Letter to an MEP

Hello Mr Verhofstadt

I write in connection with an article in “The Guardian” which refers to your use of this crisis to further your project to create a federal state, a United States of Europe.

What I find preposterously-cynical is that NOT ONE SINGLE EUROPEAN VOTER HAS BEEN ASKED WHETHER THEY WANT such a thing. NOBODY HAS VOTED FOR THIS. We did not elect you to pursue this aim and the vast majority of ordinary people DO NOT WANT IT, for all sorts of reasons.

The impression is always given by Brussels, and in this case from you in particular, that “We know best.” that “This is the only way forward.” Unelected functionaries with basically non-jobs such as Mr Borroso, Mr Van Rompuy, Mr Juncker & Ms Ashton (thankyou for the vast expense for this nonsense) constantly go on about this. THEY HAVE NO MANDATE TO PURSUE THIS AGENDA.

It is in fact quasi FASCIST. It is similar to giving almost NONE of the citizens a right to vote directly in ANY of the major new Treaties which sign away national sovereignty. In the rare cases when they CAN vote and get it “wrong”, they have to vote AGAIN till they get it right. See Ireland and the Lisbon Treaty in particular.

This is all shameful Mr Verhofstadt. What gives you the right to push for such major changes without consulting the people? YOU KNOW BETTER? I am sorry, but we are not all as stupid as you seem to think. Had the people voted at the time, Greece would NEVER have been let into the EU as EVERYONE KNEW that its financial statistics were LIES and in ADDITION your own economists TOLD you that it wouldn’t work. The ordinary citizens are NOW PAYING the price for the EU’s gigantic arrogance. Do we hear any apologies? NO, WE DON’T. We just hear more braying from Mr Borroso and others for greater federalisation.

You are elected? Congratulations, but that does NOT give you carte blanche to pursue your own ideological agenda irrespective of the wishes of the people WHO ARE NEVER ASKED FOR THEIR OPINION

This current crisis is a disgrace. It is NOT the fault of the people. The leadership from Brussels and indeed individual nations is APPALLING. Mme Merkel AND the German Constitutional Court have BOTH said (as has Mr Sarkozy) that “eurobonds” are illegal and/or acceptable, so WHY then does Mr Borroso continue to push this? You are a SERVANT of the nations of Europe and their PEOPLE. You are not there to PUSH YOUR OWN AGENDA, even if you think you are right. In the current crisis, as far as I understand, the Lisbon Treaty FORBIDS  “bailouts”, but legality of course has never been a problem for the EU when its own agenda is concerned, which also has produced no certified accounts for many years.

The euro could have been a force for good had it been launched honestly and openly, with countries keeping to the agreed “rules” about debt – which in fact A) they treated with utter contempt and B) the EU DID NOTHING ABOUT. Instead, it was launched on a tissue of lies, including to the Germans who were PROMISED they would never have to bail out other nations. LIES and BETRAYAL Mr Verhofstadt.

But is this all in fact an EU plot to force the Germans into deeper integration? You will forgive us for thinking so, since ALL your apparently brainless and reckless actions to date seem to have been designed to bring us  inevitably to this situation.

As for “If the euro fails, then Europe fails.”, what rank nonsense. We will all still be here. We will all need to trade as we have done for millenia. This sort of scaremongering only makes people more contemptuous of the EU propaganda machine. “There will be war.” For GOODNESS SAKE. The next war will come when one former sovereign state seeks to secede from the bureaucratic monster and nightmare that you are seeking to create.

I am British, worked in the UK for 20 years, in France for 10 and now live in Germany. My first wife was Spanish and I have three Anglo-Spanish daughters, one of whom lives in Madrid. I am now married to a German. Our son was born in France and is tri-lingual and now goes to the Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium in Freiburg. I speak four European languages and have lived and taught in three European countries. I AM NOT “EUROSCEPTIC” or indeed “UN-EUROPEAN”, but I am CERTAINLY deeply hostile to the current EU set up, which as I said has dangerously fascist attitude towards its own citizens and is leading Europe down a very dangerous path.

“MORE EU” is NOT what most people want. As you can see, I am very angry – not that anyone in Brussels much cares.

Yours sincerely

Chris SNUGGS

PS See this excellent article and share it with your colleagues.

PPS I note your success in forcing us to buy more expensive light-bulbs. I will be more impressed by your efforts to cut carbon emissions when you stop driving up and down to Strasbourg with a vast fleet of lorries. The €300,000,000 and counting on Mr van Rompuy’s new presidential palace is also an insult. Why does it remind me of tin-pot African countries? The first thing they build is a vast new presidential palace for someone who contributes NOTHING to the wealth of nations.

AND YOU WANT A STILL BIGGER BUDGET even though most of the people who pay your very large salary and benefits are suffering great economic and social hardship. Frankly, Mr Verhofstadt, you haven’t got a clue.

 

LETTRE A UN MEP

Monsieur

J’habite à Quimper depuis 11 ans. J’ai beaucoup de difficulté à savoir qui me représente à Bruxelles. Je ne sais pas si c’est vous, mais de toute façon, je pense que je dois m’exprimer:

• Je PROTESTE contre l’achat par la BCE de la dette italienne. QUI leur donne le droit de faire cela? Quels fonds utilisent-ils? A mon sens, c’est ILLEGAL.
• C’est INUTILE, à moins que l’Allemagne pour jamais ne garantisse de payer les dettes de tous les pays endettés à mort – qui, bien sûr, dans ce cas n’ont AUCUNE raison de changer leurs habitudes.
• TOUT CECI était depuis longtemps prévisible. AVANT le départ de l’euro, les économistes de l’élite de l’EU leur on dit que la Grèce ne pourrait JAMAIS survivre avec la même monnaie que l’Allemagne. L’EU a permis à la Grèce d’entrer quand-même.
• Pour entrer dans l’euro (et gagner accès à l’argent de tous les autres) la Grèce a MENTI concernant ses statistiques financières. TOUT LE MONDE LE SAVAIT. L’EU a permis à la Grèce d’entrer quand-même – pour des raisons POLITIQUES. Ils JOUAIENT avec notre argent.
• L’une des critères pour l’entrée dans l’Eurozone, c’était d’avoir une dette publique d’un maximum de TROIS POUR CENT du GDP. Peu après, la France a dépassé cette limite en disant: “Cette règle était faite pour les petits pays.” L’euro n’a JAMAIS été traité sérieusement.
• L’Italie a maintenant une dette publique de 120% de son PBN. C’est FOU, STUPIDE, HONTEUX. Bon, les Italiens peuvent faire ce qu’ils veulent; c’est un pays indépendant (pour le moment …), mais POURQUOI JE DOIS PAYER CELA?
• L’UE n’a ABSOLUMENT RIEN FAIT pendant que l’Italie a créé cette dette FANTASTIQUE. (La France n’est pas trop loin derrière). Pourquoi? L’UE était peut-être content de la voir, sachant que cela obligerait nous les autres (surtout l’Allemagne) de tout payer pour sauver l’euro. MENSONGES, CYNICISME,MALHONNETETE.
• Alors, TOUT CECI est la faute de l’EU élite, avec son projet FOU et NON-DEMOCRATIQUE de créer un Etats Unis d’Europe, qu’aucun citoyen de l’Europe a pu voter. (les votes sont soit interdites ou si la mauvaise réponse (Irelande, Danemark, France) refaites.)
• La dernière “solution” – l’accord proposé par La France et l’Allemagne (il y a d’autres nations dans l’euro?) – UNE FARCE. Ils sont partis en vacances sans donner les DETAILS. Et cela ne rentre pas en loi avant septembre. Stupéfiant ……
• J’en ai MARRE que l’on culpabilise les “Ratings Agencies”. C’est INFANTIL. Ils ne reflètent que la situation honteuse de presque TOUS les pays, y-compris la France. C’est les gouvernements qui ont créé cette crise. L’Italie fait une interrogation sur Moody’s pour voir si l’entreprise a abusé des règlements. SURREEL. Mais maintenant, nous devons payer ENCORE un organisme très coûteux, le European Ratings Agency. A QUOI SERT CETTE STUPIDITE? On est MASSIVEMENT endetté, mais on ne veux pas assumer les consèquences, alors on crée son propre messager pour donner de meilleures nouvelles. MENSONGES. GASPILLAGE. ABUS DU POUVOIR ET DE NOTRE ARGENT.

