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  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | The proposed EU Greek bail-out cannot simply bypass German law

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  • Labour hasn’t delivered on 2005 maternity choice pledge says Lamb

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  • Tom Miller | The Tory narrative on Unite is diversionary at best

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  • stephen_green7@sky.com (Daily Referendum) | Member of Unite? Here is your Labour donation opt-out form.

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  • 'Cop ran down girl after 12 calls'

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  • Paul Waugh | Liam Byrne's U-turn on tax rises has now been raised by all 4 Shadow Treasury mi...

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  • Charlie Whelan | Brilliant spot RT @POLITICSEDITOR: @charliewhelan How Tory chairman Eric Pickles...

  • Telegraph Opinion | The role of the father has been downgraded

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  • Daniel Korski | The EU has moved on from 1983

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  • Richard | Big profits in climate hysteria

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  • Ten cops in Pilkington probe

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  • Hugh Roberts | Coalition can make Commons count | Hugh Roberts

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  • Mike Smithson | Is this the killer question?

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  • John Wight | THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY IN OUR TIME

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  • Stephen Brook | When is the Independent going to be sold?

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  • Paul Waugh | George Osborne appears to have gone awol in Treasury Qs. Phil Hammond hitting ha...

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  • Foreign Office | Student members of @unauk debate #nuclear issues and #npt with Foreign Office Mi...

  • Jim Pickard | Purnell, Milburn, Kelly, Hewitt, Jowell: All members of Unite

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  • channel4news | A date has been set for the #Pope's UK visit this year. He will come to London i...

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  • Kevin Maguire | Unions: Hadn't They Disappeared?

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  • Iain Dale | The Tories Must Abolish the Union Modernisation Fund

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  • Boris Johnson | Positive signs for London. Two thirds of foreign firms based here now feel confi...

  • Richard | Better in French

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  • Melissa McEwan | Utah bill reduces women to incubators | Melissa McEwan

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  • Will Heaven | Michael Gove has declared war on Charlie Whelan and his 'New Militant Tendency'

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  • Patrick Wintour | Off-message Kenneth Clarke backs EU commission's call for cuts

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  • Labour List | Spiteful Tory attack on unions designed to split Labour - but, as their refs sho...

  • Nicholas Watt | Civil servants told Tony Blair a Catholic could not be ambassador to Vatican

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  • Will the election be about policy?

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  • Administrator | Eddie Barnes - David Cameron's masochism strategy

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  • Hugh Muir | The unions are not Labour's dirty secret | Hugh Muir

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  • Unity | Election 2010 – Tackling Graph Abuse

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  • Hattie Garlick | The best Tory campaign song?

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  • Matthew Sinclair | Why are we helping to bankroll the union that is stopping Easter flights?

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  • Mark Wadsworth | Can we stop bashing the developers, please?

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  • Guido Fawkes | Union financed @wdjstraw says it is perfectly acceptable for unelected Charlie W...

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  • James Macintyre | The Papal visit and a triumph for the FCO

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  • Tim Montgomerie | Good for Clegg > RT @paulwaugh @Nick_Clegg tells Radio 4 that Lib Dems won't ...

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  • Downing Street | GB: Our new panel of experts will review food standards in nurseries ensuring th...

  • SE Smith | Aspies are far from unemployable | SE Smith

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  • Trainspotting

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  • Paul Waugh | I hear Michael Gove today agreed that the Tories were now the 'new New Labour', ...

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  • Mother's joy as kidnap son is freed

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  • Ed Vaizey | Margaret Hodge finally admits failure of the gimmacky, headline-grabbing A Night...

  • Ed Vaizey | Government accepts Con-Lib digital piracy ammendment. Read more here: http://tin...

  • Bagehot | Thoughts on the debates

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  • Digital Economy Bill approved by House of Lords

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  • Hattie Garlick | Cameron & the Lewisham hecklers

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  • Henry Macrory | Am hearing that Govt has performed embarrassing u-turn over dog tax following su...

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  • Guest | Getting to grips with asylum removals

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  • Nick Robinson (The Reporters) | It's the deficit, stupid

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  • BBC Question Time | Joining us for QT in Wythenshawe will be Margaret Beckett, Andrew Lansley, Charl...

