I’m Very Tired of the EU!

I have avoided making any comments on this blog about the EU or European Union to give IT the full title, but really we ALL have to get involved, to bring change, or future generations to come will be severely blighted. I could easily add here the words “Soviet Socialist” to prefix the European Union, because that is what it is increasingly becoming. But I will not go down the road of ranting about whether they should be legislating for this or that, and whether we should be letting them, ad nausium.

No, wait, stand back for a moment and reflect on it all… “Single Currency”, “Eurozone in Crisis”, “Fishing Quotas”, “Common Agriculture Policy”… etc., etc., daily we are subjected to rhetoric on these and other topics from the MSM and our politicians, some positive, mostly negative as far as the UK is concerned.

From this position of observer, looking at the issue; lets take an analogy of this daily occurrence.

Say I am running an SME, a family concern which I hope to pass on to my children and they to their children, Isn’t that one of the best ways of developing the wealth of the country as a whole? Well imagine if by some tragic accident I lost the sight in my right eye and some time later had my arm amputated. Never mind I battle on, as did someone else in the late eighteenth century. Sadly no… worse is yet to come, despite these handicaps the phone rings every fifteen minutes requiring me to consider this new piece of legislation or that. From my one eyed, one armed, and limited mobility perspective I can’t cope with all this extra stuff! It’s hard enough without it.

Now I am not here knocking people with handicaps, I am simply saying that we are handicapping ourselves in business and trade because we are not focusing on what we need to. My fictitious family businessman is handicapped by our own politicians, for one reason or another (these are my disabilities in my analogy), however he can make do, but we have joined a club where we have another and more burdensome tier of regulation above our own, that we have not voted for, nor are able to object in a proper democratic sense.

The worst of it is that our attention on managing our own business is so severely distracted that it will fail, due to the ever increasing, overarching burden of simply managing the EU load. Let’s consider that we do not have to address the fishing quotas and the diminishing fish stocks, we would be paying full attention to our own fishermen and maintaining the huge abundance of fish, many of which we would be exporting! It is simply obvious that only by allowing our territorial waters to be plundered by all and sundry we have a double edged problem, redundant fishermen and no fish!

Why have we allowed this to happen? Are we to be forever ruined all because a failed and virtually useless sailor/politician signed our heritage away, as he lied, grinning, with his shoulders wobbling in a manic chuckle! Never forget he also brought us the three day week.

Anyway my proposition is simple. We have enough to deal with in the UK, adding to the pot with an external overbearing zealous EU simply adds further weight upon our collective shoulders. What staggers me the most is our almost total lack of self confidence as a country, why do we think we cannot make it alone, we have in the past, we need fear nothing, our competences are as good and if not better than most. We just appear, or some of our fellow travellers, to have lost our nerve!

So leave the EU, get on with our own agenda, do not reflect on the 3 million jobs, that by some smoke and mirrors are deemed dependent on our continued membership of the club, I don’t think so. Our membership fee is totally outrageous, reported at £6,400,000,000.00 [£6.4Billion] per year net out. If all 3 million were made redundant overnight we could afford to give each one over £2,000.00 per year to assist them in finding a new job!

Returning to the picture at the head of this article, is the man, or as some say, “the Boy”, who I doubt has the “necessary” to do the right thing for us, he is a marketing man! He is no “British Bulldog”. He will not bring home the bacon, unless it is Danish; he is afraid, too many diplomats and career civil servants will ensure that we keep the status quo. I’ve seen bigger balls on an ant!

Remember if the polls are correct and a majority in the country want out, if we all sent a letter telling the PM and his ministers, along with our own MP’s this simple fact… he would have to do something, if not withdraw, then resign and give us a referendum at least. Because we shure never signed up to what we got – Common Market – my **se!

Finally but not least, Sir Thomas Gascoigne [The family who resided at Parlington] was also very disenchanted with the Prime Minister in his day… Lord North, and we lost the Americas [USA chunk], so lets not compound our mistakes, recall the Englishmen who wrote the American Constitution and this statement from it. “and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity!” We must demand the same, liberty!