NOT VERY SPORTING

While the eyes of most people in the UK were glued to the sport taking place in recent weeks, and the resultant bewailing of the tragedy of our footballers in the World Cup, tennis players at Wimbledon and much other such maters of little relevance, which seems to be of great importance to most, Britain has been facing a greater tragedy and losing something far more important. It has been losing its freedom to govern itself, its democracy and the liberty of its people who are so distracted by trivia as to hardly even notice.

Things are now so desperate that it is time they woke from the media and sporting trance they are in and begin to worry about things that really do matter – their country, Parliament and sovereignty.

Whilst in their summer of sporting slumber the EU has, in its usual devious way, been taking more liberties with our liberty, as reported on this blog recently. The EU’s latest foray against our freedom has been reported in such newspapers as the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. This concerns a grab for new powers by the EU enabling police forces from other member nations to spy on, pursue and demand DNA, telephone records and bank records of British subjects, even if the alleged crimes they are suspected of are not criminal offences in the UK.

Despite desperate Dave Cameron’s pledge that no more powers would be handed over to the EU, made during the general election this year, it looks certain that the Home Office will sign up to the ‘European Investigation Order’ as soon as Tuesday 17th July 2010, placing all in Britain at risk from the emerging EU police state.

Once signed up and yet another power handed over to the EU by the Con-Dem coalition, foreign police will have every right to operate on these shores freely which is an open attack on British sovereignty. These police will be able to operate here, even on the most minor of offences and will have access to all DNA records, including those of the millions of innocents who have had their DNA taken, fingerprints and much else. The British police will not be able to refuse a demand by foreign EU based police for them to obtain or provide DNA samples or fingerprints of anyone they want.

None of this, in good old fashion British terms is very sporting, but as long as the eyes of the nation are glued to what a few unimportant people doing with tennis, golf or footballs, the EU will continue to play dirty as no one is crying foul.