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A fisk of Robin Cooks article in the Guardian
Non-trivial Solutions: Words fail me:
“Words fail me
Sometimes I think I live in a different world to the right-thinking liberals who rule my country:
Robin Cook in the Guardian. Words fail me, but what the hell:

Sacrificial lamb

Toby from Strait Banana
Argues that the EU parliament was right to reject Buttiglione as an EU Commissioner. Although it smacks somewhat of talking to ourselves to question other Blogs, I feel that, as this is apparently the reasons given by the EU Parliament for their decision to veto Buttiglione, and we should look [...]

The Road to Euro Serfdom
A message to Tony Blair
As you pose for photos on this day which the BBC will constantly refer to as historic, the people of the UK, whom you legally and by tradition represent, may wish you to ponder on the gravity of what you are doing.
Our traditions, our culture, our politics [...]

According to EU Referendum We are now blessed with two new Lords, both of our present Commissioners, Kinnock and Pattern have been sent to the House of Lords, aside from the fact that some small Island in the Outer Hebrides would be a better place to send them. Do these people not have to swear [...]

Ironies:
“An Important Analysis from Ireland on a Grave Day for European Democracy (Part I & Part II)”
And Here

On this day Tony Blair becomes the latest in a long line of British Prime Ministers who have willingly given up their power and our sovereignty to the undemocratic EU. By signing the so called EU Constitution, Blair has agreed by international treaty that he will now within two years ensure that this agreement is [...]

Ex Tory leader, John Major appeared on Frost on Sunday telling us that a vote for UKIP was a vote for Labour and Conservative voters would vote for UKIP because they felt strongly about the Constitution.

No Mr Major a vote for UKIP is a vote for a party which wants to take Britain out [...]

From EUOBSERVER side bar:

A poll, produced by the Louis Harris Institute and published by Le Figaro, shows support for Mr Kerry across all ages, political persuasions and social classes. The survey also shows a hostile opinion of US President George Bush. Over four in five voters (82 percent) believe that Mr Bush has made [...]

Also in the Telegraph
Here :
An opinion on the EU machinations of yesterday:
“Peculiarly, MEPs chose to make a stand not over the widespread fraud and waste in Brussels, but over a man professing sentiments which may not be held by the majority, but which do echo the views of significant numbers of ordinary people. It is [...]

Allegations are surfacing in Brussels that our “Mandy” is up to his old tricks again, but this time in the EU. A report in the Telegraph
Herehas it that according to Socialist officials (who they) Peter started to make enemies by making contradictory pledges in an attempt to win votes and promote his insider mystique.
Mandelson [...]

First part of a question for a Commissioner designate by the EU Parliament.

Protection of the rights of citizens is at the heart of our democratic system
based on the rule of law. The Charter of Fundamental Rights
incorporated into the Constitutional Treaty and the European legal
system provides citizens with additional protection, even against their own
Member State.

Supposing [...]

Only Good Socialists Need Apply

It looks to me as if the commission President has blinked first, as the numbers in the EU parliament stacked against the Commision began to mount beyond the certainty of an acceptance of the Commision, incoming President José Manuel Durão Barroso asked for the vote to be delayed so that [...]

“TV Agony Aunt, Denise Robertson has slammed the Yes Campaign for attributing misleading quotes to her.
Denise has always been a supporter of a Yes vote, but was very concerned that it might lead to the break up of the country.
It now appears that she and her name has been well and truly used by the [...]

The Friends of Europe (is it the whole of Europe or just the EU one wonders)
Have issued a 35 page report http://www.friendsofeurope.org/pdfs/Can_EU_hear_me-FINAL-A5.pdf

Can EU hear me?
How to get the EU’s message out

According to the report itself

“It takes a very original approach to the familiar problem of how the EU and its institutions can better [...]

Neil Herron:
“Multiple Breaches of Purdah Period as Labour get desperate
As more Government Ministers pile into the region in a desperate attempt to save the face of the Labour Party in a referendum which is looking more like a loser by the day, the Electoral Commission are conspicuous by their absence.
Why aren’t they checking who is [...]

“The what it`s Program”
Britain took the “political” decision to give up the veto in the Amsterdam Treaty, which came into force in 1999. Now five years later we are seeing the results of that agreement, although Britain has retained an opt out, (if Tony cares to or dares to use it) once something becomes accepted [...]

Fantastic news! Good Luck to all of you, there are many of us who are forced to sit on our hands whilst you almost single handed, fight for all our freedoms against the whole Government machine. For my money you are the tops!
Yes Campaign Group Moves Over to Join the No [...]

Telegraph :
“More than 100 MPs could be ousted from the House of Commons under cost-cutting proposals revealed yesterday by the Conservatives.
The plan would see the number of sitting members fall to about 550 from the current 659. With each MP costing more than £200,000 a year in salary, pension and expenses, the cut could save [...]

From Anne Palmer
These are excerpts from The Government’s Research Papers 04/77 dated 21st October 2004. On Part 1V and Protocols of the Treaty ESTABLISHING a Constitution for Europe.
I make these notes, not only for encouraging those interest parties where to look for quickness, but also for those that do not have a computer, or have [...]

Just Like the good old USSR

A few ways in which the EU will go out of its way to help those old communists in the new Commission feel right at home.

Anyone who opposes or deviates from the EU system will be ostracised. All sorts of tricks are used to isolate and marginalize those who [...]