Roger Helmer Fires A Salvo

Forgive me for seeing the funny side of all this, but why is it that the EU's enemies and its friends are both equally desperate for Cameron to declare his hand over the Lisbon treaty right now? You would have thought that one side or the other would be for and the other against him taking up position to fight.

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Boris Johnson Refuses To Lick President Blair's Arse

Johnson said: “If we are faced with the prospect of Tony Blair suddenly emerging, suddenly pupating into an intergalactic spokesman for Europe, then I think the British people deserve a say on it ... I do think it would be right for such a debate to be held, particularly if the upshot of the Lisbon treaty is going to produce President Blair.

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Merkel Offers Cameron Electoral Rocket Fuel

The BBC are running as a lead news story today an attempted put-down of David Cameron. The grievance is being expressed by Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union Party, who are mightily miffed, so it seems, that Cameron dared to exit the EPP, and they are clearly now worried by the statements he is making about a possible referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Britain.

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EU Adopts Nazi Symbols

Do you remember the logo Gordon Brown was given for the new EU-backed international financial supervisory body in February 2008, at the Progressive Governance Summit? (Above). See original story HERE. It was a swastika. A British Prime Minister was using a swastika! Well take a good look at the new logo for so-called new 'British' Supreme Court just opening for business this week.

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SUN/Cameron Deal Confirms Lisbon Treaty Is Lost

The pundits are all hard at work this morning. What does The Sun's switch of support from Labour to Conservative mean, coming at this moment? The Editor says the orders for the change come right from the top, in other words from Rupert Murdoch himself. Why now?


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French Europe Minister Fears Irish Referendum Slap In Face

it is a very uncertain campaign". He continued: "Whatever happens, Europe will keep on going because we do not have a choice...there is a lot of work to do in the energy, immigration, industry and social fields, and we are not going to stop. So we will find solutions if ever we were faced with such a situation (as a second NO vote)."

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The EU Is Making Paedophilia Legal Across Europe

The EU is setting up a bureau for the 116000 children who go missing in the EU every year, all very laudable to try and find them, I would agree - except the bureau is in fact called 'the missing and sexually exploited children bureau', with a remit to intervene in any situation where allegations are made by one citizen on another, so the children to be apprehended don't even need to be missing.

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Irish YES Campaign Make Monkeys Of Themselves

The best way to decide if you are hurting your political enemies with your campaign material is to see what kind of response they make, if any. On that basis, the COIR Campaign can see clearly that the YES side is rattled. And they can be sure beyond doubt that it is their poster campaign that has hurt the YES campaign the most.

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Conservatives Will Rebel Against Ratified Treaty

That is a change in emphasis from previous policy, seemingly not noticed by The Telegraph. It was previously stated that if the Treaty is not ratified by the election, and the Conservatives win power, they would simply call an immediate referendum. Now Hague says that he would wait to see what new proposals are going to be made by the EU.

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Anger Overcomes Fear To Defeat Lisbon In Ireland

The two Irish referendum campaigns are assuming different characteristics. The YES campaign is focused entirely on economics - with its 'Yes To Lisbon, Yes To Jobs' appeal to the pocket. The NO campaign is far less rational, but no less powerful for that... this time it is not fear that is driving the NO campaign onwards to its second victory, but anger.

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Obama Soils Himself At The UN

President Obama's speech to the UN General Assembly was historic in that it represented what ex-UN Ambassador John Bolton aptly called a post-American speech by our first post-American president. And it expanded on th etheme of his famous Cairo speech, that America is to blame for the world's ills and so is Israel

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Irish NO Campaign Plays Its Charms

It's very interesting to see a political message depart from the mainstream media and even from speech. It's the way for suppressed political movements to go - to express rebellion,youth, hope and identity in other ways. It's a bit like the YES have tried to make NO illegal, which has made NO the sexiest possible thing to say, do, draw, sing or wear.

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COIR Says NO is Pulling Ahead

This is the first claim made on the Coir website about the success of their campaign. There is no reason to disbelieve it. The rationale for the NO gaining ground that it gives, reads as if it's well thought through, intelligent and genuine, in my opinion.

