Elysée Treaty 50th Franco-German Control of 25

The Elysée Treaty is not at all what was celebrated in Berlin on Tuesday of this week, Parliaments sitting together and the friendship of youth extended across borders; It is all about hard, secretive control being exerted by the two most powerful nations in the EU upon the other twenty five ex-nations. This is accomplished most obviously at the Franco/German dinneres before the EU Council meetings. If the EU is to survive, which for Europe's sake clear thinking people must realise it cannot be allowed so to do in its present corrupt form, a first step would be an abandonment of this Treaty, as I suggested in this posting for IB Times last Monday, linked here:

The Elysée Treaty, 50 years of Franco/German Hegemony

Causing the EU to become a Laughing Stock for the World

An apparently last ditch attempt by the once widely respected BBC to present itself as an ongoing serious broadcaster on international current affairs to its domestic audience, those interested being a tiny percentage of the entire population of its coerced sponsors, is a rather strange, low budget programme, aired weekly at weekends, on its 24 hour domestic news TV channel, called Dateline London. Foreign news journalists here discuss for thirty minutes what they are reporting of London to their readers abroad.

A regular participant in this programme is the London Correspondent for the famed Le Monde newspaper of Paris, Marc Roche. Ending this weekend's broadcast, presumably in anticipation of Tuesday's elaborate celebrations in Berlin of the 50th anniversary of the Franco-German Elysee Treaty, Mr Roche launched into a glowing tribute to all the supposed achievements of the European Union. The other participants, an Algerian writer who had explained the workings and history of her country with insight and panache, an American reporting for AP from Connecticut,  who had movingly described his feelings and views on the recent school massacre in that State, a British reporter knowledgeable on events in the Magreb and even the typical BBC clone-like Chairman, Gavin Esler, usually strictly sticking to the corporation line of slavering admiration for anything related to the EU, were all unable to disguise their bemused contempt for the long list of nonsense presented by the Belgian, finally giving way to almost contemptuous laughter!

The condition of the twenty-seven nations now making up the European Union is of course far, far away from being any laughing matter, although its supposed attributes, when extolled in glowing terms by a still-believing Francophone enthusiast speaking in English, are indeed, no doubt, hysterical in the extreme for others lucky enough to be viewing it all from the actual (or in Britain’s case, presumed) outside.

As the widespread and daily ever-growing failures of the EU become ever more obvious, opposition is becoming stronger among the deceived populations of the formerly sovereign nations, all across the economically ravaged and corruptly administered EU area. This is particularly true in the UK where the rise in the opinion polls of the popularity rating for the UK Independence Party, led by Nigel Farage MEP, is leading to a complete re-think on Britain's role in the clearly doomed conglomeration of mismatched member states. The reasons for that become obvious in this interview  with Mr Farage, pasted from YouTube below.  It was undertaken for a French audience but conducted in English. It would do President Obama a lot of good in his second term, were he to make watching this video one of his  earliest  tasks, and possibly aid him in recovering from the error of urging Britain to remain trapped within this doomed construct!

This observer would agree with almost all the points made by Mr Farage, with one huge and potentially dangerous exception. I must take issue with the statement that the war reparations demanded by the Allies after World War One were insufficient!  Furthermore, nor can I accept that the kind of physical trashing and complete humiliation of Germany that occurred during the closing stages World War Two would have been preferable had they first happened in 1918/19. I cannot possibly agree that this would somehow have brought our Continent earlier to peace. Indeed is it not possible that the events of 1944/45 are partially responsible for our present plight, or are all Europe’s woes forever to be laid at the door of a never-ending Prussian legacy?

Many historians believe that the rise of Hitler was brought on by the severity of the reparations, demanded by France, as agreed at Versailles. My fear is that the end result of the present rising German economic power within the EU, referred to in the interview with Mr Farage, might itself perhaps, be a direct and planned result of this dreadful 1945 destruction (including the use of napalm against the last German defenders in the Royan Pocket). It is that very fear that has motivated my written campaign against the EU and all  its entire works, ongoing for almost twenty years, my fears of which have presently diminished not one jot.

Such worries would indeed have been considerably less in my own case, had it not been that Germany was complicit with France in smashing the original Growth and Stability Pact. This destruction was made partly feasible through the secretive meetings established under the terms of the aforesaid Treaty, apparently in pursuit of objectives pandering to France’s obsession with socialism and spending, and to smooth German re-unification heading towards the creation of a Greater Germany that I believe is already discernible today. The most influential body on record as pointing out all the likely results of EU monetary union, lacking a G &S Pact, which the EU is so disastrously encountering today, having been the Bundesbank, when setting up the Euro Single Currency and no less significantly by British Premier Margaret Thatcher, when reunification was so determinedly being pushed ahead; for the uttering of which warnings she was presumably so unceremoniously removed.

The volume of warnings from German economists and other eminent figures in Germany, on the disaster EMU would become without a G&S Pact, is shocking evidence that some must have intended this present EU existential economic crisis to arrive. What then could have been their aim?

