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| Britain loses yet another case in the European Court! |
A quietly issued ruling by The
European Court means that Britain
could face having to pay benefits to Turkish migrants and their families. Britain sought to exercise an opt-out from the
EU-Turkey agreement and took the case the European Court where the UK Government had argued it should be allowed to opt
out of an agreement giving workers from Turkey the same benefit rights as
those from the EU.
Ministers feared the Brussels
‘power grab’ would make Britain
an even more attractive destination for immigrants and would lead to higher
spending on welfare payments and pensions. This ruling means any Turks who are allowed to
come to Britain
to work will be able to claim benefits for themselves and their families as
well as building up pensions, which they could then transfer back to their home
countries if they retire there. Of course, they still have to obtain a visa and
right to work which is anything but easy here these days, unless you are
Somalian, Nigerian or such-like!
Whether or not in reality,
Britain does end up shelling out a pile of cash in this direction is far from
certain, for whilst there are a great many Turkish people already living in the
UK, indeed many are friends and near-neighbours of this columnist, 100% of
these are working, some running their own businesses and very much ‘in the
system’ so to speak, in so far as they fully account for their taxes and
so forth. So is this a Mail on Sunday/UKIP scare-mongering story? Some might
argue this to be the case, but perhaps we should look deeper, for the UK does seem to
be on the losing end of most analogous cases where the European Court gets involved. Ironically,
this simply adds fuel to the Out of Europe campaign, one which is fervently
supported by the writer.
Britain is in many ways a
unique member-state of the European Union in as much as it is not only one of
the largest net contributors to the entire cabal, it is the only nation that
failed to allow its electorate a vote on whether we joined or not. The
referendum in 1973 was for the Common Market, the EU followed the EEC which is
something else we didn’t get a vote on either.
It is here argued that the
primary reason why successive governments have not allowed a vote on further
and deeper European integration is because each has known intuitively, that the
outcome of the vote would be resoundingly negative AND in the event that we do
get an in-out vote in 2017, it is likely that more than two-thirds of the
electorate will vote in favour of leaving and this writer will cast his vote in
a like-manner too. Of course, this materially depends on our having a Tory
government next May and as things stand, this is far from a certainty although
at least the weak, pro-Federal EU Lib Dems are likely to cease to exist
post-May 2015 and this has to be a good thing.
The main thrust of the argument
being made within this article has nothing to do with the limited possibility
that we might have to make payouts to Turkish migrants. It is more that the UK has slowly
but surely lost its ability to govern its own affairs. More and more
legislative powers are being ceded via the Channel Tunnel to what is effectively
a foreign entity and a non-democratic one at that. Britain
more than just contributed to winning two World Wars yet Germany has in
effect, gained far more pan-European dominance in peace time than could ever
have been so achieved in war! Some politicians actually want a Federal EU and
these are not limited to the Lib-Dem benches either as there are both Tory and
Labour MP’s who share this ambition. Indeed the Prime Minister himself is
intuitively pro-EU although not, thankfully a Federalist.
To quote Winston
Churchill in respect of Europe, consider these words: "We are with Europe, not of it. We are linked but not compromised. We
are interested and associated, but not absorbed."
By
Chris Green
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| Beşparmak Media Services |
