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EU Dictatorship Vs Ireland: Round 2

Daily Mail

Europe’s leaders are poised today to endorse a series of ‘bribes’ designed to persuade Irish voters to reverse their rejection of the EU constitution.

They will be encouraged to back the document in a second vote next year.

EU chiefs last night agreed in principle key concessions to Dublin at a Brussels summit in return for a re-run of the referendum. They are expected to sign the deal today and hope the Irish will deliver the ‘right’ result when they vote again.

It means the re-jigged blueprint for a ‘United States of Europe’ – now renamed the Lisbon Treaty – could be in force by the beginning of 2010, despite being rejected by voters three times.

And Britain will be fully signed up to it without the referendum Labour promised.

According to draft conclusions for the two-day meeting leaked last night, Dublin ‘is committed to seeking ratification’ of the treaty by the end of October 2009.

The move was seized on by the Tories who upped the pressure on Gordon Brown for reneging on a 2005 General Election manifesto pledge when the constitution was re-drawn as a treaty.

Yeah, and what happened? He said one thing, sorry, he PROMISED one thing, and did the opposite and no one tears down Westminster.

One EU diplomat close to the talks added last night: ‘There’s a wide agreement on Lisbon, but we’ll need to come back on some details tomorrow.’

Ireland’s Prime Minister Brian Cowen is expected today to confirm that another referendum on the treaty will be held. He will claim that securing deals on retaining Ireland’s EU commissioner, its military neutrality, abortion, workers’ rights and taxation laws means a second vote is necessary.

Well, maybe. Until the unelected heads of the EU decide to change the Lisbon Treaty at will, without a vote by anyone anywhere. It is called Article 48. These so called ‘concessions’ are just cheap parlour tricks.

Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin said the concession on a commissioner was a fundamental reform. Under the original treaty terms, the number of commissioners was set to fall to 18 and appointed on a rotation basis, meaning some countries would be left unrepresented.

Why do you think they are moving to majority voting? Mob rules, my friends. The EU knows that the largest countries are all fabian socialist shitholes dedicated to the Communist Utopia. As Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the architect of the European Union Constitution states:

“We are evolving towards majority voting because if we stay with unanimity, we will do nothing,” he said.

“It is impossible to function by unanimity with 27 members. This time it’s Ireland; the next time it will be somebody else.”

“Ireland is one per cent of the EU”.

Indeed. So your wonderful ‘EU Commissioner’ will be out-voted on anything the EU doesn’t agree with anyway. Democracy, EU style.

Declan Ganley, the chairman of Libertas, which led the triumphant ‘No’ campaign in the first Irish referendum, said the summit deal was an example of the Irish being dictated to by Brussels.

‘The powerful elite in Brussels is utter contempt for the democratic decision of the Irish people in rejecting the Lisbon Treaty, he said.

‘It’s time to put a stop to this bullying.’

In Britain, Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague attacked Mr Brown for his part in pressuring Dublin to vote again.

He said: ‘Trying to force the Lisbon Treaty down the Irish people’s throats again is not only a dangerous distraction from that agenda, it is profoundly undemocratic.’

He added: ‘If our unelected Prime Minister insists on forcing the Irish people to vote twice, the case for letting the British people vote once will be morally unanswerable.’

The ‘new’ treaty, signed in Lisbon in December 2007, was drawn up to replace the EU constitution, thrown out by voters in France and the Netherlands in 2005.

Critics say that the two documents are virtually identical with crucial powers handed over from member states to Brussels.

Not just critics, most of the EU elitists as well, including the man who crafted the original EU Constitution. Here are two quotes:

The European Commission
“It’s essentially the same proposal as the old Constitution.”
(Margot Wallstrom, EU Commissioner, Svenska Dagbladet, 26 June 2007)

Germany
“The substance of the Constitution is preserved. That is a fact.”
(Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, Telegraph, 29 June 2007)

The EU insists that it is needed to help ease decision-making within the expanding bloc.

Ease decision making for the dictators in the EU that is. What else could it possibly mean? The Treaty is about the centralisation of power, away from you and your country. Away from everyone and their countries. Don’t believe me? Read the damn thing.

Open Europe director Lorraine Mullally said: ‘This whole process is nothing but a charade to make it look as though people’s concerns about the treaty have been addressed. The Irish ‘No’ vote is being ignored in a most dishonest way.’

