EU Referendum on news today in both the Independent and the Guardian that the treaty will have to be re-written if Turkey is ever allowed in the Union. Although GISCARD D’ESTAING would like his monument to EU integration to stand for fifty years, as a mark of his undoubted self beatification there is absolutely no [...]
EU exit
May 18, 2013 By
Sir – While the group with which Conservative MEPs align themselves in the European Parliament is important, the more pressing issue surely has to be that roughly two thirds of all laws that take effect in this country come from Brussels, not Westminster. It is very helpful that David Cameron allows backbench Conservative MPs to [...]
EU Foreign Minister
May 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Tiscali Europe – Home: “An EU Foreign Minister ‘Lowest common denominator’ or ‘all to play for’” Many feel that the most innovative and radical part of the European Constitutional Treaty is the creation of the position of Foreign Minister of Europe, a position that has already been assigned to Javier Solana, the current High Representative [...]
Behind Closed Doors
May 4, 2013 By
We do not understand why the former Home Secretary should have apparently agreed with other G6 ministers to press forward with the “availability” principle and disregard data protection issues. This is contrary to the decision of the Member States in the Hague Programme, contrary to the advice of independent data protection authorities, inconsistent with what [...]
Public Funding of Political Parties
May 4, 2013 By 1 Comment
The Power Report suggests that each voter should tick a box on their ballot paper to allocate £3 pounds of state money (our taxes) to the party of their choice. Neil Harding comments that if they don’t want the state to give a party any money, they don’t tick any box. This is totally up [...]
Britian Leading in the EU
May 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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 there be for [...]
The Madness and Badness of the EU
May 4, 2013 By
Hair Dye and Soft Soap I was listening to Gardeners Question Time on the BBC this week, one reply was; that although a weak solution of soft soap sprayed onto roses would get rid of an aphids, as soft soap was not an EU recognized insecticide its use would be illegal. This is one of the problems [...]
Hurd welcomes new realism on EU from Cameron
April 29, 2013 By
In a letter to the FT Douglas Hurd argues that “David Cameron, with his colleagues, certainly understands that the tide of opinion in the European Union, including part of the European Commission, has swung in favour of liberal reform. (This has been clear to some of us for 15 years.) Like all compromises, his [...]
A Meaningless Opt-out
April 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
What is the point of our government acquiring an opt-out from EU legislation and then transforming our national laws to fall into exact alignment with the original EU legislation? 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 is certainly the [...]
Conservatives half-brained over the EU
April 26, 2013 By
It looks as if the Conservatives are at it yet again; they do seem to live in a dream world in which the EU does not exist and can therefore be ignored, because the EU is a constant source of conflict within the party, the Conservative leadership wish it not be above the political horizon [...]
The Way we are governed
April 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Two very good posts explaining how the EU is government Britain The Way we are goverened The Limits of Power Originally posted 2008-04-11 11:28:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
A Whole New Can of Worms
April 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Parking and Traffic Appeals Service is facing yet another challenge under the Bill of Rights, this time it has been submitted by a solicitor. Solicitor Frank Rayner, Is not disputing the facts of the case, he is instead claiming that the Transport for London`s attempt to impose a penalty charge(s) is unlawful, on the [...]
Thinking oustide of the Box
April 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Anatole Kaletskysays the Dave’s not the Tory party “The Conservative Party has not just moved to the left, abandoning Margaret Thatcher and leapfrogging Tony Blair and Gordon Brown on to what David Cameron described as the liberal, progressive mainstream of British politics. No, the Cameron project appears to be far more audacious. He is trying [...]
A Conflict of Rights
April 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Within the next few months Sexual Orientation Regulations, are to be introduced following the EU Equality Act 2006, this will make it an offence for anyone providing goods, services, facilities, education or public functions to discriminate on the grounds of sexual orientation. But the Equality Act also outlaws discrimination on the grounds of religion or [...]
Codifying to Control
April 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
. Although the Charta gives so called human rights it gives conflicting human rights. Because it is based on a particular left wing secular view of the world and grants one set of rights, it therefore demands the subjugation of other rights and these rights are contradictory. How for instance can the right of freedom of religion be equated with the right of freedom of sexual discrimination, if that is to be interpreted to mean that because every woman has the right to an abortion, every Doctor must assist her in obtaining an abortion, where every homosexual has the right to stay in any B&B even if it is owned an run by a confirmed Christian or Muslim fundamentalist.
“It’s Time We Governed Ourselves”
April 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE FROM THE U.K. INDEPENDENCE PARTY Office of Graham Booth, M.E.P. Member for South West Counties “It’s Time We Governed Ourselves” Geoff Hoon, the latest Minister for Europe believes that we should have another “debate” ( * ) about the EU, so that the people of the UK can learn to [...]
Consumer rights day
March 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I did not know that there was such a thing as “consumer rights’ day” The Brussels Journal Chresten Anderson Today the Austrian EU Presidency is organising the 8th European Consumer Day, in cooperation with the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). The date marks US President John F. Kennedy’s declaration to the US Congress [...]
Local community strongly Eurosceptic?
March 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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 eventually [...]
Windfall for Power Generators
March 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Plain English
January 22, 2009 By 3 Comments
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 [...]
An Exchange of Letters
January 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Throw Away Lines
January 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
House of Lords debates
January 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Do not tell the Irish
April 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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
April 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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
April 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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
April 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
For the benefit of Scotland
April 12, 2008 By 2 Comments
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 [...]
Not Secret Just Informal
April 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Britain No Constitution?
April 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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. [...]
