That EU treaty

Well the commons has shown itself to be at once a gutless poodle and able to accurately reflect just how little Joe public actually care about matters EU.

Now I loathe the EU and all its works (except schengen), but I have always been ambivalent about the more extreme withdrawalist position, whose arguments about sovereignty have always been bogus. The EU is trying to be a superstate, but it will fail, because there is no Demos. People will remain resolutely German or French or Italian, whatever their politicians say. Serbs are still Serbs despite Tito. Any attempt by the EU to create supranational regions like Arc Manche in which I am banging this essay out, will be met with an unstifled Yawn by people who have more important things to worry about, like paying their taxes. If the Politicians go far enough for the EU to register with voters as a primary concern, then they need to be afraid because their mendacity might become a cause to see eurocrats swing from lamp posts, should the EU prevent a democratically elected parliament from ever exercising its will.

Sure, the EU makes most of our laws, but when the alternative is a Bansturbating Labour government, what's the difference? The public's attitude is "a plague on both your houses". And They're right.

Now, should the people of Britain decide that withdrawal is what they want, it will happen, whether or not this constitution is passed by parliament. After all, who is going to stop us? One parliament cannot bind another. All withdrawal requires is political will. What the eurosceptics need to do is create the momentum. What they need to avoid doing is scaring the horses. It is too easy for federasts to paint Eurosceptics as extremists, and that is the one thing no British electorate will ever vote for.

Maybe this vote in the commons is a good thing. Perhaps the retrospective referendum on the Constitution that a Cameron government will be forced to offer to appease angry backbenchers will become an "in or out" referendum. Perhaps the people will be sufficiently pissed off to go for it! Or perhaps the referendum will come later. But it is coming.

This Parliamentary treason is not the end of the UK as an independent nation. It may indeed be the point at which the European Union over reached itself, and laid the foundation for its own destruction. The federasts will scream "little Englander" at me for saying so, but whingeing about nationalism till you're blue in the face doesn't make it wrong to be against a Kafkaesque multinational bureaucracy. In the halcyon days before the First world war, there was global free trade, without a UN to regulate it. That's what I wish to return to - Pax Britannica. NAFTA, the EU and Other regional trade blocks merely get in the way of an economic imperative. But that's economics, and since when has the EU been about that? Politically then, the lesson of history is that Multi-national entities do not last. In Fact, if the peoples of Europe ever start to notice "Europe", it won't be in a positive way. That's why I'm optimistic the EU will not be around in a decade, and that's why I'm not fussed if the Labour and "Liberal" "Democrat"parties betray us. Did you really expect any different?