The EU - Is True Reform Even Possible

I'm not sure if the exact number of eu-technocrats-cum-civil-servants is published, but the fact is there are too many of them, judging by the amount of unnecessary activities going on in Brussels. These people have far too much say in our lives and we can't identify them to have them removed or censored. These servants of the people are engaged in every aspect of what the EU does, and you can believe that this means a great many things.

Well, yes, in any administration there has to be back room boys and girls who actually create the reports and do the bidding of their masters. They are a requirement to the smooth running of government, of that there can be no doubt. The main question that stands out is around accountability to the taxpayer. Being accountable to the EU commission is not the same. The EU commission is not accountable to us taxpayers, nor can they be charged for any crimes or held to be responsible for any screw up or even gross corruption. So, assuming the commission can properly regulate the civil service as we would want is a total misconception.

Somewhere in the basement of one of the less attractive EU buildings, I'm sure, a group of civil servants have been especially recruited on the following basis:

• utter devotion to the aims of the EU;
• they despise democracy;
• they dress on the left (IE they are socialist by nature);
• they dislike free-market thinking.

 

If they also despise everything the UK stands for then that's clearly grounds for instant promotion.

I say all this because the evidence points that way. How many times, when it comes to important EU decisions, has the UK been sidelined; done over; lied to; ignored; misdirected; left out in the cold; insulted; led up the garden path; and generally made to feel like miscreants for suggesting there might be alternative options.

The phrase; “being a bad European”, was it seems especially penned to bring reluctant British PM's into line.
 

One EU agenda item is to do away with nation states.
 

The EU elite do not like opposition in any form, but especially when that opposition is semi-effective, for they have this agenda. It only allows for us to become a federal state, and there are no alternatives allowed. That's it. They cannot perceive of any other way, and like true antediluvian denizens of the left they become abusive when they meet dissent.

Much has been made of the desire to reform the EU by Britain, but given the history, it is a questionable undertaking. Not only because there will be reluctance and subterfuge on the part of the EU elite, that goes without saying, but given the amount of real reform necessary, any efforts to tweak the system will produce very little.
 

Promises have been made, by the EU, in the past that were clearly deceit in retrospect. Oh, that's not say say there were outright lies, but things like “red lines” have proven, as an example, to be totally useless in avoiding certain regulations, despite guarantees at the time.
 

While I accept that David Cameron has an appetite to reform the EU, the scope of his remedies are apt to be limited, not only by his willingness to ask for everything that is required, but also by what reforms are possible.

The EU elite and governments of the EU have gotten comfortable with the arrangement of how things are done within the empire, and that in itself will mean real reforms will not happen. Let's face it, Cameron asking for some powers back might be achievable, but this doesn't begin to attack the moral and democratic deficit of the EU. The whole structure of the EU is positioned to become that federal state, sooner rather than later, so any short term gains for Britain, will surely be lost in the future. This loss is an almost certainty as the UK labour party expect to walk into government after the next general election, and being europhiles by nature, would give back any gains that had been made in the fight for our freedom. These are the enemy within our own country.

Actually, we should applaud Cameron for his efforts, although far too little and far too late. These things should have been sorted out 30 years ago.

The real problem with the EU, aside from the way it was designed, is that it's like a train on automatic, rushing through stations at horrific speeds, not intent on serving its customers, merely determined to get to its destination before anybody really notices what they have signed up to, or even notices the small print on the ticket.
 

If anyone of integrity would do a real thorough analysis of the EU, with honesty, then he would proclaim it to be a monster and urge for it to be destroyed. For example:

• observing how the commission rewards those organisations for promoting the EU over national interests;
• the lack of balances and checks within the European parliament, that promotes bad legislation. 

Never mind that it wants to control every facet of our lives without any real capacity to understand the impact of the changes introduced.

 

Another item on the EU agenda is to make all countries equal, not just in their high streets and their bedrooms, but worse yet in terms of GDP per capita, and it is the richer countries being drained to pay for this. The concept is the usual socialist one of spreading wealth about. This is done by taking some of the money given by all countries to the EU and then sharing it out by some unknown formula to provide resources for new infrastructure in “deserving” countries.

Some people consider this immoral, given that new roads and bridges are being built in another country while in this country our roads are full of potholes. Why on earth should our taxes be subsiding others?

 

The comfort factor keeps the EU running along that train line because those deeply involved imagine it to be working fine, which just demonstrates the calibre of those that have reached positions of power. They are all too willing to go along with the schedule, for the EU has become a great big club to them, and they have no desire to get off the train nor slow it down. They simply pray it doesn't come off the rails while they are still aboard, yet all the time enhancing the speed of the locomotive.

 

With people and agenda so wedded to the status quo what hope is there for real reform?

 

A reformed EU would have to have eliminated corruption and crony-ism. Every person in a position of power would answer to the electorate. Every new law passed would be done so only after careful scrutiny and trial. The purpose of the parliament would no longer to be to create as many regulations as it could, instead open minded select committees would be established to thoroughly investigate issues that needed change, and a second chamber would have the authority to reject badly aligned policies and legalities.

 

The commission would not exist.

 

The parliament would be led by a collection of elected representatives from each nation state, and would form the executive. 

 

…but this is just a pipe dream. They aren't going to dismantle the EU because it is a misbegotten intellectual dwarf that is not even toilet trained, and neither will it be rebuilt in the above fashion, because the EU elite won't allow it. This has nothing to do with rationality and everything to do with an enforced federal political agenda.
 

Whatever his efforts, Cameron cannot help but get left with a total fudge, something he'd rather not discuss in polite circles, but also something that nobody could be proud of.

 

Never mind, the EU will have shown willing by dropping some crumbs, and the UK electorate will probably swallow the whole package, thinking we have won, while forever wondering when things will actually get better.