The EU an Anti-democracy Organisation Part2

Why do I say the EU is anti-democratic, it is worrying that so many do not know or do not care about basic democratic principals that the question could even be posed – Abraham Lincoln defined the fundamental characteristic of democratic government in his Gettysburg address;

it must be – of the [...]

Why we do not need an English Parliament

The short answer is because the Labour party would loose influence over England because they would never gain a majority in an English Parliament. And it would make Westminster even more redundant that it already is, if that were possible.
But Helen Goodman decided to opt for the longer answer in her reply to a [...]

British Parliament Controls EU Legislation Not

Phillip Johnston Home Affairs Editor of the Telegraph has an article in Mondays edition on how measures of constitutional significance are handled in the British Parliament. One might wonder exactly what Mr Johnston has been doing with his time if he has only just realised the impact our membership of the EU and the way [...]

My 50 Reasons to loathe the EU

On this day when the Euro enthusiast are gathering to celebrate the 50th birthday of the European Project by patting themselves on the back for a job well done, whilst in the real world the real people of the European nation states have indicated in recent polls that they are not as enthused with the [...]

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 [...]

It`s in the details

The presiding officer of the Welsh assembly has said that devolution in England would help deliver a “United Kingdom in a united Europe.”
Lord Elis-Thomas said giving people in England a similar say in their domestic affairs would help achieve a more secure constitutional settlement.

“There should be a proper English parliament, and that [...]

Brussels Bureaucrats Eat Babies

Richard Corbett up to his usual histrionic verbalistic form in his post about the affect of the new EU driving licence, which must be renewed every 10 years. nb.I do not link to Corbett because he is far to grand to  allow comments,
He complains of the Express and Mail’s predilection for publishing at [...]

The Gangplank

EUOBSERVER reports 

EU parliament MEPs have reacted furiously to a UK parliament report which questions the right of the European Parliament to make laws on criminal and police matters due to the fact that most of its members are non-British.

Which is not quite the point made by the report but this slight myth is [...]

Now England wants its independence!

Very strange polling results in the Telegraph,
“an ICM opinion poll for The Sunday Telegraph has found. Independence is backed by 52 per cent of Scots while an astonishing 59 per cent of English voters want Scotland to go it alone.”
68 percent of English voters and 58 per cent of Scottish voters support for [...]

Such a Grotesque Proposal

The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill completed its committee stages in the Commons last Thursday and, despite a spirited counter-offensive by Opposition MPs, remains largely intact as one of the most pernicious measures to have come before a British parliament.
The Bill would empower any minister by order to make provisions amending, repealing or replacing any [...]

The English Question

The English Question
Thanks to the Blog Great Britian not Little England for the link to this report from Publius: The Journal of Federalism by Robert Hazell.
Devolution to Scotland and Wales throws up related questions about the government of
England. Does England need to find its own separate political voice? Does England too need devolution? There [...]

And on the Third Day

EU constitution is dead, says Dutch minister,
Federalist hopes of reviving the draft European Union constitution were snuffed out yesterday when the Dutch foreign minister, Bernard Bot, said the treaty was “dead”.
He swept away months of euphemisms and half-truths, as European leaders struggled to avoid being the first to declare an end to the [...]

The Exit Clause and British Sovereignty

This from appeared in the Scotsman this morning and was sent by e-mail from Dr Cooper with a note above the letter.
Mrs Rolls writes very anti-EU good letters, but I have to disagree with her on this. The editor has deleted “Irrespective of the pretensions of the European Court of Justice” which I had put [...]

Wake up America !

Thanks to Dr Cooper who sent this to me by email and said;
Many people in Washington still haven’t woken up, apparently. Like Mr Pantucci, with his letter in the Independent yesterday.
Business Platform
Washington still blind to true nature of the EU
By : John Blundell
January 08, 2006
HISTORY is little but an inventory of errors. Even the [...]

An Open Letter

Some Conservatives are at last beginning to get the message, that the way back into power in not to offer a pale imitation of NU-Labour but to return to basic Conservative policies and to ground those in the national interest founded on self-government and the supremacy of the British Parliament duly elected by the British [...]

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 [...]

Cheese UKIP and Voting

Eurealist :: Main Page: “Cheese UKIP and Voting
by Eurealist on May 5, 2005 08:54AM (BST)
To call me a wavering voter is something of an understatement with 13 hours to go before the polls close, I still have not decided who to vote for, or even if I will vote for anyone.
My LibDem incumbent MP, whose [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Are we fools led by liars?

A letter in the Times from a certain Jonathan Dawid takes William Rees-Mogg to task for discussing the EU Constitution
Are we fools led by liars? February 28, 2005
“WHO’S GOT it right? The German Minister for Europe, Hans Martin Bury, or the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, Jack Straw? Last week Herr Bury told [...]

