The EU Empire - now including the original video

Yesterday José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, told a press conference as he announced the European Commission’s wholehearted support for the new EU reform treaty. “We are not the United States of Europe — we are unique in the history of mankind! Sometimes I like to compare the EU as a creation to the organisation of empires. We have the dimension of empire but there is a difference. Empires were made with force with a centre imposing diktat... Now what we have is the first non-imperial empire. We have 27 countries that fully decided to work together and to pool their sovereignty. I believe it is a great construction and we should be proud of it.” You can see the video "> here. According to the Times report "Nervous aides to the former Portuguese Prime Minister inquired after his press conference whether this description might feature in British media reports."
I bet they bloody did. When will the British Government stop telling us porkies about red lines not being crossed and this just being a tidying up exercise. There is a lot of anger on the web about this, here are just two entries I found on Times Online:

"Can anyone show me any political manifesto issued during the last thirty-odd years by any British political party, which stated categorically that the parties intention was to hand over National Sovereignty and National Assets to a foreign power? And yet here we are obliged to beg our so-called elected representatives to allow us to express our views on the most important matter to affect our nation since 1066, and they choose to ignore us.
David Carr-Allinson, Oxford, England"


"Correspondents accurately point out that the treaty is the Constitution with offensive words replaced by evasive words. OK they didn't put it that way, but I have.

Dr Rotherham's conundrum surely has another effect, namely that if the treaty really is the same as the Constitution then not only should we have a referendum but we already know the French and Dutch have rejected it. No democratic government would act directly in the face of a referendum and no democratic institution would accept a change in its own powers and role on such a basis.
Andrew Smith, Epping, UK"


You will not be surprised to read that the BBC have not, so far as I can see, covered this matter.

This matter is becoming more serious by the day, we must have a referendum - call for one.