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We like to support our critiques of the EU with evidence, particularly from its own documents. In the following posts we review some of the major published documents giving, where we can, links to the originals. In 2015 The European Commission published a report by five EU presidents of its key groups, led by Jean-Claude … More Themes-12: Evidence
Who decided the fisherman’s quota or the farmer’s choice of pesticide? “Not a lot of people know that” (as Michael Caine claims he never said) and we certainly don’t. Nor apparently does Emily O’Reilly, the European Ombudsman. We’ve previously referred to recommendations on transparency made by O’Reilly (see Expensives-2 and Revealing Appointment-2). Her website shows … More A Light in the Dark
The EU’s founders and current leaders hold the citizens of Europe in disdain and their elected, national governments in contempt for being elected, and therefore impermanent. They think what is needed is a unified, supra-national entity, or federal government, which has the powers to override the decisions of the governments of its member states. They … More Themes-11: Disdain & Contempt
Last week (16/05/19) The Economist newspaper published an article titled: “The second-biggest democratic show on Earth”. Presumably The Economist (TE from here on) ranks the EU second only to India in the scale of its electorate but we don’t believe it belongs in the same division in terms of democracy. TE is reliably pro-EU, though … More What on Earth?
The EU often expounds, for our benefit, its principles and rules. We are expected to believe that the EU adopts practices that are consistent with its own principles and rules; it doesn’t. Such things are for others to follow and, when it feels it is necessary the EU ignores them. The linked posts below illustrate … More Themes-10: Breaking EU Rules
We wanted to provide our commentary on the EU election campaign leaflets of the main party contenders but that’s difficult because we haven’t received most of them. Nick, living in the Prime Minister’s constituency, hasn’t received the Tory leaflet; he did get the LibDem’s flyer but binned it immediately – fortunately he was able to … More EU Parliament Elections
When Edward Heath explained to the public the implications for the UK of joining the Common Market he said there would be no loss of sovereignty. In fact the civil service had briefed the Cabinet differently – Heath lied. The UK Civil Service, through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), had briefed the government in … More Themes-9: Lies & Deceptions
If you have linked here from Questions, Questions then this is the place to find out what we think are the right answers. However, we hope that you will provide your own responses and perhaps some counter opinions. If so, please contribute to our Comments section on this blog. Many of these questions we have … More Questions and Some Answers
Antonio, one of our regular readers, commented on a recent post [1] “It seems that Britons have more right questions to ask, and answers about Brexit or not Brexit, than in June 2016.” We suggest what some of these questions might be, with no bias intended (but we would be grateful for more or better … More Questions, Questions
