Farewell to Dear Old Ireland

Yes I know I know, these pages are supposed to be filled with the incoherent ramblings of a Catholic trying to make sense of his Faith!! But...
   This week in Ireland we were greeted by the sight of the elected officials of this state, lining up to prostrate themselves before an unelected EU official, and to be told, TO BE TOLD, how to run this country. I don't claim to know much about Olli Rehn, he might be a nice guy, but I do know  he is from Finland,  why then does my country's future rest in the hands of someone ( and other eurocrats) who never received my vote and are not citizens of this country?
    Occasionally one hears the utterly stupid notion expressed "sure let the EU run the economy, they couldn't do as bad a job as the government!"  What drivel? Talk about burying your head in the sand!! Once you let any big external organisation into the vital organs of a state, you will need a crow bar to prise them off again. Ask any of the African countries who let the IMF in!! Allied to this is the moronic perception that somehow that paragon of virtue, which is the EU, can supplant the cronyism and corruption of the Irish elite that caused the mess.  The answer to this is just take a look at the budget for the EU in the last 5 years, the wastage, the funds diverted and unaccounted for, the salaries of the MEPs etc.  They make the dodgy dealings of the Irish look like trivialities.
    The truth of the matter is that we have been lied to for 15 years. We should never have joined the single currency (the euro), it was more suited to the sedate and settled economies of France and Germany with huge savings base and high interest rates; not a young, small and open economy that was seeking to grow. Now we find ourselves in the nice pickle of trying to pay back the German banks for the gamble that they took on the Celtic Tiger.  If I was a betting man (which I'm not) it is the equivalent of me walking into a bookies and saying "Look I bet 20 on that horse which collapsed and died half way down the course, but you Mr Bookie have to redeem my wager!!!"
    Loss of economic sovreignty means loss of national sovreignty (the lies of Lisbon revealed), for if you hold the purse strings you determine how people live. Think about that for a moment, do Irish people want the EU running every aspect of the country? The EU is anti-family, anti-life, anti-faith. This is all too clear in its dealings with its bette noir, the Catholic Church.
    So what to do? Well firstly lets create a political party that is not in awe of the EU, there is presently not one political party in this land that is not hypnotised by the EU, they cannot see the wood for the trees. Secondly do not rely on the media to offer any support, the so called intelligentsia love the liberal, unethical posturings of the European parliament. After all many of the journalists get paid junkets (first class flights, top hotels, freebies all covered) to Brussels and Strasbourg to hear seminars on how good the EU is and what a good job they do; anecdotally they also receive bonuses for writing positive articles in their papers.
      So a new political movement that can successfully combat the negative headlines of a biased media, then what?  Tell our creditors, tough, you took a risk and it didn't work, swallow the bad medicine and move on!! Then pull out of the euro, no media outlet has dared to think never mind suggest this course. But why not? After all our two biggest trading partners are the UK and the USA. Iceland, Denmark etc never joined the euro and they are in far better shape than ourselves. Will withdrawing from the currency be painful? Of course it will be, but I would suggest that the pain will be less drawn out and over quicker than the present suicidal policy.  Lets face it if you have a plaster on your skin what do you prefer to do, rip it off quickly in one sharp pull, or slowly prise it off taking more skin and hair, prolonging the pain.
   If something is not done quickly then the Irish state which has been in existence for less 100 years will simply become a grubby little rocky outpost on the fringes of the euro empire.