Archive for the ‘EU’ Category

POLITICS: Petition against the Lisbon Treaty

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

The EU is forging relentlessly ahead with the ratification of the Lisbon treaty. This despite the recent ‘NO’ vote from EIRE which should have seen it dead and buried. If you have even the slightest belief in the concept of democracy let our deceitful government know your feelings by signing the following petition at No. 10 Downing Street. The very concept that a government is supposedly voted for ‘by the people for the people’ seems a concept they are struggling with:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Abandon-Lisbon/

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POLITICS: EU Referendum - Vote here!

Thursday, September 27th, 2007


It doesn’t matter whether you want to be in the EU or not. The important factor is that democracy should decide. Gordon Brown thinks he knows better than asking the British people - unforgivable.

One more EU referendum petition for you to sign, it’s the Sun newspapers’. Hardly the most arresting piece of literature but another popular voice for the cause non the less.

If you believe in democracy, sign it: www.thesun.co.co/eu

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POLITICS: The thin end of the wedge?

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

My elder brother mailed me the following link British Army may turn to foreign bullets

I find such a development extremely worrying. We are in the UK, after all, an island nation. Is it not bad enough that we source a vast percentage of our food from abroad (thanks to the shambolic way the current Labour government has treated farmers and failed to police the vice-like grip of supermarkets on our produce procurement)? No, it seems our electorate are ploughing headlong into scenario where, without the support of the EU, we will be emasculated in every conceivable way.

Here is the thin end of a (very large) wedge. In fact, many would argue the thin end passed us by many moons ago and this is merely another single case of our independence as a nation being signed away.

I ask you, what sense does it make for an island nation to be reliant on others for fuel, food, lawmaking, defence, border control? And yet these decisions are no longer within the power of the UK government to make alone. Is this what layman people in the UK, who believe the EU is a good thing for Britain, really want? Can anyone sensibly argue we will be better off run by the people who thought up the woeful Euro currency, the Hips packs, a borderless journey from EU member state to EU member state, the fortnightly bin collection, countless pieces of red tape for businesses and best of all, the truly worrying EU constitution? This the vision you want for the UK?

These decisions, whilst bad enough to stomach ordinarily, are rendered objectionable by the fact that we, the people of the UK, have never been given a vote on the matter. And with good reason. It is my utmost conviction that were we given said vote, the majority of voters would decline the wholesale surrender of our long fought independence (or more simply, being in the EU).

“Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves. Britain never, never, never, shall be slaves” Or maybe, after all, we shall.

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POLITICS: speakout.co.uk - time for a referendum on Europe?

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Good old Paul Sykes. Not only has he helped bankroll the UKIP party some time back, he has also invested in the ’speakout’ campaign. This campaign is pushing for a referendum on returning 7 key powers back to Britain from Brussels.

Anyone with a passing interest in the UK should take the time to take a look at the website, www.speakout.co.uk

It’s a good, straightforward site, giving lots of easily digestible pieces of information about the EU, its costs and implications.

Whether you are pro or anti EU, a referendum for the electorate can surely be no bad thing. Unless of course you fear the majority of the UK may have different plans for their countries…

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POLITICS: The real reason labour are pushing for road tolls?

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Well, make you own mind up but as ever, it seems there are plenty of things no-one is acknowledging…

Take a look at this post on the EU Referendum site for information. The bottom line: a question as to whether the current government merely wants to introduce road toll charges to bolster the gulf in Gordon Brown’s expenditure.

Go here to read the article.

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POLITICS: EU trying to ban ‘violent’ computer games

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Is there no area of our daily lives the EU doesn’t want to poke its nose? I came across this story on the Macworld UK site and was horrified. Banning violent computer games - do they really think that is the solution to the world’s ills? Do they not recognise sick people are sick people? Do they seriously expect us to believe that if it weren’t for these games we wouldn’t get people committing violent crime and the like? It’s just todays media. It used to the ‘Penny Dreadful’ or far later still comics like ‘Commando’ (which incidentally I noticed it Waterstones you can now get a hardback volume of - good news for me) and the like. Of all the pointless ministerial roles the EU has appointed why doesn’t it go one further and appoint a ‘Minister for Common Sense’?

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