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Very good point Mr Goldberg
Postal voting
From Mr Daniel Goldberg
Sir, Mr Brian Mitchell (letter, December 18) judges the success of postal voting on the basis of turnout.
Turnout at all elections has been in a long and steady decline. Yet voting has not become more difficult over this time; polling stations have not become less numerous or [...]

Hail and be Praised a New Accounting System for the EU
The European Commission will ring in 2005 with a new accounting system following criticism in the past that the current system is easily open to fraud.
Former Commission chief accountant Marta Andreasen said that the executive lacked a basic accounting system leaving it wide open to [...]

Martin Cole at Ironies has an interesting post about the non delivery of the aid packages to South America after Hurricane Mitch, linking it as the EU have, to their promised EU Aid for Tsunami Victims, What hope is there that the EU will this time actually keep its promises?
EU Aid for Tsunami Victims will [...]

The Shame of Dennis MacShane
My thanks to The Road to Euro Serfdom for the link to the recent shameful article in the Guardian from our very own “Minister for Europe” Denis Xenophobia MacShane, our very own Comical Ali. Now I am sure that should be Minister for the EU, why do we not have a [...]

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There were four letters that court my eye this morning two in the Times and two more in the Telegraph
The first I did not see the significance of at first, but is probably the most important, because it covers quite a bit of ground, and also either shows the Conservatives to be particularly gullible, particularly [...]

EU Referendum
What on earth is going on?
Readers who look to this Blog for a constant stream of informed comment on matters EU are going to be sadly disappointed on this one, as we can only express our complete puzzlement over a development which seems to defy logic.
The proximate cause of our sudden lack of certainty [...]

“The EU Commission is conducting a consultation to receive input regarding the priorities of the next community action programme to promote active European citizenship.” The Commission has launched an online consultation to receive input from citizens and interested organisations for the next action programme aiming to promote active European citizenship.”
“The current programme runs out on [...]

Eureferendum has a post with a link to
yourDictionary.com which “has just released eight different “Words of the Year” lists featuring the Top Words, Names, Phrases, Numbers, California YouthSpeak, Internet, Sports-related, and Colour-related Words, as well as the Top Words in Pop Music and the Most Frequently Spoken Word On The Planet.
Predictably, the most frequently spoken [...]

The EU arrest Warrant entered into force in January 2004 in eight EU member states - Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK. However, several other states have been very slow to adopt it.
Perhaps the President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus had a good reason that others are reluctant to give [...]

Part Three
This is a Country that is allegedly doing battle in Iraq to bring to the people of Iraq, “Democracy”. Yet we see time and time again that the Government of this country totally ignores the people wishes. We need “democracy” here desperately. We thought we had democracy but in reality, we [...]

Pt Two
There is a great difference between British Nationals and foreign Nationals and if that difference is not clear to Judges then British nationals-all 56 million-should fight against discrimination. To believe that British nationals and foreign nationals should be treated equally misses the point in having separate Countries, separate Constitutions, or having Laws at all [...]

From Anne Palmer Pt one
Belmarsh detainees, and other matters. December 2004.
It was sheer folly for this country to officially adopt the European Convention on Human Rights into our law. (Shock, Horror-how could I suggest such a thing?) Prime Minister Blair was advised of the many disadvantages this would hold for us, and [...]

After the EU Commission recently suspended disciplinary procedures for budget deficits against France and Germany, they have decided to pick on the smaller states instead, and are to pursue disciplinary proceedings against Hungary and Greece for breaking the rules underpinning the euro, because the budget deficits of both these countries surpasses the three percent limit [...]

I have discovered a web site Yes to Europe Yes to the Euro. The site does not say who runs it, but they must really be a bunch of morons, because quite incredibly they have a list of “Killer Facts” on one of pages entitled “Yes to Europe, Yes to Sovereignty” they are suggesting that [...]

Europhobia has an excellent post on ID Cards
The problem(s) with ID cards
Everyone I’ve spoken to recently has been doing the same old “if you’ve done nothing wrong…” arguments, usually followed by the “so what’s the big deal?” line. Normally, after a five minute rant, I manage to convince them that this is one [...]

Telegraph | Opinion | Howard preferred ridicule to being thought soft on terror:
Until Michael Howard flunked the test yesterday and forced his reluctant frontbench Tory colleagues to endorse the looming multi-billion-pound ID card fiasco, the Tories had at least one promising vote-winning issue for next year’s election campaign.
A question could have been put to the [...]

The Constitution will not change anything aliened with the EU is not a State or put the other way “The EU is not a State and the Constitution will not change that fact” is a complete fabrication and anyone, no matter how high in government circles who tells us that, is to put it bluntly [...]

For competence read authority
Competencies have been creeping from member states to the EU and as such they have created uncertainty about the balance of power among the different levels of EU governance. They also have brought about uncertainty about the demarcation and distribution of accountability among the actors that operate at the various levels of [...]