DON’T PANIC!

Simon Heffer has written a good article in the Daily Telegraph (Wednesday 4th March, 2009), in it he predicts the demise of the EU’s funny money, the euro. In the article titled ‘It’s the Europhiles versus reality, and reality is going to win’, he quote the late Milton Friedman who was critical of the euro and thought it was goping to be a “big source of problems, not a source of help”.

As Heffer pointed out, at times of pressure such as this global fiscal crisis will “bring into play tensions between idealism and nationalism”. It is hard to predict what exactly will happen as this recession get worse and the numbers of unemployed, home repossessions increase and great hardship begins to hit the people all across the European Union area, what will happen then.

Simon Heffer, who is a writer of much respect who never fails to take a swipe at the EU, predicts that the German’s will get increasingly unhappy about propping up the rest of the eurozones economies and having to use its money to bail the less prudent nations out. He concludes: “As for the rest of Europe, it must choose either to devalue and end the pretence of economic strength, or persist and risk the breakdown of individual governments.”

However, there are countless scenarios which could come about as the natives of Europe become jobless, homeless and restless. We have already seen rioting in Greece as the people there feel frustrated and powerless, this could explode all over Europe, the French revolution could look quite tame in comparison.

There are those who will see this as the beginning of the end of the European Union and hope that the nations currently tied, unnaturally, together begin to take an every nation for itself policy and begin to bail out of the eurozone, which is the preferred option, but we must never forget that the EU’s leaders are never hesitant to turn a crisis to their advantage.

The long standing anti-EU campaigner and UKIP supporter, Torquil Dick Erickson who was the first to alert us to the introduction of the EU system of law,Corpus Juris, has in recent times been warning of the Euro Gendarmarie which is already up and running in some member nations. What a perfect opportunity this crisis could be for the EU to bring out its militarised police to use whatever means at their disposal to quell unrest all across the EU, including the UK. We could even see the EU using its army, otherwise known as the ‘Rapid Reaction force’, working alongside the Euro Gendarmaria to bring any unrest under control. The EU could even rush through emergency powers and create a EU wide form of marshal law – all this would mean British subject rampaging in London and other major UK cities could face the might of armed and uniformed French, German and other European militarised forces. Combine that with some of Stalinist Labour’s laws such as the Civil Contingencies Act and we have a very scary prospect ahead of us.

Such a scenario could, rather than destroying the EU, actually give it the power and legal status it has been quietly gathering for the best part of fifty years. As the cover on the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy states: “Don’t panic”, keep calm and just carry on as best you can, and whatever you do - don’t fall into the EU’s trap.