From IRELAND SAYS NO TO LISBON TREATY!!

People have to realise that their respective governments do not act in their best interests or in the interests of their Laws. This has been decades in the planning and implementing and we are now in the final stages of their endgame for the European Superstate;

Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovksy, who personally saw secret documents in 1992 which outlined a conspiracy to turn the European Union into a Socialist dictatorship;

The Soviet files outlined a plan from the mid-1980’s onwards to hijack the European Union and turn it into what Bukovksy calls the EUSSR, a totalitarian federal superstate with no accountability or direct representation.

Some more information regarding the EU, and the Lisbon Treaty:

Why Ireland should vote No to the Lisbon Treaty

EU Constitution author says referendums can be ignored

The European Union Story

EU Map deletes England, replaces it with Regions

Ever-closer European Union underway

IRELAND SAYS NO TO LISBON TREATY!!

Anger at plans for EU wide police force with powers to snoop on Britons

FreeBritain: Lisbon Treaty

FreeBritain: European Union

Get informed! Spread the information. You can’t make an educated vote if you do not know the facts. That’s what the EU is counting on.



Remember remember, the 5th of November

You want to free yourself and your country from the tyranny of the current state (and the mainstream alternatives are all equally treasonous?)

Then begin NOW! Your body is your own, your life is your own. The State has no place dictating your life to you. Many of us have many plans, which are going to be put into effect sooner rather than later. I’m up for it, are you?

Source: Libertarian Blog

This book cost less than a fiver; are you prepared to spend the price of a couple of pints for your freedom?

On November 5th 1605 Guido Fawkes, ‘the only man to enter Parliament with honest intent’, sought to end the repressive rule of a King from Scotland who brought repression to the Country. The rule of the Stuarts ended on the battlefield of Naseby, with Absolutism subordinate to the rule of Law and Parliament.

The United Kingdom has now become riven with Cameras, unaccountable Local Authorities losing millions in Iceland. Who are speaking up for the people of this Country, as we are plundered as taxpayers to prop up the Banks, not the MPs that’s for sure.

We want to send a message to Parliament, we want 646 copies of ‘1984’, one to be sent to each member of Parliament – make your pledge at 1984@lpuk.org to send a copy to arrive on November 5th.

The Libertarian Party with the support of other organisations will ensure that each member of the Cabinet will get a copy, with an appropriate message.

If you cannot be bothered to Act stop whining and continue to be ‘taxed unto your meat and drink’

I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.

— Andrew Jackson



Treat Islam with more respect than Christianity: BBC

Source: Daily Mail

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BBC director general Mark Thompson has admitted that the broadcaster has to tackle Islam differently to Christianity and is reluctant to broadcast jokes about it.

He suggested that coverage needed to consider the feelings of Muslims because they are a religious minority, and had not fully integrated in to British society.

Mr Thompson was responding to comments made by comedian Ben Elton earlier this year who accused the BBC of being too scared to joke about Islam.

He said the corporation was too concerned with political correctness to poke fun at imams but were happy to satirise vicars.

Speaking at an annual theology lecture for religious think tank Theos, Mr Thompson said: ‘My view is that there is a difference between the position of Christianity, which I believe should be central to the BBC’s religion coverage and widely respected and followed.

‘What Christian identity feels like to the broad population is a little bit different to people for whom their religion is also associated with an ethnic identity which has not been fully integrated.

‘There’s no reason why any religion should be immune from discussion, but I don’t want to say that all religions are the same. To be a minority I think puts a slightly different outlook on it.’ Continue reading



Come to Britain and get YOUR benefits!!!

Is the name of a leaflet published by the Department for Work and Pensions. You can download it and read it here > Coming From Abroad and Claiming Your Benefits.

This is tailored specifically to immigrants. Page 4 states that the leaflet applies to ‘every country in the world’. The final page lets you know that it is available in languages like Arabic, Somali and Bengali.

Today I see an article on the Daily Mail site entitled: More than a million immigrants live in homes paid for by the taxpayer.

In the comments I’m reading about taxpayers that are denied affordable housing because the waiting lists are ‘at least 10 years’ while immigrants are pushed to the front of the queue. Another comment alludes to the fact that those figures don’t account for other types of accomodation paid through other benefits.

