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 [...]

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 [...]

Do not tell the Irish

The commission is not expected to mention the New EU council president’s salary in its first budget draft for fear of upsetting the current ratification process of the EU treaty – particularly in Ireland which is to have a referendum.

Does it not strike anyone just how dishonest and manipulative this sort of thing is?

The effects of EU Citizenship part 1

Those who would suggest that the EU is not destined to become the United States of Europe as originally envisioned by the founding fathers of the project, might like to answer one simple question. If that were not the case, then why on earth do we continually have new treaties thrust upon us? No sooner [...]

The Road to nowhere an EU of Nation States

The Conservative party are echoing the views of many when they say they want to work to create a different direction for the EU. They say they would like an EU of Nation States, an EU that respects the existing national boundaries and has fewer areas of competence, and an EU that actually adds value, [...]

EU propaganda in our Schools

The British Education Act expressly prohibits political indoctrination by banning the teaching of partisan political views and by requiring that political issues are presented in a balanced manner.
Section 406 of the Education Act 1996 clearly states that local education authorities, school governing bodies and head teachers
shall forbid the promotion of partisan political views in the [...]

For the benefit of Scotland

The Scottish fishermen are concerned about a proposal from the European Commission. That would allow the Commission to give any unused fishing quota from one country to another.
It is felt that the industry which has already suffered a reduction of more than 50% of its capacity because of the Common Fisheries Policy would be further [...]

Not Secret Just Informal

The EU propaganda Minister seems to be spinning a line in her latest post on her blog she implies that the British press is lying in reports about the Council Presidents Plane, Palace and Staff.
The post is not clear about the facts ie, is the press right to state that the president will have [...]

The Way we are governed

Two very good posts explaining how the EU is government Britain
The Way we are goverened
The Limits of Power

Britain No Constitution?

It is claimed that Britain has no written constitution. We often hear quoted the doctrine ‘No parliament may bind its successor’. Today most often it is used to imply that there are no constitutional obligations limiting Parliament’s power.
If this were true there would be no constitution and the sovereignty of Parliament would be unlimited.
The reality [...]

Britian Leading in the EU

Well good for Mr Brown fighting for the power to make make our own laws in our own parliament! oddly I thought we gave them that power when we elected them, still if they do not want the power to make our laws one is entitled to ask what possible reason could [...]

Concern expressed over EU Democracy

President of the EU Commission is very concerned about Democracy freedoms and the wishes of the people.
EU chief concerned about Zimbabwe election delay
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says he is very concerned by delays in the release of results of Zimbabwe’s presidential election. He told reporters in Brussels that one thing [...]

Did the EU ever have the will

Kissinger believes EU losing will to go to war
PARIS – The reluctance of Europe’s leaders to risk soldiers’ lives in Afghanistan is rooted in the emergence of the European Union and the decline of nationalism and patriotism here, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger argued in an essay published Tuesday.
I have not read this [...]

Road Pricing back on the agenda soon

Remember the government road pricing scheme that was all the rage last year, but was then suddenly and quietly dropped for no good reason. Well I can confidently predict that it will soon be removed from back burner.
News today EU Transport Ministers gave their final approval for the Galileo satellite navigation project almost ensures that [...]

The EU Bannana Myth

Both the BBC and the Guardian report on the WTO rulling that the EU Bannana import regime breaks international trade rules. Because the rules block imports from Ecuador.
But this cannot be the EU argues that when our press point out the EU has rules governing bannanas that they are perpetrating a myth.

A Declaration of interests from EU Referendum

  EU Referendum
Recipients of extremely handsome pensions from the EU, that is former Commissioners and MEPs, do not have to declare their pecuniary or any other interests when speaking in praise of the European project. It is worth recalling that the EU has the right to withdraw that pension, should any recipient make a [...]

Windfall for Power Generators

A new report of a study for the WWF this morning detailing the windfall profits to power companies from the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) the EU’s flagship market-based mechanism for a progressive reduction of carbon emissions.
Power companies in Spain, Italy, Germany, Britain and Poland are all set to make massive profits from their gifts [...]

A Fundimental Right

A strange thought process is alive and well in Nulabour, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is just the latest to conflate basic negative human rights with a governments duty to protect its citizen or subjects in our case, the concept of universal human rights and the later added concept of state donated social rights.
Home [...]

An ever expanding EUniverse

Elmar Brok MEP, EP Rapporteur on the Enlargement Strategy, sees a high degree of agreement with regard to its future implications.
The EEA model also offers a visible political and economic added value for ENP states but also for example with respect to their internal security. In addition, the EEA model provides an enormous flexibility as [...]

The EU Splashing our money about all over the place

The EU is to invest in operations of spas in the Asia-Pacific region by training up to 1,000 spa therapists over the next two years.
The programme has two key objectives. The first is to improve the business potential of 50 spa operators from each of the four participating countries by providing spa services that conform [...]