CONCLUSION. Je répète, tout ce qui se passe, c’est la FAUTE DE L’UE et les leaders nationaux – mais M Sarkozy, Mme Merkel etc se laisser tirer par le nez par les Brusselcrats. PERSONNE NE LEUR DIT JAMAIS “NON, NON”. Leur projet est de forcer l’intégration fiscale de l’Europe. NOUS NE LE VOULONS PAS. C’EST STUPIDE. ON N’A PAS EU L’OCCASION DE VOTER CELA. ON NE VOTERAIT JAMAIS CELA. Bien sûr, c’est pourquoi on ne nous laisse JAMAIS voter.

AUTREMENT:
Je proteste contre les vastes dépenses stupides et inutiles de l’UE. Que fait Mr van Rompuy? L’UE n’est PAS un état. Nous n’avons PAS besoin d’un “Président” qui coûte une FORTUNE.  Son nouveau palais a coûté TROIS CENTS MILLIONS D’EUROS, sans parler des oeuvres d’arts et tout le reste pour le décorer. Il voulait un avion personal en plus ….. Si son poste était supprimé, QUELLE SERAIT LA DIFFERENCE pour les citoyens de l’Europe – sauf qu’ils économiseraient une fortune?

Dame Ashton? SURREAL. Nous n’avons PAS besoin d’un service diplomatique qui coûte des CENTAINES DE MILLIONS. 36 “diplomates” à Barbados? C’est de la folie.

Les salaires? Un bon nombre gagnent PLUS que Président Obama et ils paient TOUS TRES PEU d’impôts. Cela vous paraît normal? C’est SCANDALEUX. L’UE est CORROMPUE.

Exemple: Peter Mandelson a DEMISSIONNE de son job à Bruxelles pour devenir “Lord”. (Merci). Alors, dans ce poste il gagnait MOINS qu’à Bruxelles (aucune surprise). Alors, pendant QUATRE ans l’UE (= le contribuable) va lui payer la différence de £62,000, même s’il ne travaille plus pour l’UE. INCROYABLE. Avez-vous jamais pris un nouveau job moins bien payé et votre employeur (que vous quittez) continue à vous payer pendant quatre ans? Moi non ….. C’est de la CORRUPTION entre COPAINS.

Je suis désolé, mais l’UE devient quasi-fasciste. Le people est traité avec mépris. Leur argent est abusé. Les traités ne sont même pas respectés. (Les bailouts sont ILLEGAUX. Ce que fait l’ECB est du VOL).

Il faut en finir. SVP, ne me traitez pas de “eurosceptic” ni “uneuropéen”. Je suis britannique. J’ai travaillé 10 ans an France, 3 ans en Allemagne et 20 ans en Angleterre. Ma première femme était espagnole, ma deuxième allemande. J’ai une fille à Madrid, deux autres à Londres, deuxs beaux-fils en Allemagne.

J’aime l’Europe, mais je DETESTE L’UE tel qu’lle est gérée actuellement par des corrompus arrogants, méprisants et incompétents. Et les leaders nationaux jouent le jeu de Bruxelles pour peur d’être nommé “un-European”.

“Sans l’euro, il n’y a pas d’Europe.” Mme Merkel. INCROYABLE. Le Marché Commun a fleuri très longtemps SANS l’EURO.  Beaucoup des membres de l’UE ne sont pas DANS l’euro. C’est comme si ces pays ne comptaient pour RIEN. La SUISSE va TRES BIEN sans l’euro, et sans même l’UE.

“L’UE a empêché la guerre.” INFANTIL. C’est les Anglo-Saxons et les Russes qui ont sauvé l’Europe. La prochaine guerre viendra quand un pays va vouloir quitter la monstrueuse bureaucratie arrogante et gaspilleuse que l’UE est devenue.

Pouvez-vous me dire une chose? L’UE donne de l’argent (NOTRE ARGENT) à des organisations aux Etats-Unis qui opposent la peine de mort. On peut être pour ou contre (en fait, on est quasiment interdit d’être pour dans l’UE, ni même de se prononcer sur le sujet) mais POURQUOI l’UE fait de la propagande AVEC MON ARGENT dans un AUTRE pays démocratique sur quelquechose qui ne concerne QUE ce pays-là? C’est un exemple des droits que l’UE se donne de gaspiller notre argent. Nous ne vous avons PAS mandaté de faire de la propagande dans d’autre pays. Votre devoir est de rendre l’Europe plus competitive en face le la concurrence surtout asiatique. Les ressources diminuent, notre avance sur l’Asie est presque terminée, mais on nous submerge de coûts, de règles, de dépenses folles, de plus en plus d’organismes de l’UE. CELA SUFFIT

Je crois en “L’Europe”, mais l’arrogance et l’incompétence des élites sont en train de nous mener 40 ans en arrière.

Finalement, je répète – pour moi, l’action de l’ECB est ILLEGAL. Elle utilise QUELS FONDS pour acheter la dette “junk” de l’Italie? On ne PEUT PAS “sauver” l’Italie. Et si l’Allemagne le fait quand-même; vous pensez que les Italiens vont VRAIMENT se réformer?  Non, moi non plus. Ce sera de l’argent perdu dans un trou noir, et l’Allemagne sera ruiné aussi.

