Runnymede address for The Freedom Association

Runnymede Address 15th June 2014 for The Freedom Association

The image at the centre of the struggle for freedom 799 years ago was Magna Carta. It was a benign image. The image at the centre of the struggle for freedom today is the European Union. It is a satanic image. Its champions bribe us by the lie that the EU guarantees our personal prosperity, and this lie becomes a threat when they add that, were we to leave the EU, the continent would be plunged into yet another catastrophic war. Bribes and lies, then. Unaccountability. The bureaucratic institutionalising of corruption. The word for all this is totalitarianism. And the word is apt and true because the EU had its origin in the mind of Adolf Hitler and his cronies in the earliest years of the Second World War. This is not another conspiracy theory. This is not paranoia. It is not even mere opinion. It is fact. And I shall now present documented proof from an authority at the highest level.

In his magisterial study Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives, Alan Bullock gives us chapter and verse, dates and times and the names of the people involved – all authenticated by policy papers written at the time. This is what Bullock says:

“As early as May 1940, Hitler’s campaign in the West had given an impetus to discussions of a European Grossraumwirtschaft – an economic sphere of influence. This was in line with Hitler’s insistence that the European economy must be reorganised in such a way as to make Germany economically self-sufficient.. Hitler said, ‘We must conquer to achieve the things we need but lack.’ Hitler said to Todt in June 1940, and Goering instructed Funk to set up a special department in
his Economics Ministry to present plans for what he called ‘a unified European Grossraumwirtschaft under German leadership.

“The heart of this was always seen as the Reich itself expanded by the annexation of Austria, Bohemia-Moravia, Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg, Belgium and the provinces ‘recovered’ from Poland, including Silesia. Most of Europe’s heavy industries were to be concentrated in
this area which would then play the same role in the European economy as the Ruhr had in Germany. Apart from that, the rest of the conquered territories would produce food for the guaranteed German
market. Centralised planning, including the control of credit and labour, would create an international economy tailored to suit the needs of the Germans.”

Now that’s quite a bit of detail for us to chew on. There’s more, a lot more. Bullock, quoting from Nazi documents of the time, adds:

“All the occupied territories were required to pay levies. These had to be paid, as in all other transactions with the Germans, at an artificially high rate of exchange fixed in favour of the Reichsmark.”

That was decreed back in 1940. In 2014 the people of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain are experiencing the agony of it in the form of the imposed currency the Euro. Bullock further reports:

“The gold and foreign currency reserves of occupied countries were taken over and their banking systems manipulated to give the Germans control over the issue of bank notes and the granting of credits.”

There you have the origins of the European Central Bank.

I continue to quote from Bullock’s revelatory account:

“Industry in the occupied territories was controlled by a system of licences for raw materials and fuel; agriculture in western and south east Europe, through the local ministries of agriculture.”

Yes, Professor Bullock, we know: nowadays it’s called the Common Agricultural Policy.

Also:

“Goering planned the European economy of the future by setting up integrated structures aimed at controlling production in the aluminium, coal and oil industries on a European-wide scale. Plans for
other European production controls were drawn up in textiles, iron and steel and chemicals.”

Bullock’s book was first published in 1991 and it has gone into five editions. Has none of our pro-EU politicians, sycophantic media commentators and avid federalists read it? Seventy years on, we know the truth: what Hitler failed to achieve by force or arms, what the Kaiser failed to achieve by the same means in 1914, and Bismarck
before him in 1870, successive German Chancellors, the latest being Angela Merkel, have achieved by economic muscle and the centralised bureaucracy of the EU: control of all Europe from the Baltic states to the Atlantic seaboard.

In 1945 Hitler was finally put down and the people of England rejoiced. This was not the end of totalitarianism, as we thought at the time, but only its perpetuation, its solidifying into the strangulating tyranny of the EU.

We need a new Great Charter. A charter of freedom. Better off out!