European Union and Westminster Politics
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Thanks for the chuckle! So, using this new scientific method, I have made some predictions of my own: Based on the last 5 years worth of data, the number of people killed in Iraq will increase to 10 billion over the next century and the number of buses and planes blown up by terrorists will [...]
Dear Foreign Secretary, I write to explain why I shall be among thousands of angry and despairing British citizens attending the Referendum Rally in London on Saturday 27th October and why I and others now urge our fellow citizens to overturn hundreds of years of highly developed Parliamentary tradition and demand a national plebiscite on [...]
The points in the Independent are mainly irrelevant to the existence of the EU – Cannot the Europhile press and Europhiles generally come up with something other than this same old lies and propaganda that has been challenged so many times in the past that it has become boring to even produce the evidence to [...]
On this day when the Euro enthusiast are gathering to celebrate the 50th birthday of the European Project by patting themselves on the back for a job well done, whilst in the real world the real people of the European nation states have indicated in recent polls that they are not as enthused with the [...]
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 [...]
Under the headline Ukip pledges not to fight Eurosceptic MPs the Telegraph builds a story on the fact that Nigel Farage wrote to all MPs to announce that he would no longer field candidates against proven Eurosceptics. The kicker comes in the final paragraph where it states “MPs would have to demonstrate their Eurosceptic credentials [...]
Scottish National MP Angus MacNeil writing in the Telegraph says; “This week Labour, Tories and the Lib Dems have taken great delight in telling the Scots that they are subsidised by over £11 billion” Although he argues that this figure is disputed by the independence movement in Scotland, he does not offer any evidence to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Observer This ID project is even more sinister than we first thought The insidious erosion of our civil liberties will accelerate dramatically if the government wins the battle over identity cards Henry Porter Sunday March 19, 2006 The Observer You may have noticed the vaguely menacing tone of recent government advertising campaigns. Here is a [...]
The Adams Smith Institute By Dr Eamonn Butler There are of course many old laws still in place in the United Kingdom. Some years ago, Lord Harris of High Cross formed what he called the ‘Repeal Group’ in the attempt to get them wiped off the statute book. But most people, especially busy parliamentary business [...]
Yesterday I posted some of my initial thoughts on Tony Blairs defence to Blair`s own interpretation of the charges, that both he and Nu-Labour are authoritarian, are intent on savaging British liberties, locking up those who dissent and that they abhor parliamentary or other accountability. Two newspapers have commented on Blairs original article in the [...]
The English Question Thanks to the Blog Great Britian not Little England for the link to this report from Publius: The Journal of Federalism by Robert Hazell. Devolution to Scotland and Wales throws up related questions about the government of England. Does England need to find its own separate political voice? Does England too need [...]
By : Fraser Nelson – Political Notebook December 04, 2005 SAY what you like about Jacques Chirac, but he knows how to handle the European Union (EU). The President of France has a strict negotiation strategy: if it doesn’t benefit my country, forget it. I won’t sign. If the EU tells him it’s illegal to [...]
The Two Courts The European Court of Human Rights ECHR The European Court of Justice ECJ Confusingly we have two European courts witch our governments have allowed to hold sway over our domestic national laws. As a point of fact no government should allow any other court to make any laws which our courts must [...]
European arrest warrant From the Director of the European Movement http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-1794378,00.html Sir, The swift extradition from Rome of the London bomb suspect, Hussain Osman (report, September 23), is a salient illustration of the viability of the new European arrest warrant (EAW). By invoking the EAW British authorities were able to bypass Italy’s supposed byzantine judicial [...]
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 [...]
This letter in the Times suggests that far from there being no plans for an EU army. The plans for such a force are well advanced, even the umbrella satellite system that will be required for the forces communications are being worked out, although as the letter states what press there is about this system [...]
From a letter in the Telegraph “You ask: “How can a soldier be expected to do his duty, when he has to be asking himself constantly whether his every action is fully compatible with human rights law?” The answer is simple. Providing British soldiers avoid committing acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or grave breaches [...]
BBC Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said he is “shocked” the suspected London suicide bombers were British-born. Mr Clarke said the attacks were a “clarion call” for everybody in the UK to defend their society rather than assume “we are all OK”. The Muslim community especially must “stand out” against the ideology which promotes bombings, [...]
Do these people not realise what how it sounds to the British people to hear them going on about how important the EU is to our safety. Welcoming the result of the European constitution referendum in Luxembourg yesterday, European Parliament president Josep Borrell of Spain jumped onto the bandwagon by saying “the people of Luxembourg [...]
Telegraph-letters Sir – Mr Blair was suggesting after the attacks that this terrorist outrage would not change our British way of life, and the values to which we hold dear (News, July 8). Is this not the man who leads a Government that wishes to dispense with habeas corpus, trial by jury, celebrations of VE [...]
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