Following the news of the EU being
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize has come the agenda driven copy and the
pundits, most of which, especially those out there on the right, have passed
severely adverse comment on the event, not least because it does not accord
with their outlook. Chief among these has been the habitually dishonest Bruno
Waterfield at the Telegraph.
And, given the agenda of the Tel right now, merely reporting the event would be passing up the
opportunity for a quick smear. So
readers are told of “the looming
prospect of an acrimonious break-up” of the EU. This casual smear is pure
bullshit, but it’s par for the course for Waterfield, as is “the economic defects of the Euro have laid
waste to many southern European countries”.
We then get the usual “there
are demonstrations in Greece and Spain”, while the Tel does not bother to tell its readers that, not so long ago,
demonstrating in those countries would have been illegal and met with brutal
and possibly even lethal force – and living standards for much of those
countries’ populations were ones of miserable poverty. But Waterfield goes to
Douglas “Kamikaze” Carswell for a
quote.
Strangely, the
Express also goes with the “looming break-up”, which gives you a
clue as to where they lifted their copy. The piece asserts that the award was
given “in a bid to play down the Eurozone
debt crisis”, so yet more invention, then. And the Mail has the “prospect
of an acrimonious break-up of the Euro”. Really? Oh yes, it’s a “Collapsing currency”. I wouldn’t be so
sure about that.
For starters, this post is being typed in a Eurozone country
where nothing to do with the currency is collapsing. Goods and services are
being priced, bought and paid for in Euros. The exchange rate
versus Sterling is where it has been for much of the past week, with a
Pound buying around €1.24. With so many Brits travelling around the Eurozone,
the impact of such dishonesty is minimal.
But the dishonesty is not confined to the “news” pages, as Dan, Dan the Oratory Man
shows
with another exhibition of false assertion. He states that the EU’s “ruling dogma” is “that nationalism causes war”. Baloney, Dan. Show me where in the
Treaty of Rome or any of the successor treaties that is even mentioned. Hannan
then implies that the EU is a single state. See previous assessment.
But at least Dan does not pretend that the EU is not
democratic – well, not this time, anyway. Fortunately Adrian Hilton at the Mail makes
up for him by asserting that the EU “is
fundamentally anti-democratic”. That’s why we have elections for the
European Parliament, then. This is lame stuff. Had anyone outside the UK pointed
at demonstrations in Thatcher’s Britain as demonstrating “no peace”, the tune would have changed smartish. You’ll have to do better than this, folks.
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