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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

It’s Not Our Fault Honest Guv!

It’s Not Our Fault Honest Guv! Times Online The EU Commision is again promoting its Euromyth policy, they have launched a new web site “Get Your Facts Straight” paid by our taxes, in a clear attempt to create an argument against those who question the very basis of EU control of the our lives, apparently this putsch is supported by the British government, we’ll there’s a surprise, which has long complained of Euroscepticism in the British press. The only problem the Commision has is that most of these so called Euromyths are based on the truth; the Commision is upset, not about them being untrue, but about the public being fully informed of the EU and its affects on the British people. They trot out the same old so called myths, telling the same old lies about how the Commision did not intend this to happen, or some other department is making a mistake or the British government or some local authority is misinterpretation the rules, but all of their eulogising about the magnificent compassionate EU, completely misses the fact that we have to obey the rules as they are imposed on us, not as the commission would like us to believe was the real reason for their implementation. When a newspaper states that the EU has introduced a directive limiting the time a tractor driver spends working, it is no argument for the EU to call this a myth and then to explain the reasons behind the directive, the Newspaper has made a truthful report on the effects of the EU on our day to day life, it is not a myth, it is not an Euromyth it is not a lie, it is nothing more than the truth. In the same way the old bent banana and bent cucumber myths these are not lies they are the truth the EU has directives on both of these, to explain that they were asked to introduce standards does not make the original report untrue. The Commision is attempting to build a case against British Eurosceptics that is itself built on myths, they are attempting to move the truly important debate on our place in the EU and the lack of democracy and accountability in the EU itself, onto peripheral insignificant areas of little real concern, and by so doing, they are attempting to portray the Eusceptic argument itself as being built on lies and misrepresentation. Here is another true statement that the EU Commision would like to explain away as a myth? For the past ten years the EU own accountants have refused to sign the EU`s accounts, because the EU cannot explain where they have spent our money, they cannot show where that money has gone. It could well be stashed away in numbered Swiss bank accounts for all we or the EU accountants know, and no amount of explaining is going to alter the fact that the EU cannot even convince the people they employ where that money has gone. Instead of trying to convince us all with even more of our money being spent on EU propaganda, how about if they started to make inroads into the undemocratic and unaccountable nature of the EU itself. How about if instead of Margot Wallstrom, the new Communications Commissioner, whose job is to improve the EU’s image telling us all whole lot more lies, she were to explain why it is that we the people do not have a say in any of the EU rules laws and directives that are pouring out of this unelected construction. How about if she were to explain exactly how it is that by removing the ability for us to elect our own law makers, the EU is somehow improving our democracy.

1 Comments:

Blogger Serf said...

Like you say, they want to focus on Euromyths and keep the discussion away from real issues. We can not let them get away with this.

1/18/2005 10:59:00 AM  

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