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Gravy Train Passengers write to the Times en-masse

Eurealist :: Main Page: “Looks like the passengers on the gravy train are trying to convince us taxpayers that theirs is the right to inhabit the station they have chosen, and we are the foolish ones for demanding a democratic choice in the matter.”

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By Ken
On April 4, 2005
At 9:10 am
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Fixed Penalty challenge

Eurealist :: Main Page: “Since the fixed-penalty notices system was ‘decriminalised’ in 1991, the partly privatised fines-enforcement industry has grown into a multi-million-pound revenue-gathering business. Now motorists are set to challenge the premise on which this industry is built. Neil Herron, 42, a former fishmonger and market trader, plans to contest the right of a local authority to impose fines against an unlawfully parked motorist without first giving him a fair hearing.”

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By Ken
On
At 9:10 am
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The problem with EU referendums?

Eurealist :: Main Page: “Even the most blinkered politician would accept that the electorate — no matter how ignorant, distracted or misled — is always right. But what happens if voters answer the wrong question”

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By Ken
On
At 9:09 am
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Background report: Constitution for a military,European core

Eurealist :: Main Page: “a far reaching deprivation of power of the majority of member states is to be established. In the event that Berlin and Paris prevail with their intentions The national defense arsenals would become the responsibility of the German-French power cartel which, as the center of an exclusive military ,,European core’ would make decisions about warfare for the EU”

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By Ken
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At 9:08 am
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Through the Back Door

Eurealist :: Main Page: “It is feared that the constitution may be rejected in Great Britain, Poland, the Czech Republic and Denmark. A heavy-weight political study from sources close to the German foreign office says that these countries must reckon with ,,massive pressure’ if their referendums do not yield the desired result. The actual working paper proposes that there should be measures to ,,bring voters to their senses’ before a second referendum “

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By Ken
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At 9:08 am
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The New Privileged Class of EU Elites

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“Eurocrats have the best pay and conditions of any bureaucrats in the Western world. They pay the equivalent of 16 per cent tax, they have huge salaries and allowances. How can the European elite justify giving themselves tax-payers’ money for still more perks and -benefits? “

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By Ken
On
At 9:06 am
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Barely Causing a Ripple

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“Sir Digby Jones said in a report published by the Foreign Policy think-tank, EU laws that affect millions of people and cost millions of pounds are slipping onto the statute book ‘barely causing a ripple’ “

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By Ken
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EU Accounts Condemned by MP`s

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Today the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee will condemn the EU’s record of running its budget and on eradicating fraud and will accuse the EU of financial mismanagement.

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By Ken
On
At 9:05 am
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Kinnock trys to control TUC debate

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The EU succeeds by putting its own placemen in the right spots and then controlling the debate from its own objective.Then of course it is an easy step to engineer support for the EU Constitution by planning meetings where the only speakers invited are heavily pro-constitution.

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By Ken
On
At 9:04 am
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