I set this site up to help fill you in on the facts of what is happening to us currently, regarding the European Union (EU) and its relation to us as British Citizens.
I am an ordinary British citizen myself, a family man, with my own small business. I am very concerned about the Britain we are handing down so casually to our children, a Britain no longer ruled by its own Monarch and parliament, a Britain that I personally feel has been betrayed and sold-on by its own governments. I find it hard to believe how unaware the British people are of the enormous betrayal that has taken place. Perhaps it takes a lot to rouse us British. Maybe it was like this before the two World Wars - we are slow to act but formidable when we do.
Some eight years ago, it was impossible to get a copy of the Maastricht Treaty, the treaty our elected government was about to sign, that would change enormously the whole future of our country. Then one solitary man, David Pollard of Oxford, somehow got hold of a copy of the Treaty and published it on floppy disk, which he sent to the national newspapers. Four major newspapers published extracts from the Treaty (known as "The Unseen Treaty"), thanks to David. I for my part embarked on a private project to get the text file of the Maastricht Treaty posted on every Bulletin Board (BBS) in the UK, some 200 BBSs. (My phone bill was huge, but this was before the Internet was in public use).
But the Treaty was signed, and we were never consulted.
No government has the right to give away the power of our Parliament to govern our country, to a consortium of foreign nations.
Only the British people have the right to do that. There should have been a referendum.
Prime Minister John Major knew that. His ministers knew that. Every MP of whatever Party knew that. A few stood up and said so, loudly. They were "disciplined" by Tory Party whips and Tory Party leaders. Yet they were the ones who put loyalty to the British people before "obedience" to the "Party line". The suppression of this few was in fact a gross national scandal, quickly glossed over by Mr Major and others. (I recommend you read MP Teresa Gorman's book "The Bastards" for the full sordid facts). And of course Mr Major reaped the whirlwind at the next general election, when the British people showed the contempt they had come to feel for him and most of the Conservative Party.
And thus we voted in a Labour Party well organised in matters of obedience to their leader, Tony Blair, whose view of the European Union is that Britain should quickly and with no fuss (notice the deliberate low key that EU matters have been reduced to in the media...) be absorbed into a socialist Europe. European Monetary Union - the abolition of the Pound Sterling and the assumption of a "single currency" - has been allowed to take the stage...but this is in fact just a sideshow, whilst the main event goes on, offstage.
Some of the people I talk to think this is all about trading with Europe. It is not. It is simply about being legally ruled by Europe. We have been trading with Europe for thousands of years ! This is about the silent conquest of our island. By a Europe dominated by Germany (and the bundesbank).
Torquil Dick-Erikson wrote this to me: "Over the years I have tried to get people to look at the LEGAL aspects, with particular reference to the disastrous effects it will have on British individual civil rights like Habeas Corpus and Trial by Independent Jury, which are unknown throughout the continent. Our national LEGAL sovereignty and right to self-government, on which all else obviously hinges, is in the process of being done away with as I write, by Parliament's passing the Amsterdam Treaty (right now it's in the Committee stage). The tragedy is that Members of Parliament are, I believe, quite unaware of what they are doing, for they have not noticed the legally irreversible barb embedded in the text of Article K2(6)."
We, the British public, should now be asked, whether via a referendum, or by some other means: do we wish to be part of Federal Europe, or do we wish to remain as we always have been - in the words of Mr Churchill, "... with Europe, but not of it.We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed.
I shall continue to improve this site, and I thank the large number of people who have sent supportive email and valuable contributions - please keep doing it! My thanks especially to the Electronic Telegraph who have so often posted links to this site on their pages.
I shall also continue to work with others to help keep Britain in the hands of the British people, where it belongs. Please spread the Web address (URL) of this site to newsgroups, other sites, the media and your friends (and even your MP !) And mail me if you find more content I can include. If you have a useful article to contribute I shall put it on this site on its own page, with a link from this page, if you do not have your own web site. By the way, I have a number of copies of the Maastricht Treaty in book form, new, smart and a fiver each including postage and packing.
Please email me your comments and suggestions at "webmaster@freebrit.demon.co.uk".
[N.B. - There is a "counter" on the "Free Britain" website. As of the posting of this page - here, that counter had registered 28,356 visits since launching in 1997. One man has reached, and is reaching, many people with a fine, valuable contribution to defending British sovereignty. Kudos! Briame Gerdan.]
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