Chancellor Merkel….what is she on?

Anyone who fears for liberal democracy should pay attention to the nonsense being talked across the Channel…..and the ominously cowardly silence from this side of it.

Is there, I wonder, an ancient Holy Roman Imperial law we could invoke, whereby in the event of mass insanity among the European political class (and I include the UK in this) we the People could declare a state of emergency and have them all detained indefinitely until the madness has passed?

This morning, Frau Doktor Angela Merkel of the German BundesRepublik made a speech suggesting she may well have perfected a new form of complementary medicine to supercede homoaeopathy. From what I can gather, it seems to be based on the concept of extreme immunisation. Observing that a single currency union is falling apart before our eyes, her cure for this is even more of it. Read this excerpt from her speech:

“EU leaders must create a new Europe by deepening the ties between us. The task of our generation now is to complete the economic and currency union in Europe and, step by step, create a political union. It’s time for a breakthrough to a new Europe. My mission is to save the historic EU project….if the euro fails, Europe fails”.

Claptrap, from start to finish. What is this ‘new Europe’? What was wrong with the one we had before the megalomaniacs started down the path of euronanism? What are these deep ties between anal German industrialists and manana-based Greco-Iberian holiday providers? Where is the commonality between Italian bunga-bunga and Dutch electronics? How exactly is French wine growing akin to Irish Guinness production? What the bejesus have British financial services got in common with Portuguese pilchard fishermen?

Why is it ‘time’ for a New Europe – as opposed to a time for reflection about hubris-fuelled Babelism? Who will lead this…no, forget I even asked that. Daft question. What is ‘historic’ about this project…one that for decades dared not speak its name, as if its creators realised it to be something satanic to be created through stealth and deception?

If the Euro fails, the EU fails – not Europe: what in God’s name is the continental tectonic plate of Europe going to do, shatter? These are the assertive ramblings of those who were burning books seventy-six years ago.

The EU is a failure, for heaven’s sake. Its surpluses, its protectionism, its graft, its fiscal naivety, its borrowing greed, its bureaucratic serial stranglers: while manic cries for overnight reform ring out throughout the eurozone, where are the cries for an end to the commissioners and their fellow hangers-on…the Ollie Rehns and the Jose Manuelo Barrosos?

But no: we must harken unto her words, and now all those in the Volk must rally to the cause. As indeed they are: here’s further tripe from her fellow-Party colleagues:

“What she means is that either we get more Europe now or the project will die,” Ralph Brinkhaus, a CDU member of the Bundestag’s finance committee said in an interview, “This means that Germany must give up some sovereign rights and some party colleagues and voters may find this hard to swallow. But there’s no alternative.”

What ‘sovereign rights’ will Germany give up? What on Earth does ‘more Europe’ mean – pinch a bit of Russia? Let in increasingly Islamist Turkey? And what does this robotic stormtrooper mean by ‘no alternative’? Why is there no alternative to complete financial meltdown and social anthropological cobblers?

Search me. But the propaganda is, like market distrust, contagious. Here’s yet another heap of bovine waste:

““Big political changes are now sweeping through the euro zone, putting — at least for now — the many sceptical political observers to shame,” said Erik Nielsen, chief global economist at UniCredit SpA (UCG) in London, “people want ‘more Europe,’ not less.”

Is there no end to this avalanche of bollocks? When have the People ever been asked anything by these hobgoblins? The last study carried out by the EU itself showed 49% of all EU citizens wanting the Union scaled down and/or demolished. Why should sceptical commentators (proved to have been entirely right) feel shame? Why not schadenfreude?

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Sorry about that, I went a bit Daily Mail there. But these people are unhinged. And even worse, they are unopposed by those in charge of Britain.

Draper Osborne is encouraging them down their road to Hell. Cameron does nothing apart from tell them ‘to get their act together’. So one must assume that it is indeed this act of galloping lunacy he wants them to arrange with all speed. I can only conclude that there is a deep-seated hatred of all things European in Camerlot.

But is this Slog outburst itself merely a UKIP-style Faragist rant? Far from it. I have a house in Europe, I spend most of my holidays there, and I have been a lover of European culture and culinary arts for most of my adult life.

This is why I voted for us to stay in the EEC all those years ago: because I wanted a Europe in which all the best, varietal aspects of culture would be not just celebrated, but promoted. I wanted the French attitude to community to be the standard, alongside the German approach to train punctuality. I wanted the Italian diet of olive oil and lycopene-rich tomatoes to be adopted by more countries – every bit as much as I longed for Scotch Whisky to be appreciated as much in Holland as real, Belgian-brewed draft Stella Artois is appreciated in England.

What I don’t want – and would rather emigrate to South Ossetia than accept – is a Europe force-fitted into a narrow Teutonic model of how to behave. And while I know the many German fans of this site could easily mistake this for Germaphobia, they would be wrong. I am afraid only of ignorant people who want to pretend we are all the same.On that basis was the USSR founded…and eventually undone.

The most dire predictions of people on the outer limits of fringe commentary are now being fulfilled on a more or less weekly basis. We must stop being in denial about this: EU integrationist illogic is the enemy of every private citizen on this, our continent. And we must demand more from these bland Knights of Camerlot who continue to call all of it “an imponderable”. It is about as imponderable as a pack of dogs faced with a cornered fox.

This is what we are looking at:

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