Christopher Booker
1. The Great Deception
The Great Deception The True Story of Britain and the European Union
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Dugald Bruce LockhartSpieldauer
25 Stunden und 37 Minuten
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Erscheinungsdatum
23.09.2021
Hörtyp
Lesung
Fassung
ungekürzt
Medium
MP3
Anzahl Dateien
32
Verlag
Bloomsbury ContinuumSprache
Englisch
EAN
9781472990266
Bloomsbury presents The Great Deception by Christopher Booker and Richard North, read by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart.
Since its publication in 2003, The Great Deception has taken on the role of the Eurosceptics' bible, with the third edition helping to fuel the debate during the 2016 EU Referendum.
This fourth edition celebrates the moment when the UK broke away from the European Union, having been extensively re-edited to incorporate newly available archive material, and updated to include the tumultuous events of recent years.
The Great Deception, therefore, tells for the first time the inside story of the most audacious political project of modern times, from its intellectual beginnings in the 1920s, when the blueprint for the European Union was first conceived by a British civil servant, right up to the point when the UK resumes its path at as an independent sovereign nation after 47 years of membership of the European project in its various guises.
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence and existing sources, 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 and the build-up to the referendum campaign which had its roots in the Maastricht Treaty.
The book chillingly shows how Britain's politicians were consistently outplayed in a game the rules of which they never understood. It ends by evaluating the post referendum negotiations and asking whether this is the end of an episode or just a new beginning.
Since its publication in 2003, The Great Deception has taken on the role of the Eurosceptics' bible, with the third edition helping to fuel the debate during the 2016 EU Referendum.
This fourth edition celebrates the moment when the UK broke away from the European Union, having been extensively re-edited to incorporate newly available archive material, and updated to include the tumultuous events of recent years.
The Great Deception, therefore, tells for the first time the inside story of the most audacious political project of modern times, from its intellectual beginnings in the 1920s, when the blueprint for the European Union was first conceived by a British civil servant, right up to the point when the UK resumes its path at as an independent sovereign nation after 47 years of membership of the European project in its various guises.
Drawing on a wealth of new evidence and existing sources, 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 and the build-up to the referendum campaign which had its roots in the Maastricht Treaty.
The book chillingly shows how Britain's politicians were consistently outplayed in a game the rules of which they never understood. It ends by evaluating the post referendum negotiations and asking whether this is the end of an episode or just a new beginning.
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The Great Deception is a most fascinating book which tells the full history of what is now the European Union, which insiders call the European project. By delving much further into European history than the official version, the reader can understand how the European Union came to be have its supranational structure, how it was always meant to be this way, and how it uses various instruments, including the European Court of Justice, to give EU law a higher priority than that of member states, and ensures that it stays that way.
The book also covers the support that Churchill wanted to give Europe with the aim of achieving peace, freedom and an end to all follies of the past. However he was very much against the supranational structure; he strongly favoured an intergovernmental approach. He envisaged a Temple of World Peace with four pillars: the USA, the Soviet Union, a United States of Europe and, quite separately, the British Empire and Commonwealth. How the original Churchillian vision of an intergovernmental United States of Europe with Britain a separate entity, became the supranational European Union with Britain as a member, is described in meticulous detail in The Great Deception.
With references throughout, this well-researched book describes, among other things, the real reasons why de Gaulle kept Britain out of the European Economic Community (as it was then) in the 1960s, but by the early 1970s the French needed the UK to be in the EEC. Also, one cannot fully understand the downfall of Margaret Thatcher without knowing the 'Europe'-dimension.
To anyone interested in having detailed knowledge of much of the political history of Europe, including various attempts further back in history at unifying Europe, and how things finally developed to become the European Union, the writing of the Constitution and its rejection by the French and the Dutch, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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