Archive for the 'Europe' Category
Come on Iain, let’s start anew, ’cause scrutiny is hard to do
Yazan: Sara | 18 April 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, Europe, LibDems
Ever since Nick Clegg’s poll-topping performance in Thursday’s Prime Ministerial debate, the Tories have been calling for greater scrutiny of the Liberal Democrats’ policies. There is obviously a feeling that those old right-wing dog whistles of crime, immigration and Europe may provide the ammunition that Dave needs to kill the beast that Clegg has become [...]
UKIP offer to disband in favour of Conservative referendum pledge
Yazan: Sara | 23 November 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Europe
The Times carries an ‘exclusive’ that The UK Independence Party offered to disband if David Cameron agreed to hold a referendum on the ratified Lisbon treaty. UKIP’s new leader, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, told The Times that he offered the deal soon after today the party’s strong showing in the European elections. He reveals that [...]
I mentioned it once – but I think I got away with it
Yazan: sarabedford | 16 June 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: by-elections, Conservatives, David Cameron, Europe
So after signing his party up to a ragtag bunch of right-wing political parties in the European Parliament, with comrades that include Latvians who celebrate the Waffen SS and Poles who seek to oppose the ‘Germanisation’ of Europe, David Cameron might be believed to have a strange view of Europe and Germany’s distant Nazi past. [...]
Don't let the charmers break your heart
Yazan: sarabedford | 20 May 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: elections, Europe, expenses, UKIP
My 12 year old daughter isn’t interested in boys yet, thank goodness. But I know that one day she will have her heart broken. A smooth operator will promise her undying love and attention and she’ll fall for it. She’ll believe the best of him at first, then slowly come to realise that he is not what [...]
Greens really have lost the plot!
Yazan: sarabedford | 14 April 2009 | 6 Comments
Categories: climate change, Europe, UKIP
I like to think I’m a little more of an environmentalist and Eurosceptic than the average LibDem. I’m opposed to the third runway at Heathrow and have my own little blade of grass at the proposed site. However I was astonished at the comments of Green leader Caroline Lucas MEP who claimed that flying abroad [...]
Daniel Hannan: Stuart Wheeler needs your money
Yazan: sarabedford | 30 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, Europe, UKIP
A fascinating postscript to the week’s Eurosceptics’ news comes courtesy of the Telegraph’s blogs. who would have expected to see the new darling of the Eurosceptic Tories lauding the latest person to be expelled from the party, in such terms? The man is a patriot of the best kind: honest, energetic, generous and utterly unassuming. He [...]
