Swissinfo reports that nearly a year before Swiss parliamentary elections are held, the country’s relationship with the European Union looms as a major campaign issue.

Couple this report with the three articles in Christopher Booker’s column in today’s Sunday Telegraph – here, here and here – and one can but understand why this country’s relationship with the European Union reportedly ranks so low with the public; courtesy of a deliberate decision taken by our own government to hide the true facts.

Not only do our government hide the true facts about the hold the European Union has over our country, but in so doing they also hide how the United Nations exercises a similar hold through the European Union over us. The only reason why our political class would hide their inability to govern our country from those that elect them to so do can only be for their own benefit, knowing as they must that democracy per se, where our nation is concerned, is totally lacking. Such an action is not only despicable; more importantly, it is a total affront to those they profess to serve.

Where ‘despicable’ and ‘affront’ is concerned, nothing illustrates this better than my attempts to interact/engage with the Leaders of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Parties; said attempts resulting in a response from David Cameron that completely ignored the questions raised – and in respect of the latter two leaders, silence.

Faced with this refusal by our political class to engage with those who they maintain they exist to serve, in an ideal world we should be able to rely on our media to speak for us and thus force our political class to respond. That that avenue is closed to us has, unfortunately. become only too apparent for some time now, as a result of both our political class and the media being so obviously in each others pockets and thus reliant on each other.

Many words have been expended by both politicians and political journalists on the subject of devolution, the latest two being Simon Jenkins in the Guardian, who believes that we must heed calls for self-rule or the Union is doomed; and Billy Bragg, on LabourList, who is of the opinion that Labour can take control of the devolution agenda and restore trust at the same time.

Both authors are existing in a time-warp; Jenkins with his belief that a system of democracy based on the centralisation of power can itself devolve power while still retaining control in one form or another; and Bragg using a ‘soviet-style’ depiction of ‘workers’ breaking down the doors of power to illustrate the thrust of his article.

It beggars belief that so much wordage can be expended on the problem of Scottish MPs being part of the process whereby law is enacted within England while English MPs are not so empowered where law is enacted with Scotland; yet the question of exactly the same conundrum in respect the UK’s membership of the European Union is completely ignored. Logic would dictate that until the latter conundrum is resolved there is not much point in attempting to solve the West Lothian question.

Logic would also dictate that in solving the EU problem we must also simultaneously solve the problem of democracy – or I should say, the lack of it – within the UK; because, as I have said many times, there is little point in reclaiming power from one set of dictators only to hand that power to another, albeit elected, dictatorial group – and it matters not either that one set of these elected dictators is led by what we are informed is the ‘second coming’.