Germany Grabs Control Of The EU?

Today Germany has takenm over the presidency of the Council of the European Union. No big deal, Europe watchers among you might well say — the Presidency rotates every six months between the EU’s member states. The Council of the European Union is not the same as the European Council or the Council of Europe (confused? Wait ’til someone tries to explain why the EU has to have three presidents).

So to step daintily out of the mire that is EU politics, Germany’s turn to be the boss is wholly expected, yet in the current circumstances there is something symbolic about this particular rotation — because the the EU’s biggest and most economically popwerful member is now dominant in all branches of the EU’s opaque administration. Ursula von der Leyen, a protege of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s and former member of Merkel’s government, has the top job: President of the European Commission. In formal terms, she’s the first German in the post since the 1960s. Another Merkel disciple, Martin Selmayr, is General Secretary (i.e. CEO) of the commission. David Sassoli, the Italian president of the European Parliament was put in his position by the support of the European Parliament’s largest grouping, The European People’s Party, which is dominate by the German CDO, Angela Merkel’s party, although Hausfrau Volksfuhrer Merkel does not lead now after a number of election setbacks. In effect Sassoli was Merkel’s preferred candidate.

The presidency of The Council Of Europe (did I mention this is not the same thing as the Council of The European Union?) also passes to each member state in turn and need not concern us unless the turn of the pariah among European leaders, Hungary’s Victor Orban is due soon.

Von der Leyen got the European Commission job because she was the nominee of  European People’s Party (i.e. Chancellor Merkel’s anointed candidate). Ironically, the European people were given no direct say in her elevation; but she had her old boss’s backing, which is what counts.

The reality of the EU can no longer be denied. It is not a union of 27 nations. It is Germany plus 26 satellite states. Even the European Federal Superstate idealists  can no longer credibly deny the evidence.

Merkel, though born in Hamburg, grew up and was educated under the brutally authoritarian communist regime of East Germany. Indoctrinated with Marxist ideology from an early age, she would have us believe she underwent a Damascene conversion to Western Democratic values as the notorious wall fell? Or is she an unrepentant, authoritarian, dogmatic, control freak, poisoned by her upbringing ?

For example how did the German Emissions Scandal/Dieselgate, one of the most sensational frauds in History, take place on her Watch? Were she and her government completely unaware that Germany’s world beating car makers had been conspiring to deceive the the world and pass off the dirtiest fuel available as the cleanest?

Perhaps we should give her the benefit of the doubt, but regardless, it has blown the concept of the Good German, so assiduously nurtured since 1955, clean out of the water. Germany is off on another master race trip as a friend of my family who had worked extensively in Germany predicted in the 1960s they would. Europe is facing a terrible dilemma, as it witnesses the emergence of the nascent Fourth Reich.

Merkel, though born in Hamburg, grew up and was educated under the brutally authoritarian communist regime of East Germany. Indoctrinated with Marxist ideology from an early age, she would have us believe she underwent a Damascene conversion to Western Democratic values as the notorious wall fell? Or is she an unrepentant, authoritarian, dogmatic, control freak, poisoned by her upbringing ?

For example how did the German Emissions Scandal/Dieselgate, one of the most sensational frauds in History, take place on her Watch? Were she and her government completely unaware that Germany’s world beating car makers had been conspiring to deceive the the world and pass off the dirtiest fuel available as the cleanest?

Perhaps we should give her the benefit of the doubt, but regardless, it has blown the concept of the Good German, so assiduously nurtured since 1955, clean out of the water. Europe is facing a terrible dilemma, as it witnesses the emergence of the nascent Fourth Reich.
What will be interesting now is how the relationship between France and Germany will develop. For decades these nations have collaborated to dominate EU policy and ensure Britain was marginalised. The Germans have always wanted to run Europe and dominating the EU is clearly better than sending jack booted troops in to capital cities.

France does not want to run Europe so long as it is run in a way that does not inconvenience France. To date the Germans have been happy to let France do whatever it likes regardless of any EU rules which might get in the way. But the French will not be happy about ceding control to Germany.

