http://www.rense.com/general87/nationstates.htm

Give it a read.
Or don't, but know it means we have to have the Irish vote no.
 

ConHome have a list of reasons why Ireland should vote NO to the lisbon treaty at the end of the month.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/09/one-hundred-reasons-why-ireland-should-say-no-again-to-lisbon.html
The list would be good enough for all of us except we don't get the choice.
So Ireland please vote NO!



Even if there is good in there, remember this treaty is like death in that you don't get to rechoose after you've given all away and it's all or nothing.
Our government is voting 'Yes' without even reading it - the default position for any contract should be 'No' until you are fully aware of the consequences.
You only need to read one bit you don't like to vote NO - you should read all of it before considering YES. That's just common sense.

Of course we'd be BetterOffOut
- but we're not, so best to at least try to make it not evil, eh?!
 

Don't forget to unfold your ballot!

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" Press Office
2 Queen Anne's Gate
London SW1

UKIP is being inundated with calls from voters complaining that UKIP is not on the ballot paper.
Voting has only been going on for three hours and already hundreds are calling the UK Independence Party to complain that they were not able to vote for the party.

The problem is that Returning Officers have been folding the ballot papers. They have been folding them so that the last two, three or four parties in alphabetical order are hidden when the first fold of the paper is opened. It thus appears that UKIP is not on the ballot paper.

UKIP has already contacted both the Electoral Commission and the Returning Officers on this matter.

But it is important that the news gets out: that voters must make sure they completely unfold the ballot paper. And that Returning Officers and electoral officials must stop folding the ballot papers.

We have had reports from Carlisle, from York, from Hampshire, Dartford and other places, showing that the problem is nationwide, not just an isolated incident.

UKIP is collecting the names and addresses of those complaining and will be preparing the grounds for a legal challenge to the election result.

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One of the spams through the door today went something like this:

Tower Hamlets council are proposing extra police officers in the area.
David Cameron voted against this.
Vote Labour at the European Elections.

Is it me or do they have scope a little confused there; well, that's labour for you.
 

The Christians and LibDems are making stuff up:

First the Christian Party 'Lording it over you' Christian Group Christian People Christian aLIEance:
http://www.wastedvote.info/

They claim only they can beat the BNP.
Well look at their own stats on that page.
If they didn't exist then either the Conservatives or Labour would have beaten the BNP... and where is UKIP there?
...and there's Libertas now too.
The only way they will do anything to beat the BNP is if they got a direct vote switch from them.

Next the LibDems:
They have done the opposite and pretending that it's the same FPTP electoral system as in general elections... I think they are playing dumb rather than just don't notice:

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/05/lies-on-lib-dem-election-literature.html

Where's the electoral commission got to?
 

Today libertas got some bird to model in a "dare to bare" campaign to get MEPs to expose their expenses.

As with Libertas they are covered in the EU flag... the blue paint and pants probably costing extra to hide it away.

We want rid - Vote UKIP for full nudity!



captcha word: Peachy .. that's apt!
 

http://www.tfa.net/betteroffout/
 

Some more reasons to vote UKIP over Libertas...

http://ua.am/7Msy

In the 1st one, apart from a few bits of text that turn me off libertas from their negative stance (I thought they were supposed to bring positivity to the EU) most of it seems like a promotion for UKIP!

£60k for doing not much in brussels - that's why we're better off out!

The 2nd one shows why we're better off out too given it may be possible to detect fraud and deal with it at UK level but you ain't gonna be able to scratch the surface of the EU problem.

Totally shooting themselves in the foot - I thought about voting libertas but then realised they're just as bad and they're trying to mask federalism with the pretence of liberalism.
 

The recent expense saga in the UK shows why it's important that we don't devolve to a bigger government of the EU.

It's bad what they've been doing but people know the EU parliament is worse.
Now as a small nation it was hard enough to get them to release data and it was possible to get a leak out to a newspaper.

Now imagine trying to do that with the EU.
How many levels would you have to dig through to either get authorisation - blocked at every stage.
Or if a leak, the data is too protected by layers and layers of administrators, internal police and expensive lawyers - with punishments much worse and harder to escape. There's also more data to try and leak out so it's harder in the first place.

With all the additional data it is also a lot harder to process. Sure there are media outlets that can do it, but try and comprehend that yourself? - Do you even know who your MEP is to see if he's been screwing you over, nevermind who is screwing you over in spain & france?

Also, we have some really bad things going on here, not just with the really bad government, but the Speaker who is trampling all over the parliament and its history.
The only reason he hasn't gone already is that there's less will as he has people above him in the EU so isn't as important.

So we end up with the EU as untouchable, and the government allowed to either blame the EU or unimportant enough to be ignored... worst of both worlds.

