Gordon Brown's lies about immigration

Gordon Brown was again today asked about immigration and again trotted out the mantra about the points system that his government have introduced.

What he does not say is that his points system will have no effect whatsoever on the eastern European immigrants who flock to the UK because their countries are members of the EU and they have a legal right to be here.

Blair not wanted in Europe either...

So it looks as if Tony Blair's ambition to become the first president of Europe is going to hit the (gravy train) buffers before he even buys a ticket.

Nicolas Sarkozy, who was initially one of Mr Blair's most vocal supporters, declared that there would be a joint Franco-German candidate for the post.

Of course it will, because as I have often said the EU is a Franco-German stitch-up with the Germans doing politically and economically what they couldn't do militarily twice last century and the French doing what they do best - collaborating with the Germans.

Stop giving our money away...

Each year the Government gives pensioners money - between £200 and £300 - towards their fuel bills, to help them keep warm.

Nothing wrong with that.

But why do pensioners who live aboard get the money?

One guess - yes, the EU.

Under European law, benefits acquired in one member state must be paid to those who move to another.

It is madness that someone who lives in a sunny, warm climate is entitled to money that someone who lives in Barnsley desperately needs.

Gordon, if you want to keep your job - get us out of Europe

Labour crash to another by-election defeat - in supposedly impregnable Glasgow. Another disaster for Gordon Brown. He has the Midas touch in reverse.

Brown said, "We've got to listen and hear people's concerns and that's exactly what we are doing.

"I'm getting on with the job. My task is getting on with the job. It's exactly what people want me to do."

Who are these "people" that Brown constantly refers to who supposedly want him to get "on with the job"? Most people want him to get out of his job.

To be fair to the useless weirdo, many of the problems he faces are not of his own making. However, he can do something about many of them - by simply withdrawing from the European Union.

Ireland says non to Lisbon...

Well done to the Irish - a resounding victory for the No camp.

Will it make any real difference? Sadly, that's also a no.

UPDATE: The Irish government have admitted that they lost. But European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he had spoken to Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen and agreed with him that this was not a vote against the EU.

What planet are these people living on? Of course it was a vote against the EU!

Peter Lilley sticks up for Britain

Last week Peter Lilley stood up and spoke in the House of Commons. Hansard for Tuesday 3 June at 3.35pm, will give you the details, if you want them.

Mr Lilley said that 80 per cent of our laws are now made in Brussels, and Parliament has no power to reject or amend them.

Post Offices closing - it's thanks to an EU directive.
Data Protection Act - it's thanks to an EU directive.
Home Improvement Packs - it's thanks to an EU directive.
Expensive directory enquiries - it's thanks to an EU directive.
Fortnightly rubbish collections - it's thanks to an EU directive.

Mr Lilley suggested that MPs’ pay should be cut each time they hand over authority to others. "Few voters, or even members of this house, fully realise how many powers have been, or are about to be, transferred elsewhere," he said. "There are three reasons for this. The first is that governments of all persuasions deny that any significant powers are being transferred.

"The second is that, once powers have been transferred, Ministers engage in a charade of pretence that they still retain those powers. Even when introducing measures that they are obliged to bring in as a result of an EU directive they behave as though the initiative were their own.

"Indeed, Ministers often end up nobly accepting responsibility for laws that they actually opposed when they were being negotiated in Brussels."

Get us out of the EU... now!

EU have to get off the bus

Yet more lunacy from the EU.

Passengers on a route in Newquay have to get off partway through their journey because their driver is not allowed to drive more than 31 consecutive miles. Thanks to the Driving Times And Rest Periods Directive which came into force last April, drivers are forbidden from covering more than 31 miles at any point in a single trip – unless they have a 45-hour period off in the same week.

It means that customers of Western Greyhound have lost their direct service between Newquay and Plymouth. The route, which covers 54 miles at the cost of £5, is now broken into three stages. First, passengers must catch the 597 from Newquay to St Columb Major, seven miles away. There they must disembark and change onto the waiting 593 which takes them the 27 miles to Liskeard. Finally, the passengers switch to the 592 for the remaining 20 miles to Plymouth.

This at a time when the Government is telling people to use public transport and shortly after Gordon Brown boasting of his pride in being a member of the EU.

Yet again we are the mugs of the EU

Much is made of the prosperity of Ireland. Rarely is it mentioned that this is due to huge EU subsidies.

Indeed, when we hand back £7.4billion thanks to Tony Blair's incompetence surrender desire to become EU president negotiations, the gap between what we get and what the Irish get become even wider.

The UK will receive just £582 per subject while the French get £1,118 per citizen and the Irish £2,336 (24 per cent more).

Tell me again all the miraculous benefits we get from being in the EU…

EU - The Truth

Is it not time for the truth about the EU to be revealed?

It is a stitch up between France and Germany because they are still furious that the USA respectively saved them and beat them in two world wars.

Revenge is a dish best served cold and now the French and the Germans are getting their knives and forks ready.

