The Rise and Rise of the European Superstate

Today, the European Union officially comes into being as a legal political entity. It has a President and a High Representative for Foreign Affairs. It has an internal police force who can remove citizens from their homelands to face trial and imprisonment in foreign countries, via a legal mechanism specifically designed to "abolish the political stage of extradition" that can be invoked even when a person is tried and convicted in absentia.

The political elite of this new superstate are selected behind closed doors, not elected by those they purport to represent. Their laws are decided in a parliament that purports to represent hundreds of millions. That legislation is then implemented directly by subservient politicians at national level, with deadlines set and enforceable penalties if they refuse to comply. In the UK, most of this is achieved via secondary legislation such as Statutory Instruments and Regulations, which bypass the normal Parliamentary debating process.

The last national referendum held on membership of the EU was in 1975, meaning that nobody in the UK under the age of 52 has ever had a say on the replacement of Parliament by this unaccountable organisation. Who voted for the creation of a new state over our heads? Why would we want this new layer of taxpayer-funded bureaucracy leaching ever more of our hard-earned wages from our hands?

We can't even hold it to account. Its Supreme Court answers to nobody and cannot be held in check by democratically elected personnel. Merely by writing this article, I am committing blasphemy against the EU - this is the word clearly inferred by the EU's Spanish inquisitor-general in the linked Spectator article.

Speaking of legal systems, the EU also seeks to impose the alien napoleonic legal code upon us. The napoleonic code works from the basic premise that "everything is forbidden unless strictly authorised in law", in direct opposition to English common law where "nothing is forbidden unless strictly banned in law". Further, the EU's legal systems are written around the inquisitorial system of justice, where the judge researches and considers the evidence in a court case by himself. The system used in Britain and America is known as the adversarial system, where the right to trial by a jury of one's peers and the right of appeal are enshrined in law.

This terrifying juggernaut rolls on, blatting private citizens out of its way like bugs squashed on a windshield.


On a completey unrelated note, I've just heard New Young Pony Club's latest track "Lost A Girl" on the radio. Cracking stuff!

The Death of European Democracy

It's happened.

The principle over which millions fought and died in the Second World War - that of resisting a European superstate presided over by an unaccountable dictatorship - has been betrayed. That which our fathers and grandfathers stood fast to defend during the Cold War - that of resisting a dictatorial superstate - has been betrayed.

The most shameful aspect of today's results are that this is the second time that the Irish electorate have been asked the same question. The first "no" result, in June 2008, should have been taken as an outright rejection of the EU Constitution. By rights, the EU's lawmakers should have gone scurrying back to their taxpayer-funded quangos to revise their iniquitous constitution and abandon the idea of one USA-style European superstate. Yet, like one of Torqemada's inqusitors, the EU continued to ask the question of Ireland, this time after bribing big business to keep EU-funded jobs in the country; and publically boasting about this despicable act.

So it comes to pass that the Irish, after this campaign of bullying and taxpayer-funded propaganda, have signed their national sovereignty over to the unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats of Brussels. The only hope for the free peoples of Europe lies in Poland and the Czech republic, where ratification is yet to be carried out. Reports have it that Poland will ratify in days, leaving just the Czechs alone to derail the abrogation of sovereignty and self-determination that is the hallmark of the European Union.

The UK, under the unpopular Labour government, have already ratified the Lisbon Constitution, despite this breaking their manifesto pledge to hold a public referendum on the matter. The incoming Conservative government have already begun hinting that they will not hold a referendum on the Constitution as the anticipated ratification by Poland and the Czech Republic will effectively make it a "done deal".

All in all, a terrible day for European democracy and a betrayal of the values upon which British society was founded over a thousand years ago.