The New York Times has obtained a report showing that US and European negotiators are nearing an agreement on international sharing of private data.   more »

As an update to Dan's post on the LPUK website earlier about the possibility that a demonstrator attending the recent StWC rally was actually a police agent provocateur, the Socialist Unity website is reporting that 'Gorgeous' George Galloway has today written to the Home Secretary, both identifying the officer in question, and questioning the events on the day:   more »

Anyone familiar with Europe has some idea about the Lisbon treaty. This is a typical piece of welfare state protectionism through state enlargement or "federalism". From what I understand the twenty-seven countries (at last count) within the EU are to ratify (bureaucratic speak for forcing unto "their" populations) a treaty which will streamline the integration of police and other forms of interference with everyday life.   more »

Liberal Democrat controlled Liverpool City Council is being investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office after it monitored a member's mobile phone calls. Officials in Liverpool trawled through the phone logs and emails of Labour councillor Joe Anderson in an internal probe.   more »

Chancellor Alistair Darling says pay rises for people "from the boardroom to the shopfloor" need to be "consistent" with the 2% inflation target. He told BBC One's Andrew Marr show the need to keep inflation under control "applies to each and every one of us". Ha ha ha ha, you gotta be friggin jokin.   more »

Back in 2004, the Campaign for Truth produced this 40 minute film on what the EU would mean to you and everyone else in the UK if it continued on its path.

It is more relevant today than ever before, now that our corrupt politicians have voted through the Lisbon Treaty and broken every constitutional rule in the book.

You can view the film here.

And for those who wish to endorse the feelings of the thousands who are getting the chance to air their views please visit the BBC website Have Your Say.

Let them know exactly how you feel.

Never in British History has so much been stolen from the British People by so few.

From the very beginning a single super state was the purpose and deception was the method they chose to employ to achieve it - even our own ministers were, and are in on it. It’s beyond me why anyone would wish to join an organisation so corrupt that it has been unable to get its accounts audited for the past fifteen years.

The whole scam started at a conference in Berlin in 1942, where a European Economic Community was proposed. In one of the papers, delivered by Dr Horst Jecht, are the following words: “Two things are necessary for the creation of such an uniform economic area. Firstly a certain degree of economic integration within a given area. Put another way, the way in which it has governed its life for hundreds and thousands of years has to be overthrown and has to be left behind.”

This conference was followed by one in 1944, entitled “How Germany will dominate the peace when it loses the war”.

These are some quotes from prominent EU proponents and illustrate their over-arching arrogance:

“We are working discreetly …….. and all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands.” - Arnold Toynbee - Historical researcher and one of the founding fathers of the EU, papa to discredited Polly Toynbee.

“I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.” - Raymond Barre, former French Prime Minister.

The following quote is from the founder of the European Movement, Jean Monnet in a private correspondence.

Jean Monnet again:

“The fusion of economic functions would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State”, 3rd April 1952

Peter Thorneycroft MP, June 1947

Raymond Barre, former French Prime Minister

This was Edward Heath in 1972:

He later admitted to lying to both parliament and the British people. The same Edward Heath in 1990, in response to the question "Did you have in mind a United States of Europe in 1972?" replied "Of course, yes"


Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister - The Guardian, London, 26th November 1998

Clause Cheysson, former French Foreign Secretary:


Tony Blair, when standing for Parliament in 1982.


Tony Blair, when standing for Parliament in 1997.

Then, Tony Blair, speaking to the EU in 2005:

Jean-Luc Dehaene, Former Belgian Prime Minister and Vice-President of the EU Convention, Irish Times, 2nd June 2004

Gordon Brown continues the tradition by denying the UK a referendum on the EU constitution.

Our politicians have surrendered the UK’s sovereignty into the hands of an unelected, bureaucratic, corrupt and power hungry organisation. They were not entitled to do it and their actions could be called treasonable.

Write to your MP and tell them directly how you feel about your country being stolen from you.
You can write directly from here Theyworkforyou.com


Forget the claims of the Conservatives that they believe in Libertarianism, they voted for nearly all the Orwellian legislation and further integration with the EU, forget the LibDems for they are more pro EU and Authoritarian the Labour.

There is only one home for real Libertarians, The Libertarian Party UK.


The Liberty Bell is ringing, politicians will ignore it at their peril.



There is no left or right in UK politics any more. This battle is about one thing, Authoritarianism versus Liberty.

