Editorial

Well this edition is full of Europe, isn’t it? Yes – just like Britain, if we’re not careful! I mean, can you believe these people? Way back in 55 AD we were invaded, and crushed by the Roman regulations. And at least the Romans had good roads. I tell you, all this red tape in Brussels is going to drive this country onto the rocks. Since when did red tape hold the nation together?

Since never, that’s when, and if those fat cats in the European Parliament think that I’ll stand by and allow our Queen to be kidnapped – yes, kidnapped, because that’s what it’d be if we lost the pound, wouldn’t it? – just for the sake of a stable currency that would revitalise the Export market, then those fat cats have another thing coming!

Is this what the British Navy fought for at Trafalgar? No! We never marched into Waterloo simply so we could sacrifice out Sovereignty and get bailed out by some Kraut from Prussia! Did we fight tooth and nail with the Swiss over the 1978 EU directive proposing all Chocolate had to contain cocoa, rather than good British sawdust? NO! We never suffered in the killing fields of Flanders for the sake of a united, quarrel-free Europe!

Let me tell you something. Back when Churchill was running this country there was no talk of “going into Europe” then, was there? No, because Europe was dangerous then and is still today! without Europe the UK would be free to become fully Americanised at our own pace, and then we’d not have to worry about losing our Monarch to some barely-ex-revolutionaries who’d treat us as if we were just a puppet for them to play with across the sea! Yeah, you think on that!

If we go into Europe, we might end up running it, yeah, maybe. But at what cost?! at the cost of losing control of the British Pound? Never! We had enough trouble losing the real pound back in the seventies! We don’t want to change to a whole new currency just to increase our political power or economy or something.

No, we don’t because we’ve always gained political power without Europe! Look at the Spanish Armarda. We thrashed ’em! And the Italians we beat, and the Austrians, and the Turks. Should we abandon our Septic Isle just to please them? Of course not! “We must be free or die that speak the tongue that Shakespeare spake” – that’s poetry that is, and as true today as when I wrote it down just then.

Love and Kisses,
Bernard, the Editor.