….and Merkel is just another unprincipled dictator making it up as she goes along
The Slog: For the last four years, the last thing Europe has been is united.
Gradually over that time – and now disturbingly quickly – the main
players in the EU have started reverting to national stereotype. The
British want to be in, out, and shaking it all about. The French want to
be loyal Europeans until they have to suffer. And the Germans want to
run the show, while telling everyone else they are variously lazy,
economically sick, or obsessed with the Second World War.
In fact, what we are seeing now is the British multicultural disaster
on a grand scale. Greeks, Italians and Spaniards do not want to be
Dutch, English or German. French Trade Unionists detest
l’Anglo-Saxonisme, German bankers are grumpy on the subject of French
State largesse, and the British think all foreigners are intrinsically
funny.
So I have to laugh when I see quotes from Angela Merkel about how
absolutely vital it is that the eurozone should survive, because without
the euro there is no future for a united Europe:
“We seem to find common solutions when we are staring over the abyss.
But as soon as the pressure eases, people say they want to go their own
way. We need to be ready to accept that Europe has the last word in
certain areas. Otherwise we won’t be able to continue to build Europe.”
(21st April 2013)
“I would like to recall a leitmotif today, a mainspring of European
integration, namely the freedom that opens the way for a life in peace
and prosperity. It is this freedom in all its facets – freedom of
expression, of the media, belief and assembly – that we have to work
tirelessly to defend. Without freedom there can be no rule of law.
Without freedom there can be no diversity and no tolerance. Freedom is
the foundation for the united and determined Europe….the Nobel Peace
Prize is a mandate for us all to create a better EU together – a Europe
marked by strength and stability….” (7th November, 2012)
Compare and contrast that hypocritical bollocks with what Fraulein
Stasi DDR Youth Leader 1972 said three years ago about multiculturalism
in Germany:
“Of course, the approach to build a multicultural society and to live
side-by-side and to enjoy each other… has failed, utterly failed.”
(17th October 2010)
Ah, right then: so multiculturalism doesn’t work in Germany, but it
must work in Europe. That is, I think, a slight case of double
standards.
Unless, of course, one starts from the assumption that
unsere grosse Geli doesn’t want multiculturalism in Europe any more than
she wants it in Germany. For being an unreformed command economy
Stalinist, she is a great believer in One Size Fits All. “You can haff
any Kultur you like as long as it iss German.” Right-ho.
Think I’m being a little hard on the “I demand custody of the fridge”
woman? Then read this direct quote, unedited, from what preceded her
‘utter failure’ speech in 2010:
“At the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers
to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves
a while, we said: ‘They won’t stay, sometime they will be gone’, but
this isn’t reality.”
Niyeeece, my little Stasi-Schnitzel…really nyeeece….they live in our
country: “You vill komm work here und zen you vill go away”. Hmm.
Brings back memories of another time, in ze olden golden days of ze
Reich, venn all voss gut and ze Führer knew how to work ze
Untermenschen hard. “Please work very hard for very little, and then
f**k off”. Now at last I understand the meaning of Arbeit macht frei: “You are free to leave Germany…in fact, I insist on it”.
How the blindly pc can dismiss my continuing criticism of
the German political class’s inbuilt superiority complex as bigotry is
beyond human understanding. I haven’t made any of this up. I didn’t
invent anything about Merkel’s DDR past, her father’s rabidly
pro-Hoeneker views, her instant conversion to democracy after the Wall
came down, or the lady’s ruthless demolition of every rival in the way
of her route to the Chancellery. Similarly, I am not now spinning how
the German Chancellor switches her line of argument by 180 degrees if
that means maintaining her leadership of both Germany and Europe: go to
the records, examine the quotes. This is empirical reality, not
propaganda.
The bottom line is that I do agree with Angela Merkel:
multicultural Tower of Babel bollocks is never going to work. But she is
one of those politicians with whom the very thing you agree about one
week will be the thing you disagree about the next week. Because that’s
the way Geli is: she will say whatever is necessary to maintain power.
Power is the one commodity that both she, Schäuble, and all the other
Brussels gargoyles value. Nothing else matters.
So to sum up: either Angela Merkel is a totally consistent one-size centralising Deutschland über Alles
Reichmeister racist; or she is a hypocritical, horse-switching
euro-integrationist who wants everyone else to conform to one model.
She’s one or the other: you can’t have it both ways. But it’s not
much of a choice, is it? Seems to me like the European Union is a game
in which 27 countries take part….and then the Germans win.
Stand by for another piece later today on the somewhat distorted Germany memory when it comes to the History Thing.
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