Just another term for Not democracy

The EU Propaganda Minister has now updated her Blog to cover yesterday’s announcement of a further Plan D initiative.
From the measures undertaken so far with Plan D and the measures intended with this new proposal one can safely conclude that all them are propaganda initiatives.
But according the spin Plan D was regarded it as a [...]

The opponents of party democracy

The opponents of party democracy
The story of how the party’s EU enthusiasts fixed the MEP selection process

  The subversion of democracy

I am against an EU Referendum

A comment on this blog has prompted me to argue against an EU wide referendum on the EU treaty, or anything else for that matter.
The EU treaty is called a treaty because it is an international agreement made between the member states, who are exercising their sovereign power.
The fact that EU treaties create a constitution [...]

EU news Links

“It’s too early to tell because the data is incomplete, but it looks like there’s been maybe a 1% rise in emissions in 2007 compared to 2006,”
Oh well what do you expect!
European Commission authorises Polish State Aid for coal industry
Perhasps given the last item?
Belgium issues early veto against Blair bid [...]

Another load of our money goes on EU propaganda

The EU propaganda minister has just announced the Commissions new propaganda initiative is to be launched with a budget of €7.2.

Debate Europe is part of the commission Plan D a propaganda programme started to boost the EU public image after the Constitution was voted down in 2005.

The propaganda minister said the idea was [...]

EU Soldiers Accused of Torturing Civilians in Congo

The Swedish military has accused French soldiers of torturing civilians during the EU-led Operation Artemis in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003, one of the bloc’s first joint missions.
Five years ago, the European Union sent some 1,500 soldiers to DR Congo as part of a UN mission to take action against the bandits [...]

EU Funding of NGOs

NGO Monitor has released a draft report this week examining European Union (EU) funding of political NGOs in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The fifty page report, ‘Europe’s Hidden Hand’ reveals for the first time that between 2005 and 2007, the EU provided tens of millions of Euros from public money to NGOs whose activities directly contradict [...]

Exposed! Labours Immigratin Policy

In the last couple of days the Telegraph has printed two articles about the economic affairs committee of the House of Lords report into the impact of mass immigration.
Put together the reports total 1500 words, it is quite amazing that in all those words they could not find room for just two more “European [...]

The EU an Anti-democracy Organisation Part1

The EU an Anti-democracy Organisation

My standpoint of opposing the European Project is based on one single fundamental issue and that is the whole project is constructed on and supported by its being anti- democratic. Anti- democratic, because it is designed to remove the power of the people from any influence. Other than [...]

And in 1973, the UK joined the European Economic Community

And in 1973, the UK joined the European Economic Community

This week Gordon Brown launched a nation wide public debate on the British Constitution.

I say launched perhaps I should say re-launched because he was referring to the Governance of Briton a green paper published in July last year.

Having read [...]

A Meaningless Opt-out

What is the point of our government acquiring an opt-out from EU legalisation and then transforming our national laws to fall into exact alignment with the original EU legalisation?
It would be reasonable to assume that the opt-out was negotiated in the first place because the EU laws were not acceptable to our government, it [...]

Local community strongly Eurosceptic?

The letters page of my local newspaper the Shropshire Star has developed into a reasonable significant online community platform for debate on matters related to our government global warming and the EU.
The original letters slowly drop down the list over a period of a week or two as new letters are added, so [...]

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 [...]

MPs ought to pay for EU treachery

A little local problem
Shropshire Star
MPs voted not to give us a referendum on the EU Reform Treaty by 311 to 248, this is despite all three main parties promising a referendum.
Labour and the Lib Dems both claim that the EU Reform Treaty and EU constitution are different enough not to warrant a referendum – this [...]

Haha ever been had

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Someone has created a fake of my blog!
Following a Google Alert I was very surprised to find a replica of my blog, that someone has bizarrely gone to a lot of trouble making.
Quite who is behind this hoax is a complete mystery but I thought I should make it quite clear I [...]

MPs Break Contract of Employment

Daniel Finkelstein in the Times
Says, we pay for MPs. They are our employees. But how badly we treat them as we argue about trivia such as their expenses.
Is`nt it funny how the concept of English common law can be raised to protect MPs when it suits them to do so, but has no [...]

A factual error leads to a fallacy

Debate on Quaequam Blog
Which claimed the Constitution was 95% the same as the previous treaties.
A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning. This differs from a factual error, which is simply being wrong about the facts.

I will go into this a bit later, but first I would like to put [...]

Bloging problems and widgets

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, [...]

Iran Elections not free or fair says EU

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 [...]

A Simple Ambition for my Country

The leader of the Conservative Party proudly announced that he has a simply ambition for this country. It’s at the heart of what I believe, and what I believe our country needs.
Oh goody he is going to repeal the 1972 act of admission to the EU begin the rebuilding process of our nation state. [...]

