THE TRUE COST
Recently Boris took some flak
About Hitler and the EU pack.
But was he really that far short
Of the reasons why things are so fraught?
Der Fuhrer wanted to run the show
Over all objections as we know
The dream was ultimate control dictatorial
Never mind the risk of "purgatorial".
The aim was to lead the darkening way
To a world where a select few held sway,
Ignoring or casting down all those
Expressing any awkward "nos".
When the EU calls its folk "a mob"
Not allowed to infringe on its commissioners' job
And hides its finances from account
So none can check the real amount
It spends or wastes (but NOT in view)
For decades now - give a year or two,
Just remember what our June vote is for -
And THINK before you close the door
On all that this old nation won
That stands so close to being undone.
Freedom will be the cost - not cash
And will be lost if we're so rash
To vote to show we want to see
The end of brave old "Team GB"...
As the EU woos like a treacherous cupid -
IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
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M.C. Newberry
Tue 24th May 2016 19:30
Harry - thanks for your (as always) thoughtful and
considered comments.
I certainly worry about the speed with which uncontrolled migration (bringing its baggage with it)
is likely to affect the slowly matured social stability
and national identity of this small island nation that
has given so many lives in the cause of freedom.
It would be a painful irony if that freedom was merely
the excuse for many to leave (abandon) their own lands
rather than work towards their success. But then the
EU by its nature serves to stifle individual lands and
their ambitions in the "greater cause" of political
unification - something which, in all fairness - it has
always proclaimed to be its aim.
It has never been our way to be ruled from without -
and decisions by committee in such circumstances
are not "our bag", least of all when decisions are so
tightly regulated and widely influential within its own
ranks. We have the history: brave outward looking
explorers, traders, merchant venturers et al that
took our name around the world. Are we now to be stifled within the strait-jacket of a mediocrity of
nations that happen to be close geographically yet
miles distant in so many other ways, prevented from
setting out our own stall before the world at large -
free from the constraint of an inward looking political
entity led by a Franco-German alliance still harbouring its age-old ambitions for continental domination?
We can do much better if we hold our nerve - as our
forebears did in other braver days that saw us so
successful far beyond these shores...especially now
that progress is largely artificial/mechanical, not in
need of the rising numbers of unemployed human
hands across the EU.