Europe has given up on electoral democracy at the highest and most
powerful levels. A central EU government is now emerging, made up of
centrally appointed commissions just like the ‘soviets’ (councils) of
the old USSR. The whole contraption evades normal democratic checks and
balances, on the historically dangerous assumption that the elites can
be trusted with centralized power without the consent of the governed.
Military and foreign policy control is now scheduled to switch to
Brussels.

The EU is no longer just absurd overregulation of tomatoes and bananas.
It is emerging as a classic imperial enterprise, and the ghosts of
Charlemagne, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin are giving a standing ovation
somewhere in the underworld.

If you are a British citizen, you know that tomorrow your country will
only be a minor province of the European Empire. You don’t even get a
vote in the matter…. European voters are simply too bored or lazy to
care. Survey after survey shows that European voters are supinely
watching their freedoms being sucked away. Forget the Queen, the Magna
Carta, or the City of London in all its idiosyncratic profusion. Forget
the rich and variegated past, but, even if you don’t your children will
be taught to forget it through their identikit school curricula. They
will be abstract ‘Europeans’ – not Brits, not Dutch, Irish or Czechs.
You’ll be a “Euro”, stamped and flattened into uniform sizes,
undifferentiated and completely interchangeable. The planned drowning
of national identities is now so pervasive that no one dares to
question it. It has the momentum of the inevitable. It is the received
wisdom of all the PC Commissars in all the organs of propaganda from
the BBC to Deutsche Welle. In the UK, even the Tories have given up on
Britain’s national identity. Defending Britain is left to fringe
parties, which are routinely smeared and cast into the outer darkness
of electoral life”