Britannia Radio

08 August 2011 1:56 PM

The 'trick for idiots' succeeds: Cameron says one 1975 Yes to the EU is forever

David Cameron has ruled out a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU on the grounds that Britain had a vote on the Common Market when Harold Wilson was prime minister.

This means the prime minister has officially embraced the anti-democratic EU policy on referenda: a Yes to Brussels is forever, but a No is only ever temporary.

I am reminded of remarks made about this EU policy a few years ago by Vladimir Bukovsky, the Soviet dissident who was was imprisoned and tortured over 12 years by the KGB. He was expelled from the USSR in 1976. He is now an author and lives in Cambridge.

In 2006 Mr Bukovsky visited the European Parliament as a guest of part of the European Christian Democratic group in the parliament. On the same day he gave a speech to some of the MEPs at a gathering nearby. Paul Belien, the editor of the Brussels Journal, was smart enough to follow it up with an interview, so we have a pretty good idea of what the wise and experienced Mr Bukovsky thinks about the institutions of the EU and the 'Europeanisation' of the member states.

What he sees is a parallel between the EU and the Soviet Union: 'I am referring to

structures, to certain ideologies being instilled, to the inevitable expansion, the obliteration of nations, which was the purpose of the Soviet Union. The ultimate purpose of the Soviet Union was to create a new historic entity, the "Soviet people."'

'The same is true in the EU today. They are trying to create a new people. They call this people "Europeans," whatever that means. The state, the national state, is supposed to wither away.'

But didn't all these countries join the EU voluntarily? 'No, they did not. Look at Denmark which voted against the Maastricht treaty twice. Look at Ireland. Look at many other countries, they are under enormous pressure. It is almost blackmail.'

'Switzerland was forced to vote five times in a referendum. All five times they have rejected it, but who knows what will happen the sixth time, the seventh time?'

'It is always the same thing. It is a trick for idiots. The people have to vote in referendums until the people vote the way that is wanted. Then they have to stop voting.'

'It looks like we are living in a period of rapid, systematic and very consistent dismantlement of democracy.'

'When you look at the European Commission it looks like the Politburo. I mean it does so exactly…they are exactly the same, unaccountable to anyone, not directly elected by anyone at all.'

'Of course, it is a milder version of the Soviet Union. Please do not misunderstand me. I am not saying that it has a Gulag. It has no KGB – not yet – but I am very carefully watching such structures as Europol for example. That really worries me a lot because this organisation will probably have powers bigger than those of the KGB. They will have diplomatic immunity.'

'Can you imagine a KGB with diplomatic immunity?'

Yes, I can imagine it. Just as I can imagine a United Kingdom without the power to elect the men who truly govern the British nation. Though, no need to imagine. It's already here.