A Spectre Is Haunting Europe...

Once again the people of Europe are sleepwalking ever deeper into an dangerous collectivist bureaucracy and they don't want to see it. Indeed the EU elections are coming round again – the equivalent of me asking you to write down a suggestion on a piece of paper for me and then handing you my suggestion box to place it in – the nearest bin. But is the EU really as dangerous as I'm making out? Yes, here's why.

As I have argued time and time again all governments do is grow and grow until they're out of control, it is the nature of government and it is why Minarchism cannot work long term. Take the United States, it didn't take long for their limited government to become an imperial power now did it? The same is true of the EU. What started as a common market between France, Belgium, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands has now become a vast bureaucratic nightmare encompassing twenty-eight countries not to mention a disastrous currency and an unelected president. Welcome to the Soviet Union for the twenty-first century.

The parliament is so muddled that MEP's regularly vote on bills that they haven't had time to read, they're simply told what to vote for and when. We're kept in the dark about it's true workings to such an extent that if you search (as I have) for how much UK law comes from Brussels the estimates vary vastly from 10% to 70% with fullfact.org putting the figure between 15% and 50% depending on which definition of “UK Law” that you look at. Even at 5% that figure is too high. It's ridiculous to get such proportions of our laws from bureaucrats in another country!

Then there's the issue of border controls. I constantly hear scaremongering from people who are anti-Scottish independence saying things like “Well, I don't want to have to show my passport at the border to go to England.” Well I can re-assure them all now the England-Scotland border will be as open as every other border in the EU – WIDE OPEN. Now this isn't about racism, it's about common sense. I have no problem with genuine immigration to any country by people who want to work hard and get on, however with EU migration to the UK at it's highest level since 1964 and the Office For National Statistics predicting that the UK population with increase by 3 million in 2020 as people jump ship from countries (some of which economically destroyed by the Euro) and flood the UK job market driving down wages and driving up government welfare spending, it doesn't take a genius to see how this is going to end.

We could easily trade with the EU without being a part of it's massive collectivist machine. It has worked for Norway and Switzerland. You'll hear mainstream politicians scaremongering about all the jobs we'll lose if we leave the EU well what about all the jobs we have lost because of the EU's disastrous Common Fisheries policy? What about the economies decimated by the Euro? What about throwing the borders wide open so that jobs for people already living in the UK are becoming fewer and fewer?

 

As I mentioned earlier, we have had a massive collectivist, bureaucratic nightmare in Europe and it was called the Soviet Union. While the USSR was a hard tyranny visible to the naked eye I would argue that the EU's softer iron-fist-inside-a-velvet-glove tyranny is much more dangerous because it is harder to see but very, very real and any power the UK parliament once had is slowly trickling to Brussels so that the member countries will have no say over their own affairs at all eventually. This process is well under way with the UK court system being constantly undermined by the real judicial power – The European Court of Human Rights.

The Soviet Union collapsed in the end when people woke up and stopped complying with the system and I think that the EU will also, I just hope the UK is far enough out of it when it all comes crashing down.

Links

http://www.greeningoutpodcast.co.uk

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Fullfact.org on EU Laws

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