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 [...]

Asylum

The British government say we will not remove anyone who we believe is at risk on their return. However, in order to maintain the integrity of our asylum system and prevent unfounded applications it is important that we are able to enforce returns of those who do not need protection.”
I think that most of us [...]

Reading the Blogs

There has been a lot of angst in the press about the refusal of the government to allow retired Ghurkhas the right to live in this country if they retired before 1997.
EU Referendum is compelled once again to point out the lack of understanding exhibited by the British media and even the leader [...]

Conservatives Plans at odds with EU ideals

John Redwood has a post ridiculing a glossy brochure sent to him and doubtless many others, by Margaret Hodge, entitled “Creating prosperity in every region: England’s Regional development” Agencies”.

“She tells us the RDAs help to bring prosperity to all parts of England. Nowhere does she point out that the reigonal disparities have grown substantially during [...]

House of Lords Reform

I am going to post my thoughts on Jonathan Freedland article in the Guardian about the reforom of the House of Lords, but first this e-mail from Anne Palmer
A thought provoking article on the proposed Lords reform by Jonathan Freedland and his desire for an all elected second chamber. I doubt very much that [...]

New Police Power Undermines Human Rights

Well it’s taken a couple of years but finally the British government have had to cave into the EU Commissions demand that the British people must be subjected to Random Breath Tests.
Even though giving our police this power undermines one of our basic rights; that strange concept of the Presumption of innocence.

Back in 2004 [...]

Scottish Referendum Question

Is the SNP offering something to Scottish electors that is not within the powers of the Scottish parliament.
Rodney Brazier Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Manchester in the Times
Sir, How could the SNP, if it had power in the Scottish Parliament, legally hold a referendum on independence? Under the Scotland Act “the Union of [...]

Pie in the Sky

Reported on Sky News The Tories have launched a fresh attack on Government red tape, claiming Labour has introduced a regulation an hour, a target a day and a tax rise a month.
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the figures, which showed there had been more than 30,000 new regulations, 3,000 targets and more than [...]

Soon only panty liners will have wings !!

In march An Englishman’s Castle noted that only one in Four new recruits to the Parachute Regiment are being trained to jump because of a shortage of planes. Today Documents leaked to The Sunday Telegraph reveal that no new recruits or even serving members of the Parachute Regiment or airborne forces will be trained in [...]

So Who Runs BritainIII

ECJ rules that UK can’t tax dividends on foreign subsidiaries of British firms – will cost Treasury up to £9billion
The European Court of Justice yesterday ruled that [...]

So who runs Britain II

Last week the Chancellor announced in his Pre-Budget Report that the Government would not repay tax “incorrectly” levied from more than six years ago.
Unfortunately this is a direct challenge to an earlier ruling by the ECJ, which laid down that such repayments should stretch back to 1973. The same court has made judgments in the [...]

EU Immigration Good For Britain?

In the main on this blog I have steered clear of immigration subjects, it is far too easy to be branded xenophobic or racist in order to undermine the real message.
However now I do so with the intention of pointing out the duplicity of the British governments handling of the issue of economic immigration from [...]

Immigration Lies

The statistics, published by the British Government on Tuesday (22 August), reveal that 447,000 workers from the eight eastern countries that joined the EU just over two years ago have applied to work in Britain – of these 427,095 have been approved.

As the biggest of the new member states, Poland also has the [...]

EU Maritime Policy

Why did the British need the EU Constitution to explain where the Falkland Islands stood as regards THEIR overseas territories. Did ‘todays’ people not understand why we went to war, or so many of our young people lost their lives in so doing?

Perhaps this re-inforces my reasoning re the EU’s [...]

Nothing More Than Hot Air?

There are two MSM articles that coincide with two separate themes this blog has referred to recently,
The first was in yesterdays Telegraph “There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998
By Bob Carter”
For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the [...]

Independence in Higher Education and Research

 Quite often we are offered academic reports and studies from diverse academic organisations, which carry with them the assurance that these are nothing more than impartial academic discourse.
This must be the case because they were prepared and presented by independent academics, whos only thoughts are to report honestly and fairly on their particular subject. Of [...]

ID Cards

From the letters page in the Times some voices of concern.
This ID card infringes fundamental freedoms
Sir, Most unusually, you have allowed yourself to be misled by the Government’s spin and misrepresentations concerning the ID Card Bill — principally by swallowing its contention that the privacy concerns of many people in the UK are “in [...]

