I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H. L. Mencken

Tony Blair has been speaking in Sedgefield, his old parliamentary constituency, on the subject of this country’s membership of the European Union.

In regard to the opening paragraph, since when have we, the people, actually been asked what are our ambitions as a nation, who we think we are or want to be, or even where we want to go – to which the answer is never as we have always been told all three by some wannabe dictator under the guise of democracy.

He states: Norway and Switzerland both are obliged, as the price of their access to Europe’s market, to accede to a series of European rules even though they cannot influence their drafting. Either he really is ignorant or he is indeed a liar because he must know the facts. EU rules are not ‘EU rules’ as the vast majority do not originate from the EU, but from United Nations bodies such as UNECE, etc; the EU is mandated to discuss the drafting of ‘rules’ with Norway who sits on over 200 EU committees, plus of course Norway has already had input into the ‘rules’ handed down to the EU for implementation as they are members of said UN bodies.

Blair’s intervention on the subject of the UK’s membership of the European Union is but the latest; others, just as recent, can be found here in the Independent and here in the Herald Scotland. What they all have in common is total ignorance of ‘matters EU’ encapsulating conflation of membership of the EEA and membership of the EU.

Richard North writes about a weak opposition to weak arguments for EU membership – unfortunately the reason for weak opposition is that within the supposed anti-EU brigade are organisations like Open Europe, Business for Britain (to name but two) who write and talk utter tosh, but whose voice appears to carry much weight (Judas Goats?). Where true opposition which deals in facts is concerned, among the political class only Owen Paterson stands out; and among the media, only Christopher Booker. As we have seen, their opinions are ignored by both the political class and the media.

It seems to me that the sooner a group of anti-EU believers can be formed from those that believe in Flexcit and the Norway Option/Model and a press conference held; the sooner the facts can be brought before the electorate thus allowing the lies of Blair et all to be laid to rest once and for all, the better (and if a certain infrequent commenter who is fond of quoting Confucius and that a journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step, repeats such, I may just be forced to cut off his air supply!)

In this forthcoming battle for the future of our country (and its system of democracy) time is of the essence, so a plea: can those forming the aforementioned group of believers in Flexcit and the Norway Option/Model extract the proverbial digit?

Just asking……………………..