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Better Off Out for June 2009

Gav — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:07:23 +0000

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

Gav — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:11:46 +0000

If you watch one Youtube video this year, watch this:

Daniel Hannan on the EU Parliament President

Gav — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:18:57 +0000

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?

Gav — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:34:01 +0000

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

Gav — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:36:11 +0000

“95% of the Lisbon Treaty was the Constitutional Treaty.”

Conservative MEP Ranking Ballots

Gav — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:02:44 +0000

Apologies to you if you couldn’t get here recently. If you’d like to help me out, check out the adverts!

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

Come on Gordon…

Gav — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:30:14 +0000

Never have so few decided so much for so many.

Gav — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:15:47 +0000

“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.

Sign the Sun’s petition too.

Motion on the EU Treaty

Gav — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:26:01 +0000

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 â€œReform 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 â€œReform Treatyâ€ 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 Governmentâ€™s promise to the electorate in the 2005 Labour Party Manifesto page 84, â€œWe will put [the Constitution Treaty] to the British people in a referendumâ€¦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

Lefties and lefties and the BBC

Gav — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:36:44 +0000

Gah! Anyone watching BBC Breakfast this morning cannot help to have been annoyed by the bend-over-backwards-until-your-country-is-overrun-with-murderers lefty do-gooders on the sofa… I only saw five minutes to be fair, before I left for work, but why on Earth are we subjected to so much “the status quo is perfectly acceptable” or “we should be more left-wing” nonsense, and no “we should be more right-wing”? When I say right-wing, of course, I mean the right-wing I espouse on this site: more freedom from taxes, more freedom from oppressive laws, more freedom from the State and more freedom.

And now a new Socialism is rearing its head. So far there have been three: Socialism, Communism and Environmentalist-Socialism. Now there is a fourth: International-Anti-trade-Environmentalist-Socialism! I’ve never really believed that post-Victorian socialists had the interests of the poor or the ‘worker’ at heart but this must be the final, unequivocal evidence?