Comments on: An Unlawful Commission

By: Hoover

Hoover — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:17:48 +0000

I’m inclined to agree with Barry, even though my expensive education leads me to use less hyperbole.

Representative democracy is pretty much dead. The citizen’s initiative is just a headline-grabber meant to cast the EU in a positive light. Ms Wallstrom will now be able to fly around the world boasting about it at conferences.

The EU has one over-riding imperative, and that is centralisation.

The notion of subsidiarity (a treaty obligation) has been ignored.

The idea that people might be able to arrange their affairs at the local level is alien to the mandarin class in Brussels.

That mandarin class is currently reasonably benign. But power invariably – INVARIABLY – corrupts. I predict this mania for bringing power to the centre will eventually have very painful effects.

What else is one to think, after all? Milosz in The Captive Mind shows how a system built on a lie corrupts everybody involved in it. The EU’s fundamental lie is that it can govern 500 million people. This will lead to great unhappiness…

By: Tag

Tag — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:47:56 +0000

Barry, really.
‘This is the end of the death of democracy in Europe’ – I don’t even know what this means. We should abolish the EU if only to get rid of egregiously overblown hyperbole such as yours.

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:00:17 +0000

Hardly surprising the corruption ridden democratically deficient EU, which isn’t the disenfranchised peoples of 27 previously free, and democratic nations, just rides roughshod over the law when it suits them. promise referrenda and more say to the people, (only if they agree to everything), force democratic rejections of their treaties to be voted on again so that their outcome, not the previously free peoples, is the one forced on to us.

It is time that the UN declared the EU a rouge state because that is what it is, we are being governed by an unelected sleazy failed politician called Barosso, and a bunch of unelected failed politicians with no legal mandate to decide on any subject matter. This is the end of the death of democracy in Europe.