Posted on 03/24/2008 12:57:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
London - You might want to take that vacation in England just as soon as you can – before its 1,000-year run as a sovereign nation comes to an end.
This winter, 27 nations of the European Union (EU) signed the Treaty of Lisbon. You may think, "Innocuous enough," as Portuguese-inspired visions of the Tagus River and chicken piri-piri swirl before your eyes.
But for England (Britain, actually) the Treaty of Lisbon isn't that appetizing. That's because, if ratified, it will become the decisive act in this creation of a federal European superstate with its capital in Brussels. Britain would become a province and its "Mother of Parliaments," a regional assembly. And that's no small humiliation for a country that gave the world English and saved Western civilization in the Battle of Britain in 1940.
The Eurocrat elite in Brussels might not admit it, but the Treaty of Lisbon is essentially a constitution for a "country" called Europe. More bluntly, it's a cynical repackaging of the EU Constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to put the EU Constitution to the British people in a referendum. But his successor, Gordon Brown, has reneged on that promise. He insists that the Treaty of Lisbon is shorn of all constitutional content and that it preserves key aspects of British sovereignty. On March 11, the bill to ratify the treaty cleared the House of Commons. And now the Brown government is poised to win passage in the House of Lords, too.
But British resistance is stirring.
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No. Not in my lifetime. Not so long as I draw breath.
Remember the old line: “There will always be a Britain?”
Apparently not.
A New Empire? Maybe as a whole they’ll get their Sh!t together?
And why should this nation have two permanent seats on the UN security council, and 27 seats in the general assembly?
The treaty sounds like a lot of paper B.S. Sure it's onerous and a threat to sovereignty and England—until Britain (or any country) just pulls a "Kosovo" and rips it up. Whadda they gonna do? Subdue the Brits with cheese grenades?
An overlordship of pansies is hard to enforce.
Just call the whole thing Lisbonistan, and be done with it.
No external force could ever defeat such a strong and powerful Nation. No, the defeat must come from within. This painful truth is working today in both Britain and the US. Collectively the West has lost its way and faith.
Rev 13:1 And I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads names of blasphemy.
The Grand Caliphate of Eurostan.
With its capital of Brusselabad.
It was smart of Tony Blair to convert to Catholicism. He's going to need to make one hell of a confession if he hopes to get to heaven: killing a nation is surely a mortal sin.
If you think about it, Britain is a relatively small country with not so many natural resources that against all odds managed to build an empire. Since WWII, the British Empire has been on the decline, as has British culture and demographics. At this point, why *should* Britain occupy any more lofty a position in the grand schema of things than say Poland or even Kazakhstan?
Empires rise. Empires fall. I don’t see any more point in waxing nostalgic over the fallen glory of the British empire than I do over the fallen glory of the Ottoman or Spanish empires that preceeded it.
The Globalists are quite busy..
I hope this doesn’t come to pass. What has Queen Elizabeth to say?
Yeah and by your logic pretty much soon enough there will be no need to lament the fall of the American (Empire) nation too..!
The could not effect the dictatorship via “voluntary” constitution so the Brussels Effets will create by treaty fiat.
If the British Empire is done, then the British Museum should send the looted artifacts back to their countries of origin...
The EU has long been run by totally left wing anti-American Communist. It is a disgrace to the world and our saving them twice from total destruction.
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