We Govern, We Say, You Obey
From the desk of Michael Huntsman on Mon, 2008-01-14 19:42
The European political elite knows only too well that the fix is in: after some recent wavering by the Portuguese and with the constant fear that the Irish will somehow manage to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, they can relax a bit and plan for the future in peace. They can even risk a bit of truth escaping.
French planning for how it will run the Union in its interest is well under way. The French are going to be like the proverbial child let loose in the chocolate factory in the run up to the Treaty coming into force. Not only do they hold, quite by accident, I am sure, the six month rotating presidency of the EU in the second half of 2008, but the Slovenians, whose native skills of diplomacy and statecraft go back all of sixteen years, have effectively handed control of their Presidency in the first half of this year to, yes, you’ve guessed it, the French.
Thus President Sarkozy has an unrivalled chance to fashion at his leisure the new institutions of the Union in the image of France or so to arrange matters that he can be the puppet-master. In this way he is already grooming Tony Blair for the post of the first permanent president of the EU (permanent in the sense of extended fixed terms of two-and-a-half years at a time).
It is a cunning move. Rather than choose someone with an extant political base in Europe, he wants to install someone who has no particular political following in Europe. Who better than Tony Blair? Blair’s Iraq war, his failure to deliver the UK up to the thrall of the Euro, his more Atlanticist approach to things European have certainly distanced him from the most important players in the EU (as they see it).
In addition he has just been ejected somewhat unceremoniously from his post as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom whose citizens would not now elect him to a parish council. He has thus no political base anywhere in Europe (quite apart from the specific legal restriction under the Constitution which would forbid him from also holding national office) and will have constantly to look for support to his sponsors for the post of Union President for support in getting Union business done. His power, then will derive principally from President Sarkozy of France.
Sarkozy had him over recently to speak to his Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) party. Blair treated them to a speech that we in the UK would have seen through in a moment five years ago but which, being novel, still plays well elsewhere, notwithstanding that it is the usual meaningless Blair tommyrot:
Europe is not a question of left or right, but a question of the future or the past, of strength or weakness.
It's about today versus yesterday. Less about politics and more about a state of mind; open as opposed to closed.
Terrorism, security, immigration, organised crime, energy, the environment, science, biotechnology and higher education. In all these areas, and others, we are much stronger and able to deliver what our citizens expect from us as individual nations if we are part of a strong and united Europe.
This sort of thing we in the UK will recognize instantly as the sort of vacuous guff with which Blair managed to hoodwink a nation for years, though we might have been stuck with hearing it in Blair’s reasonable French, another factor which will have wowed his French audience.
Certainly he pleased his new master who proceeded to stroke him as he would his favourite poodle:
He is intelligent, he is brave and he is a friend. We need him in Europe. How can we govern a continent of 450 million people if the President changes every six months and has to run his own country at the same time? I want a President chosen from the top – not a compromise candidate – who will serve for two-and-a-half years.
Pay careful attention to the words of President Sarkozy:
How can we govern a continent of 450 million people…?
Does not that phrase reveal the truth of how the Euro Nabobs see the effect of the Treaty of Lisbon? For with its passage through the subservient Parliaments of the member states, they know that, at last, they have the keys to the castle and that from now on it will be a case of: ‘We govern, we say, you obey.’
Europe's future? Urgent call to all Belgian citizens
Submitted by Marvin Brenik on Thu, 2008-01-17 11:13.
Yesterday the schedule for the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon on behalf of Belgium was approved:
"Presscenter.org: Persbericht: kalender ratificatie Verdrag van Lissabon"
People of Belgium, if your freedom and democracy is dear to you, and if you do not want the constitution-manipulator Merkel and the megalomaniac neohitler: Sarkozy as your new "national" leaders, please act fast to prevent this to happen. By ratifying this fraudulently constructed and purposefully disguised form of the formerly rejected EU Constitution, your representatives in the parliament are either ignorant of what they are doing or intentionally participate in a gigantic international crime of creating a new federal state by forcefully depriving 500 million deceived voters of their national sovereignty, without their knowledge and consent.
Please read the European Parliament member, Mr. Bonde's account on the EU leaders' international crime, notify your politicians of this, and ask them to refrain from participating:
"The new EU under Lisbon is a new state born in sin"
France is a cancer on the EU
Submitted by Amsterdamsky on Tue, 2008-01-15 11:37.
The EU is probably doomed anyway but it is a certainty as long as France is a member. These slimeballs are already teaming up with Germany (as usual) to slime out of CO2 treaty obligations that they originally championed. As with the Growth and Stability pact they will use their votes for their own selfish interests and to the detriment of other EU members.
They are perfect together.
Submitted by onecent on Tue, 2008-01-15 01:08.
Theodore Dalrymple wrote the best analysis of Blair's pathology that I've read so far.
An excerpt:
"No prime minister had ever been at once so ubiquitous and so inaccessible. Instinctively understanding the dynamics of the cult of celebrity, Blair was both familiar (he insisted on being known by a diminutive) and distant (he acted more as head of state than as head of government, and spent three times more on his own office than did his predecessor). Having invited 60 ordinary citizens into Downing Street so that they could give him their views, and so that he could say that he listened to the people, he proceeded to address them via a huge plasma screen, though he was in the building. So near, and yet so far: this was a grand vizier’s durbar for the age of virtual reality. With Blair, communication, like time’s arrow, flew in one direction only."
"Tony Blair was the perfect politician for an age of short attention spans. What he said on one day had no necessary connection with what he said on the following day: and if someone pointed out the contradiction, he would use his favorite phrase, “It’s time to move on,” as if detecting contradictions in what he said were some kind of curious psychological symptom in the person detecting them."
Sarkozy is the same smarmy disingenuous typical European politican of our times. They are perfect together.