Which country is the Equality Commission operating in? No sign of bias in housing towards immigrants? That very issue was highlighted on Channel 4 on Monday evening.

In Bristol, which has a big social housing shortage, Channel 4 reported that 10,000 Somalis had been sent to be housed here by central government. In the last three years. Are they living on the streets? No! They were all found subsidised housing and were automatically housed by being placed at the top of a special A list of priority applicants.

Some residents in Bristol have been waiting 20 years, like my brother, but they are on the councils C list i.e. they are not prioritised. He has worked and paid taxes for 30 years in this country and had to watch as Somali families arrived in Bristol and immediately occupied pre-arranged council housing.

What say you Equality Commission?

Immigrants should not be entitled to anything from a host country without a long list of eligibility criteria, such as living here for at least 10 years, having a British grandparent, things like that.

Taxpayers are experiencing Redistribution of Wealth on a massive scale. Young British people are finding themselves with nowhere they can afford, as private rents are huge and affordable housing is taken up by immigrants and their ‘rights’ which seem to trump the rights of the taxpayer.

The criminal government recently stated that ‘immgrants are not given preferential treatment with housing’. I find that hard to believe considering millions of immigrants are, at this very second, living in such housing.

The immigration boom did not happen by accident. It was not, as my colleague Simon Heffer pointed out on Wednesday, the result of incompetence. There has been a deliberate and coldly calculated effort to transform Britain into a Labour-voting multi-cultural melting pot.

At the same time as our council housing has been handed over to immigrants over one million voters from abroad have been added to the electoral register in only two years following the introduction of the Electoral Administration Act.

New applicants do not have to provide documents proving their identity or even whether they are in the country legally. Instead, they simply fill in a two-page form and declare that the details are correct.

Britain’s sovereignty, its citizens and their rights are being systematically destroyed by a government whose allegience is their Marxist ideology and the globalist EU. How far does this have to go before people do something about it?



Far-right party claims Austria victory

Source: Telegraph

(Extract)

He has been linked to neo-Nazi groups, says that women in Islamic dress are “female ninjas” and wants to take Austria out of the EU. (Oh no!) But after his huge gains in yesterday’s general election, the far-right leader Heinz-Christian Strache was today bidding to become his country’s next Chancellor.

The extreme-right romped home with a record 29 per cent of the vote in Sunday’s Austrian poll, inflicting disaster on the country’s two main established parties, the Social Democrats and centre-right People’s Party, whose grand coalition government collapsed earlier this year due to infighting.

The xenophobic Freedom Party, presided over by 39-year-old Strache, won 18 percent of the far right vote with the remainder going to veteran right winger Jörg Haider’s Alliance for the Future of Austria. It was the Austrian far right’s best performance since the Second World War.

Note the aggressive language against this party from the Telegraph. Why are people voting for this party you may ask…

His bid for the equivalent of the Austrian prime minister’s job was not unrealistic. Should one of Austria’s two main parties find no other option than to form a government with the far right, Strache would be in a position to put his name forward for the post. Such an outcome would be reminiscent of 1999 when the Freedom Party, then led by Jorg Haider, joined the country’s ruling coalition. Fearing that democracy was under threat, the EU responded by invoking sanctions against Austria. Haider had praised Adolf Hitler and the Nazi SS.

Okay, not too keen on the last bit, but check out the double speak! Fearing democracy is under threat, the EU, a communist-inspired dictatorship, imposes sanctions on a sovereign country!

Strache’s record is equally controversial. He recently failed to win a court battle against a magazine which described him as having neo-Nazi contacts. There are also said to be photographs of Strache in his youth which allegedly show him attending a militant far right gathering at which uniform clad neo-Nazis brandished guns. Strache denies the allegations, but nevertheless wants to overturn laws which ban the display of the Nazi swastika.

Well, I guess Prince Harry can open up his ‘fancy dress‘ wardrobe then… Continue reading



MPs too scared to talk about forced marriage ‘in case they lose Muslim votes’

Who is your daddy. Pathetic behaviour of politicians, scrambling for votes. All that interests these traitors is being re-elected.

