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Gordon Brown accused the SNP of a “transparent attempt to manipulate the political system for purely partisan political purposes”.
Gordon Brown won’t let England and Scotland split - Telegraph
Pot Kettle Black Lisbon Treaty!
This From John Redwood
The Prime Minister should grasp that the biggest constitutional threat to the Union come from EU developments. English people are [...]

The Local election headlines tell the story of a Conservative surge, a hammering for Labour and a I do not know how such an important subject, one that directly affects every other area of government power and authority can be considered to be nothing more than a minority interest, gentle slide for the LibDems, although [...]

The problem the conservatives have and will continue to have unless they can square the EU circle is One thing is for sure the EU is not going to undo 30 years of integration just to please David Cameron epitomised by of all people Labour MEP and arch federalist Richard Corbett in a letter to [...]

Lord Tebbit trying to help Dave Cameron, suggests he might like to do some sums, in a letter to the Telegraph this morning he says;
The Conservative party of today is trying to find a place for itself within a basically socialist structure,
The figures are clear. At the last election that Labour lost, in 1992, Neil [...]

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, [...]

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

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 [...]

On my desk I have a letter form my own MP who tells me the Conservative party believes that elected representatives should not give up the powers they were elected to wield without asking the people who first elected them. In the modern world, where people want power and control over their lives to deny [...]

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

  The subversion of democracy

Today Jack Straw, Secretary for Justice, is consulting throughout the country on a statement of values that define British citizenship and on the case for a full British bill of rights and duties setting out rights and obligations for all citizens.
Is he going to be using the telephone ; internet or has Santa loaned him [...]

Good one from Eurosoc
Because the British grumble about the number of asylum seekers in the country (and, more regularly, the hopeless failure of the government to sort out the deserving from the chancers), an outsider could be forgiven for thinking that as a nation, we dislike the idea of allowing foreigners onto our little [...]

Oh goody he is going to repeal the 1972 act of admission to the EU begin the rebuilding process of our nation state. He intends to return the power to run this country to our government the power to hold our government to account to our parliment and the power to elect our own government to the people of this country. Now that is a simple plan that should be at the heart of anyone standing for election as leader of a nation state.

John Redwood has replied to some comments about abolishing the regions;

I want to see all unelected regional government abolished.
The Conservatives will not be abolishing the three elected regional governments in the UK that have been endorsed by referendum, nor the elected tier in Northern Ireland if that is in operation.
The fact that Brussels likes regional [...]

“We are convinced that devolution and multi-level governance are among the best routes towards European integration,” the Rome declaration states.

“We are determined to support the heads of state and government in bringing the constitutional process and the necessary reform…to a rapid conclusion, without losing the ground gained by and for local and regional authorities.”

Doing a bit of Surfing based on my own draft folder in which I put links that to posts and article and sites which grab my interest, I came across this letter on the Labour Movement for Europe Site
Written by an Administrator and subsequently locked to prevent any chance that someone might [...]

According to Le Figaro, Nicolas Sarkozy has said that a “simplified treaty” would be necessary for the correct “functioning of the institutions” of the EU.
 
He explained that the abolition of national vetoes in EU decision-making was essential, arguing that “It is inconceivable that a single member state, indeed even two, should be able [...]

“most people in the UK strongly oppose a federal EU state. We are fed up with the continual power grab by Brussels, and the dissimulation by this government as they give more and more power away.”

Under the headline Ukip pledges not to fight Eurosceptic MPs the Telegraph builds a story on the fact that Nigel Farage wrote to all MPs to announce that he would no longer field candidates against proven Eurosceptics. The kicker comes in the final paragraph where it states “MPs would have to demonstrate their Eurosceptic credentials [...]

There are many who belive that only way out of the mess Tony Blair has made of the British Constitution is the creation of a separate English parliament, give more power to the Scottish Parliament and to the Welsh Assembly which would then become the Welsh parliament, and then to create a smaller federal style [...]

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Old-fashioned MPs
Sir – Are MPs harder working than they were in the Fifties, Sixties or Seventies? My husband, Richard Wood, later Lord Holderness, elected in 1950, was paid a small salary, received a first-class railway ticket to and from London and his constituency and nothing else. He paid for his accommodation in [...]