The Aachen Memorandum
Set in 2045, the novel was a dystopian vision of what Britain might turn into if it became
a minor satrapy of a vast protectionist, illiberal anti-American, politically correct EU
Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph 22/4 2004

Andrew Roberts and the book

It was the great Lord Salisbury who said that the cruellest four words in the English language are: “I told you so”, and this article is going to be one long nerky-nerky-noo to the Europhiles who pooh-poohed my thriller The Aachen Memorandum when it was published a decade ago.

For, back in 1994, I prophesied that a referendum would be held in 2006 which would decide whether Britain would enter a European superstate, and that the political establishment would employ every possible tactic to ensure a Yes vote in it. I stand astonished at my own prescience, and would hereby like to lay claim to the title “Nostradamus of the Right”.

Set in 2045, the novel was a dystopian vision of what Britain might turn into if it became a minor satrapy of a vast protectionist, illiberal anti-American, politically correct EU.

In my nightmare vision in The Aachen Memorandum, the government ran a referendum that was hopelessly one-sided. Every organ of the state was prevailed upon to do its bit to procure a Yes vote. Pro-Brussels front organisations massively outspent the No campaign, using taxpayers’ money to produce ceaseless Yes propaganda. Markets were manipulated, polls were spun. The BBC, all the time professing objectivity, actively campaigned for a Yes vote in the way it selected and interviewed protagonists, as well as through the news it headlined and the news it sidelined.

Can anyone really doubt that all this will take place in the next 18 months?

When it does, remember I told you so.

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Andrew Roberts and the book

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