Wreckers or Builders?: A History of Labour Members of the European Parliament 1979-1999
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Former UKIP MEP Tom Wise faces up to seven years in jail after being convicted of false accounting yesterday. Wise embezzled £36,000 of taxpayers’ money into a secret bank account - £3,500 of which was spent on two bottles of wine. The funds were from his £3,000-a-month secretarial allowance, of which ...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A former MEP was facing jail after he admitted fiddling £36,000 of staff expenses.
Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wolverhampton's Liberal Democrat Euro MP Liz Lynne has backed the International Day of Action Against Uranium Weapons by repeating her call for the UK and other EU states to ban Depleted Uranium weapons.
倫敦藝術大學台灣資訊網 (Free subscription) | yesterday
台灣護照持有者 明年”可能”可以入境申根國免簽證 British MEP Charles Tannock has been successful in his long-running campaign to make it easier for the Taiwanese to visit Europe. It follows news that from January 1 Taiwan citizens are set to enjoy visa-free status when...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- As of December 1 Amelia Andersdotter will become Europe’s youngest MEP, and the second for the Swedish wing of the Pirate Party — Piratpartiet, locally — the world’s first and only global political organisation. She says on her website posted, obviously, before she was named as an MEP »»» My [...]
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nikki given US pledge on UK identitySaturday, 7th November 2009UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire has secured a pledge from the US Secretary of State of Homeland Security to protect the British identity of UK citizens travelling to the United States. The West Midlands MEP this week welcomed Janet Napolitano, America's first female head of Homeland Security, to “the pedantic European Parliament” and...
UKIP (Free subscription) | yesterday
UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire has secured a pledge from the US Secretary of State of Homeland Security to protect the British identity of UK citizens travelling to the United States. The West Midlands MEP this week welcomed Janet Napolitano, America's first female head of Homeland Security, to “the pedantic European Parliament” and highlighted the better quality of freedom of speech that is...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tony Blair was no enthusiast for Proportional Representation. He gave it to new bodies to indicate that he didn't think they mattered. But his introduction of the party list system for Strasbourg, while certainly having that motivation, also had another. The old European Parliamentary Labour Party had been a rich seam of dissent over many long years. Almost all of it was duly purged. To that end, the...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a flavour of what the TUV leader Jim Allister has been directing at the DUP in his party’s annual conference address. According to Allister Peter Robinson consulted a doctor (joke) on the wellbeing of his party. Dialogue went as follows: “Is it political swine flu ? ” Peter asked. “No” said the doctor. “Your problem:TUV it is. TUVITIS”...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | yesterday
BOOTLE-BORN UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall has announced he is stepping down as chairman of the party.
British Loans (Free subscription) | yesterday
Enigmatic Black British Politician , Joseph Obi , has just re-confirmed that he will will not be available for any Public Speaking Engagements till sometime in Early Spring 2010 . Professor Joseph Obi would therefore like to profusely apologize to all those who were unable to secure his presence during the Upcoming Yuletide Festivities . Please kindly continue to visit the Official 2014 MEP Campaign...
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Swiss are to vote on whether Mosques should have minarets on them. I noticed that on Thursday's Question Time, Robert Kilroy-Silk's point that we were never given a vote on mass immigration was particularly strong with the audience, and this is, I suppose, one of the ways in which immigration, or the impact thereof, could be voted upon by the public - if we were given a vote about whether mosques...
Next Left (Free subscription) | yesterday
An interesting report on Think Progress flags up the growing discord between populist right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, in what could prove an important schism within the US right. This time the occasion is a blame game is over the Democratic victory in a safe Republican congressional district , after a heated schism in which prominent movement conservatives...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
You may not share Daniel Hannan's rightwing views, but at least he has the courage to stand up for his Eurosceptic beliefs In the years since I first met Dan Hannan I have grown used to all sorts of labels being attached to his name – "loony" seems to be a favourite of the left, while even David Cameron called his views on the NHS " eccentric ". Now he is being accused of...
Campaign For Liberty Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By Matt Hawes As part of our Operation Health Freedom series , British MEP Daniel Hannan talks about the National Health Service (NHS), England's publicly-funded health care system, and looks at why it is so difficult to reform such a system once people get used to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5vSkpIFByk Click here to view a version without edited clips.
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