Another Armistice day has passed but the Spirit of Remembrance is still as strong. I, like many, have good reason to remember, my father fought throughout the war; my brothers served and my uncle fought in both World Wars. I spent my youth in WW2, was evacuated four times, returning to London for the main events of the Blitz, when we were bombed out and for the V1 and V2’s. We all thankfully survived.
We should also not forget the reasons for these wars, to prevent European domination by Germany. It is even more important at this time, when it is occurring by the back door of Commercial strength, many of us have forgotten the basic economic rule of balancing our Budget to pay our way in the Global economy.
Germany has not, aided by the large cheap and hard working labour force of Eastern Germany, it has maintained a strong manufacturing capability and self sufficiency with a good balance of payments.
One should not underestimate the Teutonic thoroughness or ability to plan ahead, which caught all by surprise in the past, although hopefully they may still not have the ability to think and carry things through.
Through the European Union, it has tightened its grip on Europe with the move for a United States of
Europe, which it aims to control. The delays in calming the Euro crisis in Europe, appear deliberate and
dangerous, they could be cleared and the markets pacified by Central Bank action.
The results are of course the replacement of democratically elected leaders by Euro-puppets in Greece and Italy, soon Spain and possibly France, although they are already most of the way there.
Britain is once again the main barrier, but we ourselves are commercially weak, with large World trade balances and indebtedness. We have taken our eye off the ball and lost the plot, embraced the global economy before it existed, lost our manufacturing base and self sufficiency and need to recover it.
The basics of economics also appears to have been forgotten; the internal economy can be allowed to grow, subject only to the need to balance the external economy, i.e. the balance of trade. The cost of goods and services is related only to their imported content; home produced labour, food and raw materials cost nothing in internal terms as long as the demand for imported goods are controlled to match exports.
I am not anti -Europe or anti- German but we need to keep things in perspective; the Common market was good and necessary; Total Union is a delusion except by a dominant Dictatorship, unacceptable in modern times. We are all individual countries and should value our tradition and culture and fight hard, as we did in the past for our independence and democracy.
“The path to hell is paved with good intentions” and the approach is devious; create dependency by benefits e.g. agricultural policy, then by debt; undermine T & C by regulations, migration, edicts and common currency, until full control is obtained.
Although National debts in Euro countries are large, no one gives the external debts to the Far and Middle East and America, if they are just internal within Europe, why should they be subject to punitive interest rates, is it just profiteering or political ? and not part of a single currency problem.
It is difficult these days to decide what is real; what is media and what is political misinformation; of course you cannot call a spade a spade without political connotations, being racist or against human rights.
What we need is some good old plain common sense, but of course that is out of fashion and breaches some edict or other, probably European.
We should still all plan for a strong future in Europe, but one based possibly on old fashioned democratic virtues of equality, liberty and fraternity, in which individual countries retain their identity, culture and tradition, whilst working for common growth, prosperity and security. These were the original aims of the Common market, distorted by political ambitions.
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