Once again, we must
fight for democracy
on 06th November
2009
Twenty years ago on
Monday, a wave of euphoria swept Europe when the
Berlin Wall came crashing down.
This momentous event
seemed to be part of the unstoppable march of
history towards the liberation of the human race
from tyranny.
In the civilised
world, the dismantling of the wall - that concrete
manifestation of the Iron Curtain dividing the
enslaved vassals of Communism from the free peoples
of the West - was hailed as a giant stride towards
completing the task begun with the defeat of Hitler
44 years earlier.
Anniversary: The Berlin Wall was torn down 20
years ago on Monday
This was seen as a
decisive victory for democracy and free-market
capitalism and many thought it only a matter of time
before the rest of the world would fall in line with
our system.
Indeed, so confident
was the Japanese-American political economist
Francis Fukuyama in the ultimate triumph of liberal
capitalism that he pronounced we were witnessing the
'end of history'.
Who could have
guessed, on that heady November day in 1989, that
within 20 years capitalism would be shaken to its
foundations - and democracy in the continent of its
birth would suffer its most devastating setback
since Hitler embarked on his orgy of conquest in
1939?
For there's no other
way to describe the effects of the Lisbon Treaty,
which removes power from the peoples of Europe and
places it in the hands of an unelected, increasingly
arrogant elite.
And the most
devastating blows to democracy and free enterprise
have fallen this week on the British.
For this was the week
in which a flailing Government - yes, in part under
orders from the EU - pumped yet another £40billion
of taxpayers' money into banks crippled by the greed
and stupidity of the people who ran them.
Remember how, only
last month, this same Government tried to shave
£20million from the budget of the Territorial Army,
whose members are risking their lives in
Afghanistan?
Signing away our freedom: Prime Minister Gordon
Brown signs the EU's Treaty of Lisbon in
December, 2007
Yet here was
Chancellor Alistair Darling, handing 2,000 times as
much to some of the least deserving institutions in
the land, with barely a breath of protest from an
Opposition as shell-shocked as the rest of us by the
unimaginable scale of the sums involved.
But worse, far worse,
it was the week in which our right to govern
ourselves - for which Britons through the ages have
paid with their blood - was consigned to an EU over
which we have no control.
The Lisbon Treaty,
finally sealed on Tuesday after a monstrous
conspiracy by Europe's political class against the
people, is the culmination of a betrayal of our
democracy that began when Tony Blair entered Downing
Street in 1997.
Fired by an
overweening self-belief, a love of 'modernity' and a
contempt for institutions, he set about emasculating
Parliament, butchering the Union, undermining the
independence of the judiciary and Civil Service and
establishing a government of cronies to rule by spin
and deceit.
On the basis of a lie,
he took us to war in Iraq. And on a false promise
that he would give us a referendum on the EU
constitution, he set in train events that now make
Westminster little more than a district council in
the Brussels empire.
Meanwhile, the
imperial Euromasters of Germany and France are
already straining to exercise their new powers,
seizing on the excuse of the credit crunch to try to
break London's dominance of the financial markets.
No. Whatever they may
have thought 20 years ago, victory for democracy and
free-market capitalism is very far from a foregone
conclusion.
But where is the
leader who will speak for the people of Britain and
fight to win back all that we've lost?
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