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Baroness Ashton shows what a political powerhouse she is by telling all those nasty people to stop picking on her.

Fined for definition of character

MEP Nigel Farage has been fined �€3,000 for refusing to apologise for insulting the jumped up little gasbag European "President."

I particularly like this quote in the BBC story from the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek:

But... his behaviour towards Mr Van Rompuy was inappropriate, unparliamentary and insulting to the dignity of the House... I cannot accept this sort of behaviour in the European Parliament.

Dignity of the European Parliament? That Potemkin village of a talking shop that serves as a toothless front for the true, unelected rulers of the EU, including that "low-grade bank clerk," doesn't have any dignity to insult. I've seen stuffed clown cars running a gantlet of cream pies in the middle of a midwinter nudist's convention with more gravitas.

Keep up the good work, Mr Farage. The one thing these power grabbers can't survive is ridicule.

Belgium, man! Belgium!

Nigel Farage, leader of the UKIP, makes a subtle reference to his contempt for the EU President.

I particularly like his calling Belgium a non-country. It may seem a bit harsh, but what can you expect of a nation where (no joke) back in the '80s one party wanted to abolish the Belgian armed forces and replace them with an answering machine with the message "We surrender"?

"You can't do that! What happens if there's a war?"

"Same thing that happens every time; we lose. But at least it'll be on the cheap."

Is the future of the Euro the future of the EU?

And so the cracks get wider. Even the Eu's boosters aren't optimistic about the future of the currency that allegedly binds its vassal states together.

I give the whole rotten EU edifice another ten years before it comes apart at the seams.

Simplify, simplify

A new label to placed on all organic food courtesy of an EU diktat.

Some see this as another encroachment on sovereignty, but I hail it as a great leap forward in promoting effiency in the marketplace. At one go I can ignore the two things I have the least time for: the EU and organic food.

Sleep tight, Europe... If you can.

From The Telegraph:

Baroness Ashton of Upholland will use the values that led her to help to run the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in her new role as Europe’s foreign minister, she said yesterday.

So a woman who has never held a proper job and owes her entire career to a series of appointments, including a peerage and the second most powerful position in the EU, will use the "values", which she refuses to disavow, that led her to become treasurer for a Communist front organisation bankrolled by Moscow and run by the KGB for the express purpose of demoralising and weakening the West in the face of a rapacious, totalitarian Soviet Empire.

From Caracas to Beijing they must be laughing so hard that major organs are dislodging.

Big Brother on the high seas

The Ministry of Plenty EU "encourages" fishermen to install surveillance cameras on their ships.

What's the price of freedom? A five percent increase in the fish quota, apparently.

History revision

Only EU history is history. Britain never existed. If in doubt, have another shot of Victory Gin.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force

The EU (over lunch!) selects Nabooian Senator Palpatine as Emperor Belgian Prime Minister, Herman van Rompuy as President. Announces plan to find someone called Luke Skywalker.

Begun the Euroarmy has

The new Euro Defence Minister inspects the troops

The Italian Foreign Minister advocates the creation of an EU army.

Of course, the new uniforms are an obvious choice.

Fear will keep the local systems in line

Now that the Treaty of Lisbon is in force, the EU unveils how it plans to keep it that way.

Your feeble skills are no match for the dark side

Tony Blair prepares for his role as the first EU President.

The Czech Republic has surrendered, bent its knee, and ratified the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty; bringing the European Empire officially into existence.

Meanwhile, in a move that is no surprise to anyone, the Tories have once again proven that they are New Labour Lite by reneging on their promise to hold a referendum on the treaty, saying that,

These things will already have happened and a referendum cannot unwind them or prevent them.

Prevent? Perhaps not, Mr Hague, but this isn't about prevention. It's about liberty. A referendum would empower the British government to tell Brussels to stuff their "treaty" and every single thing it implies because freeborn Englishmen didn't sign up for a free trade zone only to become vassals to a Continental empire that will almost certainly rot away within a decade anyway. Mr Cameron could do that on the phone while Parliament spends a quick half hour repealing the European Communities Act 1972.

See? How hard was that?

Euro president

Is Tony Blair really going to be the EU's first president?

Sorry, Tony. It looks as though Barack Hussein Obama already has the job.

