Comments on: What The EU Has Done To British Sovereignty

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:28:24 +0000

It is frightening to watch the slide down and think it will happen here. I suppose I’ll just go put on my bitter face and buy some more ammo.

I would of course expect winners in any change of law and or government. They may only be temporary winners, but winners none the less.

By: GeoPal

GeoPal — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:54:19 +0000

Nothing good has ever come from any centralized government. The ideas of
custom, tradition, nation, and citizenship have been eradicated from our daily lives, all at the behest of a “government” with no connection to the civic meaning of the word.

The worst of it is, “we the people” acquiesced. We continue to be bought off, and our price continues to plummet. In the distant past our price was an electrified rural America or super highway system, then we settled for cheap energy and cheaper food. Now, our infrastructure crumbles and our energy and food costs soar.

I don’t blame the panjandrums of the EU or the North American Union. They, like
wizards and alchemists of previous ages know their power lies not in their incantations and secret knowledge but in their ability to gull.

We moderns are far more gullible than those ancients. They only parted with their money and were made fools. We have descended from gullible to degenerate to
depraved, from freemen to serfs to slaves. All this at the hands of centralized national governments. What awaits us, what we become, at the hands of a centralized supranational dictatorship one can only imagine, with horror.

By: Kevin S

Kevin S — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:39:46 +0000

Living in the north of England I think EU membership a good thing. Thatcher practically destroyed local government, the EU by contrast promoted regional government (Welsh, Scottish, Ulster assemblies). It’s worth noting groups such as ETA and the IRA have virtually disappeared as a consequence. The big losers as far the EU is concerned are the old imperial capitals – London, Madrid, Brussels etc., the winners the regions.
Given the Labour Government’s relentless attack on liberties the European Court on Human Rights is a welcome counterbalance.

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:33:36 +0000

What a tragedy! I’m one of those “throwbacks” who believes that Britain and the U. S. should value our “special relationship,” based as it is on a common origin including a shared regard for traditional ethics, values, and law. I am very unhappy to see Britain sink deeper into Europe, as we in the U. S. sink deeper into the so-called “North American Union.”

U. S. traditions, values, and systems of law and justice derive from our British origins, which are not anything remotely “North American” or “European” in character. But even the Brits are apparently “forgetting” where they came from these days, in order to “amalgamate” with the Continent. It is too bad, because the traditional British system is far superior to any system of law and justice the European Union oligarchs might impose.

I hate to see the best (the British system) mowed down toward compliance with the “whole” (European Union.)