Showing posts with label Euroscepticism. Show all posts
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Sunday, 2 October 2011

Absolutely Brilliant 100% Nikki SINCLAIRE's Achievement

Saturday, 1 October 2011

Absolutely Brilliant 100% Nikki SINCLAIRE's Achievement

Absolutely Brilliant 100% Nikki SINCLAIRE's Achievement


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Absolutely Brilliant 100% Nikki SINCLAIRE's Achievement!
Congratulations to Nikki Sinclaire and the team she pulled together

including her staff, Mike Nattrass MEP, Trevor Colman MEP, Kate Hoey MP, Austin Mitchel MP, Kelvin Hopkins MP, Roger Godsiff MP, David Nuttall MP, Philip Davies MP, Gordon Henderson MP, Philip Hollobone MP, Graham Stinger MP, Richard Shepherd MP, Dianna Dodds MEP and many others whose contributions were varied but all supported her!

Sadly she had to achieve this despite the efforts of UKIP Leadership to sabotage her efforts and defame her!
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so the discussions with The leaders of The House of Commons have paid off and unlike the Judas Goats with their endless posturing and pretend petitions and pretence at EUroScepticism and the 120 Tory MPs who have followed the whip's requirements in setting up a EUroPlasticSceptic Group Nikki SINCLAIRE Independent MEP has actually delivered the required 100,000 signatures with another 20,000 ready to deliver as her campaign continues to grow.

Frankly Westminster debating the issue makes the point - we know that Turkeys don't vote for Christmas any more than we can expect the MPs to represent either our wishes or our best interests and Leave-The-EU.

Frankly our MPs are so totally discreditted who gives a stuff how they vote - The EU may think it will be making the decisions but do not forget it was on October 01st. 1946 that the first GUILTY verdicts and the hanging of 11 Guilty Men was ordered at The Nuremberg Trials - Politicians don't call the shots when it comes to war and we are teetering on the start of The Wars of Dissassociation be it the Riots in Greece, the Default of The Greek Government, the failing of the Portuguese, Italian, Irish, Greek, Spanish and shortly the Cypriot economies that will win this argument.

The wheels are falling off of the EU scam.

Let us see if our politicians want to hang onto their jobs and Leave-The-EU or hang on lamp posts as the lights go out!

Their vote in Westminster is no longer relevant they gave away their authority so their debate is pointless - as pointless as they are.

76% of Tory voters want a Referendum, 66% of Tory voters would vote to Leave-The-EU when given their vote and only 30% of the entire population would vote to stay in The EU.
 
A measure of the accuracy of The Media is that for all the huff and puff from The LibDims & Tories it was a single INDEPENDENT MEP Nikki Sinclaire with the support of not a single Tory or Liberal delivering to Drowning Street the 100,000 signatures so far as the photographs clearly show:
It was Nikki Sinclaire's advertising vans all over Britain getting the signatures:
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At last: We get vote on Europe as MPs are forced to decide on referendum

  • Vote will be held in the Commons before Christmas
  • Eurozone crisis has led to surge in anti-Brussels feeling
Last updated at 11:19 PM on 1st October 2011
 
A historic vote on growing demands for Britain to leave the European Union will be held in the Commons before Christmas.
MPs will debate whether the Government should give voters a chance to decide the issue once and for all in a referendum.
It will be the first time Parliament has held a major vote on seeking the public’s view since the 1975 referendum confirming the decision to join the Common Market.
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A historic vote on growing demands for Britain to leave the European Union will be held in the Commons before Christmas
If MPs vote in favour of  a referendum, the result would not be binding on the Government. 
But, combined with growing public opposition to the increasing power of the EU, it would put enormous pressure on David Cameron to let the people decide the country’s European fate.
The Commons vote has been forced on MPs – and a reluctant Prime Minister –  by public demand, after the crisis in the eurozone, with desperate attempts to prop up the Greek economy, led to a surge in anti-Brussels feeling.
Prime Minister David Cameron. MPs will debate whether the Government should give voters a chance to decide the Europe issue in a referendum
Prime Minister David Cameron. MPs will debate whether the Government should give voters a chance to decide the Europe issue in a referendum
The decision to hold a debate was made after a petition signed by more than 100,000 people demanding a referendum was submitted to a new group of MPs given the job of making sure Parliament does not sweep controversial issues under the carpet.
The Mail on Sunday has learnt that the Commons Backbench Business Committee will agree to grant a one-day debate on a referendum after Parliament returns next week.
Committee chairman Natascha Engel, a Labour MP, said: ‘Given the crisis in the eurozone, this issue has become more relevant than ever. There is a clear majority of backbench MPs who want to debate this and we have to respond to that.
‘The EU today is completely different from the one the British people voted to join in the 1975  referendum.  It is time to examine the position again. For years it has suited successive governments to avoid debating whether Britain should stay in or leave the EU.
‘The whole purpose of my committee is to make sure the big issues of the day are aired in Parliament. People in pubs and shops all over Britain are discussing our membership of the EU and it is time MPs openly debated it too.’
The debate will be held before the end of the year.
Anti-European campaigners are divided over the question that should be put in a referendum. Some want a simple ‘in or out’ question. But others want to offer the choice of going back to an old- style trading association, along the lines of the Common Market which British voters agreed to in 1975.
If the nation voted ‘yes’ to this proposition, the Government could demand that key powers over immigration, industrial relations, health and safety, City regulations and other issues are handed back to Westminster. If the EU refused to do so, Britain could leave altogether.
Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg is an avowed Europhile
Labour MP Natascha Engel siad given the crisis in the eurozone the issue has become more relevant than ever
Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg is an avowed Europhile. Labour MP Natascha Engel said the eurozone the issue has become more relevant than ever

