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If this isn’t “dictatorship, I don’t know what is. Do they now read of the problems re growing GM seeds? Where are our “rights” to eat GM free foods?Anne
GM-free Zones
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the powers [...]

Immunity From What?
I read a News Release on 23rd September, “Government to end Crown Immunity from Planning Controls”. The list was quite long so I will mention only that “the Crown” includes Government Departments, Her Majesty’s private estates, the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall and also part of the Palace of Westminster is [...]

The Two Courts
The European Court of Human Rights ECHR
The European Court of Justice ECJ
Confusingly we have two European courts witch our governments have allowed to hold sway over our domestic national laws. As a point of fact no government should allow any other court to make any laws which our courts must obey, we are [...]

Farewell to freedom
(Filed: 10/10/2005)
Cast your eye over some of the stories in today’s newspaper. Cars are to be installed with chips making it easier to incriminate their drivers. Fluoridisation is to be extended to most of England. Smoking may be banned from pubs and restaurants. Work is going ahead on an identity card scheme [...]

They used to say you could always tell you were in a tough area if you saw two policemen walking the beat together; one was there to back up the other. Well it would appear the EU professors are now writing in tandem, as if by jointly writing an article would in some way shield [...]

My wife, having a rough idea about my interest in all things EU, mentioned that there was a political program she thought I would want to watch this evening, the title of the program was How Euro are you? At which point I opted not to waste my time, and decided to sleep through [...]

It is time the Consevative Party became conservative again, the Cornerstone Group of 28 MP`s have put their names to A Cornerstone of Policies to Revive Tory Britain. The Cornerstone Blog has this to say about the present direction of the political party, which gives all the appearance of wanting power for the sake of [...]

Trying to Make us all feel like nice little EUrooopeans
From Neil Herron
Christopher Booker’s Notebook
Sunday Telegraph
Sunday 02nd October 2005
The European Parliament is, as it likes to insist, “a rules-based organisation”, so its office in London was quick to comply last week when, following a complaint by the UK Independence Party, it was told to haul down [...]

From Neil Herron
Transport Committee
Dr John Patterson
Clerk of the Committee
Transport Committee
House of Commons
Westminster
London
SW1
mail to: tramscom@parliament.uk
Submission by Neil Herron on behalf of the Metric Martyrs Defence Fund
30th September 2005
Transport Committee
Current effectiveness of Parking Provision & Enforcement Policy
I wish to make the following submission to the Committee but I also wish to make a formal request that further, [...]

For the first time Margot Wallström has at last responded to some of the points we have been making on her Blog over the past few months:
Ok, let‘s talk about democracy: are you saying that democracy can only exist at nation state level? That a “demos“ can only be defined within national borders? To me [...]

This from Euan MacDonald TransAtlantic Assembly: “If you’ve nothing to hide, then you’ve nothing to fear” runs the popular, logically-suspect response to those who worry over the civil liberties implications of the current raft of new powers that have been awarded to police recently. This argument is, of course, as spurious as it is superficially [...]

Some Conservatives are at last beginning to get the message, that the way back into power in not to offer a pale imitation of NU-Labour but to return to basic Conservative policies and to ground those in the national interest founded on self-government and the supremacy of the British Parliament duly elected by the British [...]