Tory MEP defends trip to sons wedding

The Daily Mail reports that Tory MEP Sir Robert Atkins has been forced to defend his fact finding trip to the USA. His claim for £2,500 was approved by the EU parliament

I have a long-standing interest in US politics which goes back to 1972

That’s alright then, I have a long standing interest in New [...]

The Cenralisation of Knowledge

And moving swiftly on from any further debate about the Lisbon Constitution.
Already well entrenched in education the EU decides to step up its centralisation of education, information, and knowledge.
It has been agreed spring summit, that the EU should create a fifth freedom the Freedom of Knowledge to be added to the four original principles [...]

The EU Argument

Somebody recently wrote that the “Europhiliac” argument has not changed in over 35 years, perhaps because they have found it advantages to stick to the same few lines and keep repeating continually.
But first why “Europhilic” and not the more acceptable pro-EU or EU-supporter why the name calling. Well that really is more about the name [...]

Corbett Digging a Big Hole

Thanks to a tip by email from Josephine White, apparently there was big flare up involving the Europhile blogging MEP Richard Corbett ( I won`t link to his blog because he does not allow comments thus ensuring he can put across is own warped view without fear of contradiction)
Roger Helmer reports on his blog [...]

Reform of the EU is a Constant Reality

AH Ha! just as I wrote that NM (please excuse the initials but I simply cannot take seriously someone who calls himself Nose Monkey, and I believe that the issues he raises are serious) was convinced that the reform of the EU was a possibility, he comes up with a post in which he explores [...]

Referndum Monkey

I have been reading and exchanging some views with NM on his blog, Nose Monkey`s EUtopia my blog being almost dormant.

I should say that on many issues I do tend to agree with the views as presented on the blog, until that is it comes to the EU, there I am afraid [...]

The Charta of Fundamental Rights

I would suggest that you read Henry Porters article in the Observer http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/09/constitution

He argues thus:

this campaign against Britain’s historic rights and freedoms began at almost the precise moment the European Human Rights Convention was incorporated into British law as the Human Rights Act (HRA) in 1998. In other words, the HRA, a Bill [...]

Archaic at 23

Archaic at 23
The amusingly named lefty blog Obsolete written by someone who goes by the name of septicisle. Is claiming that although he? Has not read the Lisbon treaty—–

—-wait for it

“one of the few facts I am certain of is that there are two main important differences between the [...]

Time to close it down

As individuals, some MPs may be – and indeed are – admirable people. As a collective, they are a useless bunch of parasites who have colluded in their own abolition. All that remains is to do the decent thing and close down Parliament. Turn it into a museum by all means, but don’t waste our [...]

Why Europe’s National Politicians Sign Away National Sovereignty

Why Europe’s National Politicians Sign Away National Sovereignty
From Brussels Journal
Well worth reading for a good explanation of the problem we face, it is not only the EU but our own elected leaders who are scheming towards the destruction of our nation state.

Leading in the EU

Whilst Gordon Brown defends his signing of the EU Constitution / Treaty, claiming that there will be no more “institutional” changes for the next ten years, (as if that matters) The EU takes up the suggestion proposed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to set up a “reflection group” which is to look at [...]

The Oxy

Telegraph Letters reply to The Minister for the EU

Sir – I read with interest Mr Murphy’s assertion that 14 of the 50 extensions to majority voting contained in the so-called reform treaty are procedural “to improve EU efficiency”.
That has left me struggling to decide whether to use the word oxymoron to describe [...]

Perversion of British ministers

I see Jim Murphy Minister for Europe, is maintaining the historic perversion of British ministers who are quite happy to blatantly lie about EU treaties.

In the Telegraph Letters he actually argues;

“The reform treaty will lead to no transfer of power away from Britain” but just like Mr Heath he adds a [...]

Would Thatcher have backed the EU treaty?

Supporters of the EU are always keen to use the propaganda of the dead to promote the project, Churchill, for instance is always wheeled out in support of the cause, even though he is clearly on record as standing against.

This one though takes proverbial the biscuit; Roland Rudd Chairman of Business for New Europe [...]

Why so secretive?

To be clear about this treaty, there is a very strong movement to prevent an open debate about the effects of the treaty before it is ratified by the British parliament.
The consolidated text will not be published until after Brown has signed the treaty so there can be no real debate in parliament.

But by signing [...]

Dear Foreign Secretary,

Dear Foreign Secretary,
I write to explain why I shall be among thousands of angry and despairing British citizens attending the Referendum Rally in London on Saturday 27th October and [...]

Extra Holidays for MPs

The Scotsman reports that
“MPS are to get an extra week off at the end of this month – just weeks after coming back from their bumper three-month summer recess – because the government has run out of business.
Harriet Harman, the Commons leader, broke the good news to MPs yesterday, also outlining even more time [...]

Security Council Seat

Security Council seat
Sir – The replacement of our seat on the UN Security Council with a single EU seat (report, August 7) would seriously hamper our ability to form alliances with other non-EU nations or take unilateral action to defend British interests.
We could even find ourselves engaging in a conflict opposed by our [...]

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