tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post1911887006099237078..comments2023-11-02T04:40:21.698-07:00Comments on Dr. Eric Edmond's Blog: Appeasing bullies always failsEric Edmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661176160109187800noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-85849851875878441992018-06-17T14:14:28.319-07:002018-06-17T14:14:28.319-07:00EU's activities on Russia Ukraine could easily...EU's activities on Russia Ukraine could easily escalate into a conflict. I doubt Trump would get involved so my money will be on Russia. They just have to turn the gas tap off just like the HK water tapEric Edmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661176160109187800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-452720643002779152018-06-17T13:16:16.688-07:002018-06-17T13:16:16.688-07:00Stephen,
Invasion by debt is far more effective, ...Stephen,<br /><br />Invasion by debt is far more effective, as is demonstrated in the Balkans and Southern Europe today.<br /><br />Actually, it is a good old trick. Prior to 1914 the Imperial German government extended soft loans to Romania way above its ability to repay. The plan was to convert the debt into equity in the Romanian oil wells.<br /><br />If you Google "Edward Spalton Witness to History" you will also find the war aims of Imperial Germany (September 1914) - to push the Russian frontier as far away from Germany as possible<br />by detaching non- Russian peoples from the Tsarist Empire (Think Ukraine today) and by establishing a customs union treaty embracing all European states "formally equal but in practice under German leadership". Sounds a bit familiar?Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-58577949107684066422018-06-17T13:01:13.478-07:002018-06-17T13:01:13.478-07:00Excellent post with many truthful themes. However ...Excellent post with many truthful themes. However the EU invading Russia? Perhaps by stealth but certainly not by force. Stephen Harnessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-75449175872362332162018-06-17T11:20:02.660-07:002018-06-17T11:20:02.660-07:00Well done Edward supplying facts not just rhetoric...Well done Edward supplying facts not just rhetoric.Niall Warrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-26903632998695483202018-06-17T02:06:49.420-07:002018-06-17T02:06:49.420-07:00Yes, I remember it well. I have often thought we s...Yes, I remember it well. I have often thought we should have a Nicholas Ridley memorial lecture. Like Enoch Powell, he was a man who spoke an inconvenient truth and was instantly sacked. If you Google " Edward Spalton witness to history" you will find a video interview with Lord Walsngham who was in the Foreign Office in 1950. British intelligence was well aware that the European Coal & Steel Community included secret agreements between France and Germany to weaken British heavy industry and defence capability. He is an interesting raconteur. There are also my translations of the German papers " European Econmic Community", published in Berlin in 1942.<br /><br />I was recently in Greece to address a rally against the dreadful poverty imposed by the EU. The death rate has doubled as a result. Everywhere we went, people from outside our political circle of friends knew who to blame - Berlin not Brussels. Peter Hitchens has a well expressed lecture on YouTube " The EU - The Continuation of Germany by Other Means" . I would claim to have been a bit ahead of him when I translated the 1942 papers which came to me in 2002.Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-68795487789660149952018-06-17T01:40:01.158-07:002018-06-17T01:40:01.158-07:00Nick Ridley, one of Thatcher's cabinet ministe...Nick Ridley, one of Thatcher's cabinet ministers described the then EEC as a gigantic German racket.Eric Edmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661176160109187800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-38903760570358659312018-06-17T00:55:02.914-07:002018-06-17T00:55:02.914-07:00Having been opposed to our membership of the EEC/E...Having been opposed to our membership of the EEC/EU since 1972 and railed against it considerably, I think the deceit has mainly come from British politicians and that the EU functionaries and leaders have never concealed their ambitions for " ever closer union" - what is on the tin. I suppose most long serving campaigners would cite Edward Heath's lie about " no essential loss of sovereignty". But right back in 1947, Peter Thorneycroft wrote in " Design for Europe" that no government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which " any adequate scheme " must involve . So the British people were to be led " slowly and unconsciously to the abandonment of their traditional economic defences". And that is just what they did to us - our own people, <br /><br />It was a similar lie - by Mr John Selwyn Gummer ( now Lord Deben) which decided me that the project was phoney. In 1972 he told our Corn Trade Conference at Buxton that the Commonwealth countries, grown-up and independent, wanted nothing more to do with us, so,we must look to Europe. Our business bought large quantities of New Zealand milk powder and we knew that our friends there were not delighted to be losing their best customers. They had to be very quiet about it because they were dependent on HMG to negotiate a quota of NZ lamb and dairy produce with the EEC. Their treatment still makes me angry but in his memoir , one of our negotiators, wrote that they had wasted far too much effort on that negotiation.<br /><br />With regard to our present state, I think it was our own negotiators who initially tried to play the Bullingdon Club bully with their aspiration to " have our cake and eat it" - effectively,saying to Johnny Foreigner " Now look here! We're leaving your club. Going to make our own rules. But you're going to go on treating our stuff as if we are still members, aren't you? Now be a good fellow and cut along." <br />It didn't work and the quality of our negotiators has ensured that the EU side can outrun them, simply by standing still in their determination to maintain the integrity of the Common External Border of the Single Market. Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-25181056654096975842018-06-16T15:13:28.884-07:002018-06-16T15:13:28.884-07:00Agreed Tickety- if only it were more widely read.Agreed Tickety- if only it were more widely read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-64488095473792039322018-06-16T13:04:25.039-07:002018-06-16T13:04:25.039-07:00Thank you Dr for another interesting article. The...Thank you Dr for another interesting article. The EU has advanced by deceit upon deceit. Treaty by treaty removing our freedoms and imposing their rule. ENOUGH. It is time to retaliate in similar fashion. I pray that the phrase, "Cometh the hour, cometh the Man" is not exhausted and we will see such a coming.<br />Thank you for your good work<br />Regards<br />TicketyTicketyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11815528925217282192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-82386631538820863752018-06-16T09:16:48.456-07:002018-06-16T09:16:48.456-07:00This post is as good as the worst kind of tabloid ...This post is as good as the worst kind of tabloid article!<br /><br />Leaving the political EU is relatively simple but, after 45 years of trade integration with our 27 EU neighbours, leaving the most complex and sophisticated trading block in the world requires practical, common sense considerations and not knee jerk populist rhetoric. Niall Warrynoreply@blogger.com