Yet more Euro wrangles mean we must let the people have their say
Several journalists have asked me what I think of the news that the European Court of Justice might preside over the new European Fiscal Union (FU). ...
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Where is the strategy to get the British economy growing?
Since 2004, China's economy has grown by 126 percent. India's by 90 percent. Brazil's by almost 40 percent.* Over that...
Read this entry » Margaret Hodge MP is right
That is not something I ever expected to write about the uber lefty Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee. But in the...
Read this entry » Facts of the day
£7.5 billion - amount India is spending on new French-built fighter jets £10 billion – size of latest shortfall...
Read this entry » View from Westminster
Coming into work this morning, I saw this great mass of journalists and photographers outside the Supreme Court entrance on...
Read this entry » Where did our veto go, Prime Minister?
I'm sitting in the Commons listening to David Cameron explain how the Euro club rules have been changed very significantly - despite the so-called...
Read this entry » When is a veto not a veto?
In December, we vetoed the other EU member states proposals to draft a new set of treaty rules that would have turned the EU in to the FU...
Read this entry » What happens when you leave Euro deal making to ministers and mandarins
For the past forty years, we have left Europe policy to the politicians. Just look at the mess they have made of it:...
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How’s our top EU negotiator doing?
One of the consistent themes of this blog is that Britain gets disastrous deals from Europe because of the Europhile dealmakers we have negotiating on our behalf....
Read this entry »Continuity Brown must end before the economy can recover
Despite all the talk of change, when it comes to economic policy the current government has pretty much carried on where Gordon Brown left off. As...
Read this entry »Sheriffs will have the power
In November, local people will have the chance to elect their own Police and Crime Commissioner, or Sheriff.The Sheriff will have oversight over local policing,...
Read this entry »Sheriffs will have the power
In November, local people will have the chance to elect their own Police and Crime Commissioner, or Sheriff.The Sheriff will have oversight over local policing,...
Read this entry »Mervyn King should make us despair
"No reason to despair", says Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King. "All crises must come to an end". Gulp. If this all-crises-must-come-to-an-end line is the...
Read this entry »No time for Adam Smith at the Treasury, I fear
Keen as ever to help the government, I recently tabled a question asking if the Chancellor or his team of ministers had read that Adam Smith...
Read this entry »Why we must quit the jurisdication of this foreign court
If you want to know why we must quit the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights, read court president, Sir Nicolas Bratza trying to defend it. Sir...
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