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The Anglo Saxon Chronicle

Christopher Booker reports in the Telegraph today, on an interesting story as to why the wife of a British citizen is unable to practice dentistry in the UK. Read the full story here

The reason given by the junior health minister Rosie Winterton; Not my fault guv, honest, “its all down to EU regulations”.

Booker concludes: In other words, here is a British minister admitting that a serious injustice has been done to two British citizens but explaining there is nothing she can do to put it right. If ministers and MPs are so happy to admit that they no longer run our country, can she explain why we should vote for them?

“Britain Back” to rule from Westminster, not “Forward” to the rule of Brussels.

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By Ken
On February 20, 2005
At 8:34 am
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Margot Wallström

Telegraph | News | UK hatred of EU is our biggest challenge, says constitution commissioner:

“Margot Wallström, the EU commissioner responsible for pushing through the controversial European constitution, has likened her task to ‘dressing Frankenstein’s monster’.”

“The UK is filled with hatred towards the EU institutions,” she said. “But I consider this ‘mission irresistible’, not ‘mission impossible’.”

Mrs Wallström said that winning minds was all about communication. She admitted that baffling bureaucracy, excessive use of “Eurospeak” and a culture of secrecy were in part responsible for the negative British perception of Brussels.

Perhaps she should have a word with Heath, Wilson, Thatcher, Major and Blair all of whom have constantly lied about the European project to the British people. She may also address the end position of the EU, is it going to become a State with member states locked in or not, if not then we need to see the end of intergration because that is only heading one way. She may also like to tell us about the democratic accountability of the Commission who make so many of the laws we have to obey, and undermining the parliament we elect and our rights to elerct a government we want.

We have had over thirty years of constant misdirection and deceit from our own politicians about the union, no loss of sovereignty, no loss of Habeus Corpus, No Roman Law, etc. all of these are now on the cards for the British people.

Wallström said “Brussels had to own up to its weaknesses, including its bureaucratic way of working, before its image could be repaired.

When a city had to prove it was a city in order to be eligible for EU aid, she said, matters had got out of hand.

“We have to admit to systems that do not work properly,” Mrs Wallström said. “When there is controversy, people shy away.”

They have had plenty of time to address these problems, but now when they need our votes, suddenly it is our fault because we “are filled with hatred towards the EU institutions” Why should we not be when we have learned the hard way not to trust a single thing we are told about the EU.

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By Ken
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At 8:24 am
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A protest against foreigners

“one of the protest organisers, said the demonstration was not racist or xenophobic”.

“Our problem is not with the immigrants in general, it’s with the people who arrive here, who don’t speak our language, who don’t mix, don’t take part in the life of the community and who create their own ghettos where they keep them selves to themselves,” she said. “It’s been complete madness over the last few years with foreigners, arriving in incredible numbers.”

I have slightly changed the wording, but the above would be considered both racist and xenophobic had it been said by an English protest organiser.

In fact it was from a report in the Telegraph about the English invasion of a small town in France forcing the price of housing through the roof, I can sympathize with the people who are making a peaceful protest to demonstrate against the destruction of their way of village life.

Around 100 people took to the streets of Bourbriac and called on all “proud French natives” to express their anger at “colonisation”. They demanded more low-cost housing, criticised estate agents for “market speculation” and set fire to piles of property magazines.

The protest was part of a growing backlash against the increasing number of Britons moving to rural France.

Bourbriac is now home to about 700 Britons, 100 Germans and Dutch, among a French population of 1,200.

Maiwenne Salomon, one of the protest organisers, said the demonstration was not racist or xenophobic.

“Our problem is not with the British in general, it’s with the people who arrive here, who don’t speak French, who don’t mix, don’t take part in the life of the community and who create Anglo-Saxon ghettos where they keep them selves to themselves,” she said. “It’s been complete madness over the last few years with foreigners, particularly the Anglo-Saxons, arriving in incredible numbers.
“The result of this has been that property prices have rocketed in the whole of Britanny and Bretons themselves can’t find anywhere to live, whether it’s to rent or to buy.”
She said that the cost of buying a home had risen by up to 600 per cent.

In a Europe without frontiers this sort of thing is going to happen more often.

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