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  • Housing, immigration and jobs: The working class vote in Harlow

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  • George Eaton | The Tories' attack on the unions lacks credibility

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  • Ed Balls | RT @LabourList: .@EdBallsMP asks us all to join the campaign to #SaveOurSureStar...

  • James Kirkup | Just how many members does Unite ("2 million strong - Britain's biggest union") ...

  • Phil Reynolds | Clegg ‘impossibly idealistic’ on deficit reduction

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  • Adrian Michaels | Would changes to the euro need a new EU Treaty?

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  • Laura Kuenssberg | There will be an urgent question in the Commons this afternoon on the planned BA...

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  • Paul Waugh | Lord Ashcroft and William Hague cannot be compelled to give evidence on his peer...

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  • Jeremy Hunt | live on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 at 1pm talking about digital radio, ...

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  • James Lyons | Pope will visit Britain Sept 16-19. Clash with next election?

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  • Charlie Whelan | RT @hannahblythyn: So basically the Tories r all about attacking one of the unio...

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Downing Street has defended its refusal to share intelligence over the 1998 Omagh bomb in which 29 people died. A report into the Omagh bombings has criticised the prime minister for not allowing access to key documents.

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Appearing before the Commons Business Committee, US food giant Kraft today apologised for not preventing the closure of a Cadbury plant at Somerdale. Both Kraft and Cadbury refused to give specific commitments on the long-term future of the UK business.

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Sahil Saeed, a five year old British boy kidnapped while on holiday in Pakistan two weeks ago, has been found safe and well according to the British High Commission in Islamabad.

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Added10:52 Last updated19:11

Six MPs who appealed against repaying their expenses claims have had their cases dismissed, a Commons report published today has revealed. However a further eight MPs have been partially or wholly successful in their appeals.

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The Conservative party are keeping up the pressure on Labour over their connections to the union Unite this evening after it emerged that the union is to meet US transport union the Teamsters in a bid to get support for a major strike of British Airways cabin crew. Shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers claimed "Labour's union paymasters" were attempting to prevent BA flights from landing during the period of the strike by "internationalising" the dispute.

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Labour MP Ashok Kumar, who was found dead at his home on Monday, died from natural causes, police have said.

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Environment secretary Hilary Benn has ruled out compulsory insurance for dog owners, saying the government did not want to "penalise" responsible owners. The Conservatives have accused the government of a "humiliating u-turn."

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Speaker John Bercow reprimanded Conservative MP Mark Pritchard in the Commons today after Pritchard claimed that Bercow had been "prompted" by a government minister into an rebuking him.

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Shadow universities David Willetts has claimed that there is a "looming crisis" in universities, and say that as many as 275,000 applicants could be turned down in 2010.

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Added17:55 Last updated18:03

Caroline Dinenage, a Conservative candidate for the safe seat of Gosport, had her face airbrushed in a campaign poster to make her look "more attractive".

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Six or seven Iraqis died whilst in British custody, an inquiry heard today. A former head of the Army's legal team said abuse could have been avoided if Lord Goldsmith had not obstructed requests for oversight on the treatment of captives.

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Nick Clegg today said that Liberal Democrats will not ringfence any departmental budgets. He also warned that failure to rally public support behind plans to cut the deficit could result in social and political unrest.

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Added10:45 Last updated20:01

Ed Balls and Dawn Primorolo today launched a package of measures as part of the "Sure Start" initiative aimed at enticing young mothers, including a review into food provided at nurseries and greater flexibility for parents on their free childcare entitlement.

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The three key unions at British Airways have agreed to repay the firm's £3.7bn pension deficit, according to Sky News.

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Added16:55 Last updated16:56

The body that represents English language schools, English UK, has said that it will mount a legal challenge against the Home Office as it claims the tightening of visa rules will cost the UK jobs and £400m in income.

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Added13:53 Last updated14:51

Controversial clauses on copyright infringement and file-sharing are now left for the House of Commons to decide on, following the Lords' approval of the Bill last night.

