Barack in Berlin

It occurred to me watching the speech of Barack Obama yesterday in Berlin how desperate Europeans were becoming to find a politician who might hold out the possibility for both hope and change. The result in yesterday's by-election in Britain's Glasgow East constituency indicated huge disgust with the present Labour Government, but also surely the political machines of all the main parties. It was the hugely efficient Clinton controlled US Democratic Party political machine that Obama effectively destroyed to win his party's nomination. The spectacle of the EU leaders being prepared to dump the reduction of EU Commissioners from 27 to 18 (or two thirds the EU membership) after 2014 to salvage the Lisbon Treaty from the Irish defeat - when they have repeatedly stated the necessity for the various constitutional treaties as for increased efficiency from a streamlined Commission - does not just demean the political party Leaders presently in power but the ratifying National Parliaments and many other politicians who have gone along with this sordid deception. When the EU disintegrates, as it now so surely must, the likely effects seem increasingly likely to also shatter the previously existing order especially if there are to be no national leaders to be found who the European electorates can turn to or trust. Belgium is falling asunder, Britain is both bankrupted (partly by the grotesque size of its payments to the corrupt and repeatedly unaudited EU) and splitting apart on a wave of nationalism as witnessed yesterday in Glasgow East. Neither of which events would be possible without the sham alternative government of the EU hovering in the shadows. If (or when) the EU self-destructs how will the fractured nation states then manage to recover, will Belgium and the UK be the only ones to face other nationalist pressures as they struggle to form a new consensus? Other strains seem certain to appear if there continues to be not one single politician of note and repute to step up and expose the Lisbon process for the disgusting conspiracy it really is, scrapping the reduction of EU Commissioners even if just contemplated is surely now evidence enough of the true nature of those behind this EU project.