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The leader of the Conservative Party proudly announced that he has a simply ambition for this country. It’s at the heart of what I believe, and what I believe our country needs.

Oh goody he is going to repeal the 1972 act of admission to the EU begin the rebuilding process of our nation state. He intends to return the power to run this country to our government the power to hold our government to account to our parliment and the power to elect our own government to the people of this country. Now that is a simple plan that should be at the heart of anyone standing for election as leader of a nation state.

Perhaps not the same one that Cameron has though.

Today I want to talk to you about a simple ambition that I have for our country. It’s at the heart of what I believe, and what I believe our country needs. My ambition is to make Britain more family-friendly.

I am sure that Sir Robert Atkins would agree with Mr Cameron family-friendly is the way to go.

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The Daily Mail reports that Tory MEP Sir Robert Atkins has been forced to defend his fact finding trip to the USA. His claim for £2,500 was approved by the EU parliament

I have a long-standing interest in US politics which goes back to 1972

That’s alright then, I have a long standing interest in New Zealand Fly fishing that goes back to 1975, can someone tell me who will pay for my fact finding mission please.

Oh! yes just by the very strangest of coincidences is seems that Sir Robert’s son who is a Brussels lobbyist, was marrying his American fiancée just at the time Sir Robert chose to go on his fact finding mission.

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And moving swiftly on from any further debate about the Lisbon Constitution.

Already well entrenched in education the EU decides to step up its centralisation of education, information, and knowledge.

It has been agreed spring summit, that the EU should create a fifth freedom the Freedom of Knowledge to be added to the four original principles of free movement of persons, capital, services and goods in the European Union.

As part of the initiative, the bloc has pledged to boost cross-border mobility of researchers, students, scientists and university teachers, as well as labour markets and work conditions for European researchers and further reforms in high education.

http://euobserver.com/9/25838/?rk=1

It should be noted that the other four freedoms have all resulted in integration and unification.

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Defence of the Realm

I must say I was a bit puzzled to understand how on earth a radio could have save a parachutist. Many thanks to Defence of the Realm for the explanation. That it probably would not have but training probably would have.

Yellow Swordfish

Macedonian beekeeper Zoran Kiseloski, has successfully prosecuted a bear through the courts on the charge of theft and criminal damage to his hives.

PJC Journal

Culled from two different posts to give an overview of

The Infrastructure of Mass Surveillance

Have you been wondering why our government want to gather all our data together?, the NHS spine, the ID cards, the National Identity Register, Biometric Passports, the PNC, the DNA register, Fingerprinting, RFID, Car tracking, and to share the data with everyone.

“Congress shut down TIA because it represented a massive and unjustified governmental intrusion into the personal lives of Americans,” said Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the Washington Legislative Office of the ACLU. “Now we find out that the security agencies are pushing ahead with the program anyway, despite that clear congressional prohibition. The program described by current and former intelligence officials in Monday’s Wall Street Journal could be modeled on Orwell’s Big Brother.”

Global security and the “war on terror” now dominate the global political agenda. Driven largely by the United States, a growing web of anti-terrorism and security measures are being adopted by nations around the world. This new “security” paradigm is being used to roll back freedom and increase police powers in order to exercise increasing control over individuals and populations.

Cranmer

Cranmer brought to the attention of his readers and communicants the plight of Iraq’s Christians some time ago, not least because their systematic extermination was scarcely registering on the radar of the mainstream media. While the Iraq focus has been on a botched peace and the occasional atrocity committed by the odd deviant soldier, thousands upon thousands of Assyrian and Chaldean Christians have been ‘cleansed’ from the lands in which they and their forebears have dwelt for almost two millennia

Wonkos World

A member of a Shropshire political group has criticised the “health apartheid” of the NHS, which he claims is responsible for county patients receiving poorer services that those in Scotland and Wales.

NoseMonkey`s EUtopia

The strapline claims non partisan European Politics: Debatable: as Clive supports the EU

Tells us that two nutty anti-EU myths dispelled in one day: Debatable: as neither of the myths are myths and neither have been dispelled on the evidence offered.

GlobaL Warming Politics

Well, well, well! In this poll, “The ‘Greenhouse Effect’ or Global Warming” comes a lamentable 9th out of the 12 listed concerns. But, what is even more interesting is the fact that, for the ten environmental items that were raised in both Gallup’s 2007 and 2008 Environment Surveys, the percentage who report worrying “a great deal” about a problem is down in 2008 on 2007 for all ten issues. Valium maybe?

EU Referendum

As the credit crisis engulfed the 85-year-old Bear Stearns investment bank and the Federal Reserve with JP Morgan Chase combined to provide emergency finance, there are very real fears of an economic meltdown engulfing the global financial system.

Unfounded or not, we would still like to think that there is someone in charge on this side of the pond, with sufficient gravitas to handle any emerging crises, and to reassure us that the best possible action is being taken.

EURSOC

Every nation has its eternal students, but France seems to specialise in their production. Observers of student protests will notice scruffy thirtysomethings marching alongside fresh-faced youth. Not teachers, as you might expect, but fellow students, who entered higher education a decade or more ago and remained there long after it became undignified to do so.