Brown Acknowledges Our Subservience to the EU

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Brown Acknowledges Our Subservience to the EU

Our relations with Europe 
now lie in the hands ex-Equal 
Opportunities Officer and 
researcher, Caroline Flint.

As a sign of how this contemptible little government holds in contempt the governance of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown has appointed one Caroline Flint to be Minister of State for Europe. Though some 80% or so of our laws (some bearing criminal sanctions) now emanate from the pens of unelected Eurocrats, Ms. Flint is not a member of the Cabinet.

Nor does she have cabinet rank but will only attend Cabinet when her portfolio is part of the subject matter on the agenda. You could have, I suggest, no better indication of how this wretched administration views the relationship that they have, without our consent, signed us up to with our real masters in Brussels.

After all, if Brown and his coterie of third-time lucky shysters and political researchers felt that one of their number might have any sort of influence on the mass of legislation and directives that now issue from this country's real government, The EU, a heavy hitter might have been appopinted to this post. But it is a sign of our now supine position relative to the EuroNabobery that Ms. Flint is now charged with opening the post from Belgium.

You only have to look at her antecedents to see just how ill-qualified she is for this post, were it to be thought a serious appointment that had real influence and executive clout.

She has a BA degree in American Literature and History combined with 'film studies' (whatever that is).

She joined the Labour Party when 17. She was the Women's Officer of the National Organization of Labour Students for 1982-4.
She began her career with the now-defunct Inner London Education Authority as a management trainee from 1984-5 and a Policy Officer from 1985-7. She was head of the Women's Unit at the National Union of Students from 1988-9, before joining Lambeth Council as an "Equal Opportunities Officer" from 1989-91, and was then then Welfare and Staff Development Officer from 1991-3. From 1994-1997 she was the Senior Researcher and Political Officer for the GMB Union. All in all a series of non productive jobs that do not exactly equip you for high ministerial office.

In government she has risen through the ranks from being parliamentary private secretary to jobs as Parliamentary under-Secretary and the Minister of State at Health. Thence a promotion when the anti-Blair putsch was completed in 2007 to the Department of Work and Pensions and barely had she warmed up her seat there she was shifted to be Minister for Housing and Planning (in which role she managed to allow her papers to be photographed as she entered Downing Street bearing the statement "We can't tell how bad it will get.", a strikingly prescient adumbration of this Labour Government's abilities).

That job brought her effective cabinet rank so her latest job, whereby she only will attend when the trifling matter of "Europe" is discussed, must be seen as a demotion. Europe is, after all, not something about which Her Majesty's Government can do anything terribly much about, so why waste a Minister with real talent and experience of the real world on it?

Ms. Flint is a typical product of the Labour hothouse for aspiring MPs and Ministers. A not terribly distinguished degree (I suppose 'film studies' might easily be completed by a weekly visit to the local Odeon) followed by exended periods as either a researcher or as a member of the MultiCulti Mafia. This notwithstanding, she ends up being responsible for our relations with the real masters in the land, the EU, without a daily guaranteed voice in Cabinet.

It is thus a sign that Labour now recognises that the surrender to the Eurnabobery is all but complete and that what must now increasingly be seen as little more than a provincial administration has little or no effective clout with Brussels.

Thus we are reduced by Labour to a truly second-class State. This is unsurprising for, their loud protestations of patriotism notwithstanding, your average Labour activist and MP these days loathes the idea of Britian as a sovereign nation with real power. Instead they prefer us to be a mere adjunct to the Socialist Nirvana that they perceive the EU to be.

The appointment of Caroline Flint embodies that attitude in full.

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