What Use Parliment

Yes Mr Redwood, it becomes difficult to frame programmes that will interest all UK voters, when most of the areas of government are also influenced by the EU and other international bodies. You have posed a lopsided question by only referring to the powers lost to the regional assemblies in Scotland and Wales, (themselves an [...]

IPCC Talking about a Conflict of Interests – not

The head of the UN’s climate change panel – Dr Rajendra Pachauri – is accused of making a fortune from his links with ‘carbon trading’ companies
No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, [...]

A Commission of One

The longstanding plan to reduce the size of the European Commission has just succeeded beyond all expectations, but not quite as intended.
Legally there is now only one Commissioner, José Manuel Barroso, who was recently re-appointed as President according the procedure laid down in the treaties.
The five year terms of the other 26 persons who were [...]

The NHS Controversy

There are a few different ways of approaching this:
What did Hannan actually say?  Was he suggesting abolishing the NHS or was he saying to the Americans, do not introduce the particular British system of heath care?
Hannan said in his column in the Telegraph:
“There is a difference between saying that the US shouldn’t adopt the British [...]

Conservative Eurosceptic MPs receive CAP payments

Responding to the news that three leading Conservative Eurosceptic MPs receive CAP payments totalling  £526,547 for their farms, Brendan Donnelly, treasurer of the European Movement, said:
“I think there is an irony, an inconsistency that there are some high profile Conservatives who benefit greatly from the workings of the common agricultural policy.”
We are thus invited to [...]

German judgement is a call to action against the EU’s democratic deficit

EUobserver / [Comment] German judgement is a call to action against the EU’s democratic deficit
The Karlsruhe Court effectively finds that the Lisbon Treaty would increase the EU’s widely acknowledged democratic deficit if its ratification is not linked to the adoption of internal procedures at Member State level such as to safeguard the involvement of the [...]

MP Expense Claims

I thought it might a good idea to look into the expense claims of my own local MP Phillip Dunn Ludlow Conservative.
The last time I met him he was doing a run around his constituency and stopped to say he could not possible go by my house without giving me a chance to shout at [...]

Campaign for Better Charities

Duncan MacKenzie from the Campaigns and Communications team of Campaign for Better Transport, “a Charitable foundation” They receive £79,639 a year of Council Taxpayers money via London Councils. They also receive funding from Transport for London, sent out the following email:
We’ve been approached by a campaigner in Nottingham who’s alerted us that the Conservatives, who [...]

Clarke softens Tory line on Lisbon treaty

I have been waiting for the leadership of the Conservative party to set the record strait with regards to party policy on the Lisbon treaty.
It is clear that if the Treaty has not been ratified we have been promised a referendum by Mr Cameron, what was not clear until the weekend is exactly what the [...]

Why is Brown hanging on?

The Telegraph tells us Lord Mandelson charged to the rescue and made up for 15 years of hurt and for his trouble he is now effectively the deputy prime minister, we also have another paid up and paid by EU backer in the cabinet in the form of Mrs Kinnock.
But says the Telegraph Mandelson did [...]

What are you for Mr Prime Minister?

From England Expects
Think about it, what political party would go into a European Election campaign seriously highlighting the importance of the EU in the creation of legislation? After all only a year or so later the same people (MEPs often vanish during national elections – curious) are standing up infront of the same electorate trying [...]

The Minster for Europe on Lisbon Treaty

Open Europe informs us that  Europe Minister Caroline Flint admits she has not read the Lisbon Treaty
During questions yesterday in Parliament, Europe Minister Caroline Flint admitted that she had not read the Lisbon Treaty in its entirety.
Following a series of vague answers on the implications of the Treaty for European defence, Shadow Europe Minister Mark [...]

Fishing injustice

This from the letter section of the Western Morning News
THERE has been a profound miscarriage of justice with regard to Charlie McBride and Charles Jnr, fishermen from Northern Ireland who have been sentenced to two and three months in jail, respectively, for “contempt of court”.
The McBrides, owners of the fishing vessel Arcane N907, were [...]

Security Basic Rights and Porn

The fluff of parliamentary reporting, are we really interested in the fact that the Home Sectaries husband watched two porn films last April and is it really that important within the context of the amount these politicians are costing us as part of a failing institution,  that they then claimed the ten pounds cost of [...]

