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  • The European union by Dan Hannan (Britains best MEP)

    Daniel Hannan MEP: Seven reasons why Conservatives must leave the EPP

    Daniel Hannan is an MEP for the South East and blogs at Telegraph.co.uk.

    Hannan_danSome of you may find this hard to believe, but I’m going to miss Christopher Beazley. The pro-euro MEP has decided not to seek re-nomination – mainly, he says, because he disagrees with the Conservative Party’s commitment to leave the European People’s Party (EPP) in 2009 and form a new, anti-federalist group in the European Parliament. All Euro-candidates have been asked to sign a statement in support of party policy. A lesser man might have held his nose and signed, or signed with his fingers crossed behind his back; but Chris has behaved with edifying principle. Heaven knows he and I have disagreed over the years. But he has never sought to disguise opinions which he knows to be unpopular with his constituents. Not every politician can make the same boast.

    Now is a good moment to remind ourselves of why David Cameron has promised to leave the EPP, and why candidates are being asked to support him.

    (1) The European Parliament lacks an Official Opposition
    At present, every political alliance in Europe – the Communists, the Socialists, the Liberals, the Greens, the Christian Democrats – supports the euro, the constitution, a common foreign policy and an EU criminal justice system. Indeed, the EPP goes further than the others, demanding a single EU seat at the United Nations, a European army and police force and – my particular favourite, this – a pan-EU income tax to be levied by MEPs. Once there is a mainstream conservative bloc positing a different kind of Europe, the cartel will be broken. From that moment, Euro-federalism will cease to be inevitable, and become one among a series of competing ideas.

    (2) Our message must be consistent
    “I want Conservatives to be saying the same thing in Westminster, in Brussels and in Strasbourg,” says David Cameron. Spot on. In the past we have suffered electorally – especially at the 2004 European Election, when we got our worst share of the vote since 1832 – because we were thought to be dissembling. We fought Euro-sceptic campaigns in Britain and then, when elected, we scuttled off and sat with the most integrationist group in the chamber.

    (3) An independent group will control its own resources
    Every political group in the European Parliament receives millions of euros for political activism. Some of this money is passed on to the national parties to allocate as they wish; but a good deal is held back to spend on pan-European campaigns. So what does the EPP spend our money on? You guessed it: campaigns to promote the European Constitution, the Common Agricultural Policy, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and so on. A chunk of money – the money to which Tory MEPs ought to have been entitled – was spent in support of “Yes” campaigners when Sweden voted on the euro. Outside the EPP, we’d be free to create a campaigning machine to promote a completely different vision of Europe: one based on free markets, national independence and the Atlantic Alliance. This, of course, is what the other side fears.

    (4) Leaving the EPP will put Conservatives in the mainstream
    Nothing – nothing – could be further from the truth than the idea that the only parties outside the EPP are far-Right. The persistence of the notion that “Tory MEPs may end up with Italian fascists” is one of the most successful pieces of black propaganda I’ve ever encountered. No one has ever proposed such a thing and, for what it’s worth, the party that is descended from Mussolini’s, the Alleanza Nazionale, is currently applying to join the EPP. Nor does anyone deny that there were enough respectable parties to form a new group two years ago. This time, there are several more parties in play, including from Romania and Bulgaria, as well as others that have become uncomfortable with their existing affiliations. G

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  • The European Union's large and wasteful budget. By a Conservative MEP.

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    Chris Heaton-Harris MEP: A Rough Guide to the EU Budget
    Chris Heaton-Harris writes A Rough Guide to the EU's Draft Budget for 2009.

    For the past nine years or so I have been a Member of the Audit Committee of the European Parliament (known as "Budgetary Control") and have been trying to make some sense of the Budgets of both the European Commission and European Parliament.

    We all know that every year the European Court of Auditors fails to sign off (or as they say “give a positive statement of assurance on”) the accounts of the European Commission and one question every candidate for the European elections next year will be asked is “what are you going to do to stop all the fraud, waste and maladministration, so that the accounts get signed off?”

    Well, this time of year is budget time! Cannily, the process was designed so that just about everyone in the European Parliament who might care about the Budget is away on holiday around the time amendments for the budget should be submitted. This year most Committees of the Parliament (which only returned from recess on 25th August) have deadlines for the tabling of amendments around the 27th August. As you will see later on, almost every item of expenditure has its own “budget line” and this is what MEPs will try to amend. This is where MEPs, if they wanted to, could try to tame the beast.

