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WHY THE ‘BIG BOYS’ LOVE THE EU - AND WHY IT DOES NOT SERVE THE PEOPLE
The European Union is founded on the
belief, like the United Nations, that we need ‘one world government’ run by the
elite. They believe that the people are too ignorant and ill-informed so must be
led by the ‘great and good’. This self-serving belief means decrying democracy,
which requires leaders to stand for election and be accepted or rejected by the
people. The ‘elite’ regard this as personally degrading and want to achieve
power without elections.
The EU is their answer. Founded on
an unholy alliance of Big Government, Big Business and Big
Unions, it takes power away from the people and their elected national
governments and gives it to the unelected.
Which is why they will fight tooth and nail to stay in the EU.
BIG GOVERNMENT
France and Germany have a
long-standing objective of creating a single Europe run by them. The most
striking attempts to achieve this were by Napoleon in 1805-1815 and Hitler in
1939-45. After 1945, it was realised that military measures had failed and the
way forward was to be through politics. This led to what was to become the
European Union (EU) which, although ostensibly representing all European
countries, is a de facto Franco-German empire.
The Maastricht Treaty of 1972 was
partly based on a document drawn up in 1940 by Hitler’s General Staff. It gave
the appearance of democracy by having a parliament but concentrated all real
power in the hands of an unelected bureaucratic body – the EU Commission. This
is the only body allowed to propose legislation, the parliament is not allowed
to do this. All parliament can do is accept the legislation or reject it. In 99%
of cases, it accepts it with little or no debate. Effective counter-arguments
are prevented by limiting speakers to a short address of a few seconds.
The resulting legislation is then
imposed on EU countries by Regulations which cannot even be debated by national
parliaments e.g. VAT rates. Regulations have to be accepted root and branch
without discussion.
An alternative to a Regulation is a
Directive which tells countries what they have to achieve, e.g. emission
standards, but not how to achieve them The national government’s proposal to
achieve an aim can then be debated in its own parliament but not the actual
Directive itself – that is cast in stone.
It’s easy to see why bureaucrats in big government love the EU – it gives power
to them while taking it away from democratically-elected MPs.
BIG BUSINESS
Big Business loves the EU because, together with the Commission,
they get to write the Regulations and Directives in a way which suits them – but
disadvantages their smaller rivals. They also love the freedom of movement which
gives them a large and growing pool of cheap labour. They are represented by the
Confederation of British Industries (CBI) which is a ‘big boys’ club,
unrepresentative of Britain’s 5.3 million firms.
The CBI is a tool of the EU, having received nearly £1million
in funding from the Brussels-based European Commission over the last six years.
The business organisation also took a further £5.1million from the public sector
and £7million from taxpayer-funded quangos over the same period.
Big Business
will say and do anything to keep Britain in the EU.
This is why the recent CBI poll claimed that most companies
wanted to stay in. But, in a letter of complaint to the British Polling Council,
Vote Leave revealed that the CBI poll did not reflect the number of small
businesses in the country. “The CBI fiddles its figures to artificially boost
the number of businesses that it claims to represent. Only 20 per cent of the
firms in the survey had fewer than 50 employees while 99 per cent of British
firms fall into this category.”
Vote Leave also claimed only 22 per cent of businesses in the
survey had a turnover of less than £5 million a year yet the average business
annual turnover in the UK is just £673,000.
It’s worth remembering that 90% of small UK firms do no business
with the EU but are still bogged down by its excessive regulation.
BIG UNIONS
The triad system of big government,
big business and big unions was intended to guide the way forward to a United
States of Europe. To get the Unions on board, it had to avoid comparison with
the capitalist USA which Unions dislike. The big Trade Unions were thus given
‘equal time’ in negotiations on new legislation which helps to explain the mish-mash
of legislation designed simultaneously to appease left and right. Small
businesses – which cannot afford a permanent lobbying presence in Brussels – are
effectively excluded from the process. To the delight of the big unions.
It all harks back to the industrial
age beloved by Marxists while simultaneously trying to incorporate modern
economic theory. It fails, of course.
As a result of trying to incorporate
every point of view, most EU legislation is very long, complicated, full of
contradictions and almost impossible for small companies to implement without
vastly increasing their administrative costs.
At the heart of EU legislation is
the Napoleonic code which starts from the assumption that everything can and
should be defined. This is in complete contrast to the Anglo-Saxon tradition
which seeks to limit legislation where possible and rely more on common-sense
and precedent.
Clearly, we Brits do not fit easily
into this legal system but are gradually being forced into it through the
introduction of corpus juris which the EU intends to apply throughout the
whole EU. Our own laws are now second-class to EU laws.
IN CONCLUSI0N
The above clearly shows the
fundamental problem with the EU and why we must leave it to regain our
democracy.
In Abraham Lincoln’s immortal words,
we want instead:
“Government of the people, by the people and for the people.”
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