CE N’EST PAS LE PEUPLE QUI A CAUSE CETTE CRISE, mais L’ELITE DE L’EUROPE. Vous entendez des excuses? Des démissions? Moi non plus …… leurs salaires, leur bénéfices, leurs pensions continuent, mais nous les autres?

Cordialement

Chris SNUGGS

Current Affairs Blog

 

Letter to my MEP

Good morning

I don’t know who to contact about this, but write to someone is all I can do. There are questions I cannot find an answer to:

• Is the free world going to wait and do nothing while Gaddafi pulverises every city and population from land, sea and air in East Libya on his way to Benghazi and then wreaks a terrible vengeance on those who dared to oppose him?
• Why are there these FATUOUS “calls” to him to “step down”? It is UNBELIEVABLE. Can you tell me of a dictator who has ever paid ANY attention to such “calls”? It is NONSENSE.
• The UN said two weeks ago it was taking “effective measures” against him. THIS WAS A LIE.
• This messing about freezing assets is a WASTE OF TIME. Gaddafi is STILL exporting oil and so money MEANS NOTHING to him. He also has BILLIONS stuffed away in Tripoli. The west is ALWAYS obsessed with money – but the ONLY thing that counts NOW is his military hardware.

The UN?

• Why is the SLIGHTEST ATTENTION being paid to the UN? Half its members are fascist states; On the SC there is a mafia state (Russia) and a dictatorship which is as much in the Gaddafi mould as many others (China)
• The UN elected Gaddafi as HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISOR.
• Its “effective measures” are USELESS. They do NOTHING to prevent the destruction of a popular people’s uprising after 42 years of a loathsome dictatorship.

The Arab League? Let’s see what they say today,but most of them are fascist states, too. Their governments DO NOT REPRESENT their peoples.SOVEREIGNTY? Gaddafi is ONLY leader of Libya through his seizure of power. This conveys NO LEGITIMACY. You might as well say that WHOEVER can seize power and kill and terrorize the people can be recognized as leader.

So, HE IS ILLEGITIMATE. And IT CANNOT be ILLEGITIMATE (illegal) TO FIGHT AGAINST A CRIMINAL. Why then this PFAFFING ABOUT over whether any military action would be “legal”. It would SELF-EVIDENTLY be legal for the reasons mentioned above.

Apart from all that, he has committed massive crimes against humanity. Do you (by which I don’t mean “you” personally, but the government and establishment) think he cares a TOSS about these threats to pursue thim through the ICC? This is all WINDOW-DRESSING IRRELEVANCE to the ordinary people of Libya who are threatened with imminent death and misery NOT because they aren’t committed or courageous but because they are fighting with sticks, stones and a few old weapons against modern planes, tanks, artillery and helicopters  etc which the much-vaunted “international community” supplied.Why has only FRANCE recognized the people in Benghazi, who have suffered under this tyrant for FORTY-TWO years?I won’t mention the UTTER SHAME of the last government, which sucked up to Gaddafi for his money, even though he has a LONG HISTORY of terrorism, oppression  and murder. What happened to our values? Once we used to fight fascism; now we tolerate it, trade with it, support it, sell it arms and when the people at last rise up in spite of the terrible danger WE DO NOTHING CONCRETE TO HELP.No, we can’t do EVERYTHING but we can do SOMETHING, in degrees of escalation:

• recognize the National Council in Benghazi as the legitimate government – they have MORE RIGHT to recognition than Gaddafi
• supply it with anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles
• stop Gaddafi bombarding cities from the Mediterranean
• take out his three military airfields
• cruise missile his headquarters and main military bases
• destroy his tanks from the air

Of course, Europe can do LITTLE without the Yanks. How does THAT makes us feel then? Why do we ALWAYS have to rely on them?

Mr Rasmusson said:

“I cannot imagine that the world will stand by while Gaddafi attacks his own people.” BUT THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING. Rasmusson has NO IMAGINATION. WHY these fatuous references to the UN, which is peopled by illegitimate regimes? Are we going to ACCEPT Gaddafi winning and then go back to what things were before? Buy his oil? Supply him with weapons, while his regime becomes ever more appalling?

And IF he prevails, WHAT IS THE MESSAGE FOR THE REST OF THEM? “The worse we terrorise our people the better chances we have to stay in power and nobody will do anything concrete to stop us anyway.”

IT IS APPALLING. I know there are no easy solutions (though some of the military measures I have outlined are not THAT difficult to put into place) but destroying FASCIST MURDERERS is NEVER easy. Look what it took to defeat Hitler.

I am disgusted by the limp-wristed response to this Libyan uprising. Have we forgotten his FORTY-TWO years of terror? Not only in Libya, but all over sub-Saharan Africa, Yvonne Fletcher, the IRA arms, Lockerbie. The man is a gangster and terrorist. If he is not toppled, the results will be CATASTROPHIC for the Middle East and for our fellow-humans in Libya.

Who else can I write to about this?

Yours sincerely

Chris SNUGGS

 

The Arab states “SHOULD” do something

Military force may be necessary against Gaddafi.
If so, the Arab states, rather than the West, should provide it.

I love this word “should”. Unfortunately, it is just about the most useless word in the English language. I must admit that “calls” comes close, as in: “The EU calls for Gaddafi to step down.”

As for “should”, most of the Arab states are fascist dictatorships of one kind or another. Secondly, since when do you remember dictators respecting “calls” for them to do ANYTHING?

As for the UN:

• half its members are fascist dictatorships
• Russia is a mafia state with little true democracy
• China is a dictatorship, pure and simple
• The UN elected Gaddafi as an ADVISOR ON HUMAN RIGHTS.

Where is the credibility there?

The fatuous unreality of most of the pronouncements on Libya are extraordinary. Do we hear ANY politicians talking the TRUTH? Gaddafi is a gangster. His “right” to rule Libya was acquired by FORCE ALONE. He has ZERO legitimacy.

WELL DONE FRANCE, for recognizing the freedom-fighters trying to overthrow this tyrant, but WHERE IS THE REST OF THE WORLD? Don’t wait for the Arab States – half of them are as bad as Gaddafi; their governments DO NOT REPRESENT THEIR PEOPLES.

Are we going to sit and watch as he smashes city after city on the way to Benghazi and then wreaks a terrible vengeance on those who dared to defy him? THAT IS WHAT DICTATORS DO. THEY RULE BY TERROR. If nothing is done, THOSE WHO DARED STAND UP TO HIM WILL SUFFER A HORRIBLE FATE.

And the “international community” supplied the weapons that are allowing him to do it.

And have we forgotten his DECADES of sowing terror, not only WITHIN Libya but in his help to nasty regimes all over sub-Saharan Africa, not to mention Lockerbie, the IRA arms supplies and all the rest of it?

 

Will My MEP Listen?

Herr Schwab

Thank you for taking the time to answer my communications.

