If you only watch one Youtube video today….

….please watch this one….

The complete Eurobarometer survey, “Public opinion in the European Union”, sponsored by the EU’s own General Communication Directorate, can be found here.

@Nigel_Farage – “We are the Opposition”

Also, a couple of letters in today’s Telegraph, one from Nigel himself, highlight the rank hypocrisy of the Tory Party (who’s leader, the EU Viceroy in Downing Street, is proud to belong to its euro skeptic wing) on British foreign policy, human rights and the European Arrest Warrant….

Alien rule of law

SIR – William Hague (Comment, August 31) says that strong institutions and the rule of law “take a long time to build and must be constantly nurtured”.

Should he not, therefore, express concern that more than 1,000 British citizens have been sent abroad under the European Arrest Warrant?

He must also be aware of the extent to which British sovereignty was signed away in the Lisbon Treaty, how our rule of law, the great British tradition of habeas corpus, has gone and how, as EU citizens, we are now subject to European law, the Code Napoleon.

If this is what being an EU citizen means, I for one would rather be out of it.

Michael Gardner
Tadcaster, North Yorkshire

SIR – William Hague shows his keen sense of irony by saying that human rights are key to British foreign policy, one week after cutting the budget on human rights monitoring by £560,000.

“Foreign policy is domestic policy written large,” he suggests. Yes, but to a large extent, foreign policy is now written by the European Union, and Mr Hague supports the funding of the EU’s External Action Service in which 100 EU diplomats earn more each year than he does.

While the Government cheer-leads the closure of British embassies around the globe (accompanied by the opening of EU embassies in their place), and supports an EU voice at the UN to the detriment of British interests, Mr Hague cannot speak of defending a British foreign policy, nor a British domestic policy, while such a huge proportion of laws are made in Brussels and rubber-stamped by his Government.

Nigel Farage MEP (UKIP)
Brussels

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Leon Brittan….£500 a day for a failed politician

You couldn’t make it up.

Downing Street announced yesterday that Our Prime Minister, who is a “proud member” (it says here) of the eurosceptic wing of the Conservative party, has hired confirmed europhile, Lord Brittan, 24 years after being booted out of the Thatcher cabinet, to work towards “removing trade barriers and stimulating investment” for British business.

As is often the case, Nigel Farage has a few choice words for politicians who are shuffled off to Brussels and recalled after a few years to inflict yet more damage on our national interest….

For all the good Brittan will do for British interests and British business both within and without the EU, particularly small to medium-sized businesses, they might as well have hired Michael Foot….posthumously. It would have been cheaper too.

Conveniently, the European Union Viceroy is on holiday and unavailable for comment.

Nigel Farage and Tony Benn….fighting for democracy in Europe

Strange bedfellows?

Not when it comes to the question of democracy and liberty….

Tony Benn, David Owen and Norman Tebbit on democracy….

Tony Benn and David Davis on liberty….

Cottoned on yet?

The apple never falls very far from the tree

Off-message news from the BBC….

"Oink, son." "Oink, Mam, Oink, Dad."

The leader of Denmark’s main opposition party says she made a “big and sloppy error” by giving incorrect information to the Danish authorities about her husband, Stephen Kinnock.

Social Democrat leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt was speaking after the Danish tabloid newspaper BT had accused her husband of evading Danish taxes.

Mr Kinnock is the son of Lord Kinnock, the former UK Labour Party leader.

When it comes to playing fast and loose with public money, of course Stephen had the finest education money can buy.

That blasted horse has gone and bolted again….let’s lock the stable door

Remember those heady days….ooh….about a month ago when the Coalition came up with a cracking wheeze to make us feel that they actually represent us and that our vote means something? Remember the ‘Programme for Government’?

Well, with what some might think is indecent haste (surely they can’t have prepared the answers before launching the programme), they’ve answered our questions, so in the interest of spreading the joy around a bit let’s take a closer look at this revolutionary exercise in open government. Dear reader, I give you the Coalition’s Response to public comments on the Coalition Government’s approach to Europe….

We understand that so many of you feel jaded and sceptical about the EU. Speaking about the EU in Parliament, the Foreign Secretary said he knows there is “a profound disconnection between the British people and what has been done in their name by British Governments”.

Correct. We want a referendum on our continued membership.

We want to deal with this.

Excellent! Here’s an idea; why don’t we have a referendum on our continued membership or the repeal of 1972 European Communities Act?

That is why we have said we will not agree to any further transfer of sovereignty or powers from the UK to the EU during this Parliament. We are committed to ensuring that the British people have their say on any future proposed transfers of powers to the EU. So we are introducing a law to ensure that any future EU Treaty that transfers competences or areas of power from the UK to the EU will be subject to a referendum.

Further transfer of sovereignty? Setting aside for a moment the fact that Parliament, in ratifying the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty, replaced a millennium of Anglo-Saxon Common Law with the Code Napoleon at a stroke,  What sovereignty would that be, and at precisely what point did EU opt-outs cease to be “cosmetic”?

As a result of our EU membership British firms can sell their products and services in the 27 countries which make up the Single Market. That’s 500 million potential customers.

So all trade with the EU would automatically end if we withdrew?  That seems a pretty bold assumption to make given that our balance of trade within the EU is negative.

Doing things through the EU helps in other ways  too: from the laws that protect our birds as they migrate between the British Isles and Africa,  to working with other EU countries to get our collective voice heard in world affairs.

Ah yes, the birds, high minded stuff. What do you suppose Deborah Dark and Michael Turner think about the birds?

The Coalition Government wants to listen to what you have to say on this issue and, where there’s room for improvement, act on it.

Ripper! Have I mentioned a referendum yet?

The ratification of Lisbon was no less than an act of High Treason. Our right to a referendum must be upheld by Parliament and then we should decide what to do with the perpetrators. Mealy-mouthed platitudes on a website are no substitute for democracy.

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