"What a demolition job! Ashley Mote has smashed huge holes in the walls which have hidden the squalid truth about the European Union for so long." One day this book may be banned. Our right to freedom of speech will have been abolished. Some people think the United Kingdom has effectively been abolished already. It will certainly cease to exist as a free and sovereign nation unless we reverse the erosion of our ancient rights, freedoms and customs by endless interference in British affairs by the European Union. In 1975, as new members of the EEC, we thought we were voting for a free trade area. What we have today is an undemocratic, unaccountable police state that makes laws behind closed doors and seeks by stealth to destroy the UK as an independent nation. The European Union is being increasingly rammed down British throats in pursuit of a dream we never voted for. That dream has become a living nightmare. Silent discontent is no longer an option. If you are concerned about the activities of the EU and its impact on the British way of life, then this book is for you. This is not a book about politics in the usual sense. Nor is it academic. It is a simple, clear and horrifying account of what is being done to our country by the EU, why it matters, and why it must be stopped. The book also paints a vivid picture of the thriving, wealthy, confident and outward-looking Britain that will quickly emerge from the ruins of the EU disaster. The EU issue is of monumental proportions. Ultimately, it is about British liberty.
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Ashley Mote, in this passionately written book, makes a very persuasive case against our staying in the EU. He addresses themes - democracy and sovereignty - that our trade unions should take up. We can learn from writers on the EU like Mote, Christopher Booker and Lindsay Jenkins, though of course they could learn a lot from us in the labour movement about economic and industrial reality!
Workers’ patriotism and democratic self-government are not abstract notions. As Mote observes, if we lose sovereignty, we will lose our North Sea oil: the Maastricht Treaty’s Preamble 8, Title 2, described our oil as a ‘shared resource’. (SNP please note!) Already, the Government unpatriotically backs foreign firms at the expense of British industry, as when the Ministry of Defence ordered army uniforms from a German firm.
Mote asks how democratic the EU is. In the European Parliament, absentee MEPs are counted as having voted for the resolution. This practice encourages these overpaid gentlemen to do even less for their lolly. Members of Europol, the EU police force, are above the law: the Amsterdam Treaty’s Article 8 makes them ‘immune from legal process of any kind for acts performed ... in the exercise of their official functions’. The same Treaty referred to ‘bringing about the legal termination of the independence, sovereignty and right to self-government for all time’.
But surely we gain economically from our EU membership? Strangely, no British Government has ever done a cost/benefit analysis; however the Institute of Directors estimates that it costs us £15 billion net a year. If we chose to join the euro, it would cost us £36 billion, £650 each. The Bank of England says that then staying in the euro would cost us another £9 billion a year. As for the future, we could be lumbered with paying for the unfunded pension liabilities of EU countries: Delors said, “EMU means, for instance, that the EU recognises the debts of all countries in EMU.”
Interestingly, Switzerland, not a member, but trading with the EU, has Europe’s lowest unemployment and highest wages.
Workers’ patriotism and democratic self-government are not abstract notions. As Mote observes, if we lose sovereignty, we will lose our North Sea oil: the Maastricht Treaty’s Preamble 8, Title 2, described our oil as a ‘shared resource’. (SNP please note!) Already, the Government unpatriotically backs foreign firms at the expense of British industry, as when the Ministry of Defence ordered army uniforms from a German firm.
Mote asks how democratic the EU is. In the European Parliament, absentee MEPs are counted as having voted for the resolution. This practice encourages these overpaid gentlemen to do even less for their lolly. Members of Europol, the EU police force, are above the law: the Amsterdam Treaty’s Article 8 makes them ‘immune from legal process of any kind for acts performed ... in the exercise of their official functions’. The same Treaty referred to ‘bringing about the legal termination of the independence, sovereignty and right to self-government for all time’.
But surely we gain economically from our EU membership? Strangely, no British Government has ever done a cost/benefit analysis; however the Institute of Directors estimates that it costs us £15 billion net a year. If we chose to join the euro, it would cost us £36 billion, £650 each. The Bank of England says that then staying in the euro would cost us another £9 billion a year. As for the future, we could be lumbered with paying for the unfunded pension liabilities of EU countries: Delors said, “EMU means, for instance, that the EU recognises the debts of all countries in EMU.”
Interestingly, Switzerland, not a member, but trading with the EU, has Europe’s lowest unemployment and highest wages.
