On the Sky News coverage of (Conservative Leader) "call me Dave" visit to Torbay today, to shore up Marcus Woods’ stuttering bid for election, the gathered Tory claque cheered the announcement that Dave would “Never again allow sovereign powers of the UK to be ceded to Europe without a referendum.”

This is total claptrap designed to mislead the public. Firstly, the Lisbon Treaty is self-amending. This means that there is no need for Brussels to ever again obtain the UK's signature to any measure it decides to take. So the issue of whether we agree or not is completely irrelevant. Dave's promise is worthless.

Secondly, what value could we place on a promise from Dave anyway? Is this promise even more definite than the “cast iron guarantee” that he gave us last time he promised a referendum on EU membership?

The truth is that Dave loves the EU and is quite happy for us all to suffer so a few of his chums can snout around in the trough that we fill with our hard-earned taxes. When will he and his Tory spin-doctors understand that the public has seen through his deceits? Thursday, 6 May perhaps?

British taxpayers ordered to bail out euro

Britain faces paying out billions of pounds under a European Union deal intended to prevent another financial crisis like the one in Greece.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/7696870/British-taxpayers-ordered-to-bail-out-euro.html

Royal Bank of Scotland blames EU for new wave of UK job cuts

European Union for forcing it to cut 2,600 jobs, EU pressure was given as the main reason for the cuts

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/rbs-blames-eu-for-new-wave-of-uk-job-cuts-tele-f29575756675.html?x=0

BBC1 News at 10.00 (30/04/2010( ran a piece on whether the LibLabCons could really tackle immigration....and concluded that because out of every 8 immigrants to come here only one came from outside the EU - they most certainly could not. So all the talk of caps and points was shown on national TV to be so much hogwash. As the BBC then helpfully pointed out the only national party to be able to solve the problem, by leaving the EU are er... UKIP !

Proposals, backed by France and Germany, to create an “economic government of the EU” headed by the *unelected European President Herman Van Rompuy are extremely alarming.

At worst they will result in the final removal of sovereignty from all EU member nations. At best they will prove that any country joining the euro must cede control over its tax and spending policy as well as its interest and exchange rates.

This will come as no surprise to those who always understood that a single currency could not possibly work without a single, all-powerful government at its heart.

In any event, this new package of powers for Brussels shows that the price demanded of EU members in terms of the loss of national democratic accountability is being raised yet again.

Britain already pays a heavy financial price for its membership and the benefits bestowed by belonging are increasingly hard to identify. So an awkward question that none of the so-called “mainstream” parties wishes to address is raised: wouldn’t it

be better to leave?

FOREIGN BENEFITS SCANDAL HITS BRITISH TAXPAYERS (24 th March Daily Express newspaper)

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/164813

A LANDMARK ruling that allows jobless migrants to claim benefits in Britain for their children living in their home country sparked outrage last night.

That allows children in countries including Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to receive benefits from British taxpayers. The handouts have been described as a "kick in the teeth" to hard-working Britons who are subsidising them.

The loophole in EU legislation goes against UK law, which states: "No child benefit shall be payable in respect of a child for a week unless he is in Great Britain in that week."

Gerard Batten, UKIP MEP for London warned more EU nationals would come to the UK, which ranks as one of the highest paying countries in Europe for child benefit.

Mr Batten said: "We were already paying child benefit for children living abroad, and now EU citizens themselves on benefits in the UK can claim child benefit for children they left at home.

"We already provide an international health service that treats people from all over the world, and now we will provide an international benefits service. Many EU citizens will naturally gravitate to those countries with the most generous benefits systems " especially Britain. How can a country that is "1.5trillion in debt pay benefits to the children of non-citizens who live abroad? It"s completely bonkers."

Tuesday, 9th March 2010

The Foreign Secretary, William Hague and the Lib/Dems, Ed Davey have all agreed Turkey should join the EU.

"They seem to care more about the Levant than they do about the UK", said Nigel Farage. "In order to appear inclusive they reject the opinion of a vast majority of their own country. "Between them the three establishment parties show yet again the utter contempt they feel for the people of Britain. No poll has ever suggested that Turkish entry into the EU would be anything other than wildly against the wishes of Britain".

"To witter on about immigration policy in the EU as Ed Davey did is absurd, and if he doesn't know it then he should resign from his post. The fact is that the UK can do nothing about immigration from within the EU, and if Turkey was to join then 74 million Turks could, if they wished, move here. The provisions available to stop them are meaningless as the evidence from Bulgaria and Romania has shown." he went on.

"Milliband says it is 'remarkable' that there is agreement amongst the three establishment parties. It is not remarkable at all. They all believe that Britain should cease to be a self governing country, just as they agree we should remain in the EU. They are a shower who deserve to be thrown out of all their offices as soon as this election finally comes."

The three establishment party Foreign spokesman were talking at the Chatham House on Friday.

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British taxpayers ordered to bail out euro

Britain faces paying out billions of pounds under a European Union deal intended to prevent another financial crisis like the one in Greece.

THE COST OF BELONGING TO THE EU IS SIMPLY TOO HIGH

FOREIGN BENEFITS SCANDAL HITS BRITISH TAXPAYERS (24 th March Daily Express newspaper)