Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood is urging voters to reject “damaging Europhobia” led by UKIP in May’s European election.
Ms Wood will tell Plaid’s spring conference in Cardiff that only her party can “further the Welsh national interest at the heart of Europe”.
One of the despicable things about the left is their use of language to demean and demonise their opponents. People do not have differing viewpoints, they have mental illnesses – they suffer from phobias. Yet a phobia is an irrational fear and hatred. I fail to see what is irrational about a distaste for an unelected unaccountable bureaucracy that pisses out new directives like Niagara Falls and is so utterly corrupt that it auditors still haven’t given its accounts a clean bill of health for the nineteenth year running.
As for democracy, please… We have an EU president. Name me one member of the European electorate that voted for him. Because, you see, I certainly never saw his name on a ballot paper.
I’d also point out to Ms Wood, that those of us who despise the EU do not suffer from “Europhobia” at all – because, having lived in another European country and travelled extensively across the continent, I love the place and the people. What I despise – and perfectly rationally – is the power grab by an unelected and unaccountable criminal élite. That’s no phobia, that’s the way reasonable people react when they see blatant criminality – they despise it and want to see those responsible locked away for a very long time.
The EU – not Europe – is undemocratic, unaccountable to the European electorate, power-hungry and self-serving. It is not Europe and Europe is not the EU. Only a charlatan on a political power-trip would try to conflate the two when arguing that we should support this behemoth.
So, yes, let’s get out.
Long, I agree with you in general about the use of language, at least in the way it is used by Antismokers, but occasionally it can be helpful to pick up your enemy’s weapons and give them a taste of their own medicine.
I’ve gotten some wonderfully heart-warming froth-bubble-spitting reactions from Antis when I commiserate with their unfortunate condition and recommend this page:
http://wispofsmoke.net/recovery.html
as an important first step on their path to recover from ASDS, AntiSmokers’ Dysfunction Syndrome. Funny thing though: when you actually think about it, it’s true: their condition DOES often step over the edge into the neurotic or even borderline psychotic areas, and it IS often harmful both to their own lives and to the lives of their families and friends. Stephanie Stahl did a remarkable job of adapting the first fifty pages of “Brains” in this one-page summary and I’ll always be grateful for her insights!
– MJM
So she was cheerleading for the EU “under a conference banner entitled ‘Wales First'”.
Politics has no place in civilised life, it corrupts everything it touches.
Yes, she’s accusing others of having Europhobia while wallowing in her party’s collective Anglophobia.
The Welsh ‘government ‘ is a shining example to the rest of the country to the disaster awaiting us if Labour are returned to power.