Brussels may I

The British Video Recordings Act 1984 has been declared invalid because the act was not registered with the real government of Britain in Brussels.

We would be free of Europe and its bloodsucking with one easy afternoon's work if Parliament had the courage to do so, but apparently New Labour is too busy down at Minitruth.

A Breath of Fresh Air

From the EU! Why, dear God, are we not hearing these words in the Commons every single day?

EU's Days Numbered?

Is the credit crunch the hammer that will deal the death blow to the Franco-German Empire European Union? Probably not, but it will certainly leave some heavy cracks that make it easier to rip apart when the time comes.

As for Britain, all it would take is the political will and an afternoon's work and the nation could be free by dinnertime tomorrow.

The Fine Print

Workers in Britain and Europe are discovering what being part of the EU really means and they're not liking it.

And so the cracks widen.

The Acid Test

From The Times article on Tony Blair's future:

Mr Blair is also back in the running as a potential president of Europe, where the economic and military upheavals of recent months have underlined the need for a politician of his stature to lead the union.

The post of a permanent president of the EU’s Council of Ministers was enshrined in the Lisbon treaty, which Irish voters rejected last June. If the Irish change their minds in a new vote next autumn and the Czech Republic also endorses the treaty, the new role could be created next year.

If the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty is indeed ratified and if Mr. Blair does stand for the presidency of the anti-democratic European Empire that goes under the dubious title of "Union" (and both are ifs at this time), then all benefit of the doubt goes by the board for him and his government in regards to looking after Britain's liberties and interests in relations with Europe and only one word will fit the man: Traitor.

Free Trade, My...

A British transport minister, James Fitzpatrick, has told Parliament that it is illegal for motorists to display any flag except that of the EU on their number plates.

Repeat after me: It's just a free-trade zone, it's just a free-trade zone, it's...

The EU Cracks

The EU's response to the current financial crisis smacks less of unity than reality–especially in Germany:

Germany's Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck made clear his government's opposition to the idea that the euro zone's single largest economy should put up money to prop up institutions outside his country. He said Monday that he and Chancellor Angela Merkel were considering creating a "shield" that would protect the country's entire financial sector, and that a Europe-wide shield or bailout was out of the question. "The chancellor and I reject a European shield because we as Germans do not want to pay into a big pot where we do not have control and do not know where German money might be used," he said in a separate interview with WDR 2 radio.

It looks like cracks in the euro-empire are appearing ten years sooner than I'd predicted. Excellent. The sooner this happens the more peaceful the break up of that Napoleonic monstrosity will be.

RESULT!!!

Ireland rejects the EU constitution Lisbon treaty.

Now maybe the cursed thing can stay dead.

Update: Keeping to form, the BBC's report on the referendum doesn't quote the winning side until paragraph 17.

Le Hamster Français

Ah, the European Commission; a selfless body dedicated to promoting free trade and peaceful understanding between sovereign nations–unless you refuse to follow its diktats to the letter regarding hamster preservation, in which case they'll come down on you like a bag of hammers.

Vanishing Britain

It appears that I was wrong about the Eurocrats and I apologise.

It turns out that they have no desire to rule Great Britain. They merely want to fillet the country and gobble it up.

Sir William Wallace, Call Your Service

Our masters in Brussels slap noise regulations on bagpipes.

The money quote directed at the clueless:

You can’t play the pipe quietly; they haven’t got a volume switch.

Sark Chasm

After over 400 years, the island of Sark is altering its feudal system to make it more democratic. This would be a bit of a footnote, albeit an appalling one, if it weren't for the fact that this is not due to any decision by Parliament, but because of diktats from Brussels.

No wonder Mr. Gordon Brown tries to control people's lives. He hasn't control of anything else.

EU Shell Game

When does an EU constitution become a "treaty?"

When you promised a referendum on the former that you have no chance of winning.

Your Tax Euros at Work

Having never heard of the percolator, the EU is spending €6.3-million to develop a robot that makes coffee.

Instant coffee.

The Price of Newts

Cheshire County Council has been forced by the European Union to move four newts at a cost of £60,000, which comes to £15,000 per newt. Apparently our masters in Brussels are unaware that you can get a spanking-fresh newt from any reputable pet shop for £3 and you could probably get a discount for a full set of four.

