This Sceptred Isle

Recently we will all have seen in the news features, articles and discussions concerning the continuing membership of Great Britain in The European Union.  You will no doubt have your own thoughts on this one way or another, here are mine. As a Spiritualist I believe this to be the absolute truth it is the 7^th Principal of Spiritualism: ‘We affirm the moral responsibility of individuals, and that we make our own happiness or unhappiness as we obey or disobey Nature’s physical and spiritual laws’.

There is a problem I perceive,  that is we are simply not at liberty to obey or disobey Nature’s physical and spiritual laws as we are all, in effect, prisoners of society. Nor are we at liberty to follow our personal ideas of moral responsibility, we must do what we are told to do in accordance with the laws under which we live. In 1762 the philosopher Jean-Jaques Rousseau published his work ‘The Social Contract’ which starts with these words ‘Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains’.  You see in our current society we are dominated by economic and social inequality, dependency on the state, regulations, rules, highly sophisticated legal restrictions, laws, statutes and an enforcement system designed to ensure that the status quo is maintained. You may or may not be aware of this but The European Court of Justice can require foreign police forces to be deployed in Great Britain to enforce European Law.  You and I have no choice in this matter, we are bound in this extended society, to adhere to the man made rules that are made not to promote our spiritual development but to lock us in to a system designed to control us.  George Orwell wrote in his seminal novel of a dystopian world ‘1984’ If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever’.  What Orwell was saying, in effect, was that the people, that is you and I, will either comply with the rules of society (Big Brother) or suffer the consequences. Please ask yourself this, how can any individual hope to make their own happiness within Nature’s physical and spiritual laws when one is subjected to man made rules and regulations that prohibit and profoundly restrict virtually all of ones actions.

It can of course be argued that there is an accepted general will of the people to live within an ordered society and that this will, in the UK , is best expressed through the ballot box at a democratic General Election, such as we have just seen. However, as you will no doubt have noticed, nothing ever seems to change very much for the better and those that have the positions of power maintain them. All this, to me, seems very disturbing as I would sincerely like to believe that my elected representative in Parliament was there to ensure that our country was a good and happy land in which to live. Yet I see much evidence to the contrary. For example the last Labour Government allowed employers to introduce ‘Zero Hour’ contracts that effectively reduce the workers rights to nothing as they have no guarantee of a wage at all. Any questioning of the Zero Hour contract and that is what you get, zero, nothing at all.  Now that disgraceful nonsense came about under a Labour Government. I can imagine that Kier Hardie would be rotating rapidly in his grave if he was aware of such shenanigans.

There also exists another tier to our Government and that is the European Union which has the authority to pass binding legislation restricting and controlling the people of Great Britain . For example the EU, as a basic principal, allows free movement of workers between all member states. I am not a racist, my wife’s distant ancestors were Irish, but I am lately becoming concerned at the influx of central European people into the towns and cities of the UK . It is now a statistical fact that in the city of London the indigenous British English speaking population is in the minority. Go there and observe for yourself that the streets of our capital city are full of immigrants begging and propositioning people for cash. I was there recently and a fully fit man of Romanian appearance with a large dog, smoking a hand rolled cigarette stopped me and asked for money. Now I am a disabled man and was being helped along by my wife so I calmly advised the uncouth ruffian that it was a damn disgrace when the fit and healthy were begging off cripples.  Who benefits from the UK allowing in such wasters? The employers benefit because such immigrants are more than willing to work for low wages on Zero Hour contracts as even at such poverty line rates they are being paid five times or more than they would be receiving in say Bucharest .

At the risk of being thought xenophobic it is my personal belief that the country I was born in is my home and as such I would like to see it protected by the Government representing me.  The Treaty of Rome that came into effect on the first of January 1958 created the European Economic Community, this was subsequently amended in 1993 by The Maastricht Treaty which the UK duly signed. Whilst the following explanation is perhaps an over simplification in effect the resulting membership of The European Union requires the UK to allow the people of other member countries free access to enter this kingdom to work and enjoy all other benefits. Now if I suggested to you that it was perhaps a good idea to leave all the doors to your house open so that any of your neighbours could walk in and help themselves to your hospitality you would perhaps think I had lost the plot. It is my personal opinion that the Government of this country did exactly that when they signed away our rights to stop immigrants from countries party to the EU from entering the UK to work or otherwise indulge themselves in our benefits.  As a Spiritualist I believe that there is a law of Nature, that we all, no matter what colour, creed or nationality we are have an absolute right to live life and make our own happiness. My ancestors fought and died to protect this country so that future generations would be free to do just that, safe from the undue influence of those who would invade this land.  Please ask yourself this question, what was the point of going to war when the ultimate result has been almost total capitulation.  As a member of the EU we can not resist the demand of entry into this sceptered isle by any individual from any of the member countries of the EU.  This fortress built by nature has been sacked by barbarians and our culture is being rapidly eroded as a direct result.

It is my belief that to make progress, to spiritually and materially improve, we require a degree of freedom so to do. If our British society, our culture, our heritage is eroded and the rule of law that enables this to happen is enforced from a foreign land then we British people are reduced to a form of slavery. To progress one must be free from the chains.  There will in the next two years or so come a time when you can vote on the question of the UKs continuing membership of the EU. It is my personal intention to say no to the European Union as I feel it has become a direct threat to my country, to all the British people and our way of life. This is the country of my ancestors whose feet walked in ancient times on England ’s green and pleasant land. I feel it is my moral responsibility to speak my truth and hopefully help protect this sceptred isle from those that would reduce it to penury.