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We Must Repeal The 1972 European Communities Act
By Steve Reed
United Kingdom Independence Party, County-Chairman, Somerset
October 2004
Ladies and Gentlemen: we live in a country occupied, not by an invader, but by an enemy consisting of our native, political class.
These are people who, as Hugh Gaitskell foresaw in 1962, have abandoned their allegiance to us, in order to become members of a pan-continental, and global, politico-commercial clique of international bankers, corporate giants, media moguls and bureaucratic regulators.
They have espoused the doctrine of unfair, global trade between the neo-feudal aristocracies of anti-democratic megastates, and peddled this doctrine to the public as a prospect of peace, prosperity, environmental harmony and cheap foreign holidays.
They are luring us down the road to serfdom, under cover of obfuscation, half-truths and bread-and-circuses or, as Hugh Gaitskell put it, "the classic arguments of every tyranny in history".
After the tragic and premature demise of Gaitskell, it soon came to the point, where, however we might elect, or reject the candidates of any of the incumbent, political parties - as long as any combination of those parties retains a majority in the House of Commons - the government of this country rests, not with them, but with the supranational elite they have joined.
That point was the European Communities Act of 1972 - the piece of legislation, which, all on its own, consigns us bound and gagged to the system I am about to describe.
Because the Tories, being in opposition, are currently in "Eurosceptic" mode, our so-called, free media tell us that repealing the European Communities Act is a "Right-Wing" objective - just as they told us, during the seventies, when Labour formed a "Eurosceptic" opposition, that repealing the European Communities Act was a "Left-Wing" objective.
The truth is that - after 1972 - it was only at the extremes of the spectrum that any real political conviction remained. The Centre had been corrupted by cowardice and treachery - in reality, it ceased to be the Centre, and became a totalitarian cancer, which defies description in Left-Right terms - and so it remains, in Parliament, to this day - a Lib-Lab-Con mish-mash of pseudo-moderates ushering in, with their different brands of spin, a regime over which voters have no control whatsoever.
This is why local councils have become so unresponsive. Their powers have been restricted, by order of the London-branch of the Brussels-nexus, within ever more tightly specified regulations, most of which are passed into law simply by means of statutory instruments, and never seen by Parliament.
The House of Commons no longer rules the nation: its Members elect a Prime Minister and then decamp to the bar, for five years, until the party-faithful - and almost no-one else - troops out again to re-elect them.
In marginal constituencies, like Wells, the Members wander about ingratiating themselves with the electorate, discussing matters, which should be the business of local councillors.
Local councillors, similarly, are reduced to electing a leader and writing occasional letters to the papers, because the EU's regulations, on everything local government does (except, for the moment, child-education) are so detailed and precise, that they can only be understood by trained functionaries and because they leave no room for interpretation.
To complete, and exemplify, our tour of the corridors of impotence - the Regional Assembly exhibits the EU's governmental format of "praesidium and forum", to a tee - undisguised by any inconvenient legacy of genuine democracy. Here, the praesidium - or cabinet, or "executive-group" - is called "the steering committee". Periodically, it summons the delegates of local authorities and presents them with fine-sounding "regional strategies" to approve. The statutory planning-guidance, however, which the Assembly receives from the EU, via the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, is not presented for the approval of any elected representative, at any stage of its concoction, and the Assembly merely imposes it on district councils, whose planning-boards have no choice but to comply with it.
And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the "democratic government" of this country today. It is democratic in name only, because the people we elect have no power. Under these circumstances, democracy is ripe for total abolition, and, if we do not revive it soon, it will disappear for generations to come.
The power now lies in those praesidiums - those cabinets of party-apparatchiks - whose ultimate examples are the EU's Council of Heads of Government, the EU's Council of Ministers, the EU's "Court of Justice" and the EU's "Commission", in whose vast secretariats all the legislation which governs us is proposed, approved and enforced, and by which the pseudo-democratic system of "praesidium and forum" is imposed on us, right down to district-council level.
Only the Commission can propose legislation, and it produces huge quantities of it. The Commission's proposals are circulated, first, to yet another praesidium - "Le Comite des Representants Permanants", known as "COREPER" - a body of senior, civil servants, picked by the member-governments. The "COREPER" acts in the name of the Councils of Ministers, and of Heads of Government. It comments upon the Commission's proposed legislation and then, either passes it back to the Commission for revision, reserves it for the next Council or, in most cases, passes it on to the "forum" - the so-called "EU-parliament".
Here, at last, elected representatives come into view, but what do they do with this deluge of legislation? The answer is, "very little". The EU-parliament is not a government. It is a consultative assembly - rather like a Parish Council, except that it is directed by artificial EU-parties, which have no mandate.
In the Chamber, the democratically-elected members look at their lists of numbers, check for a tick or a cross, and then press their "yes" buttons or their "no" buttons. You could train dogs to do it; but the Commission's "Directorates" churn out so much legislation, that there is simply no time to do anything else.
Hundreds of proposals, with thousands of amendments, then go back to the Commission for examination. If the Commission doesn't like an amendment-to-a-proposal, it rejects it and sends the proposal back to the assembly. If the assembly insists on an amendment, which the Commission finds unacceptable, a process of negotiation - called "reconciliation" - occurs, between party-bosses and the Commission, in which the Commission, mysteriously, always gets its way.
This is the travesty of democracy, Ladies and Gentlemen, for which we have given up a thousand years of Parliamentary evolution. This is the dictatorial process, which now threatens us with a totalitarian state as absolute and oppressive as anything produced by Hitler or Stalin, and all it needs to make good that threat is a President and an army. These requirements are provided in the coming EU-constitution. If we accept this constitution - all at once, or piecemeal (and parts of it are already filtering through as "special agreements") - we shall indeed be living in the "Eurasia" predicted by George Orwell in his inspired work, "1984".
Do not believe those who say that we can be in this supra-national system, but not run by it. They are like the spider, which only has to do nothing, while its prey becomes ever more entangled in the web. When the folly of their counsel becomes self-evident to all, it will be too late. We shall have lost our essential industries, our public services, the ability to feed ourselves, control of our communications, our administrative co-ordination, our defence-capability, our laws and our customs. We probably won't even have our own football-team.
If, on the other hand, we repeal the European Communities Act, we can re-build democracy in this country, and throughout the world, as it has never been built before. We shall lead the world, once again, to a better vision of governance by consent.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we must repeal the European Communities Act!