This was written in December 2015, it gives my position on the EU. This is not just applicable to my country but to all the other member states of the EU as well. No-one wants to be ruled from afar, its bad enough being ruled by the wealthy elites.
Hope you enjoy the read, let me know what you think.
Why we should leave the European Union
This brief history of the of the EU will leave you bewildered as to how our politicians have led us for this long on such a treacherous route. Starting with its foetus; the creation of the European Coal and Steel community in 1950 the EU started out simply as a trading group between Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Italy.
A few of the benefits the EU claim responsibility for is the Freedom to work and study abroad around 1.4 million British people currently live abroad in the EU with over 14,500 UK students taken part in the EU’s Erasmus student exchange scheme in 2012-13. Between the nations of the EU they purchase over 50 per cent of UK exports more than the UK imports from the EU. The Bruges Group has stated that small and medium-sized businesses once freed from EU regulation and bureaucratic red tape will result in small and medium sized companies developing further creating a jobs boom. More than 90% of the UK economy is not involved in trade with the EU and yet still bears the weight of the EUs red tape legislation, pulling out of the EU but staying in the EEA would create 1 million British jobs. Before the EU was created we still had the ability and freedom to trade with any country we choose, that the EU is our be all and end all in trade is an extremely misleading argument.
In 1957 the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community (EEC) also known as the common market. The purpose of this Treaty was to construct economic integration, between its six founding members: Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany. Britain joined the EEC in 1973 along with Ireland and Denmark. Britain was facing a dreadful state of affairs at home. Unemployment was at its highest since the Great Depression of the 1920’s, Labour disputes and constant striking, property prices were crashing threatening to bring the banks down with them, and there was even whispers of Petrol rationing measures being brought in. Britain had gained status as the ‘sick man of Europe.’ (An illness gained by the lowering of our immunity after fighting off the Nazi empire one could argue.)
Prime minister Edward Heath in 1972 swore that Britain would only join with ‘the full-hearted consent of Parliament and people’ also referred to as a referendum. This referendum came three years after Heath and his comrades had already joined us to the EEC. With us already linked to this prelude of the EU the argument for the pro Europa posse was ‘we’re in now’, ‘we’ve burned our bridges with the Commonwealth; we can’t go back.’ If you take a step down the wrong path, do you continue going down that wrong path? No, you turn around or step back and go toward the path you know is reliable. I would argue further that this reliable path is our cousins in the Commonwealth and even our continental cousins we have the ability to organise some truly prosperous deals but currently we lack the freedom needed to conduct these deals as we are bound to the EU.
The commonwealth it is worth noting, according to the IMF, was expected to grow at 7.3% over the next five years, 2012-2017. It is valid point to state that if Britain’s government’s hadn’t spent the last 40 years excluding the commonwealth and neglecting the trade links our forefathers had established for over a hundred years previously the economy of Great Britain would now be in much better shape. Instead we’ve stuck with the Eurozone which is currently the slowest growing sector in the world.
What we originally joined in 1973, changed its gear up in 1993 to try and incorporate more powers following the Maastricht treaty, the EU as we know it was born. Bringing with it the creation of a central European bank, that common currency (we thank our lucky stars we never joined the Euro) and a common defense policy. It important to point out that IG Farben proposed something eerily similar to the EU. In a letter to the Nazi government on July 20, 1940 shortly after the victory over France, IG Farben outlined the tools by which it intended to cement its key role in Europe. The IG Farben letter specified a system to create a common European currency, common European law, and even a European court system. All of which would be under German control.
The latest piece of significant legislature was the Lisbon Treaty introduced in the later part of 2009; it was an amendment to the previous Treaties proposed to make the EU “more democratic, more transparent and more efficient.” The Guardian quoted David Cameron saying before the Treaty became official, "I'm a bit worried that the European parliament seems to be getting all these new powers," he said, which is odd considering Cameron’s government accepted the treaties changes without challenge. The journalist asked "We know that the parliament gets more powers, but why did your governments do that? Didn't you read the treaty?" Cameron refused to comment further. Amongst those powers given away were Removal of national vetoes in a number of areas, including but not limited to fighting climate change, energy security and emergency aid. The removal of national vetoes it doesn’t take a genius to work out is extremely dangerous and can easily lead down innumerable dark paths.
Is this what we want? A EUSSR with Britain merely a state in a federal super-state? Britain has never been a quiet piece of the picture when it comes to Europe, will we quietly whimper into the future pages of history under this new European Jack boot? World War two was won by the people sacrificing their lives in the belief that what they were fighting for was for the future freedom of all Europeans. Has it come to the point that we simply hand over our freedom to a parliament in Brussels to decide our fate. In the words of Sir Bill Case addressing the Oxford Union ‘What we have to do is stand for our own rights and our own democracy, it is the freedom of choice for which people fought and died.’ We need the UK to be governed by British representatives who have been voted in by British votes.
We should question any politician’s motives when they whole heartedly defend the EU; they are not defending the EU for the purpose of protecting our democratic freedom. Freedom is and should always be demanded by the people of their nation, not dictated to from afar by a bureaucratic government in another Country (Brussels). With the Referendum set to be announced in 2016 we have a real chance to rid ourselves of this infectious bureaucratic disease, we have a chance to put our country back on track in keeping with the values and freedoms our ancestors fought so valiantly to protect.