Discontent In Europe

Protesters at the Lindsey oil refinery in North Lincolnshire. Photo: PA

Wildcat Oil Strikes: Europeans Are Finally Waking Up To The Demise Of Democracy -- The Telegraph

Angry people across the EU are discovering the fine print in all the treaties signed by their leaders, says Janet Daley.

The peoples of Europe have finally discovered what they signed up to. I do mean "peoples" (plural) because however much political elites may deceive themselves, the populations of the member states of the EU are culturally, historically and economically separate and distinct. And a significant proportion of them are getting very, very angry.

What the strikers at the Lindsey oil refinery (and their brother supporters in Nottinghamshire and Kent) have discovered is the real meaning of the fine print in those treaties, and the significance of those European court judgments whose interpretation they left to EU obsessives: it is now illegal – illegal – for the government of an EU country to put the needs and concerns of its own population first. It would, for example, be against European law to do what Frank Field has sensibly suggested and reintroduce a system of "work permits" for EU nationals who wished to apply for jobs here.

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My Comment: With the financial crisis continuing, and every projection predicting severe economic turmoil .... one can only expect more strikes, riots, and voter discontent.