Toby on Tuesday

'EUkraine'

The Ural Mountains are a range that runs through western Russia from the Arctic Ocean in the north down to the Ural River and Kazakhstan in the south.   And the minerals that they contain are vital to the Russian economy.   Now, in his bombastic speeches which have become all-too familiar, David Cameron has often declared that he wants to see a European Union that “stretches from the Atlantic to the Urals.”   If he wishes us to take him at his word, which presumably he does, then David Cameron is arguing that the EU should absorb not just the whole of Ukraine, once part of the Soviet Union and where the people in the eastern half of the country remain loyal to Moscow, but also much of western Russia.   That is the logic of his remarks and, when combined with the preparations now well underway for the creation of a “European Army”, this must be a cause for serious concern.

Where this is relevant is that David Cameron, along with 26 of the 27 other EU leaders, has recently signed up to a new Ukraine-EU “Association Agreement.”   With a population of 45 million in Ukraine, this takes the EU deep into Russian Europe, offering Ukraine visa-free travel and generous financial incentives funded in large measure by British taxpayers.   In time honoured EU fashion, trade is being used as a pretext for political expansion with Ukraine being offered a “Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area.”   This is a real commitment for Britain, yet it has scarcely been reported let alone debated in Parliament, while our voters will be open to all the risks involved in a partnership with this dangerous and unstable country.   Now, only one country in the whole EU has had the integrity to offer its voters a referendum on this latest piece of EU empire-building and that is Holland, one of the project’s original founder members.

And on 6th April the voters of Holland went to the polls to pass judgment on the proposed EU-Ukraine agreement.   On a low but sufficient turnout, 61.1% of the Dutch electorate rejected the EU’s deal, with just 38.1% in favour.   The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, declared that while the vote was not binding his government would have to “reconsider the deal.”   An official in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, stated that “Dutch Eurosceptics could not take Ukraine hostage to express dissatisfaction with the EU.”   The truth is that, as always, the EU will ignore public opinion and press on with its ambition to create an aggressive superstate running from the north of Scotland down through Turkey to the borders of Iraq, Iran and Syria in the south and right up to Russia’s Ural Mountains in the east.   

The combined population of Ukraine and Turkey amounts to some 125 million, all shortly to enjoy visa-free travel into the EU.   Recently John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, said, “The European project is fundamentally flawed.   I think its best days are probably behind it and there will be increasing tensions.   Britain can’t control its borders – it’s ridiculous to say it can.   If I were British, which I’m not, I’d vote to leave.   You have lost your sovereignty.”   Now it was John Howard who secured the Queen’s role as Australia’s head of state in his own 1999 referendum.   We should heed his words, vote “Leave” on 23rd June and, supported by our friends across Europe, including Holland, and the Commonwealth, become a free and independent people once more!

Until next Tuesday!

Toby