Britain's Future Will Be Decided By The French On May 29th 2005


Vernon Coleman


The future of the British people will be decided not by last Thursday's general election but by the French referendum on the EU constitution - due to be held on May 29th.

If the French vote `Non' to the EU Constitution (as all opinion polls suggest they will) Blair's new Government will renege on its long-standing promise to give British voters a chance to express their views on the EU. Blair will claim that the French `Non' makes a British vote unnecessary.

But if the French vote `Non' they will simply be forced to vote again. (As happened in Denmark when the Danes rejected the Masstrich Treaty and later in Ireland when the Irish rejected the Nice Treaty.)

And since the `Non' vote on May 29th will be a personal anti-Chirac vote (rather than an anti EU vote) it is certain that the French, when offered a second chance to save the Common Agricultural Policy, will vote `Oui'.

Meanwhile, Blair will have avoided the embarrassment of a British referendum on the new EU constitution - a referendum which would be certain to result in such an overwhelming `No' vote that a second referendum would be pointless.

The result, therefore, is that a French `Non' vote on May 29th 2005 will result in the EU constitution being ratified without Britons having an opportunity to protest. Britain will disappear into the new United States of Europe. And the British people will have had no chance to vote on their future.

For this reason we must hope that the French vote `Oui' on May 29th. It is our only chance of getting out of the EU. Our future depends on the French.

If the French vote `Non' on May 29th the result will be that Britain (and England) will disappear as the new EU superstate evolves. Scotland and Wales already have their own `regional' parliaments to prepare them as EU regions. (The Scots and the Welsh foolishly and quite erroneously think that their parliaments are a step towards independence.) England will be divided into nine regions. Last year's vote in the North East which resulted in a vote against a North East regional assembly was a sham. The nine regional assemblies already exist. Members of the secret regional assemblies are unelected but have considerable powers.

What happens in France on May 29th is infinitely more important to Britain and the British than what happened in the general election on May 5th.


Vernon Coleman is the author of England Our England and Saving England, both available from the webshop on this site and from good bookshops everywhere.



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