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More Evidence Of EUtopian Bitterness And Desperation

Just as the polls in Ireland at last provide evidence that the NO side will win the Referendum in Ireland, and as it becomes clear that Vaclav Klaus in the Czech Republic will not be signing the Lisbon Treaty any time soon , the rhetoric from the EUtopians gets ever more desperate.

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Do The Irish Want A British President?

The Brown collapse has changed things. The EU are not only sure Brown would lose an election, which wouldn't worry them if by then Ireland had ratified Lisbon, and the Czechs and Poles. They are now worrying if Brown will even make it to the election...



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Betting In Irish Lisbon Referendum Neck & Neck

Here are the betting odds offered in London today by Paddy Power.YES - 4/7 i.e. win £1.57 per £1. NO - 5/4 i.e win £2.25 per £i. The betting is now neck and neck.
'So what?' you might think ! Well, yesterday the price for a NO bet was 11/2. That's what !

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Lisbon Is The Battle Of Britain

With a complex strategic and tactical battle, the first aim should be to get your opponents to fight in the wrong place, and the Lisbon Treaty negotiations and ratification should be seen not as the main attack. The EU is accruing power over us on a daily basis, seen and unseen, and Lisbon makes little difference to that.

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The EU Abandons Democracy.

It reports that, several "leading EU politicians digress from the thesis that the Lisbon Treaty is necessary for the effective functioning of the enlarged EU. The new message is that, without the Lisbon Treaty, the EU would be as capable of acting as hitherto."

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EUtopians Bury Lisbon's Corpse And Run For Cover

It seems that the NO side in the Irish referendum campaign no longer have to come up with their own campaign slogans. They are getting all their best material from the YES side, who are beginning to openly admit that the Lisbon Treaty is a mistake, a dead duck, and not even necessary.

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Do Something Popular, Mr. Cameron!

The moment when we discover whether Mr. David Cameron is a politician of genuine principle and valour or simply a gutless mountebank may be fast approaching. If the opinion polls being touted about are correct, then the Irish are about to make serious fools out of themselves by concluding that when they said "No!" they really meant "Yes".

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Conservatives Prepare To Fight Lisbon

In recent days on Conservative Home I have been writing in the comments, drawing attention to the various signals being sent out by members of the Conservative Shadow Cabinet, notably Hague and Francois, and eurosceptic MEPs Hannan and Helmer. These are all indicating a changing position on the Lisbon Treaty.

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Another Tory MEP Signals Lisbon Referendum Is Now A Certainty

..It was as if Roger Helmer knew something which permitted him to offer a hardening of Cameron and Hague's previous rather vague statement. Now we have another nudge and a wink - this time coming in more definite terms, from another well known Conservative eurosceptic MEP. Dan Hannan is offering more clues..

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Something Stinks At Top Of UKIP

The only part of this story that everyone agrees on is that the UKIP Treasurer, formerly the EU's Head Accountant, Marta Andreasen, and the Party Leader Nigel Farage have both resigned from UKIP a few days apart from each other. That's where clarity ends.


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Sensational Change To Conservative Lisbon Policy Signalled In A Blog

Strangely no one has yet realised how big a change it represents. The source is Roger Helmer MEP Conservative for East Midlands, who is not known for wild statements, which are not approved by the Party leadership.

Roger Helmer MEP said...


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A Cowardly Lack Of National Leadership

Gordon Brown has rightly been attacked for his evasions and obfuscations over the release of the Libyan mass murderer Al-Megrahi, in particular for evading the question of what his opinion on the matter might be. One might think that this is as spectacular a lack of National Leadership as one might find in a politician. Not so, for David Cameron is guilty of a far greater one.

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To Nobody's Surprise

It is usual for British Prime Ministers and others in senior government posts who are on the point of yet another Quisling spasm of surrender to the EU to proclaim that whatever shameful act he is about to do is about 'putting Great Britain at the heart of Europe'. Sooner or later, and usually sooner, The EU in turn utterly traduces what ever the UK was promised in the latest such squalid deal.

