Stephen McBride ([email protected])
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 19:19:58 -0000
No thank you! Britain has a fine economy, and I have no wish to
see the comparitively unstable and poverty ridden states, like
Portugal, the Irish Republic, and Italy prop themselves up at the
expense of the British taxpayer!!
I have no wish to see our history and culture run roughshod over by
faceless men in Brussels, finally to be outlawed by some Euro
diktat as being too politically incorrect!
Britain helped liberate Europe from one form of pan-european unity
or another in two world wars (Nazism, Fascism, the Triple Entente,
etc.). NATO, or more effectively, the UK and the USA bequeathed
a peace to Europe which it was historically never capable of
delivering itself. It was British and American troops that gave
notice to communist aggression in Berlin, guaranteeing peace
through strength.
I notice it is the nations with a history of fascism and expansionism
which seek to promote European unity!! To suggest Euro unity is
to insult the memories of those courageous British, American and
also Soviet servicemen who died liberating Europe from Nazism
and Fascism.
I find it hard to take this appeal seriously from a country which
elects porn stars and descendents of Benito Mussolini to its
Parliament, or elects corrupt football club/newspaper owners, such
as Berlusconi, as Prime Minister.
The sooner Britain leaves the polite political tyranny of the EU
(they've told us and we British have accepted such ludicrous
diktats as how to make ice-cream the Euro way!! In 1978!), and
rejoins its traditional, cultural allies of the USA, the Commonwealth
(Canada, Australia, new Zealand, South Africa), the better for we
freedom lovers of these islands.
European unity means attemting to impose a bland sameness to a
continent of varied languages and cultures. It would be as false a
union as that imposed upon the czechs and Slovaks in 1918, or
indeed upon the various nations that were forced into the still born
conglomerate that was Yugoslavia. Europeans are notoriuous for
not being able to get on and fight a war at the drop of a hat!! Why
else did Britain adopt "splendid isolation" throughout the 19th
century?!
God save us from interfering Eurocrats with no more idea of history
than most Irish Americans!!!
Stephen
Britons never, never, never will be slaves!!
Stephen
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" - Walt Whitman
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