My questionnaire? The questions are of course only answerable with “True”. If not, I would be very happy to be told where I have got it wrong. Sadly (because I live in and love Europe and all this is actually very stressful) I really think the EU leadership has lost its head and a large part of its morality and I feel betrayed and disgusted for a considerable number of reasons.

Every day comes more news of what I consider insane thinking. Today’s trawling of the press reveals this, and I am afraid that Herr Schmidt, whom I otherwise admire, is badly misguided – SEE HERE from “The Telegraph” today:

“Germany’s opposition has just committed itself to a policy that would saddle the country with up to €4 trillion of fresh liabilities, a repeat of German reunification on a much bigger scale. This is a radical departure. Mr Steinmeier’s proposal is a gamble that Spain (or Italy) would never need to draw such support. It assumes that Spain is fundamentally solvent. This is a hotly disputed subject.

Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said Germany must give up much of its sovereignty to the EU and accept the burden of costly “reparations” if it is to save the euro and avoid pushing southern Europe “into the abyss”. He said Germany had caused “horrors in the past” and had a special duty to uphold the European ideal. Petty-minded “tacticalists” who seem willing to let the EU fall apart will leave a catastrophic historical legacy, he said.”

This is of course utter rubbish. The guilty people are LONG DEAD. Today’s “Germans” (including a fair number of million Turks – and ME!!) are NOT GUILTY IN ANY WAY. Herr Schmidt is in fact guilty HIMSELF of nationalism. You cannot make an ENTIRE country guilty of anything that happened before almost all its current citizens were born.

This is EXACTLY what the Franco-Belgian-Luxembourg axis has played on for DECADES, though they don’t say it openly. The German guilt complex has been subtly exploited to extract billions out of the country, to the great credit of Germany. But enough is enough – German “guilt” must NO LONGER be exploited to pay for the idiocy of countries such as Greece. My father fought against the Nazis and the Wehrmacht, but IT IS ALL HISTORY.

Herr Schmidt has lost it totally. Greece CANNOT live in the euro. The EU’s OWN ECONOMISTS told them this BEFORE the euro started. The economies are too diverse. The EU only allowed Greece into the euro for its OWN POLITICAL AMBITIONS, which include of course (as van Rompuy has stated) fiscal and eventually political union. WE DO NOT WANT POLITICAL UNION and especially not to be ruled from Brussels by people like van Rompuy and Borroso, who ONLY TODAY in the middle of the biggest economic crisis n Europe since WWI was complaining that he hasn’t got his SIX% budget increase. This comes the day after we learn that MEPs are automatically to get €91,000 for expenses – no more bother filling out expense forms and producing receipts ….

Have people in Brussels got ANY IDEA what ordinary people think of all this? I personally consider it to be theft. You do it because you CAN do it. It’s EXACTLY like FIFA. You get VAST sums from national governments and there is almost NO accountability, except for an election every few years in which a minority of people vote, and even then very often like sheep for their party. How many even KNOW who their MEP is? The Brussels elite TRADE on this, but you can only push a milch cow so far before she turns and sticks her horns in you in anger.

What IS this nonsense from Frau Merkel that “If the euro fails, Europe fails”? Europe was doing very nicely BEFORE the euro. If the euro collapsed totally (which it doesn’t need to do and won’t) Europe would CONTINUE. We could still have a full common-market and increasing cooperation without the euro at all. I cannot see why even the Chancellor comes out with these frankly silly and apocalyptic statements. Herr Juncker is another one. “This failure of Germany to help other countries is ‘unEuropean’”. Did you hear that? About Germany, which has poured BILLIONS into “Europe”, principally A) into poorer countries and B) into the pockets of people like Juncker. The man is a waste of space, yet earns MANY times the salary and benefits of ordinary workers who PAY for it all. Has the man (or his cronies in Brussels) NO concept of irony?

• Some countries have to leave the euro. That much is obvious. It must also be obvious to the elite, but they CANNOT ACCEPT any step backwards in their march towards a United States of Europe, of which the euro is a major symbol. They are lying to us AND to themselves.
• It is idiotic for Germany to pour billions of good money after bad, and IT WILL NOT WORK. It WILL NOT SOLVE the fundamental problems, and neither will ordinary Germans put up with it. The EU and national politicians have NO RIGHT to gamble with our money.
• Europe will not “fail” if some countries leave the euro, which was based on a political lie anyway. It will still exist; countries will still work together, even become closer over time.
• Constant harking back to Germany’s “guilt” in the war is stupid and insulting. (I’m British, so I can say that …) In ANY case, it wasn’t “the Germans” but the NAZIS who were guilty, and they are STILL BEING HUNTED DOWN – but this is NOTHING TO DO WITH “GERMANY” TODAY.
• The level of remuneration that the EU elite pays itself is immoral, disgusting and will lead to the collapse of trust. Governments CAN ONLY FUNCTION AND SURVIVE if they have the people’s trust. The tipping point for me was the £62,000 per year for four years payments to Mandelson who RESIGNED from his job as EU Commissioner. I AM HELPING TO PAY HIM £62,000 for four years for doing NOTHING, just because he worked for the EU. You CANNOT have one law for the elite and another for everyone else. The fact that the people concerned cannot see this is just typical of the extent to which their venality has overtaken their commonsense.
• The new MEP expenses regime is yet ANOTHER example of the extent to which you are out of touch. It is an insult to Europeans losing their jobs and incomes left, right and centre. The EU elite had (I say “had”, because I actually think the whole thing is doomed, ruined by greed and arrogance) a duty to give a lead, to lead by example. IT HAS FAILED. Now they are running around like headless chickens DENYING THE TRUTH about the euro. The ONLY reason the euro has not collapsed already is A) because the dollar is even weaker and B) Germany is still economically sound, though it will soon cease to be if it signs up to another €FOUR TRILLION in guarantees to the non-serious countries.
• Sometime in Europe we have to get real and recognize the truth. Does the EU elite think people are so stupid as not to see the truth?

I am just one totally insignificant individual, but I am very angry indeed and do not know how to channel this anger. I am an archetypal “European”. I speak several European languages, was married to a Spanish lady, now to a German, have multi-lingual children in different European countries. I have worked in England, France and Germany and of course lived in all three. But I am very depressed indeed about the quality of Europe’s leadership, which is totally out of touch and indeed incompetent. Juncker complaining about Germany’s “un-European” ness is surreal, as is Borroso whingeing on about not getting his 6%. These people DO NOT LIVE IN THE SAME WORLD as us.

And I am tired of people like me being labelled “eurosceptic”. NO, WE ARE NOT “EUROSCEPTIC”, we are “EU-ELITE SCEPTIC”, the insults that flow our way being yet another example of the arrogance and detachment from reality that the elite in Brussels suffer from.