EU Chaos or a failing project

It would seem that Clive Mathews is trying to argue that those of us who question the EU are simply nutty conspiracy theorists who base our abhorrence of this construct on 50 year old quotes of long dead fathers of the EU.
As I said in a previous post that argument is the classic straw man, [...]

Irish Matters

The Irish Times is reporting that Taoiseach Brian Cowen has admitted that the Irish Government was not in a position to report “sufficient progress” to the Dáil on the guarantees sought from the EU on the Lisbon Treaty.
So they have agreed to a new referendum based on these guarantees but cannot tell the Irish people [...]

Quoting Monnet

The important point to remember about Jean Monnet is that as one of the early major promoters of a unified Europe, without any shadow of doubt he fully supported the aims and beliefs of the founding fathers of the European Project. These were that Europe should become one nation state along the same lines as [...]

outrageously undemocratic behaviour

The National Platform EU Research and Information Centre
24 Crawford Avenue
Dublin 9
Web-site: nationalplatform .org
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Dear Friends,
According to the Irish Times news report below, a meeting is taking place in Brussels today between the entire EU Commission and Mr Martin Territt, Head of the EU Commission Representation in Ireland, to discuss how [...]

More on Mobile Coffins

I do not quite understand why the today the Times should be revisiting an extremely important but nevertheless such an old story as last Octobers resignation of Major Sebastian Morley.
Major Morley was at the time the most senior reservist SAS officer in Afghanistan,  and resigned because army commanders and Whitehall officials ignored his warnings that [...]

EU and Royal Mail sale

EU and Royal Mail sale
SIR – At this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Ann Winterton asked whether “the real reason for part-privatising Royal Mail stems directly from European Union postal legislation”. The answer referred to the Hooper report, which explains that the real reasons for part-privatising [...]

Malevolent voices that despise our freedoms

Malevolent voices that despise our freedoms
The new laws whisper:
You don’t know who you are
You’re mistaken about yourself
We know better than you do what you consist of, what labels apply to you, which facts about you are important and which are worthless
We do not believe you can be trusted to know these things, [...]

Public Funding of Science and Taxing Air

Getting to the truth does not seem to be the aim of the global warming alarmists that seems to be to promote only their version of the truth to the exclusion of any other evidence. This would not really make that much difference except in this case we are all going to have to pay a very heavy price for the government funded version of truth.

The biggest discover by far in the AGW debate is that the politicians have fund a way of taxing air and we should all understand that they are not going to let go of their new found tax stream and will always find willing scientists to assist them because they are paying the fiddler.

Nailing Jelly and EU Laws

I must confess that I had lost touch with Martin Coles of Ironies Too, I used to read his original Blog Ironies. Here Mr Coles has a blinder, the President of the EU parliament Hans-Gert Poettering, reacting angrily to the perceived insult to the EU metered out by Czech President Vaclav Klaus during his speech [...]

For the Love of England

Little Man in a Toque One of my daily reads, says George Monbiot informed us that you don’t have to be a nationalist to support an English parliament, you just have to be a democrat. I understand what George is getting at, for it’s certainly true that the campaign for an English parliament is a [...]

Sea Ice Fact Fiction or Myth

On the 18th Feb George Monbiot wrote about Washington Post`s George Will and his supposed Howlers over Climate Change (I think he means Global Warming) Monbiot says George Will’s latest column in the Washington Post affords us a fascinating insight into how certain climate change myths pass through the media unchallenged.
I came to this [...]

Sharia law

Thought For The World
Moreover, rather than promote ‘minority’ rights and social cohesion, Sharia law promotes fragmentation and social conflict. It imposes different standards and norms for ‘different’ people. It denies universal and equal rights fought for and established by progressive social and working class movements over centuries. It gives precedence to the most regressive cultural [...]

Those who Fought for Freedom

England has for many years been lifting her voice against the abominable practice of negro slavery; numbers of her great men have talked, have laboured, have struggled, until at length emancipation has been granted to her black slaves in the West Indies . When will they dream of advocating the cause of England ’s white [...]

Bill of Rights and new written Constitution.

An open letter from Anne Palmer
Dear Lord Onslow,
Re Proposed new Bill of Rights and possibly a new written Constitution.
I have already expressed my concerns about the proposals for a new written Constitution and a Bill of Rights yet I feel it important to write once more.
We already have a Constitution of our own plus a [...]

Preparing for a Police State

When the ex head of MI5 tells us that the government is exploiting the threat of terrorism to erode civil liberties, I believe it is time to listen to the growing throng of voices concerned for our historic rights.
But Dame Stella Rimington goes even further she openly says,
“It would be better that the Government recognised [...]

