EU, NATO run by big businesses: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Tony Gosling, an investigative journalist from Bristol, about the Brexit.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: If the UK leaves the EU, do you think Britain will face security threats and the breaking down of its economy?

Gosling: First of all with Michael Fallon’s ‘threats’ the defense minister today saying no one's ever left NATO, the EU before, well, it does kind of explain, doesn't it, that maybe we're not entirely voluntarily in these organizations. I mean the whole point is that if you're in a club, you're there because you want to be there not because you're afraid to leave because the people who are running it are threatening you.

This is actually telling us a hell of a lot about NATO and the EU how they really work, and I would suggest that both of those two are run by a kind of elite, almost in a way a shadow government. We're talking about big business behind the scenes people we've never ever elected.

Press TV: Is this fear mongering going to work?

Gosling: It is a very good question. I'm afraid I don't have any great crystal ball, but it does seem as if the polls are leaning slowly towards Brexit. I mean that doesn't surprise me, because the EU, I mean, they like to call it Europe all the time because it's not because Norway and Switzerland and other countries are not actually part of the EU. It’s actually run by, I think, by cartels. This is by big industries that get together with their competitors to do price fixing.

I'm talking about things like the car industries, steel industry. These people all work together. I mean, as you know, if you go down the High Street and you find several different petrol stations, you'll find almost all of them are charging the same. It is because they work together, they lobby together in industry groups. Also the EU is run by failed politicians, people we voted out. And there is another thing in the background here and I’ve just been in Germany, where I was talking to an ex-manager, a senior guy from the Bundesbank, and he was explaining to me that that's actually a big rivalry between the old national banks and the new more powerful private banks.

People like Deutsche Bank and HSBC are starting to take over from the big national banks. So the other side of this is that we've got our media and our political parties being bought up by this elite, and that's why this is such a serious and interesting vote. And it does show, doesn't it, that … if democracy is not compatible with the elite and their financial system, then I'm afraid the elite and the financial system is going to have to go, because I can tell you people here in Britain don't want freedom to go.

So I'm afraid it's going to be that the financiers get removed. And we've had today George Osborne threatening a massive amount of money. He says there's a big black hole in the British economy, tens of billions of pounds, but only if there's going to be a Brexit. So they're using finance to threaten us, but actually we know if you're doing that, it's what we think and what we vote that really matters not money. We should be thinking about morals as our values not just finance.

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