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BRITAIN BETRAYED

Since April 1996 Portman Papers has gone behind the scenes to report on the assault by the forces of Internationalism on the independence, sovereignty and identity of the United Kingdom.

A 'NEW WORLD ORDER' programme initiating the 'Common Market', which ensnared Britain in the EU, was secretly approved by Edward Heath after attending the U.S. / European Bilderberg Group meetings in 1963, '66 and '67. (ref: U.S. Congressional Record, 15/9/71).

The programme, aimed at world government, was to be taken up by Tony Blair under the banner of 'NEW LABOUR'. When challenged by Christopher Gill MP in a written Commons Question (Hansard 30/3/98), Blair in an attempt to maintain secrecy denied on a technicality his and Chancellor Gordon Brown's attendance at a Bilderberg meeting in Greece in 1993.

(Proof of Blair's attendance at Bilderberg is provided in paras. 1, 5 and 7 of the Appendix to the Third Report of the Select Committee on Standards and Privileges, published in Hansard.)

The failure of the media to reveal the occasions and content of Bilderberg deliberations (the latter in any case not made public by Bilderberg) has contributed to a growing and understandable distrust of those opportunist politicians by an uninformed public.

This unease was reflected in the recent General Election voting turnout of only 58%, Britain's lowest since 1885. No wonder: in support of Socialist 'one-world' policies her forces have been cut down and committed to international 'peace-keeping' where U.K. interests are not involved; her law illegally subjected to foreign rulings, her fishing industry all but destroyed and her livestock farming decimated by an unnecessary slaughter policy calculated to favour Continental exports.

These things do not 'just happen'. As the late F.D. Roosevelt declared: 'Things don't just happen, they're planned that way'. The truth is that British Ministers, MP's, Financiers, Industrialists, Press Barons and leading 'opinion formers', all with their European and U.S. counterparts, have attended the Bilderberg conferences which in 1954 began to plan the submergence of this nation and others in a federal European state.

In addition to Heath and Blair, leading attenders have included Kenneth Clarke, Gordon Brown, Lord Peter Carrington (formerly Bilderberg Conference Chairman) and Peter Mandelson.

Press barons attending include Conrad Black, owner of the Telegraph and over 500 papers worldwide, Peter Job (Head of Reuters), and Andrew Knight (Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and media empire). The embargo on reporting Bilderberg's deliberations has been watertight - but not leakproof.

Did Bilderberg give 'thumbs down' to William Hague's bid to be
P. M., just as it influenced Margaret Thatcher's removal? Consider the savagery of the pre-election media assault on Hague. Note the prominence given in the Conservative Party leadership bid to Michael Portillo, who among other contentious proposals has called for 'more internationalism' from the Conservative Party, and to Kenneth Clarke, dubbed 'the most popular Conservative' and himself a Bilderberger and confirmed proponent of the EU and the euro currency. Clarke's selection in the leadership bid, if confirmed, means both he and Bilderberger Blair seek the same long-term aim. Clarke would be, not the Conservatives' man in office, but Bilderberg's - like Blair.

MEETING

The U.S. newspaper The Spotlight reported on Bilderberg's meeting at Stenungsund in Sweden from 24 -28 May, 2001, stated that the secret group was determined that the Western hemisphere should become a single economic and political entity like the EU, where member states have already surrendered most of their national sovereignty.

The views of Baroness Thatcher, who is critically aware of the role played by Bilderberg, should be heeded. Her speech to a Conservative conference during the General Election, about the same time as the Bilderberg meeting and quoted in The Spotlight (see Portman Papers for July, 2001), states the over-riding truth:

"The greatest issue in this election, indeed the greatest issue before our country, is whether Britain is to remain a free, independent nation state or whether we are to be dissolved into a federal Europe. There are no half-measures, no third ways and no second chances..."

The paper went on:

"Lady Thatcher's outspoken opposition, in spite of her own party's admonition, forced Bilderberg to issue orders for Conservative and Labour Party leaders to bring the euro to the top of the priority list immediately after the election. They didn't want to press this issue early in the face of popular opposition but felt their hand was forced."

According to The Spotlight: "The orders were transmitted by Kenneth Clarke, a Conservative member of Parliament. Clarke is dedicated to Bilderberg's campaign for a world government".

The Mail on Sunday (8/7/2001) in effect confirmed that report "Official preparations for Britain to join the euro are being secretly stepped up despite recent hints that the Government is back-pedalling." (Emphasis supplied).

CONRAD'S CHOICE

A differing view on Bilderberg, while not denying its existence, declares its attenders are more interested in corporate governance than world governance. They are practically running the world already, goes the argument, and if it is the shape it is, this is to a fair extent because they like it that way. They try to nudge things in the direction of their various financial and business interests, and up to now they have thought that the EU would be helpful to their (big business) interests. But if it turns out to be a flop, they will drop it.

Bilderberg Steering Committee member Conrad Black, owner of the Telegraph papers and 500 others, evidently agrees with that last statement. In an address in 1998 to the Centre for Policy Studies ( edited extracts appeared in the Daily Telegraph, 10th July), he declared the costs of the EU are proving too high, financially and in terms of loss of sovereignty, and proposed as Britain's "final choice" that it should leave the EU and join NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Mr. Black is a Canadian citizen and thus without authority to speak for the U.S. or any other government. Yet he informed his audience that on joining NAFTA , "the United States will make no significant concessions of sovereignty and does not expect other countries to do so. If the United States received a signal from a British government that it wished to avail itself of a North American option they would respond immediately." According to Black, were Britain to apply to join NAFTA immigration to the UK, from or via the EU, would continue. So Black's views on the EU are not purely pragmatic.

NAFTA, however, is in 'process' (i.e., it's planned that way) of becoming the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), in the same way that the 'Common Market' became the EEC -- secretly. (See Portman Papers July '96, "Deceit, Guile and Barefaced Lying".). NAFTA is now at the chrysalis stage. The proposed-to-be-implemented FTAA is totally unavailable, so nobody has any idea what is in it.

Conrad Black's reassurances about loss of sovereignty call to mind similar assurances by Bilderberger Edward Heath over the 'Common Market', the Trojan Horse dreamed up by international power-brokers as a means of installing Britain in an EU federation. The signs are that FTAA is laying the foundation for a trans-atlantic political/economic region based on free trade with a common, or more likely a single, currency.

The only variance appears to be that, whereas the EU made the Euro after political unification, in the Western hemisphere, FTAA will work towards conversion to the dollar prior to political unification. Conrad Black's 'choice' is thus no choice.

Either way, Britain will lose the pound in exchange for the euro or the dollar - and he who controls the money of a nation, shapes its destiny.