FRANCIS MAUDE'S SPEECH, BERLIN, 8TH JUNE 2000 - A CRITIQUE

Dateline: 12th June 2000

Maude is quoted in italics throughout:

"The European Union has much to be proud of"

No Conservative who by definition believes in the democratic nation state could possibly approve of the European Union's
* destruction of 15 national democratic constitutions,
* abolition of 12 currencies and central banks,
* 16 million unemployed (due to preparation for the EURO),
* the break up of Czechoslovakia, the destruction of Yugoslavia,
* threats to Norway and Switzerland unless they join the European Union,
* the re-creation of former Nazi puppet states (Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia)
* threats against Poland, the Czech Republic and Britain, German expansion Eastwards
* a barrier to the democratic integration of former Soviet satellites into the free world

"The European union has helped to make war between member states unthinkable"

The words used in this connection used to be "war in Europe" but since we have had constant war in Europe since 1990, the break up of Czechoslovakia and the break up of Yugoslavia - both allies against German imperialism and European Fascism in the 1940s - this can of course no longer be said. Indeed war has been waged "between its members" since German and French manoeuvring has effectively destroyed the British constitution - something which they never achieved in a "true" war!

"The EU has worked behind the NATO shield"

How tragically true! But in the following disastrous way. The EU has dangled the prospect of NATO before the eyes of Eastern European Countries (who have only just reestablished their sovereignty and parliaments after 70 years of Soviet tyranny) in order to entice them into an EU which will destroy those democratic sovereignties and make their new won parliaments irrelevant.

"With the biggest Single Market in the world"

One of the reasons Maude is so unbelievable is that he himself signed the disgraceful Maastricht Treaty which betrayed the true political intent of the so-called "single market" into which Lady Thatcher was seduced by Howe and Hurd. By turning us into "citizens" of the EU and accepting the acquis communautaire Maude and Hurd gave a fatal blow to our nation - as serious as Heath's original destruction of 1972. Maastricht turned the Single Market into the embryo single state - as the Single Market was indeed designed to do.