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I noticed this report about the new Animal Welfare Bill, which apparently has cross party support and is expected to return to the floor of the Commons in March in the Times.
It is to be agreed that every domesticated animal will have a code of conduct tailored to their species, each of which is expected [...]

Jeremy Black has a good post about the West Lothian Question on the Social affairs Unit Blog
The West Lothian Question - the fact that, post-devolution, Scottish Westminster MPs can still vote on legislation, on for example health and education, where Westminster legislation does not affect Scotland - could become the key issue at the [...]

Lord Vinson asked Her Majesty’s Government:
How many times since its inclusion in the Maastricht Treaty the subsidiarity principle has been used successfully to ensure that powers remain with the United Kingdom and are not transferred to the institutions of the European Union. [HL3469]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Lord Triesman):
Article 5 [...]

There seems to be a certain theme running through the “middle ground” of political debate in this country, something to do with making us all appreciate being British, or something that something is needed to bring us all together, or as Davis Cameron says “something we all did together” what with Gordon Brown’s flag waving [...]

The EU parliament is continuing to push its secular “religion” and for the destruction of the right to object because of religious conviction.
Last weeks report in The Christian Post says that clergymen across the United Kingdom have been left highly concerned by a European Union report which has recommended that clergy not be allowed [...]

EU constitution is dead, says Dutch minister,
Federalist hopes of reviving the draft European Union constitution were snuffed out yesterday when the Dutch foreign minister, Bernard Bot, said the treaty was “dead”.
He swept away months of euphemisms and half-truths, as European leaders struggled to avoid being the first to declare an end to the [...]

Police are targeting Sir Iqbal for his religious beliefs
Sir - I wholeheartedly disagree with Sir Iqbal Sacranie’s views on homosexuality (News, January 12), but I wholeheartedly support his right to express these views on Radio 4 - in a manner that was certainly not “threatening, abusing or insulting”.
Surely the police pursuing him under section 5 [...]

“We are not making a coalition of States,
but are uniting people.”
[ Jean Monnet, 30 April 1952 ]

From the Open Europe Press summary
Chirac and Merkel at odds over strategy for bringing back EU Constitution
In a speech to French Ambassadors yesterday Jacques Chirac called for parts of the EU Constitution to be cherry-picked and implemented separately. He suggested this could be done on areas such as “internal security and justice, external [...]

Arguing for the return of the EU Constitution has become the objective of the past week or so, ever since the presidency past from Britian to Austria in fact.
Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel told a news conference in Vienna Monday “The constitution is not dead,” “The constitution is in the middle of a ratification process.” Well [...]

This from appeared in the Scotsman this morning and was sent by e-mail from Dr Cooper with a note above the letter.
Mrs Rolls writes very anti-EU good letters, but I have to disagree with her on this. The editor has deleted “Irrespective of the pretensions of the European Court of Justice” which I had put [...]

Thanks to Dr Cooper who sent this to me by email and said;
Many people in Washington still haven’t woken up, apparently. Like Mr Pantucci, with his letter in the Independent yesterday.
Business Platform
Washington still blind to true nature of the EU
By : John Blundell
January 08, 2006
HISTORY is little but an inventory of errors. Even the [...]

The Guardian reports that UKIP have said that they encouraged people to vote for Jose Barroso in the Today programme poll to find the most powerful person in Britain. Ben Jones, of the European Movement is quoted saying, “They’re using neo-con-style tactics - fairly ruthless, almost propagandist means. Politics should be done through rational [...]

EUSURF has just written a post about the pre-Christmas report from The EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights, an advisory panel to the EU. In the 40 page document they challenge the right to religious freedom if it conflicts with the European Charta of Fundamental Rights;
Their opinion considered the right to conscientious objection [...]

Again thanks from Dr Cooper the Western Morning News
PRESSURISE YOUR MP OVER REGIONAL POLICE
The purpose of Lindsay Jenkins’ article (December 13) on the shameless bulldozing through of regional police forces by the Government was to explain the real reason for it. Britain is long committed to the EU by treaty to set up full regional [...]

This Is Devon from Graham BoothWE CAN’T AFFORD SUBSIDIES FOR ALL
Your columnist Kate Ironside seems to have her morals all mixed up in her recent article. If you read my speech to the EU Parliament last month its contents may straighten out her muddled thinking.
It is very tempting to offer all of Europe’s poorer regions [...]

This should release a few pigeons amongst the cats, I have not read the full report yet but its puff looks promising. Happy New Year
Anthony Browne (Who He) argues in The Retreat of Reason that political correctness, which classifies certain groups of people as victims in need of protection from criticism and allows no dissent [...]

Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schssel on taking over the Presidency of the EU this month wants to resurrect and redefine the EU Constitution; he said “Europe needed “some moments of fantasy and flexibility and new thoughts.” He said he would restart efforts to draft a new constitution at an EU conference on European identity to be [...]