WHY should anybody bother with a referendum to change a constitution and a parliament which have already been reduced to a shadow of themselves by Brussels?
I’m referring to Italy’s autumn constitutional vote that will also decide whether Matteo Renzi will stay on as Prime Minister. Sovereignty lies elsewhere in the EU, not in national assemblies any longer.
If British Remainers spent just half a day looking at what kind of a hellish prison the eurozone and EU supranational Treaties are - you’d be left speechless now.
Here’s a metaphor to explain:
Imagine a massive slavery farm in XIX Century Louisiana, where slaves in barrack N.18 decide to do some minor renovation to their miserable home.
Will that change anything for them? Slaves are and slaves those in N.18 will remain, that way.
Do you think their masters will be concerned with the new lick of paint the slaves have added to their dilapidated home?
That’s exactly the situation Italy is finding itself in, in this disgraceful EU dictatorship as the referendum approaches. So who is this palaver supposed to give a headache to?
As I said, PM Renzi wants to alter the composition and functions of his Parliament that under Brussels’ supranational Treaties has already been emasculated of all its chief prerogatives.
Here are a few facts.
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The de-facto EU constitution, the Lisbon Treaty, dictates the supremacy of EU law over any national legislation. There we have it: when it comes to the real stuff it’s Brussels that rules, not our MPs.
My parliament is even forbidden from seeing the budget without the previous go ahead of unelected technocrats in the European Commission (as per the European Semester Treaty).
Can you believe that, Brexiters?
Can you believe that, Brexiters?
According to Lisbon, European Union parliaments must pursue the interest of Europe in their home countries BEFORE taking care of the national one (Art. 8c, TEU).
Italian elected politicians have literally no saying in fiscal policy and taxation (Fiscal Compact Treaty).
My country’s lower house and the senate are already reduced to an impotent cosmetic affair in this deplorable Union, so they could paint them blue and pink and turn them upside down, who cares?
Italian elected politicians have literally no saying in fiscal policy and taxation (Fiscal Compact Treaty).
My country’s lower house and the senate are already reduced to an impotent cosmetic affair in this deplorable Union, so they could paint them blue and pink and turn them upside down, who cares?
Tragically, our constitution too has itself been emasculated by EU power.
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Here’s the Lisbon Treaty again: “In Opinion 1/91 of the European Court of Justice, the European Treaties are described as the ‘Constitutional Charter’ of a Community of Law, for the sake of which the States have limited their sovereign rights”.
Nice being one of Brussels’ personal slaves, isn’t it?
Then contrast that with recent claims that PM Renzi’s referendum defeat would pave the way for “euorosceptic parties to form a new government, namely the steamrolling Five Stars Movement lead by Beppe Grillo”.
Absurd.
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In fact a comprehensive Italexit strategy did appear atop the economics agenda that Five Star members voted on - only to be ignored by Mr Grillo for years.
Today the movement’s official party line on the EU is loud and clear: work in Brussels to reform Brussels.
Italy’s puny and shambolic eurosceptic parties command almost no chance to even get votes above the electoral threshold.
As for the dire economic predictions following a no vote against PM Renzi, well, they make me laugh.
How much worse could they make it for Italy in Eurohell?
Nevertheless, financial giants like Citi, Pimco, J.P. Morgan Chase, Societe Generale have all issued warnings through investors papers that are meant to tell the Italian electorate the following: if you vote ‘the wrong way’, meaning a no to EU servant Renzi, we’ll smash your knee caps.
Don’t be fooled by the subtlety of the financial jargon they used in the papers, published by Bloomberg on July 6.
Threats are there: “If the constitutional referendum doesn’t go through… Italian government bonds may sell off”; “The No vote could result in the appointment of a technocratic government by 2017” (read: yet another unelected EU man at the helm in Rome); “Italy’s prospects are clouded by risks related to the October referendum and banking-sector woes, as well as the impact of Brexit on trade and uncertainty”.
But Italy, a formely rich and propserous country, now has European Unification to thank for 4.5million people living in abject poverty, 40,4 per cent youth unemployment, zero access to health care for one citizen out of five, a 25 per cent drop in GDP and the most pronounced collapse in consumption since the Second World War.
Those threats don’t impress me.
Those threats don’t impress me.
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It’s like telling a corpse that if he doesn’t behave you are going to shoot him.
And don’t you worry about the so called ‘nuclear threat’ of our Monte dei Paschi bank going bust.
Mario Draghi, the world’s most renowned ‘zombie assets’ resuscitator, will take care of that too.
Bottom line is that this October referendum will change nothing in our national tragedy.
No Italexit from Eurohell, I’m afraid.
No Italexit from Eurohell, I’m afraid.
Mr Barnard, I admire your obvious heartfelt passion clearly expressed in highlighting the dictatorial nature of the Brussels Bureaucrat Mafia, but I can't understand your seeming tone of indignation that this is happening to Italy, seeing as it was one of the founding signatories of the 1957 Treaty of Rome, which social experiment gave life to this political Frankenstein monster, now running amok out of control, and causing the ruination of Europe.
A generation such as yourself must have grown up already being aware that Italy had fully committed to surrender its national sovereignty as part of the eventually intended EU single 'Superstate'.
As evidence, I refer you to the ex-Labour leader, Hugh Gaitskill, and his party conference speech in Brighton, in 1962, where for about an hour, he rigorously listed the potential negative aspects of the UK joining any such European entity, and one of the consequences he focused on was the loss of national sovereignty. By the way, Mr Gaitskill's warning probably cost him his life, because he died of a rare disease 4 months later, and nobody could explain how he contracted it, but that's another story.
Now, if Mr Gaitskill knew of this 54 years ago, then it's a bit late in the day for this matter to be a surprise to anyone, especially someone coming from one of the 6 founding nations.
However, the British people were deliberately misled by Heath over the question of sovereignty prior to the UK's 1975 EEC referendum, which deception he later admitted, so at least we do have more of a reason to plead misunderstanding in our defense.
In closing Mr Barnard, I'm sure you're also well aware that the EU was conceived as the brainchild of the Bilderberg founders in 1954, and that the eventual goal, beyond the single European 'Superstate', is the imposition of a 'One World Government', which is why Europe is now being systematically destroyed economically, ethnically, and nationally, using massive financial debt and unregulated Moslem migration as the twin lethal weapons of mass destruction.
Renzi, Merkel, Hollande, are ALL Bilderberg chosen, and politically infiltrated puppets, as was Cameron. Their guiding tenet is ORDO AB CHAO (order out of chaos), a chaos they first create, then impose the order, THEIR version of order, under THEIR control.
Mr Barnard, we are in an information war, and now is the time to tell those who will listen, and have the intelligence to understand, of what has really been going on for a very long time.
This is a crucial year for the world. Putin and Trump both know what the Globalists intend to do, which is to incite civil unrest, spread terrorism, induce public fear, and cause economic upheaval around the world, possibly leading to WW3, and the chances of stopping it are in the balance.
Good luck with your endeavours to expose the EU dictatorship to the Italian people.
