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As if the Irish did not have enough to worry about with their referendum coming up in a couple of

so if we have to rely on the EU to save the planet, we are all doomed anyway.

weeks on the impenetrable rehash of the EU Constitution. What with their own political leaders and just about every EU schemer letting them know that a no vote would create untold doom laden inconvenience for Ireland. And the Irish people really should show their gratitude to the EU for its larges, without which they would still be in the dark ages, by voting yes.

Just to add to their concerns in a very strange comment piece from Peter Sain ley Berry on EUOBSERVER; he seems to be equating a possible no vote in Ireland’s referendum with not only the end of civilisation as we know it, but the end of all life on earth. That is a big load to shoulder for the Irish.
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On Mr Wheeler`s High Court action against the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, on their refusal to hold a referendum on whether the Lisbon Treaty should be ratified.

Information on Mr Wheeler site says that the Speaker of the House of Commons intended to apply to intervene in the case, in order to make submissions concerning parliamentary privilege and the Bill of Rights 1689. Mr Wheeler says “I do not know why the Speaker feels he needs to intervene, as arguments about these matters have already been put forward on behalf of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary.”

Funny that once again we see the politicians resorting to the use of the Bill of Rights 1689, when it suits them, but they seem to be unreceptive to its other clauses when they demand protections for the people against an overpowering government.

I woke up this morning with the vague thought that that I should write about the Conservatives recent

Whatever the tactical gains in the short run from triangulation, in the long term it threatens to poison our political system. The greatest challenge to our democratic process is the growing number in the electorate who find it hard to identify with any party, or to accept the conviction with which political figures hold their views.

rise in popularity as revealed in the polls, local elections and Crew, with relation to the effect that recognition might have on what EU policies we can expect from them come the next election.

It is well understood that the Tories are playing their cards as close to the vest as possible, because when they have announced any policy that has gained public approval, it has only taken the Labour government about a week to copy it, see the scrapping of the Regional Assemblies and inheritance tax.

Not that this is a new theme from New Labour, I well remember an interview on BBC Today programme, back in the days when I still thought it worth listening to, when either John Humphrys or James Naughtie was questioning the looser of the 1997 election, John Major. Who ever it was, made some remark about the Conservative support for New Labour polices, to which Major replied yes of course we support those policies because before they were Labour policies they were Conservative policies. Major could have expanded on that theme and explained that as those policy outlines were agreed in the EU neither party had much choice in the matter. But that is problem with the political and media treatment of the EU, there is so little outward acknowledgement that membership of the Union has evolved in such a manner that it is binding all parties to the same policies.
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At last, a sensible EU directive. Under new consumer protection regulations, fortune tellers and astrologists will be forced to tell customers that their work is not “experimentally proven” and that they offer “entertainment only”.
Harry Mount - Telegraph

The same point could be made about politicians and their rush to tax us in the west for man-made global warming whilst at the same time accepting that world wide C02 levels will rise.

Euroscepticism is dead and the possible demise of the leading EU Sceptic blog EU Referendum.

Through these coming weeks, I intend to run a series of posts exploring why we are about to be confronted with a corpse, why euroscepticism failed and what we need to do about it (interspersed with our usual fare). Then, at a suitable moment, we may consider winding up EU Referendum.

I really hope the Dr North reconsiders as do many of his readers.

Sad news.

Perhaps the cavalry will arrive in the nick of time as in the best westerns.

I am sure that many appreciate your efforts to expose the horror that calls itself the EU. Your blog will be sadly missed.

You are even more indispensable here in the US, where facts and opinions about the EU, should they get published at all, are filtered through yet another layer of PC. Please keep up the good work.

The concept of democracy at the EU level is very much like the EU itself a top down arrangement, the leaders of the EU do make a big noise about democracy they claim it for the EU and demand it in member states and other states worldwide. It is a truism that if the EU applied to join the EU, its application would have to be rejected because of it lack of democracy.

Yet if you look at the make believe world that is the EU there is in reality no democracy. They simply invent organisations without any reference to what the people actually want and then demand that those organisations become the seat of popular democratic expression. And if the people do not accept the designations then it is the people who are at fault not the basic organisation.

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Perhaps it is right that I begin with a debate headed “Family Doctor Services” in the House of Commons on our St Georges Day, 23 April 2008 where the vote they passed reads:-

The current changes being imposed across NHS primary care by Gordon Brown are leading to the meltdown and eventual destruction of general practice in this country.

