Stuart Wheeler has been granted a judicial review at the High Court on the British government’s refusal to hold the referendum they promised on the EU not-a-constitution.
In all honesty it is highly unlikely that he’ll be successful but the important thing is that it now makes the matter of the Lisbon Treaty sub judice which […]

I’ve just been emailed this link by a UKIPper and told to read the last two paragraphs.
If you can’t be bothered to read it yourself, basically a footnote in the EU not-a-constitution says that we accept the European Union Charter and a footnote in that charter says that the death penalty is abolished “except in […]

The Lords Constitution Committee has said that the EU not-a-constitution does not have any constitutional implications for UK citizenship.
They cite the clauses specifically setting out the right of a member state to withdraw as “evidence” that parliamentary sovereignty remains intact.  Bullshit.  As it stands now, we have the right to withdraw whenever and however we […]

The following letter appeared (very belatedly) in the Shropshire Star last night:

MPs ought to pay for EU treaty treachery
MPs vote not to give us a referendum on the EU Reform Treaty by 311 to 248, this is despite all three main parties promising a referendum.
Labour and the Lib Dems both claim that the EU Reform […]

West Midlands UKIP MEP, Mike Natrass, was heckled in the European Parliament for suggesting that MEPs should use the integrated tram system that stops outside the parliament building instead of turning up in 50 chauffeur-driven limo’s.
He made his comments during a “debate” on Sustainable European Transport Policy when they were talking about EU taxes on […]

The Conswervative amendment to the EU Reform Treaty calling for a referendum has been rejected by 311 to 248.
That means that the House of Commons contains 311 traitors and enemies of the state who must be hounded from their jobs at the next opportunity.
The EU Reform Treaty, despite assertions by the treacherous Liebour and Illiberal […]

If your MP bothers to turn up, there will be a debate tomorrow on a Conswervative amendment to the EU Reform Treaty to provide for a referendum.
Liebour is arguing that the EU Reform Treaty is significantly different to the EU Constitution so their promise to hold a referendum doesn’t stand. Everyone else - including […]

The campaign group, , has announced the results of a private referendum it organised in 10 marginal constituencies.
The turnout of the referendum was 36.2% - higher than the average turnout for a local election and unprecedented in a private referendum. In 8 of the 10 constituencies where a referendum was held, the turnout was […]

Protesters climbed a crane in Parliament Square today in protest at the British government’s continued refusal to give us a referendum on the EU not-a-Constitution.
A legal protest last week was virtually ignored by the media when protesters opposing expansion of Heathrow Airport climbed onto the roof of Westminster Palace.  Ignored by the media and ignored […]

The petition I started calling for a Cost/Benefit Analysis of membership of the EU has just had its 600th signature.
If you haven’t signed it yet, please do so.  If you have signed it, please forward it on to all your contacts and ask them to sign it as well.
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A random audit by anti-fraud investigators at the EU has uncovered £100m of fraud committed by MEPs between 2004 and 2006.
£100m of taxpayers money lost to fraud and corruption over and above the latent fraud, corruption and waste that is estimated to account for up to 25% of their budget.
How the fuck can MPs even […]

An attempt by a UKIP member to force a referendum on the EU Constitution has failed.
Stuart Bower argued that Article 3 of the Human Rights Act guarantees the right to free elections and that No Mandate Brown has broken a manifesto promise to give a referendum and is therefore guilty of breach of contract.
No Mandate […]

There is, I believe, a deliberate attempt to stifle all dissent and opposition throughout Federal Europe.
The ”speaker” of the EU Parliament has been given the power to arbitarily decide who can and can’t speak in the EU Parliament after UKIP MEPs staged a legitimate protest against the EU Constitution.  This was done to protect freedom of speech, […]

From last night’s Shropshire Star … 

MPs didn’t have long to prepare for EU vote 
MPs voted to give the EU not-a-constitution a second reading in a vote on Monday evening.  As sad as I may sound, I sat up and watched the debate and the vote on BBC Parliament.
MPs received the consolidated version of the bill […]

Alistair Darling has announced that he is going to give the Bank of England the power to keep temporary emergency loans to banks secret.
The run on Northern Rock could have been avoided if the emergency credit line the Bank of England gave it had been kept secret.  It was only because of the panic caused […]

Why does the BBC continue with the pretence that it is a non-partisan, unbiased public service broadcaster?
It has a general bias toward the British government of the day (inevitable when it relies on them for its funding) and a natural bias toward left wing politics on account of the amount of bearded hippies and university drop-outs […]

