The EU followed Starmer by kissing the ring of the emperor but only one sold their people out - Alex Story

She is, in short, in charge of a dangerous fiction.

Dangerous because our experts have wasted enormous amounts of real capital, resources and energy on forcing powerful mid-sized European nations to transition into regions of a semi, half-baked, Frankenstein Federation.

Without popular approbation, this transition could only be achieved through a brutish accumulation of centralised, and therefore corruptible, regulations, known as “les acquis communautaires”, in which “turning the clock back” is understood as the greatest sin.

In other words, the EU was designed not to be reformable.

In the institution’s view, the peoples of Europe, deeply wedded to their nations, are the constant problem.

If the goal is “ever closer union”, they must be bypassed.

As Charles De Gaulle, the last Great Frenchman, remarked, the organisation is filled with people who are “appointed by governments but who immediately swear not to take any instructions from them, and who therefore are not even accountable to those governments”.

It is designed to work against the interests of the nation-state and work for those of an artificial collective.

What was once called treason was therefore institutionalised.

Further, before building an institution, granting it powers, the General opined, “one must first know who is responsible for what, and to whom”.

To answer De Gaulle’s half-asked question is that the European Union, and those who swear by it, is responsible to no one and dedicated mainly to its own aggrandisement to the detriment of its component parts.

Pooling sovereignty, it turns out, is merely throttling it, reducing in the process the whole continent, the former light of the world, to rubble.

It is caught in a vicious process of a slow but cruel and manifest process of debilitating decline.

We must be ready for ever greater humiliations.

More than half a century of experimentation and costly transitioning surgery on the body politic of Western Europe has left us neither beast nor fowl.

Trump’s simple bluntness showed beyond doubt that the European Union and the deluded vision to which our homegrown internationalist fifth columnists are currently in control of Great Britain still cleave, has been a civilisational catastrophe.

Not so long ago, in 1980, the nine countries that made up the European Community, as it was then called, had combined economies equal to that of the United States.

It was a dynamic, multi-currency group of countries still focused on their individual national interests. The cancerous tumour was there, of course, but it was benign. The patient was still in fine form.

Now, the US is nearly 50 per cent bigger than an expanded European Union, with the per capita difference closing in on 90 per cent or $40 000 per year.

An average American earns 56 per cent more than an average Brit, 70 per cent more than a Frenchman, and 107 per cent more than an Italian.

In short, when Trump met Ursula and later Starmer, he smashed the EU fiction to smithereens with one big pair of real stones, finally forcing our elites to take note.

The staunchest supporters of the European Project, such as Draghi, can see the problem. As he wrote in his report on Competitiveness in September 2024, the European Union is failing on all fronts.

No strategy, only regulation.

His solution then, however, was to call for a tightening of the noose around the national hostages, not to free them.

Now that the scales have fallen from all our eyes and that our servitude has been exposed such that even the ideologically blinded can see, it is time to take the institution to the back of the shed, giving it its last rites and put it out of its misery.

Once gone, just like the Berlin Wall when it crumbled, it will be remembered as an aberration.

Miracles, we must believe, do happen.