The EU – a new Weimar Republic

Corporatism in all EU countries now allows big corporations (not voters) to buy influence and dictate legislation, either at the national or European level. The very definition of democratic sovereignty has disappeared. Political correctness has silenced those who wish to object. Police intrusion into individual lives on the basis of authoritarian and usually badly drafted laws (nodded through by professional politicians paid by the State to control the people) has become ever more objectionable. The “major” parties are despised and abstentions have risen as have the votes for minor parties.

EUObserver reports that the Dutch general election has shown big gains for three anti European Union parties. The Christian Union, a protestant party, doubled its support. The Socialist Party (to the left of the Dutch Labour Party) and the right wing anti immigration party both did very well while the ruling Christian Democrats lost seats but remained the biggest Party and the Labour Party lost badly.

Indeed the two major parties, Labour and Christian Democrats, (the equivalent of the Labour and Conservative Parties in Britain) could not form a Government even if their seats were combined.

The two issues which have driven the Dutch voters away from the Establishment parties were the European Union and mass immigration. Labour lost to the anti EU Socialist Party and the Christian Democrats lost to the Christian Union while the votes of the Liberal Party seem to have gone to the anti immigration party whose leader Geert Wilders was once a Liberal.

This is not as surprising as it might sound for in Britain many years ago a study was done on the attitudes of Liberal Party voters and it was found that they had much in common with Nazism. This is not surprising since Nazism and Fascism are “third way” parties and attract the protest votes of Conservatives who think the Conservative Party is not nationalist enough and socialists who think the Labour Party is not socialist enough. These two groups tend to have in common an authoritarian streak which seeks greater state power, the former to tackle crime and the latter to tackle the economy.

However the most disturbing aspect of the Dutch elections for the British Labour and Conservative Parties is that (just as in the UK since the second world war the two major British parties have lost so much support that even together they cannot now attract 50% of the voters) so the Dutch Labour and Christian Democrat Parties cannot together form a majority in the Dutch Parliament.

We all know the reasons why both countries are heading towards a kind of Weimar Republic with all the dangers of extreme parties coming to power and the country, in the words of the Dutch Premier Mr Balkenende, becoming ungovernable. The EU has made elections meaningless since all the power now resides with un-elected bureaucrats in Brussels and the un-elected European Court of Justice. Corporatism in all EU countries now allows big corporations (not voters) to buy influence and dictate legislation, either at the national or European level. Political correctness has silenced those who wish to object. Police intrusion into individual lives on the basis of authoritarian and usually badly drafted laws (nodded through by professional politicians paid by the State to control the people) has become ever more objectionable. The “major” parties are despised and abstentions have risen as have the votes for minor parties.

Unemployment is now rising fast even in Britain where it has since the early 1990s been far lower than elsewhere in the EU. In France unemployment among the over 50s has been as high as 60% while the German economy (unemployment 10%, nearly 30% in parts of the East) is heading for another recession.

If anyone had set out to bring back the Weimar Republic and the prospects of another rise in Fascism and Nazism it is the eurofederalist buffoons of the European Superstate. Holland and France have awoken to their scheme and rejected it. The British people never subscribed to it. But since when did the new fascism in Brussels give one thought to democratic accountability? That is precisely why the only way out is an almighty explosion!

Rodney Atkinson
November 2006