by | May 26th, 2003
The European Union’s going to get a new constitution and as usual the Blair Government doesn’t think the British public deserves a say on whether to sign away its control over foreign and defence policy, taxation and a convention that gives EU law primacy over British law.
Peter Hain, Blair’s bagman to the EU, says its just a ‘tiding up’ exercise, doting some i’s and crossing some t’s.
I’m sure it is, and in a year or to we’ll wake up to find ourselves saluting an EU President in front of the EU flag, as he announces our new economic policy set by a bunch of faceless bureaucrats in Brussels.
Just as with joining the Euro, the government won’t put this to the vote because they know they’ll lose hands down.
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Speaking from the point of one who left years ago. Maybe the locals should hold their version of the Boston Tea Party……no taxation without representation etc.
I’m all for strengthening trade relationships but part of what makes Europe special is the difference between the countries. Who wants McEurope where things are standardized? I read about the EU trying to get French cheese makers to pasteurize camonbeure and German beer makers to put chemicals in their beer to pass regulations. This is hell!
The degree to which the British government goes to preserve this ‘nanny state’ where a citizen is allowed to be too dumb to wipe his ass or think for himself, let alone educate himself or God forbid dare to open a business is amazing.
Alright, that’s my tirade done for the day.
Nick, sit right down and have some Ovaltine.
Or a nice cold Bintang.
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