Gussie Fink-Nottle was unavailable for comment.

Referendum? What Referendum

Gordon Brown signs the new EU constitution treaty. Joins fellow "leaders" in simultaneously giving away the shop and the people two fingers.

Slight Error

This is London headline:

Brussels wants to scrap labels saying 'Made in Britain'

Translation:

Brussels wants to scrap labels saying 'Made in Britain'

Exploding the Euro Myths

Actually, the biggest myth is that we have to be any sort of "part" of Europe at all.

Miliband Madness

The foreign secretary Mr.David Miliband at the Labour party conference rejected a referendum on the EU treaty as "institutional navel-gazing" and said that Kosovo must become a Muslim state and Turkey allowed into the EU because "Europe can't be a closed Christian club."

This man wants a rejected EU constitution imposed on Britain in the guise of a "treaty" without a vote and in a time of war with Jihadi fanatics who want St. Paul's turned into a mosque he wants a Muslim state squarely in Europe and to allow a barely secular country of 80 million Muslims into the EU without a single caveat.

And this man is Her Majesty's foreign secretary.

Sometimes I feel like we're fighting a war on two fronts and the second one is the government itself.

King Canute, Call Your Service

From the BBC:

The European Union's goal of keeping the global temperature rise to 2C is unlikely to be met, a leading climate researcher has warned.

In other news, the EU projects for holding back the tide, making the Sun stand still and abolish death don't seem to be doing too well either.

As If It Was Any Of Their Businees To Start With

The Eurocrats have announced that they've given up trying to force the metric system down the throats of the British people.

One word:

RESULT!

Passport to Europe

A proper passport

It was bad enough when they scrapped proper British passports for those nasty little maroon ones. Now we have this from the Foreign Office, courtesy of the EU Department for National Extinction that plans to remove the Queen and the coat of arms from passports as well (emphasis added):

The new documents, which could be in place as early as 2010, would bear reference to the EU constitution in order to remind UK citizens that they are part of Europe.

The royal coat of arms may be removed from the UK passport. The first page of the British passport has historically featured the royal coat of arms with a message from the Queen beginning: "Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State".

The words go on to outline that the citizen has a right to travel freely and has the right to protection and assistance.

Under new changes, however, it has been suggested that the coat of arms are scrapped and replaced by the EU emblem of 12 stars with the message underneath reading: "Every citizen of the Union".

The new version has been taken from Article 20 of the EU Constitution, the treaty that was discredited two years ago after it was rejected by member states including France and the Netherlands.

Let's hope that this idea is binned with all the scorn it deserves. It's bad enough that the EU would try to shove a rejected constitution in on the sly, but if Her Majesty's government commits such a blatant act of disloyalty against the Crown and the British people to kowtow to a load of Eurocrats, it would be nothing less than treasonous.

What They Don't Know Will Hurt Them

Over in Euroland, its business as usual as Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg's premier and leader of the bloc of 13 single currency members, says that the new European Union Treaty (the rejected constitution being fobbed off again under another name) should be the subject of public debate. That is, unless you're British, in which case you should be left in the dark until it's too late.

I am astonished at those who are afraid of the people: one can always explain that what is in the interest of Europe is in the interests of our countries. Britain is different. Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?

The EU: Protecting the people from democracy for half a century.

I Don't Think That Word Means What You Think It Means

From the BBC:

The EU's foreign policy chief has described as "constructive" talks with Iran's top nuclear negotiator.

That's "constructive" as in "we've given Iran all the time it needs to build a bomb and haven't made them pay any price for such insanity whatsoever."

Conundrum

From The Times:

Tony Blair is preparing to cave in to pressure to sign up Britain to a sweeping new human rights charter.

The prime minister is ready to do a deal over the European charter of fundamental rights this week amid fears that plans for a treaty to replace the failed European Union constitution will collapse if he refuses to compromise.

So, Mr. Blair is going to do something that nobody wants in order to prevent the failure of something that nobody wants.

Next up: I'm going to Brillo pad that gash in my arm to prevent it from not getting infected.

