Sovereignty – Betrayals and Lies.

[joe taylor]

Hi All

We know not to take what we are told by certain people at face value so what could be behind the Prime Minister's interest in re-negotiating the terms of Britain's membership the EU?

David Malone has an interesting perspective:

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Today the art of politics is to take public concern,  anger or bigotry and create a channel for it so that like flood water you can destroy one place or group while protecting another. Mr Cameron and his flag waving concern to restore Britain’s lost sovereignty is a case in point. The Conservative party has, for years, loved to hate Europe. Their rallying cry, now, is to claim back sovereignty from those johnny foreigners in Brussels.

Imagine the righteousness of reclaiming what was lost. Like a modern Henry V riding out to meet the dastardly French on the field of Agincourt.  And yet…

This concern for sovereignty rings very hollow to me. Because whatever sovereignty this nation has ceded to Europe, and it has, it is little compared to that which we gave away without a murmur, without discussion to what is now the WTO (World Trade Organization).  And no one, ever, talks about offering the people a referendum about that do they?

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[Jeremy S Mills]

Joe, Thanks for drawing this to our attention.  Having read the full article, David has set out in simple terms that this is nothing to do with giving power back to the people and everything to do with taking more of it away and further eroding democracy.  Cameron et al have used the anger and turned it in on itself and appealed to the darker side of the national psyche.  They have used the age old technique of establishing scapegoats to produce irrational fears in the minds of many.  The immigration and the 'Skivers' rhetoric that they pump out.  The tragedy is that Labour, the Lib Dems and others do nothing to counteract the lies, which in effect means that we have no opposition in Britain today.  When you look at the language that the Tories used, it is not difficult to see what they really mean.  For 'flexible' read, take greater control and remove the protections for the working man/woman.  Cameron played down Adrian Beacroft's suggestion that bosses should be able to fire at will with little or no notice.  Give the Tories time and that suggestion will become Conservative policy.  This is nothing more than modern enslavement of the workers.