Source: Telegraph

(Extract)

Ann Cryer said politicians in areas with high Muslim populations, many of which are Labour heartlands, should be at the forefront of the campaign to stop young couples being made to wed against their will by their families.

But she claimed that some politicians are afraid to speak out on the issue in case they alienate Muslim voters. The forced marriage unit at the Foreign Office deals with an estimated 300 cases every year, most of them involving teenage girls from Pakistani or Bangladeshi families.

Mrs Cryer, who is stepping down as MP for Keighley in West Yorkshire at the next general election, added that local Muslim leaders are not doing enough to encourage integration and accused them of trying to keep immigrants who move to Britain “in the backwoods”.

It comes just days after Gordon Brown praised her “brave” campaign against forced marriage, and said her understanding of her constituency was “second to none”.

Mrs Cryer, 68, said: “There still is a nervousness to talk about this, especially those MPs in constituencies affected by these issues.

“They should be fighting on the front line, but they are the ones keeping quiet on the issue because they don’t want to lose votes.



Nursery booklet for parents is ‘blatant propaganda’

Source: Times Online

(Extract)

Ministers are producing misleading “propaganda” which skirts around new targets for the under-5s in an attempt to head off a revolt by parents of nursery children, campaigners claim today.

Under the new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework which comes into force next week, all preschool children in private, voluntary or state childcare in England will be expected to meet 69 literacy, numeracy and problem-solving targets based on, and even using, computers and other technology.

But a booklet for parents on the framework contains no mention of any of the statutory literacy or numeracy targets, emphasising only that children will be expected to “learn through play” and “develop at their own pace”.

Two of the most contentious targets are that children should “write their own names . . . and begin to form simple sentences, sometimes using punctuation” and “use phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts at more complex words”.

This is despite the guidance for nurseries and childcarers referring to the targets as “learning and development requirements that all early years providers must by law deliver”. Continue reading



Taxman to get new powers to enter private property

Source: Guardian

(Extract)

HM Revenue & Customs inspectors are to gain new powers to investigate and fine taxpayers, but safeguards for individuals and businesses will not come into effect until at least four months later.

Accountancy and tax bodies said the “get tough” regime should be delayed until a charter is in place to protect taxpayers. They also argued the charter should be a statute, similar to a bill of rights, rather than the currently proposed statement of good practice.

HMRC will acquire powers next year to enter business premises and private homes used for business. For errors that are “careless, but non-deliberate”, penalties worth up to 30% of an unpaid tax bill can be levied. Fines worth 70% of the final tax bill could be imposed should officials believe the taxpayer deliberately ignored the need to make a payment. Deliberate concealment could trigger fines worth 100% of the final tax bill. The new powers, outlined in the Finance Act, are due to come into effect on April 1 2009.

Tax officers will gain powers to inspect and remove information and documents, while the Treasury will limit the amount taxpayers can reclaim in wrongly paid tax from six to four years. Income tax, capital gains tax, VAT and stamp duty tax will be among payments covered by the new regime. Fines can be imposed from March 2009 on tax bills calculated from March 2008.



Is the fluoride in our water really good for our teeth?

I have added some information the article neglects to mention.

Source: Daily Mail

The Government wants 40 per cent of England’s water supply to be fluoridated to reduce high levels of tooth decay. But its critics say it has been linked to conditions such as hypothyrodism (underactive thyroid gland). Here we explain what you should know.

Q: What is fluoride?

A: A naturally occurring mineral found in water and some foods (such as tea and fish). It can also be chemically produced – as in toothpaste. Fluoride strengthens tooth enamel and makes teeth more resistant to acid attacks.

The fluoride they use for fluoridation is not naturally occurring. It is called Hydrofluosilic acid. More information about it can be found below, from No To Fluoridation;

Hydrofluosilic acid (H 2 SiF 6 ) and other fluorosilicates are not naturally occurring. They are waste products derived from the industrial manufacture of aluminium, zinc, uranium, aerosols, insecticides, fertilizers, plastics, lubricants and pharmaceuticals.

Professor Kaj Roholm , former Chief of the Toxicology Committee for the National Research Council the author of the first and most comprehensive monograph on fluorosilicates classifies hydrofluorosilic acid and hexafluorosilic acid as “extremely toxic.” One chemical company selling fluoride to water suppliers describes it as “a colourless to straw yellow, transparent, fuming, corrosive liquid with a pungent odour and irritating action on the skin.”