The weaker member states used to look to UK to be the thorn in the side of the Franco – German nexus and lament us leaving them totally at its mercy now. The Germans were upset with us leaving as we were a net contributor to the budget and without us that who else will help bail out southern Europe’s economic basket cases. Chancellor Merkel might gamble on control being worth that price but German taxpayer’s are not, and with Merkel’s coalition government having no majority in the Bundestag, the Chancellor and her party are vulnerable in any crisis.

With the Coronavirus crisis piling on the agony, and the Eurozone economy, already in crisis before the pandemic hit, it is only a matter of time before the house of cards collapses in on itself. The more political and economic distance between UK and the EU when that happens the better. Boris had better stick to his promise of no extension to the transition period and get us out at the earliest possible moment.

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Nothing Is Truly Scandinavian: Self Hating Attack On National Identity Provokes Outcry

12 Feb, 2020 19:35 / Updated 3 hours ago

Before the match Italia-Sweden of the UEFA Euro 2016 cup, supporters from Sweden show pride in their national identity © Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Getty Images

When the oh so clever boys and girs in the marketing department of Scandinavian Air Service (SAS) which tried to sell the airline on the back of the idea that Scandinavian identity doesn’t really exist, it was a step in left wing self loathing to far was a step too far for potential customers and the company was forced to go into damage control mode just hours after the launched.  A heated debate raged in social media and on radio phone – ins: what’s wrong with a national identity? caller after caller and comment after comment demanded.

The Nordic airline SAS needs to go back to the drawing board after it’s “Nothing is truly Scandinavian” advertising campaign crash-landed and abandoning the naïve, insulting premise that national identities do not exist would be the perfect starting point.

It was immediately obvious from the  torrent of vitriolic criticism the idiotic idea attracted was that Scandinavian punters were not on the same wavelength as the ‘woke’, university brainwashed imbeciles with their media studies and social science degrees who dreamed up the campaign.   Scandinavians were not at all happy at being told they should be tortured with angst about the lack of social justice in Afreekaaa, South East Asia and other third world shitholes, and racked with with guilt over the numerous acts of what the woke brigade insist on calling “cultural appropriation,” the adaptation of ideas from backward cultures that have not advanced much since the stone age, without which European civilisation could not have developed and  that north Europeans had previously, mistakenly thought of as the building blocks of their very own national identity.

Among the more ridiculous claims, and using a rhetorical device of the ill-informed, the campaign suggests that “rumour has it“ that world famous Swedish meatballs are actually Turkish. There is of course no evidence to support this in fact, as the classic recipes for Swedish meatballs use beef and pork and Turkey is a Muslim country, evidence suggests Swedish meatballs  did not originate in Turkey. Just about every national cuisine has a version of meatballs or meat patties. Except of course for sub Saharan national cuisines. I’ve been told by a half – Senegalese, half Swiss friend that in his experience sub Saharan African nations don’t have anything sophisticated enough to be called a national cuisine.

Why do the work brigade have to do this shit? Why are they so ashamed of the nations and social cultures that nurtured them that they constantly have to try to belittle those nations and cultures and, in this case,  shame a nation into believing that a popular dish is one they have stolen from some impoverished shithole country where people still live in mud huts and charring meat over an open flame is about as sophisticated as cooking gets? It’s the cheapest, nastiest, most unpatriotic campaign imaginable and the people who embrace such ideas are cheap, nasty, smal minded, self – hating, emotionally crippled virtue signallers.

The case here is that the campaign was the idea of &Co, an oh-so-self-aware Copenhagen-based agency shows the extent of self-loathing and guilt that exist in the liberal world of the creative class. Now if these cupid stunts want to kill themselves, that should be fine with sane people, the world always needs less arseholes. but to try to reduce the entire population of a global region to the kind of dysfunctional, self – pitying inadequacy that residents of the media bubble and supporters of far left politics exist in is bordring on criminal.