    Every year, helped by my poor members of staff, I go through the budget over the summer months and table dozens (occasionally hundreds) of amendments to try and prune out some of the rubbish that I have found contained within it. Every year I lose most of these amendments in the Committee and Plenary votes, thanks to EPP, Socialist and Liberal MEPs defending the status quo. And every year I still get asked by hundreds of different people why am I not doing anything about it!

    This year is my last attempt, as I am standing down from the European Parliament next June and moving onto pastures new. However, I don’t want to leave this subject alone; I want to try and translate the Budget into plain English to explain how much money is spent by the European Institutions, where it goes, and why it is mightily difficult to make any amendments to the Budget at all. Whilst I have made the occasional political comment, the whole point of this exercise is not to say that all this is a complete waste of money and we shouldn’t give Europe a penny (although, given the accounts are never signed off, I do subscribe to that argument) – the idea here is to try and describe how big the beast is and how the scrutiny process works.

    THE EU'S BUDGET FOR THE COMING YEAR IS £116BN

    Firstly the numbers: all the amounts I talk about below are contained within the “Draft Budget” and most can be amended by the European Parliament or Member State governments should they want to.

    This year the total Draft Budget for the European Union is £116bn. This is a 3.1% increase on last year’s amount. Of this money the European Commission’s 2009 draft budget is £95bn and the European Parliament’s 2009 draft budget is £1.25bn.

    The European Commission: OK, so let’s look at the big beast first – the draft budget for the European Commission for 2009 of £95bn (yes, billion!)

    - Agriculture & Fisheries

    Unsurprisingly, the single biggest expense belongs to the agricultural sector and the Common Agricultural Policy – it accounts for a whopping £35.75bn! In addition to this, you will find that the UK is paying more than any other Member State in agricultural levies to the Commission - £374m. At a time of rapidly rising food costs, this is essentially just an extra European protectionist tax being levied on UK consumers.

    Some of the items in the agriculture and fisheries draft budget for 2009 incl

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  • Andyy
    Andyy

    sorry rob but ur previous comment just shows u that u no nothing bout scottish politics! if labour dont win the next by-election then theres a 85% chance the SNP will!!! not that ludricous smeaton! so i hope my fellow glaswegians will be voting not to get some 'celebrity wanna-be' in but to stop the SNP getting in

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  • XxXoberstbrooksyrawrxx
    XxXoberstbrooksyrawrxx

    'Labour are going to win the next election. With a reduced majority,yes, but a win all the same.'

    I have never lul'd as much in my life.

    9 hours ago
  • Rob C
    Rob C

    Michael, At least Cameron believes in people power, not like Brown who is just a dictator and makes stupid policies.

    Chris Grayling is a much better then Alan Johnson. At least Chris Grayling doesn't fire Scientists irrationally?

    Hopefully the people of Glasgow North East, next Thursday will not vote Labour and send Gordon Brown a message that your finished. As Glasgow North East is meant to be a Labour heartland and In case Brown loses this seat, it will be the beginning of the end for Brown.

    9 hours ago
  • Rob C
    Rob C

    Michael big woop that 80% of our trade is with Europe. That doesn't mean we sacrifice our sovereignty to Brussels. We in our own country can form our own laws. We can still trade with them, but not get dictated to by Brussels. I just can't believe you don't find it shocking that 75% of our laws are made in Brussels.

    Europe is becoming a Superstate. It got a flag, it's own currency, now it's own president, it's own foreign minister and it's own Gross domestic product. So it is coming a superstate.

    Michael please which poll are your talking about, a YouGov, Mori, or Comres. Most of these polls say that the Conservatives will have a 80 seat majority.
    http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/
    this website will prove me right.

    9 hours ago
  • Rob C
    luv Rob C

    Michael I can say stop being brainwashed by Gordon Brown, as anyone with a bit of common sense his awful and notice New Labour is over. It even doesn't matter whether your on the left side or the right side of the political spectrum, to notice this government is finished.

    10 hours ago
  • Rob C
    luv Rob C

    Michael, you're a bit odd.

    As in case your knew anything about pensions or savings, you would know this Labour government has destroyed them. People who had savings in Halifax or RBS have lost a dramatic amount. Take for example my mum, who had savings with Halifax of £15,000 now the saving is only worth £500.

    People on state pension are getting severely hit, as the state pension goes up with inflation and we are currently in negative inflation. SO MICHAEL GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT FIRST.