Saving British Farming or not!

Agriculture is being pushed onto the political agenda says Mark Price the Managing Director of Waitrose today in the Telegraph when he writes about farming and local communities:
Many once bustling villages are now empty during the day as their population heads to their jobs in town. Village schools and pubs are closing. So are the [...]

War on Terror or War on Public Freedoms

The Police who have already been harassing not only private photographers but media professionals will no doubt be delighted today to be handed a new tool by a government that does not recognise the concept of individual freedoms.
A new law goes into effect today in the United Kingdom which would make it illegal to [...]

Cameron refuses to say RDAs will be abolished

Ian Dale post that D Cameron has reinforced his pledge to abolish RDA’s and regional Assemblies
When asked
“you’re not in favor of regional development  agencies. They do a lot of the hard work for the Government at the moment out there, helping small businesses. Have you changed your mind on your views on them?
He replied
“No. What [...]

Fitna

I watched Fitna last night, one of the very minor consequences of the British government refusing entry to the country of a democratically elected MP from an EU state. Had they not done so I would never have watched that film, but because my government took this unprecedented action I wanted to see what al [...]

Forign Jobs for Forign Workers

A certain Keith Dunnell who holds the post of National Statistician has revealed  figures showing that jobs for foreign workers has increased at a far greater level than jobs for British workers.
Since Labour came to power in 1997 the jobs for foreign workers has almost doubled whilst jobs for British workers have only risen by [...]

Challenging God is not Atheism

I think atheists are in danger of falling into the trap of allowing theists to define their non belief in a god as being against god. I am an atheist and do not feel that this is a definition of my position. I am not against god, I just do not believe god exists, how [...]

Darwin’s Theory of life the universe and everything else

The comments are not kind to Mr C Booker this morning; I read the piece and found the argument interesting if a little disconcerting.  I found it disturbing for two reasons, although not having studied the intricacies of Darwin’s theory, I have nevertheless accepted the general consensus that life on earth reached its present state [...]

A Weak Democracy

if it was the war that ended the great depression perhaps it will be revolution that will end this one, because instead of their being conflict between nations there is growing conflict between the self serving political elites and the people they are paid to serve.

Libertas in more trouble

After a second Libertas politician withdrew his support for the organisation the EU Parliament is to conduct an investigation into the signatures used to try and establish Libertas group as a European political party.
They have already put on hold the payment of €200,000 of our money due to be given to the party.
Estonian MP Igor [...]

Good For Britian?

I watched Question Time last night for the first time in ages, no it has not improved.
One of the questions as to be expected concerned the wildcat strikes, it would appear that the Conservatives would not attempt to take back the authority to look after the British state its companies, its people or their jobs [...]

Protectionism! testing the hypocrisy

The government of Great Britain are elected to serve the people of this country and to defend the state. They are paid by the British people to defend our country us our Rights and our interests this includes jobs.
When a foreign owned company grants a construction job in Britain to another foreign owned company, who [...]

Trojan Horse party EU Payment on Hold

The European Parliament has put a decision to grant ” anti-EU treaty” group Libertas funding on hold after it emerged that the group may no longer fulfill the criteria for receiving the money.
The move to grant Libertas status as a European political party, entitling it to around €200,000, had already been taken by parliament officials [...]

When you fool yourself

The snow is a notable event, well actually according to the met office it is ‘extreme snow event’
With the country grinding to a halt under a blanket of around 4 inches of snow it is tempting to ask why such an event as a moderate fall of snow can bring the country to a complete [...]

BNP is the new Labour Party

Browsing this morning I came across this polemic on Conservative views of the BNP the writer launched into a harangue of abuse against Ian Dale for daring to mention that the BNP were more closely related to the left than the right. Not withstanding that such divisions are really meaningless, the radical Left do love [...]

Christians Fed to PC Lions

Old Holborn has a very good post about Caroline Petrie, who has been suspended for offering to pray for a patient.
Old Holborn
I have no religion, not even atheism. I don’t believe in anything and I see no need to convince anyone else of my view on the subject because, well, I don’t have one. I’m [...]

The Trojan Horse Party to get EU Funding

The Trojan Horse Party
Libertas described as Eurosceptic by EUphiles is set to be awarded recognition as an EU Political party in Strasburg later today thus making it eligible to receive EU  funding.
THE INSTITUTIONS, BODIES AND AGENCIES OF THE UNION
In order to be qualified as a “political party at European level”, a party must:
·   [...]

