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Hard hat protest over EU parliament |
 Article Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 |
UKIP MEPs wore hard hats at the European Parliament in Brussels to protest against the ridiculous and expensive monthly commute to the parliament's other building in Strasbourg.
The hard hats, also worn by other members of the parliament's Ind/Dem Group, were prompted by the collapse of the Hemicycle building in Strasbourg on 7 August. This made it impossible for MEPs to meet there for the first plenary session after the summer recess.
"We have no need of going there at all, as this week proves," said UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP. "Brussels is ample for the needs of the parliament.”
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Mr Farage added: "When the roof fell in, the rubble would have landed directly on the seats occupied by UKIP and the Ind/Dem Group.
"Now I am not saying that there is a conspiracy to wipe out euro-critical voices in the parliament, but you do have to ask." ....
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Sun Sep 07, 2008
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Farage raps EU trials in absentia |
UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP has angrily attacked a government statement welcoming EU plans to allow British citizens to be tried in their absence or automatically extradited to other member states.
Mr Farage said the plan – approved by the European Parliament and now going to the Commission for approval – undermined one of the basic principles of British justice:
"If we're accused we must be able to know who accused us. If we are to be tried for a crime we must be able to mount a defence.
"Yet now we can be dragged away to another country to rot in jail without there even being a pretence of a fair trial."
The EU wants courts would to have the ability to pass judgement in criminal cases and when issuing fines or European Arres .... |
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Fri Aug 29, 2008
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EU's 'colonial' policies hit African fishermen |
It is not often that UKIP agrees with environment campaigner George Monbiot, but party leader Nigel Farage MEP is supporting an attack on the EU’s fishing agreements in West Africa by Mr Monbiot.
In a Guardian article on 26 August, Mr Monbiot highlighted the “old colonial” fishing agreements the EU has struck with Senegal and other West African countries:
“As a result, Senegal’s marine ecosystem has started to go the same way as ours. Between 1994 and 2005 the weight of fish taken from the country’s .... |
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Wed Aug 27, 2008
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UKIP's candidate to fight Glenrothes |
The UK Independence Party has selected Dr Kris Seunarine as its candidate for the forthcoming Glenrothes by-election caused by the death of Labour MP John MacDougall.
Dr Seunarine, who lives in Wemyss with his wife Mary and is a specialist in the science of biophotonics at Dundee University, is Chairman of Fife Branch of UKIP.
He says: "I am looking forward to the opport .... |
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Fri Aug 22, 2008
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UKIP MP blasts post office closures |
UKIP MP Bob Spink has branded the consultation process over post office closures as “a sham” after the announcement that two more post offices are to close in his Castle Point constituency by order of the EU.
Dr Spink, who has campaigned for many years to keep post offices open and get more business through them, said: “This shows how successive Tory and Labour governments have ab .... |
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Tue Aug 05, 2008
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Backing for Batten over Symeou case |
Daily Express columnist Neil Hamilton has praised UKIP MEP for London Gerard Batten for his campaign in support of his young constituent Andrew Symeou, subject of a European Arrest Warrant that will extradite him to Greece to face a charge of manslaughter following a fight at a night club in which another young man was killed.
"The scope for injustice is obvious," writes Mr H .... |
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Fri Aug 01, 2008
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UKIP's policy for better government |
[icenter=]http://www.colombopage.com/imgs_07/mr_112307_02.jpg[/icenter] The UK Independence Party has launched its policy paper "How We Are Governed" to rescue Britain’s democracy and constitution and to re-establish rule by the people for the people in a country independent of the European Union.
The paper says the British Constitution and the British system of government .... |
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Sun Jul 27, 2008
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EU didn't listen to Bulgaria fraud fears |
The European Commission's decision to suspend funds worth millions of euros to two Bulgarian agencies because of concerns over organised crime and corruption was "entirely predictable", says UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage MEP.
"It was clear in every single report, in every single debate, that organised crime in Bulgaria was widespread, but EU leaders a .... |
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Sun Jul 27, 2008
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Smoke gets up your nose |
The march of the busybodies continues on its intrusive and ridiculous way. Now a jobsworth from Ceredigion county council in Wales has fined self-employed painter and decorator Gordon Williams £30 for smoking in his own van.
The bullying official said the van was Mr Williams's "workplace". Mr Williams says it is insured as a private vehicle used only for travel betw .... |
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Tue Jul 22, 2008
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Songwriters protest at EU royalties blow |
The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters (BACS) has been joined by more than 200 artists and composers in a protest against an attempt by the EU to force competition into the licensing of music across Europe.
Online, satellite and cable operators who wish to broadcast music must apply for a licence and pay royalties in each European country.
Now the EU has delcared th .... |
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Thu Jul 10, 2008
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Now an EU licence to scrounge |
The EU has voted to legalise benefit tourism, and a British MEP is behind it. The Lambert Report on the co-ordination of social security systems across the EU was voted through despite the fact that the EU has (as yet) no jurisdiction over social security.
A new EU bureaucracy will now grow up, co-ordinating social security payments among member states. People who live in one state and .... |
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Thu Jul 10, 2008
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TV spot for young UKIP member |
Young Independence member Michael Heaver, 19, from Cambridge, has been selected to take part in the BBC1 Question Time programme on Thursday 10 July at 10.30pm. Young Independence is the UK Independence Party's youth section.
Mr Heaver is an enthusiastic member who entered the Question Time competition to find a "People's Panellist" between the ages of 18 and 21.
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Fri Jul 04, 2008
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UKIP backs calls for more women MPs |
UK Independence Party MP Bob Spink has joined activists at Parliament calling for more women MPs on the 80th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.
Dr Spink said: "We must encourage women to come forward and people to vote for them on their merits. If this happened, they might well outnumber the men in Parliament."
Women currently make up just 20% of the .... |
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Thu Jul 03, 2008
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UKIP backs refusal to sign treaty |
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has praised the decision of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski not to sign the Lisbon Treaty. Mr Kaczynski said it would be "pointless" signing the treaty following its rejection by Irish voters.
"If only Gordon Brown had shown such courtesy to the Irish and the people of Europe who were not given a voice," Mr Farage said.
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Fri Jun 27, 2008
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MEP slams 'anti-discrimination' plan |
Government proposals to use the law to encourage businesses to employ and promote more women and ethnic minorities have been condemned as "racist and sexist" by a UK Independence Party MEP.
"Positive discrimination is still discrimination, so selection on the basis of sex or race is indeed sexist or racist," said Yorkshire MEP Godfrey Bloom after equality minister Ha .... |
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