The EU ‘package’ Malta got was never going to live up to all the promises made. It was always a bad deal that worsened as we gave up more rights to the EU oligarchy until in reality we have no real say in our today let alone our tomorrows and can refute nothing that the EU wants to impose on us. But having returned last week from an EUD annual general meeting and a public debate on EU Militarisation in Germany itself, I’m now entirely convinced that the EU federalist oligarchy has, beyond a shadow of a doubt, lost all meaning of what the EU founding fathers wanted to create. They have also lost complete touch with the very people living in the EU states themselves.

Democracy is just a sick EU joke and that’s very bad news for us the people.

Our MEPS are happily patting each other on the back because of some ‘massive victory’ over roaming charges. Bully for them. However most of us are far more concerned about Greece right now and the debt crisis that could quite literally tear the euro apart. Either way it goes, the referendum will leave a huge impact on the euro and in turn the federalist project itself. This will also affect your, and my, future directly. The repercussions of this referendum, which just two weeks ago, no one could ever have seen coming, are therefore very important.

The EU lays all the blame on the Greeks themselves. That’s nothing new. The Greeks are simply lazy, we’re told. They retire early. They travel for free on public transport and yacht-owning tax evaders are one-a-penny. They have been living way beyond their means for decades and taking us all for a ride. Now they just want to prolong the situation and hope to grab more money too.

It is in our interest, therefore, for the EU to be tough, not to be messed with any more and demand money as agreed, they tell us.

But truly now, if our Prime Minister was to turn round tomorrow and merely, for the sake of popularity, offer “new retirement at 45” and “free public transport for all”, will we blame the masses for them thinking how great he is and that Malta is doing so well under his tenure? 

This is what happened in Greece. I do not think it is the Greeks per se who are initially at fault, but their politicians who cooked the books and curried favour for years, it seems.

We also all know that our national budget has to be presented, scrutinised and approved by the EU itself. So the question we should be asking is: if the EU scrutinises and approves budgets of each EU country so carefully, how on earth did the EU miss what was happening in Greece for decades?

Is the EU therefore not also responsible for carrying out its own diligences and therefore for not auditing the Greek economy properly?

The previous Greek politicians cooked the books. EU politicians did not do their correct auditing or chose to ignore the real economic situation. On top of this, instead helping the Greek people by lending morally and decently, the EU politicians (backed by bankers) chose instead to exert what we might simply call ‘usury’. 

Greece was given ‘take it or leave it’ terms, which, even before they were signed, everyone knew were impossible to uphold. Greece was in trouble. Tied in so neatly with all the Federalist laws and conditions, it just had no alternative but to accept the only route offered.

The EU oligarchy prefers to ignore the few ‘minor (sic!) euro hiccups’ like Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Greece etc. It chooses to ignore the figures which generally and consistently show that EU countries outside the eurozone had far better “monetary figures/economies”. They simply ignore what serious economists have been telling them for years and prefer instead to paint a most rosy picture of the eurozone. Even now, given half a chance, they would prefer to gamble billions more of our money in order to prop up a failed federalist dream rather than admit that the whole project is simply not working. Yes, one could argue that the last six years might have been excellent for “the few at the top” but definitely not for the lower and middle class which have been suffering recession and austerity throughout the EU since 2009 – the year the Lisbon Treaty came into force and the year federalism (based on the euro) became a legal reality.

This behaviour is immoral at best. You help people in need not squeeze them dry and then some. You tell the truth not lie about the situation. You look after people not gamble with their inheritance.

If more proof of how immoral the Federalist and the Europhiles can get, many/most of those in power and calling the EU shots right now call themselves “socialists” and of course “democratic”. Both these terms are tied to the concept that the people decide and the people come first. Not money. Not capital. People.

When such actions happen, it is clear that democracy in the EU just does not exist. Imposition against the will of the people is not democracy.

Yet in Greece, it is the people (lower/middle class workers and pensioners) who have just gone through four years of hell and worse is to come thanks to the insistence of these so-called socialist/democratic EU politicians.

And if any more proof is needed that what is happening today in Greece is utterly immoral and full of EU hypocrisy, let me put a final argument forward.

We are all aware that the Greek people, the EU insists, must suffer more austerity. No more “living beyond your means”. A reduction in the work force, services like health, pensions etc are the order of the day from the EU to the Greek population. And yet, few might be aware that with the excuse of the Greek-Turkish conflict in Cyprus, and despite the mess Greece has found itself in, for many years, the UK, France and Germany have been quite happy to carry on regardless, supplying billions of euro worth of arms annually to Greece!

Fifteen per cent of Germany's total arms exports go to Greece. Ten per cent of France’s total arms exports go to Greece. And so on.

Of course, a Grecian former defence minister was recently jailed (pending trial) charged with accepting an €8 million bribe from Ferrostaal, a German company no less. Siemens too recently settled out of court after being accused that it had bribed Cabinet ministers.

Is it just me who sees it as immoral and hypocritical that while the EU insists that the Greeks (people like you and me), who are now in serious difficulty must suffer more because of politicians’ mistakes. However, at the same time, the EU countries that run the EU are accepting massive figures of ‘dirty’ money (my term) by selling weapons to these impoverished people?

When, therefore, I see my present government supporting the EU’s vile position and coming out with obnoxious public statement squeezing the Greeks, when I see a totally silent Opposition and when I see those who pretend to be socialists utter not a single word for the people of Greece then yes, I will stand up to be counted, even if I am totally alone.    

This is not the EU that I want to be part of. Neither, thankfully, do others in the EU itself. 

The Greeks have found out that Federalism is just modern day communism run by the few at the top, the oligarchy, and imposing equally on all, based on nothing but money and profit. 

The Maltese public have to wake up now and see the EU as the real monster that it has become. Before it’s too late and swallows us up too.

I wish the Greek people my full support. May the OXI (No) vote win the day. May the cradle of democracy finally start unshackling itself and the rest of the EU states from the mess the euro has gotten all into so that EU can finally reform and become more socially moral.

More for the people and more democratic.