The Anglo – European Crisis
….by Michael Shrimpton, London
There have been two major developments on the EU this week. Firstly the Tory Party consensus on Europe has broken down.
Half of my party’s backbench MPs have demanded the implementation of the promise, given in bad faith when we joined, that the UK have a veto over European laws and policies which are harmful to our interests.
Secondly, Steve Odell, Ford’s European CEO, has publicly revealed Ford’s panic about the UK’s impending departure from the EU.
Before I turn to them let me respond to comments on Kennedy Conspiracy (8). One commenter went so far as to ask that I write coherent articles, in the sense of linking one topic to another. He doesn’t want much!
Pace Lenin, not everything is connected to everything else, and this is a topical column. There is usually more than one event per week worth a comment. By the way, if you notice a deterioration in the quality of the graphics that is because I have taken them over from Jim Dean. Lazily I’ve been delegating that task to him!
[Editors Note: He has not taken over his layout work yet, but when he does, he will still have polishing up support as more of our writers assist us in the ‘magazine’ styly layouts which our readers like so much. By sharing that word load we can keep the content pace up, which is a chore doing it 365 days a year…Jim W. Dean]
Can anyone tell me what the heck is going on in Florida? It’s supposed to be part of the South! Curtis Reeves, a police retiree aged 71, has been arrested and charged (for heaven’s sake!), just for shooting dead Chad Oulson, aged 43, in a movie theater, after he had been warned. The man was text messaging during the movie!
Admittedly the sound of gunfire and the dying man’s screams would have interfered with patrons’ enjoyment of the movie even more than the text messaging, but come on guys! They seem to be arresting folk down there for the most trivial things. They’re getting almost as bad as Thames Valley Police, who’ll be arresting me for sneezing next.
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Response to Comments
I’m glad my comments on Alice Springs beer went down well, almost as smoothly as the amber nectar itself. Why shouldn’t the NSA boys have a tinny of West End at the end of a long shift at Pine Gap? Intelligence is thirsty work. It is not a profession for teetotallers, nor cranks of any sort, for that matter.
The ‘Jew thing’ seems to have got some commenters obsessed. Neither the DVD nor the Illuminati were anything to do with the Jews, save that the DVD has made use of Jewish assets. The European Rothschilds have long had connections to Prussian, then German intelligence, but strictly they’re of Cathar descent, not Jewish. They only pretend to be Jewish.
I don’t debate with anti-semites because anti-semitism isn’t rational. I have to spend enough time as it is dealing with non-rational actors, like Thames Valley Police, or global warming nutters. At least some of them have been trapped in one of Antarctica’s growing ice-sheets for a couple of weeks.
The Rolls-Royce Vulture was indeed a huge engine. Effectively two Peregrines added together, it had a swept volume of 2,591 cubic inches (42.47 liters). It eventually reached 3,000 HP, I think on only single-staged supercharging. It was a pretty staggering engine and the Ministry of Aircraft Production and Cabinet Office (headed by the German spies Beaverbrook and Bridges respectively) waged a bitter war against it, using standard German methods such as deception, which we are seeing so much of in the immigration debate here in the UK.
As I commented last week the problem with the Manchester was largely with the installation, and that was pretty easily fixed. Yes, there were developmental problems with the Vulture itself, but nothing that Rolls-Royce couldn’t overcome. The success of the German campaign against the Vulture left the Lancaster underpowered, relying as it did on the smaller, 1,650 cubic inch Merlin, which was not really up to the job.
The B-17 suffered from the same problem. As I comment in Spyhunter the G model should really have been re-engined with the excellent Wright R-2600 radial. The only re-engining which Boeing were allowed by Germany’s General Marshall to carry out was to substitute the Allison V-1710 (the XB-38). That was slightly odd, with respect, since the Allison motor was smaller than the Wright R-1820 it replaced, taking away most of the benefit of the lower drag. Don’t blame Boeing however, blame ‘von’ Marshall.
