The Talking Clock: Terrible timing... but congratulate the Conservatives!

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Monday, 22 June 2009

Terrible timing... but congratulate the Conservatives!

It's terrible timing. News of something positive (for a change) is coming out on the same day as the election for the new Speaker so this is going to make little in the way of fanfare in the headlines.

However, the Conservative Party must be congratulated now that news of their new European Parliament grouping has been officially announced.

The new grouping - which the Conservative Party website says is 'likely' to become the fourth largest grouping in the European Parliament - comprises fifty-five MEPS from eight nations: Czech Republic, Poland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Latvia and The Netherlands.

Calling themselves the 'European Conservatives and Reformists Group', the Conservative Party have signed up to a group declaration which explicitly states that they believe in "the sovereign integrity of the nation state" and "opposition to EU federalism".

The declaration (here in pdf format) also states that they will be calling for "free enterprise, free and fair trade and competition, minimal regulation, lower taxation, and small government as the ultimate catalysts for individual freedom and personal and national prosperity".

Small wonder that there have been hysterical howlings about the Conservatives getting mixed up with 'racists', 'homophobes' and 'holocaust deniers', huh? Because here is the real truth - the Conservative Party's new group is saying "stuff you" to the plan to make us into one homogenised identikit culture in a federalised Europe.

In calling for less regulation, they will be telling the constant rule makers to get their great big noses out of our lives - and our fruit bowls.

And by talking about 'personal freedoms', lets hope that the Conservatives will strike back at the civil liberty erosions that have originated in the EU but been carried out with great delight and gusto by ZaNuLiebour.

Okay, it's not withdrawal from the EU. However, it's pretty damn good, all the same.

So, how bizarre that they should announce this in the shadow of the Speaker election.

They've struck a nail on the head pretty firmly here and need to make sure they sing this from the rooftops.

Big thumbs up, Tories!!

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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Monday, 22 June 2009

Terrible timing... but congratulate the Conservatives!

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