Recent opinion polls show that when asked directly, nearly one in two people want Britain to come out of the EU, with about one in three in favour of staying in. But when the question was rephrased to give the choice of returning to a Seventies-style trade association, a clear majority chose that option.
Tory MPs plan to use this week’s party conference in Manchester to step up their demand for a referendum.
Withdrawing from the EU has support at the highest level of the party, including from Mr Cameron’s senior No 10 adviser, Steve Hilton.
The Commons vote is a nightmare for the Coalition. Mr Cameron was heavily criticised in Opposition for going back on a pledge to hold a referendum on the 2007 Lisbon Treaty which continued the process of switching sovereignty to the EU.
Protests in Greece over cut backs. The crisis in the eurozone with desperate attempts to prop up the Greek economy has led to a surge in anti-Brussels feeling
Protests in Greece over cut backs. The crisis in the eurozone with desperate attempts to prop up the Greek economy has led to a surge in anti-Brussels feeling
He fears a referendum would be a distraction from his attempts to solve Britain’s economic problems.
But he will face a mass revolt if he orders Tory MPs to vote against it.
Although Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is an avowed Europhile, he made an Election pledge to hold an ‘in or out’ EU referendum.
It was seen as a crude Lib Dem ploy to prove that whatever their reservations about the EU, most Britons want to stay in. But with hostility to the EU growing by the day, Mr Clegg may now be hoist with his own petard. A sizeable number of Labour MPs also want a referendum.
The historic Commons debate is set to be agreed after Tory MP David Nuttall approached the Backbench Business Committee on the strength of the petition.
The Bury MP said he would defy any attempt by Mr Cameron to silence him. ‘I will vote in favour of a referendum come what may. It is about whether we stay in the EU and it is time the people had their say.’
Fellow Eurosceptic Tory MP Peter Bone said: ‘This poses an almighty dilemma for Mr Cameron. He will face huge problems if he orders MPs to vote against it.’
Since Britain joined the Common Market, there have been a series of Commons votes on whether there should be referendums on EU treaties such as Maastricht and Lisbon – although none at all on whether we should remain in the EU. All have been defeated, largely down to Governments ordering MPs to vote them down.
The Government has suffered three  defeats as a result of debates ordered by the Backbench Business Committee. They were forced to pay compensation to victims of a contaminated blood scandal; to reject a European bid to give prisoners the vote; and to ban wild animals in circuses without delay.
 
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Friday, 1 April 2011

31-Mar-2011 - MORE REASONS FOR AN IN/OUT REFERENDUM - PARLIAMENT LIES!

31-Mar-2011 - MORE REASONS FOR AN IN/OUT REFERENDUM - PARLIAMENT LIES!

