Wow. If you’re concerned about the goings-on in Europe you should check this out. A UK Parliamentarian goes ballistic on the EU, saying it could lead to civil unrest, revolution, and perhaps a revival of National Socialism.
In the end, he says he has “no allegiance” to the flag of the EU. Pretty powerful stuff.
You know I believe that the only thing that can save Europe is a return to Christianity, the premise on which it was founded. Right now, it’s on a course for ruin. Unless your society is premised on the sacredness of the individual, it will inevitably lead to tyranny.
HT The Corner
May 10, 2012 at 2:46 pm
If MEP Farage is ignored, I believe the EU's slide into economic and
social chaos is inevitable. Did you notice the bored indifference of
the other MEPs in the background? It appears MEP Farage is
being ignored.
May 10, 2012 at 3:07 pm
When I watched this at The Corner, I actually – involuntarily – began clapping along at the end. Farage is a wonderful bellwether for the future of the European (dis)Union.
And, Clinton, I don't think the other MEPs are ignoring him. They are despising him, but trying really hard not to let it show.
May 10, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Similar notion, with more elaboration on who plays what role.
May 10, 2012 at 7:33 pm
I saw another video with him last year–he is awesome!
May 10, 2012 at 7:38 pm
I am not so sure the collapse of the EU was not programmed to give the evil ones the opportunity to seize illegal power. God does not allow corruption.
May 11, 2012 at 2:11 am
At least in the UK Media, Mr Farrage is finally beginning to be treated other than with outright derision. The Eurocrats (rightly) still see him as the enemy to their Project – the "bored" MEPs are trying not to show that what Mr Farrage is saying is of any import or worthy of their engagement. They won't ackowledge his arguments because they are afraid to engage with them.
May 11, 2012 at 2:58 am
The problem is, he's British. And the EU is significantly better than the UK on virtually every issue.
The EU ruled gay marriage is not a civil right and attempting to impose it interferes with religious liberty. Know how UK courts have ruled?
The UK's economic and social policies make the EU look like a supply-side family-values Republican's idea of Utopia. Yes, the EU is bad: but Britain has no right to criticize it. That's like Hitler denouncing Franco.
May 11, 2012 at 4:00 pm
"Unless your society is premised on the sacredness of the individual, it will inevitably lead to tyranny"
Can you someday expand on this odd un-Christian, anthropocentric political philosophy you espouse?
May 11, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Irishman speaking here. Gonna give the author the benefit of the doubt and assume the ''sacredness of the individual'' comment is Freudian slip, probably due to pervasive Americanist influence of the Author's society and shall assume the author meant the sanctity of the human person, not individualism. That said:
UKIP will never be able to spearhead or rally the eurosceptic crowd in either member states, nor in the parliament, no matter how right, correct and prophetic this MEP's passionate speech was nor how loud his ovation was. This is not a direct fault of UKIP itself but a fault of euroscepticism. All eurosceptics broadly agree on the wrongs, evils and dangers of the EU and… well, almost nothing else besides. All eurosceptic parties are from all imagineable strata of political belief, to center right English Conservatives, to left wing Irish Sinn Fein supporters. They are Nationalists, patriots, socialists, anarchists, seperatists, individualists, communists, fascists, right wingers, left wingers, monarchists, democratists and all of them come from all over europe with their own unique blend of socio-political and religio-cultural baggage. In other words, rallying eurosceptics is like herding cats. The most comparable grouping to eurosceptics is the White Russian army, an eclectic grouping of ideologies, nationalities with differing goals and beliefs whose only unifying force was a belief that the spectre of Bolshevism needs to die a horrible, fiery death. And that was before outsider pressure messed up the White Russians even further.
Eurosceptics only really agree on one issue, and that is the EU is not to be trusted. Naturally of course this makes the Europhiles' job easier in daemonising the Eurosceptics but in truth they don't need to do much to achieve their own goals.
May 12, 2012 at 1:44 am
@both Anonymous and Servant of the Chief: Let us be fair. Protestant individualism is a combination of Christian personalism and Renaissance Humanism, taken just a titsch too far. Of course, then again, socialist command economies are just charity and public duty taken a titsch too far—and Nazism is legitimate concern for national security taken a titsch too far—but individualism is, nevertheless, of Christian origin.
The idea does, admittedly, exist in every East Asian society—it's actually the basis of their so-called collectivism, essentially their individualism realizes that all social relations are Nash equilibria (where no party can enhance his own position by acting unilaterally)—but the type of individualism we have in the west is a Christian heresy, not a deduction from Confucianism.