Perhaps their ham fisted (or meatball fisted maybe,) attempt to declare “What is truly Scandinavian? Absolutely nothing” should have been run past members of the public in Norway, Denmark and Sweden before they started disowning national treasures like sticky pastries, meatballs, marzipan sweetmeats and parental leave, because the ill-judged idea showed all the finesse of The Muppets’ Swedish chef at work on one of his more chaotic recipes.

Outside of the advertising community bubble people object to having their entire nationality excoriated, diced and served up as simply the sum of various parts because an agency with a lucrative airline contract has bought in to the hippy dippy, nineteen – sixties idea that the world is one big happy melting pot populated by multicoloured, gender fluid, easily influenced childbrains. Patriotism, the ‘woke’ crowd believe, is the thin-edge of the nationalist wedge, and identifying specific traits as belonging to only certain kinds of people is culturally disrespectful.

It’s utter bollocks of course, our history, the shared history of our nations is what makes us, and from the histories of our diverse nations and cultures comes the diversity that the ‘woke’ crowd are always screeching about but mistakenly think relates only to skin colour.

As the late Carl Sagan opined: “It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out”.

Because that is what has happened here. Nothing Is Truly Scandinavian is an example of the ‘woke’ crowd trying to impose a homogeneous, ersatz culture on the civilized world because the truth is they hate true diversity.

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Germany sliding into ‘dangerous’ anti-Europe hysteria warns top economist

Isobel Schnable – worried about anti EU mood in Germany

As Germany’s economy continues to stutter one of the country’s top economists has warned the country is desending into “anti-Europe hysteria” amid growing criticism in the country of the European Central Bank (ECB) and surging support for the Eurosceptic, anti – immigration AfD Party.

Marcel Fratzscher said the entire European Union would be damaged by the backlash against the ECB’s austerity policies and the cost to Germany of propping up the single currency. Mr Fratscher is chief of the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin and has also been an executive of the Eurozone’s central bank. He told UK financial newspaper The Financial Times: “Germany is sliding into a dangerous anti-Europe, anti-ECB mood, which threatens to damage the ECB’s credibility, the Euro an ultimately all of Europe.”

The warning comes less than two weeks after Chancellor Merkel’s ruling coalition suuffered heavy defeats intwo regional elections and Germany’s newly appointed ECB board member Isabel Schnabel called on her fellow economists to tone down their scathing analysis of the ECB’s performance. Ms Schnabel, an economics professor at the University of Bonn, predicted a crisis for the Euro if Germans did not take a step back to reflect on their country’s direction. Unfortunately for EU fans in Germany, voters have had years to reflect on the direction in which Merkel is leading the country and have decided they do not like it.

In an attempt to appeal to other German economists Schnable tweeted: “Dear fellow German economists, if you are wondering what you can do for Europe: Please help to dispel the harmful & wrong narratives about the ECB’s monetary policy, floating around in political and media circles. These threaten the euro more than many other things.”

This is rather spurious as nobody takes any notice of economists because they are always wrong. And the voters are in no mood to listen.

Unfortunately, the majority of Germans are opposed to further political and economic integration of EU member states, the country is politically polarised and with left and right more opposed to the idea of working with each other to bring down the government than they are to allowing Merkel’s centrist coalition to blunder on with the country politically paralyzed, it seems things can only get worse. In another blow to The Chancellor, her main coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SDP) this week lurched to the left by electing a far left candidate as its leader.

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Brexit Party MEP Alexandra Phillips angrily blew the whistle on the undemocratic election process for choosing the European Parliament’s highly influential Committee chairs. The Newly elected MEP claimed the Federalist bloc had organised a “stitch-up behind closed doors”.

Phillips said she was “astonished” by the method the European Parliament uses to elect chairs of its committees. In a video uploaded to the Brexit Party MEP’s Twitter page (embedded below), Ms Phillips says: “So, I’ve just come back from my first committee as an MEP. I am on the Development Committee (DEVE) which is really important to me because I have lived and worked in India and Ghana and Kenya and Cameroon, lots of places.

