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The Great Deception - Can the European Union survive? - EU Referendum Edition (Paperback, New Edition)
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The Great Deception - Can the European Union survive? - EU Referendum Edition (Paperback, New Edition)
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Now published with a new preface explaining why The Great Deception
is of the utmost importance today as it was when it was first
published and to coincide with Great Britain's EU referendum in
2016, this book suggests that the United States of Europe and its
edict of 'ever closer union' have been based on a colossal
confidence trick. The Great Deception tells for the first time the
inside story of the most audacious political project of modern
times: the plan to unite Europe under a single 'supranational'
government. From the 1920s, when the blueprint for the European
Union was first conceived by a British civil servant, this
meticulously documented account takes the story right up to the
moves to give Europe a political constitution, already planned 60
years ago to be the 'crowning dream' of the whole project. The book
shows how the gradual assembling of a European government has
amounted to a 'slow motion coup d'etat', based on a strategy of
deliberate deception, into which Britain's leaders, Macmillan and
Heath, were consciously drawn. Drawing on a wealth of new evidence,
scarcely an episode of the story does not emerge in startling new
light, from the real reasons why de Gaulle kept Britain out in the
1960s to the fall of Mrs Thatcher. The book chillingly shows how
Britain's politicians, not least Tony Blair, were consistently
outplayed in a game the rules of which they never understood. But
it ends by asking whether, from the euro to enlargement, the
'project' has now overreached itself, as a gamble doomed to fail.
Since their collaboration began in 1992, Christopher Booker, a
Sunday Telegraph columnist, and Richard North, who worked for four
years in Brussels and Strasbourg as a senior researcher, have won a
unique reputation for their expertise on Britain's relationship to
the European Union. Their previous publications included The Mad
Officials (1994) and The Castle of Lies (1996). But they regard The
Great Deception as the book they had been waiting to write for ten
years. Christopher Booker's preface now adds up-to-date detail for
the current era as Britain heads inexorably towards a possible
'Brexit'.
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