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Crisis with the EU
The Anglo-European crisis is of geo-political significance. EU withdrawal would save the UK economy some $325 billion a year, permitting us to be a major player again.
We could treble our defense budget for the vast sums of cash UK plc throws down the European drain.
Cameron bought off his backbenchers for a period with a bogus promise to re-negotiate the terms of UK membership, but in a dramatic speech to the European Parliament EU Commissioner Viviane Redding ruled renegotiation out. The idea was always a non-starter anyway. The EU takes powers, it does not return them.
Redding’s with respect maniacal speech was a game-changer. By spelling it out she increased the number of Tory MPs able to grasp the point. Word is also spreading that Cameron has privately agreed with the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, to renege on the referendum promise. It was already known that ‘von’ Clegg, the EU-loving führer, sorry, leader, of the Lib Dems, would veto a referendum if his party were still in government.
The British public were told when we joined what was then the Common Market that we had a veto. Sadly, that was simply an exercise in deception. There was a temporary national veto, the so-called Luxembourg Compromise, but it was a political agreement only, to appease De Gaulle and keep the French in the EEC. It was never incorporated into the Treaty of Rome (the EEC Treaty) and was deliberately left out of the British Treaty of Accession.
The issue is the same as that which confronted the United States after 1789 – federation, or confederation? The EU sees itself as a federation. The UK sees the EU as a confederation. Tory MPs are demanding nothing less than the submission of the EU’s political and judicial authorities to the British imperial will. The EU demands nothing less than total British subjugation to European domination.
Ironically it wasn’t until Romanians and Bulgarians started to flood across our national frontier last year, in anticipation of the complete lifting of border controls on January 1st (immigration control collapsed as visas were handed out in Bucharest and Sofia virtually on demand), that the majority of the public realised that there was no veto.
The lies about the veto and the EU generally have of course done enormous damage to the reputation of the political class and the Civil Service, both of which are now seen as sleazy and dishonest, prepared to lie at will.
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Ford Motor Company never saw the crisis coming, any more than they saw World War II coming.
Their factory in Cologne, even though it was a key component of Nazi Germany’s military-industrial complex, was never hardened. Astonishingly, Ford executives bought into Goering’s assurances that Germany would never be bombed.
They never even advised their workforce to harden their homes or make emergency preparations, even though the presence of the Ford of Germany works made the destruction of Cologne a strategic priority.
The inevitable happened. RAF Bomber Command blasted through the Kammhuber Line with just under 1,000 bombers on the night of May 30th/31st 1942, in Operation Millennium. Their 3,000 plus highly supercharged engines generated around 4,500,000 combined horsepower, creating the largest sound footprint ever heard in Europe.
Ford were almost totally unprepared. Desperate managers racing to the plant that night didn’t need to switch on their lights to avoid running over terrified members of their workforce who had run into the street with their clothing alight. The fires were so fierce that night was turned into day. For Ford it was Götterdämerung time.
Steve Odell and his predecessors with respect have repeated the mistakes of Robert Schmidt after 1939. They have bought into ‘Jerry’s’ assurances that Britain would always remain in the German Sphere of Influence, aka the EU. They have shut down every Ford vehicle assembly line in the UK.
As Steve Odell’s disgraceful comments on Tuesday reveal Ford are now in a panic, as they contemplate having to import vehicles through the tariff barrier we will inevitably erect when we leave, probably 10%. It doesn’t sound much, but that’s Ford’s profit margin – and the UK is now the most dynamic economy on this side of the pond, with car sales heading north of two million. We are not as dynamic as you guys. We can’t be – we’re still in the EU – but we are pulling ahead of the sclerotic European economies.
