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The three essential points of a successful EU renegotiation

By Steve Baker
May-18-2015
Politics
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Our present relationship with the European Union is untenable. As David Cameron has said, “we need fundamental, far-reaching change”. We are now in a Parliament which will deliver an in/out referendum on our membership after a renegotiation by the Government. The following three points must be achieved if any renegotiation is to be successful: A sovereign Parliament. The elected representatives of the British people must have the freedom and power to determine the law which governs life in the United Kingdom. Today, EU rules account for […]

Tags: Democracy, EU, Europe, Free Trade, Immigration, International relations, Internationalism, Parliament

EU rules account for 65% of UK law

Via Business for Britain: Our research shows that 64.7 per cent of the laws in force in the UK today either originate from the European Union (EU) or are deemed to be EU influenced by the House of Commons Library. […] The percentage of laws originating from the EU is far higher than numbers previously cited by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, but also lower than those quoted by Nigel Farage in last year’s head to head TV debates. The key […]

Tags: Democracy, EU, EU referendum, Europe, Parliament

Supporting Sir Bill Cash’s UK Sovereignty and Jurisdiction over Borders Bill

By Ex-staff
Dec-11-2014
Politics
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On 3 December, my colleague Sir Bill Cash MP, presented his United Kingdom Parliament (Sovereignty and Jurisdiction over Borders) Bill to the House of Commons. I am a supporter. The Bill aims to give supreme sovereignty to the British Parliament in relation to the UK’s membership of the European Union, including matters in respect of borders and immigration. While the United Kingdom remains a part of the European Union, the Government is unable to choose its own border controls. That is one […]

Tags: Commonwealth, EU, Europe, Immigration, Parliament

Want change in our relationship with the EU? Vote Conservative

By Steve Baker
May-21-2014
Politics
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There are a great many things in politics and society I care about deeply — the capture of state power by vested interests, the condition of the poor and the sick despite the many billions of pounds spent by the welfare state well beyond our capacity to pay, the injustice manufactured by the institutions of the financial system… — but the reason I came into politics was to restore democratic control over political power with a referendum on our membership […]

Tags: Democracy, EU, Europe, Ideas

Our Plan for Real Change in Europe

By Steve Baker
Apr-23-2014
Politics
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Via our plan for real change in Europe: I’m proud to have played my part in securing this policy and I will now gladly see it through.

Tags: Conservatives, Democracy, EU, EU referendum, Europe, Parliament

The EU – Let Britain Decide

By Steve Baker
Mar-17-2014
Politics
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Only the Conservatives can and will give you a referendum on the EU.

Tags: Conservatives, EU, EU referendum, Europe, Parliament, Referendum

“It is impossible to be a democrat and support the continued existence of the European Union”

By Steve Baker
Jan-2-2014
Politics
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In the Telegraph, Peter Oborne reviews Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy by Peter Mair. I have not yet read it. Towards the end, Oborne writes, Like Miliband, Peter Mair comes from the Left. He was an Irishman who spent the majority of his professional life working in European universities in Italy, the Netherlands or Ireland. And yet he has written what is by far and away the most powerful, learned and persuasive anti-EU treatise I have come […]

Tags: Books, Democracy, EU, Europe, Ideas, International relations

Reform the Council of Europe and abolish the EU

By Steve Baker
Aug-15-2013
Politics
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Via Angela Merkel: Brussels should return powers – Telegraph: Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has raised Conservative hopes for David Cameron’s European policy by saying that the European Union should discuss returning powers from Brussels to national governments. Good, though I am not surprised. Having had breakfast recently with the German Ambassador, I know devolved powers are consistent with the German vision of a federal state. All the while politicians insist on policies of interference with business within a customs union, […]

Tags: Democracy, EU, Europe, Internationalism, interventionism, Optimism, Rule of Law

David Lidington speaking in Berlin

By Ex-staff
Jun-24-2013
Politics
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David Lidington, Minister for Europe, spoke recently in Berlin commenting that: In Germany, you have had a difficult (but necessary) debate – in the Bundestag, in the media and at the Constitutional Court in Karlsrühe – over how much liability to take on for Eurozone debts and how much control to exercise over how German taxpayers’ money is spent in other countries. The UK and other ‘Euro-outs’ have wrestled with a different set of issues around ensuring equal access to the single […]

Tags: EU, Europe

An absolute Conservative commitment to an EU referendum

By Steve Baker
May-16-2013
Politics
3 Comments.

You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence “democracy”, and the other “tyranny”. — Karl Popper Before the Lisbon Treaty, I had no interest in being an MP. That Treaty was introduced to sidestep democratic rejection of the near-identical EU Constitution: I saw democracy dying at the hands of fanatical advocates of European political integration. Previously, I thought it was enough to vote Conservative […]

Tags: Democracy, EU, Europe, Liberty, Parliament, People's Pledge, Referendum

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Tag Archives: Europe

The three essential points of a successful EU renegotiation

EU rules account for 65% of UK law

Supporting Sir Bill Cash’s UK Sovereignty and Jurisdiction over Borders Bill

Want change in our relationship with the EU? Vote Conservative

Our Plan for Real Change in Europe

The EU – Let Britain Decide

“It is impossible to be a democrat and support the continued existence of the European Union”

Reform the Council of Europe and abolish the EU

David Lidington speaking in Berlin

An absolute Conservative commitment to an EU referendum

Liberty – for peace and prosperity

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