The Castle of Lies: Why Britain Must Get Out of Europe

THIS BOOK covers an extraordinarily wide range of subjects, mirroring the European Union's attempts at universal control of our national life. Among many other matters, it analyses Major's abortive `beef war', the Common Agricultural Policy fiasco, the Common Fisheries Policy disaster, what the authors call `The single market: the great illusion', VAT (the EU tax), the single currency, the European Court of Justice's role, and the systematic deception practised by the EU and its supporters. The key to understanding the EU is to see that it is an attack on our political independence. All the rest follows from this; if we lose sovereignty, we suffer ever-growing economic damage, agricultural disaster (`set aside', burning crops, grubbing up apple trees), ever-increasing and ever-widening VAT, the destruction of our fishing fleet and of our fish stocks, and the many appalling abuses, absurdities, frauds and extravagances that the authors chronicle.On the drive towards a single European state, they write that, "For the French, the Germans, the Commission and other countries, the move to economic and monetary union agreed at Maastricht was the central thrust of their drive towards the complete integration of the Community into a single state, of which the further additions planned at the IGC, such as a common foreign and defence policy, were only corollaries which must logically follow. Mr Major's refusal to discuss the Single Currency issue had been a crucial part of his strategy to divert British attention from what was really going on in the rest of Europe." They say that the present Government "no more spoke and acted on behalf of the interests and wishes of their fellow-countrymen than the Vichy government had acted for the people of wartime France." During the 1992 election campaign, the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Parties (and, for that matter, the SNP and Plaid Cymru) barely mentioned the Maastricht Treaty. The Treaty aimed to end our economic and monetary sovereignty by imposing Economic and Monetary Union. Monetary Union means a single currency, to be called the euro; Economic Union means a single economic policy, a single taxation and spending policy, which we already know as monetarism. The authors sum up: "In short, the coming of full `Economic and Monetary Union' would mean the most complete surrender of sovereignty any country could contemplate, short of being physically occupied by an enemy power."This book tells us a lot about the way our political leaders have cheated and lied in their efforts to destroy our independence. In 1990, Heath was asked if had in mind `a United States of Europe' when he took us in to the Common Market: he replied, `Of course, yes.' That is not what he said at the time! In 1992, Honourable members and noble Lords solemnly debated and voted for a Treaty that they had not even seen. The Government had not yet published the Maastricht Treaty, and neither Commons nor Lords insisted on seeing it before votin

Christopher Booker's book is the most fascinating story of deception ever published. Anyone who would like to know a little more about Britain's real place in the EU should read this book, and learn of the deceipt, half-truths and outright lies supplied by the shadowy EU figures to give their takeover of half a continent a form of legitamy.If only a tiny percentage of Booker's account is to be believed (and it happens to be fantastically well researched), our new masters in the EU will have finally achieved what Hitler set out to do, and all without a shot being fired.For readers from overseas wondering what all the fuss is about, remember the old Soviet Union? Well this book shows how the EU has adopted many of it's traits. END