European Union

By Tony Walley Conservative leader David Cameron has been hit by two MEP resignations and has been accused by the French of 'castrating' Britains position in the EU. France's Europe Minister Pierre Lellouche also described the Conservatives approach to Europe as 'autistic', 'pathetic' and likely to turn Great Britain into a backwater which would disappear 'off the radar'. Two Tory MEP's have quit over Camerons handling on the referendum issue. Daniel Hannan quit last night claiming t

Source: www.politics.co.uk By Ian Dunt [caption id="attachment_3450" align="alignleft" width="140" caption="David Cameron"][/caption] David Cameron has admitted his chances of stopping the Lisbon treaty have reduced significantly after the Czech courts today said the government could ratify it. Eurosceptics across the continent had their eyes on the Czech Republic today as its constitutional court decided whether it breached national sovereignty. A group of 17 Czech senators had s

Source: Timesonline The British National Party's two MEPs took their seats in the 736 member European Parliament this morning just one row behind David Cameron's new Conservative group. Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, and his party colleague Andrew Brons were allocated seats 780 and 781 and immediately ran into controversy when Democratic Unionist Party MEP Diane Dodds refused to sit in seat 782 next to them. After both took part in the election of a new parliamentary President, Mr Grif

Source: Press Association [caption id="attachment_4104" align="alignleft" width="96" caption="Nick Griffin - MEP"][/caption] Boats carrying migrants from Africa to Europe should be sunk to stop Europe being "swamped by the Third World", British National Party leader Nick Griffin has said. Mr Griffin, one of two members of the extreme-right party elected to the European Parliament last month, said occupants of sunk boats could be given life rafts to get back to Africa. Nearly 37,000 i

Source: The Parliament.com British National Party leader Nick Griffin has confirmed that he is intalks with four other parties about [caption id="attachment_4104" align="alignright" width="96" caption="Nick Griffin"][/caption] forming a new group in the Europeanparliament. One is Jobbik, the far right Hungarian party, which won 14.8 per cent of the vote in the Hungarian European elections. The party, also known as the Movement for a Better Hungary, won nearly as many votes as the

Source: By Tim Shipman of the Mailonline. The far-Right British National Party will pocket £5.2million of taxpayers' money to spread its [caption id="attachment_4104" align="alignright" width="96" caption="Nick Griffin"][/caption] message of hate in the European Parliament. Party leader Nick Griffin and his fellow MEP Andrew Brons will get paid more than £446,000 each in salary, office and travel allowances every year. The breakthrough will also enable them to siphon more than £14

[caption id="attachment_1818" align="alignleft" width="75" caption="Tony Walley"][/caption] Comment By Tony Walley. Well a week in politics can be a very long time! Last week here we all were anticipating either a Labour or Independent Council Leader.

By Pits'n'Pots Reporter. Recently we brought to the inside track on the new party 'The Jury Team' . To continue with our theme of demonstrating that the electorate does not have to turn to extreme parties to register a protest vote we bring you this latest news on the Green Party's bid to get more representatives in Europe. A YouGov poll published recently suggests the British public trusts Green politicians far more than those of other parties. Over 2,000 people were asked - regardl

The Vice President of the Finnish Conservatives (Kansallinen Kokoomus) and Euro MEP Eija-Riitta Korhola’s wrote in Todayʼs times that any vote that boycotts the main National and European parties would “plays directly into the hands of extremists, neo-fascists and the non-serious”. We would vehemently disagree with this assertion, which was based upon Lord Tebbit’s comments on Tuesday which called for voters to abandon the three major political parties at the forthcoming European Electio

By Pits'n'Pots Reporter. Aware that many people have lost faith in government, and the areas of life over which it presides, last summer Sir Paul Judge started formulating the idea of a new kind of political movement: one based on the principles of good governance and transparency. The Jury Team launched on 16th March 2009 with the aim of cleaning up politics.