The Road to Freedom by
Gerard Batten MEP Bretwalda Books Ltd
£8.99ISBN 978-110440-02-5
This short book is a piercingly clear exposure of the
biggest fraud of our time: our catastrophic imprisonment in the EU and
Cameron’s disingenuous and futile promise to renegotiate the terms of our
membership and give the country a straightforward in/out referendum. The
promise is phoney first because there is no realistic possibility of such a
renegotiation; secondly because Cameron is not in favour of our withdrawal; and
thirdly because any referendum with be a stitch-up by the Eurocrats – just like
the referendum of 1975. Cameron is the only party leader to be promising a
referendum but we have noticed already that his promises are like pie-crusts.
And he can provide the referendum only if he wins the 2015 general election –
an outcome which is in considerable doubt. Even if we get as far as a
referendum, the EU bureaucrats will mount the biggest advertising campaign the
world has ever seen – all paid for out of our taxes – to scare the living
daylights out of us in case we vote for withdrawal.
The case against the EU is that it is an empire of lies.
This is not my jaundiced opinion. It is a fact. Not only is the EU an empire of
lies, that, according to Jean Claude Juncker, President Elect of the European
Commission, is exactly what it should be. This commissar is on record as having
said, “When the going gets tough, we lie.” The EU is an abstracted, remote
tyranny and that also, says Juncker, is how it should be. He really believes
that the people of Europe should have nothing to do with the governance of Europe.
He has said too that he thinks discussions and decisions on EU economic policy
should be conducted in secret conclaves of the top bureaucrats.
The whole system and method of the EU is alien to the
British way of doing things. As it says clearly in The Road to Freedom: “Bureaucracy has replaced democracy.”
Historically in Britain we had freedom under the law. Explicitly, there is no
such freedom under EU terms of government which is by Directives and
Regulations issued not by the European Parliament – which is a powerless
talking- shop – but from unaccountable commissioners, in effect a politburo:
“Freedom of the individual under the law allows people to do whatever they
wish, so long as they are not breaking the law. Directives and Regulations
prescribe certain standards of conduct and behaviour and enable the state to
require people to act in ways that its functionaries deem to be good and
worthwhile.” In other words, instead of being free to do all that is not
forbidden, we inhabit a living hell in which we may do only those things which
are officially prescribed under EU diktats. And how! We are bound by, as Batten
reminds us, “20,868 items of legislation.”
We were duped from the start when Ted Heath told us the
great lie that membership of the Common Market (as it was then) would never
entail any loss of our national sovereignty. But Jean Monnet, one of the EU’s
founding fathers, wrote, “The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve
the problems of the present. They cannot ensure their own progress or control
their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way to an
organised world of tomorrow.” Ever closer political union is the name of the
game and the goal is a United States of Europe.
The deficits far outnumber the benefits as the lies
proliferate. For example, we are constantly told that the EU promotes free
trade. It does not. It is a customs union denying its member states free trade
with the rest of the world. There is the scandal of the European Arrest Warrant
under which any citizen in the EU can be extradited to any member country and
tried by courts that make the machinations of the Mafia look really quite
respectable. We have no control at all over the numbers of EU citizens coming
here to look for work.
Our imprisonment in this new totalitarian regime is made
secure by something which at first glance looks as if it might be a way of
escape: Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty which declares: “Any member state may
decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional
requirements.” Then you read the small print. The process of disengagement is envisaged
to take two years – but it may be prolonged indefinitely by the bureaucrats who
control us.
People think you’re exaggerating when you say that the EU is
a totalitarian regime. But, as long ago as 1990, the senior civil servant
C.H.Sisson said, “I cannot understand why, now that the Soviet Union is a thing
of the past, we are busy constructing something very much like it in Western
Europe.”
There is only one way out and that is for us to decide to
withdraw unilaterally. The trouble is that not one of the major parties at
Westminster has the slightest intention of doing such a thing. The Road to Freedom is the most succinct
critical description of the workings of the EU, an everyman’s guide to the
empire of lies.
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