Social Space Justice

The European aerospace consortium EADS Astrium is set to enter the space tourism race with its own four-passenger suborbital craft, but this is not sitting well with the European Commission Vice President Guenter Verheugen.

It's only for the super rich, which is against my social convictions.

Especially if it means that the proles will be able to afford a go one day. It should be reserved for the exclusive use of Inner Party members Eurocrats and the self-selected progressive elite, which is the natural order of things.

A Blow for Liberty

From the Telegraph:

Campaigners fighting EU plans to abolish imperial measures have claimed victory after the European Commission backed down over plans to ban imperial measurements.

Giles Chichester, the Tory MEP with responsibility for industry, said last night that compulsory metric measurements were "off the agenda".

I have only one reaction:

RESULT!

Now if we can just get the EU to naff off entirely and take their metric scales with them.

The Point That Isn't a Point

From the BBC:

University heads in the UK have rejected warnings that the European Commission is trying to wrest control of higher education from member states.

Universities UK said there was "no sign of a conspiracy" to take over the process of making degrees more comparable across Europe.

Quite right. There's no conspiracy; they're being blatantly obvious about it.

1984 in 2010

Thoughtcrime: Set to become official in Britain in 2010, thanks to the tender totalitarian mercies of the EU.

Pleae, Sir, May I Have Another?

Mark Steyn on the Iranian crisis"

So we live today in a world of one-way sovereignty: American, British and Iraqi forces in Iraq respect the Syrian and Iranian borders; the Syrians and Iranians do not respect the Iraqi border. Patrolling the Shatt al-Arab at a time of war, the Royal Navy operates under rules of engagement designed by distant fainthearts with an eye to the polite fictions of "international law": If you're in a ''warship,'' you can't wage war. If you're in a ''destroyer,'' don't destroy anything. If you're in a "frigate," you're frigging done for.

On Sept. 11, a New York skyscraper was brought down by the Egyptian leader of a German cell of an Afghan terror group led by a Saudi. Islamism is only the first of many globalized ideological viruses that will seep undetected across national frontiers in the years ahead. Meanwhile, we put our faith in meetings of foreign ministers.

"It is better to be making the news than taking it," wrote Winston Churchill in 1898. But his successors have gotten used to taking it, and the men who make the news well understand that.

As the kids say, read the whole thing

Fifty Years On

The EU is marking its fiftieth anniversary and the BBC has a retrospective on the Treaty of Rome that started it all that had this interesting bit of history:

The treaty - still being argued over and translated into four languages until the last minute - was not printed. The six (signatory nations) went ahead with the ceremony anyway. The print shop sent six copies of the title page, and the last, or signature page, but in between these two the entire text of the treaty was missing.

The six heads of government put their signatures to a blank document.

That is indeed the EU in a nutshell; "Just sign this nice blank document," say the Eurocrats. "And we'll fill it in for you."

What could go wrong with that arrangement? Thank Heaven not everyone is looking forward to the next half century.

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

Saying to Hell with over three hundred years of tradition, New Labour is poised to dump the crown etched on all pint glasses to ensure that pub patrons get a full and honest measure of beer in favour of the EU's CE logo.

Makes sense. Who needs ministers of the Crown answerable to the people of Britain when you can bend the knee to faceless bureaucrats in Brussels accountable to no one?

Fox & Foie Gras

What is the link between pate de foie gras and fox hunting? Jan Moir explains,

This week, animal welfare minister Ben Bradshaw urged the public to boycott the sale of foie gras and foie gras preparations because he believes that the production of the delicacy gives rise to serious welfare concerns. Really?

I just don't believe that it does, and have always suspected that many people are hostile to foie gras in the same way that they are hostile to fox hunting; if they were honest, they might admit that their disapproval is rooted not in animal welfare but in class hatred, in this instance because they perceive eating foie gras to be the exclusive domain of rich, spoiled people haw-hawing while they stuff their gobs in expensive restaurants. But enough about me.

I hate to say this, but this is the first time I've been grateful for the EU. There may be food fascists in the Labour party who want to ban the beloved fois gras from our plates, but so long as the corp diplomatique and the European Commission remains wedded to a soft life at our expense we're as likely to see a ban on fois gras in the EU as one on vintage champagne and luxury limos.

At least, for them.