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Why will no one talk about where the European Union is headed?

Attempts to talk seriously about the undemocratic nature of the European Union are consistently sidelined.

By John King

The so-called debate on the UK’s membership of the European Union has been stuck on trade and immigration for months now, with the same arguments knocked back and forwards, and channelled by a lazy media, but the reality is that if the UK votes for independence on 23 June there will be no great economic collapse and people will come and go as they have done across the centuries. There will be adjustments, but nothing compared to the trauma we face if we stay in. These issues are distractions from the most important question, which is where the EU is heading.

The European Union is not static and what we vote for now is not what we will have to live with in one or two years’ time, let alone the decades to come. The EU is a political structure and exists to create a single state, its tactics to guide Europe’s nations towards the superstate without its people knowing what is happening. This is being accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, a slow-motion coup that is taking place across the generations.

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