My petition at 10 Downing Street calling on No Mandate Brown to conduct a cost-benefit analysis on memebrship of the EU is doing well - 354 signatures in the last few days and hopefully a lot more soon as it’s just been linked from the Better Off Out website.
If you haven’t already signed the petition, […]

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, intends to declare independence in a matter of days.
Federal Europe wants them to wait until Serbian presidential elections have finished and Russia opposes independence.  The Russian ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, has told Serbia to resist western recognition of Kosovan independence because it would open a “Pandora’s box”.
Rogozin is right […]

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to commission an independent cost-benefit analysis of membership of the EU
Membership of the EU costs the taxpayer billions yet the British government continues to insist that we are “better off in”.
They have never commissioned a cost-benefit analysis of membership of the EU and should do so as soon […]

From the UKIP website … 
The President of the European Parliament has moved to crush all opposition to the Lisbon Treaty by Eurosceptic MEPs.
Hans-Gert Pottering wants to throw away the rule book to allow him absolute power in refusing to allow points of order, procedural motions and votes by roll call if he thinks they could […]

Federal Europe has cut the funding it gives to member states through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The unelected regional development agency, Advantage West Midlands (AWM), has received £440m from the ERDF over the last 6 years but will only get £270m for the next 6 years.  At an average net cost of £873 per […]

MPs have now voted on whether the EU (Amendments) Bill should get a second reading.
Most MPs couldn’t be bothered to attend the debate but still somehow considered themselves well-informed enough to vote in favour of a second reading.  It wasn’t the victory that Liebour wanted though - 362 in favour and 224 against.  There is […]

Daniel Kawczynski, Conswervative MP for Shrewsbury & Atcham, points out that the TUC have passed resolutions calling for a referendum on the EU Constitution.
Ed the Millibeast looks like a work experience boy sitting with the grown ups and keeps pulling stupid faces á-la Kevin and Perry whenever someone mentions his name.
A few more MPs have trickled […]

Graham Stringer, Liebour MP for Manchester Blackley, reveals that the Liebour whips tried to convince him to vote for the Reform Treaty because it was in their manifesto but points out that the only treaty in their manifesto was the EU Constitution.  The whips are telling their MPs the Reform Treaty and Constitution are one […]

Austin Mitchell, Liebour MP for Great Grimsby, just made a fairly entertaining speech in which he congratulated a Tory MP on his speech and criticised his colleagues for claiming that the EU Constitution will solve all our problems.  Shame it’s only been heard by the very small handful of MPs that have bothered to turn up.
Some […]

I’m watching the EU Constitution debate on the BBC website.
Liebour seem to be hinging their entire argument on “what’s good for Europe” and “if we didn’t have a referendum on Maastricht under the Tories, why do we need one on the EU Constitution?”  Pathetic really - they’re debating the wholesale transfer of the governance of […]

Federal Europe is launching yet another investigation into Micro$oft 3 months after concluding their last investigation which resulted in a €500m fine.
The first investigation was into allegations that Micro$oft was shutting out rivals in order to dominate the web market.  They were found guilty in October 2004 and launched an unsuccesful appeal which ended in […]

No, Italy hasn’t decided to have another war with itself, they’re cleaning up rubbish.
A couple of weeks ago dustmen stopped collecting rubbish because the landfill sites were all full and there was nowhere else to take the rubbish.  There are now 100,000 tonnes of rubbish on the streets causing fires and protests.
The problem is that […]

nPower has just bumped its prices for gas and electricity up by quite a sizeable amount because of “rising energy prices”.
The boss of nPower was on the telly the other day saying that we just have to get used to the fact that prices will keep on rising significantly and, of course, he’s right.  We […]

The Republic of Ireland will hold a referendum on the EU not-a-constitution thanks to the provisions of their constitution.
Denmark was expected to hold a referendum when it was reported that a majority of Danish MPs wanted one but this appears to have fallen by the wayside.
Enter Alex Salmond:
When the constitutional treaty was alive, the Labour […]

The Independence and Democracy Group in the European Parliament has started an EU-wide petition on a referendum on the EU not-a-constitution.
Signatures from the UK are pitifully low which certainly doesn’t reflect public opinion so do your bit and sign the petition and show those gutless, eurofederalist bastards that we don’t want their constitution.
There’s also a […]

Federal Europe has appointed an Ambassador to Africa even though it doesn’t have a mandate to do so until January 2009.
The EU Diplomatic Corps is part of the EU not-a-constitution which has yet to be ratified by any member state and with a bit of luck it will never be ratified here, slowing down the […]

The British government has announced that a review of market liberalisation in the postal sector to see how it has affected Royal Mail and to consider how to maintain the universal service.
The BBC says that the report has the following 3 objectives:

