'conquest' is intended is like a murderer saying it was an accident that he stabbed someone 147 times. France of course thinks that there should be fiscal union but with national governments staying in charge, which is a stupid unworkable idea, but has the attraction of leaving France continuing to run things behind the scenes. Won't happen Shorty.
And Cameron sees this bunch of madmen and women as a club he should be part of. The Eurozone is a disaster, the EU is a failed socialist attempt at creating a Europe wide dictatorship and like socialism everywhere it has failed. But still these grasping, corrupt dorks won't give up. The reason Britain should stay in the EU doesn't exist. There isn't one. Hint; Blair wanted to join the Euro. Anything he wanted was bound to be wrong and designed to enrich him personally. Stuff your promised referendum where the sun don't shine David (and don't continue to insult our intelligence with your pathetic, 'it isn't a treaty') just get us out of the EU. Now.
His constant promises of repatriating powers from the EU has the ring of Blair about it; he repeatedly says it, hoping that at some point we will come to think that he has actually done it. He must have, surely, by now. Nope, no intention. Talking tough because he is weak.
Those involved in the EU meet and talk about the Euro crisis, focussed just on saving their idiotic monetary construct. Not at any point to do they actually consider the real situation and what has to be done. They are only, only interested in their own positions. Sickening. Germany keep complaining that Merkel is compared to Hitler. Not by me and not that I have seen. The comparison is with Hitler's Germany, with the Kaiser's Germany; a country that wanted to dominate Europe, just as it does today. Nein, nein says Merkel, the Germans don't want to take over Europe, it is just that everyone should do what Germany says.
This strange world where the whole of the Eurozone should become Greater Germany, but no 'conquest' is intended is like a murderer saying it was an accident that he stabbed someone 147 times. France of course thinks that there should be fiscal union but with national governments staying in charge, which is a stupid unworkable idea, but has the attraction of leaving France continuing to run things behind the scenes. Won't happen Shorty.
And Cameron sees this bunch of madmen and women as a club he should be part of. The Eurozone is a disaster, the EU is a failed socialist attempt at creating a Europe wide dictatorship and like socialism everywhere it has failed. But still these grasping, corrupt dorks won't give up. The reason Britain should stay in the EU doesn't exist. There isn't one. Hint; Blair wanted to join the Euro. Anything he wanted was bound to be wrong and designed to enrich him personally. Stuff your promised referendum where the sun don't shine David (and don't continue to insult our intelligence with your pathetic, 'it isn't a treaty') just get us out of the EU. Now.
Monday, 21 November 2011
Or Is It This?
The Germans continue to be outraged at any suggestion that they intend to build a European empire. It is not in their character apparently, as the First and Second World Wars were just aberrations and we should take no notice of history. So why are the decisions Germany takes, causing governments to tumble across Europe, to be replaced by unelected EU placemen?
The Germans say that whilst the Euro is set to serve their purposes, everyone would be OK if they would just be more like Germany; hard working, thrifty, blond. I might have made that last bit up, but it seemed to fit....
Funny they never mentioned this need when enforcing 'their' Euro on all the others. Still, having prospered from it and it having caused the current mess, surely Germany should pay up to avert the crisis? Er, no. Apparently, it is nothing to do with them. OK, if that is the case then the Germans should allow countries to break away from the Germanic confines of the Euro and float their currencies, to work their own problems through.
Nope, can't do that either. And why not? Because the EU is an empire. See, we get there no matter how you look at it. From a realists point of view, or even trying to square the German logic, it always comes back to the fact that the Germans are in charge and crucially, want to be.
This is as dangerous as it sounds too, as if the financial crisis wasn't bad enough in itself. And of course, France sits on the sidelines waiting to make their move, because, as every French politician knows, they run Europe.
The Germans say that whilst the Euro is set to serve their purposes, everyone would be OK if they would just be more like Germany; hard working, thrifty, blond. I might have made that last bit up, but it seemed to fit....
