European Union and Westminster Politics
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 [...]
After Eastleigh if they are not running scared they are giving a very good impression, the glorious leader says they are not for lurching, but then we have John Redwood the Tories Eusceptic lightning rod suggesting a mandate referendum for a referendum, now Europhile Jesse Norman Hereford and South Herefordshire has visited Eutopia and did not [...]
David Cameron said the lowest common denominator in politics is to calculate the middle distance between your political opponents and then plant yourself somewhere between them, doing that -he said – will get you nowhere. It’s not about being Left-wing or Right-wing – it’s about being where the British people are. The right thing to [...]
According to a survey of 1,844 Tories -are there that many of them left ?- Only 7% think they can win the next election! As one commenter (aptly named Laughingboy) on Conservativehome.com put it -Thats rather high aint it, what do they base their optimism on???- In the past Year the number of those thinking [...]
Interesting post on Witterings from Witney perhaps arguing for the Harrogate Agenda proposes an intriguing insight when an MP gains Ministerial rank: When elected, a Member of Parliament becomes first a member of the Legislature, the body that is supposed to hold the government (the Executive) to account either by representing the majority view [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 the British Government will have to pay back up to £9 billion to companies with subsidiaries in other EU states whose dividends were taxed under advanced corporation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 largest [...]
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 Green Consultation Paper COM [...]
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, [...]
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 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 [...]
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 evidence [...]
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 [...]
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 their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 for [...]
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