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A classic instance is their position on the so-called “principle of availability” whereby all information and intelligence (often guesswork or supposition) on individuals held by a national law enforcement agency (police, immigration, customs) can be accessed by any of the hundreds of agencies across the EU (where it can added to with more information and “intelligence” and passed on again, inside or outside the EU).

What an increasingly absurd, corrupt and dangerous system we have. Labour Party oligarchs devise a manifesto for elections to the first chamber. The people who they permit to stand as Labour candidates must accept everything in that manifesto.
Enough of those candidates are elected to give the party oligarchs a whipped majority in the first [...]

Why would anyone donate to these parties of the living dead anyway?

DESPITE THE endlessly exzzzziting inveszzztigations into political party funding, a couple of questions remain unasked. For a start, why should Labour, the Conservatives and other terminally ill parties have a God-given right to life?
The all-party funding crisis reveals that these organisations are already [...]

Sir - Philip Johnston and your leader (March 13) are right to attack the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill.
It is put forward by the Government as a means of amending legislation, including deregulating the burdens on business. However, if enacted in its present form it would not enable Parliament to repeal or amend EU legislation, [...]

This is the initiative that the former Europe minister Keith Vaz told us would have no more force than the Beano and that the Prime Minister said would not be enforced by the Luxembourg court.

Alice Thomson in the Telegraph writes about the public funding of political parties and mentions perhaps one of the reasons that both Labour and the Conservative leaders are keen on the issue of public funding.  That of falling membership of the main parties “Instead of playing endless games of tennis with Lord Levy, Mr Blair [...]

Members of the European Parliament have stepped up pressure on the European Commission and the Council of Ministers to give them more say in rewriting implementing legislation.
The Parliament is withholding funding from the so-called comitology committees - the groups of national experts who are brought to Brussels to draft implementing rules, which are often [...]

“There are very real civil liberties concerns about data protection and about precisely who would have access to exactly what information about individuals”

Of course, ID Cards in Spain did not stop the Madrid bombing. But then who ever said this was all about controlling terrorism? Oh yes, the government did. But you did not really believe that, did you? It’s about controlling us.

Sir - When Daniel Hannan says "we are fantasising about the kind of EU we might ideally like to have", he is highlighting the dilemma faced by Britain as a result of its membership (Opinion, March 20).
We are swimming against the tide of European integration, which is the raison d’être of the whole project. [...]

To be honest I have never really understood what all the fuss was about, almost forever those in power have donated honours to people who have supported their party, them or their political aims, you scratch my backism has been part of our political culture for as long as anyone can remember.

Think back to [...]

A  report on the BBC’s the World Tonight attacked the Conservatives for planning to sit with Poland’s Law and Justice party in the European Parliament. The report explained: “Since David Cameron’s election as leader [...]

Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt appeared on the Today programme to promote his book the “United States of Europe”.  He said, “I don’t think people have said that they are against a [...]

  Baroness Harris of Richmond asked Her Majesty’s Government:

How many sections enabling Ministers to amend primary legislation by means of secondary legislation have been included in each Home Office Act passed from May 1997 onwards. [HL4543]

 The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Scotland of Asthal): The table [...]

It looks like the Labour Party is about to get its way, and force ID cards down everyone’s throat, but you may be unaware of some interesting facts about this scheme.

The man we can call the father of the ID card is Michael Howard. That’s right - it’s good old Dracula, [...]

There’s a story going round that taxpayers already fund political parties through “Short money”, so state funding of political parties would be nothing new. (Another case of the false “we already do X, so we might as well go on and do Y” argument.)
But Short money was only intended to assist MPs [...]

Member states to approve EU driving licence

EU ministers are set to hammer out a plan to replace the 110 existing types of driving licence with a single document recognised across the bloc, at a meeting on 27 March.
The move comes after member states’ officials agreed a compromise text following months of wrangling over details [...]

Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan writing in the Telegraph 
Two years from now, the European constitution will be in force. The Eurocrats have worked out a deft way of getting around them. Around 85 per cent of the text can, with some creative interpretation, be implemented this way.
True, there are one or two clauses that will [...]

Observer
This ID project is even more sinister than we first thought
The insidious erosion of our civil liberties will accelerate dramatically if the government wins the battle over
identity cards
Henry Porter
Sunday March 19, 2006
The Observer
You may have noticed the vaguely menacing tone of recent government advertising campaigns. Here is a current example:
‘If you know a [...]

From Dennis Cooper :Good questions from Anne Palmer. And why do we have to wait for annual accounts to find out who tried to buy influence and/or a title? Any large payment to a political party should be declared the same day it’s received. But I also agree
with the next letter: “Buying a peerage [...]