When judges stand in the way of justice

In an Opinion piece the Telegraph argues that British Judges are standing in the way of justice.
When judges stand in the way of justice
Telegraph
Snip
Indeed, our judges seem to see it as their business always and everywhere to oppose repatriation orders – not just of illegal immigrants, but of known villains. The nine Afghan hijackers [...]

EU Defence Paper

EU Referendum is about the only place where you can get real information on the formation of the EU Army, the only other place I have seen any reference, is the Booker column in the Telegraph and Christopher Booker gets his information from the same source as Richard North, Here you can read the [...]

Dealing with Terrorists

Yesterday the IRA announced that ‘The leadership of Óglaigh na hÉireann has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign. All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. All Volunteers have been instructed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programmes through exclusively peaceful means. Volunteers must not engage in any other [...]

Regional Problems for the NE

Last year the government held the first of a series of planned referendums on elected regional assemblies, in the area they considered the easiest target, the North East. They had hopped that getting a yes vote in one area would create a domino effect and eventually all the EU designated English regions would have [...]

The over zealous

After all the big news about the EU Constitution and the British Rebate it is perhaps time to return, even if briefly to the real objections many ordinary people have against the EU and the absurd over-regulation imposed on them by central government.
As Government officials, acting on European regulations create new rules in an amendment [...]

A COMMON corporation tax

Eurealist :: Main Page: “View Article A COMMON corporation tax
by Eurealist on May 25, 2005 10:55AM (BST)
A COMMON corporation tax could be in place across Europe within three years, the EU Tax Commissioner predicted today. Laszlo Kovacs said those countries that currently opposed such a move, seeing it as an attack on their sovereign [...]

How to safeguard against the Constitution

Lord Owen writing in the Times suggests three ways to limit the damage of the EU Constitution in the event of a yes vote, the three methods he proposes are at the behest of our own government. The opportunity for improvement is presented by the Government’s European Union Bill. Intended to pave the way [...]

Working Time Directive

by Eurealist on May 12, 2005 09:58AM (BST)
Now that the EU Parliament has voted to remove the British opt out from the Working Times Directive against the will of the duly elected British Parliament, perhaps we should consider if the agreement reached at Maastricht should be repealed in the British parliament.
This might seem to be [...]

The Rose Tinted Glasses of Lord Haskins

“The Rose Tinted Glasses of Lord Haskins
by Eurealist at 11:28AM (BST) on May 2, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos
Christopher HASKINS, (Board member), Britain in Europe,
Not slow to miss an opportunity to don his rose coloured spectacles, Lord Christopher Haskins tells us in a letter to the Times “May 1, marks [...]

Why are the Conservatives so reluctant to play to their strengths

Eurealist :: Why are the Conservatives so reluctant to play to their strengths: “Why are the Conservatives so reluctant to play to their strengths
by Eurealist at 07:50AM (BST) on April 25, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos
William Rees-Mogg asks in the Times “Why this baffling silence?”
NEXT MONTH there will be historic [...]

Eurealist :: Conservative Party officially rejects British Constitution

Eurealist :: Conservative Party officially rejects British Constitution: “Conservative Party officially rejects British Constitution
by Eurealist at 05:15PM (BST) on April 14, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos
The British Declaration of Independence
54, Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RP
Press: 01661 843226 Office: 01291 621748
www.bdicampaign.org. Email: info@BDIcampaign.org
Many Thanks
for petitioning on the British Declaration of Independence [...]

The Beano Agency

The Beano Agency  
 

A new “Fundamental Rights Agency” to police European Union institutions and national governments for signs of racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination is being set up by the EU Commission.
It is to be based in Vienna, will have a mandate to monitor and “issue opinions” on whether rights enshrined in the [...]

The Pitfalls of EU Citizenship.

The Pitfalls of EU Citizenship.
The first application of the European Arrest Warrant to a German citizen, Mamoun Darkazanli, who is wanted on terrorism charges by a Spanish court, could be the catalyst which emasculates large parts of the European Union Law.
The German Constitutional Court is to launch an inquiry into whether EU law is compatible [...]

A Letter to the Minister for Europe

Address Removed
19.3.2005.
Dear Mr MacShane,
Re your Speech European Law and Integration.
Joining the then European Community believing it to be about trade and a free trade area is, according to you a “myth”. You quote various snippets from some of the debates in our [...]