“And I have seen how badly the EU as a corporate cartel and big business and big banking essentially rides roughshod with trade deals over developing worlds and then uses bits of aid to try and cover up the massive open wounds that they leave behind.

“But what astonished me, the agenda for this meeting was actually appointing the new chair of the Committee.

“But this is already stitched up behind closed doors by the big Parliamentary groups who decide that they will portion out the chairs of committees behind the scenes and then each candidate stands unopposed.

“So I went to the meeting and one chair and vice chairs were automatically appointed because they were the only candidates stepping forward.

“Remember this Parliament is 60 percent new MEPs who haven’t had experience in these areas before and so don’t know the systems and aren’t putting themselves forward.”

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EU leaders have also come under fire for undemocratically facilitating a backroom stitch-up for the bloc’s top job, that of President Of The European Commission. The person chosen to succeed Jean – Claude Juncker in the post is little known Federalist Ursula von Leyen, who emerged as the preferred candidate through a completely opaque process after better known figures were rejected by member states.

Much of the criticism centred around the abandonment of the so-called lead candidate (spitzenkandidat) process, which is designed to give a democratic mandate to the Commission presidency. Instead, leaders held a series of meetings across three days to fill European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s role before he is scheduled to step down at the end of October. But nobody seems to know who proposed von Leyen, who voted for her or what qualifies her for the job other than that she is German, a member of Angela Merkel’s CDU Prty know for loyalty to Merkel and a strong supporter of Merkel and Macron’s push to transfor the EU into a Federal superstate.

Following the talks among EU leaders, Ursula von der Leyen, who is currently Germany’s defence minister, a supporter of Federalisation and an advocate of an E U Army, was selected to be the next Commission President. She will become the next European Commission President if the European Parliament approves her appointment. Her path to power may not be smooth however. Member of the European Parliament from The Green Party and a coalition of socialist and communist parties have vowed to oppose her and claim they have the numbers to vote down her appointment.

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Mainstream media’s reaction to the European election results in Germany for the EU elections rejoiced in the poor showing of the Eurosceptic, anti — immigration AfD but chose to ignore the far more significant trends that are emerging in German politics, trends that threaten the political and by extension economic stability of the EU’s most powerful nation.

EU Parliament Passes Resolution On Ban Of ‘Neo-Fascist’ Groups, Lists Identitarian Movement
The most undemocratic elected body in the world, The European Union Parliament this week passed a resolution demanding that member-states ban ‘neo-fascist’ parties and have intelligence agencies co-operate with ‘anti-racism’ NGOs. Ironically the ‘anti – racism NGOs they mention are all offshoots of anti – democracy organisations such as Open Society Institute and the Immigrant Defence Project.

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‘Left-wing Intellectuals’ Are ‘Sneering at Ordinary People’ on Brexit

from Breitbart Europe

Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery has warned figures both within and without the party against “sneering at ordinary people” who support Brexit, in the wake of highly damaging European Parliament election results.

Labour and its hard-left leader Jeremy Corbyn — a lifelong Brexiteer prior to his elevation to the party leadership — officially endorsed remaining in the European Union ahead of the 2016 referendum, but fully committed to delivering the people’s vote for Brexit in its manifesto for the 2017 snap election which followed the vote to Leave.

However, the bulk of its MPs have worked steadily to reverse this position ever since, and much of its largely cosmopolitan, upper middle-class parliamentary leadership are now pushing openly for a so-called “confirmatory public vote” with Remain on the ballot.

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Yellow Vest Protest Still Running After Six Months

Early May saw a lull in the weekly protests by France’s so called Yellow Vest movement which was not surprising after the huge turnout for the Midweek May Day protests on May 1, the traditional workers holiday in many nations.

from Bloomberg:

France’s Yellow Vest demonstrations drew a lower turnout and drifted away from Paris to smaller cities on Saturday, suggesting the movement is weakening as it hits the six-month mark.

Police estimated 18,600 people took to the streets around France, including 1,200 in the capital, on the movement’s 26th Saturday of protests, AFP reported, citing the interior ministry. Last Saturday, police counted fewer than 19,000 protesters nationwide, already the lowest turnout since November.