Hydrofluorosilic acid is listed as a Part II poisons under the Poisons Act 1972. As such its use as a commercially ingestible product in water contravenes UK and EU pharmaceutical legislation governing the regulation of medicinal substances, as well as the Poisons Act.

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UK population at record high, because of non-British births and immigration

Source: Daily Mail

The rate of immigration into the UK has soared to record levels with more than 600,000 people arriving last year – more than double the level when Labour came to power.

Government statisticians said the nation’s population rose to just under 61million by mid-2007, up by almost two million since 2001.

As well as record immigration, the number of UK residents leaving to settle abroad leaped to 406,000 – also the highest level since records began, leaving net immigration of just under 200,000.

While immigration now accounts for 52 per cent of population growth, officials said the huge number of immigrants in recent years were now driving a dramatic increase in the UK birth rate – which as a result is set to take over as the main driver behind the soaring population within the next year or two.

In some parts of the country well over half of all babies are born to mothers from outside the UK, with the highest figure of 75 per cent found in the London borough of Newham.

The rate of growth meant around one million people were being added to the country’s population each year – the equivalent of a city the size of Birmingham – and was consistent with earlier projections predicting a population of 71 million by 2031.

The new figures will fuel debate about immigration policies and call into question Home Office suggestions the rate of arrivals is likely to slow over the coming years.

Unveiling the figures, Guy Goodwin, director of population, health and regional analysis at the Office, said last year’s 388,000 rise was the highest since records began.

It meant the country now had a total population of 60,975,000.

He said the main cause was high levels of inward migration, with 605,000 people arriving in the UK in the 12 months up to mid-2007, compared with 406,000 existing residents moving out. Continue reading



Great (Police State) Britain

Source: Telegraph

(Extract)

With every telephone call, swipe of a card and click of a mouse, information is being recorded, compiled and stored about Britain’s citizens.

An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has now uncovered just how much personal data is being collected about individuals by the Government, law enforcement agencies and private companies each day.

In one week, the average person living in Britain has 3,254 pieces of personal information stored about him or her, most of which is kept in databases for years and in some cases indefinitely.

This newspaper’s findings come days after the Government published plans to grant local authorities and other public bodies access to the email and internet records of millions. Phone companies already retain data about their customers and give it to 650 public bodies on request.

In socialism or communism, everything (including you) becomes the property of the state to regulate and control as it deems fit. Our freedom is already slipping away into totalitarianism. How long can people continue to kid themselves otherwise?



UK DNA database holds records of 40,000 INNOCENT children

So the government has admitted, but of course, in a police state there are no innocent people. Everyone is a potential threat to the tyrants in power.

Source: Daily Mail

Nearly 40,000 innocent children have been placed on the Government’s enormous DNA database for life, ministers admitted last night.

The number of ten to 17-year-olds who have done nothing wrong yet have had their genetic profiles seized by police has soared by 60 per cent in two years.

The news will fuel mounting fears that forces are arresting youngsters who have committed no crime simply to build up their DNA database by ‘stealth’.

The scale of the gathering operation was revealed by Home Office minister Meg Hillier. She confirmed the database held the records of 303,393 children whose genetic profiles can be checked against any crime scene.

Of these, 39,095 – or 12.8 per cent – had ‘not been convicted, cautioned, received a final warning or reprimand and had no charge pending against them’.

The controversial figures, slipped out in a written Parliamentary answer, provoked condemnation yesterday.

Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve said: ‘This is yet more evidence that the DNA database is totally arbitrary, with tens of thousands of innocent kids on it but not every offender in our prisons.’

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said it was wrong to store the DNA of innocent people. He pointed out that the database does not contain data on many convicted criminals.

He said: ‘These figures show that the Government is building a national DNA database by stealth. Continue reading



Dr Ken Smith: Ignore Bad Spelling From University Students

Is this what it has sunk to? Students in university that are so bad at spelling that a senior lecturer is calling for an amnesty, to re-categorise these mistakes as merely variations on the word? Teachers are flooded with students of such a low calibre that they must now start making suggestions like this?

This of course plays into the hands of the Communists running the country. A dumbed down population is much more likely to capitulate to authority and not likely to be thinking for themselves or asking pesky questions.