Funny they never mentioned this need when enforcing 'their' Euro on all the others. Still, having prospered from it and it having caused the current mess, surely Germany should pay up to avert the crisis? Er, no. Apparently, it is nothing to do with them. OK, if that is the case then the Germans should allow countries to break away from the Germanic confines of the Euro and float their currencies, to work their own problems through.
Nope, can't do that either. And why not? Because the EU is an empire. See, we get there no matter how you look at it. From a realists point of view, or even trying to square the German logic, it always comes back to the fact that the Germans are in charge and crucially, want to be.
This is as dangerous as it sounds too, as if the financial crisis wasn't bad enough in itself. And of course, France sits on the sidelines waiting to make their move, because, as every French politician knows, they run Europe.
Saturday, 19 November 2011
Germany And The Euro
There has been much squealing from Germans and EU supporters about the suggestion that Germany has designs on running Europe. On the one hand we have politicians such as those on Question Time saying that they are fed up with people who cannot forget the War. It was asserted that mentions of the War are now frequent and pathetic, as it bears no reference to today.
Which War would that be? The First or the Second? Would it have been fair, for instance, to have complained about always mentioning the War when warning about Hitler and Germany in the 1930's? Mainly through the Marshall Plan, Germany was generously rebuilt by those they sought to destroy. Today, the Germans have an excellent economy based on their own values and hard work and their domination of the eurozone.
Now the stupid idea of pushing the German economic standard onto Greeks and Italians is falling apart and the Germans are getting outraged. Worse, Cameron jumps out of a Spitfire to lecture them on the problems they are causing and the Germans show their true colours.
Britain will have to join the Euro because the pound will fail, they say. Which is odd, as the Euro is in a bigger mess than the pound and why must we join the Euro anyway, what would that achieve? Nothing, but it does expose the mindset of the conqueror. They are also rabidly salivating over imposing their 'bank tax', specifically designed to undermine the City and destroy further the British economy. It is their version of the Blitz or bombing our Spitfire factories.
The tax also frees up the EU from receiving funds from national governments, who can be fickle and also it gives them more funds to try to prop up their ridiculous construct. And it is the fact of just how ridiculous the Euro is that shows the truth of German intentions. Why would you set up something like the Euro, which imposes the German economic standards on countries that cannot survive in such a system, unless you intended to destroy them and then take them over?
The Germans are very careful not to give money in bailouts to support their mess, until 'political union' is achieved. So, no peace until you surrender? And the French are keeping their heads down, letting Germany take all the 'empire' flak, while they hope that unification occurs and Germany is exhausted achieving it. Then they will step forward to take over and really ruin Europe.
So yes, it is right to talk of German intentions, though of course it is not the War. This is a deliberate attempt to ridicule and distract. Only stupid people plan to fight the last war, just as only stupid people don't learn from history.
Which War would that be? The First or the Second? Would it have been fair, for instance, to have complained about always mentioning the War when warning about Hitler and Germany in the 1930's? Mainly through the Marshall Plan, Germany was generously rebuilt by those they sought to destroy. Today, the Germans have an excellent economy based on their own values and hard work and their domination of the eurozone.
Now the stupid idea of pushing the German economic standard onto Greeks and Italians is falling apart and the Germans are getting outraged. Worse, Cameron jumps out of a Spitfire to lecture them on the problems they are causing and the Germans show their true colours.
Britain will have to join the Euro because the pound will fail, they say. Which is odd, as the Euro is in a bigger mess than the pound and why must we join the Euro anyway, what would that achieve? Nothing, but it does expose the mindset of the conqueror. They are also rabidly salivating over imposing their 'bank tax', specifically designed to undermine the City and destroy further the British economy. It is their version of the Blitz or bombing our Spitfire factories.
The tax also frees up the EU from receiving funds from national governments, who can be fickle and also it gives them more funds to try to prop up their ridiculous construct. And it is the fact of just how ridiculous the Euro is that shows the truth of German intentions. Why would you set up something like the Euro, which imposes the German economic standards on countries that cannot survive in such a system, unless you intended to destroy them and then take them over?