Brown lets down the country

Yesterday, Gordon Brown signed the EU Constitution despite having conspicuously failed to give the British people the referendum he and Labour promised in the 2005 General Election manifesto.

The constitution will still be debated by the Houses of Commons and Lords but to what end? Even if they decide that it is not in Britain's best interests (and it isn't) what good will that do? Does anyone seriously think that the EU will turn around and say, "Okay chaps, we made a mistake. We will abandon the whole idea"?

The only way to get out of this mess is to get out of the EU.

The late last post....

In one of Enid Blyton's Secret Seven books Peter, the leader of the eponymous band, writes a letter to his grandmother. He posts it in the morning and it is delivered that same afternoon.

Contrast that with today when a first class letter is not always guaranteed to arrive the next day despite an ever increasing tariff.

In recent years one can no longer open the post before one leaves for work. Now the morning delivery is being abolished totally.

Under the new regime 60 per cent of post will not be delivered before midday and the first delivery will not be made before 10.30am.

The Royal Mail has already pushed back delivery times by one hour in the run up to Christmas. The organisation says that the changes are necessary because of a new EU green directive which limits the speed of the mail lorries that criss-cross the country during the night to cut fuel emissions.

Hmmm, my opposition to the EU is no secret but postal deliveries have been getting later and later - and more expensive. Is the EU statement just an excuse by an organisation that is getting worse and worse.

It's nothing to do with security...

When politicians want to do something they have a number of tactics at their disposal.

Bribery - tax cuts.

Force - taxation.

Fear - they say they need to do something (usually curtail liberty) to protect us.

Now the EU has said it wants to fingerprint all children from the age of six.

Why?

Not because it wants to be able to keep tabs on everyone and is a backdoor way of creating a huge database.

Oh no, that's not the reason at all.

It is to prevent "child trafficking".

Yes, of course it is. To keep our children safe, we must entrust their details to some enormous organisation that is rife with fraud and corruption.

As Benjamin Franklin said, "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."

Keith Olbermann on YouTube describes the situation in America

EU are taking us for mugs again...

The Daily Mail today reports that benefit claims by eastern Europeans have more than doubled in the past year as migrants continue to arrive at the rate of 700 a day, ministers admitted.

Didn't the government tell us that 1) only 20,000 eastern Europeans would come here (not the near 1 MILLION that have arrived), 2) that those that did would fill much-needed jobs (what about the 5 MILLION "economically inactive" Britons?) and 3) that they would be a boost not a drain on the economy?

Why are they entitled to any benefits, having not contributed to the system?

Word has also reached Poland of generous benefit payments to eastern Europeans with children - including a rule which allows workers to claim certain benefits related to children even if they do not travel to Britain and remain in their homeland.

This is utter madness. How can we be giving £145million away to people who have done nothing to earn it? Answer: Because we are in the EU.

The Mail illustrates this with a graphic (below):

It's not just Blair - the whole police is run by insensitive cretins

Richard Brunstrom is the chief constable of North Wales Police. He is also the copper who handed his force suntan lotion (even though north Wales has one of the highest levels of rainfall in the UK); dressed up as a druid; believes hard drugs should be legalised (he said that heroin was not "very, very, very dangerous"); thinks speeding motorists are as anti-social as muggers (in 2003 he called for the number of cameras to be trebled); spent £4,000 of taxpayers' money in 2001 investigating "anti-Welsh" comments by The Weakest Link host Anne Robinson and, surprise surprise, is a keen supporter of the European Union (he once said, "I don't think I have ever felt English. I'm a passionate European and I'm passionately in support of devolution in Wales").

Brunstrom has an obsession with speeding. He used pictures of a decapitated motorcyclist at a road safety summit to put his point across without even having the basic courtesy to ask the permission of the family of the dead man. The picture showed the man's head on a grass verge, encased in a helmet with the visor raised and his eyes still open. His widow and children had not been told the full details of how he died to spare their feelings. To make matters worse, Brunstrom sent an email to head of press, Bethan Jones Parry: "We must have better slides than the suicide. Not enough. Not gruesome enough. Motorcyclist is outstandingly good."

Why is this insensitive buffoon still in his job? Where is the tact? Where is the intelligence?

Brunstrom, like Ian Blair, is an utter disgrace to the Queen's uniform and should resign in shame but he won't because people like him have no shame.

UPDATE: After criticism from his local police authority Brunstrom said he would show the pictures again if "safeguards" were in place. He has also criticised the media for running the story.

He said: "I clearly placed too much trust in the behaviour and integrity of journalists. I allowed others to exploit a position that I did not anticipate.

"The error of judgment I was referring to was misplaced trust. I have been called naive, that may be apparent. This was intended to be a celebratory meeting."

A celebratory meeting? A celebratory meeting that was showing pictures of a dead man?

Brunstrom must go.

The cat is out of the bag...

So despite the lies and obfuscation of Gordon Brown, Geoff Hoon et al the truth has been revealed by Valery Giscard d'Estaing: the treaty is same as the constitution.