The Yellow Vests, a decentralized movement that began in opposition to higher gasoline taxes, has expanded its list of grievances to include demands for a higher minimum wage and increased pensions. President Emmanuel Macron last month promised tax cuts for the middle class in an effort to calm the protesters. Still, a poll on Tuesday found that 47% of the French support the Yellow Vests, up 3 points from 10 days earlier.

Turnout at the protests, and the level of violence, has waxed and waned depending on the weekend. Some Saturdays have led to shocking footage of street battles between protesters and police, the ransacking of the Arc de Triomphe and looting of shops and restaurants. On others, the events unfold with little violence. Masked anarchist protesters known as Black Blocs have joined in the demonstrations.

<p>In Paris on May 11, hundreds assembled midday south of the Seine river, in the student-packed neighborhood surrounding the Jussieu university campus. While demonstrations in the French capital remained orderly, Lyon and Nantes were rowdier at times as some protesters threw objects at police officers.

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With the protests continuing, although the numbers involved have diminished, it shows the anger of the French people at successive governments which want to focus on the problems of Africa and South East Asia, and the push to integrate 27 EU member states into a single political entity, while ignoring the problems faced by middle and working class people in France due to high unemployment, high taxes and rising living costs, Macron faces increasing political pressure. And with elections to the toothless but symbolic European Parliament only a few days away it looks as if his biggest political test to date will turn into a catastrophe for his globalist government. The Republic En Marche (Republic on the Move Party) currently trails the nationalistic, Eurosceptic, Rassemblement National (National Rally) party led by Marine Le Pen in the European Union parliamentary elections on May 26, according to a Harris Interactive poll published Saturday.

Defeat for Macron will bring renewed calls for him to resign and call an election, and should he choose to hold on to power in those circumstances, in all likelyhood it will reinvigorate the protest movement.

Legal basis of EU designed to take control from member states and hand to Brussels

The rejected European Consitution, which was abandoned in 2005 but reintroduced  in 2007 as the Lisbon Treaty (a form which member states’ voters coould not reject in national referenda,) was tailor-made to strip nation states of their power and centralise control in the hands of a Brussels cabal, according to a leading authority on international law.

Professor Richard Epstein, one of the foremost authorities on international law and treaties, exposed the cryptic clauses of one of the most important agreements in the history of the EU in a shock essay and in doing so exposed the true nature of the treaty and the power grabbing political monster the EU has become. At the time Mr Epstein warned the EU Constitution would result in less individual freedom and more bureaucratic interference, and centralised government from Brussels and advised Britain to chuck the treaty in the bin.

The document analysed by Mr Epstein was never formally ratified after being voted down in plebiscites in France and Netherlands, but it became the Lisbon Treaty, which passed in 2007 after being rejected in a referendim in Ireland, they only country consitutionally required to put a treaty change involving a surrender of sovereign powers to a public vote. But but Ireland is much smaller and has much less economic clout than France or Netherlands, and after the European Central Bank had shafted the Irish economy, Brussels told the Irish government the referendim result was not acceptable and the vote must be rerun.

The Lisbon Treaty contained 95 percent of the same text as the EU constitution, according to analysis by the London think tank Open Europe.

After being ratified by the political elites of member states and voted through at the second time of asking by Ireland, the Lisbon treaty became the legal bedrock of the EU,  updating laws and regulations for member states, establishing a more centralised leadership and foreign policy, a process for countries that wish to leave the bloc, and a streamlined process for enacting new policies, in effect shifting the EU from being a free trade club to being a political entity.

In his 2005 essay called “American Lessons for European Federalism”, Mr Epstein, Professor at the New York University School of Law, argued that the EU constitution lacked many of the democratic checks and balances contained in the American constitution and the consitutions of democratic nations. Absolute power is weilded by a committee of unelected bureaucrats.

Predicting where the document’s internal structures, which lacked of any clear definition, would lead, centralising massive power into the hands of unaccountable executives in Brussels, Mr Epstein wrote: ”For those who want a strong state with weak individual rights, then this Constitution achieves many of their goals.

