Why do all British Governments lie to us about Europe? Tony Blair's government, deceitful as all governments before it since the Fat Grocer took us into the "Common Market", is going to sign-up to the new constitution that Giscard d'Estang's clique is putting the finishing touches to right now, without asking whether or not you want to be signed up to it. And once signed up, there'll be no getting out of it.

• The Fat Grocer is still lying about the events surrounding our joining back in the early 70s. "We said then that joining was the first step to political integration", he says. Liar! The country thought it was joining a common market, not buying a one-way ticket to a United States of Europe. Heath, the Fat Grocer, is responsible for the near-death of British fishing fleet, which was sacrificed on the altar of the Spanish fleet as a sweetener for our entry.
• Wilson lied at the time of the referendum, saying, in a leaflet sent to every British home, "There was a threat to employment in Britain from the movement in the Common Market towards an Economic and Monetary Union. This could have forced us to accept fixed exchange rates for the pound, restricting industrial growth and so putting jobs at risk. This threat has been removed." Liar! EMU is now a reality for the poor unfortunates who joined the euro in the first wave.
• The Thatcher and Major governments signed more and more European treaties, enmeshing us further and further into the spider's web, all the time saying (I paraphrase), "There's no threat to sovereignty. Westminster rules OK." Liars!
• Peter Hain, until recently our man at the Convention drawing up a new European Constitution, has said there is no need to have a referendum on whether or not Britain should sign up to the constitution, because "it's not a fundamental change, only a tidying-up exercise". Liar! This, by the way, is the same Peter Hain who, in his book, "Ayes to the Left" (1995), described the euro as "economically disastrous and politically dangerous", and also asked "Why should monetary policy be taken out of democratic control and left to bankers?". A hypocrite and a liar. Peter Hain sells the pass for a seat at the cabinet table!
• This deceitful government, led by the arch-deceiver, Tony Blair, declines to allow the public a referendum on the proposed European Constitution. "Not a major issue", it says. Liar. Referendums have been offered for the decision to join the euro; were offered to the Scots and Welsh before the constitutional changes of devolution; to the Northern Irish; even for people in such places as Hartlepool to choose whether or not they wanted a Mayor. But not for a major change in constitution such as Giscard's, which explicitly (amongst many other things) gives Brussels preëminence over Westminster.

Yeah, well... It's fear, isn't it? They're all afraid that if they told us the truth we'd rebel.

Hands up those of you who knew that a new constitution was proposed for Europe. Brussels' own research reveals that 61 per cent of Europe's citizens have not even heard of the convention charged with drawing up a constitution in their name. The latest polling from the European Commission's 'Eurobarometer' shows that, across the board, 63 per cent of people reply 'don't know', when asked about Giscard's "historic" work. Almost three quarters are unaware that a new EU constitution was due to be completed this year.

The Laeken declaration, which brought the European Convention's 16-month talking-shop, just completed, into existence, highlighted Europe's democratic deficit as a major challenge. "Within the union, the European institutions must be brought closer to its citizens," declared the EU's great and good in December 2001. "They feel that deals are all too often cut out of their sight and they want better democratic scrutiny." And the result is more democracy? more accountability? more transparent decision making? Um.... No. The result is a new European Constitution. Giscard was asked to come up with some ideas to make the EU more democratic, but came up with an EU constitution instead. "Buggair democracy. Zese ignorant peasants are chiens. Bow down, peasants, je suis Giscard d'Estaing. Je demande my place in 'istory!"

Wake up, Britain! You seem to be sleepwalking into the mire of undemocratic, elitist, bureaucratic corruption that is Europe today.