MPS GAGGED OVER BRUSSELS POWER GRAB  
Thursday March 31,2011- By Macer Hall Political Editor

Ministers insist the move will have little effect on the UK -  
ANGER erupted at Westminster last night after sweeping powers for Eurocrats to meddle in Britain’s economy were nodded through Parliament without a vote. Tory MPs were furious that plans for the EU annual “growth survey” were approved in the absence of a Commons debate. Proposed by unelected EU President Herman van Rompuy in a bid to halt another European economic crisis, the measure obliges the Treasury to give statistics to Brussels – including details of the Budget – while sticking to a rigorous economic “calendar.” Critics say the move paves the way for Eurocrats to impose crippling taxes on UK taxpayers. Tory MP Douglas Carswell said: “This is a significant step that has serious implications for the expenditure of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money that has been taken without any debate. “The coalition is fast becoming the most European integrationist government this country has had since Ted Heath.” Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party said: “It is time that David Cameron stopped governing by deceit. “This shows us that he is secretly giving away more and more of our ability to govern ourselves.” Ministers insist the move will have little effect on the UK as most of its recommendations are already carried out by the Government. They insist the measures are aimed more at debt-laden countries such as Greece and Portugal.

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Saturday, 5 February 2011

05-Feb-2011 - EXPRESS CLAIMS AN EU Referendum WILL BRING BRUSSELS TO HEEL

AN EU REFERENDUM WILL BRING BRUSSLES TO HEEL

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Daily Express staff deliver the petition to Downing Street
Saturday February 5,2011

By Patrick O'Flynn

IN THE past, divisions over Europe have been disastrous for the Conservative Party.
They contributed significantly to the ousting of Margaret Thatcher and crippled the administration of John Major. Yet after the downfall of Major the splits all but disappeared. This is because the pro-Brussels brigade was routed. Bar one or two veterans, most notably Kenneth Clarke, the Conservatives became a fully fledged Eurosceptic party.

But now a new division is opening up in Conservative ranks, between two different strands of Euroscepticism. The schism could, for the first time, be clearly seen this week in the wake of this newspaper’s delivery of hundreds of thousands of coupons demanding a referendum on leaving the EU.

Four Tories accompanied us up Downing Street – along with Labour’s patron saint of common sense Kate Hoey – to deliver the petitions. Peter Bone, Philip Hollobone, Philip Davies and Douglas Carswell are the leading Conservative lights of the Better Off Out group. They would leave the EU tomorrow if they could. There are scores of other Tories who have not yet baldly stated their wish to leave the EU but nonetheless support the idea of a referendum. And it is inconceivable that they would campaign on the side of staying in.
ìIn the past, divisions over Europe have been disastrous for the Conservative Partyî
But there is another large group of Euro-sceptic Tories that have nailed their colours to a different mast. These are the MPs who call for repatriation of powers from the EU to the British Parliament. By winning back lost sovereignty, as envisaged in successive Conservative election manifestos, they say that EU membership can once again be allied with the British national interest.

THERE are so many holes in this argument that one barely knows where to start. David Cameron has already shown he is not inclined to be tough with Brussels, nodding through budget increases and contributions to the Irish bailout while getting nothing in return.

When invited by Zac Goldsmith this week to state that Britain will leave the Common Fisheries Policy unless “discard” arrangements that involve dead fish being tipped back into the sea are abolished, the Prime Minister merely pledged to “work to that end”.

Then there is the fact that  Cameron’s Lib Dem coalition partners are pro-Brussels fanatics who will not countenance any attempt to repatriate sovereignty anyway. But most importantly of all there is the attitude of the European elite towards giving powers back to  individual member states. Only under the most extreme coercion would they even consider it. On the contrary, it is their ambition to take even more power from national  parliaments.

It was ever thus. When Margaret Thatcher battled for the British budget rebate a generation ago it was only by threatening to block all EU business that she got a hearing.
 
In the Commons on Tuesday many Tories supported a call by Bill Cash for “a clear and positive policy to repatriate those laws that are now within the European Union, which are deliberately and willfully destroying the British economy”.
 
Few would disagree with that ambition but Mr Hollobone told him: “It is like pushing water uphill.

We are not going to get anywhere with Brussels because it will not see sense on these issues... We have given these things away.”

He added: “I do not see the coalition Government repatriating any powers. For many people it has now come to the issue of whether we are in or out. I do not believe that we can be ‘in Europe but not run by  Europe’. That slogan is, I am afraid, no longer valid.”

If the schism between the Better Off Out group and the repatriators gets much wider then the Conservatives will once more be laid low by splits on Europe.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.
 
For the irony is that the one thing that might persuade Brussels to loosen its grip on the sovereign throat of Britain is if it knew that a referendum of the British people on whether to remain in the EU was on the horizon. If the Prime Minister were to announce there will be such a referendum in, say, two years time then the European Commission would know that it had 24 months to make the British people a  credible offer. It does not wish to lose the UK from the EU, not least because of our enormous budgetary contributions but also because of the precedent a major member  leaving would set.

