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Comments on the EU Arrest Warrant showing that the goverement we elect is no longer interested in protecting the people.
“In a report last week, the committee said: “We found it disturbing that a person’s home might be entered and searched at the request of a foreign authority for the purpose of obtaining evidence to [...]

The Anglo Saxon Chronicles returns to the central objection against the EU, in it recent post “Why Britain is Different” it argues aginst the proposition that all the nations of western Europe have a common identity, and therefore should be unified into one political, legal and economic entity under a supranational state. This is often [...]

Tim Worstall: Immigration and Asylum Seekers.:
An e-mail from “Jonathan Faull
Director General Justice Freedom and Security
European Commission”
There are a couple of points I would question!

EU Referendum carries a transcript of the John Humphrys interview with Richard Corbett MEP and Neil O’Brien, on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme this morning. But the following post “That defence question” is the one that is important, in the interview both parties made claims about the status of defence in the proposed constitutional [...]

Simon Hart on the High Court’s judgement in the Parliament Act challenge
As I suggested yesterday the Judges sitting in the Divisional Court did not feel able to uphold our case that the 1949 Parliament Act is invalid. This is no surprise and the case will now go to the Court of Appeal, probably in the [...]

I will answer some points in this later but feel that is should be on the main page rather than comments.
Seriously? Now I can’t give you any specifics here, but I’ve got the impression that most times the BBC holds any kind of EU based debate they generally call in people from the two furthest [...]

Times Online - Comment: “From the Shadow Home Secretary
Sir, Mr Anthony Aust (letter, January 26) appears not to have read our policy document on asylum. There is no question of a Conservative government returning to their countries of origin anyone whom our own courts have found to be in genuine fear of persecution.
The objective is [...]

Earlier I knocked Simon Jenkins on his suggestion that we abolish trial by Jury, today he is arguing the case that epitomises the opposite view.
“THE HOME SECRETARY’S plan to intern British citizens without trial stinks. He must know it. His colleagues must know it. Some politicians need to have their heads banged and their ears [...]

Times Online - World:
“Michelin knows just the place for the real gourmand: a building site
By Charles Bremner and Marie Tourres”

This story is fascinating for me because I do know a little about the way Michelin works.
The story is about the guide withdrawing all 50,000 copies of its 2005 Benelux Red Guide because they gave an [...]

That BBC Report which was released yesterday has some interesting comments to make about the BBC coverage of the EU, some of them are listed here, other Bloggers also have their own ideas on the report, some of whom have been complaining for a long time about the BBC Bias, may take some comfort from [...]

News Analysis: At the EU, less is better:
“New administration fosters fewer rules”
BRUSSELS Now that the new European Commission has been in office two months, its guiding philosophy is coming into sharper focus: The most effective way Brussels can help Europe’s flagging economy is to do as little as possible.”
Or could it possibly have something to [...]

French parliament votes on referendum on EU admissions: “French parliament members voted Thursday for a compulsory referendum allowing new European Union (EU) admission bids, which will be applied to Turkey if its EU admission negotiations conclude.
The parliament members adopted in first reading the Article 2 of the bill to modify French constitution by stipulating that [...]

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There are fears the price of bananas could rocket as the EU plans to treble the duty on imports of the fruit.
Bananas generally come into Europe from Latin America, which has an import quota.
However, now the EU is looking at changing that, to be at the same level of charges imposed on [...]

Simon Jenkins wrote Times on 22 December
“I MUST RETRACT a prejudice. The three strongest bulwarks against the abuse of state power in Britain at present are three institutions I most often deride: the law, the Liberal Democrats and the House of Lords. Thank God, this Christmas, for them all.”
“The decisions of the law lords [...]

The Diplomad

Law Society of England and Wales - Press release
“But it is an abuse of power to place people under house arrest without evidence of criminal activity. If there is surveillance evidence, no matter how it has been obtained, it should be admissible in court. The Government has said that prosecuting suspects is their [...]

Telegraph | Opinion:
Democracy is being systematically eroded
Sir - So ‘informality and improvisation are British virtues and the last thing we want is a man who is going to give us the details’ (News, Jan 25). Oh really? My husband used to work long into the night ploughing through the endless ’special cases’ that filled his [...]

The Scotsman - UK - Labour ends public right to see MPs debate Euro rules:
Labour ends public right to see MPs debate Euro rules
JAMES KIRKUP
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
EUROPEAN regulations that directly affect British life will not be subject to public scrutiny after a vote by Labour MPs.
The Labour majority on the Commons European scrutiny committee yesterday forced [...]

Somebody is bound to call this a Euromyth.
The EU is not interested in Bananas.
The EU does not care about Bananas.
Bananas are not an EU interest.
Yes we have no EU Bananas
Bananas

Roger Knapman, leader of the UK Independence Party, is quoted in the Guardian as saying
“Mr Straw has already launched the government’s misinformation campaign, claiming that voting for an end to self-government is somehow patriotic. If the consequence of a No vote is an end to British membership of the EU, then isn’t Mr Blair proposing [...]