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 [...]

Direct EU Taxation

Direct EU Taxation.
The FOC “Myth Series” states clearly that “We control tax and social security”
The Government negotiated successfully to keep a national veto over tax proposals. Social Security proposals are subject to an effective veto through a national ‘emergency brake’ mechanism allowing any Member State to refer a proposed law to the European Council (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,” [...]

Government is a Closed Loop

A thought provoking post from The Anglo Saxon Chronicle subject “The British Monarchy within a Federal Europe”
There seems to be a general misunderstanding about the British system and an inclination from Pro EU pundits to either dismiss or just ignore the questions that need to be addressed as more of the power of self- government [...]

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 [...]

Lord Kinnock of Brussels

Lord Kinnock of Brussels
Lord Kinnock who is now a member of the British House Lords and has a new role of overseeing the British Parliament and protecting the British Constitution is getting confused with his old job when he was under oath to only work for the EU Commision.
Kinnock of course receives a nice fat [...]

Tracing the development of the Union power.

How the EU system works against democracy and a member state government.
Declarations and Preambles are important because these are used to extend the power of the Union beyond the treaty agreements.
The European Union Treaty introduces a new and decisive stage in the process of [the] European Union which within a few years will lead to [...]

Gold plated arguments

Loose the Delusion Gold plated arguments
As I have previously mentioned it is the little words we need to be watch out for; Loose the Delusion has grabbed a report from the British Chambers of Commerce to argue that the “New” 2002/3 regulations we are faced with are mainly from our own government and not [...]

The Fat Cats EU Club II

The Fat Cats EU Club II
Why Britain needs the constitutional treaty
To modernise the way Europe works, so it can advance our common interests more effectively while respecting national differences and becoming more accountable to its peoples.
1. Simpler – The treaty consolidates existing EU treaties into a single
document, simplifying and clarifying the rules of the European [...]

McConnell drums up support for English devolution

Neil Herron
McConnell drums up support for English devolution
HAMISH MACDONELL
The Scotsman
2nd November
SCOTTISH POLITICAL EDITOR
JACK McConnell warned voters in the north-east of England yesterday that they would put back the cause of devolution 25 years if they rejected plans for a regional assembly. The First Minister travelled to Newcastle to make a last-ditch appeal to voters to [...]

Demeaning the Lords

According to EU Referendum We are now blessed with two new Lords, both of our present Commissioners, Kinnock and Pattern have been sent to the House of Lords, aside from the fact that some small Island in the Outer Hebrides would be a better place to send them. Do these people not have to swear [...]

More MPs than we need, say Tories

Telegraph :
“More than 100 MPs could be ousted from the House of Commons under cost-cutting proposals revealed yesterday by the Conservatives.
The plan would see the number of sitting members fall to about 550 from the current 659. With each MP costing more than £200,000 a year in salary, pension and expenses, the cut could save [...]

The spiralling costs of our MPs

In the news the cost of MPs! Apart from their £57,000 MPs are claiming extra expenses to the tune of on average £118,000, these expenses include costs to cover travel, run their offices and maintain second homes in their constituencies.

On top of this figure MPs are also entitled to a lump sum [...]

A Solemn Oath

A Solemn Oath
I mentioned the other day that Denis MacShane is very concerned about solemn treaty obligations he said “the Tory-Ukip would mean the UK would instantly be in breach of all its solemn treaty obligations, which would mean either massive fines or quitting the EU”
His concern is very commendable even though no government can [...]

Not in My Name

Not in my name
I forget where I stole most of this from but do extend my thanks to the person who did most of the work.
The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has forced EU citizenship on me, which is in breach of article 20 (2) of [...]

Four Rebuttals to the EU Fanatics

Four Rebuttals to the EU Fanatics

This piece and the following were based on a speech FIVE REBUTTALS TO THE EU CONSTITUTION FANATICS delivered by Philippe de Villiers, Member of the French National Assembly, and President of the Movement for France (MPF), to the “Rally for a Referendum”, held by the Congress for Democracy on [...]

Three Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb

EU Referendum: “Three bald men�
Clearly intrigued by the spectacle of two bald men fighting over a comb (see previous Blog), Lib-Dim MEP Christopher Huhne has joined in the spat between Bill Cash and Digby Jones over parliamentary scrutiny of EU legislation � to make three bald men fighting over a comb.
In a letter to The [...]

The Civil Contingencies Bill

The Civil Contingencies Bill
One of the reasons I am opposed to the European Union on offer, is that it is a Non democratic organisation, however it would be foolish of me to try to suggest that the EU is an outside organisation, imposing its will on an unwilling government in Westminster.
The fact is that Westminster [...]