02/11/2010
What is incredible is how blatant it all is, and how easily they
lie through their teeth as they "insist" that this will not give the European Union a role in Britain's defence policy. Despite their denials, Liam Fox is in the process of selling us out to the forces of European integration, cosying up to his boss David Cameron in the process.
A treaty creating a new joint Anglo-French rapid reaction force would serve both countriesâ interests in a world "where resources are tight", he says, as his traitorous master is set to announce the creation of a new Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF) of around 6,500 troops from the two countries under a 50-year deal for closer military "co-operation".
It is expected to include units from the Parachute Regiment, the Royal Marines and Special Forces including the SAS, as well as their French counterparts. The CJEF, they say, is the centrepiece of a new Anglo-French military co-operation treaty being unveiled by Mr Cameron and President Sarkozy at a summit in London today.
Needless to say, this "new" Combined Joint Expeditionary Force is not new. It is simply a battle group, along the lines
agreed in 2004 as the core part of the European Rapid Reaction Force. Under the guise of "economy", Mr Cameron is selling out to the "colleagues", doing more for European integration in his first year of office than Blair did in thirteen. Of course, the
some are wittering on about this being "a bilateral, not a supranational endeavour," which is something of an insult to our intelligence.
This is a continuation of the Maastricht Treaty agenda, as this
briefing note makes clear. Agreed by the Tories under John Major, this set up the parameters for the development of a European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). The process continued with the Franco-British meeting in Saint-Malo (France) in December 1998. That was when London and Paris agreed to jointly and actively work to make the European Union "able to carry out some security tasks on its own".
During the period 1999-2003, the EU set up relevant political-military structures to assess, decide, plan and execute military operations and now it is "moving ahead" to embark on a "second round". And that is what this is, the "second round" - building the ESDP, planning and organising new military "cooperation" and integration among EU member states. The current move is the Trojan Horse or, as the "colleagues" say, the catalyst.
With it, our military heritage is being sold down the river by Mr Cameron. These are black days. We are surrounded by
fools who've woken up too late, even if, from the
Daily Mail comments, it looks as if our masters may have over-reached themselves.
