London Mayor Supports Brexit – Expect the EU to Go Rogue Again

February 22nd, 2016

Awake Goy

Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Boris Johnson, the Mayor of the United Kingdom’s capital London, announced on Sunday that he will back the call for Britain to leave the European Union in a national referendum on the UK’s EU membership. A leaked report from 2013 documenting how the EU planned to use all tricks in and off the books to sway the outcome of EU elections, and evidence of intimidation of EU critics should suffice to demonstrate that Johnson and Brexit supporters can be assured that the EU will go rogue, again.

Boris Johnson’s announcement carries weight. He is not only the Mayor of the UK’s capital. He is a heavyweight within the conservative party, an eloquent speaker and he enjoys solid support from his voter base; an important factor in a UK and western democracies in general, where approval ratings of elected officials after elections often dwindle to some 15%.

Johnson’s announcement came one day after the UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron said that Britain would hold a referendum on June 23 to decide whether to stay or leave the European Union. The London Mayor’s announcement that he would support Britain’s exit (Brexit) from the EU opposes Cameron’s call for voters to choose remaining inside the EU. Cameron had negotiated a “deal” with the EU that would endow the UK with a “special status” within the European Union.

Boris Johnson

David Cameron had sought strongly for Johnson’s support. Johnson, however, told the press that he came to his decision after “a great deal of heartache” and that he “wanted a better deal for the people of his country”. He praised the Prime Minister for having done fantastically well to reach an agreement with the EU leaders. However, he added, “no one could realistically claim that this is a fundamental reform for the EU”. Johnson told the press unequivocally:

“I will be advocating Vote Leave … because I want a better deal for the people of this country to save them money and to take back control.”

Prime Minister David Cameron is scheduled to speak in the British Parliament (House of Commons) on Monday to launch the campaigns for the referendum. Opinion polls show that the UK’s population is almost evenly divided between opponents and supporters of a Brexit.

Expect the EU to Go Rogue – Again

One of the wildcards that may sway the outcome of the referendum in favor of the Union is that the EU has a well-documented track record of using every trick in the book (and off the books) when it comes to a referendum of EU elections. A report, leaked in 2013 is but one of many possible examples that can explain the point.

Seeing the Dark Side.

In March 2013, a leaked, secret EU report revealed that the European Commission planned to use millions of euro on a massive manipulation campaign up to the 2014 elections. The document revealed that the manipulation plans included the fining of media for “incorrect” reporting, forcing media to publish retractions or corrections, and denying EU critical journalists and media access.

Other measures, which the un-elected EU Commissioners planned to include, were the monitoring of EU critical voices in social media and infiltration of social media by “trolls”. The report was largely ignored by other media than The Telegraph and nsnbc international. UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttell criticized the EU Commission, saying:

“The campaign would violate the neutrality of the EU’s civil service by turning officials into a “troll patrol”, stalking the internet to make unwanted and provocative political contributions in social media debates. … Spending over a million pounds for EU public servants to become Twitter trolls in office hours is wasteful and truly ridiculous “.

Morten Messerschmidt

Morten Messerschmidt, an MEP for the Danish Peoples’ Party, denounced the campaign as undemocratic and dangerous, quoting especially Article 25 of the report which reads:

“25) At present the right approach is to engage with and stimulate online content by being part of the ongoing online ‘conversation’. Social media are not just web tools or websites- they are dynamic social systems. The classic broadcast paradigm has shifted from a one-to-many approach (sender to receiver) to a many-to-many model (peer-to-peer). Building on the groundbreaking results achieved during and since the electoral communication campaign (including Facebook and MySpace profiles, blog monitoring, Flikr, Twitter and Parliament’s EUTube channel), the Media Directorate will continue to inform users of social communities and engage them in discussion about the EP’s priorities, paving the way for a genuine online debate among MEP’s, European political groups and parties and voters.”

In an e-mail to nsnbc, Morten Messerschmidt documented that the EU Commission’s initiative would not stop at targeting media, journalists and social media, but that it would directly monitor and target MEPs.

In his e-mail from March 26, 2013, Messerschmidt wrote to nsnbc:

“Just last month I received a letter from the Danish EU-representative in Copenhagen noting 50 blogs I had been posting about EU fraud and waste. The office declared that the blogs were accurate, but that it was inappropriate to write about it, as all the projects had been conducted in accordance with EU-legislation! This is a clear example of the monitoring.”

The leaked report and the example of Messerschmidt suffice to show that London Mayor Boris Johnson, the electorate in the UK, media and journalists, and not least proponents of a Brexit can expect that the EU will go rogue, again. No trick in the book excluded, no expenses spared.

CH/L – nsnbc 22.02.2016

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