eurealist.co.uk

Through sort of my own fault I have recently lost my old eurealist blog I was hosted with Siteground who sent me enough reminders that both the domain name and my hosting were due to expire last Sunday.

The problem started on Sunday when I tried to pay the renewal fees, Siteground computer for some reason would not accept credit my card, I tried so many times that in the end my credit card company phoned to see if my card had been lost or stolen. I emailed siteground and asked them to sort out their computer or send me their details so I could pay by paypal three times on Sunday and again on Monday, I have to date a week later yet to receive a response.

As I already owned eurealist.co.uk I thought the best way forward was to forget the unresponsive siteground and set up new hosting and redirect as much as possible to the new site.

As luck would have it and strangely for me I had backed up all of my posts and comments, so I was able to quite quickly get the new site up and running and to the best of my knowledge I only lost one post and one comment in the transfer.

I am still playing with the theme for the new site by adding plugins and widgets and at the same time I thought now would be a good time to do some serious housekeeping on my links and my old posts, most of which are still in a folder which I have renamed the best of the rest -perhaps all of the rest would be a better title.

One of the widgets I have installed is called Similar Posts, it searches the archives and displays similar posts to the main post in the side bar.

I find this very interesting because it is constantly mining my whole archive, for interesting titbits, so instead of having to wade through just over a thousand old posts all at once I can do it gradually as the widget is displaying the older posts constantly.

I can also take the opportunity to re-present some of the main arguments that are constants in the evolution of the EU. For one reason the pro- EU lot do not have any new thinking as mentioned in a previous post and as the Lisbon Treaty is the same as the Constitution the arguments against it are still very much relevant today.

I was going to use this by way of an introduction to re-present a post from Jan 2005 but as this has already grown too long to be an introduction so I think I will write a separate post. Keep watching this space for more totally boring non partisan but factually based EUsceptic comment.

The E.U. “expresses its deep concern that election procedures in the Islamic Republic of Iran have fallen below the international standards and that the electoral process did not allow for truly competitive elections,” a statement said late Saturday.

“In this regard it expresses its deep regret and disappointment that over a third of prospective candidates were prevented from standing in this year’s parliamentary elections,” the E.U.’s Slovenian presidency said.

These exclusions prevented the Iranian people from being able to choose freely amongst the full range of political views in their country and represent a clear violation of the international norms.

“As a result, the election was neither fair nor free.”

It makes one feel warm all over to know the EU holds the the concept of democracy so close to its heart.

Anyone for a referendum on the EU treaty just ask the EU.