My first impression of Malcolm Habour was, I confess, not a favourable one. It was at a Conservative Party Conference in the mid-1990s, and he was telling his Eurosceptic audience that they ought to come to the West Midlands and listen to the people whose livelihoods depended on the EU. Oh Lord, I thought to [...]
It is no surprise that King Albert II should oppose the break-up of Belgium: he stands to lose more than any of his subjects. All his predecessors – Belgium has arguably the most politically active monarchy in Europe – have taken the same line. In a state with no common language, culture or history, patriotism [...]
: , Home News News UKIP Policy : Solutions , not scapegoating News UKIP Policy : Solutions , not scapegoating 24 12 2012 21:31 webmaster 56 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds UKIP is about solutions . Solutions to our debt and fiscal problems . To growth and employment . To secure and affordable energy , write UKIP MEP Roger . Helmer Tony Blair recently came up with one of his masterful sound-bites . nbsp UKIP , he said , is a party based on scapegoating , not solutions . nbsp A clever turn of phrase , but vacuous when you examine it , for how can you propose solutions without problems And the moment you point to a problem the EU , immigration , wind turbines you can be , I suppose , accused of . scapegoating Meantime on Dec 23rd in the Sunday Telegraph , Andrew Gilligan , in a piece entitled
The idea of sacrifice, of propitiation, seems to be innate in humanity. Even the most rational people, at times of stress, can find themselves half-bargaining with unnamed powers: let my child recover and I'll do such-and-such. Religion is, in some ways, a collective expression of such instincts, and physical sacrifice, by a process of parallel [...]
At the Oxford Union the other day, I was comprehensively outperformed by this man: Dr Cornel West. If you’ve heard him live, you’ll know that he speaks in the manner of a charismatic preacher, and that the timbre of his voice captivates almost any audience. The motion was This House would occupy Wall Street. He [...]
One of the things that used to set the UK apart from the run of nations was the standing of its police force. The British constable was not an agent of the state, but a citizen in uniform, with no more powers than the rest of us, except in so far as those powers were [...]
Home News Add-ons Opting out of EU criminal justice legislation News Opting out of EU criminal justice legislation 18 12 2012 14:01 webmaster 21 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Written Evidence Submission on behalf of the UK Independence Party by Gerard Batten MEP , spokesman on Home Affairs , stating the reasons why Britain should opt-out of all EU criminal justice legislation , and why in any areas where we wish to interact with foreign justice systems this can be done by mutual co-operation and national legislation without the need to subjugate ourselves to the . EU The Government has invited Written Evidence submissions on the 2014 Opt-out Decision Protocol 36 This Protocol allows Britain to opt-out of certain EU inspired police and criminal justice legislation enacted after the Lisbon .
‘There are no easy answers, no silver bullets, only tough choices. We’ve rejected the Manichean alternatives. We’ve embraced the challenge. We cannot wash our hands of those without the means to get on. My view is simple…’ How can anyone respect a politician who talks this way? How, in particular, can journalists, whose job is [...]
Home News News Census Figures News Census Figures 17 12 2012 08:30 webmaster 101 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds The massive rates of immigration that Britain has experienced over the last four or five decades has actually been disastrous . It has been done for ideological political reasons : to create a multicultural society' and to undermine and destroy national identity . This has been done in pursuit of the great new ideology of creating a European borderless state , and a new world order in which the independence and democratic rights of peoples have to be destroyed , quot writes Gerard Batten MEP The 2011 Census figures recently released reveal the scale of immigration and the demographic effect it has had on our country , particularly the English . cities The Census does not tell the, Home News News The clever governments are buying gold , the idiots are selling it News The clever governments are buying gold , the idiots are selling it 15 12 2012 23:16 webmaster 151 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds I'm just struck that if you look over the last 10 to 15 years , the clever governments have been buying gold , and the idiots have been selling gold . And those that buy gold don't just buy paper , they make sure they've physically got the stuff . rdquo UKIP Leader Nigel Farage . MEP AUDIO KWN KWN Today Nigel Farage made some absolutely fascinating statements to King World News regarding the Queen's tour of Britain's gold vault . nbsp Farage also spoke about the future price of gold and warned , Everything from George Orwell's 1984 is coming into being . rdquo : Excerpts Eric :