    This Labour government has caused the country to have the highest debt in OECD. This Labour government are borrowing £16 billion a month, that is astounding as most governments borrow that in a year. RBS are still have a debt of £2.2 billion and not lending to businesses, even when we the taxpayer own 84% of it. It is also remarkable that this government have mostly nationalized each bank in this country and the banks are giving out £6 billion in bonuses, a 50% increase from last year.

    10 hours ago
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    Andyy

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  • Mr Mc Spunk
    Mr Mc Spunk

    snp or labour fuk the bnp

    12 hours ago
  • Christopher Holgate
    luv Christopher Holgate

    love this sign

    13 hours ago
  • Christopher Holgate
    luv Christopher Holgate

    ''There were two purported polls of medical professionals this week. A survey by Pulse, a magazine for GPs, surveyed 326 GPs on their voting intentions and found support standing at CON 52%, LAB 8%, LDEM 22%.

    Meanwhile a survey of NHS managers by the Health Service Journal found voting intentions at CON 29%, LAB 50%, LDEM 16%.

    I can’t actually vouch for either of them. The latter one smells a bit voodoo-ish – it seems to have been a survey of visitors to the HSJ site, and I’ve no idea if measures were taken to ensure respondents actually were NHS managers, and even if they were, how representative of NHS managers they would have been. Equally, I don’t know how those 326 GPs in the first poll were selected or how representative they were.

    Even if we take it as “just a bit of fun” though, the contrast between NHS managers and GPs is start to say the least!''

    from: http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/

    13 hours ago
  • Andyy
    Andyy

    sorry michael but these "unimportant laws" on fishing regulations might mean nothing to u but to the ppl employed in that field of work it means a hell of a lot!

    13 hours ago via Mobile
  • Michael Kearns
    Michael Kearns

    *** When the Lib Dems lost their tree points in the polls, Conservatives gained 1 and we gained 2. This week, Labour have gained a further per cent. Experts predict that if every month until the election is like what we are experiencing just now, it will be a Labour hung parliament. THOSE ARE ALL FACTS.

    But what's the chances of every month being the same? Cameron still has plenty of time for more cast-iron guaruntees to be broken, more unpopular, austere descisions by Osbourne, more crazy weird policies by Grayling, etc.

    Labour are going to win the next election. With a reduced majority,yes, but a win all the same.

    16 hours ago
  • Michael Kearns
    Michael Kearns

    Rob, I really find it quite immature when you use sill, childish soundbites that were cool for 8 year olds. Plus, you've said that before it's so unoriginal. Oh, how embarrassing for you! :L

    Under the tories every single person in Britain who had a penny saved in LLyods, Halifax, Natwest, Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland would have lost their entire savings- also, every single employee would have been made redundant without a payout- so how can you support that? You call me mad......

    Plus, 80% of our trade is with Europe, it's mainly unimportant laws made by MEPs such as fishing regulations, and I've alredy explained how we're not a superstate. So please, stop being brainwashed by the tories, stop being dramatic, stop lying and face up to the fact that the tories were wrong on everything and are not even fit enough to be in opposition.

    16 hours ago
  • XxXoberstbrooksyrawrxx
    XxXoberstbrooksyrawrxx

    I wonder how it would be if Enoch Powell became PM?

    But yeah Thatcher is the best!

    16 hours ago
  • Christopher Holgate
    luv Christopher Holgate

    Thatcher, Britains best

    18 hours ago
  • XxXoberstbrooksyrawrxx
    XxXoberstbrooksyrawrxx

    'Why should British immigration policy, just allow people from the EU or the EEC? '

    Because as part of the EU we have an obilgation for these people to work and live here, they are mostly educated and skilled labour, also they tend to go back to their native countries. Commonwealth immigration should also be allowed but after a system to determin who will help the economy.

    19 hours ago
  • Christopher Holgate 1 day ago
  • Christopher Holgate
    luv Christopher Holgate


    Cameron is the best man to lead Britain into the future.

    1 day ago
  • Rob C
    Rob C

    Robert, where would your put your self on the political spectrum?

    Why should British immigration policy, just allow people from the EU or the EEC?

    1 day ago
  • XxXoberstbrooksyrawrxx
    XxXoberstbrooksyrawrxx

    Michael Brown noses Brown something shocking.


    British immigration policy should be on the lines if you arnt from the EU or EEC area you arent getting in.

    Also I support Fox hunting its part of our culture and traditions.

    1 day ago