Egypt's example for the non-democratic European Union.

Karl Popper, describes a democracy as a system of government which can be periodically changed without bloodshed, everything else as a tyranny.

The EU has been serrupticiously moving towards becoming such a tyranny for decades. Like most tyrannies, this has been accomplished by duping the disenfranchised people with sham edifices that normally accompany democracies, these are, inter alia; the powerless parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg; press conferences and briefings following closed door meetings; ignored open accounting practises; nepotism and cronyism in official appointments; huge abuses of taxpayers funds etc.

A moment would be bound to eventually arrive in Europe where this conspiracy against the continents' national democracies would be exposed to the general public. This blog believes that such a moment is at hand, it will arrive with the inevitable EU response, which has already been sketched out, to the Irish General Election to be held on 25th February. This open authoritarianism will be, disregarding whatever way the Irish vote, that the deal struck with the former Irish Government WILL nevertheless be imposed! Votes in Ireland for parties rejecting that deal will therefore make clearer the true loss that ALL the EU's former democracies have now already incurred. It will not be possible to hide that reality any longer, even from the hugely ill-informed public the EU has compelled the EU's citizens to become.

Any pretense that democracy, in any meaningful form, continues to exist anywhere across the EU will be exposed as a lie. The deliberate disdain, shown even by national politicians, for national parliaments will stand as evidence to that terrible fact. Witness even Britain, a non-Euro Group member, advancing funds to Ireland which its own civil servants have now refused to emulate, as is detailed in other postings on this blog.

Already in Italy, read here, the comparison is being made, albeit special circumstance over the Premier's "bunga bunga" nights muddy those waters :

The demonstrators struggled to be heard at times amid the din from blowing of whistles and banging of cooking saucepans during the rally in the centre of the capital, aimed at heaping more pressure on the beleaguered Berlusconi. But they did manage to break into song at one point, with a rendition of "Bella Ciao", one of the anthems of the Italian resistance during World War II. Others chanted "Resign! Resign! Resign!" and "After Mubarak, Silvio Berlusconi" during the protest which was held only hours after Egypt's veteran president quit in the wake of mass streets protests in Cairo.

In Britain, as Ken Clarke has obligingly made clear this weekend, the real pain, only necessary for the autocratic EU to survive, has only yet to begin. It is long passed the moment for the United Kingdom to break free and restore our Westminster democracy!

As I urged yesterday, a government of national unity is urgently required, I suggest it be led by a triumverate of three representative elder statesmen, of proven rational euro-sceptic disposition, I suggest two Lord Norman Tebbit and Lord David Owen. Unhappily I cannot think of a suitable candidate from a Labour and/or North of England background, but somewhere surely one may exist?

"We are the prisoners now, the prisoners of the will of the court..."

Refreshingly accurate comment in the Daily Telegraph, this morning, from one of that newspaper's former editors, Charles Moore, linked here. To continue the quotation from the body of the article, started in the headline to this posting....

"From which it follows that the House of Commons nowadays is no more than an exceptionally expensive debating society."

This now widely recognised fact of life should leave our MPs in a dilemma, none greater than for the self-important, self-centred and incredibly conceited members of the coalition cabinet whose about turns in almost every area of governance, except the absolutely crucial matter of our policy and relationship towards the EU, becomes more stunning by the day.

On 23rd January I warned that Egypt, then being ignored, would soon become the focus of the world's attention, three weeks later President Mubarak is gone, now the attention turns to Algeria. It is in the EU and 10 Downing Street, where the lessons must most crucially be learned. The general public realisation of a leadership's powerlessness, once taken on board, can NEVER be re-established.

It is as plain as a pikestaff that not only are the real leaders of the EU unknown, those ostensibly in charge are both floundering and drowning in the currency chaos. The resignation of Axel Weber, from Germany's Bundesbank, and the presumed ECB heir apparent from the German Central Bank, demonstrates the full extent of the present chaos. The recent ECB commitments, on which subject he is probably one of the very few who is fully informed, seem the more probable cause for his departure than the "personal reasons excuse" he has so far proffered.

In Britain, matters of effective governance must be corrected before the EU tears itself asunder. The fear of being seen in Europe as the cause of igniting the spark that will blow the whole structure to pieces is understandable, but the election in Ireland seems set to fulfill that purpose.

A government of national unity seems necessary for the UK. Senior statesmen from all parties should ready themselves to play vital roles in the difficult days that lie ahead. Ken Clarke and Michael Heseltine, the main surviving members of the conspiracy, which delivered the nation into its present economic bondage, loss of parliamentary sovereignty and foreign dependence, must of course be excluded and preferably be brought to account as part of the bitter and difficult healing process that appears about to begin.

Mubarak vs Major - whose was the greater evil?

John Major, assumed power in Britain almost ten years after Hosni Mubarak, took over in Egypt, and ceased to influence British politics some ten years ago. Yet it is perfectly possible to make a respectable case that Major, in one decade, had a far more malign influence on the fortunes of his nation than the the iron-fisted dictator, and alleged mass torturer Mubarak, had during his thirty years of power.

Mubarak, took over an already existing dictatorship, upon the shooting of his predecessor at a parade. Major, was the beneficiary of a ruthless coup, instituted by an ambitious man at the behest of foreigners who went on to become Major's supposed Deputy Prime Minister and still exerts much influence over today's Conservative PM.

Major inherited a sovereign, independent, parliamentary democracy with an uncorrupted civil service. Many believe that Major declared those individuals supporting the continuation of such institutions as targets for the state intelligence sevices, to date this still remains unproven, given the climate of fear now prevailing in Britain. Nevertheless with the clear and growing evidence of national bankruptcy under EU rule, and the dreadful consequences of the deliberate misgovernance, we trust this will not long remain unclear.

Mubarak, if he stands down in the near future, will leave a nation much as he found it. Mubarak will be a victim of his own policies but felled due to the courage of his citizens and Quantatitive Easing (the logical end  result of Major's overthrow of Thatcher's sound economics) with its disastrous effect on the price of wheat on the world's largest importing nation.

The heirs to Major, of which Blair and Brown were fitting examples, will possibly remain in power indefinitely, with democracy now effectively destroyed, unless an Egyptian style protest of a newly politically aware British people can eventually be mounted and thereafter democracy and sovereignty restored.