He told France’s Le Monde newspaper: “The institutional proposals of the constitutional treaty are found complete in the Lisbon Treaty, only in a different order and inserted in former treaties.

“Above all, it is to avoid having referendums thanks to the fact that the articles are spread out and constitutional vocabulary has been removed.

“The proposals in the original constitutional treaty are practically unchanged…

“Just lift the lid and look in the toolbox – all the same innovative and effective tools are there, just as they were carefully crafted by the European Convention: a stable presidency, a streamlined Commission, a Parliament with genuine legislative rights, a Foreign Minister, even if he has been given another, inadequate title… and the most advanced charter of fundamental rights in the world.

“When the day comes that men and women with sweeping ambitions for Europe decide to make use of this treaty, they will be able to rekindle from the ashes of today the flame of a United Europe.”

So, Mr Brown, over to you. In 2005 you stood on a manifesto that said that you would give the British people a say on the constitution. Surely, you are not going to renege on a promise?

Let us have our say...

The further folly of being in the EU

Mirek Kryszczak works in England as a builder. His wife and son remain in Wojciechy, Warminsko-Mazurskie in northern Poland and he sends them most of his wages.

He also sends them £78.43 a month in child benefit even though his wife and child cannot speak English and have never set foot in England.

Mrs Kryszczak works in a bar where she earns £166 a month, only just double what we, the British taxpayer, give her husband.

When the Kryszczaks were visited by the Sunday People, they had luxuries such as a large-screen TV in the living room and a computer with flat-screen monitor. Hubert Kryszczak was playing computer games. A bowl on the coffee table in the comfortable living room was brimming with sweets and chocolates. There were other TVs in a bedroom and the kitchen.

Mr Kryszczak said: "When I found out about the possibility to legally claim benefits for my child, I decided to give it a go. Why shouldn't I get the money I am entitled to?"

That's the folly of being in the EU. He should not be entitled to money paid supplied by the British taxpayer. He is fit, healthy and working - he is doing the right thing and looking after his family. He should not be getting additional help from me.

Good riddance to Blair- his final traitorous action

In a parting shot, Tony Blair signed the EU constitution after promising that he would not.

In more than 40 further areas of policy — covering energy, tourism, space policy, transport, civil protection and migration — Blair also surrendered Britain’s right to veto EU decisions.
The innocuously titled "Annex 1" consists of just two closely typed pages. However, it contains areas where Britain will no longer have the power to veto EU decision-making, including specialised courts; intellectual property rights; citizens’ initiatives; transport; space policy; energy; culture; tourism; sport; civil protection; immigration and frontier controls, crime prevention and police co-operation.

Get us out of the EU.

We don't need an English Parliament - we have the UK one

Iain Dale argues in The Daily Telegraph that David Cameron will now have to support some measure of devolution for England and, therefore, an English parliament.

Iain says that "An English Parliament need not result in more politicians, bureaucracy or spending."

It need not but if it comes to pass it certainly will. Our council taxes will go up to pay for yet another unnecessary layer of bureaucracy and yet more professional politicians who can't seem to make a living in the real world.

If you believe in the Union then it is time to abolish the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland parliament and assemblies. The strength of this country lies in unity and the union and splitting it only serves those in Europe who would prefer England not to exist at all.

Lied to from the start

The Sun today runs an interesting piece by Ruth Lea, the director Global Vision, on the EU. She says that her organisation polled people on their views on the EU: should we leave, stay in a looser economic market or stay in and obey the rules.

Unsurprisingly, a quarter wanted to leave, a quarter to stay and the other 50 per cent wanted to stay in a free trade union but opt out of political and economic union.

On the same page, The Sun's leader column says: "Our political leaders must listen to the new organisation Global Vision.

"They must say NO to any attempt to raise from the dead the idea of a new European Constitution. They must REJECT any extra interference. They must LISTEN to the British people by taking back powers from the Eurocrats.

"And they must DEMAND that the EU goes back to being the Common Market that was envisaged at its birth half a century ago."

The Sun is wrong. The original purpose of the EU's founders was always an economic and political union - it was never intended just to be a "common market".

The whole story is told in detail in my colleague Christopher Booker's excellent book The Great Deception.

Home for failures

We are told that the EU is of benefit to us all - although what that benefit is I'd like to know. Tony Blair, once part of a party that was anti-Europe, is now pro-Europe. Neil Kinnock and more of him anon was virulently opposed to Europe. David Cameron had instructed his shadow cabinet not to discuss Europe on pain of sacking.

If the EU is so good, should we not send our brightest and best to work for it, our most brilliant minds, our most innovative thinkers? Who do we send? A man who lead the Labour party to two general election defeats; another who couldn't even get re-elected by his own constituents and a third who was twice sacked from the Cabinet and was lucky not to get his collar felt by the fraud squad.

It's treated as a second, very well-paid home for failed politicians. It's contemptible and the sooner we leave the better.