No EU Superstate

While our fearless leader, Big Dave Cameron  has negotiated away our Nation's future in secret. ( I heard it described as 'keeping on lowering the bar until everybody trips over it.') We must prepare for yet another visit to the ballot box June 23 this year. I suspect this almost indecent haste is part of his strategy. Choose a time in the summer when he can hope for a low turnout, then just keep his fingers crossed. That way, with a low turnout, if he wins he'll claim victory but if he looses he can claim the poll as unrepresentative and either disregard it or, more likely, do things the EU way and keep holding votes every year or so until he gets the answer he wants.

As one of those who voted to join the Common Market (as it then was, and still should be) I find this European Union Transnationalism of much of our political class grossly abhorrent. A Common Market of six western European states which we joined in the seventies has, forty years on, now morphed into a bureaucratic behemoth with scant regard for the wishes or indeed welfare of the 350 plus million people it wishes to subjugate.

The democratic deficit which is so clearly apparent in the EU,is at the very heart of this mega-bureaucracy. From it's founding after the Second World War it's purpose has always been abundantly clear, It was (and indeed still is) a Protectionist Regulatory Bureaucracy tasked with protecting the uniform mediocrity it would impose and enforce across it's member states. The net result has been economic growth almost exclusively through geographic expansion  and the introduction of successive waves of low cost workers imported from that expansion Eastwards.

This moribund behemoth offers no peace to people interested in self determination. Its obsessive introspection stifles free speech, free thought and free enterprise. Unelected Apparatchiks in Brussels constantly expand their regulation of even the minutiae of our daily lives whilst those we had thought we elected to run our affairs must seek permission to do so, not from us as it should be, but from those same Apparatchiks.

I am constantly mindful of a quote from Daniel Webster. “There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters” . It is as true today as then, the only real difference is that those men now benefit from a much more powerful and intrusive Government.