Overthrowing leaders is an organised plot

A week ago we said that attempts to oust Papandreou shows the EU is out of control.

Nigel Farage picked up on the theme two days later, accusing David Cameron of "giving tacit agreement to the overthrow of European democracies" and the Spectator's Fraser Nelson follows up with details of a "hit squad" called the Frankfurt Group including Merkel and Sarkozy actively seeking the overthrow of non-compliant EU leaders.

Nelson's article is well worth a read and when reading it, bear in mind that the British government knows about this group and is allowing it to do what it does without any complaints or criticism.  David Cameron is, indeed, "giving tacit agreement to the overthrow of European democracies" as Farage said.

The only thing that spoils Fraser Nelson's article is that he finishes it off with a call for the Tories to negotiate the repatriation of powers from the EU rather than hauling them over the hot coals for running a europhile dictatorship and demanding they give us the referendum that everyone wants but which their tinpot dictator of a leader made sure we didn't get.  He knows as well as everyone else does that repatriation of powers isn't possible but he's a Tory supporter writing for a Tory-supporting paper so it's what you'd expect.

George Papandreou was the first leader to be overthrown by the Merkel-Sarkozy axis of evil, Silvio Berlusconi  is the second but certainly not the last.  There are another couple of petitions for an EU referendum that are on their way to securing another debate on a referendum but these are equally doomed to failure not just because Cameron is a eurofanatic but because he now knows that any leader opposing the EU will end up out of a job sharpish thanks to this so-called Frankfurt Group.  How much of a part did self-preservation play in his decision to issue a three-line whip to ensure we didn't get a referendum?

The only regime that needs overthrowing in Europe is the EU.

Attempts to oust Papandreou show the EU is out of control

The BBC gleefully reported that the Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, was expected to resign after an emergency cabinet meeting this afternoon.  They must have been very disappointed to hear that the rumour was untrue.

According to the BBC, Greek MPs are worried about the EU cutting off the money supply which "would give the heavily indebted Greek government 130bn euros (£111bn; $178bn) and a 50% write-off of its debts, in return for deeply unpopular austerity measures".

You can't blame the EU-funded BBC for trying can you?  The €130bn isn't a gift, it's a loan.  As in, they would be expected to pay it back.  And the 50% debt write-offs would be from private banks and investors, the largest proportion of which are Greek.  So Greek banks will find themselves downgraded and undercapitalised and assuming they survive intact, they will be forced to lay off large numbers of staff who then won't be working and won't be paying taxes (not that many of them do anyway) to help pay back the €300bn loan.

Sarkozy and Merkel summoned Papandredou to a meeting to dictate to him what he can and can't do in his own country.  Greece has been threatened with expulsion from the eurozone, expulsion from the EU and the EU is withholding bailout money it has already agreed until after the referendum.

Greece needs to leave the eurozone and the EU, re-establish the Drachma at a weak rate rate and slash interest rates but its politicians are wedded to the EU as a source of "free" money and the dream of a continent-wide Soviet republic, so the threats - despite being just what Greece needs - are diplomatic blackmail.

The EU is attempting to bully the Greek government into not holding a referendum on the bailout and to bring down George Papandreou.  Merkel and Sarkozy are acting ultra-vires - they and the EU have no authority to try and bring about regime change or prevent national governments from holding referenda.  The EU - and in particular, France and Germany - are out of control.

Greece to get EU bailout referendum

Greece's Prime Minister, George Papandreou, has announced a national referendum on the €1tr bailout package for Greece and the €uro.

In stark contrast to Cast Iron Dave's three line whip, threatening MPs with sanctions to prevent them voting to allow us a referendum, Papandreou said that he trusts the Greek people to make the right decision and will stand by it:

We trust citizens, we believe in their judgment, we believe in their decision. In a few weeks the (EU) agreement will be a new loan contract… we must spell out if we are accepting it or if we are rejecting it.

Pop over to the Autonomous Mind blog for more information and sign Nikki Sinclaire MEP's EU-style "we don't like the first answer so we'll ask again" petition for an EU referendum.