Tonight, I led a rather early adjournment debate on motorcycle rider licensing, where the EU has added to the joy of motorcyling, the dreariness, aggravation and expense of capricious bureaucracy. I was grateful to Norman Baker for answering the debate in the place of Mike Penning, who has just moved […]
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The European Stability Mechanism – helping Europe towards tyranny?
In July 2010, I wrote an article for ConservativeHome, setting out the inevitability of economic and political centralisation when interventionist nations are combined in a customs union. I referred to the book Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War, published as World War II ended, which […]
Read MoreWashington Post: Britain’s continental drift away from the European Union
Via the Washington Post: LONDON — Like so many others in this fiercely independent island nation, Steve Baker, a dashing English engineer, is fed up with the long hand of the European Union in British life. The E.U., he said, has meddled for years in Britain’s legal affairs and labor […]
Read MoreEU debates yesterday
Yesterday, the Commons debated three important issues relating to the European Union: the 2013 EU Budget increase, reform of the Court of Justice of the EU, and the creation of an EU special representative for human rights. EU plans to increase its budget by 6.8% would lead to the UK’s contribution […]
Read MoreEU motion of the day: Recognition of Professional Qualifications
Via today’s Order of Business, which is dominated by Lords reform, we glimpse the battle against disproportionate central regulation of professions: 8 RECOGNITION OF PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS [No debate] Mr John Hayes That this House takes note of European Union Document No. 18899/11 and Addenda 1 to 3, relating to a […]
Read MoreEU motion of the day: Home Affairs Funds for 2014-20
It’s unintelligible bureaucratese of course. From the order paper for today: 9 HOME AFFAIRS FUNDS FOR 2014-20 [No debate] Damian Green James Brokenshire That this House takes note of European Union […]
Read MoreEU fund of the day – Comenius
The first in a series illustrating how the EU spends your money in its own interests. Today, The Comenius Programme: Comenius: Europe in the classroom The Comenius Programme focuses on all levels of school education, from pre-school and primary to secondary schools. It is relevant for everyone involved in school […]
Read MoreTwo questions in the House on an EU referendum and responsibility in banking
Today, I had two questions during statements. I welcomed the progress the Prime Minister is making towards a referendum on our relationship with the EU and asked him to remind us who denied the public a say on the Lisbon Treaty – Labour. I then asked the Chancellor to look […]
Read More100 Tory MPs (including me) call for Cameron to prepare legislation for EU referendum
Via 100 Tory MPs call for Cameron to prepare legislation for EU referendum: Is the momentum towards a referendum on Britain’s relationship with the EU becoming irresistable? I ask because, this morning, nearly 100 Tory MPs have signed a letter to the Prime Minister urging him “to place on the […]
Read MoreEU motion of the day: “European Semester in the UK” – EU centralised economic planning
Parliament sees a considerable amount of EU business in the main chamber, often nodded through without debate. Here’s today’s motion (emphasis mine): 3 EUROPEAN SEMESTER IN THE UK [No debate] Mr Mark Hoban That the Committee takes note of European Union Documents No. 10834/12, relating to the Commission Communication: Action for stability, […]
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