The referendum

And so France rejected the constitution, and the Dutch are but days away from firing another salvo into the European Dream. So much for taking their chances?

How soon we forget the past. The EU rose from the ashes of World War II, a dream of a future where Europeans no longer spilled each others blood over petty squabbles.

Those squabbles unlike the EU constitution are alive and well. Squabbles over jobs should not be taken lightly, but the threat to French, British, and Dutch jobs are not migrants from Lithuania or even Turkey but from outsourcing to Thailand, Malaysia, and India. Europe is un-competitive and other increasingly market friendly regions are benefiting.

Much like the Britain of the seventies Europe has become bogged down with a unionised social structure unfit for today’s global, boarderless, evolving world. Too expensive to compete and too militant to change.

I would never lionise Thatcher who crushed as many jobs as she created, but the benefits of liberalising the markets are still being felt by Gordon Brown. Much like Thatcher’s time; the current economic bubble in the UK is financed by an unsustainable boom in house prices, however Britain is still far better placed for the new global economy than Europe en masse. The argument that the constitution would implement anglo-saxon market reforms by the backdoor should be lauded not criticised.

The global economy is a fierce uncompromising environment where cultures, histories, and national agendas are immaterial. Europe needs to deconstruct the social albatross it has saddled itself with, ready to exploit its rich diversity and tariff free national boundaries.

Europe is devoid of many of the primary resources that manufacturing hungrily consumes, so Europe needs to provide added value to products, and exploit the worlds growing hunger for technology and design. A knowledge based economy can thrive within Europe but we must work towards making this happen. Starting with a world leading educational standard that puts European students in a prime position within the global workforce.

Many on the right will argue against the further integration. They will argue that Europe offers little and wants to to control and exploit Britain. However the French non has given Britain the chance to take charge of the European Project. With France and the Netherlands slamming the brakes on reform and Germany in economic turmoil; Britain emboldened with the EU presidency can take the wheel and direct the immediate future of Europe.

Britain needs a strong integrated Europe if it is to consolidate its privileged global standing. There is no place for a country with limited resources and a deluded view of its own superiority. Our empire is the past and now we have the opportunity to be at one with a new union, a union for a new age.

All great civilisations have one defining characteristic, their ultimate demise. Those who argue that emerging powers do not threaten the United States’ grip on world power are delusional and bathe in their own sense of misguided immortality. China and India will challenge Americas dominance, and America will again rely on its alliances with the EU and Japan. We must provide an alternative structure to the exploitative labour markets of the globalised Asia. But we must realise that we have become too un-competitive, and we must sacrifice much of what we hold dear to ensure we have a workable future.

European standards of basic human rights and democratic freedoms are not shared by the emerging economies of Malaysia, Indonesia, India and China. We can only protect our standards by ensuring that they can be financed. We must protect ourselves, not through backward nationalistic protectionism, but through organic Dawinism. The fittest survive.

And so while Schroder and Chirac are resigned to history as the abject failures they most certainly are, we must look to a new anglo-saxon future of financial excellence and relaxed labour controls. A future where our taxes are spent on creating an environment where business flourishes, and enterprise is nursed not still-born.

I want to be an active part of this future do you?