The Germans are very careful not to give money in bailouts to support their mess, until 'political union' is achieved. So, no peace until you surrender? And the French are keeping their heads down, letting Germany take all the 'empire' flak, while they hope that unification occurs and Germany is exhausted achieving it. Then they will step forward to take over and really ruin Europe.
So yes, it is right to talk of German intentions, though of course it is not the War. This is a deliberate attempt to ridicule and distract. Only stupid people plan to fight the last war, just as only stupid people don't learn from history.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
The Scramble To Be The Most Idiotic
Well, troubled times do surely unleash some strange forces. Today we read that as the Eurozone causes worldwide economic turmoil and democracy is eroded right across Europe, Nick Clegg thinks now is not the time for less EU. It's a bit like finding you have gangrene and being pleased.
Also, a full on, square cornered nutcase in Germany says that Britain should follow the German lead as the rest of Europe are (that is Germany, the country definitely not empire building, OK). This is to support a tax on financial transactions he is backing. One that will hit London, so not an issue as far as he is concerned, harder than anywhere else.
But I have a better idea. Why don't we tax luxury cars. Like Mercedes, BMW's, Audi's, Porsche and Bentley's? That would not only be a tax on the rich but a tax that hits a rich country too, which must be the best thing surely?
Also, a full on, square cornered nutcase in Germany says that Britain should follow the German lead as the rest of Europe are (that is Germany, the country definitely not empire building, OK). This is to support a tax on financial transactions he is backing. One that will hit London, so not an issue as far as he is concerned, harder than anywhere else.
But I have a better idea. Why don't we tax luxury cars. Like Mercedes, BMW's, Audi's, Porsche and Bentley's? That would not only be a tax on the rich but a tax that hits a rich country too, which must be the best thing surely?
Monday, 14 November 2011
A Perfect Society?
The Greeks have often been in a mess. Their mess, which they had to deal with. It wasn't great, but it was up to them to change it. They could seek help, but then they could accept or reject what was offered. Now they are in the EU, Greece to all intents and purposes doesn't exist any more and they must do what they are told.
The Greek PM dithered and was replaced by a technocratic coalition. The Italians, so long unable to get rid of Silvio have now watched as he is disposed of on the orders of the EU. His replacement wasn't even eligible, but suited the EU elites (having been one).
All of this, as Janet Daley so succinctly put it in her Sunday Telegraph column yesterday, is due to the continuing pursuit of left ideology, of a perfect system of government. Think of the supposed 'order' the French revolution was to bring to the system of government and society. But it just killed people in reality. The EU technocrats believe that they too have devised a perfect system, but people have to do what they are told for it to work.
Not a democratic society then. Rather, one run by benevolent elites and I'm sure Stalin saw himself in the same way. In Britain, Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights are ancient protections that evolved due to the pressures of reality and as sensible reactions to those pressures. They are bottom up, practical solutions, from within society. It is why Britain has, on the whole had a functioning society without revolutions. That it has slipped more recently is entirely due to the rise of the left in the institutions, by which they corrupt society and from our slavish acceptance of rule from the Continent.
These failed systems of government never go away, because they are so beguiling for the elites that promote them. But they are nothing more than Utopian dreams that don't even get past the first muster. As soon as any structure exists, the elites start dipping their hand into the treasury and thinking up ever more rules to support their own comfort.
The placards, so popular at demonstrations these days, 'not in my name', naively believe that they live in a society where anyone is listening to their opinion. I also read at the weekend that it is ridiculous to claim that the Germans are trying to conquer Europe again. Nigel Lawson used the logic that why, if their intention was to takeover Europe, would the Germans destroy themselves with the economic mess that we have now?
Which kind of answers itself. As the Germans did institute the economic structure that is now (and so predictably) falling apart, then yes, the idea is wholly credible. It would be like saying that because Hitler really, really didn't want a war with Britain and really did believe that he could expand Germany, without a world war ensuing, meant that he never had any empire building intentions. We misread his invasion of Poland.
