European dream has become British nightmare
Our nation has had to carry, and then hang, on the European cross!
In our lifetime Europe has sought to dominate and control. The same is true of centuries past. History relates that domination has ever been the European theme.
Ode to Joy may be the tune of her anthem, but her rhyme and meter haven't exactly brought an elevated state of affairs, nor are they the source of great happiness.
The European dream has been the British nightmare. One by one our national and cultural treasures are constrained and restricted by cumbersome legislation. Europe, not content with good neighbourly relations, wants to control the minuscule, literally right down to the very ounce!
Of course we joke about straight bananas and the matching colour of the strawberries in our jam, but where Europe is concerned often the truth is stranger than fiction!
To see Europe at peace is not good and necessary, it is right. But peace is a fragile thing. The European dove nowadays is becoming less free and more caged. Her wings are being clipped as we hurtle on towards a European presidency.
The current economic crisis has evidenced the determination of Europe to smother what child she must, in order to survive. As a result, nationalism has progressed from milk to meat and is taking its first toddling steps in the European forum. History teaches that the two things we should most fear in Europe are -one, a big war and two, a big peace conference. (The aim of the big peace conference will be to decide who will win the next big war). It has been said that every time the Prime Ministers of England and France get together the peace of Europe breaks out again! The old man of Europe has worn his hat until he is bald and now he is wearing it to cover his baldness.
During this conference week David Cameron's message to his faithful flock regarding Europe went along the following lines:
"This year marks twenty years since the fall of the Berlin wall – twenty years since the momentous events that brought the Iron Curtain crashing to the ground and ended the division of Europe.
I remember the great excitement of those days as liberty rolled eastwards across the continent.
One after another proud nations, which had found themselves trapped on the wrong side of history, cast off oppression.
The Europe of today is very different to the Europe of 1989. For the most part, countries of central and Eastern Europe are now fellow-members of the Atlantic Alliance and of the European Union, with their own distinctive views about the future.
Today's Europe faces challenges very different from before:
We are in the midst of the greatest Economic crisis in living memory.
There are growing calls for protectionism, in Europe and beyond.
We all face the threat form climate change, and the need to secure our energy supplies.
The fight against global poverty cries out for urgent action.''
But how and when will British interests ever change in Europe?
The road to change as far as Europe sees it, is to change Britain.
The European model is really a declaration of war rather than a blueprint for peace.
Europe will dominate. Europe will be in control. Europe will be the final arbiter. Step outside these parameters and the wrath of the other member states will unite to ensure the old bald man doesn't have to don his hat.
The dove is trained to sit and look pretty in its cage; it will never really be set free to pluck off the olive branch, sing her glad tidings and soar in the heavens.
Very soon the European Constitution will have free reign, and the ratification process will be completed now that the Irish vote is secured. The deals are already being brokered for who will become the first President of Europe, a prize long eyed by one Tony Blair!
In the months ahead Europe will move forward as never before, and the old bald man will perhaps get a hair transplant! Do not be enamoured by his regeneration. Underneath the cosmetics he has all his shrewdness, all his stealth and all his ambition intact. Britain will need all her wits and she will need strong leadership if she is not to be absorbed into his household. As things look, neither Cameron nor Brown have the intention to be the Noah who will release the dove.
They are content to feed it the millet of appeasement, admire its plumage and tinkle its mirrored bell. That dove has the potential to sit sharpening its beak while caged, and when it does break free its sharpness may well alarm those who have withheld its freedom.
The history of Europe is not yet over.
Her peace will still be tested.
Think on this:
"Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us. These are Avarice, Ambition, Envy, Anger and Pride, and if those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual Peace." – Petrarch
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