…it stands to reason.

The Slog witnesses a classic performance from the Denialment

I was watching one of the endless stream of BBC politics programmes this morning – The Daily Westminster Politics on Sunday Show Now Today or something similar – and saw Niggle Farrago being ‘interviewed’ (aka attacked) by Jon Sopel, and two members of the Denialment. I’ve decided this is going to be my new name for those who think any discernment, and then public pronouncement, of a threat to Britain must be deranged racism and stamped upon. Or – stamping on people not being possible on a public television programme – simply saying that the other side is ’emotional’.

I have, as you know, very little time for Farage, but I am bound to observe he was impressive in the face of this morning’s onslaught. The plan of the Troika facing him was to get the UKIP leader to admit that his fears for the City were all rot, and that he is Deutschophobic. This was quickly rebuffed by Niggle, who not only showed through expert knowledge that the City would actually be boosted by being outside the EU (he worked in the Square Mile for twenty years), but also reminded his interrogators that he’s married to a German.

Entirely unruffled, the beardy inquisitor than made a quite astonishing statement – which he obviously thought was clever, but in fact showed him up for the clod-hopping, ignorant illiberal twit he was. This gentleman said that we “must distinguish” between “a rational argument about good business management by Germany, and an emotional argument about German nationality”. Thus, anyone (Farage) suggesting that the German culture had form when it came to rigidity was being emotional, whereas he (the donnish genius) was merely applying his more developed intellect to praise what he saw as the fine qualities of the Prussian econo-fiscal mindset.

There are so many bottom lines to this argument, it becomes obvious why I think beardy to be an arse. First of all, his assessment of good German economic management is ill-informed: hard work, good design and thrifty government have enabled Germany to export very successfully with a cheap euro to other nations to which it had lent the money to buy them. The economic ‘management’ being followed by Das MerkeSchauble at the moment is precisely that which has brought ClubMed economies to their knees.

Second, pointing out a rigidity of attitude and preference for giving orders (and naive obedience to them) is hardly an invented, emotional observation about Teutonic culture. Endless academic books (most of them by Germans) have pointed out the Germanic obsession with joining in, and falling for naive ‘solutions’ ranging from the Schlieffen Plan through to all Jews being Communists –  and now, the European Union. In the war-starting stakes over the last 160 years on the European continent, the score is Germany 3, France 1, Great Britain 0.

But as Farage pointed out, stopping any country dominating the Continent was supposed to be the original idea of the EEC. As for ‘German dominated’, what else would you call a 27-State Group of nations whose leadership is routinely referred to in the world’s media as ‘EU boss Angela Merkel and her Number Two, Nicolas Sarkozy’? The EU has failed to stop this, studiously avoided every democratic attempt to stop it, and remains largely unloved as an institution: 49% of its citizens now express ‘grave doubts’ in quantitative research as to whether it is a good idea. Even France now openly disagrees with Germany’s fiscal approach: this it does, naturally, so it can get its hands on the ECB’s money. I happen to think the Germans are right about that: but how rational is it for a whole country still to be fixated with fears of inflation 88 years after 1923? Isn’t that a bit odd too…as in obsessive compulsive disorder? Isn’t that how we wound up with two ECB rate rises at exactly the wrong moment last Spring?

Finally – and perhaps most important of all (as this site posted yesterday) – the MerkeSchauble juggernaut thunders along oblivious to the Tsunami gaining ground behind, and the opposition of other nations ahead. Britain, the US and France are for once at one on the business of switching the emphasis now from housekeeping to finding a job. Berlin is heading for a calamitous fall….and the only answer it appeared to have last week was the employment by senior CDU robocrats of offensive remarks aimed at the British.

These last once again became, in Sopel’s Sunday Studio, a most remarkable show by the Denialment of double-standards. “German dominated Europe” from Farage was offensive, emotional drivel; but “Europe is speaking German now/You British are just being selfish as usual/you will all have to join our euro in the end” was of course entirely rational commentary, and to be applauded when set against we nasty, racist, horrible British. What absolute tosh.

I fear for the liberties of this country, for the same reasons I have since Thatcher came to power and began orchestrating Party Conferences. Mediocre, unquestioning State education has created an inability to discern empirical facts or accept tested science; huge double-standards followed by insults suffuse every debate that challenges Received Truth; the smearing of any voice set against the uniformity of the adoring rally is routine procedure; the pious auto-association of the ‘progressive’ Establishment outlook with the good, kindly and rational Truth gets worse with every passing year; and the setting up of everything in the EU, the Third World or the Arab/Muslim Middle East as beyond reproach has now become one gigantic – and hollow-sounding – Hall of distorted mirrors.

Opposing this is what I mean by Radical Realism. To ignore the delusional path of the Big Brothers above us now will be the ruination of every last freedom we take for granted. If only somebody with a bit more cred was leading the charge above and beyond Nigel Haw-Haw.