The EU is not just broken, it is not just dragging us all down by its insistence that we maintain the house built on sand, it is actively dangerous. We must see it destroyed. We must act. By so doing we will save the peoples of Europe and then they can be left to determine their own future. We need a European spring, we need to see the resurgence of democracy here.
The Greek PM dithered and was replaced by a technocratic coalition. The Italians, so long unable to get rid of Silvio have now watched as he is disposed of on the orders of the EU. His replacement wasn't even eligible, but suited the EU elites (having been one).
All of this, as Janet Daley so succinctly put it in her Sunday Telegraph column yesterday, is due to the continuing pursuit of left ideology, of a perfect system of government. Think of the supposed 'order' the French revolution was to bring to the system of government and society. But it just killed people in reality. The EU technocrats believe that they too have devised a perfect system, but people have to do what they are told for it to work.
Not a democratic society then. Rather, one run by benevolent elites and I'm sure Stalin saw himself in the same way. In Britain, Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights are ancient protections that evolved due to the pressures of reality and as sensible reactions to those pressures. They are bottom up, practical solutions, from within society. It is why Britain has, on the whole had a functioning society without revolutions. That it has slipped more recently is entirely due to the rise of the left in the institutions, by which they corrupt society and from our slavish acceptance of rule from the Continent.
These failed systems of government never go away, because they are so beguiling for the elites that promote them. But they are nothing more than Utopian dreams that don't even get past the first muster. As soon as any structure exists, the elites start dipping their hand into the treasury and thinking up ever more rules to support their own comfort.
The placards, so popular at demonstrations these days, 'not in my name', naively believe that they live in a society where anyone is listening to their opinion. I also read at the weekend that it is ridiculous to claim that the Germans are trying to conquer Europe again. Nigel Lawson used the logic that why, if their intention was to takeover Europe, would the Germans destroy themselves with the economic mess that we have now?
Which kind of answers itself. As the Germans did institute the economic structure that is now (and so predictably) falling apart, then yes, the idea is wholly credible. It would be like saying that because Hitler really, really didn't want a war with Britain and really did believe that he could expand Germany, without a world war ensuing, meant that he never had any empire building intentions. We misread his invasion of Poland.
The EU is not just broken, it is not just dragging us all down by its insistence that we maintain the house built on sand, it is actively dangerous. We must see it destroyed. We must act. By so doing we will save the peoples of Europe and then they can be left to determine their own future. We need a European spring, we need to see the resurgence of democracy here.
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Heard It Before
After a serious depression, the German government pledged to make the nation stronger, to join with other European nations in a project to culminate in a single European polity. After the Sudetenland slips into the Union, all eyes turn to Poland to join. And Italy sees the sense of doing as Germany demands.
We have been here before you see. And whilst a sane man would think it ridiculous to start a war with huge loss of life, just to take over other countries, so today we see the destruction of economies to do the same thing. Rerun the scenario with France and Buonaparte (yes, he wasn't even French) if you like. There is a reason why Britain was slow to get involved with the EU project and it relates to why it is always Britain that tries to put things right in Europe, after the latest continental dictator has had his go.
It's probably not connected that France has recently been quietly increasing its military capabilities.
We have been here before you see. And whilst a sane man would think it ridiculous to start a war with huge loss of life, just to take over other countries, so today we see the destruction of economies to do the same thing. Rerun the scenario with France and Buonaparte (yes, he wasn't even French) if you like. There is a reason why Britain was slow to get involved with the EU project and it relates to why it is always Britain that tries to put things right in Europe, after the latest continental dictator has had his go.
It's probably not connected that France has recently been quietly increasing its military capabilities.
Eurozone, A Designed Disaster
The Euro is the child of two maladjusted cultures. Firstly, France seeking hegemony in Europe as it always has, decided this was the ultimate trick to con sovereign nations. Secondly you have Germany. Economically powerful, it felt it had the right to control Europe and using a currency mechanism made absolute sense. The French of course, were happy for them to pay for the project.
What is kept out of the current news stories, even though this crisis is of monumental importance, is the fact that the whole problem is the Euro itself. Although France and Germany hoped putting a currency in place before political union (which actually means France running a European empire) would cause a crisis, it was supposed to be small scale and as soon as it emerged, the elites would say the only answer was union and that would be it. Job done.