Odell’s economic arguments were the usual recycled, asinine nonsense trotted out by supporters of EU membership for the last 40 years. He said we would be subject to EU rules if we left. No we won’t, Steve. Nobody serious is arguing that we should remain in the so-called single market. We want a clean break, and that means an end to European imports, including Ford Mondeos, flooding for free across our frontiers, with only a handful of Jags going the other way.
Our trade deficit with the EU is a staggering $50 billion a year plus, so huge Whitehall has to lie about the figures, like pretending that exports to South Korea through Rotterdam are exports to Holland! Did you know that Holland is a major oil producer? That’s what the figures say. How many nodding donkeys have you seen in the Dutch countryside? (At Cabinet Office insistence Whitehall counts crude oil trans-shipped at Rotterdam as a Dutch export).
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The Oradour Prosecution
I am totally opposed to this nonsense. To give you the background, it has been announced that an SS trooper, ‘Werner C’, who is now aged 88, is to be prosecuted in Germany over his alleged involvement in the awful massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane, France, on June 10th 1944. He was 19 at the time, barely more than a kid, and clearly not in command.
As a lawyer I have two fundamental objections to these musical comedy proceedings. Firstly it is too late. Justice delayed is justice denied. If he was to be tried at all it should have been in 1945. Secondly, if he shot any civilians at all, which he denies, he was clearly obeying orders issued by a superior.
Under German military law at the time an SS trooper was duty bound to obey the orders of the SS chain of command, without question. The Nuremberg Defense, of obeisance to the orders of a superior, should be allowed. As an eager young law student I was strongly in favour of the Nuremberg War Trials, but one of the prosecutors – Lord Elwyn-Jones – told me they were a mistake.
I now respectfully agree. The charges against Werner C should be dropped. Let the blame fall where it lies – with those who gave the dreadful order. Werner should be allowed to live out the evening of his life in peace. If this legal farce is to continue I hope the judge addresses him by his SS rank, as a military courtesy.
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Lt-Cdr Steven Mackenzie CBE DSC RN
Honoring those who have passed is a feature of my column which will be familiar to regular readers. The Telegraph on Wednesday carried the obituary of Lt-Cdr Mackenize, late of MI6 and MI18. A brilliant intelligence officer, he was a colleague in MI18 of the great Ian Fleming and Commander Frank Slocum. For most of the war he was Deputy Director, Operations Division (Irregular) at the Admiralty.
He should have been DDOD(HI) of course (Highly Irregular!). He was a great spook-runner into Occupied Europe and once bailed out King Zog. He also penetrated MI6 on behalf of British Intelligence.
He was a fine man and I wish I’d known him, although we had mutual friends, including the late Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly. My condolences to his widow, Dolores.
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Movie of the Week – Where Eagles Dare (1968)
With another cracking plot based on an Alistair Maclean novel, this famous movie, with its wonderful score by Ron Goodwin, is still one of the best intelligence movies ever made. Most readers will be familiar with it, but some will not. Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood were the leads, but the supporting cast was very strong, with Sir Michael Hordern, Peter Barkworth, Patrick Wymark (as the British traitor Colonel Turner) and Robert Beatty. The scenery is great, the cable car battles are pretty impressive for 1968 and the ‘Jerries’ are played superbly.
There are still useful tips to be had, such as how to walk through a German checkpoint. Do it the way Richard Burton did. Just saunter through and give a little upwards wave whilst talking about your last leave in Berlin. Don’t try to sneak through, or speak English.
One of MII8’s favorite methods of disposing of German spies features at the end. No need for a trial – just invite them to step out the plane door at altitude and hang on to their parachute. Sadly the advent of pressurized airplanes has taken all the fun out of this time-honored procedure.
Editing: Jim W. Dean
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Michael Shrimpton was a barrister from his call to the Bar in London in 1983 until being disbarred in 2019 over a fraudulently obtained conviction. He is a specialist in National Security and Constitutional Law, Strategic Intelligence and Counter-terrorism. He is a former Adjunct Professor of Intelligence Studies at the American Military University.
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