Posted on 11/10/2011 6:08:16 PM PST by Olog-hai
Increasingly, it appears we are witnessing the death of democracy and the right of sovereign nations inside the eurozone to govern their own affairs. First the overbearing eurocrats — led by France and Germany — bullied Greece into dropping its planned referendum. Then they forced Prime Minister George Papandreou from office and made it plain that the country’s next leader must be a pro-Brussels technocrat of whom they, rather than the Greek people, approve.
Now the power-hungry duo of Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are turning their attentions to Silvio Berlusconi, whom they no longer trust to reduce Italy’s own monstrous debts. He, too, could be gone within days — doubtless to be replaced by another Franco-German puppet. …
…(T)he prospect of the eurozone turning into a single bloc, run by German and French politicians openly hostile to the City of London, has disturbing implications for Britain. Which is why, as the Mail has repeatedly argued, the UK urgently requires David Cameron to set about honoring his promise to stand up for our national interest and negotiate the repatriation of powers from Brussels to Westminster.
… Labour may have wrecked our border controls, but the Tories were elected to fix them. There can be no excuses. …
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gosh, I’m starting to get the idea you don’t like the EEC/EU.
First they came for Qaddafi, but I wasn’t Qaddafi . . .
Transnationals, the new Internationale.
We better bring our troops home, arm, and prepare. Within 5 years I fully expect to be in Europe with England fighting the Germans.
It's not easy to like something that's patterned after the Soviet Union. Unless you're a liberal, that is.
I’m starting to get the idea you don’t like the EEC/EU
Huh, both countries between them couldn’t muster a decent fighting infantry division. It would be like watching a junior high football game.
Back in the 80s, a “civil servant” told me that the U.S. could have been a part of the “common wealth” had we not revolted. She said it as if it would have been a good thing.
EU. Vierte Reich. Troisieme Empire.
You were talking to one of those ding-a-lings that fawns over the british royal family and dreams of being knighted or a duke or a duchess or some similar idiocy.
She was right. It would have been. Not least because if America was in the Commonwealth Britain wouldnt have thrown in with the EU.
The Commonwealth (with a FTA with the US) could have been a viable economic bloc, held together with common law and the English language, but the traitors who falsely believed in a European demos, sold Britain down the river, and here we are....
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