House of Cards

David Cameron is a non entity in the true sense of the words. One of the few things we know about him is that with the name Cameron he is yet another of Scottish extraction. We also know that he went to Eton and Oxford. What of value he did at Oxford we do not know. It appears that he was in the habit of dining expensively and he may or may not have become acquainted with cocaine. From these few things inferences may be drawn which are totally misleading. We do not know whether he is Protestant or RC and let nobody pretend that that is not an important matter. We do not know where he stands on anything of importance yet he could be put into a position where, with the compliance of a supine Party, perhaps mollified by the prospect of patronage he could do as he likes for 5 years.

Cameron is no more a Conservative than Blair was a Socialist. Like Blair he is of a new breed, a willing tool, with vast rewards in prospect prepared to use the Conservative Party, if it is daft enough, to serve the purposes of a political elite which is at odds with the population, not only in the UK, but throughout continental Europe. That elite is rotten to the core.

Vol. 30 No. 4 of the International Currency Review (the journal of the international financial community published in London) carried some startling allegations. If the editor was not totally reckless those statements must have got past the legal advisors whose task it is to see that nothing is printed which could lead to the financial destruction of the journal in the courts. It is fair to assume that the evidence backing the allegations was strong enough to satisfy the lawyers that it would stand up to examination.

Nothing has been printed in the national press or reported on radio or television concerning these allegations. It is reasonable to assume that they are the subject of a D notice which is a long standing device used by government and respected by editors to suppress any mention of matters deemed to be security sensitive. It has also been used, for example, during the King Edward VIII/Wallis Simpson affair, and again during the Princess Margaret/Peter Townsend affair to suppress matters which were no more than embarrassing. Then as now the only people in the world who did not know what was going on were the British public. If it is being used now it is to suppress matters of supreme national importance.

It is alleged that in 1938, before the second world war, Edward Heath, Geoffrey Ripon and Roy Jenkins were recruited by Arnold Toynbee into German Intelligence whilst they were at Balliol College Oxford. It is further alleged that the Master of Balliol became aware of it and reported it to MI5 but that no action was taken.

After the war, in which Edward Heath served in the Honourable Artillery Company, Messrs Heath, Ripon and Jenkins found their way into Parliament. In due course Heath became leader of the Conservative Party, Prime Minister and prime mover in getting the UK into the Common Market. His Lieutenant was Geoffrey Ripon and Roy Jenkins had an important role to play.

In Parliament Edward Heath encountered considerable opposition from Conservatives amongst whom Enoch Powell was prominent as well as from the bulk of the Labour Party. Roy Jenkins who was leader of about 50 Labour MPs who were in favour of the Common Market, using different members in different votes so as not to reveal the conspiracy, ensured that the European Communities Bill 1972 was never defeated on the floor of the House of Commons. To achieve this he clandestinely arranged with Conservative whips to provide the necessary numbers.

Edward Heath and Geoffrey Ripon signed the Treaty of Accession. Roy Jenkins became President of the Common Market Commission and later Chancellor of the University of Oxford - a post now held by another member of the elite, Christopher Patten.

It is alleged that the signatories of the Treaty of Brussels and those prominently involved were substantially rewarded in secret. It is also alleged that the signatories of subsequent treaties have been similarly rewarded to the present day.

The International Currency Review names a slush fund based in Switzerland from which 5 billion dollars were made available to procure the European Constitution. From that amount 100 million dollars for each of the 25 member states was to be paid to politicians and officials with a similar amount available on ratification. If these allegations are well founded it is a very serious matter. As the IRC points out, under the Vienna Convention on Treaties dated 1969 any treaty obtained by fraud or corruption can be declared invalid by invoking the fraud. Great Britain could walk away from the EU tomorrow. It really would be a House of Cards.

If these allegations were unsound it would also be a serious matter because the names of those impugned should be cleared before the bar of history. It is not a good sign that the Serious Fraud Office is apparently unwilling, although provided with abundant documentary proof, to investigate. Perhaps it already knows what would be found.

Much is made of the adverse effects of corrupt governance on the continent of Africa. Unfortunately Europe leads the way and we see from current reports that the USA may not be far behind.

For the last 13 years the EU accounts have not been signed off by their own auditors. In that time one complete Commission has been sacked for corruption (that of Jacques Santer). Nothing has changed. Mr Santer is still on the payroll presently as MEP for Luxembourg.

According to MEPs in the know as much as 80% of expenditure is not properly accounted for. Funds allocated for particular projects just disappear and nobody cares. Bernard Connolly, an economist within the EU, wrote a courageous book giving details of corruption in the system. He was of course sacked but nothing changes. Marta Andreason was appointed Chief Accountant but after 5 months trying to create some sort of order she gave up and blew the whistle. She was sacked, vilified and penalised in every possible way. Nothing changes.

This is the black hole into which Prime Minister Blair recently saw fit to tip a further £1 billion of taxpayers money. At the same time ,in the UK, we cannot afford the Health Service or to provide half decent pensions and much besides.

The British electorate tolerates this waste of resources by constantly re-electing the same people. No doubt there are some well meaning MPs but the system is corrupt and it is a disease caught from Europe.

Those who stay away from the polls have little effect. It is a slight embarrassment that barely 50% of the electorate takes part in elections but what is a little embarrassment once in five years when the pickings are so good.

It is perhaps harsh to blame the electorate when its sources of information are skewed to preserve a system of which press, radio and television are a part. Those who work in the media have seen what happens to an Andrew Gilligan who takes his job seriously and reports what he has taken the trouble to find out instead of just passing on the official line.

For a long time the 3 party system has been a con. It presents false alternatives. It makes little difference which is chosen. The system wins. With the arrival of David Cameron it seems that there is a move to institutionalise the arrangement by creating cloned parties which agree to ignore the public and in future will only be able to quarrel about who has the red boxes and the limousines and who controls the patronage which is the polite name for bribery

The electorate has some serious thinking to do about how it can deal with the situation which confronts it. What it cannot sensibly do is to continue to elect the same people who have deceived, betrayed, cheated and lied at every turn.

It is to be hoped that if these revelations are true, as seems to be more than likely, the scales which have long clouded the vision of the British will drop from their eyes and they will see at last that almost at the moment when, by their courage and fortitude, they had triumphed over the fiercest onslaught ever mounted against them they were attacked by deceitful enemies within who have given away piecemeal the freedoms for which so much blood and treasure were sacrificed.

It is to be hoped that they will not be intemperate in their anger.