Intelligence
is the ability to learn from one’s experiences. Cleverness is the ability to
learn from those of others. By persisting with his claim that the UK has the influence
to reform the EU in any meaningful way, despite 40 years of evidence to the contrary,
Labour’s Mick Roberts demonstrates a deficit of both.
Let
us examine the evidence. Since 1996, the UK has voted in the European Council
against laws not in our National Interest no fewer than 72 times. On all 72
occasions we have been outvoted and forced to adopt laws against the wishes of
our democratically elected government.
In
2005, Tony Blair received ‘firm assurances’ from the EU for reform of the
unfair Common Agricultural Policy in exchange for the surrender of more British
Powers and £10bn. Since then, the cost of CAP has ballooned to over £40bn a
year, resulting in consumers paying 14% more for food (when compared to global
market prices for crops).
As
we saw, our own PM spent 3 years jetting around EU capitals, begging the
leaders of countries like Latvia and Estonia for the right to make very minor
changes to a few UK laws, which despite the protestations of only the most
obedient careerist Government Ministers, do nothing to return powers from
Brussels.
And
now, with the UK - its second biggest member - on the verge of leaving, the EU
still demonstrates a total reluctance to reform, instead accelerating further
to its corporatist, federalist end-game. Wake up. We have no influence. The EU
will not reform.
Mr
Roberts should accept that his dream of a Global Socialist Utopia is the
antithesis of the EU, which is run by big corporations, for the benefit of big
corporations. Labour supporters would do well to consider the views of the many
Trade Unions which support Brexit: www.tuaeu.co.uk
Stuart
Hutton, Nantwich.
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