Why now?

Our democracy is in peril as never before. Over the years our politicians have given away vital rights and powers to unelected Commissioners in the European Union.

It is time to claim these powers back before it is too late and Britain is broken into pieces and absorbed into the rapidly emerging United States of Europe.

Europe already has the trappings and substance of power:

• it makes most of our laws
• it tells us who to trade with and how
• it puts limits on what our elected governments can spend
• it imposes rules on every business in the land ( though only a minority trade with Europe)
• it controls how we grow the food we eat
• and dictates the amount of fish we can catch
• and it has broken our country into unelected regions

Our politicians talk about democratic deficits, about over centralising government, about the need to devolve power, about the need to connect with the voters.

Yet few if any of our elected politicians speak out about this, the most serious challenge to our democratic heritage. Why?

Perhaps it is because many of them are too embarrassed to admit their part in the scandal; while others are simply too ignorant to have noticed the slow but remorseless assault on our hard-won democratic rights.
 
For, as Mark Leonard, head of one of Downing Street's favourite think tanks has written – this takeover of our democracy has not happened overnight; it has not been a smash and grab raid, but a slow and secretive fraud committed against the people of Britain.

 Here is what the pro-European Union Leonard says:

'Europe's power is easy to miss. Like an invisible hand it operates through the shell of traditional political structures. The British House of Commons, the British law courts, and British civil servants are all still there, but they have all become agents of the European Union implementing European law.

'This is no accident. By creating common standards that are implemented through national institutions, Europe can take over countries without becoming a target for hostility.'

But the people sense that something is wrong. The spin doctors have failed to convince them that British democracy is in good health.

• They want a second opinion
• They want to be told the facts
• The want to know the truth.

Here at speakout we will give them the facts. We will provide them with the tonic of the truth.

And if the politicians don't like it, let them stand aside and let the people decide in a referendum who governs Britain.