PETER OBORNE: The Chilling Perils of the EU’s Latest Bid to Kill Democracy

• PETER OBORNE: The Chilling Perils of the EU’s Latest Bid to Kill Democracy
  by PETER OBORNE FOR THE DAILY MAIL, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
  Of course they were much too Machiavellian to admit it at the time. But when the architects of what is now the European Union set out their vision, they wanted a superstate that smashed down national borders, which removed countries’ own sovereignty and which rode roughshod over democracy.
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  Indeed, these founding fathers explicitly wrote the objective of ‘ever closer union’ among the peoples of Europe into the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Aware of the huge threat this posed, far-sighted British political leaders at the time, such as Labour’s Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell, warned that national independence was incompatible with what was then called the European Economic Community.
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  Another man to realise that if Britain joined, this country would no longer be master of its own destiny and would lose the power to make its laws and control its own borders was the great historian AJP Taylor.
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  As the author of books such as The Origins Of The Second World War, he could legitimately claim to have more knowledge than anyone else about European history and of Britain’s relationship with the Continent, and thus he warned as strongly as he could against the UK’s membership.
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  Taylor, whose brilliant TV lectures are currently being re-shown on the BBC Parliament channel, stated that the ultimate aim was political union run by an arrogant elite whom he called, with heavy irony, ‘top people’.
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  Above all, he said that Britain had been ‘most secure when we kept out of Europe’, adding that ‘meddling with European affairs has brought us nothing but toil and suffering.’ Predictably, our defeatist political Establishment failed to heed his wise words.
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