I won’t go on to discuss the fiasco and shame of the passing of the Lisbon Treaty with no proper consultation of the people that the EU professes to serve, though I would like to know WHY the EU is paying out BILLIONS of our money (not YOUR money, OUR money) to failing economies when as far as I know this is FORBIDDEN in the Lisbon Treaty. A court case is about to go ahead in Germany on this very point. What happens if it IS found to be illegal? Will Frau Merkel, Herr Sarkozy, van Rompuy and the rest of them be locked up for misuse of public funds? The whole thing is scandalous and farcical.

Things have to change or it will end in tears, as all arrogant Empires do that overreach themselves. This would be a tragedy for us all. It is INSANE that people like me are so negative. YOU NEED US.

Conclusions:

1. I am quite aware and grateful that many ordinary people in the EU work very hard and do good things. My disgust is with the LEADERSHIP, which is of course responsible for all the above. An attack on the incompetent and indeed corrupt leadership is neither eurosceptic (though the leadership will of course play it that way) NOR an attack on the ordinary workers in the EU. Much of the EU’s work has brought great benefits, but in many areas it GOES TOO FAR.
2. Letters and complaints like mine are pretty pointless of course, unless there are enough people like me to make a difference at elections, which there usually aren’t, though it could be different next time as we are in such a mess – and of course it WILL GET MUCH WORSE. However, I am grateful that Herr Schwab has been prepared to listen to what I have to say.
3. My greatest fear is that as the EU collapses people (and especially the nauseating Franco-Belgian- Luxembourg alliance in Brussels) will start to blame Germany. Yes, that would be INSANE but nationalism IS insane. Such anti-German comments (and we are ALREADY starting to see them) would tend to bring about the very nationalism and indeed possible fascism that the EU elite claim to be concerned about. The fact that EVEN HERR SCHMIDT refers to “German guilt” is astounding. Germany no longer HAS any guilt, any more than Turks living today are guilty over Armenia, except for denying what happened.

These are dangerous and difficult days. I am far from confident that the EU has the leadership it needs and deserves, but what can we DO about this? Nothing apparently, any more than we can about the gruesome FIFA – or indeed the banks. But when ordinary citizens begin to feel angry and helpless about the elite (especially when economic conditions get tough) THEN you have a danger, THEN we must learn from history. Citizens have to feel that “We are all in this together.” When we learn that MEPs have just got a £5000 cheque for XMAS and €91,000 in non-accountable expenses, I am afraid the spirit of togetherness takes a big knock.

MEPs could do something, but are they becoming part of the problem? I heard ONE SINGLE Danish MEP complaining about the nonsensical and vastly-expensive new “diplomatic service”,  (SIX BILLION EUROS at a time of economic meltdown!) but the rest of them seem to go along sheep-like with what the Axis-of-Unreality in Brussels wants. That is NOT why you were elected.

Yours Sincerely                                    Chris SNUGGS

 

Letter to the PM

14 December 2010

Dear Prime Minister

Several things preoccupy me greatly:

A) Ken Clarke: I cannot understand why he is in the government. As has been pointed out by others, he has been wrong on almost everything in the past, including most famously the euro. Now on Justice he is hopelessly out of touch not only with the public (so much is obvious from following the media) but also with the majority in your own party. What is going on?

B) ISLAM 1: What are we doing pussy-footing around this issue, “humouring” extreme views (because we are so PC) and tolerating extremism. It took YEARS to deal with Abu-Hamza for example. What IS all this nonsense about banning certain British practices and other things because they might “offend” Muslims? Have we gone MAD?

C) ISLAM 2: I note that the HOC has demanded that NO HALAL MEAT be delivered to the HOC unless expressly ordered. When can we expect to see this SAME requirement for ALL meat delivered to ALL organisations in Britain? I am not alone in finding this practice disgusting and if anything is “unBritish”, this is it. Nevertheless, HALAL meat is apparently served clandestinely to millions of people all over Britain. THIS IS COMPLETELY WRONG.

D) The EU: What is this insanity going on in Brussels and more to the point, WHY are we accepting it?

• Blair giving up our £4 billion rebate at a stroke. Annul his signature. Don’t pay it.
• Labour committing us to help save the euro when they had just lost the election. Give loans to Ireland, but NOT as part of the Euromafia’s demands.   Don’t honour this idiotic Labour commitment.
• The EU (us) financing a fatuous “President”. What does he DO all day? Who NEEDS him? The EU is NOT A STATE ruled from Brussels, even if some Belgians would like it to be. Did the British government VOTE for this nonsense?
• MEPs demanding a 6% increase in the budget to pay for the surreally-expensive and ludicrous, self-aggrandizing new Diplomatic Service. (46 diplomats on Barbados? Oh please !!!!!!)
• MEPs awarding themselves a backdated payrise of 3.7% at a time of enormous economic hardship AND getting a new perks deal to give them £91,000 per annum WITHOUT having to produce ANY receipts whatsoever. This is on top of their £80,000 salary and other perks; free schooling, transport etc etc. Can you explain WHY they are paid more than you? Why is Lady Ashton paid TWICE what you are paid? Is it to compensate for the extreme discomfort of living in Brussels among Belgians? It is INSANITY and the UK HAS to deal with this or get out.
• Why is Mr Mandelson being paid £62,000 per year for doing NOTHING? This is the difference between what he earned as a Commissioner and what he “earns” in the Lords in the UK, even though he RESIGNED from his Brussels job. He is apparently being paid this difference by the EU (= us) for FOUR YEARS, a practice that cannot possibly be described – in the normal world inhabited by the voters – other than as “legalized and institutionalised theft”.

I am deeply depressed about the EU. I am NOT a “eurosceptic”, but this undemocratic unaccountability, venality and lies have gone too far. Lies? The EU elite CLEARLY connived in the lie of the fantasyland Greek budget statistics at the time the euro was launched. Why did they lie? Not rocket science – the larger the number of countries in the euro the more “important” it would be and of course the more isolated the UK would seem. Whether at that stage they knew Greece had to fail (thus leading to further fiscal integration = higher taxes à la France) is unprovable, but their own economists TOLD them this would be the eventual outcome, so we draw our own conclusions.

I don’t WANT to vote UKIP (I believe in European cooperation and a full European “Common Market” but with individual countries retaining full sovereignty), but I’m beginning to see NO ALTERNATIVE. Nobody seems to stick up for the PEOPLE. What do you think the proportion of those who PAY MEPs salaries is who ASKED their MEP to vote for this silly “diplomatic service” costing SIX BILLION EUROS? Did MEPs ask ANYONE? Did they ask YOU? Did you or the previous so-called government sanction this ridiculous project (or did we as usual have no choice), designed ONLY to increase the budget and “importance” of the EU elite? Are Conservative MEPs in ANY way beholden to your party? I am confused.

