Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Someone has created a fake of my blog! Following a Google Alert I was very surprised to find a replica of my blog, that someone has bizarrely gone to a lot of trouble making. Quite who is behind this hoax is a complete mystery but I thought I should make it [...]
Richard Corbett
March 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I have refused to link to Richard Corbett MEP because I understood that he did not allow comments for the same reason I have avoided even reading him. For some reason I just did and it is evident that he has now authorised comments. Hence I have now added him to my blogroll by way [...]
Corbett Digging a Big Hole
March 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to a tip by email from Josephine White, apparently there was big flare up involving the Europhile blogging MEP Richard Corbett ( I won`t link to his blog because he does not allow comments thus ensuring he can put across is own warped view without fear of contradiction) Roger Helmer reports on his blog [...]
The Raving Corbett
February 17, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Attempts to revive EU constitution Sir: Richard Corbett MEP (Letters, 10 February) makes great play of the fact that 18 EU member-states have ratified the EU Constitution. He does not mention that most of those countries would have rejected it, had it been put to a referendum. Nor does he recall that it was not [...]
Brussels Bureaucrats Eat Babies
December 11, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Richard Corbett up to his usual histrionic verbalistic form in his post about the affect of the new EU driving licence, which must be renewed every 10 years. nb.I do not link to Corbett because he is far to grand to allow comments, He complains of the Express and Mail’s predilection for publishing at face [...]
The Gangplank
December 7, 2006 By 1 Comment
EUOBSERVER reports EU parliament MEPs have reacted furiously to a UK parliament report which questions the right of the European Parliament to make laws on criminal and police matters due to the fact that most of its members are non-British. Which is not quite the point made by the report but this slight myth is [...]
The Constitution is ?
March 15, 2006 By 1 Comment
Blogging Richard Corbett puts the argument that the Constitution is dead to the test….. "There are at least two views. One is that this text of the Constitution is dead following the referenda in France and the Netherlands; that we had better start thinking of something else and preparing a different way forward. The other [...]
Labour Movement for Europe
March 5, 2006 By 1 Comment
Last week I put a link on my blog that cunningly tells readers of other web documents referring to the blog. I was intrigued to see one such web site called the Labour Movement for Europe. Not being a member of the Labour Party, this pro-Euro organisation working within the Labour Party has passed me [...]
CAP Some Letters
June 16, 2005 By Leave a Comment
National farm subsidies are no substitute for CAP shake-up Sir: Only one thing could be worse than the Common Agricultural Policy – and that would be to have 25 separate agricultural policies, each with its own competing subsidies, each with its own protectionist measures (“Let every country subsidise its own farmers”, Andreas Whittam Smith, 13 [...]
Don`t They Ever Lean
June 13, 2005 By Leave a Comment
According to MEP Richard Corbett, the Socialist’s constitution spokesperson, EU leaders meeting at the end of the week are most likely to agree that a period of reflection is needed in the ratification process. But to avoid this becoming an “indefinite postponement” there should be “a public and pluralist forum, possibly a new convention … [...]
One Stop Propaganda Shops
May 5, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Eurealist :: Main Page: “One Stop Propaganda Shops by Eurealist on May 5, 2005 11:24AM (BST) From the Times today we learn that; “THE Government has “forced†the European Commission to abandon plans to open European information centres across Britain because it believes that they could be construed as propaganda in the run-up to the [...]
Europhiles try to confuse the issue
February 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Europhiles try to confuse the issue The Telegraph letters page today, has Richard Corbett MEP self-selected defender of the EU Constitution, taking to task Dr Peter Gardner, Ukip, who wrote a letter suggesting that Dennis MacShane should offer “Less fudge and more facts about the EU Constitution†As usual with the Europhile argument, instead of [...]
Does it matter who is telling the truth?
January 28, 2005 By 2 Comments
EU Referendum carries a transcript of the John Humphrys interview with Richard Corbett MEP and Neil O’Brien, on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme this morning. But the following post “That defence question” is the one that is important, in the interview both parties made claims about the status of defence in the proposed constitutional [...]
The Times has picked up on the Rapid Reaction Farce
January 21, 2005 By Leave a Comment
The Times has picked up on the Rapid Reaction Farce I posted here THE European Parliament is to establish a “rapid reaction force†to address what it considers to be unfair criticism of the European constitution in any EU member state. http://eurealist.blogspot.com/2005/01/rapid-reaction-farce.html The move has angered opponents of the proposed constitition, who say that the [...]
A ‘rapid reaction farce’
January 20, 2005 By Leave a Comment
A ‘rapid reaction farce’ A group of MEP`s have decided to take it upon themselves to set up a ‘rapid reaction force’ run by MEP`s to try and put an EU spin on the European Constitution debate. They claim the right to interfere in internal referendums too, in their words defend the Constitution because no [...]
Corbett I
January 13, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Why Eurosceptics should vote for the Constitution Richard Corbett is a UK Labour MEP. He was also co-rapporteur for the European Parliament’s report on the European Constitution. Richard Corbett, I find it sad that much of the debate about the proposed new EU constitution is couched in the usual hyperbole. Eurosceptic parts of the press [...]
Corbett II
January 13, 2005 By Leave a Comment
They complain about inefficiency. So the constitution introduces several new measures to streamline and improve decision-making. It increases the areas in which governments take decisions by qualified majority voting rather than by unanimity – a vital factor if the enlarged Union is to be able to function without being blocked by vetoes, though the veto [...]
UKIPwatch
January 12, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Interesting for a movement which wants Britain to leave the Union? UKIPwatch: “UKIP change their stance on Europe UKIP submitted a resolution to Richard Corbett’s report on the constitution for parliamentary vote. In their resolution, group leader Nigel Farage MEP argues for more qualified majority voting (though curiously with fewer votes for Britain), for the [...]
Now there’s a surprise!
January 12, 2005 By Leave a Comment
From Euobserver “Majority of MEPs speak in favour of EU Constitution†Now there’s a surprise! Honor Mahony goes on to explain that after a six hour debate, rehearsing the arguments we are going to be hearing in the next 18 months, the MEP`s by a large majority came out in favour of the Constitution. Suggesting [...]
Selling the European Union Constitution
September 2, 2004 By Leave a Comment
The EU Parliament is hoping to kick start a debate? On the Constitution when it becomes the first assembly, to vote on the text on the 15th December. This group of sops for EU democracy have discussed the way they can assist the Constitution along its rocky road to endorsement in the 25 member states. [...]
