Home News News Mass immigration engineered to create irreversible multicultural society` News Mass immigration engineered to create irreversible multicultural society` 31 08 2012 13:55 webmaster 58 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The big problem with immigration is in sheer scale and numbers . The current level is simply . unsustainable The Labour Government engineered mass immigration in order to create an irreversible multicultural society By Gerard Batten MEP Express.co.uk England is one of the most densely populated countries in the world . Our transport system , roads , health service , schools and public services are buckling under the unremitting tide of new . people Before the General Election in 2010 the Tories promised to slow the rate of immigration to a few tens of thousands a year 
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It will depend on how weSubscribe to EUobserver's newsletter and receive a summary of our news directly in your . mailbox News delivered daily News delivered twice daily News delivered weekly Creative Industries Regions Cities China-EU Relations Books EUobserver Conferences Our newsletters are sent in standard text plain format , we protect your email address and you can easily unsubscribe from the newsletter at any . point News Opinion Focus Videos Agenda Blogs Books Support us Headline News Political Affairs Foreign Affairs Economic Affairs Social Affairs Justice Home Affairs Defence News In Brief Ticker EU ban on 40-watt light bulbs coming into effect Today 09:12 By EUOBSERVER The EU ban on the classic 40-watt light bulbs starts on Saturday , reports the Daily Mail . Bans have already been imposed on the 60Subscribe to EUobserver's newsletter and receive a summary of our news directly in your . mailbox News delivered daily News delivered twice daily News delivered weekly Creative Industries Regions Cities China-EU Relations Books EUobserver Conferences Our newsletters are sent in standard text plain format , we protect your email address and you can easily unsubscribe from the newsletter at any . point News Opinion Focus Videos Agenda Blogs Books Support us Headline News Political Affairs Foreign Affairs Economic Affairs Social Affairs Justice Home Affairs Defence News In Brief Ticker Eastern Europe droughts contibuting to food price hikes Today 09:11 By EUOBSERVER World food prices spiked by 10 in July according to a report Friday by the World Bank , with corn and wheat prices going up bySubscribe to EUobserver's newsletter and receive a summary of our news directly in your . mailbox News delivered daily News delivered twice daily News delivered weekly Creative Industries Regions Cities China-EU Relations Books EUobserver Conferences Our newsletters are sent in standard text plain format , we protect your email address and you can easily unsubscribe from the newsletter at any . point News Opinion Focus Videos Agenda Blogs Books Support us Headline News Political Affairs Foreign Affairs Economic Affairs Social Affairs Justice Home Affairs Defence News In Brief Ticker EU warns Serbia over central bank Today 09:07 By EUOBSERVER EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fuele warned Serbia on Thursday to not curtail the independence of its central bank if it wants to progress towards, , Subscribe to EUobserver's newsletter and receive a summary of our news directly in your . mailbox News delivered daily News delivered twice daily News delivered weekly Creative Industries Regions Cities China-EU Relations Books EUobserver Conferences Our newsletters are sent in standard text plain format , we protect your email address and you can easily unsubscribe from the newsletter at any . point News Opinion Focus Videos Agenda Blogs Books Support us Headline News Political Affairs Foreign Affairs Economic Affairs Social Affairs Justice Home Affairs Defence News In Brief Ticker Greek police , firefighters , coast guard to strike Today 09:01 By EUOBSERVER Greek police , firefighters , and the coast guard said they will strike on central Athens on Friday in protest over the
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Paul Ryan had never before struck me as an inspiring speaker. I mean, I like the fellow: he has sound ideas, he's charming and he has a demotic, boy-next-door quality which is unusual among cerebral politicians. But his chief appeal has always been as a policy specialist rather than an orator. Until last night. Ryan's [...]
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unclear on spending cut targets 30.08.12 09:11 By EUOBSERVER Greek leaders on Wednesday gave conflicting accounts on whether or not measures on spending cut targets have been finalised , reportsSubscribe to EUobserver's newsletter and receive a summary of our news directly in your . mailbox News delivered daily News delivered twice daily News delivered weekly Creative Industries Regions Cities China-EU Relations Books EUobserver Conferences Our newsletters are sent in standard text plain format , we protect your email address and you can easily unsubscribe from the newsletter at any . point News Opinion Focus Videos Agenda Blogs Books Support us Headline News Political Affairs Foreign Affairs Economic Affairs Social Affairs Justice Home Affairs Defence News In Brief Ticker UN condems French move on Roma 30.08.12 09:10 By EUOBSERVER The United Nations special rapporteur on minority issues , Raquel Rolnik , criticised the French government's policy of dismantling Roma camps 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There is something unutterably depressing about the debate over a third runway at Heathrow. In all the conversations, it's assumed that manifesto commitments are worthless. 'These things can always be finessed', say the clever men, the moderate men, the men of judgment and bottom. I've observed before that a separate vocabulary, almost a separate morality, [...]