My general feeling is that the people are more and more held in contempt, as exemplified by the euro for a start. If I understand correctly, it is ILLEGAL under the statutes of the Lisbon Treaty (which the British public has NOT been able to vote on) to bail out bankrupt countries. Despite this, THIS is what the EU has done, Mr van Rompuy being charged to “find out a way to do it legally”. They should all be LOCKED UP Prime Minister for misuse of public money.

And the referendum issue is a JOKE. The EU put great pressure on member governments NOT to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty because they KNEW that most people would vote against it. When Ireland had the temerity to hold an election, they indeed voted against the LT, but of course the Irish had to have ANOTHER referendum until they “got it right”.

All this is NOT ACCEPTABLE and many people seem to feel that NO GOVERNMENT is doing anything about it. Does the HOC elite ALSO have contempt for the people?

Yours Sincerely

Chris SNUGGS

 

Letter to an MEP

Dear Ms Ford, MEP                                                                                                                                                                           2 December, 2010

I am British married to a German living in Germany. I have taught three different European languages in three European countries; I was previous married to a Spanish woman and have one daughter working in Madrid. We also have a ten-year-old boy who is tri-lingual. In other words, I am – or should be – an archetypal “European”.

However, though I used to be a firm supporter of the EU I believe it has now lost its way and even its head so that it is in fact doing immense harm to the “European ideal”. I have prepared a questionnaire which I enclose and which explains my thinking. I would be grateful if you or anyone else in Brussels can point out to me where and why there is any wrong and/or unfair information. The key points are these:

1. The EU elite LIED about Greece’s entry to the euro.
2. They LIED about the ultimate agenda, at last bluntly stated by the incredible Herr van Rompuy. (“The time of the nation state is dead” = “We intend to build a United States of Europe run by us.”)
3. They are paying out billions of euros of taxpayers’ money with no consultation of the latter to prop up the doomed euro, which CANNOT possibly work for all current members.
4. They are bailing out countries ILLEGALLY according to their own rules – Mr van Rompuy having been charged to “find a way to do it legally”.
5. They have utter contempt for the people who pay their vastly bloated-emoluments – see point 4 and witness the “referendum” issue, where any country voting “the wrong way” is invited to do it again until they get it right. I don’t know if you are aware of this but this is nascent fascism.

On a matter of detail, I am trying to find out what percentage of MEPs’ voters (the ones who PAY for the EU lifestyle, with senior members of the elite earning up to twice what national leaders are paid) ASKED you, the MEPs, to spend SIX BILLION euros on the fatuous diplomatic service led by a nonentity crony never elected to ANY significant post who is paid twice as much as the British PM. How many of us ASKED you to spend this ludicrous sum of money? The EU IS NOT A STATE – it doesn’t even need a PRESIDENT, let alone a diplomatic service. What does van Rompuy DO all day apart from issue ludicrous statements: “The nation states are dead.” Has he TOLD Mme Merkel this by the way? What does Sarkozy think about France no longer being a state? Has he been told?

It is beyond my understanding how at a time of economic collapse all over Europe (and it’s going to get MUCH worse, partly because of this ridiculous and illegal bailing-out of feckless, greedy, venal, over-spending states led by idiots (I don’t exclude Britain)) the MEPs can have demanded an increase of SIX% in the budget. It is really unbelievable. Which planet do you live on? How many of your constituents ASKED you do to this? “Please, as my MEP I want you to push for a six% increase in the budget.” Does what your CONSTITUENTS want count for ANYTHING?

This is really beyond a joke. I have turned from a former supporter into someone incandescent with rage about the waste, arrogance, self-delusion and downright illegality of much of this.

Another example: Mr Mandelson RESIGNED as an EU Commissioner to become a British Lord (in itself a gross insult to any ordinary citizen – feudalism is supposed to have died out centuries ago), but because the stingy British state only pays him £100,000 plus expenses for doing very little and this is £62,000 less than what he was on in Brussels, the EU (that means WE, THE TAXPAYERS) are paying Mr Mandelson the DIFFERENCE for FOUR years. Yes, for FOUR years he gets £62,000 from the taxpayer for doing nothing EVEN THOUGH HE RESIGNED. This is THEFT, but the EU has cunningly packaged it up in mealy-mouthed language as part of its “procedures”. I resigned my job in France to go and work in Africa for much less. Nobody supplemented MY salary and of course I would have found it ludicrous if they had. What has possessed you people to think that this is acceptable?

I am afraid the whole thing has become an utter farce and is so venal and incompetent that it has to fail. It is just like FIFA. Are there ANY large international organisations that are not a corrupt rip-off?

My main point is, WHO IS REPRESENTING US? I thought that was YOUR job? But did we REALLY ask you to spend all this money on Mandelson? How many of us WANT SIX BILLION spent on a diplomatic service, which of course is a total irrelevance. The idea that having some posh EU Embassy downtown is going to impress the Africans and help to compete against the Chinese is just silly. I read that it is intended to put FORTY-SIX “diplomats” on that industrial colossus Barbados and over FIFTY on Madagascar. Is this to become the new world commercial powerhouse? It all seems to me INSANE, and I remind you that Europe is drowning in debt and also regulations. If you REALLY want us to compete better with China then get rid of some of the idiotic rules that are crippling business. The ONLY reason for this idiotic service is to INCREASE the momentum towards a European superstate, which Mr van Rompuy has stated is the now not-so-hidden agenda. Could I once again ask you HOW MANY of your constituents (who pay your salary) have ASKED you for this?

For the elite of course (and we used to think that “Yes, Minister” was a joke – silly us ….) the BIGGER the budget, the MORE the people, the MORE important your organization must be. This is why the EU elite pays itself so much, so that the plebs will say: “Goodness me! He earns twice as much as our Prime Minister! He must be twice as important. Oooo errrr ….”

I summarize:

• I do not WANT a European superstate, but that is what is being thrust down my throat by those who think they know best ……
• Mr van Rompuy is unhinged – has he told Switzerland, for example, that their nation state is “dead”? “If the euro fails, we could have war.” The arrogance and rank stupidity of this man – from a failed and disintegrating Belgium – is stupefying.
• The decision to spend six billion euros on a “diplomatic service” for a non-state is incomprehensible. Even if it WERE comprehensible, WE CAN’T AFFORD IT. Anyone know this phrase in Brussels? No, I thought not – and they don’t know it in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy or Great Britain either – though they may at last be learning it.
• The demand of MEPs for a 6% increase in the EU budget is SHAMEFUL for the same and many other reasons and in particular at this time on account of the economic meltdown in Europe. This latter will of course not affect the EU employees and especially the elite – unless the plebs en masse finally rise up and bring the whole sorry mess crashing down. The 6% demand in fact reveals how OUT OF TOUCH the EU is, even the MEPs who are supposed to REPRESENT THE CITIZENS.
• Finally, the bailouts are ILLEGAL according to your own rules. You are in effect STEALING the people’s money to prop up a failing enterprise which you LIED to launch and this for your own POLITICAL reasons with no consultation of the people who pay your wages. The whole thing is completely preposterous and shameful.