Fools led by Liars II

I have received an email from Jonathan Dawid in response to my post here
I have posted it in full and also my reply….
Someone has pointed me in the direction of your resposne to my recent
letter in the Times. I am afraid that you have rather missed the
essential points of my letter (and my previous letters [...]

EU Constitution and the Metric Martyrs Judgment

Neil Herron: EU Constitution and the Metric Martyrs Judgment:
“To make sure that everyone understands what is being talked about, an explanatory note was added to the final version of the constitution duringthe closing stages of the negotiations.
It states: ‘The conference notes that the provisions of Article I-6 reflect existing Court of Justice case law.’
So there [...]

The cracks are starting to appear

The Sun Newspaper Online – UK’s biggest selling newspaper
With apologies to those who hate this paper The Sun has picked up on the comments of the Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, mentioned here yesterday.
“BRITAIN’S days as an independent country will soon be over, Spain’s foreign minister boasted yesterday.
Miguel Angel Moratinos said it is [...]

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
The British government is alone in portraying the EU Constitution in the way that it does, a glance across the English Channel will reveal a totally different appraisal of the proposals….
Hans Martin Bury, the German Minister for Europe, said “I think, the EU Constitution is the birth certificate of the United States of [...]

EU Harmonisation of legal systems

At a time when the fixed penalty system under attack because it assumes guilt before conviction, the British Government has now agreed that we peasants should no longer have protection from foreign countries fixed fine systems and will now actively assist other countries to collect their fixed fines.
Telegraph | News | New EU law means [...]

More rubbish half truths propaganda and Xenophobia

Patricia Hewitt, Mansion House Wednesday, 23 February, 2005
In the speech Hewitt claims “We listened very carefully to the views of business, trade unions and others before we negotiated the Constitution. We set out our objectives. And we achieved every one of them.”
With 275 amendments suggesting changes to the draft by the British government at [...]

So Who Is telling Porkies

So Who Is telling Porkies
As previously mentioned on this blog here and here the Constitution is being sold to each country on different and often conflicting bases, this means either they are talking about different documents or as Jack Frost would say somebody it telling porkies.
As noted on E U Referendum the Times has now [...]

Confidence Tricks and Half Truths

Europhobia has picked up on Austin Mitchell’s Website “Government is smuggling through a constitution the people don’t want by an incomprehensible Bill”
The Bill is being rushed through before the election. Only three days are allowed for the committee stage on the floor of the House. Much of that will deal with the referendum not the [...]

The Offensive Jack Straw 11

The Offensive Jack Straw 11
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw attacked the Conservatives’ position on Europe on Tuesday, saying its policy of rejecting the treaty with a view to renegotiating it was “fantasy”.
“Claiming that Britain can accept the bits of being an EU member it likes, and withdraw from all the others, is not a serious policy,” [...]

THE BASIC PROBLEM

The Anglo Saxon Chronicles returns to the central objection against the EU, in it recent post “Why Britain is Different” it argues aginst the proposition that all the nations of western Europe have a common identity, and therefore should be unified into one political, legal and economic entity under a supranational state. This is often [...]

The Pro Argument

I will answer some points in this later but feel that is should be on the main page rather than comments.
Seriously? Now I can’t give you any specifics here, but I’ve got the impression that most times the BBC holds any kind of EU based debate they generally call in people from the two furthest [...]

Blair! UK can still set Asylum Laws!

Tony Liar Blair has rejected claims that Labour has given up the UK’s powers to set its own asylum laws, saying that Ministers had not given up the UK’s right to set its own laws and control its own borders.
Now I wonder how he can square that with the intervention from the EU Commision on [...]

Now who are the turkeys?

Now who are the turkeys?
Loose the Delusion has suggested that because the Foreign Office mandarins are full on Europhiles, this somehow confirms the idea that our foreign Policy is going to remain a power of the British Government.
Arguing that the loss of Sovereignty over Foreign Policy would mean the department would become surplus to requirements [...]

So Who Rules Britain?

So Who Rules Britain?
The EU Commision has confirmed that Britian is no longer a sovereign country, and that our Constitution has already been destroyed by our membership of the EU. The British people no longer have the power to elect a government they want to run the country. If this or any government can sign [...]