The argument over ‘the cuts’ has now become wholly detached from reality. Listen to the BBC and you’ll find the debate presented along these lines: ‘The Coalition, aiming to eliminate the deficit by 2015, has cut spending; this has had the effect of reassuring the markets and preventing a Greek-style meltdown but, on the other [...]
I wonder whether you have to spend time abroad fully to appreciate Britain. Like other MEPs, I am in Brussels most of the week. Not that I have anything against the place, you understand; on the contrary, I’ve become fond of the city, and yet fonder of its Flemish hinterland. It’s just that 13 years [...]Home News News EU employment law stupidity holding back growth News EU employment law stupidity holding back growth 21 08 2012 17:22 webmaster 383 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Most committees in Brussels are crammed with the flotsam and jetsam of political losers , frustrated housewives , wealthy landowners , bored grandmas and superannuated trade unionists By Godfrey Bloom MEP PSEurope I was recently invited to attend a meeting of the European Parliament Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee featuring market manipulation of Libor or the London Interbank Offered Rate . Session headings included tackling the problem from a European Commission and regulatory perspective . Market manipulation of interest rates is the prime modern role of central banks . It is they who suppress interest rates: Home News News The EU : Still crazy after all these years News The EU : Still crazy after all these years 20 08 2012 19:21 webmaster 363 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By Roger Helmer MEP We all know , of course , that the EU is barking . nbsp But sometimes , just sometimes , we come across some odd fact or snippet or report so extreme , so bizarre , that it still has the power to shock . nbsp Something so absurd , so preposterous , so outrageous , that we want to send for the men in white . coats There was just such a piece in Monday's Telegraph improbably entitled Greece can only survive in the uro as if the news every day were not demonstrating the exact . opposite The paragraph that caught my eye read as follows : Last week Greece completed its largest debt sale in two years , ensuring
The key date in modern British politics is 16 September 1992: the day the pound dropped out of the ERM. Much of what has happened since needs to be understood in the context of the damage done to the Conservatives and the way in which Labour benefited, despite itself, from the.economic recovery that began once [...]
What impact will the euro debacle have on EU? How did so many people get it so wrong? Why does the project carry on when its rationale has collapsed? Why does Britain seem to get a worse deal than other countries? What would we do if we left? What would the others do? I’ve tried to [...]
During the AV referendum, I quoted some hard words of Dr Johnson’s about the acting profession. We shouldn’t listen to actors on any subject, I suggested, except acting. There is, though, an important corollary: when it comes to acting, we should listen to actors very seriously. Which is, perhaps, more surprising than it sounds. A [...]: Home News News Farage : They will collapse the system and enslave people News Farage : They will collapse the system and enslave people 13 08 2012 14:47 webmaster 1066 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds AUDIO KWN UKIP leader Nigel Farage spoke with King World News 11.08.2012 about what he described as the possibility of , a really dramatic banking collapse . rdquo Farage also warned that central planners want to enslave and imprison people inside of a New Order , rsquo and he described the situation as horrifying . rdquo Farage also discussed gold , but first , here is what he had to say about the ongoing financial crisis : nbsp Governments don't have the courage to tell the people that we cannot afford to go on living the way that we are . nbsp We've really failed very badly in having honestHome News News An evening at the LSE News An evening at the LSE 09 08 2012 14:44 webmaster 373 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The EU Debate , London School of Economics . Panel : Roger Helmer UKIP MEP for the East Midlands Dr Helen Szamuely Head of research for the Bruges Group and blogger on Your Freedom and Ours Mark Reckless Conservative MP for Rochester and Strood George Eustice Conservative MP for Camborne and . Redruth BBC Radio 4 By Roger Helmer MEP Last Tuesday evening 24.07.2012 broadcast Aug . 8 I had been invited by the BBC to take part in a debate on the EU , at the London School of Economics . nbsp It had a rather curious asymmetric structure . nbsp Sir Stephen Wall proposed the pro-EU motion , but was then faced with a panel of four more-or-less sceptical characters , who could. Home News News Passing the buck . or euro News Passing the buck . or euro 08 08 2012 21:20 webmaster 302 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds By John Bufton MEP US President Harry Truman famously had a sign on his desk in the Oval Office that said The Buck Stops Here The expression itself is thought to originate from poker , whereby a marker or counter indicates whose turn it is to deal . A player could pass the buck into the next player and thus buck his . responsibilities In international relations the phrase has come to mean the tendency of nation-states to refuse to confront an escalating issue in the hope that another nation will step up to the mark . Perhaps a more fitting representation of playing hot potato with multi-national responsibility would be the phrase The Euro Stops Here But then