@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?

Well, that was a nice holiday

10 days in Búzios. Nice.

Ah well, back to reality.

Why capitalism and libertarian conservatism are better than socialism….