Dateline: January 2002

Many in the North East of England may be asking what is all this talk of “regional government”, who is behind it and what does it really mean? One clue to its true meaning is the fact that the chief proponent of the idea is the organisation called One North East, 40% of whose Board also happen to be in the Eurofederalist group “North East in Europe”. Well, fancy that!

Now many of these individuals are probably as ignorant of what they are doing as the members of our parliament at Westminster. The obnoxious truth is however that the regionalisation of Britain is the prime aim of the European Union in its search for constitutional power. They – like the eurofanatic Labour Government – are bent on destroying local and county government in Britain and replacing it with a system more easily manipulated by the European Commission. Needless to say one of the advantages they see is the ability – as they increasingly have through their embryo “regional governments” - to bypass our parliament and government in London and to involve “business” “trade unions” and other corporate groups in our “democratic governance”.

There is nothing new in this attempt by an integrated European Superpower to destroy our traditional parliamentary system. It is precisely what fascists in Nazi German, Vichy France and Fascist Italy did in Europe during the 1940s.

As one of the world’s leading socialists – the Swede Jan Myrdal, a friend of Indira Gandhi and Mao Tse Tung! – said recently, such corporatist attempts to create regional government were a hallmark of fascism.