I am sorry to be so critical. No doubt there are many MEPs and indeed other workers who are conscientious and do good work, since not all the EU does is bad (as I’m sure you’ll be relieved to hear). My beef is with the Franco, Belgian, Luxembourg elite that has Europe by the throat with German’s acquiescence through her guilt over WWII.

Van Rompuy? Are you PROUD of this imbecile? He said that if the euro fails “it could bring war.” What a disgusting ploy worthy of the most seedy advertising campaign, threatening war if his project fails – which it must, as Portugal and Greece for a start CANNOT live in the euro alongside Germany unless they have eternal subsidies from the same – and do you think the Germans are going to put up with this for ever? Only the other day some Greek politician was haranguing Frau Merkel at a dinner and insinuating that Germany should pay more ….. and she said – no doubt at last exasperated by this endless venal idiocy – “Perhaps Germany is better-off out of the euro.” Yes, she said that. The German milch cow only has so much patience. I hope someone was listening ……

And this has come about because van Rompuy and others of like mind in the past LIED about Greece’s entry to the euro. They KNEW A) Greece was lying about its finances and B) that Greece couldn’t live long-term inside the same currency as Germany. (their own economists TOLD them this). THEY LIED, Mr Simon. Do you not see the seriousness of that word? This is the point. And NOT ONLY THAT, they are using OUR money to DEFEND their lie and this AGAINST THE rules. You truly couldn’t make it up.

The EU elite is AS BAD AS THE BANKS, and that is saying something. They have turned me, a previously-enthusiastic “European”, into someone who will now fight to destroy the EU AS IT NOW EXISTS.

We DO NOT WANT A UNITED STATES OF EUROPE run by someone like van Rompuy from Brussels. You ALL know this, but you persist because you think you know best. The combination of someone who thinks he knows best and power always brings fascism. Van Rompuy and others are bringing about the very dissension, disasters, fear and dislike of Germany and possibly even one day war that they seem obsessed about. I ALREADY hear comments (especially from those who have run out of their German money they have been recklessly binging on for the past few years) which are negative about Germany, as if it were HER fault that she is better off. There is no divine right which says that silly, greedy and venal governments of lazy, non-serious states have the right to be eternally subsidized by Germany in the name of “solidarity” – people are dreaming.

Please help us to stop this nonsense. Nobody else will – not even our own governments.

Yours sincerely                                                C SNUGGS

 

Betrayed on Law and Order

To the Justice Minister – UK

Dear Mr Clarke

I have just read the following in “The Telegraph”. One cannot  believe everything one reads, but I have no reason to doubt its veracity.

“Last year, in 3,018 cases, offenders who were convicted of burglary were spared a prison sentence despite having 15 or more previous convictions, according to Ministry of Justice statistics.”

I wonder if you would care to comment on this? To a layman like myself, it seems so preposterous as to be impossible to believe, but of course it is in general only political manifestos that lie outright, so – as I said – I have no reason to disbelieve “The Telegraph”.

Is the current PC thinking still that “Burglary is not really a serious crime”  or that “It isn’t serious when ‘no harm is done’? Well, I wonder, Home Secretary, when you yourself last had your home burgled and trashed? Probably some time, no doubt thanks to the nice area you live in and the expensive locks, and burglar devices you can afford to fit. Perhaps you would feel differently were you to be burgled, your private papers and other property stolen along with your family heirlooms, with your home being left filthy and trashed?

It is no wonder that ordinary people feel utterly betrayed by successive governments, in particular by those who always say they will be “tough on crime” all the while knowing it is an utter lie. Over THREE THOUSAND people escaped prison for burglary offences last year even though they had MULTIPLE PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS. Isn’t that UNBELIEVABLE? What does it tell you about the efficacy of the legal system and its ability to deter reoffending?

It is a sick joke. I had hoped you might start to put this right, but all I hear and read so far gives me the opposite impression.

Yours Sincerely

Chris SNUGGS

 

Letter to my MEP

28 October 2010

Sehr geehrte Herr Wieland

Ich wohne in Freudenstadt und ich nehme an, daß Sie mein Vertreter im Europäischen Parlament sind. Wenn nicht, könnten Sir mir sagen, wer das ist? Mein Profil:

• Ich bin Engländer, der mit einer deutschen Frau verheiratet ist.
• Wir sind Europäer: Unser Sohn ist jetzt 10 und wurde in Frankreich geboren, wo ich 10 Jahre gearbeitet habe. Er spricht fließend Englisch, Französisch und Deutsch.
• Wir sind Weltenbürger: Meine Frau und ich sprechen mehrere Sprachen, vor allen Dingen europäische Sprachen, aber meine Frau spricht auch Japanisch und etwas Chinesisch.
• Ich bin Sprachlehrer seit 40 Jahren und habe in England, Frankreich, Deutschland und auch Gabun, Afrika gearbeitet.

Das heißt, wir sollten “gute Europaer” sein. Das war ich, und vielleicht bin ich immer noch, aber es gibt ein sehr großes Problem. Die EU ist ZU WEIT gegangen. Ich wäre sogar jetzt dafür, daß die EU ausgelöst wird. Warum?

• Die EU nimmt sich immer mehr Rechte zur Kontrolle, aber sie ist KEIN STAAT. Trotzdem haben wir jetzt einen “Presidenten”, einen “Aussenminister” und eine Menge sehr teure Botschaften überall auf der Welt. Die EU wird jetzt ausserdem ein neues Gebäude in Bruxelles für €10,000,000 mieten. Es ist alles totaler Quatsch.
• Was die EU Minister sich bezahlen ist ein Skandal. President Sarkozy ist President von Frankreich, mit seinem Finger auf der Atombombe, aber verdient WENIGER als die EU Minister. Hinzu kommen ungeheuere Zusatzzahlungen für alles mögliche, wovon die Leute im Privaten (die ALLES BEZAHLEN) niemals träumen könnten.
• Ein Beispiel: Herr Mandelson war Kommissar, aber er hat FREIWILLIG seine Stelle aufgegeben, da er im “Lords” in Großbritannien weniger verdient (Ich weiß nicht, ob “verdient” das richtige Wort ist) also in Bruxelles werden wir (WIR Bürger, nicht die EU – aber wir haben keine Wahl) ihm VIER JAHRE LANG £62,000 bezahlen, um GAR NICHTS zu machen. Es ist undenkbar, eigentlich DIEBSTAHL. In welcher privaten Gesellshaft wäre es möglich, jemandem eine so surrealistiche Summe zu bezahlen, wenn diese Person NICHT MEHR für die Firma arbeitet? Als ich das erfahren habe, war mir sofort klar, daß die EU nicht mehr lange überleben kann. Die MEPs müssen diesen Unsinn zuende bringen.

