Scottish Referendum – Is It A Stitch Up ?

By King Alfred

“The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.”
― Alfred the Great

It is clear that the EU desires the breakup and economic destruction of Great Britain folding the regional remains into a Federal Europe.  They are busy making such plans even before the votes are counted. Reading on you will find that even if a majority vote no the man who would be King of Scotland Salmond may still expand his realm.

All under the banner of “federalism” if you vote (No) or “confederalism” if you vote (Yes) see page 10 Table 0.1: Summary of the expected effects of the 2014 referendum.

According to the report there are two kinds of “No”.

Under narrow ‘No’,

termed aspirational devolution (40-50% ‘Yes’, 50-60% ‘No’)

One such person making plans for a Federal Europe is Andrew Hughes Hallett who is EURAC Federal Scholar 2014 and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank an institution riddled with fraud and iniquity.

The International Jury of the Second Edition of the EURAC Federal Scholar has awarded this year’s prize to
Prof. Hughes Hallett, University Professor for Economics and Public Policy at George Mason University (USA) and Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews (Scotland).

His manuscript “The Practicalities of Economic Federalism: A Critical review of How to Apply the Lessons of Fiscal Autonomy in Practice” has been ranked first among all received applications. The principal theme of his paper is to elaborate a model of fiscal federalism where comprehensive powers over taxation and spending are devolved, but remain consistent within a union-wide macro-economic framework and constitutional integrity. He concentrates on the case of the UK and more specifically on Scotland. The paper also makes reference to several other case studies.

Prof. Hughes Hallett has taught in over 15 Universities in Europe and in the U.S. He is ranked in the top 1% of economists world-wide (295 out of 34.280) by publications, citations and readership. Beyond the academic world, Prof. Hughes Hallett is consultant to the Fiscal Affairs division of the European Central Bank on debt management and lead economist in the working group set up to design the policy framework for autonomy/independence for Scotland after the referendum in 2014. He has acted as consultant to the World Bank and the IMF as well as for the Federal Reserve in Washington, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and to the UN, UNESCO, OECD and to various governments and central banks in Europe.
He will be making a research stay at EURAC in January-February 2014, and will present his research findings at the Winter School on Federalism and Governance in a public lecture scheduled on 10th February 2014 in Bolzano/Bozen. http://www.eurac.edu/en/research/institutes/sfere/federalscholar2014.html

An all party parliamentary Taxation Group led by Marius Ostrowski an Oxford scholar produced a report entitled “Achieving Autonomy.” The title itself  implies bias in favour of the EU driven break up of the UK into regional components.

Oxford dictionary Definition of achieve in English:

successfully bring about or reach (a desired objective or result) by effort, skill, or courage:

example:

O’Neill has told his players that pretty football must be secondary to achieving the right result.

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

“The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.”

Marius Ostrowski has a bio published on the website of Respublica a Common Purpose linked poisonous think tank.

Ostrowski is a doctoral student in politics at the University of Oxford, with a thesis on federalism and community identification. He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and an MPhil in Political Theory, both also from Oxford. His MPhil research focused on political legitimacy and authority, and forms of political support.

His wider work covers an eclectic range of interests, including European party systems, political realism, metaphysics, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and he has recently become drawn to mutualist models of political and economic governance.
- See more at: http://www.respublica.org.uk/author/Marius-Ostrowski

Perhaps Ostrowski sees himself and his peers as “exceptional”.

Nietzsche sees the slave-morality as a source of the nihilism that has overtaken Europe. Modern Europe and Christianity exist in a hypocritical state due to a tension between master and slave morality, both values contradictorily determining, to varying degrees, the values of most Europeans (who are motley). Nietzsche calls for exceptional people to no longer be ashamed of their uniqueness in the face of a supposed morality-for-all, which he deems to be harmful to the flourishing of exceptional people. He cautions, however, that morality, per se, is not bad; it is good for the masses, and should be left to them. Exceptional people, on the other hand, should follow their own “inner law.” A favorite motto of Nietzsche, taken from Pindar, reads: “Become what you are.” wikipedia

Nietzsche is obviously wrong when it comes to Britain for we are not as the proponents of EU integration fantasize slaves.

“An Englishman is born a free man save under the due restraint of the necessary law” is a phrase that resonates the world over. The rule of law enshrines accountability in the administration with ultimate enforcement in the hands of the people, not those who govern.

His photograph appears here.

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