Christopher Booker's classic story of the European Union's Great
Deception, now updated with new material.
Now published with a new preface explaining why The Great Deception is
of the utmost importance today as it was when it was first published and
to coincide with Great Britain's EU referendum in 2016, this book
suggests that the United States of Europe and its edict of 'ever closer
union' have been based on a colossal confidence trick.
This book tells for the first time the inside story of the most
audacious political project of modern times: the plan to unite Europe
under a single 'supranational' government. From the 1920s, when the
blueprint for the European Union was first conceived by a British civil
servant, this meticulously documented account takes the story right up
to the moves to give Europe a political constitution, already planned 60
years ago to be the 'crowning dream' of the whole project.
The book shows how the gradual assembling of a European government has
amounted to a 'slow motion coup d'etat', based on a strategy of
deliberate deception, into which Britain's leaders, Macmillan and Heath,
were consciously drawn. Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, scarcely an
episode of the story does not emerge in startling new light, from the
real reasons why de Gaulle kept Britain out in the 1960s to the fall of
Mrs Thatcher. The book chillingly shows how Britain's politicians, not
least Tony Blair, were consistently outplayed in a game the rules of
which they never understood. But it ends by asking whether, from the
euro to enlargement, the 'project' has now overreached itself, as a
gamble doomed to fail.
