I’ve been a Member of the European Parliament now for two years. It’s safe to say that I have an inside view on how the EU works and the sort of people running its institutions.
I hope that those who vote to remain are fully aware of what they are voting for.
Voting remain is not a vote for the status quo, but the opposite. We’re not at a crossroads, but rather a T-Junction. We have to turn either left or right. Staying on the same road is no longer an option.
On my first day as an MEP, my UKIP colleagues and I walked into the chamber to watch the opening of the EU Parliament.
We watched as the EU fanatics sang the EU national anthem and raised the EU flag, high and proud. It focused my mind on why I was there, why I quit my job in the City and why the people of the North West elected me.
Actions like raising the flag and singing its own anthem shows that the EU is acting like a nation state. It wants to be a single country, a United States of Europe, and the way it does that is by slowly introducing legislation that will edge us towards the creation of a single European state, economically and politically.
Think of the things that we identify with being a nation-state. A parliament, a standing army, a flag, a national anthem, a tax system, a currency, a judicial system, some form of constitution and a central bank.
The EU either has all of those or it has started to legislate to create them.
Britain is not at a cross roads, but rather a T junction. Turn left for United States of Europe or Turn right for a Free Britain.
— Steven Woolfe MEP (@Steven_Woolfe) June 7, 2016
A country needs to have a fully-functioning army and that’s already on the agenda for the European Union, to give it international legitimacy and diplomatic clout.
I saw with my very own eyes proposals for the creation of an EU army being voted through in Strasbourg. As you can guess, the parliament, which is full of Euro-federalists, voted it through.
They didn’t just vote it through though, they also voted to give tax exemptions to arms manufacturers that will make drones for this EU army. If these aren’t plans to make their dream of the United States of Europe a reality, then nothing will convince you.
And the plans don’t stop there. They have more in the legislative pipeline, such as implementing a European tax identification number for all EU citizens, a single EU corporation tax and, last but not least, an EU-wide transaction tax.
These plans would place a huge amount of strain on businesses that are already being suffocated by harmful EU directives. The last thing they need is another tax from Brussels.
This legislative programme is not the one of a union that is all about trade. These are the actions of a political union, run by those who want to create a federal Europe – in the form of a United States of Europe, leaving the UK a mere province of an EU superstate.
This is not scaremongering. It’s the truth, and those in the Remain camp are either deluded, blind, or just outright trying to deceive the British people.
The EU powerbrokers are not stupid. It’s happening slowly but surely. I might not be old enough to live to see it in full bloom, but my daughter will. I don’t want my daughter to live in a United States of Europe, under an ultra-authoritarian system of economic suppression, with no freedom, no identity, and no shared culture.
When we reach that T-Junction on 23rd June, if we turn left, we are voting to sign away more powers to Brussels and voting to be apart of a United States of Europe.
If we turn right, we are voting for a free, independent Britain.
