Real aim of EU project

ALTIeRo spinelli (1907-1986) was a former Italian communist who was imprisoned for 12 years on Ventotene offo the west coast of Italy, following whichw he was interned for six more.

With co-author ernesto Rossi, he wrote the Ventotene Manifesto for a federal europe controlled by a supranationaln government.

he was a committed, relentless advocate of a federal europe superstate who climbed rapidly through europe’s organisational system by covertly driving strategic elements of the eU ‘project’ to where it is today. he is revered by Brussels eurocrats as the founding father of the eU following the introduction of his spinelli Plan in 1984. such was his influence that the largest eU parliament building is named after him.

Those who seek to dismiss Boris Johnson’s comparison of failed attempts by dictators of the past to create a european superstate should heed these words of the Ventotene Manifesto: ‘The problem which must first be solved is the final abolition of the division of europe into sovereign national states. Without this, any progress will be appearance only.’

What could be clearer? The final abolition of sovereign nation states and with it every vestige of national identity: this was the covert goal from day one in the Twenties of what eventually became known as the ‘project’, set in train by three people, Jean Monnet, Arthur salter and Paul-henri spaak. held to be sacrosanct by successive unelected and unaccountable eU Commissioners for decades, it continues to be so.

David Cameron’s support for the continued domination of the people of this country by a group of unelected, unaccountable cabalistic technocrats in Brussels is treacherous in the extreme.

FRANK HUDSON, Silkstone, S. Yorks.