Government Funding for the Yes Vote

For some time now I have had on several occasions to differ with Pro Europeans about the governments rights or otherwise of using public money to promote a yes on the constitution.
For some reason any thoughts of fair play goes out of the window when this subject is aired. It has been suggested that the [...]

Bloody wrong

At the heart of Europe By Daniel Hannan
Bloody cheek – they’ve only been here two minutes
Daniel Hannan Conservative MEP for the South-East Region and arch Tory Eusceptic writes today in the Telegraph in his usual spot “At the heart of Europe” This week Hannan is defending the British rebate “In a random survey of 30 [...]

Quotes!

Quotes!
I did not expect that this particular pro European would try to argue against the words of such a leading light in the European movement as Monnet. So I was to say the least, a little surprised to find the old argument resurrected because it has been disproved so many times, not by Eusceptics but [...]

A ‘rapid reaction farce’

A ‘rapid reaction farce’
A group of MEP`s have decided to take it upon themselves to set up a ‘rapid reaction force’ run by MEP`s to try and put an EU spin on the European Constitution debate.
They claim the right to interfere in internal referendums too, in their words defend the Constitution because no European government [...]

Xenophobic Swivel Eyed Loons

Loose the Delusion interestingly but not surprisingly is suggesting that typical Eusceptics are hypocrites! I don’t know if that is an improvement on “Slant Eyed Loons but they do say that when they descend to insults they have already lost the argument. If a post is peppered with insults then it surely means that an [...]

It`s Not Our Fault Honest Guv!

The EU Commision is again promoting its Euromyth policy, they have launched a new web site Get Your Facts Straight paid by our taxes, in a clear attempt to create an argument against those who question the very basis of EU control of the our lives, apparently this putsch is supported by the British government, [...]

Re-Writing the Constitution

EU Referendum on news today in both the Independent and the Guardian that the treaty will have to be re-written if Turkey is ever allowed in the Union.
Although GISCARD D’ESTAING would like his monument to EU integration to stand for fifty years, as a mark of his undoubted self beatification there is absolutely no chance [...]

British Rebate

The pressure is on for Britain to give up its rebate which with increased costs would put up our Contribution by five billion according to the Times which reports on Dalia Grybauskaite, the European Budget Commissioner, who told The Times that unless Britain and other big EU countries increased their payments to Brussels over the [...]

Prophecies of Hunger and Pestilence.

Road to EU Surfdom
John Palmer, Political director of the European Policy Centre, an EU think tank, is bearing prophecies of hunger and pestilence.
Of course a referendum in Britain may still produce a no vote, even if everyone else has agreed to ratify, and even if all the candidate member states are also in favour. [...]

Few sparks of hope

Times Letters
Sir – It is unquestionably a good move to squeeze out cowboy workmen, but the new wiring regulations are likely to cause many competent sole-trader electricians to give up in despair.
Even an electrical tradesman who can prove a near-lifetime of experience backed by a City & Guilds qualification and/or an NVQ, plus retraining where [...]

Our Common Law Constitution

Dear Lord Dobs,
With reference to your Private Members Bill to make provision about succession to the Crown and about Royal Marriages.
I write to convey my great concern and objection to any alteration or repeal of any part of our Common Law Constitution. You site the Act of Settlement, which is of course what it says [...]

“Active European citizenship”

“active European citizenship”
Tracing the money the EU Commision is spending on Propaganda is like trying to find your way through a maze, not even the UK Select Committee on European Scrutiny seems to have much, luck by the time they get to ask questions of ministers there seems to be a very short amount of [...]

Reading the Runes

Thank you to Martin Cole at Ironies for the link to the Yorkshire post and more from our very own EU Propaganda Minister Denis xenophobe MacShane.
The Yorkshire Post feature
“Reading the runes for 2005”To celebrate the dawn of a new year, we asked a collection of writers to look into their crystal balls to offer a [...]

We pay the EU for its Citizenship Goals

“The EU Commission is conducting a consultation to receive input regarding the priorities of the next community action programme to promote active European citizenship.” The Commission has launched an online consultation to receive input from citizens and interested organisations for the next action programme aiming to promote active European citizenship.”
“The current programme runs out on [...]

The EU arrest Warrant

The EU arrest Warrant entered into force in January 2004 in eight EU member states – Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK. However, several other states have been very slow to adopt it.
Perhaps the President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus had a good reason that others are reluctant to give [...]

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