{"id":177020,"date":"2018-09-30T05:49:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T05:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177020"},"modified":"2018-10-03T03:57:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T03:57:40","slug":"we-were-lied-to-secret-document-fco-301048-kept-truth-about-eu-from-british-for-30-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177020","title":{"rendered":"We were lied to! Secret document FCO 30\/1048 kept truth about EU from British for 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lara Deauville — Daily Express Sept 29, 2018<\/h1>\n

A SECRET document, which remained locked away for 30 years, advised the British Government to COVER-UP the realities of EU membership so that by the time the public realised what was happening it would be too late.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Theresa May prepares to face delegates at arguably the most fiercely divided Tory Party Conference for a generation in Birmingham next week Express.co.uk examines the legacy of one of the most important documents in British political history.<\/span><\/p>\n

Almost all of the shocking predictions \u2013 from the loss of British sovereignty to monetary union and the over-arching powers of European courts \u2013 have come true.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Prime<\/a>

Prime Minister Edward Heath, under whose premiership Britain joined what was then known as the Common Market. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

But damningly for Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath, and all those who kept quiet about the findings in the early 70s, the document, known as FCO30\/1048, was locked away under Official Secrets Act rules for almost five decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

The classified paper, dated April 1971, suggested the Government should keep the British public in the dark about what EEC membership means predicting that it would take 30 years for voters to realise what was happening by which time it would be too late to leave.<\/span><\/p>\n

That last detail was the only thing the disgraceful paper \u2013 prepared for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) \u2013 got wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

The unknown author \u2013 a senior civil servant \u2013 correctly predicted the then European Economic Community (the EEC effectively became the EU in 1993) was headed for economic, monetary and fiscal union, with a common foreign and defence policy, which would constitute the greatest surrender of Britain\u2019s national sovereignty since 1066.<\/span><\/p>\n

He went on to say \u201cCommunity law\u201d would take precedence over our own courts and that ever more power would pass away from Parliament to the bureaucratic system centred in Brussels.<\/span><\/p>\n

The author even accurately asserts that the increased role of Brussels in the lives of the British people would lead to a \u201cpopular feeling of alienation from Government\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

But shockingly politicians were advised \u201cnot to exacerbate public concern by attributing unpopular measures\u2026 to the remote and unmanageable workings of the Community\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

They were told to preserve the impression that the British Government was still calling the shots rather than an unelected body of foreign politicians \u2013 and that the ruse would last \u201cfor this century at least\u201d \u2013 by which time Britain would be so completely chained to Brussels it would be impossible to leave.<\/span><\/p>\n

Document FCO30\/1048, which has now been declassified under the 30-year rule, still shocks and angers Brexiteers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Annabelle Sanderson, a Brexit expert and former advisor to Nigel Farage said: \u201cDespite all the claims from politicians of many parties that the EU was not about becoming a central state this 1971 document shows that is exactly what the plan was.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cArch Remoaners from Labour, Lib Dems and the Tories need to check this out and ask themselves why they are MPs if they don\u2019t actually want Westminster to be in charge of this country.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe voted for Brexit what needs to happen is a proper clean break from Brussels so we can once again become a sovereign nation with money being spent in this country on services we need and have Parliament and courts making and ruling on the laws.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The writer and journalist Christopher Booker, one of the founders of the satirical magazine Private Eye, said: \u201cHere was a civil servant advising that our politicians should connive in concealing what Heath was letting us in for, not least in hiding the extent to which Britain would no longer be a democratic country but one essentially governed by unelected and unaccountable officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne way to create an illusion that this system was still democratic, this anonymous mandarin suggested, would be to give people the chance to vote for new representatives at European, regional and local levels.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA few years later, we saw the creation of an elected European Parliament \u2013 as we see today a craze for introducing elected mayors, as meaningless local figureheads.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jimmy Savile and former prime minister Ted Heath share a joke at BBC rehearsals in 1980. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The pro-Europe Sir Edward Heath was leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.<\/span><\/p>\n

He died in 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2015 he was named as part of Wiltshire Police\u2019s Operation Conifer investigation into historical child sex abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Detectives said if alive \u2013 he would have been 101 \u2013 he would have been interviewed under caution over seven claims, including the alleged rape of an 11-year-old, but that no inference of guilt should be drawn from this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Operation Conifer was closed earlier this year after officers found “no corroborating evidence” of any sexual abuse by Sir Edward and no evidence of a conspiracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heath, a soft-right politician from a lower middle-class family, was born in Broadstairs, Kent.<\/span><\/p>\n

He served through the Second World War in the Royal Artillery, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although he said he had never killed anyone he was part of the Normandy Landings in 1944 and wrote extensively of the damage his gunners inflicted on the German occupying forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

In September 1945 he also commanded a firing squad that executed a Polish soldier convicted of rape and murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was made a Knight of the Garter on 23 April 1992 and became Sir Edward Heath.<\/span><\/p>\n

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