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London’s Future?

This article, by Theodore Dalrymple, first published in Law and Liberty is reproduced by this Not For Profit site under fair use terms in the public interest, as the chaotic failure of our government to deliver the democratic decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) has revealed the chasm that has opened between the ruling elite and the nation they govern is now insurmountable.

December 14, 2017

I Have Seen London’s Future and It Is Caracas

by Theodore Dalrymple|25 Comments

 

Important (for good or evil) as Brexit may be to the future of Britain, it is not without its importance for the European Union. Indeed, it was always essential for the Union that Britain’s departure should be an economic disaster for Britain: for if it were not, why have a union at all?

It was therefore entirely predictable that the Union should drive a hard bargain with Britain, even a bargain economically harmful to itself, provided only that it was worse for Britain: for the self-preservation of the European political class is at stake. In the European Union politics always trumps economics.

In Britain too, political considerations were uppermost in the minds of those who voted for Brexit. They saw in the European Union a Yugoslavia in the making, led by a megalomaniac class without effective checks or balances. But now they are increasingly apprehensive of the economic costs of Brexit.

And the economic auguries for Britain are indeed poor, though not only, or even principally, because of the European Union’s hostility. The fact is that Britain is unlikely to be able to take any advantage of life outside the European straitjacket because its own political class is itself in favour of straitjackets that are no better, and quite possibly worse than, the European ones. The present Prime Minister, Theresa May, is very much a statist, indistinguishable from European social democrats, and the leader of the opposition, Mr Corbyn, who might well be the next Prime Minister, is an unapologetic admirer of Hugo Chavez. It is hardly to be expected that foreign investors will place much trust or confidence in an isolated country whose next government might very well weaken property rights, impose capital controls and increase corporate taxation in favour of supposed social justice. It would not take very long to turn Britain into a northern Venezuela: a Venezuela without the oil or the tropical climate.

Moreover, Britain already has many weaknesses and few strengths. It has a huge and persistent trade imbalance, because it does not produce enough of what the world wants and cannot easily be made to do so; it has a large national debt, about the same size as that of France, but without a highly functioning infrastructure such as France’s to show for it; its household debt is among the highest in the world. For many years, its economic policy might as well have been presided over by Mr Madoff; its social policy has been to smash up all forms of social solidarity or support for the vulnerable that do not pass through the state. The destruction of the little platoons has been very thorough: most large ‘charities’ in Britain are now dependent on government rather than on private funding, and hence are in effect departments of state.

As if this were not enough, Britain has enormous cultural problems, perhaps only to be expected in a country in which more than fifty per cent of children are born out of wedlock and twenty per cent do not eat a meal with another member of their household more than once every two weeks. A dangerously high and perhaps unsustainable proportion of the population is unfitted for productive life in a modern economy, having attained an abysmally low educational level despite (or because of?) considerable state expenditure. This section of the population is not merely indifferent to refinement of any kind – intellectual, aesthetic or of manners – but actively hostile to it. Similarly, it is not merely not anxious to learn, it is anxious not to learn.

This explains why Britain has persistently imported labour from Eastern Europe to perform tasks in its service industries that ordinarily one might have expected its large fund of indigenous non-employed people to perform. The fact is, however, that though these tasks require no special skills, they did require certain personal qualities such as reliability, politeness, and willingness to adapt: and these the eligible local population lack entirely. No hotel-keeper, for example, would consider using British labour if he could get foreign.

Perhaps nothing captures the levels of personal incompetence and lack of self-respect in Britain than the fact that young men of the lowest social class are about half as likely to die in prison as they are if left at liberty. In prison, though adult, they are looked after, at least in a basic way, and told what to do. They are no longer free to pursue their dangerous and crudely self-indulgent lifestyle, in which distraction is the main occupation. In prison they receive the health care that, though it is free to them under the National Health Service, they are not responsible enough to seek when at liberty. In short, they do not know, because they have never been taught, how to live in a minimally constructive fashion, though they were certainly not born ineducable.

