Gerald Warner: Defeat these Trojan-horse parties or Britain is doomed

Published on Saturday 21 November 2009 20:00

Anti-EU leaders must arise to overthrow the Vichy Tories

EUROPE, like pre-unification Italy, is a geographical expression. It is not a civilisation; in the days when it had some pretensions to that role, it was called Christendom. It is not a credible geopolitical entity. The European Union is a confection by bureaucrats that exists only on paper. The conventional wisdom is that it has recently come of age and is now irreversible – which simply supplies further testimony, if any were needed, to the unwisdom of conventional thinking.

Consider the life cycle of this laboratory-created freak. It began life credibly enough as the European Coal and Steel Community. Then it metamorphosed into the European Economic Community, or European Community, and eventually into the European Union. Only at one stage in that process, in 1975, was the British electorate consulted. The true nature of the European project – federalist in blood and bone from conception – was sedulously concealed from voters and approval gained under false pretences. Thereafter, the federalist conspirators were too cautious to allow the electorate any further say.

As the loathsome hybrid shook itself free of the last layer of chrysalis to emerge in all its naked totalitarianism via the European draft constitution, Labour thought it politic to promise a referendum. Gordon Brown later shamelessly reneged, under the pretence that the Lisbon Treaty was a different entity from the constitution. David Cameron has now committed the same treachery. His pretext is that it is "impossible" to have a binding referendum on an already ratified treaty. What gives him the lie is the sole precedent in Britain for a European referendum, in 1975, when we were asked to vote on a treaty ratified in 1973.

Last week saw the consummation of Brussels' imperial ambitions with the appointment (not, of course, the election) of two nonentities, Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton, as EU President and High Representative for Foreign Affairs respectively. Do not be deceived by the mediocrity of these two satraps. The internal politics of the EU now revolves around the power struggle between the Council of Ministers and the European Commission. The Council won last week's round. It also serves the useful purpose of not frightening the horses if the much-vaunted EU President turns out a nonentity. Recall how many other EU officials and bodies started off as unassuming and lightweight, only to grow teeth later.

Britain has been betrayed by la trahison des clercs, delivered into servitude under the EU by its political class. So, where do we go from here? In a word – out. There is no longer any place in British Euro-politics for the outdated "in Europe, but not run by Europe" mantra that was the evasion employed by the Tories in John Major's day. Cameron is still trying to pursue that compromise, pledging to "repatriate" a rag-tag of "competences" relating to employment law, the charter of fundamental rights and criminal law. Yet surely those very competences are too deeply embedded in the Lisbon Treaty, which Dave assures us is untouchable, to be revisited.

Then there is the hand that Dave has dealt himself before even sitting down at the poker table. Last week he said: "I don't want us to leave the EU because I don't think it's sensible and I don't think it's the right thing for Britain." Since the only possible sanction the Eurocrats fear is British withdrawal, Dave has already discarded his ace. Cameron is condemning his own party to eventual oblivion. He will win the next general election; thereafter the two-party system will collapse.

It is not just Europe, but immigration, crime, the economy, politically correct tyranny, the whole loss of national identity and the stench of corruption in high places that will consign the Conservatives and Labour to the dustbin of history. The Tories had one chance: to steal UKIP's clothes. Now the game is lost. Cameron will bury Conservatism.

The only strategy for Eurosceptics now is to chart a path out of our present subordination. The first step is to undermine and destroy the two Trojan-horse parties – Labour and Tory – and to raise public consciousness of the European menace. This is an instance, as in 1940, when personalities will be of decisive importance. Anti-EU leaders must arise, fired by genuine patriotism, to overthrow the Vichy Tories and similar collaborators.

Among the many discredited errors of Marxism, was the notion that history is dictated by impersonal economic and social forces rather than by powerful individuals. Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Napoleon Bonaparte and Winston Churchill, from their differing standpoints, would beg to differ. If the patriotic camp finds inspired leadership, the political Heath Robinson contraption in Brussels will quickly collapse. If not, it is Britain that will pass from the pages of history.