I'm told that Roland Rudd was on the idiots' lantern last night, sharing his ignorance about "fax law" with the Question Time audience. We also ger Reuters desperate to parade its ignorance in a "factbox" article which tells us that Switzerland and Norway "have to follow much of the bloc's rules but have no power to influence them".

Today's pride of place, though, goes to Gavin Barrett in an opinion piece in the Irish Times, discussing possibility of British exit from the EU. Here, Barrett acknowledges that a Norway-type relationship with the EU with full access to the single market is conceivable, but he then goes on to write: "Norway is effectively in a 'fax union' with the EU – accepting EU regulations without any say in their shaping – as the price for single market access".

So pervasive is this myth that we even have the erudition of Conservative Home poured into the problem, with no expense spared. But not one commentator, any one of which might elsewhere glibly talk about "globalisation", shows any shred of understanding of the background to this issue, and quite how important it is.

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My bold. Are we sure that the politico-media bubble barely understands it? If Obama gets it then our politicos surely get it too; I can understand the media missing the point but many of the 'inners' and 'faux-outers' must be aware and probably fully supportive of it too.

It is easier to assess what people do know, than what they don't. My impression is that there is an enormous amount of ignorance here. No one has pulled together the big picture. Lot's of people know bits of it, but they don't see how their bits fit in with the others.

Well said, sir! And do you honestly doubt that the Media is fully supportive of One World Government as well?

Depends what you mean by 'Media'; the owners of said media, probably yes, inasmuch as they then qualify as business corporates. Among the 'hacks' probably not; as Richard says there will be a lot of ignorance.



Indeed, although I find it hard to believe that the upper levels of our satrapy (eg Cameron, civil service heads) do not know the bigger picture.

There's a hierarchy to the "international overlords" ... several layers there, as well.

Who funds all these non-entities to sit around chatting and deciding how we all should live? It must appear in accounts somewhere.

For my sins I watched Question Time.

Painting Norway and Switzerland as victims of Fax Regulation came across, very much as a fact. The EUWhores are going to use that threat constantly against us, they have obviously decided that is something that they can use to scare the general public with. Your paper is going to be a vital rebuttal, to what will plainly be a central plank of their arguement.

They also have the advantage that the Norwegian politicians will confirm their lie.

I watched it too, Roland Rudd gave a complete travesty of the truth and no one contradicted him. I can only assume Farage enjoys being a MEP and really has no interest in his supposed task.
He had an open goal there, he could have slaughtered Rudd, but he failed.
Farage ought to have anticipated the Norway question and been ready.

Mischievously, I suggest that we need to redouble our efforts, because it's plain that more governance is needed in order to correct the shortcomings in present governance.

If we introduce more layers, our new layers can gently guide the existing ones to a better performance.

Meanwhile I take heart from Dr North's observation that there is a hierarchy to our International Overlords. Organising the personal affairs of several billion people must be a demanding task, and it's good to know that there are structures in place to manage what will soon be a perfect world.