Ex-UKIP MEP guilty of £36,000 fraud
One-time UKIP MEP Tom Wise found guilty of fraud. He told an undercover reporter: “Yes, I am milking the system … thank you very much!”
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Clarke in 2003: Supremacy Act “fundamentally incompatible” with EU membership
A 2003 report by Ken Clarke argued that a Supremacy Act, similar to the UK Sovereignty Act proposed today, would be “fundamentally incompatible” with EU membership.
The problems with Cameron’s new EU policy
David Cameron’s new Euro policy would require agreement from all 27 member states and could cost Britain the rebate.
The madness of a “manifesto mandate”
A manifesto mandate for wider renegotiation, likely to be pursued by Cameron, is more worrying than the hollow gesture of a referendum after Lisbon is ratified.
Cameron on Kaminski: “He is not a homophobe, he’s not a racist, he’s not an anti-Semite”
David Cameron today launched an impassioned defence of Polish Fascist Michal Kaminski, saying he was “not a homophobe”, “not a racist” and “not an anti-Semite”.
Griffin: climate change is an elite scam
In the week of his controversial appearance on Question Time, Nick Griffin has added environmentalists and climate change to his list of targets. Speaking in a debate on climate change in the European Parliament yesterday, Nick Griffin said: “The globaltest
Hague rejects “strategic shrinkage” but EU policy may prove otherwise
In his speech to Conservative party conference, William Hague said: “When it comes to dealing with Iran over nuclear policy, Russia over energy security, or the Balkans to prevent new conflict or disorder, we need Europe to use its collectivetest
Green MEPs round on Cameron
Two senior Green MEPs have spoken out against David Cameron’s decision to move Conservative MEPs from the European People’s Party grouping to the new European Conservative and Reformists, criticising his decision to join forces with people who “deny that theretest
Shadow cast over Cameron’s plans to withdraw from social chapter
Ruth Lea and Lord Trimble talk to Left Foot Forward about David Cameron’s plans to withdraw from the socail chapter.
Workers’ rights imperiled by Cameron’s Euro-phobia
Tory Euro-scepticism puts hard-earned workers’ rights at risks.