There have been mutterings for some time about the EU's intention to silence all us naughty bloggers for speaking out and saying non-EU-approved things. Old Holborn found a link to the EU report that now sets it in motion, and a discussion of it. It's also been picked up by Obnoxio, who I think gives a very restrained and calm response, considering what the EU want to do. As does Iain Da...

.The always excellent EU Referendum has a must read story. It reveals how EU directives circumvent the very rules we are told are in place to prevent illegal migrants simply marrying UK or EU citizens and being allowed to avoid deportation. .Dr Richard North explains that The European Union's top court "has ruled that non-EU nationals married to EU citizens are entitled to live in their spouse's c...

There is no EU wide demos, none of the people of the EU states have voted or agreed that the EU speaks for them or has their authority to act for them. Lamming is attempting to infer that the EU does have democratic legitimacy because we will be voting for the Commission president. He wishes the EU to have the power to ignore the people yet at the same time use a non existent EU wide demos to furt...

No matter how vehemently opposed I remain to our membership of the political structures of the EU, the partial transcript of a discussion yesterday between leading lights in the EU and the Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, published on the EU Referendum blog is still absolutely shocking. Just from the words that were reported it is impossible not to sense the swaggering arrogance of the EU elite and

The concept of democracy at the EU level is very much like the EU itself a top down arrangement, the leaders of the EU do make a big noise about democracy they claim it for the EU and demand it in member states and other states worldwide. It is a ...

The EU is to allow bent cucumbers, so news reports say, and this is seen as the EU cutting through red tape. This is a good proposal (especially in these times of growing food prices), but let's not forget the EU is not to blame for the bent bananas stories all these years.Euro sceptics like to use the regulation on bent cucumbers as a means of bashing the EU. the truth is though that the EU (or E...

EU leaders last night selected Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy to serve as the EU’s first permanent President, and the UK’s EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton as EU Foreign Minister. A headline on the front page of the Guardian reads: “The great EU stitch-up”, and reports that, despite two weeks of dispute among EU governments over how to share out the posts, a...

The EU has just launched its European Citizens Consultations, a website where people in all 27 EU states can make proposals and debate the social and economic future of the EU. We hope that readers will sign up as this initiative could lead to wider consultations. If this is successful, it will also be a great victory for those in the EU institutions who want to involve citizens, and that has to b...

Well, the above is true, but what a strange conclusion? We need to leave the EU, not reform our internal processes, which are irrelevant. The EU is putting non-British laws upon us which we have no control over. The issue is not informing people what laws are from the EU, but the fact that these unwanted laws land here and we have no say in them. Can. We. Leave. Now. Hat tip: EU Referendum

There are those of you who read this blog that are of a more left-wing persuasion, and I would imagine that you are having a tough time deciding who to vote for in the upcoming EU Elections. Labour are imploding and the Liberal Democrats always seem a little too keen on the EU - so whats the point of them being there, if they will just accept everything proposed by the EU commission and do not act...