[lisbon] the last candle flickers in october

This will need to be confronted by the ordinary man and woman before October.

The press first, in the words of EU Referendum:

[In this recession], increasingly, the news is not generated by newspapers but by the various agencies. Much of the copy is now simply a "cut and paste" job, with a few tweaks, the less honest of the papers then simply adding their journos' names to the final result. Where this gets important is that a very few news agencies (and then a very few journalists within those agencies) are essentially controlling the print (and indeed much of the rest of the electronic) media.

Through this means, one sees insidious distortions and simplifications which completely change the context of the political debate. And, like water flowing through the cracks in the dam, they percolate everywhere, finding their way into thousands of print and online journals, influencing the way people think about the world.

So, while the major players on the No side put their view on the 2nd Lisbon vote, AP reported it as 'Ireland Votes Again' - distortion of the debate and 'the poisonous drip of misinformation'.

On the chances of a No vote second time around:

However, it seems to us obvious that Mr Ganley made a monumental mistake when he allowed his vanity to lead him into trying to form a pan-European party.

Flushed with the triumph of the No vote in the first Irish referendum he ought to have sat back and said that he was interested only in stopping the treaty. This could not be done in the Toy Parliament (a point that escaped Mr Ganley, I suspect) and, therefore, Libertas was not going to get involved in those elections but wait for the second referendum and campaign there.

At most, he should have campaigned only in Ireland, making that into a back-up referendum. He and his colleagues might have done quite well.

Instead, Mr Ganley decided to promote himself and his followers into a band of brothers dedicated to the salvation and reform of the European project. They failed miserably and deservedly. In the process, though, they destroyed Libertas's political credibility in Ireland and damaged, very severely, the chances of a No vote in October when the second referendum is likely to take place. (Smart money is on October 10 but no decision can be taken until the Referendum Bill is passed by the Dail in July.)

The battle in Ireland will be a tough one, made much tougher by Declan Ganley's recent antics and failure. We, in this country, must do all we can to help. This blog is standing by.

Courtesy of EU Referendum, here is the list of British traitors who defied public opinion and voted Yes to Lisbon, knowing full well, in the words of Heritagedotorg:

The new Treaty poses the biggest threat to national sovereignty in Europe since the Second World War, would threaten the future of the Anglo-American Special Relationship, and would significantly weaken the transatlantic alliance.

So what's new in this post?

Only a perspective.

Most anti-Union pundits concentrate on the threat to our sovereignty and to the corruption of the EU. Not many write of who would head it. Yes, I know Tony Blair has been mooted and Barroso but I mean who will really control Europe.

The powers that allowed and funded Hitler's rise are still there. The majority of the Thirteen Families are still there. The Round Table Groups are still there. It's not the very monolithic nature of the Union and the hoovering up of all semblance of sovereignty within the UK which frightens me the most - it's the presence of real evil in the heart of Europe, the posterity of the generators of strife over the centuries. They're the ones whose puppets will govern and the work they had Hitler doing, which went pear-shaped due to his imperfections, can begin again.

Do you honestly believe that the people who put Hitler in power were all killed in the bunker with him? Or did they just slip back into the shadows to wait for the next opportunity?

It's not just an economic zone we're on about here, it's not just the shape of your power sockets - it's the whole sordid agenda of 1929 to 1945 all over again. Make no mistake, if Lisbon goes through in Ireland, the implementation pan-Europe will be swift and complete. Then the real agenda will begin pulling what was the UK into the vortex with it.

It's not at all fanciful to suggest - just look at the whole nature of the European Project to date, the strongarm tactics, lies and spin, their very manner of going about business - that the very things Churchill spoke of those black radio nights will have to be spoken of again, only this time, minus a Churchill.

I'm in training and ready to rejoin Dad's Army but unfortunately, the enemy is already inside and in power in every region, in key posts in all fields. This time, Britain, no one is going to send up Spitfires, no one is going to rally us all together. This time, the vans will be sent to quietly mop up all known insurgents in a time of crisis - you, me and every blogger who has dared to speak out against this monstrosity.

Ireland must vote NO.

By the way, here's Vox Day's transatlantic interview with Dan Hannan, touching on why he [mistakenly] supported Obama, why he doesn't stand for a place in the UK parliament and including views on the BNP.