The Tower of Babel ... The European Parliament in Strasbourg. ibid.
The All Seeing Europe: EU’s global navigation satellite system ... A whole system they’re building up there ... A beast surveillance system. ibid.
The Council of the European Union – they are really in charge. ibid.
Historical unification attempts: Alexander the Great BCS 356-323; Roman Republic ... Merovingian Dynasty; Carolingian Empire; Holy Roman Empire; First French Empire; Austro-Hungarian Empire; Second Reich; National Socialism = United States and Europe. ibid.
According to Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, International PanEuropean Union, Pan-Europe would encompass and extend a more flexible and more competitive Austro-Hungary, with English serving as world language. ibid.
Herman van Rompuy EU President: Jesuit and Bilderberger: at a meeting in the Castle of the Valley of the Duchess for a meeting held by Bilderger Group on 12 November 2009 van Rompuy made a speech about his vision of the European Governance. He talked about applying a European Union-wide green tax to cover social security expenses. ibid.
For more than two years Europe’s economies have been on the edge of a financial and economic precipice. The Great Euro Crash with Robert Peston, BBC 2012
Europe’s banks came within days of an almighty crash. ibid.
Europe’s citizens have taken to the streets. ibid.
Monetary union was a political project in economic clothing. ibid.
The ERM debacle should perhaps have served as a warning about the dangers of linking currencies in very different economies. ibid.
The requirement that debt should be 60% or less of GDP was dropped. ibid.
The Greek government slashed public spending and raised taxes causing riots. ibid.
The Irish government nationalised almost the entire Irish banking system and promised to honour their debts at crippling costs to Irish taxpayers. ibid.
By injecting a trillion Euros into failing European banks the ECB was putting an enormous sticking plaster on the haemorrhaging Eurozone. ibid.
The Greek exit could kill the Euro and that could lead to a chain reaction of collapsing banks which would pose terrible dangers for Britain. ibid.
Brussels Laid Bare: How the EU Treated its Chief Accountant When She Refused to Go Along With its Fraud and Waste. Marta Anderson
Blowing The Whistle: One Man’s Fight Against Fraud in the European Commission. Paul van Buitenen
The Great European Rip-Off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful US is Taking Control of Our Lives. David Craig & Matthew Elliott
The European Union is very popular with politicians, because it’s very good to politicians. It was created for their benefit. It’s not so good to voters, because it denies them a voice – another reason it’s popular with politicians. These days, we in Europe no longer make most of our own laws. We have them handed down to us by people we haven’t elected and can’t remove. The people we do elect are powerless to change anything, even if they wanted to, and most of them don’t want to, because they’ve got their snouts in the trough of a corrupt organisation whose accounts haven’t been signed off for the last sixteen years. Pat Condell, ‘Come on, Ireland’, Youtube 20th May 2011
[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method. Tony Benn, cited Encounter January 1963
This huge Commission building in Brussels, in the shape of a cross, is absolutely un-British. I felt as if I were going as a slave to Rome; the whole relationship was wrong. Here was I, an elected man who could be removed, doing a job, and here were these people with more power than I had and no accountability to anybody … My visit confirmed in a practical way all my suspicions that this would be the decapitation of British democracy without any countervailing advantage, and the British people, quite rightly, wouldn’t accept it. There is no real benefit for Britain. Tony Benn, diary entry 18 June 1974
Britain’s continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation and the end of our democratically elected Parliament as the supreme law making body in the United Kingdom. Tony Benn, letter to Bristol constituents 29 December 1974
The real case for entry has never been spelled out, which is that there should be a fully federal Europe in which we become a province. It hasn’t been spelled out because people would never accept it. We are at the moment on a federal escalator, moving as we talk, going towards a federal objective we do not wish to reach. In practice, Britain will be governed by a European coalition government that we cannot change, dedicated to a capitalist or market economy theology. This policy is to be sold to us by projecting an unjustified optimism about the Community, and an unjustified pessimism about the United Kingdom, designed to frighten us in. Tony Benn, Cabinet speech recorded in diary 18 March 1975
He [Heath] has a deep contempt for Britain, the British people and parliamentary democracy. He is trying to climb back to power via the Treaty of Rome, and put Britain under government from Brussels for ever. In 1970 Mr Heath solemnly promised that he would not take Britain into the Common Market without the full-hearted consent of the British people. He broke his pledged word then, and he now says he will not accept a No vote on Thursday. Heath promised more jobs and higher living standards inside the EEC. These promises were all broken, and he now tells us we are so poor we cannot come out; beggars can’t be choosers. That is false, too. Heath’s leadership has been a total disaster for the British people. The Tory Party threw him out. Tony Benn, speech anti-EEC rally 3 June 1975, cited The Times 4 June 1975
The British establishment cares more about locking Britain into the EEC than other single thing for the very simple reason that they see it as the final guarantee that Britain under any government will never adopt socialist policies because it would be illegal under the Treaty of Rome. Tony Benn, Against the Tide, Youtube 53.24
The EU has the only constitution in the world committed to capitalism … It destroys the prospect of socialism anywhere in Europe, making capitalism a constitutional requirement of that set up. Tony Benn
At the bottom this erodes the importance of the vote for people in this country … It prevents people using the ballot box … to change taxes and laws … We are being invited to give up those rights. Panorama, Tony Benn vs Roy Jenkins ***** with David Dimbleby, BBC 1975, Benn
Will destroy all that is most valuable in Britain. ibid.
Absolute sovereignty is nonsense. ibid. Jenkins
I think it’s about democracy. ibid. Benn
Pool our sovereignty. ibid. Jenkins
It would create jobs for our people – that was his [Heath] phrase. ibid. Benn
Common Market membership has been a disaster. ibid.
We’ve really got to have confidence in this country’s capacity to survive. ibid.
An economic and monetary union is a long way off … I think as a long-term objective, yes, it could be highly desirable. ibid. Jenkins
Hundreds of thousands landing on Europe’s shores. The beginning of the long road north ... Many fleeing the war in Syria. Others are escaping poverty. All desperate for something better ... Europe is divided. Panorama: Europe’s Border Crisis: The Long Road, BBC 2015
107,000 people landed on the Greek islands this August alone. ibid.
This is chaos in slow motion. ibid.
She’s on the bus, but the little girl isn’t ... It’s up to the people in the crowd to reunite mother and child. And all this to move people a mile. ibid.
Ten days ago we all felt the political ground shift beneath our feet. Most MPs wanted to remain. Most voters didn’t. Panorama: Why We Voted to Leave: Britain Speaks, BBC 2016
They are a weak lot some of them in Europe, you know. Weak. Feeble. Thatcher: The Downing Street Years III: Midnight in Moscow, Twilight in London, re US raid on Tripoli & use of UK bases, BBC 1993
In or out? … ‘It’s them: it’s Brussels.’ Europe: Them or Us? I: An Island Apart, Farage, BBC 2016
Churchill was never clear about what Britain’s role should be. ibid.
Britain had the chance to join from the start. ibid.
‘If there was an objection in principle, we should surely have been told so from the start.’ ibid. Macmillan
‘It was a coup d’état by a political class who didn’t believe in popular sovereignty.’ ibid. Benn