One final, treasonous act before calling it a decade
When Tony Blair swept to power on the red tide of New Labour, he promised that the British Labour Party had learned from its past mistakes. Most observers took this to mean the Labour Party now understood Marxist economics and centralized power were not compatible with a modern globalized economy, and Blair would basically pick up where Margaret Thatcher and the Tory Party had run out of steam.
But what began as Cool Britannia ended up as Londonistan. Instead of merely opening its markets to trade, Britain opened its borders to immigrants. Now, one can stroll down the streets of London's most exclusive boroughs and not hear a word of the language spoken by Shakespeare and Winston Churchill. One can wear burqah without comment but find oneself facing legal charges for the inappropriate display of the Cross of St. George.
Instead of reducing central power, Blair expanded it dramatically. Instead of reducing the tax burden, New Labour embarked on a series of stealth taxes, raising the fees on a wide range of government services that had the net effect of reducing disposable household income while allowing the prestidigitator at 10 Downing Street to pretend that he had not raised taxes. The housing price boom accompanying the vast influx of immigrants mitigated those effects for a time, but now that those prices have peaked and begun to decline, the sting of those stealth taxes is beginning to be felt in earnest.
Blair's worst betrayal, however, was of British national sovereignty. Above all, this will be his lasting historical legacy. It was bad enough to increase central power in Britain itself, but far worse was his agreement to voluntarily abandon Britain's national veto in 40 distinct areas while denying the British people the opportunity to either confirm or reject this abase surrender of national sovereignty. What is particularly disgusting about this particular betrayal is all three major parties had agreed before the last national election that the British people must be consulted by referendum before any such surrender of sovereignty would be signed by their government.
In one treacherous act, Tony Blair appears to have achieved what the legions of Julius Caesar, Philip II, Napoleon and Hitler could not — the involuntary subjugation of the British people to a continental power.
The European Union is not an economic entity designed to further free trade. That stalking horse has been exposed once and for all by French president Nicolas Sarkozy's successful attempt — with Tony Blair's approval — to remove the treaty clause which describes one of the primary objectives of the EU as an "internal market where competition is free and undistorted." So, the long-standing excuse offered by EU apologists that the union is merely a means of fostering free trade is no longer viable, not that it was ever truly credible.
The significance of Tony Blair's betrayal of the British people to Americans is that their own political leaders are in the process of doing exactly the same thing to them. NAFTA and the Greater North America Co-Prosperity Sphere (or Security and Prosperity Partnership for North America, if you insist on literal, not metaphorical, accuracy) are analogous to the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community. Both the ECSC and EEC historically presaged the European Union as NAFTA and SPP are the entities designed to pave the way for the North American Union.
For those who are skeptical that either George Bush or the Democratic Congress would ever betray American national sovereignty, I simply note that the 50th anniversary of the European Union took place on March 25 this year, which celebrated the 1957 signing of the Treaty of Rome that established the EEC, not the 1992 signing of the Treaty of the European Union. If the North American model follows the European timeline, and there is every indication that it is doing precisely that, the end of the United States of America will take place before 2030.
The end of a free and independent England will be a great loss to humanity. It was the source of our language and our freedoms; the American Revolution was fought by those who proclaimed themselves to be free Englishmen. The Royal Navy ended slavery throughout much of the world, and the British Empire, for all its admitted faults, was a powerful force for civilization and human decency. And all that is on the verge of extinction thanks to the treachery of one man.
If this infamy succeeds, let Tony Blair's name never be forgotten. Let it be remembered with other history-damned names such as Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quisling, Phillipe Petain and Judas Iscariot.