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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 [...]

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 [...]

He cannot be serious, but I fear he is, Daniel Finckelstein opines in the Times that it is opinion polls and not local elections that count. He suggests that although that local elections matter locally they cannot be used as a barometer to the feelings of nation as a whole, because those who [...]

Emancipation
British politicians are members of political parties and a part of this association take up an off-hand attitude towards those of the social community they represent. In many cases the electorate are considered to have a limited role of electing them into office through a system managed, funded and manipulated in favour of political [...]

M&S ECJ
ECJ has said Marks & Spencer Group must prove it was discriminated against in U.K. law to win a refund of value-added tax it says was wrongly charged on its teacakes.
Did we not used to have a British High court

In a post The EU is turning Fascist The Midnight Sun argues our rights are being trampled and something I did not know that and will have to check later;
“As of last December, the power which I once had as a Deputy Lieutenant of London to order the troops on to the streets to [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

WOW!

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, [...]

Defence of the Realm
I must say I was a bit puzzled to understand how on earth a radio could have save a parachutist. Many thanks to Defence of the Realm for the explanation. That it probably would not have but training probably would have.

Yellow Swordfish
Macedonian beekeeper Zoran Kiseloski, has successfully [...]

I have been updating my blogroll this afternoon unfortunately it took a lot longer than it should because I got into reading instead of concentrating on creating the links, I have already fund one that need attention.
 
PJC Journal
In a free society, the rights and laws protect the individual from the government.
In a dictatorship, the [...]

The BBC Christmas Repeal
The Hunting Act with 52.8% European Communities Act : 29.7% which means that 52.8% of those who voted consider their sport more important than this countries sovereignty.
 
But perhaps it is a reminder for 2007 that if we are going to get anywhere we need to bury our differences and pull together all the separate [...]

Several Blogs have been investigating some of the media images of the recent Israeli attacks in Lebanon and have come to the conclusion that many of the images are at best stage managed.
One Routers photographer has already been dismised for manipulating images and some photographs have been withdrawn because of the questions about their authenticity.
The [...]

Graeme Wilson writes in the Telegraph that “The Tories attacked the BBC last night after it emerged that it has a £100 million loan deal with a European Union bank set up to promote European integration. 
 
The BBC confirmed last night that it had borrowed £25 million under the deal with the European Investment Bank [...]

A  report on the BBC’s the World Tonight attacked the Conservatives for planning to sit with Poland’s Law and Justice party in the European Parliament. The report explained: “Since David Cameron’s election as leader [...]

I have often stated that the BBC is and has always been pro EU, its output has constantly denied air time to a very large proportion of the British people who would wish to leave the Union, they (the BBC) have simply dismissed these people as a lunatic fringe. Perhaps we should all ask [...]