Tuesday 22^nd January 2013, the 50^th anniversary of this secretive and conspiratorial arrangement, should not be a day of celebration for Europe. The Elysée Treaty cemented into the foundations of what became the EU, old fashioned, Major Power delusions harking back to the Victorian Age and the Concert of Europe.

If the EU is to be reformed, a good place to begin would be by the scrapping of this Treaty. Let all attend the EU Council meetings, at least at their commencement, by standing upon a level playing field, not stitched up in advance by the leaders of Germany and France! 

UKIP ahead of Tories in a Poll - Prepare for Power!

The surge in the support for the UK Independence Party in the polls seems to continue, read here. Higher ratings bring extra political clout, if the drive continues this will slowly but surely translate into genuine political power.

Already UKIP are setting the tone of the national debate on our place in Europe, quite rightly so too after many years of perseverance and brilliant speech after cutting speech from their leader, Nigel Farage MEP, in the Strasbourg/Brussels Parliament. Other sensible policy areas will inevitably also soon feel a UKIP factor!

Those of us who have struggled to keep the flame of British independence from the evil EU  alive, with a restoration of democracy in Britain a still, albeit small and barely surviving hope, are fully aware that real political power still lies a long way off.

As already forecast on this blog, an outright victory by UKIP in the European Parliamentary elections next year is a realistic possibility. It is presently astounding that Labour are ahead in the same poll on the EU that put UKIP ahead of the Tories, and shows the widespread ignorance that abounds among the British electorate. Inherited class voting patterns need to be smashed when all three big parties are so clearly morally and philosophically compromised.

UKIP's task is to now ensure that voters learn that the blame for their democratic and economic betrayal is almost equally shared among the three large parties. The nature of the beast we are fighting and its insidious spread into nearly every every nook and cranny of our country's public life makes it almost certain that some of its advance have to be down to the blackmail or other improper pressurising of many in public life. Were a brave few now to declare this as fact, and give their personal examples of such EU advances, UKIP might wish to consider some form of amnesty programme in "the truth and reconciliation type inquiry" which will certainly be necessary should the electorate ever reward them with real power.

In the USA at least TV viewers can hear the truth on the EU from its purported parliament

The link to one US broadcaster with yesterday's speech of Nigel Farage MEP may be viewed and seen from this link.

The English transcript which appears unworthy of mention by the UK media is as follows:

TRANSCRIPT:

"Another one bites the dust. Country number four, Spain, gets bailed out and we all of course know that it won't be the last. Though I wondered over the weekend whether perhaps I was missing something, because when the Spanish prime minister Mr Rajoy got up, he said that this bailout shows what a success the eurozone has been. 

And I thought, well, having listened to him over the previous couple of weeks telling us that there would not be a bailout, I got the feeling after all his twists and turns he's just about the most incompetent leader in the whole of Europe, and that's saying something, because there is pretty stiff competition.

Indeed, every single prediction of yours, Mr Barroso, has been wrong, and dear old Herman Van Rompuy, well he's done a runner hasn't he. Because the last time he was here, he told us we had turned the corner, that the euro crisis was over and he hasn't bothered to come back and see us.

I remember being here ten years ago, hearing the launch of the Lisbon Agenda. We were told that with the euro, by 2010 we would have full employment and indeed that Europe would be the competitive and dynamic powerhouse of the world. By any objective criteria the Euro has failed, and in fact there is a looming, impending disaster.

You know, this deal makes things worse not better. A hundred billion [euro] is put up for the Spanish banking system, and 20 per cent of that money has to come from Italy. And under the deal the Italians have to lend to the Spanish banks at 3 per cent but to get that money they have to borrow on the markets at 7 per cent. It's genius isn't it. It really is brilliant.

So what we are doing with this package is we are actually driving countries like Italy towards needing to be bailed out themselves. 

In addition to that, we put a further 10 per cent on Spanish national debt and I tell you, any banking analyst will tell you, 100 billion does not solve the Spanish banking problem, it would need to be more like 400 billion.

And with Greece teetering on the edge of Euro withdrawal, the real elephant in the room is that once Greece leaves, the ECB, the European Central Bank is bust. It's gone.

It has 444 billion euros worth of exposure to the bailed-out countries and to rectify that you'll need to have a cash call from Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy. You couldn't make it up could you! It is total and utter failure. This ship, the euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg and sadly there simply aren't enough life boats."

The video of the speech is here:

Some reading for Nigel Farage before Sky News this morning!

As leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage MEP should be doing his utmost to inform the people of the UK of the economic annihalation the nation now potentially faces due to its disastrous entanglement with the EU! This morning in reviewing the Sunday newspapers on Sky News,  he will hopefully not fall back on his normal ploy of  self-deprecating, vapid self-promotion, matters are far too grave for that!

An article that might arm him with some facts on Greece is linked here it is titled
"The Eight Hundred Pound Greek Gorilla Enters The Room" from Tyler Durden on Zero Hedge and written by Mark J Grant, author of Out of the Box and onto Wall Street.

Even the lamentably awful UK Sunday press must have something covering Greece to give Nigel an opening!

Hopefully he might mention Portugal too, see my posts below.

Nigel Farage warns of the dangers for Europe from the power-crazed EU!

