An absolutely fantastic speech by Christopher Booker to the Bruges Group fringe meeting, at the Tory Party Conference, Bournemouth. You can read the full speech on Eureferendum For my money Booker should be on the main central stage in Bournemouth, the “Not the Conservative Party” really needs to hear this time and time again, until [...]
Shocking ban on New Zealand butter
July 18, 2006 By
Sir – It is shocking that the European Commission has been able to impose a ban on New Zealand’s exports of butter to the European Union. In view of our close historical ties with our cousins across the world, this has big historical resonance. So important is butter to the New Zealand economy that, when [...]
Only Half the Truth
July 13, 2006 By
Like Regional Assemblies, HIPs have nothing whatsoever to do with the EU. Oh, and I saw Heath on TV a few years ago, arguing on the same lines as Yvette Cooper, below, about metrication – it was nonsense to suggest that it had anything to do with Brussels, because we started before we joined the [...]
Labour assault on constitution
September 18, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Christopher Booker’s Notebook Sunday Telegraph 18th September 2005 Ministers are said to be so alarmed by the latest twist in the row over the legality of automatic penalties – the billions of pounds raised each year by parking fines, penalties for late tax returns and so forth – that they are considering emergency legislation. This [...]
EU Defence Paper
August 8, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Regional Problems for the NE
July 17, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Why we should vote for them?
February 20, 2005 By Leave a Comment
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle Christopher Booker reports in the Telegraph today, on an interesting story as to why the wife of a British citizen is unable to practice dentistry in the UK. Read the full story here The reason given by the junior health minister Rosie Winterton; Not my fault guv, honest, “its all down [...]
The Privileged EU Elites
February 13, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Telegraph | News | Christopher Booker’s notebook Also from Booker Diplomatic “immunity extends to Eurocrats” We have in Britain a rule of law which states we are all equal under the law that means that everybody no matter how high they may be are subject to the law of the land. This concept of freedom [...]
Bill of Rights and Illegal fines
February 13, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I find this fascinating, it rather goes to the heart of the basic freedoms we have always enjoyed in this country and which are being infringed by governments who feel they can remove our rights simply because they gained more votes at an election than another political party. I have heard that several motorist have [...]
“the caterers are on high alert”
January 2, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Telegraph | News | Christopher Booker’s notebook America rises to the challenge There was a striking contrast between the initial American response to the tsunami catastrophe and that of the EU. Although President Bush came under fire for promising “only $35 million” (subsequently multiplied by 10), the more immediate US response was entirely practical. Two [...]
No EU Army! we must Barmy!
December 19, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Christopher Booker in the Telegraph has a section about the restructuring of the British Army into new regiment formations of 1500, men thus destroying the traditional British and Scotish regiments. Also they are eventually to be equipped with electronically-linked vehicles known collectively as the Future Rapid Effects System (FRES). The reason we are not being [...]
When politicians Break Their Own Laws
November 28, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Telegraph | News | Christopher Booker’s Notebook: Christopher Booker in the Telegraph asks the question who will arrest the “Who arrests the Prime Minister for this crime? A rather outrageous suggestion one may think, but one that is very much in the thoughts of many of us, as we see our politicians continually breaking, not [...]
What is the point of the European Union?
November 2, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Richard North at EU referendum points to Lord Pearson`s latest document which is called What is the point of the European Union? Dr North says it is a “brief summary of our relationship with ‘Brussels’ including the case for the United Kingdom to leave the EU, and the case to stayâ€. I must admit that [...]
“Who paid for the Ministers to speak as Labour Party Members?”
October 17, 2004 By Leave a Comment
The real North East No Campaign is keeping up the pressure on the government which seem incapable of obeying even its own electoral rules. Tony Blair is so frightened of loosing the first of his referendums on regional assemblies, that with only a few weeks to go before the people have a chance to decide [...]
Prescott flouts democratic rule
October 17, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Christopher Booker’s Notebook: “Prescott flouts democratic rule John Prescott is so keen to secure a Yes vote in next month’s referendum on an elected regional assembly for the North-East that, last week, he and two other ministers, Gordon Brown and Peter Hain, were out on the campaign trail. (As Mr Brown put it in Newcastle, [...]
Not even the Electorial Commission can find NESO
October 3, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Telegraph | News | Christopher Booker’s Notebook: “The invisible official campaign” With only a month to go before the North-East’s referendum on an elected regional assembly, the disastrous result for the Conservatives at the Hartlepool by-election again highlights the curious decision by the Electoral Commission to designate as the official ‘No’ campaign a group known [...]
A Little Local Difficulty
September 28, 2004 By Leave a Comment
A Little Local Difficulty Here I make no apologies for returning to this subject it is a subject of vital national importance. When a commission set up by the government to supposedly act independently have this much power to direct the outcome of a referendum, in a way that supports just one side, we should [...]
Euro lies
September 12, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Telegraph | News | Christopher Booker’s Notebook: “The not-so-great debate” It is often said you can tell a politician is lying when you see his lips move, this is never more so than when they are talking about the EU. I never cease to be amazed at the lies, misrepresentations and half truths Europhile politicians [...]
