Never mind the EU budget, there is something even worse afoot

I will be brief today.

Many bloggers on the centre right in the UK are writing about the Cameron 'betrayal' over the EU budget. One is tempted to ask 'what did you expect?' Cameron does not have the withal to simply stand up and say 'we are not paying', which would be the correct thing to do, given the austerity he is imposing upon the people of this island. Not that I oppose the deficit reduction plans, but if this 'pain' is to be shared out equally, then the EU budget should be cut by 20%  in line with other UK spending commitments.

Of more worry is the desire by Germany for the commission to check member state's budgets, to prevent a repeat of the Greek crisis  (not letting them into the Euro in the first place would have been a good thing). Now given that this is clearly a transfer of power to the EU and given that the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty needs to be changed, can we please have our plebiscite ? I won't hold my breath....

By the way- just in case your reading this, in say, America and are thinking I am some form of 'little englander' with a lot of anger, imagine if the North American Free Trade agreement became the North American Community, which regulated trade and therefore began to develop a civil service of its own. Then it became the North American Union, with a flag and a common currency  with the ability to make resolutions which by-passed the traditional parliamentary process and election.

You see this is how the EU started, as a free trade zone and nothing else. But in the past 30 or 40 years, the European elite, in order to circumvent democracy have actively created this behemoth, this attempt at a government. I only hope that the US/Canada/Mexico and Latin America don't go the same way.