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Splendid defence of British sovereignty
6 July 2004
By William Podmore
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Ashley Mote, in this passionately written book, makes a very persuasive case against our staying in the EU. He addresses themes - democracy and sovereignty - that our trade unions should take up. We can learn from writers on the EU like Mote, Christopher Booker and Lindsay Jenkins, though of course they could learn a lot from us in the labour movement about economic and industrial reality!
Workers' patriotism and democratic self-government are not abstract notions. As Mote observes, if we lose sovereignty, we will lose our North Sea oil: the Maastricht Treaty's Preamble 8, Title 2, described our oil as a `shared resource'. (SNP please note!) Already, the Government unpatriotically backs foreign firms at the expense of British industry, as when the Ministry of Defence ordered army uniforms from a German firm.
Mote asks how democratic the EU is. In the European Parliament, absentee MEPs are counted as having voted for the resolution. This practice encourages these overpaid gentlemen to do even less for their lolly. Members of Europol, the EU police force, are above the law: the Amsterdam Treaty's Article 8 makes them `immune from legal process of any kind for acts performed ... in the exercise of their official functions'. The same Treaty referred to `bringing about the legal termination of the independence, sovereignty and right to self-government for all time'.
But surely we gain economically from our EU membership? Strangely, no British Government has ever done a cost/benefit analysis; however the Institute of Directors estimates that it costs us £15 billion net a year. If we chose to join the euro, it would cost us £36 billion, £650 each. The Bank of England says that then staying in the euro would cost us another £9 billion a year. As for the future, we could be lumbered with paying for the unfunded pension liabilities of EU countries: Delors said, "EMU means, for instance, that the EU recognises the debts of all countries in EMU."
Interestingly, Switzerland, not a member, but trading with the EU, has Europe's lowest unemployment and highest wages.
Workers' patriotism and democratic self-government are not abstract notions. As Mote observes, if we lose sovereignty, we will lose our North Sea oil: the Maastricht Treaty's Preamble 8, Title 2, described our oil as a `shared resource'. (SNP please note!) Already, the Government unpatriotically backs foreign firms at the expense of British industry, as when the Ministry of Defence ordered army uniforms from a German firm.
Mote asks how democratic the EU is. In the European Parliament, absentee MEPs are counted as having voted for the resolution. This practice encourages these overpaid gentlemen to do even less for their lolly. Members of Europol, the EU police force, are above the law: the Amsterdam Treaty's Article 8 makes them `immune from legal process of any kind for acts performed ... in the exercise of their official functions'. The same Treaty referred to `bringing about the legal termination of the independence, sovereignty and right to self-government for all time'.
But surely we gain economically from our EU membership? Strangely, no British Government has ever done a cost/benefit analysis; however the Institute of Directors estimates that it costs us £15 billion net a year. If we chose to join the euro, it would cost us £36 billion, £650 each. The Bank of England says that then staying in the euro would cost us another £9 billion a year. As for the future, we could be lumbered with paying for the unfunded pension liabilities of EU countries: Delors said, "EMU means, for instance, that the EU recognises the debts of all countries in EMU."
Interestingly, Switzerland, not a member, but trading with the EU, has Europe's lowest unemployment and highest wages.
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vigilance -a Defense of British Liberty
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By Eugene Williams
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I became aware of the book from a website I visited.
I ordered it and it arrived within seven days from Great Britain to Ohio in the United States
It interested me because I 've read some and know some of the European . Union and know that whatever effects Mr. Ashley Mote feels Europe is going through good or bad is a future warning to North American contient because we will be next and to know the effects of what is happening in Europe may be a forwarning for American continent when they try to promote the unification of North American continent. which is a known part of the One World plan.
Mr. Mote is interesting to read as it is not a technical book, but should be as interesting to read as watching a program on a television or listening to someone explain the European Union effects of the European union on what will eventually happen to the whole world.
I ordered it and it arrived within seven days from Great Britain to Ohio in the United States
It interested me because I 've read some and know some of the European . Union and know that whatever effects Mr. Ashley Mote feels Europe is going through good or bad is a future warning to North American contient because we will be next and to know the effects of what is happening in Europe may be a forwarning for American continent when they try to promote the unification of North American continent. which is a known part of the One World plan.
Mr. Mote is interesting to read as it is not a technical book, but should be as interesting to read as watching a program on a television or listening to someone explain the European Union effects of the European union on what will eventually happen to the whole world.
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