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EU Battles In Germany Intensify

News is trickling out from inside Germany, that is as reported in the German media, but not internationally, that one hell of a tussle for power is in process, with pro-EU lawyers trying to neutralise the decision of the German Constitutional Court, while less EU-favourable politicians try to consolidate the decision and ensure that Germany is set free from the effects of the Lisbon Treaty.

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Von Stauffenberg To Prevent EU Totalitarianism

I see the way to [the Constitutional Court] as a last resort,” the Count said, “and had hoped that we could compel a re-think through an ordinary democratic manner, through argument, debate, and public pressure. This has totally failed..... This Europe is no longer compatible with the basic structures of a democratic legal state.”


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German Fancy Dress Party To Explode Lisbon

The article notes that these differences seriously threaten the timetable set out for passing the legislation on the Lisbon Treaty and therefore ratification of the Treaty before the referendum in Ireland. The first reading in the parliament is expected on 26 August.

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What global warming was that?

Some excitement on Watts up with that about a new peer reviewed scientific paper claiming that the surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean (the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO). The paper is described as "presenting a head on challenge to man-made global warming claims"....

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Clive Betts: Sleazocrat & Porkocrat

Is Clive Betts (see this in the Times) the suino di tutti suini, the Porker of All Porkers? Maybe, maybe not, as Jonathan Djanogly seems to be making a play for the Title. Readers will have their own candidates for which MP is the biggest porker of them all but there is something particularly 'Animal Farm' about Mr. Betts.
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German Parliament Will Tell The Kids When To Come Home

To my way of thinking, it asks a question of the German Parliament and that question is simply 'are you sure you want to legislate away the democratic rights of the German people?.


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Masquerade In Iran

Are Mousavi and his followers in Iran an actual reform movement? The pictures of student demonstrators in Tehran being brutalized by the basij and Iranian security forces present a heart-rending spectacle. But there is very little evidence that the label of "democratic reform," attached to Mousavi and many of his followers, is anything but a masquerade.


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Sharia Rapidly Innundating The UK

Ever since the UK caved in and allowed sharia courts legal jurisdiction in civil matters, the face of used-to-be-Great Britain has changed remarkably, as sharia courts metasize and dispense Islamic justice behind closed doors. This is simply a green light for Islamists like the MCB to essentially create a state within a state.

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"Cut IVF on the NHS" - and fake charities

"Fury as NHS trust says only women between 39.5 and 40 years old can have IVF", reports the Daily Mail. It's NICE and those unaccountable NHS managers again. Commenters on their site don't share this "fury", saying their NHS money should be for curing illness. Infertility Network UK do object. But then they are a fake charity. ...

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This is what happens when you borrow too much

One of today's most interesting news items is hidden away in the business section on the Guardian's site. Yes, it does have one. It's for articles with numbers in them. But this is about far more than numbers. It is about hard choices to be made in government, a core concern of politics....

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Brown downgrades penalties for expenses fiddlers

It will not save those already caught in the glare of the Daily Telegraph's headlights, but Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman et al. are working hard to ensure that any MP caught in future with his or her trotter in the trough will not have to face very much jail time, if any. That is if we have the chance to catch them at it.
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The Moving Finger Wrote

Parliament has given us two fingers. Only an immediate General Election will now do. This Parliament has no moral authority to speak of and must be effaced before it does yet more harm. Meanwhile I am reminded of this from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
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Expenses: The Commons Exocets Itself

Thinking to sink HMS Telegraph, the House of Commons this morning fired off an Exocet missile in the form of publishing its own thoroughly bowdlerized version of their expenses. All they will have achieved thereby is many more hectares of newsprint and gigabytes of internet coverage as their attempt to cover up the extent of their larceny stands exposed.
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Tory Dishonour

It sometimes seems to mere mortals that the Conservative Party does not actually WANT to win the next General Election. How else to explain Ken Clarke's freshest act of disloyalty to his party and his country in which he decided without so much as 'by your leave' to set Tory policy on the EU, notwithstanding that this is not his brief?
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