Top left clockwise, EU promoters and grandees Angela Merkel, Valéry d'Estaing, Edward Heath (deceased), Jacques Chirac.

Brits fight back against the EU's threat to liberty & prosperity

DECEIVED BY POLITICIANS

The European Union was falsely sold to the British people as a Common Market. The politicians of the time said there would be nothing political about it even though they knew otherwise.

The European Union pretended to be just a free-trade area, but it has become a managed trade area with protectionist tariffs that raise the price of goods, a political agenda that decimates individual liberty, and oppressive trade protections that devastate Third World peoples. 

The EU is an insidious political project that threatens the existence of Britain and the well being of the British people. The EU plans to swallow nation states and create a political superstate. Five EU treaties provide for an EU economy, EU Army, police force, legal and judicial system, diplomatic service, taxes, anthem, and flag – in short, all the attributes of a nation state.

The EU apparently built its centre in Strasbourg to evoke Breughel's Tower of Babel.
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Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky remarks, "If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union."

DICTATED TO BY UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS; HARD-EARNED MONEY LOST TO CORRUPTION

The unelected bureaucrats of the EU now make over 70% of British laws. These laws are not debated in the British Parliament. They are not in the best interests of the British people. They pass directly on to Britain's statute books.

Meanwhile the EU's fiscal house is a mess. The EU's Court of Auditors will not sign off on them. Vast sums of money are unaccounted for, suggesting that millions of pounds of the taxpayers' hard-earned money is disappearing into the pockets of EU kleptocrats. Even when these frauds involve companies set up in Britain by EU operatives, Britain's Serious Fraud Office refuses to investigate.

POLITICIANS SELL COUNTRY FOR PERSONAL GAIN

The three main political parties in Britain are all committed to staying in the EU. Two of the main parties have supported the project for years by signing EU treaties. This makes it hard for them to imagine exiting the EU, despite the fact that an exit would not be difficult to arrange and public opinion polls indicate a majority of Brits support leaving. Many British politicians seem to have a personal interest in the EU project: A growing number of them have signed onto the EU gravy train for its lavish salaries, perks, and pensions.

EU MIGRATIONS SWAMP BRITAIN

Brits like to rescue people, and they are quite good at it, but there is a physical limit to how many people can squeeze into the lifeboat of one rather small country.

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Because the EU controls immigration policy, the British Government cannot control or refuse steep population migrations from all over Europe. Water shortages and overcrowding have become real threats to the well being of Brits and to the beauty of their country. The Human Rights Act, which is EU-inspired, means that nearly everyone entering Britain is entitled to stay. The same act means that criminals now have more rights than victims, and that the courts decide social policy.

The UK Independence Party advocates the free movement of goods, and the free movement of people who are travelling. UKIP is opposed to the transmigration of millions of people which would threaten the culture of every country in the EU, including but not limited to the cultures of Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Ireland.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn spoke powerfully for these nations when he said, "Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colours and bears within itself a special facet of divine intention."

EU ABANDONS SUCCESS AND FREEDOM

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, "To lose freedom may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both freedom and prosperity looks like carelessness."

The EU detests Britain's Common Law, but the Common Law is the highly successful foundation of law in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, and other prosperous countries. (There is no country in the world using British Common Law that is not successful.) The Common Law protects both freedom and prosperity, yet the EU wants to destroy it.

Britain is being converted to the EU's Napoleonic model of justice, corpus juris, which gives little protection to the individual against the state, where there is no presumption of innocence, where you can be tried repeatedly for the same offence, and where jury trials are rare. The European Arrest Warrant means that a Brit can be accused of a crime that is not an offence in Britain, be arrested by foreign police at his home in Britain, and be held in a foreign jail pending trial under a code of justice that disregards habeas corpus.

Incredibly, EU police (Europol) are themselves immune from prosecution for any personal criminal acts. This flies in the face of nine hundred years of British realism, for it was in 1100 that Brits forced their Kings to recognise that no one, not even a King is above the law.

Two hundred thousand pages of regulations (the Acquis Communitaire) are strangling small British businesses. "Regulatory creep" and uncertainty about what regulations mean depress business. Taxes in Britain have been raised to create what EU bureaucrats call tax convergence. These regulations and taxes are creating a drag on the British economy that hurts all British citizens.

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Imports from outside the EU are taxed, so goods from Australia, America, and Asia are more expensive in the EU than anywhere else in the world. Brits once bought good cheap agricultural products from Australia and New Zealand. Now preference is given to heavily subsidized and very expensive French farmers. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidizes French farmers by billions every year, while British farmers are being bankrupted.

The average British family's food bill is one thousand pounds a year higher because of EU tariffs.

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Britain had 90% of the EU's fish stocks. They used to be conserved and managed by Brits, and once produced a sustainable catch, supporting thousands of fishermen and their families and feeding Brits. EU treaties gave British fishing stocks to the Spanish and French who overfished and destroyed them.

UNFUNDED PENSION LIABILITIES MEAN DISASTER FOR OLD AND YOUNG

"Unfunded pension liabilities now average some 285% of GDP, more than 4 times the officially published public debt figures. Total public liabilities now exceed assets in most EU countries, and are causing runaway debt service. Europe’s present social model is unsustainable because it is based on the robbery of future generations." (Brussels Journal)

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According to the Brussels Journal, "If social policies are kept unchanged, tax hikes of as much as 5 to 15 percentage points will be necessary over the next couple of decades merely to avoid the rate of indebtedness increasing any further. Unfortunately, this will just kill growth completely," raising unemployment, breeding inflation, making property worth less, and creating social turmoil on an unprecedented scale.

EU STEALS INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND REPRESENTATION

Britain has been divided into EU regions, and the traditional counties are being trashed. In the EU, England is no longer herself, the real and legendary nation of freedom, but has been divided into nine regions. These EU regions receive funding from and are responsible to the EU, thus bypassing elected representatives in Westminster. They are governed by appointed (not elected) regional assemblies, which, astonishingly, are private bodies not approved by Parliament. Individual rights, individual redress, and individual representation are disappearing as unaccountable eurocrats take over. To keep up to date, check EU Referendum » where Richard North and Helen Szamuely post daily.

It's interesting that the people of Gibraltar, originally came from Genoa, Malta and from the great scattering of the Jews of Europe. Multi-racial, but not multicultural, the British Gibraltarians affirmed in a national referendum that despite Spain's threats they would remain British.

"It is an example," writes Peter Hitchens, "of how people grow attached to the small and the particular, the friendly and the neighbourly - and of how the wretched Marxoid idea of a world without borders, with one language, one currency, one diet, one law and one way of doing everything is deeply unattractive to most of us." Peter Hitchens »

This wretched Socialist superstate is the nightmare we want to escape.

ESCAPING THE EU

Brits can escape the EU simply and easily.

1) To escape the EU, Parliament will repeal the European Communities Act of 1972 and leave the EU.

2) When the United Kingdom leaves the EU, it will continue to trade with Europe and the rest of the world. Britain will move into a future of freedom and opportunity. After leaving the EU the United Kingdom could remain in the European Free Trade Area. This is not a perfect arrangement, but it releases our country from the EU's control while leaving trading agreements in place.

3) You elect MPs who will vote to leave the EU. The Better Off Out Campaign » has identified a number of MPs and prospective MPs who will support the repeal of the 1972 European Communities Act.

Leaving the EU will be positive, modern liberating, and
very successful.
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