So the repatriators would suddenly have maximum leverage and the practicality of their mission could be tested. All brands of  sceptics could see what powers Brussels was willing to return under duress and the British people could judge if that was sufficient.

By adopting such a course the Conservatives could maintain party unity on Europe and pursue the British national interest. Otherwise Mr Cameron will make no progress on Europe and may have to prepare for increasingly bitter infighting of the sort that destroyed several of his predecessors.
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Saturday, 8 January 2011

08-Jan-2011 - I TOTALLY SUPPORT Richard's Comment re EUroScepticism BUT!

08-Jan-2011 - I TOTALLY SUPPORT Richard's Comment re EUroScepticism BUT!

A cracked record - by Richard... Saturday, January 08, 2011


I feel a bit like Robin Horbury here, who writes a fine piece on Biased BBC himself complaining about feeling like a "cracked record". You can only keep on saying the same things over and over again for so long before even you get tired of your own voice.

Another thing I also get a little bit tired of is being branded the "bad sod", the one who is always out on his own, who can't join in and put his weight behind the common cause.

That much has been put to me about the Referendum Campaign and also the anti-EU campaign in the Daily Express, which has culminated in the publication today of a 23-page booklet, telling us that we must, "Get Britain out of the EU".

It is not, of course, that we do not agree with the sentiment, but the front cover tells you everything you need to know about the eurosceptic thinking in this country. Redolent of the famous 1940 Low cartoon (inset below), it has the trademark Express crusader standing on the cliffs of Dover, looking out toward the Continent – where (by inference) the "enemy" exist.

And here the "cracked record" comes in. The EU is not a foreign construct imposed on us. Our government is an enthusiastic part of the EU nexus and the only reason we are in the EU is because Parliament permits it. It is not looking over the Channel to the Continent that our brave crusader needs to be doing. He needs to be looking inwards, tearing down the gates of Westminster. The enemy is within.

That said, if there was any doubt that the Express had lodged itself in the last century, we just need to read the offering from editor Peter Hill, where the tone – and content – would be familiar to anyone who had attended UKIP meetings ... of the '90s.

All the buzz-words are there, "sovereignty", the mandatory reference to "Napoleon" and "Hitler", the "wine and milk lakes" and the "butter and grain mountains", not forgetting, of course, the swipe at the "superstate".

I have written too many pieces on this blog about the fate of euroscepticism to want to repeat them, but in the forty years, on an off, that I've been fighting the EU, I would like to think I've learnt a thing or two about the enemy, and how to fight it.

Mr Peter Hill of the Express, however, doesn't appear to have learnt a thing, and the eurosceptic movement is a moribund as ever if that is the best it has to offer. In that sense, the movement itself is the cracked record, endless repeating the same tired, jaded message, while the world carries out without it.

We have to be capable of doing better than that and, until we can, I want no part of it.
To view Dr. Richard North's Original Article CLICK HERE

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08-Jan-2011 - I TOTALLY SUPPORT Richard's Comment re EUroScepticism BUT!

NOW for the 'BUT' - yes I do agree with Richard however I find myself in the position where age and health are taking their toll on my time/energy to fight the good fight, not for myself as I have enjoyed my life and made much of it BUT because I feel I should do all I can to give the future a chance - something I increasingly KNOW it does not have, unless those of the future value increased overpopulation mostly due to over copulation!

In my lifetime ie since 1945 the human population of this planet has risen, so far, from just a tad under 2 Billion people to just short of 7 Billion - of course this has led on its margins to the stripping of forests to build and to create more agricultural space and living room.

First things first - perhaps someone can explain why in Communist China 28% of economic activity is that of The State yet in Britain we now have 53% of economic activity and employment State controlled yet we have absolutely no say over our destiny and are denied the fundamental human right of Self Determination.

When will we be accorded that fundamental human right, when will Democracy be re-patriated, when will we have the right to vote to determine our own future.

When will we have our IN or OUT Referendum on membership of the malign, malevolent and staggeringly damaging Evils of a centralised undemocratic EUropean Union.

It has always been said that the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter when he blows up and kills substantial numbers of an authoritarian political class is that the terrorist has access to a ballot box but a freedom fighter does not and thus his actions are honourable.

Since we are clearly denied the access to the ballot box on the ONE AND ONLY issue that matters when do YOU consider blowing up a gathering of Politicians would be acceptable?

For a self styled and self serving Political class to set rules as to what WE whom they supposedly serve should be allowed to vote on they have clearly lost the plot and it starts to look as if they NEED to be blown up.

