Euro Blair�s at it again
June 25, 2003 ~ 2:12 p.m.
LONDON, U.K.�When Tony �Euro� Blair first had political ambitions, taking them all the way to the position of Prime Minister, did he have a hatred of Britain on his mind? You�d think so.
Blair, despite feelings of isolation at the recent European Union summit conference, at which he abruptly left before the statesmen�s dinner, is still gung-ho on signing up with Europe�and signing away Britain�s sovereignty. Despite Britian�s unpopularity for its military support of the U.S. in Iraq, Blair has shown that he has not learned his lesson.
Many Brits felt ignored by their PM after he rejected the majority�s anti-war sentiment. Feeling that U.S. power should not be further encouraged, the British said, let the Americans fight their own war if they want it so bad. Please let�s keep out of this foreign entanglement and focus on our own domestic issues.
Forgetting the moral vacuity of this sentiment, it is nevertheless understandable (I�ll give them the benefit of the doubt). Housing costs, health care, schools and teachers, crime�these are issues you promised to solve, Prime Minister, the British are saying. Why have you not done so? Are you fighting for us, or for the rest of the world?
But if it was just the War in Iraq that the British had on their minds, that would ultimately be a non-issue by the time Blair comes up for re-election. Despite the fact that criticism still exists as to the whereabouts of the WMDs and the process by which peace and democracy will be instituted in Iraq, the voters would not jettison Blair if he put his nose to the grindstone immediately and worked feverishly to smooth out Britain�s burning issues.
But is he doing that? If the British thought that getting caught up with American foreign policy was bad, that should be of little worry and concern compared to Blair�s stumping for the European Union and its �Constitution.�
This is a document seeking to link all the major European nation-states politically, monetarily, militarily�and bureaucratically. Europe cannot work on America�s model. These are nations they�re trying to assimilate into one huge federal conglomerate, not states. It�s not that states� rights aren�t an issue in America, but a carefully drafted Constitution and highly qualified and Congressionally vetted judges sit on the Supreme Court to decide the limits of federal power. It works. It cannot work in Europe. The issues of languages, customs and sovereignty are simply too cumbersome to ever smooth out in the approach to a Continental superstate.
Even the pro-European and highly respected magazine The Economist gave the European Constitution a strong thumbs-down. The cover of the magazine showed papers representing the draft constitution crumpled up and sitting in a wastepaper basket. And that, according to the magazine�s editors, is where the draft belongs. Again, this is the verdict of a magazine that is bullish on Europe.
Will Tony Blair see that? Can he see that? In Britain, just 31 percent feel European Union membership is a good thing, compared with a 55 percent average in the rest of the EU member countries. And 68 percent of Brits want to keep the pound and would enthusiastically vote to save it in a referendum, which Tony Blair refuses to endorse, feeling that the average Brit does not know enough about the issues to cast an intelligent verdict in the matter regarding the European �Constitution� and the euro.
Blair�s right-hand man, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown agreed, saying it was time to confront the �anti-European prejudices and myths� of the euroskeptics�characterized, in his opinion, by the Tories and the nation�s leading newspaper editorial boards. �When we take the case into the country from today, we will show the potential benefits of the euro. We will show how Britain�s national interest is advanced by our engagement in the European Union,� he said.
Mrrs. Blair and Brown: You propose to scrap more than 1,000 years of British national sovereignty and you expect nothing less than complacency, if not sheer enthusiasm, from the British for your European Empire plans?
What a load of bollocks, as they say here!
� M.E.M.
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