We don't need the EU

Well the lisbon treaty vote has come and gone, the result being a "no" (which by now you should be more than aware of).

So where are we now? "Unchartered Territory" as we continuously are hearing? No, actually we haven't gone anywhere. We're in the same stagnant waters we were before the Lisbon vote and were only ever likely to be in afterwards. European nations are in disarray as the bureaucratic overlords who direct our fates squabble with one another over the precise legislative nature of a scheme that will unite us within a single state but simultaneously and unwittingly castrate us of the last bit of genuine willpower we can draw upon.

Our leaders it seems are incapable of constructing a basis for European co-operation that doesn't involve handing over all notions of sovereignty and control to a petty and detatched quango. Meanwhile, over on the other side of the Eurasian divide, the Russians, Chinese and Indians are getting smart, getting organised and getting restless.

We are entering times of increased scarcity and competition for resources. We've messed too much with the global ecological order and now nature is regaining some equilibrium at our expense. Europe, having neither the overwhelmingly enormous population of the third world nor the single-minded ruthlessness of the above-mentioned superstates, will surely be swallowed up - unless Europeans can form a cross-cultural bloc that transcends past conflicts and bins the ideals of liberal-capitalism.

What the EU has in mind though is to create a Western-liberal superstate to counterbalance the other global superstates and spread utopian values throughout the world. The Americans are too neocon, the Russians and Chinese too much a bunch of meanies. But like the models of European liberalism played out in the individual European states, the EU as an institution underlines the actual failure of the liberal-western political system. The reason the Russians and Chinese seem to be soaring ahead whilst Europe is going nowhere is because we have sacrificed effectiveness for an arbitrary bureaucracy that persecutes the common sense approach and without exception fails to address the wider issues it sets out to relieve in the first place. Our societies breed parasites because we refuse to address problems directly and decisively and because in striving for equality we place the basis for collective unity upon the lowest common denominator - money.

The EU neither reflects our long-term economic interest nor our political interest - permitting and encouraging the continued exploitation and servitude of European people and resources to big business from China, The USA and elsewhere. It seeks to reduce us to a nominal uniformity that will make us all more "democratically empowered" but will usurp the place of individual cultures as a determining factor in how we are each governed.

This has resulted in things like the collectivisation of economic interests (see the Irish fisheries for a perfect example of this: Irish waters are opened up to Spanish and French trawlers whilst quotas are imposed and rigorously enforced upon the Irish fishermen to restrict them from fishing in their own traditional fishing grounds; all in the name of fairness and equality), open borders, the doling out of voting rights to states in the EU parliament by population numbers alone as well as the the sinister "regionalisation plan" that will see member states carved up and reorganised by geographical size/location to make them more convenient to the EU.

Under the EU all identities will cease to exist besides that of being "European" and slave to the new monolithic state. Sounds like an inspiring and exciting prospect, doesn't it? We're already well on our way to deep, irreversible entrenchment.

None of this we think is necessary though and is why we were advocating a "no" vote to Lisbon on our blog. We object to further integration into the EU. Much as we need European unity, we don't need the European Union.

The strength of European peoples lies in the rootedness and uniqueness of their cultures. The heritage and history of each nation is an endless wellspring of vitality and strength to its people; an invaluable trait that is not easily or adequately replaced by anything external. In times of hardship and trial it is this strength that Europeans can draw upon to bind people together and give them the resolve to overcome. To lose this strength to cement an uncomfortable political union would defeat the entire purpose and need for unity between European peoples and alter everything that really makes being European... European.

- by LLD