Economy: Crashed by Design?

We're confident a few of our readers will understand the reference here, but just to quickly bring everyone else up to speed...

There is a common theory amongst some that the current global financial crisis has been caused deliberately - that the economies have been crashed by design on the road to a global government and a new currency as part of a cash-free society.

You might think: "Stop reading David Icke and conspiracy rubbish!"

I'd respond by presenting you with the latest blog post from Lord Tebbit.

This is specific to the European Union, but work this out and think about what's being said here:

"It was back in the mid 1990s that I argued with Ken Clarke, an enthusiast for the euro, that it could not last unless the EU states adopting it gave up their central banks, finance ministers, and powers over taxation and spending to a single European authority. If that was not done, I reckoned that within 10 to 20 years there would be a crisis in the eurozone, as the economies of member states diverged.

The creators of the euro knew that perfectly well. They believed that when the crisis came, it would open the way, first to “European economic governance” and then the European Republic."

Go on... tell me whether what we're seeing, especially with Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain - in the context of the above - doesn't almost fit into the conspiracy hypothesis perfectly...

And what did the traitors and/or complicit idiots in Westminster pass through the statute books just the other day? What a surprise...

Now, work this out... why do the EU want to force a bailout on Ireland that the Irish quite explicitly say they do not want or need? What implications would such a bailout have on Irish independence and sovereignty?