No doubt other comparable countries have similar problems, but none (at least, none known to me) has them to anything like the same extent. These problems do not originate from Britain’s membership of the European Union, nor will they be solved by exit from the Union. They can be solved only by something more resembling a religious revival than by any likely government action. But expecting a population to bethink itself while simultaneously being offered political solutions that require no effortful cultural change is unreasonably optimistic. And politicians are unlikely to be frank about the problem for two reasons: first because alluding to the deficiencies of their electorate is probably not the best way to get elected, and second because it downgrades the providential role of politics, which politicians are understandable reluctant to do.

As if this were not quite enough, the hold on the country’s intelligentsia of statist solutions to practically all problems is still immensely strong. Nowhere is this more evident than in its attitude to the National Health Service, the establishment of which it almost universally regards as having been a great achievement, perhaps Britain’s only great achievement of the twentieth century. This is despite all the evidence that it has not been egalitarian in its effect, as it was originally supposed to be, or that almost all Western European health systems are superior to it. The fact that all Western Europeans regard it with at least disdain, and more usually with absolute horror, does nothing to shake the British intelligentsia’s faith in the essential goodness of the National Health Service. The only perceived problem with it is that it underfunded: the same problem as with all other government services. In the struggle between rhetoric and reality, rhetoric always wins.

The population by and large follows the intelligentsia, and the politicians follow the population; but the only economic advantages to Brexit would be the possibility of a nimbler, less regulated and bureaucratic economy. There is now no prospect of this. Therefore, I have seen the future of London, and it is Caracas – or very might be.

 

France to lose EU influence in European election as pro EU parties face wipeout

French president Emmanuel Macron faces crushing defeat in European election (Picture: Express )

The rise of Emmanual Macron and his Euro-federalist party, though a temporary aberration in French politics, has forced a realignment of the traditional parties of government, conservative Les Républicains (Gaullists) and the Socialist Party (PS), and they could both become bit-part players in the two biggest blocs in the chamber. This would mean fewer influential posts for lawmakers and far less say in Parliament over crucial decisions shaping Europe.

The Socialist Party is polling at just five percent, and if it falls below that threshold in the election due in May, it will not have any MEPs in the next European Parliament. An official from the French delegation of the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) bloc in the legislature told Politico: “The risk is that the left is so deeply divided that there won’t be any French person to represent it in the Parliament.

According to forecasts from Politico, the Socialists would drop to just five seats in the next Parliament, having secured 13 spaces during the last election in 2014.

Christine Revault d’Allonnes-Bonnefoy, a Socialist MEP who has been touted as a possible candidate to lead her party in the upcoming election, said: “We are going to lose a lot of MEPs. What we’re facing is a catastrophe. Right now, we are doing the job, we’re getting on with things. It’s not enough, but I don’t have any magic wand to change things.”

Centre-left parties in France have become fragmented recently, with MEPs such as Isabelle Thomas, Guillaume Balas and Edouard Martin quitting PS to join “Générations-s” – the left-wing party created by former Socialist presidential candidate Benoît Hamon.

Other MEPs including Emmanuel Maurel have joined France Unbowed – the far-left party led by former MEP Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

In an interview with French magazine Le Point last month, Françoise Grossetête said: “Their call to reform Europe has become a mantra, and shows the total ignorance of everything that has been carried out in the last five years when the right has led the governing majority in Europe.”

If current projections prove accurate, the Republicans would have a smaller delegation in the European Parliament than Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, while the once dominant Socialists would bring in the same number of seats as Denmark’s Social Democrats.

This reduction in French influence would be a huge blow to France, which for years has seen its MEPs push for progress on issues deemed in their country’s interests, including a change to the rules on EU citizens working temporarily in another of the bloc’s countries.

According to Politico’s forecasts, the Republicans are set to win 11 seats in the election, but this is still down from the 20 spots five years ago. What is not being mentioned by mainstream media is that Rassemblement National, the Eurosceptic, nationalist, anti immigration party led by Marine Le Pen look set to make massive gains.