Guest essay by Eric Worrall
An astonishing thing just happened in Britain. UKIP leader Nigel Farage, a strong supporter of US Tea Party Politics, invited the radical left wing politician George Galloway to be his surprise guest speaker.
Their common cause: Liberate Britain from the unelected soviet style apparatchiks who run the European Union.
… On Friday I surprised, perhaps even stunned, some of my long term supporters by introducing a surprise guest: George Galloway.
On a whole host of political issues George and I are diametrically opposed. We could not have a cosy chat over coffee about Israel, economic policy or a host of other issues. But sometimes in life an issue comes along that is bigger than anything else and traditional opponents become allies.
Churchill despised Uncle Joe Stalin as much if not more than he did the German corporal. But they joined together to defeat a common enemy. It is that same understanding that George and some in GO have today.
We believe in our country and that it should be run by our own people through the ballot box.
We will all fight side by side to win this referendum and then to get back to opposing each other.
It’s called democracy. It’s worth fighting for. Come and help us.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/20/farage-for-breitbart-enemies-unite/
Galloway champions green causes. Farage once asked Lord Monckton to be UKIP’s climate spokesman.
Galloway was once banned from entering Canada, because of his radical sympathies and associations; he even appeared before a US Senate Hearing to explain his connection to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Farage is strongly critical of radical Islam and uncontrolled immigration.
The one thing Farage and Galloway both agree on, the cause which unites them, is whatever choices Britain makes, those choices should be decided by the elected representatives of the British people, not by a distant supranational organisation which does not have to answer to the people whose lives it ruins.
The European Union, which has no democratic legitimacy, has increasingly been embracing green issues, the politics of crisis, to bolster its faltering authority. George Galloway’s support for leaving the EU, his rejection of the totalitarian route to a green policy goal which he supports, is a compliment to the integrity of a man with whom I disagree, upon almost every issue of import.
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Sovereignty for the UK and not for the EU does look necessary for democracy in the UK.
Sovereignty for the USA and not for the UN does look necessary for democracy in the USA.
Sovereignty for individual rights of each individual human and not for any collective of humans does look necessary for individual human protection from democracy.
Lots of work to do.
John
Whatever happened to Lord Monckton’s claim that this website was about science, not politics? I put “WUWT Monckton science politics” into the search box to get the link to his statement but nothing relevant came up. So, sorry, I can’t give the link.
All empires disintegrate sooner or later. The EU is under severe stress and lead by corrupt non-entities. I was conned at the ’75 referendum and we are being conned again now. Its OUT for me.
“The EU is under severe stress and lead by corrupt non-entities”
The EU is ‘led’ by the heads of government of the 28 Member States. Perhaps you think they are ‘corrupt non-entities’. And how are you being ‘conned’ now?
The people who have to explain their connections with Saddam Hussein are the ones who supplied him with chemical weapons when he was using them to mass murder Iraqis and Iranians.
Steven Swinden commented: “…Please know what you are talking about – they are the government ministers of each member state. The nonsense that EU laws are passed by the unelected continues to be propagated……..the EU is run by the Ministeras of each member state, and not by the ‘faceless bureaucrats’……The EU is ‘led’ by the heads of government of the 28 Member States….”
The European Commission is the executive body of the EU that instigates laws. They are appointed by the European Council, not elected. Because they may be elected in some other capacity doesn’t mean they were elected to formulate laws for the entire union. But it does because that is what the EU narrative is all about. But that is not how it was sold. Sovereignty was guaranteed but quickly forgotten. Promises to fool the gullible and useful idiots propagated by a bought and willing media got them this far. And I know, they are “approved” by other branches up and down the line and they all promise to be without bias so it all sounds legitimate. Read “And Not A Shot Is Fired” for the successful implementation of the same plan. You don’t know you’ve been conned until it’s too late.
No countries in or attempting to join the EU have ever gone to war with each other despite their previous histories
For all the EU’s bureaucratic deficiencies that must be a positive.
GregK
February 21, 2016 at 8:05 pm
No countries in or attempting to join the EU have ever gone to war with each other despite their previous histories
For all the EU’s bureaucratic deficiencies that must be a positive.
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Yet.
Don’t forget that the EU is only around sixty years old. and I’m not sure your statement is technically correct.
The Ukraine was proposing to try and join the EU and went to war internally – then supported externally by Russia on one side.
SteveT
might i suggest how the separation announcement should start?
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
y’all should know the rest.
The expression “The wogs begin at Calais” was originated by George Wigg, Labour MP for Dudley, in 1945. In a parliamentary debate concerning the Burmese, Wigg shouted at the Tory benches, “The Honourable Gentleman and his friends think they are all ‘wogs’. Indeed, the Right Honourable Member for Woodford [i.e. Winston Churchill] thinks that the ‘wogs’ begin at Calais.” Wigg’s coinage is commonly used to characterise a Europhobic viewpoint, and more generally the view that Britain (more commonly England) is inherently separate from (and superior to) the Continent. In this case, “wog” describes any foreign, un-English person.
Oh Brittania …
don’t be governed by an Brussel’s unelected-minority
with bureaucrat-agendas that expand their own authority,
get market feedback from ypur nation’s currency,
acting on less-arbitrary parliamentary democracy,
eschew EU bale-out ‘anything goes,’ that props up oligarchy’s
hold on power …
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/07-08/machine-hell-euro-wrought/
When the UK leaves EU it would be pathetic for the rest of us still to ( or a least try to ) speak English together. But we can’t speak, og read, anything else… The task of trying to find a new common language for EU alone will bring down whats left… and will probably also be the reason for the French to build a new Maginot line.
My enemy’s enemy is my friend? No, but politics does make for strange bedfellows.
Galloway & Farage are two sides of the same coin.
Stay in because we fear change or opt out and embrace uncertainty?
Either way its lose-lose but in one we keep our sovereignty.
The likelyhood is that the EU will unravel due to the stagnation of the internal economies and the pressures of the migrant crises. So perhaps its better to take the lead ?
Over weekend I was talking to my neighbour retired c.s. who said that along with the French, the British were most prolific imitators of new EU laws and regulations, culminating in the late 1990s and during 2000s. It was not surprise to me to hear this morning that for many environmental regulations, that we associate with the green lobby, were actually responsibility of the now Brexit’s star politician’s father.
Some years ago my daughter spent six months at the EU Brussels offices working on the digital (online) trading regulations.
latest: pound sterling fell 2% against US dollar by the early afternoon (this is a big stuff said one of the tv’s financial commentators)
” initiators “, the auto spell check is a pain!
GregK February 21, 2016 at 8:05 pm
No countries in or attempting to join the EU have ever gone to war with each other despite their previous histories
For all the EU’s bureaucratic deficiencies that must be a positive.
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Do you not think NATO may have a lot to do with this & not this EU no one in the UK ever voted for ?
Google The Red House Report
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/articles/Intelligence_Report_EW-Pa_128.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179902/Revealed-The-secret-report-shows-Nazis-planned-Fourth-Reich–EU.html
See here, to help Brexit:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brexitthemovie/brexit-the-movie/
We are all in the struggle against big government together.
Contribute here:
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Oh dear, the link defaults direct to the movie so try here:
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/