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Added15:21 Last updated15:30

Figures from the FSA today largely back those released by the CML last month, showing an increase in home repossessions for 2009. The increase for the year was 15%, though a fall in repossessions and maintaining mortage payments occurred in the last quarter.

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The Conservative party have accused chief secretary to the treasury Liam Byrne of a "climbdown" after he appeared this morning to not rule out a possible rise in the level of VAT, having last week said the government would not raise the tax.

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The head of the parliamentary standards watchdog Sir Christopher Kelly has threatened to hold an inquiry into party funding after the election, unless Labour and the Conservatives can come to an agreement on reform themselves.

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The Unite union has increased its campaigning support for Labour, according to a leaked email seen by the Daily Telegraph. The email from Unite political director and former Gordon Brown aide, Charlie Whelan discusses how Unite members were encouraged to campaign for Labour.

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The British government's plans to cut the deficit are not likely to bring the UK deficit within European Union rules by 2015, a European Commission report is expected to warn on Wednesday. EU leaders agreed last year that deficits should be no more than 3% of GDP by 2015, but the UK's is expected to be 4.7%, according to reports.

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Added08:02 Last updated12:58

A series of nine "Cabinet Contender" debates are to be shown on the BBC in the build-up to the general election. The showdowns will be hosted by Andrew Neil in the two weeks before the election.

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Added07:00 Last updated10:44

The number of ministers should be reduced by one third, according to a report by the House of Commons Public Administration Committee.

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Added07:00 Last updated16:00

The AA has warned that petrol prices could soar to 120p per litre this year and have urged Alistair Darling to reconsider a planned 3p rise in fuel duty due to come in on April 1.

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Added10:34 Last updated14:30

Gordon Brown's political advisor Michael Dugher has been selected as the Labour candidate in the safe seat of Barnsley East.

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MSM Catching up

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Finance ministers from the sixteen eurozone countries announced agreement on an aid plan for Greece on Monday - the first rescue package in the history of the eurozone - but were unclear on the details of how it would work.

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David Cameron faced questions from students at a college in Lewisham, south east London yesterday. Mr Cameron was initially booed by some of the audience.

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Schools Secretary Ed Balls has said the killers of James Bulger were not "intrinsically evil", as he weighed in on controversial comments by the children's commissioner. Mr Balls said the children's commissioner was "ill advised" in her comments, but that he agreed with her about labelling the children evil.

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Added07:00 Last updated15:23

Relations between the United States and Israel have hit a "crisis of historic proportions", the Israeli ambassador to the US has warned, according to the Times. Diplomatic relations between the countries hit a low after Israel refused to cancel settlement building that was announced during Vice President Joe Biden's trip to Israel.

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Mourners said farewell to Michael Foot yesterday, as his funeral took place in Golders Green.

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Public opinion today

Public demand new referendum on Europe

A majority of the public would like a referendum on EU engagement and support the idea of a 'British law of sovereignty'. The signing of the Lisbon treaty is seen as a negative development, but the Conservatives tend not to be seen as having broken a promise.

A new PoliticsHome poll has found that almost two thirds of the public would like to have a referendum on renegotiating the UK’s relationship with the EU following the signing of the Lisbon Treaty by Czech President Vaclav Klaus. 

Sixty three per cent of voters want a referendum on EU engagement.  The figure includes clear majorities of Conservative supporters and non-aligned voters as well as about half of natural Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters. 

Sovereignty law

In addition, seventy per cent of the public believe that a new ‘British law of sovereignty’, aimed at ensuring that ultimate power stays in the UK parliament, is a good idea. 

Supporters of all parties and none tended to support the proposal, made by David Cameron in a speech on Wednesday. 

Negative development

The signing of the Lisbon Treaty by Klaus means that the treaty now becomes law in all EU member states.  Fifty seven per cent of voters see this as a negative development.  Opinion was split on the issue, with Conservative supporters and non-aligned voters tending to view the development negatively, and Labour and Liberal Democrat identifiers viewing it positively. 

A broken promise?

However, overall the Conservative party has avoided being blamed for changing its policy on a referendum. In 2007 David Cameron gave a 'cast iron guarantee' that a Conservative party would hold a referendum on any treaty that emerged from discussions. 

