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Yesterday the IRA announced that ‘The leadership of Óglaigh na hÉireann has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign. All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. All Volunteers have been instructed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programmes through exclusively peaceful means. Volunteers must not engage in any other [...]

Telegraph | Opinion: “Army allegiance
Sir - Those who serve our Commander-in-Chief - Her Majesty the Queen - will never understand why her government has subjected them to legislation based upon treaty obligations between her first minister and many foreign governments to whom they owe no allegiance, and whose armed forces they may one day be [...]

Mikhail Gorbachev and Alexander Lebedev have written an article for the FT “Arrogance exposes the cracks in Europe’s expanding empire”
They say “The rejection of the European Union’s proposed constitution in France and the Netherlands has shocked the European elite, who seemed to take for granted popular support for building a common European house. Although warnings [...]

Governments have been flooded by legal actions from large corporations claiming, often successfully, that differing tax regimes in the EU are unfair. The UK is fighting big claims from Marks & Spencer and Cadbury Schweppes, among others. These claims could cost the British taxpayer billions if the ECJ finds aginst the governments and it looks [...]

This letter in the Times suggests that far from there being no plans for an EU army. The plans for such a force are well advanced, even the umbrella satellite system that will be required for the forces communications are being worked out, although as the letter states what press there is about this system [...]

“Condemned to succeed”: the Heath-Pompidou summit which took Britain into the E.E.C, May 1971
The Heath Government was elected in June 1970 determined to take Britain into the E.E.C. The balance of political forces in Europe finally appeared to favour our application, the General Election had conferred a fresh mandate for entry and most important of [...]

Anne Palmer has been trawling through the archives of Hansard, what were the politicians saying about our proposed entry into the Common Market.
European Economic Community. 1st December 1970. Col 1075
Q1. Mr Kaufman asked the Prime Minister what plans he now has for further discussions with the Prime Ministers [...]

”The current system for electing the Conservative party leader contains a powerful principle — one member, one vote. As people involved in democracy, you might think the principle would appeal to MPs. Sadly not. Instead, it is the view of the majority of Conservative MPs that they know best, and they would deny everyone but [...]

They can stop us singing it at the
Proms, but never in our hearts
Sod you Peter O’Neill,

From a letter in the Telegraph
“You ask: “How can a soldier be expected to do his duty, when he has to be asking himself constantly whether his every action is fully compatible with human rights law?”
The answer is simple. Providing British soldiers avoid committing acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or grave breaches of [...]

As the German Constitutional Court has ruled that the EU arrest warrant is not compatible with German law. It is thought that the Government will attempt to introduce a specific German law to allow a substantive hearing for suspects before they are deported thus effectively undoing a key feature of the arrest warrant.
It is [...]

An article by Anne Palmer
Although two Countries (France and Holland) have given a resounding NO to a Constitution for the European Union, and the peoples voices were loud and clear in a referendum, it is as if everyone in the Commission and the European Council were deaf because the work to implement certain Articles contained [...]

Lords and the Hunting Act
From Lord Donaldson of Lymington
Sir, Peter Riddell (Political Analysis, July 13) asserts that the Hunting Act appeal, at present before the judicial committee of the House of Lords, involves a struggle between the “greater activism” of the judiciary on the one hand and ministers seeking to uphold the principle of the [...]

Germany’s top court blocked Berlin’s extradition of a suspected al Qaeda financier to Spain, ruling on Monday that a key instrument in the European Union’s campaign against terrorism was unconstitutional
The Federal Constitutional Court ordered the release of Mamoun Darkazanli, a German-Syrian fighting his handover under an EU arrest warrant, a new instrument the court said [...]

Telegraph | News | It’s full steam ahead for EU constitution, even after ‘No’ votes: “It’s full steam ahead for EU constitution, even after ‘No’ votes
By Daniel Hannan
(Filed: 17/07/2005)
You may have got the impression that the European constitution was dead - that the French had felled it, and the Dutch had pounded a stake through [...]

So much for the claims that the Primacy of European Law is a central principal of the EU.
The FCO Tackling myths about the European Constitutional Treaty
Primacy of European Lawis not new. It was already well established as a central principle of the single market well before the UK joined the EEC in 1973 and has [...]

Sir Edward Heath died peacefully in his bed this evening, after a long and successful career as a traitor to his country, a career which gave him the opportunity to hold the highest office in this land, an opportunity he grabbed with both hands as he sold his own country down the drain. For all [...]

With Trust in the Government”. Anne Palmer. Written July 16th 2005.
It was strange to read in Hansard, (14th July 2005) that before going to war, Lord Boyce, as Chief of the Defence Staff, allegedly sought assurance that armed intervention in Iraq was lawful under public international law, the chain of our command of our armed [...]

Last year the government held the first of a series of planned referendums on elected regional assemblies, in the area they considered the easiest target, the North East. They had hopped that getting a yes vote in one area would create a domino effect and eventually all the EU designated English regions would have [...]

No second referendum in Netherlands. Frans Weisglas, the speaker of the Netherlands’ lower house has told the European Parliament that they will not hold a second referendum on the EU Constitution. “The Constitution will not be re-introduced” he said. This opinion was confirmed by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkanende.
Den Bosch
So dispite the [...]