Let's get out of the EU and trade with it and maybe even use it's commandments as guidance so we don't have to be forced like children to obey whilst paying for the privilege.
 

Lord Tebbit defies Tories to tell voters: 'Don't vote for ANY party in European elections'

http://ua.am/7XBb
 

http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/eu/
 

UKIP TO PUT LABOUR IN 4th!

http://ta4.at/1bwc.~/Farage+UKIP+may+be+the+ones+to+get+rid+of+Brown
 

APPLES!

http://ua.am/7X3Q
 

Nigel Farage launches UKIP's European Elections campaign with claim that his is the true protest party and only UKIP can therefore stop the BNP making a breakthrough:

http://ta4.at/.1cuzt
 

http://www.euprofiler.eu/page/1

Said I was half way between ukip and bnp, (refresh and lost the actual result) but for some reason they have BNP as centrists as opposed to on the far left near the greens.
 

What's all this about eh? ...



"What sort of energy do we want?"

Like the EU offers a choice.
What's it to you? How's about you bugger off and let us choose our own energy policy and you can stuff your wind power where wind comes from (belgium)
 

Details of user e-mails, website visits and net phone calls will be stored by internet service providers (ISPs) from Monday under an EU directive.

http://ua.am/76Lx


 

Lorraine Mullally: Caroline Flint's admission of ignorance about the Lisbon Treaty makes the need for a referendum all the more urgent:

http://ua.am/768C
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LHqpzjMTDY

 

Stuart Wheeler donates £100,000 to UKIP

http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/952-millionaire-wheeler-defects-to-ukip

Conservatives get in a bit of a tizzy:
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2009/03/there-are-no-plans-to-remove-stuart-wheeler-from-the-conservative-party.html
 

http://www.rogerhelmer.com/shirtoffyourback.asp


 

Nigel Farage MEP explains why he wants to leave the EU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xz7S8eeFu4

 

Responding to a piece about absurd employment legislation, Paul Oakley writes:

Nick is right about the absurdities of employment law. Attractive as it may be to lay the blame at Labour's door, in reality it is an area of EU competence. It is based upon strict compliance with technical procedures and lacks the common sense of the common law of England and Wales.

For example, the damages for the pain, suffering and loss of amenity of a quadriplegic are set in a bracket of up to about £250,000 under English Law. By contrast, our EU masters have decreed that damages for injury to feelings in employment cases where there has been sexual or racial discrimination are unlimited.

Another reason why we would be: Better Off Out.

http://ta4.at/.19r6h#comment-148277481
 

Follow up to Brian Wheeler's article linked below....
I think these points are telling:

8. The UK's Euro MPs often feel like second class citizens

Even UKIP, which wants to see the place abolished, say the European Parliament does not get enough coverage in the British media.
...
Part of the problem from a media point of view in Britain is that it is hard to ever see a case where a vote by MEPs directly changes people's lives - as opposed to a vote being a step in a long and complicated process that may lead to said change in people's lives.

9. Few British people know how it really works

It is not exactly news that much of the regulation that affects our daily lives in Britain - from the working time directive to mobile phone charges - comes from the European Union. But even people such as lobbyists and journalists, who are paid to follow it, sometimes have a shaky grasp of how the European Parliament and other EU institutions work. We know that by the time European legislation reaches Westminster, it is often too late to do anything about it.
 

Just as you thought that even though the pound is weak, it's obvious that the Euro is becoming a disaster in itself and for all the countries that are tied to it as they have no control of their own finances, Nick Clegg decides he wants us to join:
http://ta4.at/.19ia0
 

BBC political reporter Brian Wheeler is spending the week living the life of a Member of the European Parliament. The aim is to find out what they do and what they are for. Are they powerless and enjoying the ultimate gravy train or working round-the-clock to make the world a better place?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7828164.stm
 

Nice pic

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iLGu-dTH6i4

 

The Euro is totally spooked today on unconfirmed reports that the Irish PM, Brian Cowen, said in Tokyo today that Ireland may have to go to the IMF for a bail out if its economic situation continues to worsen.

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/01/the-end-of-the.html
 

In Europe the EU seems to make sense... it compliments their current system, and even a single currency seems to work.
But trying to crowbar it into the UK legal system just isn't working.
The EU comes up with rules, which are ignored at will (as they should be) by other countries, but we implement them down to the letter to absurdity (bendy banana anyone?)
Free trade is all we asked for.
I've no problem if they also take on the role as a standards organisation as long as they are optional standards, allowing those that want to to work together towards a common goal; as opposed to forcing everyone on a path chosen, not by the people but, well, who knows - you don't see much of the MEPs apart from when they check in early in the morning to get their allowances
http://109.ta4.at/

I agree, we'll be Better Off Out of such a corrupt system which will expose the corrupt liebour crooks in government even more, leading to an uprising and their end.