That this House welcomes the fact that the Government is providing £250 million, in addition to existing GP services, for 152 new state-of-the-art GP-led health centres open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week; notes that these will offer a wide range of health services including prebookable GP appointments and walk-in services; further notes that where patients previously had trouble seeing their GP or had to make numerous visits to a variety of health professionals, they will now be able to see a doctor more quickly, collect their prescriptions, get their eyes tested, have a variety of diagnostic tests or see a physiotherapist in the same building and at times convenient to the patient; further welcomes the additional centrally funded 100 GP practices to be located in the most deprived areas which will have a strong focus on promoting health and reducing inequalities; acknowledges the landmark agreement with GPs to extend surgery hours in evenings and on Saturdays and agrees that extended access will benefit hardworking families; further welcomes the extension of the role of pharmacies to be able to prescribe for and deal with minor ailments on the NHS, as well as promoting good health, supporting those with long-term conditions and preventing illnesses through additional screening and advice; recognises that the Government is on the side of patients; and agrees that extending access to GP services through extended hours and new GP health centres can have a real impact on health inequalities.

It sounds really good doesn’t it? So why are so many people against this “reconfiguration of primary care services” as they call it? Why are so many doctors against it? Why is the British Medical Association (BMA) against it? I can understand why ‘opticians’ and Pharmacies are against it except for those that might have the franchise for manning the Polyclinics
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News from NZHereald the British government is spending £280,000 on an advertising campaign warning Bulgarians and Romanians not to come to Britain unless they are skilled and have been offered a job.

The Government has been using television, radio and hoardings to get the message across in Romania and Bulgaria. Some 8000 posters have been put up and 40,000 leaflets distributed across the two countries. The campaign is being run by the International Organisation for Migration, but funded by a Home Office grant,

The Caribbean Export Development exists for the sole purpose of increasing exports out of the Caribbean, i.e. to increase its sales and its profits on the world market.

As I have mentioned before it does not seem to make sense for the EU to finance an organisation that

In a fair deal, Europe would fully open its markets to all exports without demanding reciprocation,

competes with EU businesses in the world market place. But that is exactly what has happened with a grant of more than $21 million from the European Commission.

Not that the Caribbean Export executive director Philip Williams was over enthused at the grant; he said that contribution, as well those coming from the annual contributions of CARIFORUM’s 15-member states, are not sufficient.
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I will be taking a short break flying out to Spain this afternoon, hope to visit the El Acebuchal later this week to see the renovations for myself and do a post for my new food blog other than that I hope to do a little bit of swimming little bit of reading quite a lot of eating and drinking, the weather is better here than there so I am taking my raincoat.

Gordon Brown accused the SNP of a “transparent attempt to manipulate the political system for purely partisan political purposes”.

Gordon Brown won’t let England and Scotland split - Telegraph

Pot Kettle Black Lisbon Treaty!

This From John Redwood

The Prime Minister should grasp that the biggest constitutional threat to the Union come from EU developments. English people are not going to be happy until they have a vote on the Constitutional Treaty, and have their view taken seriously that we want less EU power over us, not more.

Thank heavens for Jeff Randall. In all the coverage of last week’s devastating Government report on the collapse of our postal services, nowhere was there any mention of the key part played in the disaster by the EU - until Mr Randall broke media silence in Friday’s Daily Telegraph.Yet the report itself made no secret of the fact that the trouble has been our dutiful compliance with EU postal directives, compelling us to “open up the market” by allowing 19 private operators to cream off all those parts of Royal Mail’s operations which enabled it to run at a profit.

To make it worse, these companies take the money for collecting mail from big businesses - mainly bulk postings - but then rely on Royal Mail to deliver it, at a knockdown price.

Failure of Royal Mail: Booker

Story covered by EU Referendum on Friday

Perhaps Gorgon Ramsey is being a little bit hypocritical when he calls for restaurants to be forced to serve home-grown, locally-sourced produce, and fined if out of season ingredients appear on their menus. After all he has built a reputation running restaurants in the middle of London where there is a distinct scarcity of local producers, and at the moment according to one celebrity chef his own restaurants are serving 15 out of season products.
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Telegraph article Now faced with the real possibility of going down in history as the myopic political movement that destroyed Britain from within, Labour in Scotland are running scared
concerning the Labour parties problems in Scotland, we all know that they
messed up the devolution process and by turning a deaf ear to the visionists, even those in their own party like Tam Dalyell, have incorporate imbalance in the British constitutional settlement.

The problem is by creating a separate Scottish parliament they have also fed the beast of Scottish nationalism, that devolution was supposed to slay. That is if we are to believe the devolution process was intended to slay the beast of nationalism in the first place, and was not simply evidence of NewLabour blindly following the EU regional policies.

