European Union and Westminster Politics
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Faced as we are with the prospect of the SNP wining the Scottish Parliamentary elections next year and then calling a referendum on Scottish independence, it is amusing that some commentators do not seem to understand that this would be the cause of the break up of the United Kingdom. David Clark a former Labour [...]
Our Health Service in Hock for many Years to come and for future generations to pay off. Anne Palmer 26.8.2006. The Health Service WAS ours. We paid for it through our taxes and it remains (for now) free at the point of service. We pay for it in the same way we pay for our [...]
From Dennis Cooper He may be VP of the EPP-ED, but at least this is one Tory who’s mentioned the EU Arrest Warrant. The Scotsman ‘NatWest Three’ case shows government is failing to preserve rights of citizens The extradition of the “NatWest Three” has rightly stirred the awareness of the public that the Labour government [...]
Guido Fawkes` Blog is covering a money laundering operation story; the Government is apparently donating tax payer’s money through the DTI to the Unions to the tune of 10 million, for union modernisation? This amount oddly, just about balances the funding the labour party receives from the unions at 11 million, thus saving union members [...]
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 [...]
The Job of the Police In 1993, the white paper on police reform, issued by the then Conservative government, stated, in entirely unequivocal terms, that “the main job of the police is to catch criminals”. In contrast, the overarching purpose of the police service, issued by the incoming Labour government in 1997, was: “to build [...]
Simon Jenkins is again having a go at Trial by jury in the Times today he says; Jury trial has outlived its usefulness. To pretend that it delivers justice is absurd. This archaic theme park democracy is expensive, a waste of time and adds nothing to fair trial. Abolish it. He cites as evidence for [...]
This should release a few pigeons amongst the cats, I have not read the full report yet but its puff looks promising. Happy New Year Anthony Browne (Who He) argues in The Retreat of Reason that political correctness, which classifies certain groups of people as victims in need of protection from criticism and allows no [...]
Immunity From What? I read a News Release on 23rd September, “Government to end Crown Immunity from Planning Controlsâ€. The list was quite long so I will mention only that “the Crown†includes Government Departments, Her Majesty’s private estates, the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall and also part of the Palace of Westminster is Crown [...]
Light Blogging because of this below and I am busy at work sorry! One thing I will say my local government representative, who must be up to his neck in work is always available to help me and every other licensee struggling through the red tape imposed by government, every time I have telephoned he [...]
Boris Johnson in the Telegraph questions the amazing indulgence we show – now that communism is meant to be dead – to commies, socialists and Lefty tyrants of all kinds. Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and [...]
Always passionate? Sir – When Tony Blair delivered his speech in the European Parliament, he demonstrated why so many British people no longer believe a word he says. He told the MEPs: “I am a passionate pro-European. I always have been” (News, June 24). Always? When he sought my vote in the 1982 Beaconsfield by-election, [...]
The Guardian runs a story about the leaked memo from MacShane; Tony Blair was warned last month in a memo drawn up by his then Europe minister, Denis MacShane. The document, which was circulated to key ministers including the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, and the industry secretary, Patricia Hewitt, was leaked yesterday at a sensitive [...]
Eurealist :: Why are the Conservatives so reluctant to play to their strengths: “Why are the Conservatives so reluctant to play to their strengths by Eurealist at 07:50AM (BST) on April 25, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos William Rees-Mogg asks in the Times “Why this baffling silence?†NEXT MONTH there will be historic votes [...]
Gravy Train Passengers write to the Times en-masse Regional responsibilities in the UK — and in the EU From the Chief Executive of the South East England Regional Assembly Sir, Regional assemblies in England are voluntary partnerships between local authorities and stakeholders representing constituencies of interest, such as business and the environment. Dr Matthew Portal [...]
By TREVOR KAVANAGH Political Editor TONY Blair was blasted by a former top aide last night for misleading voters over plans for an EU superstate. Roger Liddle urged the PM to admit he is handing “more and more power†to Brussels. And he warned that Mr Blair risks defeat on the EU Constitution unless he [...]
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Labour fuels war on asylum: “Immigrants’ rights to settle permanently in Britain will be drastically curbed as the government admits for the first time that the nation’s ‘hospitality’ has been tested by abuses of the immigration and asylum system. In a move that will reignite the controversy over [...]
The Guardian also has an article about the court case and says; The issue rests on the claim that whereas the two-year delay under which peers could block but not veto a bill had been agreed by the Lords and Commons in 1911, the reduction of the delay to one year by the Labour government [...]
Others are reporting on the Citizenship ceremonies that I mentioned yesterday A more Napoleonic Britain | Samizdata.net: “>”A more Napoleonic Britain” The Labour government is planning to introduce ceremonies for ‘citizenship’ and ‘coming of age’ to add the imprimatur of The State to being ‘British’. Yet surely one of the things that has always made [...]
Philip Duly, Campaign Manager, The Freedom Association has received this letter from David Davis regarding the Civil Contingencies Bill. Post below. Although Mr Davis makes reassuring noises there is nothing concrete about the Conservative proposals and amount to no more than keeping an eye on the Bill as it becomes law. I suppose the Tories [...]
Britain always seems to send failed politicians to the EU, those who have been sacked for some misconduct or other, or those who have been rejected by the people. The last two were from the latter category, Kinnock stood for election as leader of the Labour party twice and was soundly rejected by the electorate, [...]
The Civil Contingencies Bill One of the reasons I am opposed to the European Union on offer, is that it is a Non democratic organisation, however it would be foolish of me to try to suggest that the EU is an outside organisation, imposing its will on an unwilling government in Westminster. The fact is [...]
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