But fifty two per cent see dropping this pledge as a fair adaptation of policy to fit new circumstances, rather than the breaking of a promise.  Labour supporters were the only group to see it as a broken promise.

PoliticsHome interviewed 1167 UK adults by email between 4 and 5 November 2009.  Results are weighted by party ID to reflect the UK at large. 

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AB

Ironic that Labour supporters think Cameron has broken his promise on a referendum when their beloved party has sold the country down the river so that Blair, Mandelson and Milibland can land cushy jobs in the Eurocracy.

Ian E

So, there is a big majority who want an EU referendum about our relationship with them.  Now, as we all know we live in a democracy in which MPs are elected to carry out the will of their elctorate. Ergo, we must be about to get a referendum!

Don't you just love our representative democracy?

Gordon Brown

Oh Blimey,

What am I going to do now ??

Max Tasker

Labour are the party who has been in power for the last few years. They had the power to give us a referendum but wouldn't because they knew what the outcome would be.

Scot Richards

People need to stop claiming that there's nothing we can do after the Lisbon Treaty becomes law. There are LOTs of avenues open, including a repeal or an amendment of the original laws that integrated our system with that of the EU. It could even be argued in court that in signing the Lisbon treaty Gordon Brown acted ultra vires (above the law).

Moreover, I don't believe for a second that taking such action would be unpopular with the people of Europe. With the unelected pseudo-dictators, yes, but with the people, no. Such a move by the UK would indeed be an act of leadership and would be copied across Europe.

Another avenue that is clearly open today is to call a vote of no confidence in the House before December 1st. If there was any lingering doubt that the British ratification (what a perfect word to describe it) of Lisbon was in doubt then the EU could not possibly pass it into law. And we, the people, would see exactly who would vote for or against surrendering our sovereignty. Who would dare?

Now all we need to see is whether or not the Conservatives have a spine. Personally I wouldn't bet on it.

Sue

I am utterly disgusted and is despair that since the vote on the 'Common Market' - which I voted against; the British people have not had an opportunity to state their views on the increasing strangle hold that Europe has over us.

More choice of cheese is not exactly 'value for money' for the billions that we have paid in and seen wasted on the likes of butter mountains and bloated costs of running the bloody thing. Furthermore - we are a small country and we must control our borders - becaus (regardless of anything else) and we should immediately deport anyone who gains access has subsequently acted agaist the interests of any individual or the country as a whole.

Wake up Britain... Before it's too late.

And who represent  my views? No one!

Steven McCaw

Actually, the BNP do. having voted Conservative all my life, it is now clear that only the BNP will take the action i want. I have had enough of the corrupt EU dictatorship taking our country, with the collusion of the Lib Lab Con traitors!

jack holland

A referendum WAS promised, if not given many will go to UKIP.

Let us reconsider the early ideas of Europe as a trading market, not ruled by them.

Steven McCaw

UKIP are a good choice, but I actually beleive the only way we are going to see justice for the treachery and corruption is to vote BNP.

John Shepherd

Two points. Firstly the conservatives haven't actually broken their promise. They stated that a public referendum would be held if the Liston Treaty hadn’t been signed by the time they get into power.

Secondly, I'm afraid most public supporters of the EU are totally ignorant of the facts, if they actually bothered to educated themselves and stop watching the biased BBC, they'd soon see the problems. Unfortunately most of the public only take notice when something actually affects their lives as opposed to being proactive about the facts. Political supporters however are simply towing the party line because they're spineless and just want to keep their non-jobs. Although equally ignorant, politicians are driven by greed and self interest, two traits we could well do without. But that said, as a member of the EU, we don’t actually need any politicians anymore anyway.

The EU has far too many bad implications to list in an email not to mention the fact that it’s crippling our country due to cost, emigration etc... We need out and we need out fast, even if this means putting our army on the south coast and forcing our way out. That’s the extreme of course; we just need the new Government to have some balls who’ll say enough is enough. We also need to stop importing so much crap and start manufacturing again. We need to take back ownership of our utilities and banks from foreign companies. We need to get rid of this pathetic human rights bill and punish criminals and louts. We need to start being proud to be British again. There’s more obviously, but it’s a start.

