What if Britain HADN'T joined the EU?

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which launched what was eventually to become the European Union. Whatever our European partners may get up to in commemorating this historic moment, in two months time, it is safe to predict that celebrations here in Britain will be pretty muted. It is unlikely that cheering crowds will be turning out to watch fireworks exploding over the Thames.

Although all our major political parties are totally wedded to our membership of this vast political project, the EU's own polls have consistently shown that the people of Britain are less happy to be part of it than those of any other country in Europe.

Perhaps it may be timely therefore to mark this anniversary in our own way, by asking what Britain would be like today if, all those decades ago, our then-political leaders, such as Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath, had never taken us into it in the first place.

"what Britain would be like today if, all those decades ago, our then-political leaders, such as Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath, had never taken us into it in the first place."

I don't think we can just pin this on 'political leaders'. Afterall, the decision to join the Common Market was affirmed by a referendum.

This article is also way off base in assuming that all any policies with which the author personally disagrees are all the fault of the European Bogeyman. Most of the policies mentioned have had the support of the UK government (indeed it is necessary for them to do so in order to be implemented).

The most amusing part is that England can only become part of continental Europe when they have finally and totally discarded Common Law (the "Rights of Free-born Englishmen"), and embraced Napoleonic Law, which is the law of Brussels. This is why Britain will never integrate with the continent until the British are totally subjugated, as much as if Napoleon himself had conquered them. The EU demands of them that they discard a far superior social and legal system, founded in the rights and liberties of man, and adopt the dictatorial and whimsical rule of the unelected bureaucrat. To in fact become second class citizens to the "ruling elites". To become humbled people who must literally ask permission before doing what their desires and talents lead them to do. How utterly foolish. And yet the Nordic countries also face such a dilemma: to adopt Napoleonic Law in favor of their rights and liberties granted by Viking Law. Men are no longer equals, honor and birthright means nothing, only obedience to the bureaucrat. A most amusing social experiment. Can government, through gradualism, take away all the god-given rights and freedoms of free men, to parcel them out like starvation rations to those the government has itself impoverished? How fallen are our English cousins, that they now bow and scrape before their lords in Brussels. That by guile, treachery and cruel cunning, the continentals are trying to achieve what they could not through 900 years force of arms. But time will tell. When the bureaucratic boot grinds down on the cheek of the common man in Britain, when they are forced to doff their hats and bow deeply to their overlords, and when their children are educated to be lowly serfs, will they finally rise up? Or will a French army march down the streets of London, to take the crown from the head of your king, and to close your parliament as a superfluous relic of when the English were a free people? And yet the last laugh may be theirs, because many people even in the US see such bureaucratic rule as superior to OUR Common Law, and pine for the day when they, too, might be like the overlords of Brussels, ruling by whim.

The EU flag. Integrating the "roadkill crow" of the Holy Roman Empire.

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