I do agree with Richard when he states he can not choose to be associated with the limp wristed misrepresentation of the fact that The EU is NOT our enemy - our enemy are those who betray us at and via Westminster - You will note they cleverly removed the Treason Laws and in 1998 finally removed the death penalty for their criminal behaviour!

Unlike Richard I find I lack the courage to stand nobly by and watch my Country being destroyed and therefore I have chosen to conjoin with what can only be described as the lesser of the evils and use the weak and wishy washy to point out the undeniably corrupt and dishonest. Perhaps I can help put lead in the pencil of the pusillanimous! I can but try in what time energy is granted to me ;-)

When is our Referendum and the RIGHT to self Determination and failing that when shall we start hanging Politicians from lamp posts. Obscene as the action was let us for a moment think of Gabrielle Giffords fighting for survival after finding herself the victim of some crazed youngster encouraged it seems by her having been in the 'Cross Hairs' of Sahra Palin's utterly irresponsible self interested advertising campaign where Congress Woman Gabrielle Giffords was featured as a target, overlayed with the Cross Hairs of a rifle sight!

Gabrielle Giffords' crime was not selling out her Country and her peoples to foreign rule and profligate centralised governance of a wholly debased and alien nature but actively voting, with the best of intentions, for Health Care for all!
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Tuesday, 7 December 2010

07-Dec-2010 - EXPRESS show British Believe The EU Harms Britain

07-Dec-2010 - EXPRESS show British Believe The EU Harms Britain

EU CRUSADE: MOST AGREE BEING IN EU HAS HARMED BRITAIN

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Statistics follow the Daily Express crusade to get Britain out of the EU.
Tuesday December 7,2010

 

By Macer Hall

NEARLY two thirds of Britons believe our country has been damaged by membership of the European Union, an opinion poll revealed last night.
Some 59 per cent of voters said Brussels has had a “negative” impact on the UK.
And for the first time in nearly four decades, almost half of them think we should quit the EU.
Public opposition to the EU appears to be hardening after billions of taxpayers’ money was poured into bail-outs for failing euro-zone economies.
The evidence of growing disillusionment with Brussels was revealed in a survey of more than 2,000 voters across the country by pollsters Angus Reid.
It follows the launch of the Daily Express crusade to get Britain out of the EU.
Last night, Eurosceptic campaigners seized on the findings as confirmation that the time has come for the UK to quit.
Tory MP Douglas Carswell said: “This is very encouraging. It shows there is a huge number of people in the country who feel really strongly about this.
“Only the Daily Express and a few MPs at Westminster are speaking up for them. This is why the Daily Express needs to carry on with its crusade against Britain staying in the EU.
“This poll shows that wanting to leave the EU is no longer a fringe issue but has reached the mainstream of political opinion in this country.”


The poll found 30 per cent thought EU membership had been “very negative” for the UK while another 29 per cent said it had been “moderately negative”.
Even more significant was the growing support among voters for withdrawal.
Asked how they would vote if a referendum on EU membership was held in Britain, 48 per cent said they would vote against staying in the EU.
In June, the figure was 42 per cent, indicating support for withdrawal has grown. Only 27 per cent now want to stay in the EU.
Voters strongly oppose scrapping the pound. Eighty per cent said they would vote No in a ­referendum on whether Britain should join the euro, with just eight per cent in favour. UK ­Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, said: “This poll shows what people have known for a long time, but politicians refuse to acknowledge: EU membership is damaging our country.
“According to the three ­questions asked by the pollsters the answers are: we don’t like it, we don’t want it and we want to leave. Will our political class finally listen?”


Read more: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/215934/Most-agree-being-in-EU-has-harmed-Britain/EU-crusade-Most-agree-being-in-EU-has-harmed-Britain#ixzz17jiNXhjX
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Sunday, 31 October 2010

** - Nikki SINCLAIRE GETS A LETTER IN THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH re THE PETITION - 31-Oct-2010

** - Nikki SINCLAIRE GETS A LETTER IN THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH re THE PETITION - 31-Oct-2010
SIR –

The British people have never had a say on the nature of our current relationship with the EU. We are promised that a petition of 100,000 would trigger a Commons debate on EU membership.


I have been overwhelmed by the support for my petition calling for a debate on Britain’s continued membership and look forward to delivering it to Downing Street shortly.
Despite being a committed Eurosceptic, I will accept and abide by whatever decision the people make – the challenge I am laying down is for the pro-EU lobby to make that same commitment.
Nikki Sinclaire MEP
Brussels
To view the original letter CLICK HERE
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