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Brexit shambles sees Brits trapped in their own prison
By Richard Bardon
The fiasco surrounding Britain's attempt to divorce itself
from the European Union is blowback from its own work
over decades to destroy the concepts of democracy and
national sovereignty, in mainland Europe and around the
world. As the Citizens Electoral Council proved comprehensively in its May 2016 pamphlet The British Empire's
European Union: A monstrosity created by the City of London and Wall Street, the EU and its forerunners were and
are a City of London project to subjugate the nations of
Europe to its parasitic financial system. Indeed, the City
does not even try to hide that it still runs the EU to this
day; as CEC National Secretary Craig Isherwood noted in
that pamphlet's introduction, "The British domination of
the EU as a virtual puppet state is hardly a secret. Veteran Telegraph reporter and intelligence community figure
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who was based in Brussels in
1999-2004, observed in his 10 March 2016 column, 'The
eye-opener of my five years at the coal face in Brussels
was to discover the pivotal role played by the UK in the
EU machinery. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung even
ran a front-page story calling Brussels a "branch office of
Whitehall", with British officials strutting the streets like
an occupying force.'"
Whatever divisions there may be within the broader British "Establishment" over the country's EU membership, it has always been clear that the City was never going to sit idly by and watch the people's democratic choice to leave put into effect—at all if it could help it,
and certainly not in a way that crimps its power over its
mainland vassals. Calls for a second referendum, which
the City and its minions hope will give a veneer of democracy to the undoing of the "Leave" victory in June 2016,
are nothing new. No territory of any economic or strategic significance has ever been allowed to escape the adamantine chains forged in London to bind Europe to itself like Prometheus to a rock, while the City tears at its
innards. Only tiny Greenland has ever slipped its shackles, when in 1982 its people voted themselves out of the
European Economic Community (EEC), a decade before
the creation of the EU as such. And even so, Greenland
remains obliged by treaty to "cooperate" politically with
the EU as an autonomous external territory (euphemism
for "colony") of EU member Denmark.
No other national referendum that rejected the EU
or its mandates has been allowed to stand. In 1992
Denmark voted against the Treaty of Maastricht, which
transformed the EEC into the modern EU by creating both
the euro currency and that austerity-mongering monster,
the European Central Bank. Denmark did at least win certain concessions, including the right to retain its own currency (the only EU member besides Britain to do so), before it approved the treaty in a second vote the following
year. Ireland received only hollow promises in exchange
for overturning referenda that rejected the Treaty of Nice
(to allow the EU to expand into Eastern Europe) in 2001
and the Treaty of Lisbon (to expand the European Parliament's power to override member states' laws and policies)
in 2008. On both occasions the results were reversed by a
second referendum the following year, in the wake of concerted scare campaigns by the mass media and major political parties. And when French and Dutch national referenda rejected the European Constitution—an even more
draconian update of the Maastricht Treaty—in 2005, they
were flatly ignored. At the October 2007 Lisbon summit,
EU leaders agreed simply to rename the constitution the
"European Reform Treaty", and signed it that December.
France ratified the Lisbon Treaty in February 2008, after
Parliament had amended the French Constitution to allow
ratification without a referendum.
Britain, of course, has no constitution to amend, merely a set of conventions, traditions and Common Law—
so called because it applies only to "commoners"—each
and all of which may be overridden by Royal Prerogative.
Meanwhile, the real power resides not in Parliament, but
in the Crown and Privy Council on one hand and the City
of London on the other—as it has, with but little change,
for a thousand years. Brexit or not, no number of deals or
referenda will solve Britain's (or Europe's) problems until
that twin infestation of parasites is purged.
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