Mandelson says go and look for work in Europe

When Norman Tebbit in response to a question – that rioting was the natural reaction to unemployment said;
I grew up in the ’30s with an unemployed father. He didn’t riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking ’til he found it.
Ever since then Tebbit and in fact the whole [...]

The Strange Retraction of Peter Jones

I do not often watch BBC News and it was only by accident that I did so on Monday  night when they showed an item about recycling. This item was based on comments made by Peter Jones and I suppose hit the headlines because Jones is a key adviser to environment ministers and the London [...]

Quote

Yesterday I was unable to cross examine the Secretary of State who announced the policy towards the motor industry, as he was in the Lords. More importantly, I was unable to cross examine the architects of the policy, as they were in Brussels.
John Redwood

Lisbon Treaty Woes

The Germany constitutional court has already set aside two days to hear one complaint about the Lisbon Treaty (10 and 11 February by conservative MP Peter Gauweiler who says the treaty undermines freedoms guaranteed in the German constitution.
Now another complaint has been lodged by Markus Kerber, a commercial lawyer, Dieter Spethmann, a former chief executive [...]

Debating The Propaganda Budget

The Open Europe report “The hard sell:
EU communication policy and the campaign for hearts and minds”
Detailing the billions of euros a year the EU spends promoting itself and its central aim of ‘ever closer union’ has been attacked by the EU Communication department /propaganda ministry although on the one hand Joe Hennon, Speaking for [...]

Plain English

I start from the position that one should never ever sign a legal document unless they are quite clear of the meaning of the document and what the effect of putting their signature to a legally enforceable document the will have in the event of a dispute between the parties.
We are constantly told that this [...]

Gravest of all threat to our National Security

By Anne Palmer 22.1.2009.
It is the EU’s Directive on the identification and designation of European Critical Infrastructure that is the gravest of all threat to our National Security.
An enquiry was held before the Home Affairs Select Committee (20,1,2009) into the arrest of a Conservative frontbencher in November last year.  Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told that [...]

An Exchange of Letters

From Anne Palmer an exchange of letters the constituion
received this reply 29.7.2005.
Dear Ms Palmer,
Thank you for your letter of 8 June regarding the Oath of Allegiance sworn by MP’s.
Members of Parliament are elected to represent their constituents. Having received this democratic mandate, they should not have to take an oath to an unelected institution [...]

Throw Away Lines

It is often the throw away lines that say the most, in case you think I am nit picking, I suppose I am, but I do get annoyed at the simple acceptance of basically untrue assertions, which gain the veneer of truth just by the process of repeating them often enough.
What has got under my [...]

House of Lords debates

House of Lords debates
Friday, 15 December 2006
European Union (Information, etc.) Bill [HL]

Lord Dykes (Liberal Democrat) Link to this | Hansard source
My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. We have just had a most important and lengthy debate on a crucial subject, to be followed by an [...]

Euro-Regionalisation

Savings even less than the £20 million pa, or less than 1p per person per week, previously projected – now it’s only £4.2 million pa = 0.16p per person per week [ca 49 million population as this is for England only] and it may actually cost more. Plus the real prospect of “total project failure” [...]

Juries weighed in the balance and found wanting

Telegraph | Opinion | Juries weighed in the balance and found wanting:
“The collapse of the Jubilee Line corruption trial shows how disastrously wrong jury trials can go when they are badly handled. It should not, though, be used as a stick with which to beat all jury trials, when it comes to the inquiry into [...]

Human Rights Act Removes our Rights

I feel that many will not agree that an international agreement written with the express purpose of protecting human rights could possible be responsible for the removal of rights, how could it be that this is possible.
Well what exactly are basic human rights; traditionally they are controls on those who govern us on their ability [...]

Lisbon Treaty Infection Spreads

Only in Brussels would the word Democracy by synonymous with an infectious disease; after the French and Dutch voted against the Constitution the series of referendums was halted to prevent the infection of rejection spreading to other countries. With the single exception of Luxemburg perhaps the most pro EU state where there was a massive [...]

Thank You Mr Scott

Telegraph
Mr Brown would like us to adopt the Second World War spirit, to see the nation through the current crisis. I suspect such a spirit was easier to achieve when the enemy was on the other side.
Peter Scott

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