The owner of a tiny island in off Scotland declared its independence from the United Kingdom on Saturday, saying he wanted the territory, population one, to be a crown dependency like the Channel Islands. In a declaration on his Web site, Stuart Hill, who owns the 2.5 acre island of Forvik in the Shetland Islands in the North Sea, said he no longer recognised the authority of the government or the European Union, and cited a centuries-old royal marriage dowry deal as the basis for his claim.   more »

Tom Wise, 60, from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire was arrested on suspicion of obtaining money by deception by police on Friday. He was later given bail.   more »

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has lashed out at the EU's decision to lift sanctions against his country, calling it "an enormous hypocrisy". The ailing 81-year-old said the measure came just days after the EU passed a "brutal" law that could jail illegal immigrants up to 18 months.   more »

US military guide, from Wikileaks:

The manual directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labour unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and (under varying circumstances) the suspension of habeas corpus. It directly advocates employing terrorists or prosecuting individuals for terrorism who are not terrorists, running false flag operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists. And it repeatedly advocates the use of subterfuge and "psychological operations" (propaganda) to make these and other "population & resource control" measures more palatable.

Surely this is how Brown and his Government have been running the UK for the past 11 years !!

Irish Lessons on Democracy

by Clive Crook

I wondered this morning when I read about Prince Charles giving what was a clearly political speech in Brussels how he could balance the non-political protocols of the Royal Family with the desire to speak out on the defunct global warming platform. Today Cranmer gives us the answer. It is not the answer I wanted to hear but unfortunately the one which I had expected. Our Queen is no longer our Queen, the Lisbon Treaty has consigned our Monarchy to the dustbin.   more »

The Indie on Sunday's Environmental Editor writes in the Mail this morning on GM crops to do a pretty thorough demolition job on the biotech firms' claims. GM crops are not higher yielding, and are not the answer to third world hunger. There are no overall advantages in pest or disease resistance. The plants are sterile in the F1 generation, meaning farmers have to buy seeds every year from the biotech firms. And most damning of all, traditional methods of natural interbreeding have proved far more effective in producing cultivars with given characteristics than GM has.   more »

THIS innocuous PPB for the MDC in Zimbabwe has been banned by Mugabe. and this brilliant piece from the Amazing Toad really does just about sum up how the rest of the world will now view us. Africa appoints its "Democracy Advisor to the EU"    more »

With a tip of the hat to Mr Eugenides, this exchange in the House of Lords, just before their bought-and-paid-for Lordships passed the Lisbon Treaty for ratification.   more »

The Spectator says: So that's it then. The Lisbon Treaty has passed sucessfully through Parliament, despite an 11th-hour Tory effort to delay proceedings. The UK now joins a merry band of 19 EU countries which have all ratified the document. It's a gross betrayal of the 'No' vote in the Irish referendum. Broken promises; no referendum; and a Government which said 'Yes'.   more »

There's been reams written about it, a forest of paper and a lake of ink taken up in newsprint, but since the Irish voted 'No' to Lisbon, one phrase keeps coming to the fore. This little quote is taken from Deutche Welle. The EU executive has commissioned a survey to try and find out what went wrong in Ireland. I'll tell you what went wrong in Ireland: Nothing.   more »

The sneaky bastards. In todays order of business in the Lords, they have put Lord Howells amendment to postpone the 3rd Reading AFTER the 3rd Reading.   more »

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's blast on the trumpet against the fascist tendencies of the EU oligarchy is one to cut out and keep. It should be a set text in every school in the United Kingdom. Especially every law school. Its headline is Gordon Brown is preparing to break the law over Ireland’s EU vote. True. But why?   more »

Sign up to the petition asking the Prime Minister to abandon the Lisbon Treaty. With 6,854 signatures at the time of writing, and the petition remains alive until the 22nd of June - while David Miliband tries to resuscitate what should really be a rather dead Treaty by now.

Without the Irish vote, the number of people deciding the nature of the integration of our continent of 490 million people would have been: 9,225 people. And all of them politicians to boot. But throw in a mere 3 million Irishmen, and already we have a far better representation about what the people really think of the European bureaucrats, who no doubt plan to drag us to the next stage in the inexorable process, whether that be kicking, screaming, or voting "No" to everything they propose for the next 30 years.

If they give us a vote, that is.

