Just look at the United States and Canada. Extremely well researched and written. Glaring parallels. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2014. What's clear is that the majority of British leaders and British civil servants, were out-played and caught-up in a mire of political confusion. A must read history book with 1749 footnotes, a book that beautifully and full of details, describes the workings of politics and diplomacy that has transcribed in the story of the EU.

They describe in great detail with many examples how the unelected policy and lawmakers in Brussels hide behind national governments whilst still pulling all the strings but at the same time evade accountability to the people of Europe. A brick of a book that holds open the door to the inception and aspiration of the EU, and more importantly its affect and influence. Not to say that I agree with the conclusions or theories pieced together based on those facts, but the facts in this book themselves are fascinating. But what is it? Extremely informative and thought provoking. Refresh and try again.

In order to understand what it is we are trying to get out of, it is important to know what it is that we got into in the first place and how that was done. Read 22 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.

It is a shortened week with the high holy days. Others such as Edward Heath, clearly saw Europe as the way forward, accepti. [2] The reviewer concludes by noting the importance of the book's influence on popular euroscepticsm in the UK, but warns readers to look elsewhere for "an objective information source". Obviously everyone rights from a stance and this one is very anti-EU, but you do come away thinking they may have a point. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 August 2018. Unable to add item to List. A relentless read of political twists, turns, deceit, lies, egos. The author of The Mad Officials and The Neophiliacs, he founded Private Eye with Paul Foot and others. The Great Deception should immediately become a standard reference work for all students of politics. Something went wrong. Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. The research on which this book is based is faultless and mind-boggling. There is nothing like reading a history or biography book and being so completely transported to another time and place that you find... With the publication of the new European Constitution, authors have condensed some of the early history in order to make space for an examination of the new European Constitution and to argue that in it are all the tricks and traps at the heart of this European Idea and the disastrous consequences. It’s such a shame the Brexit referendum was hijacked by the immigration debate. The failings of its political structures and bureaucracy, and the relentless march towards hegemony (as exposed in this study) are the best reasons to want out. All the while the true intent was to build economic union as a precursor to political union. Christopher Booker is a weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph. The Great Pain Deception satisfied my curiosity and has initiated even more healing.

A relentless read of political twists, turns, deceit, lies, egos. Yet, so disturbing is the picture that emerges that, at a time when Britain's future in the EU is a subject of national debate, it will also spark much wider concern. Verified Purchase. As the European Union moves towards adopting the constitution which will mark its final emergence as a 'United States of Europe', The Great Deception shows how the most ambitious political project of our time has, for more than 50 years, been based on a colossal confidence trick - the systematic concealment from the peoples of Europe of what the aim of this project has always been since its inception in the late 1940s. This is simply not the same book post-Brexit. 1-Click ordering is not available for this item. Very informative and allows opinions to be formed. If all the countries are democracies, then they will not go to war against one another. What a compelling book! The authors show how the original architects of the Common Market always intended to build a super-state which sat over the nation states that make up the EU and how this was hidden from the populus. "[1] Another review, in the Prague-based academic journal Perspectives, praises the book's attempted scope, but accuses the authors of straying into "populism", and "lack[ing] objectivity", noting the book "should be read as an expression of one view of European intergration rather than a well balanced academic source".

What a compelling book! Really want to find out if the baddies managed to fully consolidate their stranglehold with a constitution.

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