Why we received such an enthusiastic reception everywhere we went in Europe
The tide has turned. Europeans are sick of turning over governance to unidentified bureaucrats in Brussels, sick of illegal immigration and the economically disastrous climate policies
One of the great fears in Brussels today is the spectre of an European Election coming just as, across the continent, parties of the populist right are gaining new legions of supporters.
The most recent polling puts the two populist groupings in the European Parliament, the Independence and Democracy Group (ID) and the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) as the most significant gainers.
According to Europe elects which aggregates national polling from all EU member states, right now those two groups lead the polls in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Austria.
Two countries have Governments that are unaffiliated, Hungary’s Fidesz, on the populist right, left the main centre right grouping, the European People’s Party, a couple of years ago, before being pushed, and Slovakia’s recently elected SMER party, have yet to join any groups, but will mostly likely join with either the ID or the ECR after next year’s election.
This means that 6 of the EU’s 27 have populist nation state parties in the lead.
This is not the whole story though, as in 5 others including Germany and Poland parties affiliated with the two groups are the main party of opposition. Elsewhere insurgent populist parties are on the rise.
Though most of this recent activity has been driven by specifically national issues, the one that ties them all together is the burning issue of mass immigration, mostly from North Africa and the Muslim Middle East.
However that is not all, most are highly sceptical of further deepening of the European Union and have been strengthened at home by their own government’s agreement to passing greater powers to the EU, without there being national debate, or in the case of some countries the opportunity of confirmatory referenda.
Brussels has fixed the rules on this, having been shocked by the result of the UK referendum in 2016, and will not allow a mistake like that to happen again.
Other areas where the majority of the National conservative/populist parties agree is opposition to the ruinously expensive climate change agenda, and many were highly sceptical of the implementation of the Covid pandemic lockdown policies, in particular, mask and vaccine mandates.
According to the Europe elects study the ID group is now at a historic high, and that is without the impact of the UK’s Brexit Party which in the last election, and before the UK left the European Union, in 2020 was the largest single party in the entire European Parliament.
“The gains of the ID group are mostly due to three factors. In the Netherlands, the Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV) overperformed the polls in the elections and is now projected to have five more seats. In France, Rassemblement National (RN) is up by three seats, and in Bulgaria, Възраждане (V) is now associated with ID”
All this matters as on current projections it is highly likely that the ID will become the third largest group in the Parliament. With this will come far greater influence over powerful Committee Chairmanships and its ability to choose which reports it will have the authoring rights.
In the past the main three parties have operated a ‘cordon sanitaire’, a sort of gentleman’s agreement to overturn precedent and block ID members from these key roles, but with a restive public that might not be so easy to carry out in future.
More worrying for the powers that be is that their cosy consensus might find itself shaken even further. Last weekend in Florence leaders of many of these national parties met to discuss the future. They came from both the ECR and the ID and they were talking alliances and working towards causing a shock to the Brussels system.
There are strong differences, some of them, such as Germany’s AfD are feeling the pinch caused by the Russian war on Ukraine and the Austrian Freedom Party went so far as to oppose support given to Israel in its war with Hamas.
But on the key issues that matter to the European voters in next year’s European elections there was pretty strong agreement.
If they could set aside their differences enough to create a strategic alliance in the European Parliament and co-operate on key budget and policy briefs their combined numbers will create chaos in the Brussels legislature.
If they could go so far as to unite they would be challenging the EPP and the Socialists for dominance of the chamber.
At that point the soft middling technocratic consensus that has governed the European Parliament for decades could be shattered.
It is early days, but meetings like this one in Florence point in that direction.
Suddenly Brussels could get interesting again.
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The Right and Duty
This morning I wish to draw everyone’s attention to the situation in Britain — which is falling apart by the hour.
We long ago observed that it is factually impossible for a King of England to exist. This is because William the Conqueror divided up the spoils from the Norman Conquest among his loyal Barons, and disinherited his own sons from owning any land in England.
Thus, ever since, the land and soil of England has been ruled by the progeny of French aristocrats, each one of whom enjoys “sovereignty in their own right” on the land and soil bequeathed to them by William of Normandy as of 1087 A.D.
This is called the Settlement of the Norman Conquest.
The Norman French Barons settled in as the new “kings” of England, took on the local color, and within a couple generations started looking and sounding like Englishmen — except for their French names, like Neville, Tousignant, Belcher, Plantagenet, Dumont, ….and….Talbot.
The Talbots were loyal retainers in Normandy and remained so throughout all of William’s adventures and all that his sons and grandsons weathered. The Talbots slogged through the Crusades with Richard the Lionheart, stood guard and took arms at Crecy, and manned the ramparts at Agincourt.
The Talbots served so well, so valiantly, and so loyally, that they were promoted to the position of Ultimate Trust: they became the Lord High Stewards of England, a position that they own to this day, even though the present Lord High Steward and Heir to his ancestral lands in Shrewsbury, happens to be living in Australia.
Understand that each one of these men are — within the context of their ancestral holdings — kings of England. They elected among themselves a “king of kings” in each generation, but that was more of an administrative accommodation —as demonstrated by The Magna Carta.
If they didn’t like what “the” King was doing, they retained the right, as a group, to kick his arse. They still retain that right, down through all the generations of the Kings and Queens of England — a fact that the office holders have always chafed against and sought to evade.
Now, with this background firmly in place in your minds, you can see why the creation of a new Office for the “king of kings” to occupy was highly desired in some quarters, and you will note that this was accomplished in 1707, when the combined Kingdom of England and Scotland, came into existence.
Though the office holder could still function as the King of England and be somewhat subject to the other “kings of England” in that office, he could now also function as the King of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and obtain considerable weasel room by doing so. A separate degree of power was obtained by the office holder, simply by changing the jurisdiction of his office.
The office, “King of England” is a national office tied to the soil of England; the office “King of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales” is an international office tied to the land and sea jurisdictions of these nations, and finally, “King of the United Kingdom” is a global, imperial office operated in the jurisdiction of the air.
Though we constantly hear the national and international offices referenced, the office holder isn’t occupying these offices.
Elizabeth II, for example, abdicated her vows under the Christian Crown of England within three days of her Coronation — a fact established in the British High Courts under litigation — and instead spent her time operating as the Queen of the United Kingdom.
Her son, Charles III, didn’t even bother to take the Christian Coronation vows and was directly crowned under the Imperial United Kingdom office.
Try to keep this background information perking away as we move the “American Raj Conversation” to Britain, because as I have long said, the British people have suffered as long as the rest of us. The same rogue Raj elements of their own government have been used to pillage and subourne them, too.
When we examine things more closely, we see that the same exact process of impersonation and alienation of assets was used in Britain, and it developed in tandem with the English King becoming first the “King of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales”, and then still later assuming the foreign Imperial Office
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