Truth must be not only discovered,
but perennially rediscovered and redefined.

I listened this morning to a Today Programme podcast concerning rural France. An Englishman resident in Normandy was explaining how the villagers scurry around protecting themselves from the “EU gestapo”.

To avoid the condemnation of much that is sold to the satisfaction of all concerned, the villagers monitor the train station, watch car numberplates and keep an eye out for strangers. They have to hide cheeses and chickens when these over-eager busybodies emerge.

This episode probably speaks for itself.

Happened to pick up a Daily Express today and found this article by Frederick Forsyth:

…consider these words: “Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening.

This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.”

Who wrote those words in his private musings? Some EU-sceptic, surely? No, it was Jean Monnet, founder of the EU. What he was gleefully proposing was this: “The peoples of Europe will assuredly be too stupid to recognise what is best for them.

“Thus we, the enlightened few, will have to trick them into signing away their democracy, their nation and finally their freedom, so that we can create the Federal Republic of Europe, centrally governed by our appointees.”

In other words, government by deceit. The trouble is, once you adopt and legitimise government by trickery and deceit, corruption in public life follows as night does day.

Hardcore? Possibly. Can you disagree?

The EU seems to be Fabian gradualism in action – awful.

After a “period of reflection”, the best the EU could manage was to make a dreadful constitution harder to read in the hope of deceitfully sidestepping referenda. Who do they think we are? What’s the goal? What about making the EU democratic?

Let’s get this mess reformed. Derailing the Lisbon Treaty is the first step.

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