However, on the back of a worldwide downturn, events are running out of control (although there is also the irony that, as the EU is so badly run it allowed these Southern European countries to lie about finances and generally be unreliable on tax collection). All the talk of bailouts and debt cancelling is to save the political EU, nothing else. France and Germany consider that they are able to tell Greece, Italy et al what to do. Introduce austerity measures, cancel democracy, don't hold referendums, all to support their politics.
But what these impoverished countries need to do is to float their currency and work and export their way out of crisis. In the Eurozone, they cannot do this, so the only way to balance the books is to raise taxes (and actually collect them) but don't spend anything on public services, just repay the French and German banks.
Is this the Europe we want, the one David Cameron cleaves to? A single nation, based on a Leninist style of rule by elites, a cadre of unelected technocrats of no discernible ability? The Euro is a much worse disaster than it was designed to be, not least because the desire behind it is one of empire-building greed, of megalomania. Unless France and Germany are faced down by strong politicians the future is bleak but predictable. But the world is dominated by centre-Left idiots like Cameron and Obama, with the scheming Chinese hovering in the background, helping the French to be stupid.
What is kept out of the current news stories, even though this crisis is of monumental importance, is the fact that the whole problem is the Euro itself. Although France and Germany hoped putting a currency in place before political union (which actually means France running a European empire) would cause a crisis, it was supposed to be small scale and as soon as it emerged, the elites would say the only answer was union and that would be it. Job done.
However, on the back of a worldwide downturn, events are running out of control (although there is also the irony that, as the EU is so badly run it allowed these Southern European countries to lie about finances and generally be unreliable on tax collection). All the talk of bailouts and debt cancelling is to save the political EU, nothing else. France and Germany consider that they are able to tell Greece, Italy et al what to do. Introduce austerity measures, cancel democracy, don't hold referendums, all to support their politics.
But what these impoverished countries need to do is to float their currency and work and export their way out of crisis. In the Eurozone, they cannot do this, so the only way to balance the books is to raise taxes (and actually collect them) but don't spend anything on public services, just repay the French and German banks.
Is this the Europe we want, the one David Cameron cleaves to? A single nation, based on a Leninist style of rule by elites, a cadre of unelected technocrats of no discernible ability? The Euro is a much worse disaster than it was designed to be, not least because the desire behind it is one of empire-building greed, of megalomania. Unless France and Germany are faced down by strong politicians the future is bleak but predictable. But the world is dominated by centre-Left idiots like Cameron and Obama, with the scheming Chinese hovering in the background, helping the French to be stupid.
Friday, 26 August 2011
Eurozone? Danger Zone
Everyone who wasn't an involved politician pointed out that setting up a European currency couldn't work, at the outset. There was no central control ('there will be baby, there will be' said the politicians) so individual countries did their individual thing tied to a currency set at a level that suited Germany. They were the bankers of this European project (or suicide pact) after all.
In the background was the potential for upset with their neighbour, the French, with each having already threatened war if the other does not step aside on the issue of who actually runs the EU. But the most important problem was the difficulties facing nations that were not Germany. Like Brown in the UK, most Treasuries around Europe decided to ignore fiscal reality and hope the mess they could clearly see would somehow, miraculously sort itself out. Or that daddy Germany would bail them out.
Britain had stayed out of the Euro project and Labour made great claims for their skill in this respect, with Balls and Brown both claiming it was they and they alone who understood and foresaw the problems. Naturally, Labour wanted in desperately and only fear of the people at the polls held them back. Power after all was their exclusive reason for being there and their drug.
So having retained some ability to control our own destiny, we could watch the Eurozone slowly melt. It is clear now that the fecklessness of Greece in particular was due to Greek politicians feeling that all responsibility had been removed from their shoulders and so they just partied. Hard. Similarly, Ireland, Spain and Portugal all came to dislike the EU when the subsidies dried up.
