Poor Ireland ! Poor Europe ! Only 16 months ago the people of Ireland in a nation-wide referendum voted against the Treaty of Lisbon (2007) which would have drawn Ireland more tightly into the European Union (EU), but this popular "No" was not the decision that the politicians of Ireland and Europe wanted. So they made a few concessions, imposed a new referendum and got last week the vote they needed. Now the way is clear for a massive reform to stream-line decision-making in Brussels, and to increase the European Commission's central power at the expense of each member State's ability to veto its decisions.
What over a third of all eligible Irish voters seem to have chosen last week was surely the material prosperity and consumerism unknown in Ireland before it joined the EU in 1973. Contrast Dr Salazar, the devout Catholic leader of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Knowing that life, politics and even economics are not just about cheap flights to golden beaches, he preferred for his country
"poverty, but independence", primarily from the international banksters. Their vile media promptly branded him as a
"fascist dictator", but the Portuguese people happily followed him, because it was the revival of their Catholic piety by Fatima (1917) which had brought Salazar to power in the first place.
Yet only 16 years after he died, Portugal joined the EU. Truly the onward march of God's enemies in today's world seems inexorable. Any attempt to resist their drive towards the Antichrist cuts more and more the figure of a sandcastle resisting the incoming tide. If it is well built, like Salazar's Portugal, it lasts for a few moments, but give it a few more moments and it too vanishes beneath the waves washing over it. So all Europe is locking itself into the godless New World Order, for football and beaches !
Poor Europe ! If anybody wants to know what is really going on inside the ever mightier European government in Brussels,
"behind the gloss and the tinsel and the avalanche of publications telling us how wonderful and indispensable the EU is", they should order from
info@stewardspress.co.uk the short and well-written
"Brussels Laid Bare" by Mrs Marta Andreasen, Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Hired by the EU to work from January of 2002 as Chief Accountant responsible for the entire EU budget, she tells how she immediately ran up against such wholesale maladministration of EU finances that, professionally, she could not
"go along to get along". She was rapidly isolated and discredited, and within five months she was sacked for having tried to do her job properly.
From first-hand experience she writes that Brussels is an extra layer of government
"lawless, corrupt, mistaken, undemocratic, bureaucratic, over-regulated and, ultimately, unworkable". This she attributes to there being in the EU virtually no accountability. Does it occur to her that the EU may have hidden masters that positively want corrupt servants, rather easier to manipulate ? There is no trace of any such suspicion in her book. She professes her resolve to fight on as an MEP. Alas, faithless Europe hardly deserves her kind any longer, but if she does fight on, in one way or another she risks being washed over, through her children if necessary...
Kyrie eleison.
+ Richard Williamson
London, England