European Union and Westminster Politics
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 [...]
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 [...]
Supporters of the EU are always keen to use the propaganda of the dead to promote the project, Churchill, for instance is always wheeled out in support of the cause, even though he is clearly on record as standing against. This one though takes proverbial the biscuit; Roland Rudd Chairman of Business for New Europe [...]
Alan Cochrane writing in the Telegraph says it is “good to hear the Tory leader reject the populist appeal of English nationalism.” I find it rather odd that when writing about the elections to the Scottish Parliament it is somehow the English which are to blame for the present mess the Scottish raj which is [...]
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 [...]
A post on Conservative Home about the refusal of by Salisbury District Council to allow Ted Heath’s wish that his house be opened to the public as a museum has cause a bit of to do. Of course the decision by the council has nothing to do with Heath’s term as Prime minister when he [...]
Well it’s taken a couple of years but finally the British government have had to cave into the EU Commissions demand that the British people must be subjected to Random Breath Tests. Even though giving our police this power undermines one of our basic rights; that strange concept of the Presumption of innocence. Back in [...]
Dennis the Bloody menace MacShame writing in the Independent is a calling for a celebration of the both the Acts of union 1707 and the Treaty of Rome, he say that the both of theses two acts of unions have altered profoundly the nature of our nation-state. Three hundred years ago England and Scotland co-joined [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Always assuming “Conservatism” is not a contradiction in terms! Many people have been saying for over three years now that the conservative party needs to address its image in the liberal left main stream media. The party needs to get through to the public what being conservative means, it needs to create a tranche of [...]
Anthony Giddens one-time director of the London School of Economic, suggests in an article for Prospect Magazine “Labour should use EU to split Conservatives” at the next election. Open Europe reports that Giddens “argues that Tony Blair has consistently “avoided spelling out what he thought should be the future of the EU and Britain‘s place [...]
Just a few years ago the idea that Gordon Brown should not become Prime Minister of Britain would have not even been worth comment, no one except the most radical English Nationalist would have even questioned a Scotish or Welsh politicians’ right to become the first minister. Unfortunately that is no longer the case; there [...]
The Campaign for an English Parliament has just issued a full report on the devolution process, going by the title of DEVOLUTION FOR ENGLAND A CRITIQUE OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY POLICY ‘ENGLISH VOTES ON ENGLISH MATTERS’ The report details the devolution progress to date and explores some of the problems that have been created by [...]
From The Independent letter page Sir: One of Tony Blair’s most important domestic achievements has to be the greater sense of security we now enjoy in Britain. I saw this in action in the centre of Manchester on Wednesday afternoon, in St Peter’s Square, near the site of the Peterloo massacre. A small group of [...]
George Blake worked against the British nation state because he believed in a different ideal. Working against your Nation state is treason, more so if you have sworn to uphold the laws of that state and serve your monarch and preserve their realm, Blake did both. But then so many more have done exactly the [...]
Hat tip to Tommy English for the link to this essay …Our next general election should be about much more than schools and hospitals. Britain’s sovereignty is at stake. And although the Government wants to pull the wool over our eyes, we need an elevated debate on Europe… Brian Durrant – Other articles Mon 17 [...]
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 [...]
In “Feeding the European fantasy” Dr Richard North continues his devastating series of attacks on the MOD defence equipment plans. Which are leaving our troops massively under-equipped for their mission.: What has happened, though, is that the MoD – under successive governments – has taken its eye of the ball. Obsessed with the idea of [...]
I was astounded last night, whilst watching the BBC`s light hearted political programme “This Week”, when Diane Abbott the left leaning Labour MP and BBC lovey slipped in a comment about the Conservatives, “many Tories hate the European Convention on Human Rights because it is foreign, and that many Tories are deeply authoritarianism and they [...]
Sir – Three former employees of NatWest are to be extradited to America for an alleged offence, using legislation promulgated by the Government that is designed to deal with suspected terrorists, and which does not even require the American authorities to present prima facie evidence of wrongdoing (Business, June 28). This comes hard on the [...]
From Anne Palmer 20.4.2006. Without doubt, one of the most important jobs of a Prime Minister and His/Her Government is to ensure that the Country is always ready, able and willing to defend itself. To ensure their military staff has adequate supplies and that the forces that have to use them, can rely on them [...]
The Telegraph hits the jackpot with EUsceptic comment this Easter Monday, with this article below Daniel Hannan`s comment that you might as well vote for Duck a for all the diference it makes and David Rennie report on Blairs dishonesty over the EU Budget Impoverished by the EU (Filed: 17/04/2006) A billion here, a billion [...]
Not a penny more of public money should be directed at propping up Britain’s political parties. For 20 years they have conspired to reduce public participation in democracy. Now they are paying the inevitable price — depressed membership, reduced income and falling election turnouts. To demand that the taxpayer reward them for this exclusivity with [...]
From forcing through ID cards to the erosion of parliamentary scrutiny, a determined clique is hijacking our democracy In January the commissioner of the Metropolitan police got into enormous trouble for saying that he couldn’t see why the Soham murders had become such a big story. Like every other journalist, I marvelled at his inability [...]
Why would anyone donate to these parties of the living dead anyway? DESPITE THE endlessly exzzzziting inveszzztigations into political party funding, a couple of questions remain unasked. For a start, why should Labour, the Conservatives and other terminally ill parties have a God-given right to life? The all-party funding crisis reveals that these organisations are [...]
From Dennis Cooper :Good questions from Anne Palmer. And why do we have to wait for annual accounts to find out who tried to buy influence and/or a title? Any large payment to a political party should be declared the same day it’s received. But I also agree with the next letter: “Buying a peerage [...]
From Liberty Central Written by Unity A looking at some of the acts of parliament the Government have refused exemptions from the provisions, makes frightening reading, and begs the question what exactly are Tony Blair’s intentions. Looking at just some of these Acts, one has to wonder quite justification the government can have not making [...]
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 [...]
Tony Blair answers his critics on his anti-libertarian policies in an article in the Observer, His first line of defence is that these charges are crafted by parts of the right wing and now taken up by parts of the left that New Labour is authoritarian, in particular, that I am. We are intent on [...]
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