The answer to the current crisis (entirely of their own making) in the minds of EU politicians is to seize control of all Eurozone countries, to run them from the centre. But what centre? Germany has been providing the money but the French feel that they are uniquely gifted in the art of running things and it cannot be foreseen that they would let German hegemony reign in a United Europe, in the final creation of the the new USSR.
So now, I fear we have the horrific confluence of economic instability, power grabs over sovereign nations and the old argument over who should run Europe. This is a mighty driver for a new European war, instigated by the usual suspects France and Germany. And in this regard, the recent rise in militaristic activity by the French is alarming. Their military equipment development has been accelerating and they have been aggressively showing it off to the world, partly to achieve international sales, but also for martial display. This is a clear signal of a nation that thinks it may face a challenge and that has steeled itself for conflict.
The EU has been seen, particularly in Britain as a silly bauble, a corrupt group of, in the main, useless politicians playing a grand game of Risk. They could be left alone to their big salaries, pensions, subsidised shopping and all the other contrivances that they have created, emulating the power clique of the old Soviet Union and its two class system; the powerful and the workers. But it is a dangerous construct and these people, so long treated as children to be ignored have built a monster.
The days of lazy politicians are over and yet that is still all we have. Is the luxury of our Titanic about to meet the colossal dead weight of the EU iceberg? Is the status of Alsace-Lorraine once more of concern in the minds of stupid, but powerful people? Britain could be the country to bring the world to its senses, having seen it all before. But that would require a politician of Churchillian proportions and last time I looked we have only something less than Chamberlains.
In the background was the potential for upset with their neighbour, the French, with each having already threatened war if the other does not step aside on the issue of who actually runs the EU. But the most important problem was the difficulties facing nations that were not Germany. Like Brown in the UK, most Treasuries around Europe decided to ignore fiscal reality and hope the mess they could clearly see would somehow, miraculously sort itself out. Or that daddy Germany would bail them out.
Britain had stayed out of the Euro project and Labour made great claims for their skill in this respect, with Balls and Brown both claiming it was they and they alone who understood and foresaw the problems. Naturally, Labour wanted in desperately and only fear of the people at the polls held them back. Power after all was their exclusive reason for being there and their drug.
So having retained some ability to control our own destiny, we could watch the Eurozone slowly melt. It is clear now that the fecklessness of Greece in particular was due to Greek politicians feeling that all responsibility had been removed from their shoulders and so they just partied. Hard. Similarly, Ireland, Spain and Portugal all came to dislike the EU when the subsidies dried up.
The answer to the current crisis (entirely of their own making) in the minds of EU politicians is to seize control of all Eurozone countries, to run them from the centre. But what centre? Germany has been providing the money but the French feel that they are uniquely gifted in the art of running things and it cannot be foreseen that they would let German hegemony reign in a United Europe, in the final creation of the the new USSR.
So now, I fear we have the horrific confluence of economic instability, power grabs over sovereign nations and the old argument over who should run Europe. This is a mighty driver for a new European war, instigated by the usual suspects France and Germany. And in this regard, the recent rise in militaristic activity by the French is alarming. Their military equipment development has been accelerating and they have been aggressively showing it off to the world, partly to achieve international sales, but also for martial display. This is a clear signal of a nation that thinks it may face a challenge and that has steeled itself for conflict.
The EU has been seen, particularly in Britain as a silly bauble, a corrupt group of, in the main, useless politicians playing a grand game of Risk. They could be left alone to their big salaries, pensions, subsidised shopping and all the other contrivances that they have created, emulating the power clique of the old Soviet Union and its two class system; the powerful and the workers. But it is a dangerous construct and these people, so long treated as children to be ignored have built a monster.
The days of lazy politicians are over and yet that is still all we have. Is the luxury of our Titanic about to meet the colossal dead weight of the EU iceberg? Is the status of Alsace-Lorraine once more of concern in the minds of stupid, but powerful people? Britain could be the country to bring the world to its senses, having seen it all before. But that would require a politician of Churchillian proportions and last time I looked we have only something less than Chamberlains.
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