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Coalition government abandons Sustainable Development
If anybody was still fooled by either the Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats claims to be committed to the idea of sustainability, then they might find the wool pulled from over their eyes after the coalition government published its extremely sh...
Yes to AV
In May voters throughout the United Kingdom will have the opportunity to vote in a referendum to change the system for electing MPs to the House of Commons, replacing the current First Past the Post system with the Alternative Vote system. Whilst AV...
For a new, green and liberal party
The time has come for a new political alternative in the United Kingdom: a political party committed to clean politics and building a green and sustainable society and prosperous economy which addresses social inequalities and injustice not just...
Greening Globalisation
Many people within the Green political movement, especially in the UK, are convinced that being green means turning red; that only through a green form of socialism can an ecologically sustainable and socially just society be achieved. Although in ma...
Europe United calls for democratic change in Egypt
Pan-European political party Europe United has issued...
Joseph Stiglitz attacks ‘disastrous’ European austerity policy
The public spending cuts pursued by governments across Europe, including and especially the coalition government in the United Kingdom, have been described as ‘disastrous‘, ‘excessive‘ and often completely ‘unnecessary&#...
373,000 support ‘Crusade’ to leave EU
The Daily Express today published an article and photos showing the delivery to Downing Street of a petition organised by the newspaper calling on the government to end British membership of the European Union. The Daily Express describes the collect...
Mervyn King: “pay squeeze necessary”
Does the Bank of England have the democratic or moral authority to force ordinary hard working Britons to pay more and more for the ongoing economic crisis that today’s GDP statistics (showing a 0.5% contraction) demonstrate is still out of con...
Save our woodlands from the Tory axe!
You may not be aware of it, but the Coalition Government of David Cameron and Nick Clegg is making plans for a mass privatisation of all public owned woodlands and forests currently. Just to clarify, that is all of it, every single tree in the whol...
Tory MEP’s anti-climate change campaign costs us £9,000
Roger Helmer is a Conservative Party MEP for the East Midlands. The Guardian newspaper’s environment blog has revealed that the eurosceptic MEP has recentlty invested £9,000 of European tax payers money on what can only be assumed to be a pers...
Europe United says ‘Yes’ to Alternative Vote « Europe United in the UK
The Executive Committee of the...
Cable Gate: Pulling back the cloak
According to the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, an “attack on the international community” has been launched by WikiLeaks. 251,287 documents are set to be released into the public domain, which according to the site is the larges...
‘Stone Her’ says Tory Councillor
Gareth Compton, a Conservative Councillor on Birmingham City Council has rather shockingly called for Ugandan born British muslim journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to be stoned! A joke though it may be, I cannot think of anything more inappropriate.
Pensions plan is a step in the right direction
The UK’s coalition government has begun steps that may ultimately lead to the adoption of a primarily private pension system in Britain which would be capable of providing for retirement needs of British pensioners into the future as the nati...
Scandalous UK opposition to deepwater drilling ban
The British government has continued to oppose moves by the European Commission to slap a temporary ban on all deepwater offshore oil and gas driling in the European Union. The man-made disaster in the Gulf of Mexico stands out as the clearest demo...
Hague’s Declaration of Independence
Do we really need a law to assert British sovereignty? Surely if the UK weren’t sovereign it could not subscribe to the European Union’s laws. I have heard of harebrained and ridiculous rules and laws coming out of Brussels, but surel...
Biofuels aren’t all they seem
Alleged attempts by the European Commission to cover up the truth about the impact of its biofuels policies on the continent’s carbon emissions were the subject of a lawsuit begun by an environmental group in Luxembourg last month. It is claime...
