An independent view by Hawkinge Gazette contributor Dave C

Is the tide turning against the Euro Zone ?

At last a significant number of cross party rebels, acting on behalf of their own electorate, have shown the true state of public anger at how the Euro Zone is falling apart at the seams.

It was always set up as a partnership between France and Germany to further their own national interests, under the guise of creating wealth across Europe, but in fact they have always ensured it is they who prospered.

The basic faults in its creation mean the Euro Zone foundations have now started to crumble, bringing down the shabby building work on top like a pack of cards.

The UK is now a net contributor, but still regarded by the rest of Europe as a free lunch box for the allegedly corrupt and inept such as Greece, Italy, Spain and Ireland … who I believe only want our money and our tourists to maintain their own unsustainable lifestyles … at the expense of ours.

At the time we entered the Euro Zone, 'to promote an economic bonanza', I remember the UK turned its back on its own Commonwealth citizens, with New Zealand and Australia having their market place removed at a stroke.

Even now, our own Commonwealth is regarded as foreign with immigration limitations put on our friends, when European nationals have free entry to come and go at will to milk our own economy while improving their own.

This might have been the idealistic dream but was always going to become a nightmare… time to wake up to reality.

Ironically, the crumbling Euro economy is now the main argument we should stay in. I suggest it is time to get out of Europe to protect ourselves, and concentrate on the new emerging economies of India and Africa.

Europe only ever wanted the UK when it suited them and to fight their wars for them. It is time for us to decide if it now suits us, fight for our own economic survival … and regain national pride and independence.

Margate, Dover and Folkestone have hardly become boom towns since joining Europe .. time to tell our MPs how to vote for us, not their own ministerial careers.

Hawkinge Gazette and Channel Coast News 2011©