Assess impact of market liberalisation
Look at future market trends
Consider how to maintain universal service

How […]

About 18,000 trade union members have taken to the streets in Belgium to protest about rising prices and the fact that they haven’t got a government.
The protest was organised by the three main trade unions in Belgium which collectively represent about 3m people.  The population of Belgium is approximately 11m so that’s quite a protest.
King […]

The One Eyed wonder of Wankistan, Prime Minister unelect, leader of the rump cabinet, Gordon “No Mandate” Brown, is travelling to Lisbon today to sign the EU not-a-constitution.
The EU Constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch in referrenda and has now been repackaged into another treaty that is 96% identical but has a different […]

Kosovo has suffered terribly at the hands of the Serbs ever since Yugoslavia broke up.
For a while now, Federal Europe has provided mediators to try and come up with a solution that would allow Kosovo to remain part of Serbia which would be acceptable to both the Serbs who don’t want to lose Kosovo and to […]

The Portuguese president has described the EU-Africa summit as “a summit of equals”.
Human Rights Watch has concerns about the following African nations:

Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo (Brazzaville)
Cote d’Ivoire
Democratic Republic of Congo
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Somaliland
South Africa
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania and Zanzibar
Togo
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

That’s a good 90% of African nations on Human Rights Watch’s list.  So what he’s saying is that the EU and […]

Britishness Brown has boycotted a Federal Europe-Zimbabwe summit because the tyrant Mugabe was attending.
However, his moral stance doesn’t stretch as far as refusing any representation from the UK - he sent Baroness Amos in his place.
Mugabe’s flight should be redirected to the Hague where he should stand trial for crimes against humanity.  Tens of thousands […]

The law is the law and all men are equal in the eyes of the law.  This is one of the most fundamental concepts in English law but the most serious of crimes - treason - is committed regularly and goes unpunished.  Other fundamental rights that we have had for centuries and are guaranteed by the constitution are […]

Transport Ministers have approved funding of Federal Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system from the general EU budget.
The £2.4bn cost (more like £3bn once fraud and theft has been taken into account) will be met from “spare” money.  Why are we throwing billions at Federal Europe if they don’t need it all?  Why don’t they give […]

UKIP stands candidates in European Parliamentary elections to act as trojan horses.  The Tories used to claim their MEPs were there to represent our interests in Europe and to slow down the transfer of sovereignty to Federal Europe.
So why would they appoint arch-eurofederalist MEP, Philip Bushill-Matthews, as the leader of the Conswervative MEP group?
As David […]

The European Agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, has announced that any farmer receiving more than €100,000 under the Single Payment Scheme will get their payments capped.
The Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) accounts for a third of Federal Europe’s budget and is responsible for the “wine lakes” and “cheese mountains” that have been in the news periodically […]

The One Eyed Wonder of Wankistan has announced more “green” measures today, including the possibility of an increase in the target for reducing carbon emmissions by 2050 from 60% to 80%.
How is this going to be achieved?  Well, extra taxation, obviously.  The annual price of driving a car will probably end up being more than the […]

The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, says that a referendum on the EU constitution in the UK would result in a no vote and has refused to hold a referendum in France ”because that would mean having one in Britain and that would be a danger to Europe”.
The French and Dutch have already rejected the EU constitution once […]

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has refused to sign off the EU’s fraudulent and corrupt accounts for the 13th year running.
Their report criticies nearly every major area of spending.  UKIP’s new Party Treasurer, Marta Andeasen, reckons that 80% of the EU’s accounts are fraudulent and she’s better placed than most having been sacked as the […]

A House of Lords Committee is being challenged by a group of Lords over the composition of a committee advising the British government on the EU not-a-constitution.
The committee currently meets in secret and 16 out of the 18 committee members are in favour of the EU constitution.  Two of them even have EU pensions and under […]

The UK’s gross annual contribution to Federal Europe now stands at €14,270,042,046.
That’s £9,901,500,170 per year or £27,127,397 per day.
The eurofederalists claim that we more than make this money back in grants and increased trade.  £27m a day?  Don’t make me laugh!
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Belgians today awoke to their 150th day without a government.
The Christian Democrats and Liberals have so far been unable to get their acts together and form a coalition leaving Belgium without a government.  The job of governing the country is being taken care of by the outgoing government.
Belgium is the model on which Federal Europe […]

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This was in the Evesham Observer last night (thanks to Dunc for the heads up) …
DAVID Bridgewater should check his facts (Observer letters last week).
The “generous support” from the Americans following the Second World War came in the form of a loan which the English taxpayer finally finished paying at the end of last year.
If the billions […]