Details of the petition:

Gordon Brown said this morning that Britain would continue the process of ratifying a key EU reform treaty despite Ireland's rejection of it in a referendum. The arrogance with which the people of Europe are dismissed as irrelevant by this ruling elite beggars belief. This arrogance will not be tolerated.   more »

After the initial widespread scepticism of David Davis' move to resign his seat and force a by-election on the issue of civil liberties, things seem to be loosening up.   more »

Just for today, in London, antiwar protests have been banned. For those who don't know, it's because George W. Bush is coming to town - read the article here. Our civil liberties have been under particularly sustained assault in recent days, so that news of this sort has gone relatively unnoticed:   more »

Czech president Vaclav Klaus, who is supported by the country's largest political party, called the Irish referendum vote a "victory of freedom and reason" and said "ratification cannot continue". His view was echoed in the Czech senate.   more »

A cabinet minister in Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government on Friday welcomed the outcome of the Irish referendum. A thank-you goes to the Irish people for their vote, Minister for Simplifying Legislation Roberto Calderoli was quoted as saying Each time peoples have been called to vote, they have with clamour rejected a model of Europe which is seen as distant from the people themselves,' Calderoli, added.   more »

For once Iain Dale gets the mood just right. In his posting today he clearly catches what the rest of us already know in this media frenzy over David Davis. There is no left or right in UK politics any more. This battle is about one thing, Authoritarianism versus Liberty.   more »

The UK Libertarian Party has extended an invitation to David Davis to join them, after the Shadow Home Secretary resigned as an MP over the 42 day detention law. The party's Director of Communications, Chris Mounsey, said, "The Libertarian Party applauds David Davis' principled stand over this deeply illiberal measure. "The Libertarian Party is the only UK political party which prioritises freedom and civil liberties above all else. "As such, we feel sure that Mr Davis would be right at home in the Libertarian Party and invite him to join us."   more »

Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP. He is to force a by-election in his Haltemprice and Howden constituency which he will fight on the issue of the new 42-day terror detention limit. Mr Davis told reporters outside the House of Commons he believed his move was a "noble endeavour" to stop the erosion of British civil liberties.   more »

It is with some personal regret that I am today announcing my withdrawal from the Henley by-election.   more »

In an attempt to force the Government to admit what the constitutional position of the Queen will be before and after the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, Lord Willoughby de Broke has tabled the following amendment to the European Union (Amendment) Bill, currently doing its final round in the House of Lords.   more »

THE House of Commons has shredded more than 1m documents detailing expenses claims by MPs that were due to be revealed to the public. The Commons authorities said last week they had destroyed all documents for MPs up to April 2004, even though official guidelines state that such records should be kept for six years.   more »

The British Government is in the High Court today, its biggest legal guns trained on a lone citizen, Stuart Wheeler, who is suing them in his courageous effort to force the Labour Government to hold the Referendum on the EU Reform Treaty as promised in their Party's Election Manifesto of 2005. Mr Wheeler writes:   more »

The Guardian carries an editorial commenting on the recent Home Affairs Select Committee report: The scale of the state’s move into aspects of life once considered private is not in dispute. The home affairs report describes in detail how technology allows the government and business (often leading the way) to capture details of the everyday behaviour of citizens.   more »

If the army's rumours service ARRSE is to be believed, Defence Secretary Des Browne, his podgy frame sweating gently within an ill-fitting polyester suit, often feels uncomfortable appearing with uniformed servicemen, who take great pride in their appearance. So no doubt his other duties...   more »

Will Nick Clegg and David Cameron be voting for this on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty?. You bet they will !!!   more »

An interesting piece on the constitutional Lisbon treaty from the Irish Sunday Business Post.


Read the whole article.

This week's vote on 42-day pre-charge detention is not about Gordon Brown, though over the past few days, moments of vanity, daring and panic have suggested it was. It is not about the Labour party or the future of the many decent people on the government backbenches. It is not about the opposition which hopes to stun the Prime Minister with a sensational defeat. It is not even about the government's 'independent' reviewer of terror legislation, Lord Carlile, who, for a Liberal Democrat lawyer, has the singularly weird mission of advocating ever greater departures from the constitution.   more »

Boris Johnson has finally resigned. I wish him well in his new role in City Hall, although I am sure that he will miss the constituency work that he has done so well in the past. What matters now is the people of the Henley constituency, and it is to them that I appeal to think long and hard before you place your votes this time round. Look hard at what all the Party's are offering to do for you, and then ask yourself whether you trust them enough to place your future in their hands.   more »

French, Italian and Spanish fishermen on Wednesday took their demonstrations against high petrol prices to the capital of the European Union, creating a massive disruption of the city's morning rush hour. Approximately between 150 and 200 fishermen, waving flags and shouting noisily, marched down Rue de la Loi in the morning towards the European Commission around 09:00 hours local time. One of their banners called for a diesel price of 40 cents per litre, half of the 80 cents they're paying now.   more »

ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe arrived today in Rome where he will take part in a summit of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), it was reported. Mr Mugabe, who is usually subject to a travel ban to the European Union but is able to attend UN forums, touched down at Rome-Fiumicino airport about 6am AEST Monday.   more »

Australian soldiers have ended combat operations in Iraq and will return home by the end of the month. The 550-strong force will now withdraw from its southern base. It fulfils a promise made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd ahead of his election last November to bring troops home by mid-year.   more »