Are the British a Servile People? Idealism and the EU
 As we look at the way our country is
governed now and compare it with the situation around the time of the Second
World War, we can see many changes and none for the better.
In this paper it is explained how successive British governments have
surrendered our democracy to layers of international bureaucracy which have
acquired completely unaccountable power over our legal, political, economic
and social decisions. The largest of these transnational bureaucracies is the
United Nations and the most powerful is the European Union, whose aim it is to
turn itself into a post-national state.
This process has, Kenneth Minogue argues, deprived our elected politicians of
real power and taken away their opportunity to behave in a genuinely
statesmanlike manner, leaving them to become involved in make-believe changes
to society, expenses manipulation and general nest-feathering.
Professor Minogue analyses the transnational bureaucracies that add to the
burden of regulation and increasingly control so much of our lives. This
increased meddling, he argues, is creating a feedback loop where ever more
regulations are required in an attempt to undo the damage caused by the
initial unnecessary state interference.
At the heart of the matter, Professor Minogue argues, is the curious form of
idealism that disdains pride in Britain and British culture, preferring to
give allegiance to a far more vaguely defined ideology of internationalism.
This rejection of national sovereignty, and the subsequent embracing of
unaccountable transnational institutions, as advocated by our political
establishment, has led to the British people submitting to more and more
authority which comes dressed as virtue.
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