All patriots must oppose the European Union’s “super army” which creates the frightening prospect of foreign troops having the right to enforce, through military means, unjust EU laws in Britain. This warning was sounded by the BNP’s EU spokesman, Tim Rait, as the EU approves the creation of the so-called “Synchronised Armed Force Europe” (SAFE) plan in Brussels today.
“They are telling the public that this is just a ‘coordinated European military force,’ but it is much more than that. It is the abandonment of our rights to our own army and to protect our own borders,” Mr Rait said.
According to a report before the EU today, written by German MEP and proponent of the SAFE super army, Karl von Wogau, the EU “needs to develop its strategic autonomy through a strong and effective foreign, security and defence policy.
“This is needed,” Mr Von Wogau says, “in order to promote peace and international security, to defend its interests in the world, to protect the security of its own citizens.”
Furthermore, SAFE proposes that it has “freedom of operational action.”
It is this last sentence which poses the greatest threat to Britain’s national sovereignty, said Mr Rait.
“Imagine an EU army having the right to enter Britain to enforce one of their crazy anti-democratic laws made up by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels,” he said.
“Certain EU states have a long tradition of just banning parties they do not like. Germany in particular has banned parties almost continually from 1934 right through to the present day. Belgium banned the Vlaams Blok only a few years ago.
“What would stop the Brussels monster from deciding to ban parties which oppose the EU? And then using its army to enforce that ban in any of its member nations?”
Mr Rait pointed out that there are not only freedom of speech issues in peril with this further extension of EU military might, but it also raises the worrying problem of what that union’s reaction should be if Britain or any other nation should ever try to regain its independence.
“Then there is also the issue of who is going to pay for this EU-commanded army. The British taxpayer already shells out billions to keep the EU gang alive on its artificial respirator.
“How many more billions will be poured into this EU army while British people suffer economic deprivations, closing NHS services and other trepidations at home?
“It is essential that we keep control of our own armed forces,” Mr Rait said. “We want a British army, staffed by British people defending Britain, no more, no less.”
* Tim Rait is the BNP’s lead Euro Election candidate in the South East. He has had an extensive international career in Europe and elsewhere in the international trade and commerce sectors, focussing on international shipping. He speaks fluent French and regularly undertakes trips to the Continent and the United States on behalf of the party. He was also the BNP’s groundbreaking candidate in the Henley constituency which saw the Labour Party defeated by the BNP for the first time in a parliamentary by-election.