Steven McCaw

Cameron has lied, you are incorrect. We were offered an unconditional "cast iron" gaurantee that we would be given a referendum. Then he slipped in the condition "if it is not ratified". Pay attention!

I agree on your second point. Many supporters of the Eu do not recognise its quasi marxist totalitarian nature. The EU is a corrupt anti-democratic superstate, hell bent on securing total power (sorry, ever closer union) for the elites controlling it.

 

Both immigration and emmigration are costing this country, as is the cost of the plethora of petty regulations. Fancy setting up a business these days? i certainly dont fancy trying to compete with the globalised multinationals employing labour for a few pounds per day!

The cost of these illegal wars is astounding! Not just in monetary terms! The massacre of the Iraqis following the first gulf war was an abomination. Upto 1 million murdered by a mixture of radiation poisoning, and a deliberate witholding of essential medical supplies. Who knows what the purpose really was, to install the IMF / WB? To get their oil back to dollars? To install a more suitable puppet regime? And why are we in Afganistan??? There again, we do need to recruit some more Jihadis to fight against us, to give the establishement more escuse to remove our civil liberites!

If Hitler was alive today, he would support the EU, and would be a member of the Labour party! Liars, traitors and war criminals

Barbara
  • 18:18 |
  • 10 Nov 2009
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Clearly most think Cameron has not broken his promise, I don't agree. He did make that promise and didn't explain what would happen if it had been ratified, therefore, they expected a referendum. Indeed, if we had one and the answer was No, then when he did begin new negociations he'd have a mandate off the people, but, he has no intention of even addressing the treaty during the first parliament at all. So all this talking is silly posturing and clearly a lie and deception by Cameron and the Conservatives. I think we should have the referendum almost right away after the election so the people have their say and politicians know what we want. I shall vote for another party not any of the main three, they've had their chance and failed us, time for a fresh start, new faces, new party.

Derek Emery

The problem is that the higher you go in politics and bureaucracy then the greater is total disassociation from any real understanding of the real world and how it works due to disinterest, and lack of experience and expertise. The bigger the institution the greater the incompetence of decision taking. Hence the EU is even more grossly  incompetent than the UK as is amply illustrated as example by the EU regulations brought in on sea fishing resulting in fish stocks being virtually wiped out.

dAVID

i aGREE, a pROMISE IS A PROMISE AND SHOULD BE KEPT OTHERWISE WHAT EVER A  POLTICIAN SAYS IS NOT WORTH ANYTHING.Todays politicians are extremely bad and it appears do not care about the electorate one jot as long as they get into parliament, get their feet under the table, en ter their expenses, receive the money, live on the tax payer and travel abroad at the taxpayers expense. return home and then lecture the same taxpayers on Global Warming.

Derek Jones
  • 21:19 |
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • 0

It's quite obvious listening to all of the three main parties ,that despite the huge majority of the people who wish to have a referendum on the EU we won't get one. The only way that we will be heard is by taking to the streets, demad a referndum, and disobey all laws from Europe including those being forced on us by our own non democratic police force, who are now little more than our very own Stasi force. Britons arise!

Steven, London
  • 13:44 |
  • 18 Nov 2009
  • 0

I look forward to an actual poll which I have no doubt will not look so nicely upon the current Tory party leadership.

I'm not the only one to have moved to UKIP following the treacherous stance of Labour, LibDem's, the Tories and even our Monarch who did not hold the lying parties to account on our behalf as she should have done as Head of State.

Britain needs to be done with this lunacy and start spending its funding on getting Britain right ... not worrying about the ex-soviet blocs, political ego's on the continent and in Britain, nor indeed on which rule of law holds firm for the British people.

We want a vote now, Europe - should Britain be in or out of a Federated European Superstate.

What sort of democracy has the politicians too afraid to ask the people what they really want ... no democracy is the only sensible answer ...

Ben Gross

Sack Brown, Sack NuLabour and keep working for a revised Referendum on our continued membership of the EU.