The Great Deception Quotes

“British supporters of 'Europe' caught something of that quasi-religious faith in the 'project' which had long been shown by its devotees on the continent. They were 'believers' in a way reminiscent of those who accept any collective religious ideology, taking for granted that it passed an inherent moral superiority which brooked no questioning.”
― Christopher Booker & Richard North, The Great Deception: Can The European Union Survive

“When in September 1992 Britain was forced out of the ERM, her economy plunged into a recession which had brought misery to millions, this marked the end of the most obviously disastrous venture into which Britain's entanglement with 'Europe' had yet led her. But still so powerful was the spell this had cast over an establishment which had almost unanimously favoured Britain's entry into the ERM that even now the 'pro-Europeans' were unable to see how this horrendous misjudgement had resulted directly from their infatuation with a system the true nature of which they had not begun to grasp. Deception was giving way to self-deception.”
― Christopher Booker & Richard North, The Great Deception: Can The European Union Survive

“For the first time since Britain joined the Common Market, a significant minority of people were able to base their view of 'Europe' on direct experience rather than theory, and their response varied from mere disillusionment to downright hostility. They felt they had been deceived.”
― Christopher Booker & Richard North, The Great Deception: Can The European Union Survive

“What the British people were beginning to face, in fact, was precisely that situation which had been predicted by the secret Foreign Office memorandum on 'Soverignty' back in 1971, that, by the end of the century, they would discover that most of their laws were made by the anonymous armies of officials over whom their elected representatives had no control.”
― Christopher Booker & Richard North, The Great Deception: Can The European Union Survive

“Many business people were further disconcerted to find that, when they attempted to raise their problems with MPs and ministers, they would now be told there was nothing the politicians could do, because this was 'legislation which comes from Europe'. They were making the same discovery as the farmers and the fishermen: that whole sectors of government policy and the power to legislate had been handed over to Brussels.”
― Christopher Booker & Richard North, The Great Deception: Can The European Union Survive

“consistently and comprehensively they have been deceived.”
― Christopher Booker, The Great Deception: Can the European Union survive?

“Introduced by de Gaulle to protect France’s ‘vital interests’, when there was a possibility that Britain would use it, the French wanted it abolished.”
― Christopher Booker, The Great Deception: Can the European Union survive?