Letter: You’re all European now
Saturday 22nd August 2009, 9:00AM BST.
Letter: I have heard youngsters say: “I have been in Europe ever since I was born. I’m European really.”
No, not yet you’re not, but on January 1 the full force of the EU will rule us.
More than 30 years of planning will come into effect because already 90 per cent of power has been passed to the EU.
By this time next year there will probably not be a Westminster Parliament or any need for one.
The EU has long had plans to wipe out our counties and split us into EU regions that are attached to other EU countries so there will be no national borders.
You will not live in Shropshire anymore but an EU area number. You will have an EU police force and the armed services will be at the disposal of Europe.
You will not vote for your government because you will no longer have one.
It may not happen in weeks or months but it will happen. All political parties know it and even the Queen knows it because it is part of the plan that has been hatching all along and it’s written into the six treaties the Queen and all governments have already signed.
You think it’s a fantasy? Then think again and Google eutruth.org.uk then draw your own conclusions.
Val Duncan
Wellington
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Mwahahaha!! It must be the silly season! Anti-Euro scaremongering! Who does Val Duncan think makes the decisions in Europe? We do! We are one of the most active countries in Brussels, we’re right in there making decisions with all the rest. If we had a slightly brighter electorate or a deeper gene pool, we’d have all the benefits of the Euro and an hour more daylight on summer evenings too. Our politicians in Westminster have knackered our economy and our schools. The French and Germans don’t have anything like the problems we’ve got. And they’re not bringing home their teenagers in boxes from Afghanistan either. I’m a European, I have always been a European. I speak 3 European languages. And I’m no spring chicken either. I was 10 days too young to vote in the referendum in 1975 but I’d have voted YES, and I’d still vote YES today!
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The sooner the better. The country has been wrecked by spineless MPs who are only interested in getting their snouts in the trough.
The UK is the only european country that has made a whole industry out of the Health and Safety Act.
Can’t think of one good reason NOT to be European. Hopefully we will join the Euro as well and get rid of the ”City” who make millions a day just exchanging sterling to euros. All of which YOU have to pay for. Stop living in the past and move forward.
Oh before you mention sovereignty you will still be able to keep your queen in the luxury she is used to…..
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quick hide under the bed, where’s my tin hat?
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Fantastic, I can’t wait!
We’re too insulated here on our island, stagnation will be the death of Great Britain.
We have the rest of Europe on our doorstep – please, let’s join it!
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My father and grandfather didn’t fight in two world wars to replace European dictorial tirrany with this democratic tirrany!
No, they didn’t fight in two world wars because granddad deserted and dad was in a reserve occupation.
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Katie: Err.. there are German Troops in Afghanistan and they are being killed as well. Its just that the British Press give what the British Public wants to hear i.e. “British Tommy is sorting the world out, with a little help from our special friends cross the pond.” And you claim to be a ‘European’ – oh people like you do make me laugh when you learn 2 other languages (or own 2 holiday phrase books as I suspect) and think you’re a model European citizen.
I suggest you go and live and work amongst Johnny Foreigner, as I do quite frequently, and you will find that the East Germans are far from happy with the Euro and its stirring up National Socialistic sentiments – exactly what the EU was meant to stop.
And you say “The French and Germans don’t have anything like the problems we’ve got” well then I suggest you go amongst the people who’s nationalist sentiments have been stirred up by the economic problems of the Euro, who want previous German territory returned and those who want to keep it!
I don’t think a trip to Euro-Disney is really a European cultural exchange and sadly people will vote in referendums on the basis of their holiday experience, rather than a deeper understanding of the real issues. A key failing of democracy.
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I have noticed an increasing thread of comments becoming too personal and nasty, like those above, on this commenting facility. Everyone has their opinions but it doesn’t need to degenerate to this level of personal nastiness.
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So, Val is spouting all this Daily Mail type neurotic rubbish based on a website called ‘eutruth.org.uk’ which following a quick whois lookup is shown to be run by a UK individual called ‘David Noakes’ – not quite an organisation as the website would lead you to believe.
