Wreckers or Builders?: A History of Labour Members of the European Parliament 1979-1999
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Roger Helmer says Anglican hierarchy has dropped the gospel in favour of 'the new religion of climate alarmism' A Tory MEP has accused the Church of England of having "abandoned religious faith entirely and taken up the new religion of climate alarmism instead". Roger Helmer, who resigned from the Tory frontbench in Europe when the Westminster leadership dumped its promised referendum on...
Shamik Das - the voice of sport (Free subscription) | yesterday
Surprise, bloody surprise! The Taxpayers’ Alliance have been at it again, peddling lies about the European Union - this time in a cinema ad. We’ve torn it to shreds over on Left Foot Forward , everything from their 13,333 per cent mark-up on the cost of membership and their fabrications about the costs of the Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies to their implausible assertions on...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday
YouTube - Outside the Box TV covers the AL GORE Protest in Portland, Oregon on 11-18-09 - www.alexansary.com Al Gores lies on global warming were confronted by a wide variety of protestors armed to the teeth with facts. Locals in ‘green’ Tennessee town ‘disappointed’ TENNESSEE. Answering allegations that he led a $30 million scam, Mantria CEO Troy Wragg challenged anyone that...
Ellee Seymour (Free subscription) | yesterday
My Eastern Region MEP Robert Sturdy has accused the EU of “a classic fudge” over the appointment of its first president and foreign minister, the two top jobs in Europe. The Belgian Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, is the first president elected by European leaders under the Lisbon Treaty, while Baroness Ashton, former Trade Commissioner, [...]
Bloggers4UKIP (Free subscription) | yesterday
The chairman of the UK Independence Party has said the party will consider an alliance with Jim Allister's TUV in future elections. Paul Nuttall, UKIP MEP for the North West of England, was speaking to the News Letter yesterday after a low-key exploratory visit to the Province.UKIP has only one politician in Northern Ireland at present — Kilkeel councillor Henry Reilly, who defected from the...
Old Holborn (Free subscription) | yesterday
Herman Van Rompuy, the new EU President. Did you vote for him? Did the MEP's vote for him ? No he was appointed by among other our own unelected Prime Minister. He is an avowed Federalist without a shred of a Mandate. Baroness Ashton, never faced an election now the EU 'Foreign Minister' Half a Billion people across Europe have had these two foisted on them. Truly this is the post democratic age. It...
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | yesterday
Britain's Lady Catherine Margaret Ashton will become the new European Union's (EU) foreign policy minister to serve under new EU President Herman van Rompuy of Belgium. She replaces Javier Solana. Lady Catherine Ashton Lady Ashton (52), or formally Baroness Ashton of Upholland, is married to Peter Kellner, the President of YouGov, a pollster, commentator and journalist. Ashton is a member of Labour,...
The Cult of the Dead Fish (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
EU leaders have chosen the Belgian Prime Minister, Herman van Rompuy, to be the first permanent European Council President. The other top job created by the Lisbon Treaty - foreign affairs supremo - has gone to the EU Trade Commissioner, Baroness Catherine Ashton from the UK. Both are seen as consensual politicians with limited foreign policy experience. BBC News Herman Van Rompuy has called for new...
The Cornish Democrat (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Following the Cornish Zetetics call for a coalition of Mebyon Kernow , the Cornish Greens and any other progressive democrats from the Duchy in time for the next general election here's an idea. OK the French Republic is quite different from the United Kingdom, and the problems faced by Brittany and its Celtic sister, Cornwall, are far from identical, but perhaps some ideas can cross the water. To...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smart Balance, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMBL) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hughes outlined several initiatives to drive growth and performance at the Citi Investment Research Small and Midcap Conference.
Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The speech was held during Sverigedemokraterna’s (Sweden Democrats) Landsdagarna (”Nation days”) on 16-18 October 2009. Landsdagarna are held every two years and are Sverigedemokraterna’s highest executive meeting. Kent Ekeroth is the party’s international secretary. Kent ran for MEP in the last election and ended up at a second place in his party, which is an impressive...
Dan Wilson (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
For a long time in Brighton Pavilion, Labour has been shadowboxing. We've had our own fabulous candidate Nancy Platts for two and a half years. The Tories chose David Bull initially and he didn’t really make a mark. The Greens have chosen Belgium based Caroline Lucas and she unsurprisingly continues to be largely absent (she's [...]
UKIP (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A UKIP petition demanding a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU has been launched in the biggest-ever call to arms on the right to have a say over Europe. People will be given the chance to sign up to the petition online, by post or in the street at UKIP stalls run by party supporters. UKIP Leader Nigel Farage said: "This is a real chance for the people of Great Britain to show whoever...
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The DUP has released a 35 page document on the eve of its annual conference under the optimistic title of "Building On Success". If you were to read Peter Robinson's foreword you might conclude that the party is about make a great leap forward. The party leader says that "once again unionism faces a choice in the next few years. Do we build on what we have achieved or risk throwing...
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