Source: Daily Mail

Dr Ken Smith is urging colleagues to turn a blind eye to the 20 most common slips  –  such as ‘Febuary’, ‘ignor’ and ‘speach’  –  and view them instead as variants of standard spellings.

Writing in the Times Higher Education magazine, the senior lecturer in criminology at Buckinghamshire New University said: ‘Teaching a large first-year course at a British university, I am fed up with correcting my students’ atrocious spelling. Aren’t we all?

‘But why must we suffer? Instead of complaining about the state of the education system as we correct the same mistakes year after year, I’ve got a better idea.

‘University teachers should simply accept as variant spellings those words our students most commonly misspell.’

He added: ‘Either we go on beating ourselves and our students up over this problem or we simply give everyone a break and accept these variant spellings as such.

‘All I am suggesting is that we might well put 20 or so of the most commonly misspelt words in the English language on the same footing as those other words that have a widely accepted variant spelling.’ Continue reading



These ludicrous, and sinister, snooping laws

Source: Daily Mail

In our long climb out of the darkness of despotism, some moments shine out particularly brightly. One of these was Sir Edward Coke’s majestic judgment in 1604 that ‘The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.’

Without a private place in which to live his life and raise his family, a man is not free. If the State can march in when it feels like it, then we live in a tyranny.

We all accept that sometimes the police may need to force their way into a house. But it is hard to see why we now need 1,043 separate laws allowing thousands of State inspectors to enter our homes against our will.

Among the pretexts for these State-sponsored home invasions are the supposed need to check that unregulated hypnotism is taking place – or if rabbits or dancing bears are present. Various bodies are also empowered to examine pot plants, fridges and hedges.

This dangerous, nosy-parker rubbish results from the simple-minded good intentions of politicians, who pretend to be able to solve all the problems of the world but in the end can only pass new laws for others to implement and suffer. Yet, as it mounts up into a substantial hill of new powers, it ceases to be silly and becomes sinister.

The time has come for a bonfire of such powers – and a resolve by Ministers to think before they regulate.



The European Union Story

This article was found at the source below but I believe it originated elsewhere (possibly the old EU Truth site?) I have re-posted it here to clear up formatting issues and other typos. It will also be a work-in-progress in the sense I will be providing external links to provide additional information and evidence supporting the statements made in this article – FM Watkins.

Source: EU Dictatorship / Unknown

Sections: The EU Dictatorship Exposed | The Take-Over of Britain | Your Citizenship | Regionalisation | EU Democracy? | Qualified Majority Voting | Immunity from Prosecution | Funding of Political Parties | Human Rights | Why Britain Does Not Belong To Europe | The Terminal Power-Play for Britain | So Why is it Happening? | Britain – an Economic Threat to the Continent | Facts | Selling Britain By The Pound | Smoke and Mirrors | No Turning Back | Where the Rubber Meets the Road | Tax Increases for all, Especially Britain | The British Support the Euro? | Enlarging the Union | Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) | Britain – A Sterling Place to do Business | Brussels Moves the Goal Posts … Again | Conversion to the New Currency | Corruption and Fraud | Above the Law | Drawn and Quartered | Justice for All | EU Justice – No Checks and Balances

The EU Dictatorship Exposed

In the words of Winston Churchill and in reference to Stanley Baldwin who was Prime Minister at the time (exporting Rolls Royce aero engines to Germany) prior to the outbreak of World War II he spoke the following words:

“Whose in charge of the clattering train? The axle’s creak and the couplings strain; the pace is hot and the points are near and sleep has deadened the driver’s ear and the signals flash through the night in vain for death is in charge of the clattering train”

The Take-Over of Britain

On 1st January 1973, Conservative British Prime Minister Edward Heath took Britain into the European Common Market. Heath reassured Parliament and the British people at the time that British sovereignty would not be affected and that we were just joining a trading partnership. His 1971 government White Paper stated the following:

“There is no question of Britain losing essential national sovereignty… The British safeguards of habeus corpus and trial by jury will remain intact. So will the principle that a man is innocent until he has been proved guilty.”

Subsequent papers came to light, which unequivocally show that Edward Heath recognised that he had known all along that Britain was signing up to a federal Europe. Continue reading