Posts Tagged ‘EUssr’
Better Off Out for June 2009
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on May 23rd, 2009
As in previous years, I think it is important to remind you about Better Off Out the campaign by The Freedom Association.
Hannan vs. Brown KO
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on March 24th, 2009
If you watch one Youtube video this year, watch this:
Daniel Hannan on the EU Parliament President
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on February 24th, 2009
I have said before that the Party List form of proportional representation is an unacceptable way of electing MEPs. I would feel far more comfortable, for example, voting for Daniel Hannan, than I would have for some Conservative MEP candidates who used to be on the list. That list has improved since party members were allowed to help select the list’s constituents.
Why do I single out Daniel Hannan?
“… at every opportunity the people vote no. If you think I’m wrong, prove me wrong, put the Lisbon Treaty to a referendum; Pactio Olisipiensis Censenda Est.” Daniel Hannan (in almost every video!)
See these videos:
EU or USSR?
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on June 28th, 2008
This video is quite scary:
What what’s more scary is that I have no doubt that the MEPs mentioned will retain their seats. Democracy is flawed in two directions — politicians who don’t do what they promise and an electorate who don’t notice or care.
But let’s leave the EU.
Brian Cowan on Lisbon Treaty
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on June 10th, 2008
“95% of the Lisbon Treaty was the Constitutional Treaty.”
Conservative MEP Ranking Ballots
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on March 6th, 2008
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For the first time every member of the party is being given an opportunity to vote on the rankings of Tory MEPs and candidates. This is fantastic news as it counters my comments in this post.
While it is a secret ballot I am keen that everyone knows which MEPs are Eurosceptics and which are Europhiles. Then people reading this can vote along those lines without having to go to the same effort as me!
So here’s how I’m voting:
1. Daniel Hannan MEP
2. Nirj Deva MEP
3. Richard Ashworth MEP
4. (Because you are required to rank all candidates) James Elles MEP
You may remember that Mr Elles is a pro-EU Tory who supported the Lisbon Treaty and who wishes to remain in the EPP-ED.
And in Ballot 2:
1. Richard Robinson
2. Nina Kaariniemi
3. Sarah Richardson
4. Tony Devenish
5. Therese Coffey
6. Marc Brunel-Walker
Please bear in mind that my decisions regarding Ballot 2 were largely as a result of answers on Conservative Home’s Goldlist site
Never have so few decided so much for so many.
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on September 24th, 2007
“Never have so few decided so much for so many.” The Sun
This is how The Sun launched its campaign today against Gordon Brown’s momentous decision to abandon democracy and his party’s manifesto on which he was elected by said democracy.
Motion on the EU Treaty
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on September 14th, 2007
I am delighted to announce that my motion on the EU treaty and the referendum Mr Blair et al promised us was passed, not unanimously, but with no opposition votes. The text reads as follows:
Notice of Motion – Council Procedure Rule 17
The following Notice of Motion is proposed by Councillor Gavin Ayling:
The “Reform Treatyâ€, signed by Tony Blair on 23 June, is acknowledged publicly by the leaders of nearly all our EU partners to be virtually the same as the Constitution Treaty. France and The Netherlands decisively rejected that Treaty.
The “Reform Treaty†transfers yet more substantive powers from Britain to the EU and further erodes British laws and the British Constitution.
It will reduce the rights and freedoms of the residents of Adur and the whole nation.
Therefore this Council calls on Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, to abide by the Government’s promise to the electorate in the 2005 Labour Party Manifesto page 84, “We will put [the Constitution Treaty] to the British people in a referendum…â€
Read the original on the Adur District Council website.
And I’m also delighted to see that Ming the pitiful has now suggested a referendum would be a good idea, naively believing that the people would vote for massive bureaucratic waste, cultural erasure, pathetic and unnecessary directives and higher taxes (for no gain).
Oh, and Sign the Petition