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I feel there is something fishy, something decidedly wrong with the David Aaronovitch piece in the Times this morning. But it is far too early for me to exactly put my finger on his argument that we should not expect politicians to listen to us, but rather to do what is right. There is something of the elitist about the concept that we do not know what is right or that we need the people we elect to ignore our wishes and probably the mandate, on which they were elected, for our own good. The question that immediately springs to mind is if they are not going to listen to the people who vote for them and pay their wages, then who exactly are they going to be informed by, pressure groups or NGOs or other special interest groups, or perhaps the scientists?

If the latter, would that include the ICCP which has become a major political pressure group in its own right and is in any case a political movement run by politicians, one moreover that distorts science in pursuit of it own agenda any case. The question that the earth is warming due to mans actions is one that has been used by politicians as a vehicle to enable them to increase our taxes, yet if the earth was really warming what are the doing with all that extra tax revenue to meet the forecast repercussions and should they be doing anything at all, if the science behind the ICCP reports is only one view of the reality and it completely ignores any science which contradicts the main argument, and even ignores studies that disproves the arguments it uses to predict the horror scenarios the whole concept is based on.

If our leaders are to be freed from listening to the people, then is it not to be expected of them to at least base their decisions on something approaching the truth, rather than on which group can exert the most media and political pressure for its cause. The truth about global warming is hard to find in the plethora of information and misinformation that surrounds the subject. You can either accept the Al Gore version of the truth, this seems to be the one most favoured by the political and media establishment or you can look at other proof that contradicts the arguments.

This time it is 123 million euros to Togo
Concluded in Lome under the 10th European Development Fund, the agreement was signed Friday by EU Commission Head of Delegation Filiberto Sebregondi and Togolese Cooperation, Development and Planning Minister Gilbert Bawara.

46 percent of this money is aimed at boosting the economy through funding infrastructure projects.
Speaking during the same occasion, EU Delegation Chief Filiberto Sebregondi said that cooperation with Togo had already been set in motion by the signing, in early 2008, of an agreement covering three major projects, including the electoral process and remediation macroeconomic projects, at a total cost of 31.4 million euros.
In addition, macroeconomic support through the cancellation of multilateral debt and budget support accounts for 26 percent of the total.

No matter what the arguments to the contrary the EU is certainly already acting like a state, moreover one that has no democratic accountability, did any of us ever vote for our money to be so blatantly used to buy kudos for the European Union.

It seems that just posing a question about BNP advances in the local elections is enough to brand someone a racist supporter of a hateful group of violent criminals.

Actually the venom expressed by the main parties and in the media against the BNP is perhaps a pointer to the reason why the BNP are making small but important steps forwards, but this is happening below the radar of the nation’s media.

Because the BNP are denied coverage in the media they are forced to resort to the old ways of building support, instead of having their policies aired and debated in the media they have to get out onto the streets and speak to people face to face, unfortunately in that person to person arena there is no alternative argument on the table. This could be an indication that the dismissive attitude shown by the main parties and in the media is working for the BNP.
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Of course there is no chance that the EU will take the slightest notice of the facts on climate change as reported by Booker this morning.
as earth is not warming there is no need for international action to face the consequences.
The EU has far too much invested in the industry to allow little things like facts get in its way. The climate change scenario fits extremely well with the EU integration measures it could almost have been invented for just that reason, climate change is an aid to EU intergration so it will continue to change for as long as the EU wishes.

How many times have we been told that we need international action to combat the effects of climate change or that we cannot remain aloof because the fall out will effect us and that we must all pull together in the face of this forecast devastation. The mere fact that the forecasts are continually being proven wrong by time and the climate will be an unimportant sideline as far as the federalists are concerned.
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Once again the Telegraph is first with the news, ground breaking investigative journalism by Bruno Waterfield in Brussels gives us the headline this morning that; “EU plans international embassies”
Mr Waterdfield tells us;

The European Union will open its own embassies under a plan critics fear represents a “power grab” by Brussels officials pushing for a federal superstate.

The secret plan represents the first time that full EU embassies have been discussed seriously.

The “Embassies of the Union” would be controlled by a new EU diplomatic service created by the Lisbon Treaty.
The Daily Telegraph has seen a high-level Brussels document discussing plans for a “European External Action Service” (EEAS) which was proposed under the new EU Treaty, currently being ratified in Westminster.

Talks have so far remained behind closed doors. Officials fear political fallout over plans to implement the new Treaty before it has been fully ratified.

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