Link

Farage vs Schultz - the UKIP story and video

The UKIP report of the row in the EU Parliament early this evening is here.



UPDATE 2023 GMT: The speech that caused the protest may be viewed from here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4eLJEWZ7Kk&feature=youtu.be

Farage halted in mid speech, storms from EU Parliament

The report from AFP is linked here.  Video will be linked on this blog when available.The following is a brief extract:

Outspoken British MEP Nigel Farage stormed out of the European Parliament on Wednesday after its German chair cut him off in mid-flight for comparing Berlin's ideas for Greece to Nazi control.
During a post-EU summit debate featuring top bloc leaders, Farage criticised a leaked German plan for EU control of Greek public spending, saying bailed out Athens was already practically an EU "colony, a terrible huge mistake."

Schultz, new President of the European Parliament, in action

Martin Schultz MEP performing in the EU Parliament in the past:



Nigel Farage MEP on his appointment:



Thanks for both videos to Muffled Vociferation and Captain Ranty.

Von Rompuy as Zeus

Le Zeus Van Rompuy kidnappant la démocratie 

Hear the totally shameless man himself. Herman Van Rompuy, here addressing the disenfranchised people of the EU, from the very place where the plots against their former democratic rights and one time prosperity are steadily anf progressively destroyed in secret!

Shouting down the truth.

Commerzbank denies rumours but cancels Christmas parties!

"EU needs another shock" said the on screen ticker at the lower edge of the screen on one of the 24 hour TV business stations this morning - "I wonder what that will be,"  I pondered, before reading various reports on the internet concerning the likely failure of one of Germany's largest banks. Now this evening from San Francisco comes this!

Will Germany be shaken from its complacency I wonder, Acting Man, blog yesterday said the following:

From the German point of view, a different motive is in the foreground:  Germany wants to enjoy all the advantages that membership in the euro area brings to it, but it doesn't want to pay for them. It fails to realize that at the heart of the competitiveness problem that has brought the fiscal offenders in the periphery down are the capital malinvestments and price distortions resulting from the credit bubble that was enabled by the fractionally reserved banking cartel directed by the ECB.

The post later went on to attack Von Rompuy and show again Farage's attack on that individual, which sonce it is now so close to hand and I have little more to add today, I will repeat again on this blog, as more readers than ever can now surely see the truth of the forecast!

Nigel Farage MEP - EU exit strategy looms

Farage forecasting where we are today

Nigel Farage MEP on Slovakia.

Interesting to see UKIP finally adopting my old "Ironies" logo which I devised and first suggested to them many, many years ago..... at the Scarborough Conference!

Watch the opening of their various videos on UKIP TV!

Nigel Farage MEP responds to Barroso's State of Union speech!

The man 27 EU leaders nominated as their Leader - Herman Von Rompuy

The same man whom the 17 Euro Group Leaders are now being urged to accept to lead them against the other 10 of the EU 27!



Only nations acting as independent sovereign states can best survive the near- terminal, globalised, Western economic crisis, itself the product of the smashing of our democracies, an act essential to have made globalisation first possible!

Nigel Farage on the UK riots

H/T The Talking Clock, linked here

Farage - Sack the EU - Commission, Parliament & Court of Justice - Hear, hear!

H/T Calling England.



Note what I said on Ironies, eight years ago on 13th July 2003, in response to the supposed eu-sceptic speech by then Conservative Party Leader, Iain Duncan Smith in Prague on 10th July:

The New Europe of which he speaks, 'A Europe of free nations. Sovereign and freedom loving. A Europe of democracies. Strong national parliaments and vigorous local politics', can only come about with the dismantling of the existing institutions the only trigger for which, at least that I can envisage, would be a believable threat of British withdrawal. A total rejection across the board of the constitution drafted by VGdE might just be a less likely detonator. The third possibility, a collapse of the Euro would probably make things worse

The entire post can be found halfway down this link. The red lettered emphasis has been added today, as that looks to be what is now actually about to occur!

Marine Le Pen makes Time Magazine's Top 100

Reaching the top 100 of the world's influential people in TIME is a major step for the leader of the French party of the right, which has suggested it may offer French voters an In/Out referendum on EU membership, after next year's Presidential election. Given the economic chaos now spreading across the EU, President Sarkozy looks certain to lose that vote, even if selected by his party, and the French Socialists seem to lack candidates of stature. Read here.

This news is particularly ironic given the recent debate on the UK Conservative Home web site, linked here, which seems to have concluded that in the UK the debate on the rapidly crumbling and near bankrupt EU will remain of zero concern or interest to UK voters. As Britain is squeezed until the pips squeak by the increasingly frantic Eurogroup, any who believe that UKIP cannot continue to climb in the polls until the main parties are quivering in their boots is day dreaming.

The big question in UK politics, will very soon become, which of the three main parties will be first to crack and offer UK voters an In/Out EU  referendum, UKIP will then only begin to fall back if the voters are stupid enough to be so duped in yet another General Election.

Nigel Farage MEP on Elmar Brok MEP

More on Elmar Brok's EU Parliamentary immunity from prosecution by Mary Ellen Sinon, is linked here.