Let’s get right out of Europe (From The Northern Echo)

Let’s get right out of Europe

4:16pm Tuesday 13th December 2011 in Peter Mullen By Peter Mullen

THE best headline about the Euro-fiasco was in one of the national papers: “Europe leaves Britain.”

The truth is that David Cameron did the right thing for the wrong reason but, as it is results that matter in politics, we should be grateful to him. Dave refused the diktat of Sarkosy and Merkel only because he knew that the alternative was to keep his election promise and call a referendum on our membership of the EU.

A few weeks ago I suggested in this column that the dominance of Europe which Germany three times attempted by military might – in 1870, 1914 and 1939 – might one day be achieved by economic power alone.

I confess, I didn’t expect my prophecy to come true quite so quickly.

In fact Mr Cameron’s veto, while it is good for Britain, has affected the German-French takeover of power not one bit. Those two nations were in cahoots all along and nothing Mr Cameron could have said would have made any difference to what they had already decided. They were determined to use the euro crisis as an excuse for grabbing more power for the EU project. Since the days of its founding fathers in the Forties and Fifties, the aim of the unelected European bureaucrats has been to create a superstate.

Now that Sarkosy and Merkel have ganged up and steam-rollered the other 24 nations into fearful agreement, the lies of those who told us over the years that there was no project to bring about such an undemocratic monster have been revealed.

All those voices from Edward Heath to Michael Heseltine, from Geoffrey Howe to Ken Clarke have achieved what they were always cheering for: a European superstate mangled together out of the process known as “ever closer political union”.

The joke is on them – they woke up last Friday to find that Britain will not be part of it.

Should we be worried that we are left out?

On the contrary, we should be ringing church bells throughout the land and saying the prayer for deliverance from foreign foes.

Of course, we are still signed up to the European treaties from Rome to Lisbon and so we must expect in the short term a great deal of bullying from the leaders of the superstate who are miffed exceedingly for that we wouldn’t play ball with their totalitarian ambitions.

They will try their damnedest to visit their wrath upon is. Bring it on, I say!

For the intensifying of their partisan vengeance will drive our Government – of whatever political hue – to introduce a clear referendum on our membership.

Our slogan should be “Better Off Out”.

Our exit from the EU will be good news. For we shall be able to abolish the business-strangling taxes and the bureaucratic regulations which have impeded our prosperity for years.

We can begin to retrieve our own farming and fishing policies. We can start, at last to disencumber ourselves of the malevolent human rights legislation which does not allow us to deport vicious criminals – because of their “right to a family life”.

Our so called “isolation” is a blessing. We can begin doing what a nation of shopkeepers is good at: minding our own business.

Mr Cameron must expect the Labour Party – Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition – to express everything except loyalty. And of course the Windmills and Sandals Party will cause all the trouble it can.

But if there is one ode to joy to sing this morning, it should be a chorus of delight as we hear the lament: “Nick Clegg is dismayed.”