Britannia Radio

Americas fifth President James Munroe put in place legislation to limit the intrusion of the the Old World in the affairs of the New.  Obviously Phillip Gordon, Obama's man at the EU,  who clearly has acquired some sort of brief to dissuade Britain from pursuing an early exit from the EU.

 

Reading his comments on the subject, he clearly has little ‘in depth’knowledge of this particular subject, in common

with 99% of Senate and Congress.

 

The letter below makes the case, for him to shut up until he knows what he’s talking about, never a strongpoint of American politicians, since Truman.

                                                                                                    

 

 

 

Thank you Marcus for this excellent article, which I'm circulating around the SW list, and assume that you would be agreeable to our letter writers using/adapting it to local/regional papers?

 

Kind regards

 

JK

 

---

: letter sent to Dr Philip Gordon at the US State Department

 

,

You have recently expressed opinions about Britain’s place in the EU that show a fundamental misunderstanding of the true situation.  I ask you to take the time to consider carefully the points I make below.

In 1776, your country declared its independence from Britain, primarily because of unfair taxation and unfair laws over which your ancestors had no control.  Today, we are demanding independence from the EU for precisely the same reasons: we are unfairly taxed so as to contribute to the EU budget over which voters have no control, and we are forced to live under laws about which our elected Members of Parliament at Westminster have no say. 

The most powerful people in the EU, the people who run it, are the EU Commissioners.  They are not elected, but appointed.  The EU Parliament is not a real parliament as it has no power to initiate legislation and even when, once in a while, it opposes the Commission there is a complex conciliation process which in the end always results in the EU Commissioners getting their way.

At least 75% of the UK’s laws come from the unelected European Union.  (The German Parliament says 80% of Germany’s).  Would anybody in the United States tolerate a situation in which an unelected federal government dictated to the States?  Each US State presently has more self-government than has the United Kingdom, ostensibly an independent nation.  All we are demanding in Europe is something similar to States’ Rights.

Everyone in the United Kingdom supports a very close trading relationship with our continental cousins.  We want to co-operate with them, but voluntarily.  We also have a very strong attachment to the United States.  But we will not be dictated to any longer by unelected bureaucrats.  Freedom and democracy are as important to us today as they were to America in 1776.

The bottom line is very simple: either the European Union changes itself to be a free trade area like NAFTA, or we leave.  Historically, this is our Mayflower moment. 

So please, in future, do not give succour to those who wish to continue oppressing us, but instead support the will of the British people against the unelected anti-democratic government in Brussels.

Yours sincerely,

M W