Judging from your letter it is probably not worth trying to ask you to try and learn a little more about the EU and the benefits it bestows on the whole of Europe – varying from the protection of wages to the unlikely chance of there ever being another ‘World War’ based in Europe. But these trivialities are probably lost on you.
The only heartening thing I note from your letter is from your first sentence when you say that you have heard youngsters say: “I have been in Europe ever since I was born. I’m European really.” – This less bigoted view at least gives some hope for the future of the planet.
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Katie: An hour more daylight on Summer evenings! Better Schools! No More War! One day you wont even have to learn three languages, just one will do!
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PS: its funny that in every EU country the same story is told that “We’re the ones making the decisions”, well that can’t be true for everyone can it?
And the same story everywhere: “We’ll be the ones better off” – that also cant be true for everyone.
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You may as well accept that we are all heading for single european state – this is not a new concept, it’s been on the cards for a long time now. I personally see nothing wrong with it – as long as we are allowed to retain traditional customs unique to Britain and we allowed some control of law and order and public finances and other areas directly affected by this islands individuality only to be intervened with if there is strong evidence (and let’s face it, there is at the moment) of our ministers not being capable of handling these issues themselves.
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Jayne: Thats the Freedom of Speech that Europeans enjoy so much and are able to practice, apart from in Germany where there are laws restricting free speech.
In fact I was advised that writing ‘der Rote Baron’ (The Red Baron) on my red VW could get me arrested under their nationalistic/militaristic laws. But apart from that, Europe enjoys free speeech.
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suellan fowler said “You may as well accept that we are all heading for single european state – this is not a new concept, it’s been on the cards for a long time now.”
And how right Suellan is. The last major attempt was by a funny little Austrian with a moustache who shouted a lot in the 1930’s/40’s. However a Brit who liked his cigars and whisky put a spanner in the works that time.
Before that there was Napoleon, who came damn near to forming a permanent European Federal State with centralized administrations and law. But just as he’d got it all up and running, along comes a plucky Brit, the Duke of Wellington, and nips that one in the bud at Waterloo, which is ironically a stone’s throw from the current European thingy in Brussels.
So that brings me to the current EU. Haven’t the Brits, through democratic means just sent a BNP representative to the EU parliament? Hmmm? History repeating itself?
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i feel european
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eutruth.org.uk is the funniest site I’ve seen in a while the usual right-wing stuff about the one world order, the masons etc.
I’m surprised they don’t offer a free tinfoil hat with every read…
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never never never, we will fight them on the beaches, we will never surrender to the communists in brussels, they would have us share everything with the poor in italy and everywhere, this is a german plot, we must never, never allow the EU to control us. vote blue go green, cut taxes and get rid of clown brown now, we will make life better and save you money too and we will fight the germans, to the death if needs be, we will get them out of our country now and make britain great again and undo all labours years of leftism
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Tory Boy: Sorry to hear its come to fighting the Germans again, especially as I’m going over there for while. I’ll be taking my tin hat with a union jack and if you could look out for me it will be greatly appreciated.
Other than Bosch Bashing, I’m all for Tory policies, especially the abolishion of the Hunting with Hounds Act.
Keep up the good work Tory Boy!
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What a crackpot website ha ha. Thanks for the laugh.
Whoever wrote it could do with some research. For one thing Exeter isn’t the rgional capital of the South West, Bristol is.
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this on the BBC news site today: “The cost of membership will rise to £6.4bn – equivalent to about £260 per UK household …
The Treasury said it was right for the UK “to share the burden of membership with new accession countries”.
I would pay £260 a year just for the extra hour of daylight as long as it was guaranteed to be nice and sunny!
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Grey: I do not know the site in question, but I think you will find Exeter is the regional capital of the South West it certainly claims it is and the RDA says it is.
“We chose to locate ourselves in ‘the regional capital’ on the basis of its geographical centrality, the quality of its transport links with special regard to the Green Agenda, the skilled local labour force and the attractive accommodation on offer.”
Caroline Bull, Director of Enterprise and Innovation, South West RDA – 2000
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The RDA has no governmental power its mostly an economic development agency. The Government Office for the South West however is in Bristol and that city certainly claims the title too.
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Crickey, if we can’t all agree on the capital of the South West, just what chance have we got on agreeing a capital for Europe?
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