Have you ever heard of Donald Tusk, Jean-Claude Juncker or Frans Timmermans? What about Martin
Schulz? You wouldn’t be alone in wondering who on earth these people were. However these are the
unelected but very powerful leaders at the core of the EU driving change in 28 different countries. They
are the people who introduced a militarised police force called EUROGENDFOR, are pushing for its own
army, and introduced a flawed single currency which has caused untold misery for tens of millions of
people across Europe. Yet there is never any apology, just an arrogant demand for greater powers and
tighter control.
Britain is the birthplace of modern parliamentary democracy and it is time to free it from the murky
decision-making of the EU where national veto rights have steadily been eroded and EU law currently
supersedes our own.
24. It is NATO – not the EU – which keeps
us safe
In another desperate case of
scaremongering, five former military
commandos signed a Downing
Street-coordinated letter claiming that
Britain was safer inside the EU because of
the rise of Islamic State and so-called
“Russian aggression”. It now transpires
that at least a couple of these ex-leaders
were actively pressurised into signing the
letter and, of course, what it neglected to
mention is that, as a NATO member, we’ll still be protected by other member states regardless of our EU
membership.
Air Chief Marshal Michael Graydon, former Chief of the Air Staff, and who signed the original letter,
went on to say: “Our intelligence relationships are with individual member countries, not the European
Union, so it is irrelevant whether we are in or not. In fact there are countries in the EU which we are
wary about passing information to, because we are not certain about what their priorities are.”
Breaking free of the EU stranglehold will actually bring two potentially important security gains: greater
control over immigration from the EU as well as the ability to dump the European Convention on Human
Rights which has cost taxpayers millions of pounds attempting to extradite hate preachers such as Abu
Hamza.
Sir Richard Dearlove, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service from 1999 to 2004, said: “Britain is Europe’s
leader in intelligence and security matters and gives much more than it gets in return. Would Brexit
damage our defence and intelligence service with the United States, which outweighs anything
European by many factors of 10? I conclude confidently that no, it would not.”
Britain will remain an integral ally to European intelligence services and a respected military force on the
world stage outside of this political union. Being part of NATO, the UN Security Council and having the
opportunity to retake our seat at the World Trade Organisation will actually increase our influence
outside of the EU.
27 cross-party reasons to Leave the EU | @DavidSeadon