After a disappointing election night for Libertas and Declan Ganley's apparent withdrawal from front line politics, many people are questioning the future of Libertas. I attended a UK get together on Wednesday for candidates and activists, which was quite revealing. Whereas one might have expected gloominess, on the whole people were extremely positive and asking what the next step is. There weren...

Berlin, 4th June: A poll in Germany has shown that people are uninformed about the Lisbon Treaty and that they harbour concerns about transparency and democracy in European politics.

Today Hazel Blears has gone, following Jacqui Smith, announcing 'I am glad to be going home to the people who matter the most to me: the people of Salford.' Aside from the sickening insincerity of it, what this really indicates that she is going to spend the next few months doing nothing but campaigning in her constituency to try to hold on to her seat when Labour collapses at the next General Ele...

With just two days to go before the EU elections, support for Libertas, the pan-European reform party is growing rapidly in the media. As the shine comes off UKIP as the alternative vote, journalists across the board are taking a fresh look at Libertas, the party that took on Brussels and won. In just the last day or so, the Daily Mail included a glowing piece by Peter Oborne and then the Sun join...

We are into Day 3 of Stamp Out Sleaze week. The pledge launched today was: "I will not accept 'gifts' of any kind".  This addresses one of the most serious problems in politics today - our politicians are for sale. Few people can forget Peter 'freebie' Mandelson's Caribbean cruises and other 'gifts' that he has accepted. But this is just the most visible abuse of power. Politicians of all levels...

Today's bulletin from Libertas head office included this amazing snippet, about the continuing surge of interest in Libertas: Libertas.eu, the website of the pan European people’s movement for more democracy, accountability and transparency in the EU, had more visitors mid-week than any other political party in the world. Figures from Alexa, the web tracking company, for Wednesday May 13th , sho...

The second pledge has been released today: "I will attend at least 90% of Parliamentary days." It is accompanied by a report that the average attendance of MEPs in the European Parliament is just 77%, dragged down somewhat by UKIP's pitiful voting attendance of just 60%! So why is the voting important? Because that's why we have so much bureaucracy coming from Brussels; it gets voted though in the...

In what has to be one of the most exciting political moves in a very long time, Libertas today began a Stamp Out Sleaze campaign designed to establish a whole new set of standards for political behaviour. There will be five pledges in total, with the first one launched today; a promise to print all expense claims in detail, including receipts and discussion of why the payment was necessary. Libert...

There must be an election coming soon or something because William Hague has been wheeled out for yet another lengthy puff piece. Once again he is making vague promises that a future Tory government would do blah blah blah: He promised immediate legislation for a referendum to reject the treaty if it had not been ratified by the whole of the EU by the time that the Conservatives took power. He lef...

Libertas sent out a newsletter yesterday that revealed that there are 190 domestic parties represented in the European Parliament. It's no wonder that the Parliament is a shambles.  Most of those 190 domestic parties have joined one of the big 'groups' in the Parliament which function as the real parties of the EU. This is the big lie of European politics; those 190 domestic parties are all elect...