WITH regard to Britain joining Europe, it appears that we are in the midst of a great pantomime. The title? The Emperor's New Clothes.
Britain is the Emperor, the clothes designer is the Pope and the tailor is Brussels. With a red tape measure in hand, Brussels is skillfully weaving an intricate creation that is very expensive, extremely invisible and it is costing we Britons everything we have.
Does all this seem a bit far-fetched? Then notice the interesting quotation in the following news item from 1895.
"The effort to capture Great Britain for Rome is meeting with considerable opposition. Writing against the union of the Church of England with the Church of Rome, the Dean of Canterbury says: 'Great as the evil of division is, let us be sure that it is comparably less than that of such a spurious, hollow, artificial unity as is held out by the See of Rome, unity purchased by the subjection of reason and conscience to the arbitrary decrees of a self-styled infallible human authority'."
In the Hans Christian Anderson story, the brave little boy cries out, "The Emperor has no clothes on!" As the present situation is a serious one, is there a modern day Luther among us who will raise the alarm throughout the land -- Protestants Awake?
Ms R Page,
Kingsmede, Blackpool.
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