Here are a few quotes on the subject of 'Europe' from a gentleman, now dead in body, but not spirit - I'm even hesitant about putting the name Churchill on the same page as McMillan Scott.
"We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe but not of it. We are
linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed. And
should European statesmen address us in the words that were used of old, 'Shall
I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the Host?', we should reply with
the Shunamite woman 'Nay sir, for we dwell among our own people”
Winston Churchill
And:
"When I have to choose between you and Roosevelt, you should know that I will always choose Roosevelt. And when I have to choose between Europe and the wide open seas... I will always choose the wide open seas."
To Charles de Gaulle
One here for Barry O’Obama – also for our EU freedom hating wannabe fascists:
On the special relationship with America:
"We cannot be blind to the fact that the liberties enjoyed by individual citizens throughout the British Empire are not valid in a considerable number of countries, some of which are very powerful.
In these States control is enforced upon the common people by various kinds of all-embracing police governments.
The power of the State is exercised without restraint, either by dictators or by compact oligarchies operating through a privileged party and a political police.
It is not our duty at this time when difficulties are so numerous to interfere forcibly in the internal affairs of countries which we have not conquered in war.
But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.
All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom.
Here are the title deeds of freedom which should lie in every cottage home. Here is the message of the British and American peoples to mankind."
And, since I’ve summoned up the great man, a message to the fifth columnists and enemies of the British people at the BBC
(From a speech in the House of Commons, February 22, 1933)
"These well-meaning gentlemen of the British Broadcasting Corporation have absolutely no qualifications and no claim to represent British public opinion. They have no right to say that they voice the opinions of English or British people whatever. If anyone can do that it is His Majesty's government; and there may be two opinions about that. It would be far better to have sharply contrasted views in succession, in alteration, than to have this copious stream of pontifical, anonymous mugwumpery with which we have been dosed for so long."
What Churchill would make of vermin such as McMillan-Scott one can only speculate; my guess would be - MINCEMEAT.
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