The prospect of the proposed European Constitution being put before (ugh!) the people for ratification in the forthcoming British referendum has shaken the European ruling class so much that some of them have accidentally said what they really mean. So now, briefly (for soon the oversight will be weaselled out of view with a torrent of non-denying denials), we can plainly see that all that talk of the benefits of Unity and the sacredness of Treaty Obligations is just code for them ruling the rest of us without restraint or accountability. In reality they have as much respect for either concept as a pigeon has for the statue it perches on.
The EU's External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten said that
A British 'No' vote in a planned referendum on the European Union constitution would be tantamount to a vote to leave the bloc
because, after all,
“What's the point of being inside and endlessly, truculently making trouble,” he said.
“Making trouble” is, as President Chirac made clear recently, EU-code for not silently doing whatever France and Germany say.
Chancellor Schroeder was even more explicit:
Aware of the paralysis a British rejection could cause the bloc, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told Focus magazine he wanted the new constitution to permit implementation of new voting rules even if not all countries had ratified the deal.
In other words, Schroeder is proposing to abrogate the existing EU constitution, as defined by the most solemn and binding treaties to which any of its members have ever committed themselves, and which require unanimity for any changes, and to replace it by a constitution that allows France and Germany to change the constitution as they please.
Well, so be it. The only question in our minds is whether the resulting entity should be called the Fourth Reich or the Sixth Republic. Presumably the European thing would be to adopt a statesmanlike compromise and call it the Fifth Eureinal.
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By the way, Bernard Connolly, whose book we illustrate above (click the picture to buy it), really is a whistleblower, unlike some who are so designated. The vicious way he was treated by the leviathan for exposing its true nature has never received anything like the opprobrium that it deserves.
