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 [...]
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 [...]
A Declaration of interests from EU Referendum
April 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
EU Referendum Recipients of extremely handsome pensions from the EU, that is former Commissioners and MEPs, do not have to declare their pecuniary or any other interests when speaking in praise of the European project. It is worth recalling that the EU has the right to withdraw that pension, should any recipient make a [...]
Exposed! Labours Immigratin Policy
April 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
British Parliament Controls EU Legislation Not
April 3, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Phillip Johnston Home Affairs Editor of the Telegraph has an article in Mondays edition on how measures of constitutional significance are handled in the British Parliament. One might wonder exactly what Mr Johnston has been doing with his time if he has only just realised the impact our membership of the EU and the way [...]
In the Region of Propaganda
March 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
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 possibly inject [...]
House of Lords Reform II
February 28, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I said I was going to post on Jonathan Freedland article in the Guardian about the reform of the House of Lords, I do not intend to actually comment on Freedland`s article, except to say he is suggesting a fully elected house and use that as a springboard for my own thoughts. Although many belive [...]
House of Lords Reform
February 28, 2007 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
The West Lothian Question
December 14, 2006 By Leave a Comment
From Little Man in a Toque a letter to Sir Menzies Campbell who has only ever had one email on the West Lothian Question. westminster_office@mingcampbell.org.uk Who says the English do not want their own parliament that the English don’t want another layer of government that an English parliament would put the English off politics As [...]
Three Letters on MP Pay
December 7, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Telegraph 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 London [...]
The Saga of the Treason Act 1795
September 28, 2006 By 4 Comments
The Saga of “Treason Act 1795”. By Anne Palmer, 8.3.2005. As many of your are aware, I trail certain debates in our Parliament and also, from time to time, the European Parliament, and so it was on 17th November 2004 in a reply to Lord Tebbit’s question, “Whether, and if so by what statutory provision, [...]
Judge Humpty Dumpty decision to be challenged.
July 13, 2006 By
Latest News Release Metric Martyrs Defence Fund ‘Parking Fine Mess’ case now set for the Court of Appeal…Judge Humpty Dumpty’s decision to be challenged. A case came before the High Court 5th July last week, which could ultimately lead to every parking fine in the country being declared invalid…or, alternatively, the Metric Martyrs’ convictions being [...]
Why didnt they tell the Truth in 1972-5
May 18, 2006 By 3 Comments
I have no idea whether treason was committed in 1972/3 when we joined the then European Community, or at a later date, but the people were indeed told lie after lie on what the Community was about, it was “just a Common Market”, “about trade” and there would be “no loss of sovereignty”. Now we [...]
Nothing More Than Hot Air?
April 10, 2006 By Leave a Comment
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, [...]
What is so wrong with our democracy?
April 5, 2006 By Leave a Comment
I was wondering if the MSM would pick up on Charlie Falconer’s interview in the Telegraph last week-end. When he suggested that “The right position for the Lords is that it should amend legislation to give the Commons the opportunity to think again but… then it should give way.” Simon Heffer has done so today [...]
What just happened?
April 2, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Ping pong ends after record breaking 6 bats, On Wednesday the Identity Cards Bill was passed by parliament. The endgame began on Monday the House of Lords voted by 219 to 191 to amend the ID cards bill and duly sent it back to the Commons for a 5th time. At issue was the nature [...]
Absurd, Corrupt and Dangerous
March 30, 2006 By Leave a Comment
What an increasingly absurd, corrupt and dangerous system we have. Labour Party oligarchs devise a manifesto for elections to the first chamber. The people who they permit to stand as Labour candidates must accept everything in that manifesto. Enough of those candidates are elected to give the party oligarchs a whipped majority in the first [...]
A Traitor`s Bill
March 13, 2006 By Leave a Comment
This from Anne Palmer 11.3.2006. A Traitor’s Bill. Known also as the Abolition of Parliament Bill. Officially called The Legislative Regulatory Reform Bill. I would like to draw attention to the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill presently going through Parliament one way [...]
Reform of the House of Lords II
March 2, 2006 By 1 Comment
Commenting on Reform of the House of Lords by Stuart Wonko`s World But it was the fact that the Lords got their position by lottery of birth that made them an effective check on the power of the Commons. British MP’s will sell their grandmothers if it means they might win an election. How many [...]
Reform of the House of Lords
March 2, 2006 By 1 Comment
I have just noticed that Dr John Parkinson (a politics lecturer at the University of York) has a comment in the Guardian regarding the House of Lords reform, the government is revisiting this question. Earlier I appreciated the comments about the same thing by Nosemonkey at Europhobia. Basically the argument is that it is not [...]
The Power Report
February 28, 2006 By 1 Comment
The Power Report I have read not all of this report, but must say in general I feel that the recommendations are those which are to be expected – chaired by Labour Peer Helena Kennedy and funded by the Liberal leaning Joseph Rowntree Trust – many of its conclusions are predictable. As Richard North says; [...]
Rule by Consent or by the New Aristocracy
February 23, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Even the BBC and the Guardian have at last picked up on the Reform bill story, which is gradually making its way into the MSM, under the somewhat conciliatory headline Reform bill could ‘sweep away parliamentary debate’ Matthew Tempest and agencies? Suggest that Conservatives and senior legal experts fear the bill will give ministers sweeping [...]
Abolition of Parliament Bill
February 21, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Who wants the Abolition of Parliament Bill? David Howarth Hardly anyone has noticed, but British democracy is sleepwalking into a sinister world of ministerial power. LAST WEEK all eyes were on the House of Commons as it debated identity cards, smoking and terrorism. The media reported both what MPs said and how they voted. For [...]
ID Cards
February 15, 2006 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Oath of Allegiance
February 9, 2006 By 1 Comment
David Lidington, the Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, has suggested that The Oath of Allegiance to the Queen sworn by MPs should be reviewed to encourage Sinn Fein to take up their seats in the House of Commons. This might encourage them to do so but it is doubtful because they do not want Westminster as [...]
Two More EU Professors
October 9, 2005 By Leave a Comment
They used to say you could always tell you were in a tough area if you saw two policemen walking the beat together; one was there to back up the other. Well it would appear the EU professors are now writing in tandem, as if by jointly writing an article would in some way shield [...]
The Cornerstone Group
October 3, 2005 By 2 Comments
It is time the Consevative Party became conservative again, the Cornerstone Group of 28 MP`s have put their names to A Cornerstone of Policies to Revive Tory Britain. The Cornerstone Blog has this to say about the present direction of the political party, which gives all the appearance of wanting power for the sake of [...]
