So, you think that the EU doesn’t control your life?  Think again.  This is a piece which is way overdue and I have wanted to write for a while. However,  when I saw the blatant spin and utter misinformation propagated in poor quality debates hosted by the BBC and other mainstream media channel, I found myself pushed beyond procrastination.  

One wonders if those within organisations such as the BBC, who just cut free television licenses to the over 70s, while giving themselves an 11 million pound raise, are ignorant of the facts themselves.

Or, do the eye watering salaries they can pay themselves with the help of the funding they get from the EU causing blindness to the facts and the utter contempt within which they are held.  Hopefully, they will stay clueless, right up until the point that the people vote in parties that do represent them and will take on the task of abolishing the archaic monopoly which they are.  Conflict of interest much?

Let us take just one of the more obvious spheres of EU influence which affects the lives of every European citizen every day. How laws are made by the EU.

This is a process which the vast majority of people do not understand at all and yet it has implications for us all, every day and yet it is intentionally not something which is explained clearly to the population. In fact, it has been a subject of a great deal of spin, obfuscation and disingenuous language on both EU and governmental websites.

However, notable figures in the world of law and politics do understand this process and its implications and this process and concerns around the lack of debate and scrutiny do, from time to time come up in national parliament.  

Most recently, these issues were brought before the almost entirely ‘Europhile’ House of Lords in early July 2019 by Lord Pearson.  During this debate, the Lords, were very dismissive of the mere idea that the British people be better informed concerning the reality of how laws are imposed upon them.  Lord Pearson was in fact, largely derided by the Lords for putting before the house the proposal that this process be clearly explained to the people of Britain, despite the fact that since inception, around 20,000 laws have come into effect, which equates to more than 1 per day since we joined in 1975.  Estimates vary but this means that, an unaccountable, extremely powerful group of group with very little in the national interest of some EU members has been making a very significant portion of their laws.  In the UK, estimates vary but this is believed to equate to some 70-85% of the entire legislature.  So if you ever wondered why some law seemed to make absolutely no sense for British business or some facet of Britain’s best interest, look no further.

It seems that the Lords consider everyone outside of themselves as being unworthy of clear information, let alone explanation.  Particularly when matters would far better be kept between our betters, despite their many conflicting interests, disclosed or otherwise.  Perhaps we could see a full published disclosure of who is receiving what from the EU, both direct and in terms of grace and favour opportunities and other benefits in kind?

Unlike within a true democracy, in which a member of parliament, even a ‘back bench’ MP, can propose new legislation. Only the unelected European Commissioners can propose legislation.  These new laws are submitted to the unelected committee of permanent representatives (known as COREPER, in this case COREPER) which are also unelected, and are then signed off by the council, all behind closed doors and with absolutely no involvement from member states. No say, no debate, and often, no visibility at all until these proposals become law.  In fact, it is a large part of the role of COREPER to avoid matters going to debate.  Again, there is a great deal of spin around the Council of Permanent Representatives and intentional misinformation to disguise the power of the organisation.

This particular group is known as Coreper II, comprising the Permanent Representatives which deal with the following:

• General Affairs
• Foreign Affairs (including European security and defence policy and development cooperation);
• Economic and Financial Affairs (including the budget);
• Justice and Home Affairs (including civil protection).

Coreper divides matters into three categories: Taken from EU documentation,  EU sources and Wiki. Powers are given under Article 240 of the ‘Treaty on the functioning of the European Union’.

• I points which are for information and no ministerial decision is needed;
• A points where the decision can be made without debate (but it has to be put off the agenda of this meeting if any national delegation opposes it being decided) and is often on a subject outside the detailed responsibility of the particular group of ministers;
• B points where debate is needed and the decision may not be known in advance.

All sounds a bit dodgy but at least, semi democratic doesn’t it?  But the devil is in the detail, as usual. 

A matter can be described internally as a false B point – this is done precisely to give the public a false impression that ministers are actively debating it because of its importance when in fact it could have been treated as an A point ( ie. Made with no debate at all) on the basis that,  negotiation and compromise has already taken place in COREPER.  Ie, in secret between the unelected bureaucrats whose existence depends on the grace and favour of the commission!

In reality, relatively few decisions are taken by ministers on true B points: they are usually sent back to COREPER until they can be returned as an A point or a false B point.

Ie.  The law making and indeed, the entire democratic credentials of the EU are almost entirely false is not outright misleading by design. 

So, the Commission itself IS the executive body with total power to pass whatever legislation it pleases subject only to the rubber stamping exercise of the European Court which has time and time again been shown to be extremely biased and which has very little credibility at all.

After all, this is the same court which is not only democratically illegitimate by association but has itself breached the fundamental principles of jurisprudence at several points in recent history.  Not least being that a legislative body should not vote on matters concerning its own interest when judges voted on matters relating to their own salaries.  No prizes if you guessed that Judges within the European Court did not vote in favour of a cut to their salaries, even during the worst times of the last financial crisis.

This unholy alignment between the unelected commission, an extremely powerful unelected council and the European court creates a secret closed loop which conveys total lawmaking power without any of the usual checks, balances or safeguards one would expect in any legislative body, let alone a supra national entity claiming democratic credentials.

This carefully designed closed loop structure has made this tiny group of people, among the most powerful dictators in the world, and perhaps, the purveyors of the most successful propaganda campaigns of all time.

All supported by mainstream media and global corporations, which sold the lie which became the narrative accepted by the gullible masses. We can only hope that, this is something which, hopefully, one day, students of history will study with utter incredulity. 

In defence of the citizens of Europe, with no other source of reliable honest information, they have been able to perpetrate the fallacy largely unopposed.  This has been so successful that it has got to the point that some blindly Europhile citizens will spread this falsehood as if it were gospel.  

The facts are clear, in a democracy, the executive and judicial branches of government should be entirely separate.  Yet within the EU, they are very obviously not.  It is clearly, absolutely, and very demonstrably, undemocratic and not only designed to be so, is a fact hidden in plain sight.

So next time you are confronted with this sort of argument by some misguided acolyte of corruption, you might want to send them a link here.