Supporters of EU membership keep warning that we might end up like Norway. Oslo, they tell us in scary voices, is 'governed by fax'. Its leaders, apparently, are sitting by their fax machines waiting for the latest directives to flop through from Brussels. As a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), Norway has to [...]Home News News If this is a victory then we`re in deep trouble News If this is a victory then we`re in deep trouble 13 12 2012 18:25 webmaster 226 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Last year , Cameron proudly proclaimed that he had frozen the EU budget for 2012 by accepting a 2 inflationary increase . Instead the British public will end up paying a 9 increase . Now watch the Downing Street spin doctors in the coming weeks . You will undoubtedly hear how Mr . Cameron has negotiated a reduction for 2013, writes UKIP MEP Marta . Andreasen Last week , the independent Office for Budget Responsibility OBR published its latest report on the Economic and Fiscal . Outlook Tucked away inside and all but invisible to the untrained eye was an upward revision of 1.5 billion in the forecast of what the UK will
Back in October Fleishman-Hillard Brussels was delighted to welcome Li Hong, President of Fleishman-Hillard China, to discuss the upcoming leadership transition in China and its impact on business with a handful of Brussels-based public affairs professionals. Fast-forward one month and the new leaders of China are being unveiled at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress [...]Home News News Disaster Postponed News Disaster Postponed 10 12 2012 19:20 webmaster 20 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Charcoal burners in the 1700s might well have been worrying about the continued availability of wood for charcoal . They could not foresee the overwhelming development of coal , or the 20th century use of oil and nuclear power . Any speculation they might have made about energy sources in the future would have been hopelessly ill-informed , and quite meaningless . nbsp It's time to stop worrying about the end of fossil fuels , argues UKIP MEP Roger Helmer Painting : Charcoal burners , by Richard Beavis In 1798 Robert Thomas Malthus published the first edition of his famous Essay on Population arguing that it was in the nature of populations to increase until constrained byHome News News Scotland might free England from the European Union News Scotland might free England from the European Union 07 12 2012 10:48 webmaster 167 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds UKIP wants to preserve the United Kingdom , but if Scotlands wants to leave it could give the rest of us the golden opportunity to say goodbye to the EU , writes UKIP MEP Gerard Batten According to the Mail OnLine the European Commission has said that Scotland's membership of the EU will cease to apply if it votes Yes in the 2014 independence referendum and leaves the . UK If Scots vote for independence the Scottish Government will then have to negotiate its terms of exit from the Act of Union : equally it would then need to renegotiate its terms of entry to the EU in its own . right However the interestingHome News News EU budget rise a victory over David Cameron` News EU budget rise a victory over David Cameron` 06 12 2012 22:52 webmaster 53 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds EU hits UK with an extra 1 billion for the 2012 budget Re-uploaded after hacking attack . The Council and European Parliament have agreed to top up the 9 billion deficit in this year's EU budget . So much for the Prime Minister's chest beating when he returned Chamberlain-like from Brussels last year with a piece of paper claiming victory on the 2012 budget , writes UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen . The European Parliament Budget Committee yesterday voted through increases to the EU Budget for 2012 of 9 billion , bringing the total rise up from 2.02 to 9 The flagrant move means that the 2.02 rise agreed by Prime Ministers acrossHome News News The Coalition con on green energy` News The Coalition con on green energy` 06 12 2012 22:43 webmaster 53 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Re-uploaded after hacking attack . Ed Davey's Deliberate Deceit Ed Davey is trying to deny the plain facts of the cost of his policies by dragging in extraneous factors . Like so many green energy advocates , he just can't face up to the reality that renewables are hugely expensive , wasteful and ineffectual , writes UKIP MEP Roger Helmer . I've just been reading that Ed Davey is trying to tell us that his green policies will reduce energy costs . This despite the government's admission that the new proposals in its energy bill will add 90 per household to bills and widespread estimates in the media that it will be nearer 200. That's before we
Politicians, journalists, and members of EU institutions, political scientists, citizens and lobbyists: a small, but important, change happened on November 20th 2012! Few seem to have paid attention to it, despite its far-reaching consequences, but the European Parliament adopted a report that changes the Rule of procedure 70 on “trilogues”. The new rule will already [...]: Home News News Godfrey Bloom : Eurosceptic parties entering new paradigm News Godfrey Bloom : Eurosceptic parties entering new paradigm 04 12 2012 13:05 webmaster 350 Global Print PDF RSS Feeds Politics makes strange bedfellows , claims UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom as he marks the half-way point in a trial run of his Eurosceptic pan-European political party arguing for the restoration of a 1970s-style free trade area Two years ago a Maltese friend of mine who worked for the European Parliament suggested I form an alliance with other European politicians who did not want a centralised federal state but a looser more trade based arrangement . Back almost to where we were in the 1970s , at least for Great Britain a free trade agreement . Many countries enjoy this relationship without the spectre