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What is Herman Van Rompuy smoking?
I only ask because he has been tweeting some excerpts fromn his speech this evening at the Berlin Humboldt Univerity. "Europe in 2012: The road ahead". And I am struggling to work out what he means.Please release him from his toil...
Not the result you would like I suspect Mr Schulz
Somebody, a certain Mr Atherton, sent me a link to this little poll on Martin Schulz's personal MEP website, as opposed to his EP Presidential website.In my dodgy translation it appears to be asking Do we need an European Union? Participate in the c...
There is Top Totty in London, and Top Totty in Brussels
The great furore over the beer being chucked out of the Stranger's Bar in Brussels pales into insignificance when you see what is being pushed in Brussels.POKEuroparl is a new ventutre in the anonymous urban battleship that is the European Parliament...
Hain calls for NE Regional Assembly: Numpty
Will Green in the Journal has reported that the concept of English Regional Assemblies is still on the socialist agenda.It come to something when a failed Europe Minister and Welsh MP starts to instruct the people of the North East as to what is good...
Oh my Giddy Aunt - Run for the Hills
No seriously, run for the hill. And don't look back. You might turn into a pillar of salt. This has just arrived in the inboxV-Day cordially invites you to a cross-party call to action to end violence against women and girlsPlease join Eve Ensler and...
In all the furore about Farage's latest speech, this odd claim,
The AFP report of yesterday's debate in the European Parliament was recycled in various places. It contained much that was fair. It also contained this rather odd claim about Farage,He secured a million votes at the last general election, surviving a...
Fascinating vox pop from Walthamstow
The cross section of society here voicing their extremely articulate views against the EU are eye opening...
Good day for UKIP's Lord Pearson
Lord Pearson, the UKIP leader in the Lords has had a pretty good day today.Firstly there is this letter in the Guardian spelling out the infantility of arguments that 'If we leave the EU we will not be able to do business any more and millions will l...
Towler on Tour
Writing in this month's Total Politics magazine on the unpredictable rise of UKIP.
A little more the Deutsche Boerse - NYSE merger
I suggested yesterday that the fact that the European Commission has blocked the merger deal between the NYSE and the German Boerse might go some way to explain the way in which Cameron rolled back on his veto. My idea has been picked up by Bus...
What is the difference between niaivety and foolishness?
I only ask because I always regarded Lord Strathclyde as a pretty decent cove, but it seems defending the Government's position on Europe has pushed him into a position of foolishnmess, niaievety or maybe even knavery.He was questioned by UKIP Peer W...
Was this the price the EU paid for Dave's backdown?
News that the European Commision has blocked the planned merger between the New York Stock Exchange Euronext and Deutsche Boerse today sets one thinking.We do not know, because he has not said, what it was that Dave got, if anything for the veto rela...
Dammit, the Propaganda Prize has pupped!
Readers of this blog will know that alongside Hi-Viz clothing the thing I would chuck into Room 101 are the series of EU sponsored prizes. There are utterly unnecessary and frankly wrong. We have the Lux prize the EBBAs and all sorts of other bits an...
"the Greeks have to leave the euro zone"
According to Die Welt this week, the only way that Greece can be saved is that it be uncoupled from the Euro. It makes it clear that trying to impose discipline from without will fail, Whatever the euro summit agreed and whatever the next one wi...
#ACTA - The Government loves it
This briefing has just come through from HMG about the upcoming vote on the ACTA. 1. UK views · The UK supports ACTA because we believe it will help to stem the flow of c...
Cathy Ashton is hard
OK, maybe not hard but is after hard power capabilities for Europe,If Europe is to be a credible player in the world, it requires more than just soft power.What is interesting about this speech today to the Euroepan Defence Agency is this statement,D...
Dancing while Athens (Rome/Lisbon etc) Burns
Every now and again I have a go at the Eurocrat Trade Unions. This load of self-satisfied, publicly-subsidised parasites just get up my nose. The feeling I am sure is mutual as this page on one of the Unions websites' makes clear,Hoaxes about Europea...
The Madness of Crowds
ComRes has been doing some polling of the Brussels elite about the Financial Transaction Tax.Their results are unsurprising if not depressing.Six in ten MEPs also believe that such a tax will be welcomed by their constituentsOverall, MEPs and Brussel...
Farewell then Greece
The FT has an extraordinary leak of German plans for the future of Greece. Essentially if they come to pass we will no longer be able to describe Greece as a country. A nation yes, a culture most definitely, but a country. No longer.The strictures ar...
Forget Hardy, William Barnes is Dorset's greatest figure
I was delighted to read a spirited clarion call for my favourite poet in today's Guardian.The words of this linguist and preacher sing out from Blackmore Vale. They are hard, humorous and languid. Here is an example,The Wife A-LostSince I noo mwore d...