JETZT in ganz Europa werden die Leute ärmer, das Geld fehlt überall, die Nationalausgaben sinken, oft geradezu katastrophisch. Die Krise ist NICHT vorbei; sie könnte SCHLIMMER werden. Und was macht die EU? Sie fordert eine Erhöhung von 6%; NICHTS sinkt; weder die Gehälter, weder die Renten, noch die andere Ausgaben. Privatfirmen und (in England zumindest) sogar Beamte verlieren ihre Stellen überall, nur nicht in Bruxelles, wo man MEHR verlangt. Es ist eine Unverschämtheit.

Es kommen von Bruxelles immer mehr Gesetze, Regeln und “Rechte”, die noch mehr Kosten auf den Firmen legen. Eines Tages werden wir aufwachen, mit allen möglichen “Rechten” aber keinen Jobs mehr. Die Konkurrenten in Asien lachen sich tot. Es gibt einfach ZU VIELE GESETZE und Papier; eine kleine Firma zu starten ist viel zu teuer und kompliziert. Warum? Die meisten Leute in Bruxelles haben NIEMALS in der “real world” gearbeitet. Sie glauben, das Geld kommt nur vom Steuerbezahler oder von der Druckerei.

Griechenland? Das Land hat gelogen, um ins Euroland zu kommen. JEDER wußte, daß sie gelogen haben, aber sie durften trotzdem reinkommen. Die Griechen gaben UNSER Geld wie verrückt aus, dannach mussten wir sie WIEDER retten. Das ist genauso wie die Bankleute, die mit UNSEREM Geld gespielt haben, kaputt gegangen sind und nun wieder VON UNS (die Steuerbezahler) gerettet wurden. Nein, Griechenland sollte raus vom Euro; sonst A) werden ihre Lügen belohnt und B) sie werden niemals aus ihrer Situation kommen und Deutschland und andere Länder werden immer mehr Geld darein stecken müssen. Jeder Economist behauptet (nur in Bruxelles nicht), das Land KANN nicht mit dem euro überleben. Das wird alles aus POLITISCHEN GRUNDEN gemacht. Griechenland wird seine Schulden NIEMALS zurückzahlen können. Wird dann Deutschland ALLES auf immer bezahlen, und nur weil andere Länder auf ihre Schuld für den 2ten Weltkrieg spielen? Die Krise ist nicht vorbei: Spanien und Irland werden AUCH NICHT ohne immer mehr Deutsches Geld überleben, was die deutsche Erholung stark bedrohen wird.

Ich sollte ein starker Europäischer Verteidiger sein. Das war ich auch einmal, aber es ist vorbei. Die EU ist fertig, wenn es so weiter geht. Es KANN nicht so weiter gehen. Die Leute fangen an zu verstehen, welche Arroganz und Geldverschwendung dahinter stehen. Nur weil es so einfach ist, das Geld von den Ländern zu verlangen – und mitten in der größten Krise seit 1945 wollen Sie 6% MEHR? Wer ist Ihr Public Relations Manager? Ich habe auch gehört, dass die EU jedes Jahr 2,5 BILLIONEN € für eigene Werbungskosten ausgibt. Sie geben Millionen von UNSEREM Geld aus, um UNS mit Werbung zu füttern? NEIN DANKE.

MEPS: Aber was machen die MEPs? Sie sollten die BÜRGER verteidigen, nicht die EU Elite immer noch mehr unterstützen. Warum verlangen Sie eine Erhohung von zweimal der Inflationsrate? Warum rollen sie das ganze Jahr hin und her nach Strasbourg? Weil das ein Symbol ist? Die Symbole sind zu teuer geworden. Das Volk lebt nicht nur von Symbolen. Können Sie nicht ab und zu nicht “NEIN” sagen?

Es ist eine Schande, Herr Wieland, wirklich. Ich bin sehr, sehr entäuscht aber auch sehr sauer. “Diebstahl” ist nicht zu hart, und immer hören wir: “Oh, die EU hat den Krieg vermeidet.” Wieder Quatsch. Es ist alles zu viel, zu weit, zu unehrlich, zu arrogant; und die meisten Bruxeller haben NIEMALS eine Privatfirma geleitet; viele haben keine Ahnung von Wirtschaft. Die Leute in Bruxelles wohnen in ihrer eigenen Luftblase. Sie verdienen zu viel, sie kümmern sich nicht um die Wünsche von ihren eigenen Wählern. Die meisten hochgradigen Bruxeller werden überhaupt nicht gewählt; viele sind Politiker, die in ihrem eigenem Land versagt haben (Neil Kinnock, zum Beispiel) – ungeheuer und immer mehr Kosten fallen auf uns. Ich bin sehr, sehr enttäuscht.

 

Chris SNUGGS

 

More Lunatic Sentencing

13 October 2010

Dear Home Secretary

May I refer you to this article in “The Daily Mail”?

Some of the text bears repeating:

Evil teenagers who ‘tortured’ autistic boy, 17, for three days free to roam streets after judge fails to lock them up … A family has reacted with horror and disbelief after a gang of teenage thugs who subjected an autistic boy to a terrifying three-day ‘torture’ ordeal walked free from court. The gang used a mobile phone to film themselves carrying out depraved assaults on their 17-year-old victim. During a sickening spree of violence the three thugs kicked and stamped on his head, repeatedly punched him in the chest, beat him with a tennis racket and then threw him down a steep embankment.

Like I imagine a majority of the population I reacted to this in disbelief. Having said that, one has of course got used to surreally-ludicrous sentences given by judges from another planet. These thugs physically and psychologically TORTURED a helpless victim for THREE days and videoed themselves doing it in order to have a good laugh later.

The idea that a curfew and other soppy “community services” is an adequate punishment just shows how out-of-touch the upper middle class elite so-called intelligentsia is. I am afraid to say that law and order is a joke in Britain.

These three should have got SOLITARY CONFINEMENT in prison for at LEAST three months. That might – might – have given them cause to think about their act. Left alone at home with a stupid “curfew” (who is going to enforce that then, with police spending more than half their time in the station filling out forms?) and their tellies, video games, alcohol, fags and no doubt drugs is not going to do it. We need some PUNISHMENT and DETERRENT.  No, nobody likes punishment for its own sake but THEY DESERVE IT in the first place and WITHOUT it there is NO DETERRENT.

I feel far from alone in expressing these sentiments but also realize there is little chance of anyone with power and influence taking much notice. After all, judges and their ilk mostly live in secure homes down leafy lanes in very expensive places far from nasty housing estates where innocent plebs have to suffer from the sort of behaviour described in “The Daily Mail”. Still, pointless though it most probably is I felt compelled to write so that at least you may get some feedback. In truth though, I feel pretty despairing, and – as I said – I suspect I am FAR from alone.

Yours sincerely                                Chris SNUGGS

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