You couldn't make it up!

The multi-million pound battle to kick hate preacher Abu Hamza out of Britain has descended into farce.  Ten EU human rights judges have suspended his extradition to face terror charges in the United States on the grounds that the Americans might jail him for “too long”. This extraordinary decision will cause more delays to the scandalous extradition saga that has so far lasted more than six years.

This case shows a fundamental and undisputable reason for leaving the EU – we are not free to deal with terrorists and extremists in the way that we should be able to – our country’s very security is at risk because we are in the EU.

This was the same court that decided we could not return terrorists that wanted to kill thousands of British people to their own country in case they got tortured!
We need to be out of the EU and now, this ruling makes that clear and urgent.

The UK contributes a staggering £135million a year to European Union bureaucrats’ pension payments. While many a pensioner in the UK has to make do somehow with £10,000 a year, these trouser-polishers take home an average of £60,000 a year.

David Cameron (Conservative MP) told the Financial Times (13 Jan 2009) that if his party were to win a summer general election “we could have a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in October”. The last time a general election took place in the summer was in 1945, in the aftermath of World War 2. So you are pretty safe from having to fulfil that promise, Dave.

NASA's representative, an Al Gore global warming religion supporter, has just announced that October 2008 was the warmest October on record.

However, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has it as the 70th warmest in 114 years. If the facts don't fit, make them up!

Incidentally, don't forget that the 1930s decade was warmer than the 1990s.

Mr Ole Harald has obtained €100,000 in EU subsidies to build a ski slope on the island of Bornholm. The island has two little hills and it rarely snows there. "I had never thought that the EU experts would have been ready to support such a mad project. When it was surprisingly granted there was no reason not to go ahead with it" said Mr Harald.

EU requirements to throw away fish the 'wrong' size, all dead by this time of course, keep up the price of fish and make fishermen weep. This is Lord Rooker, Minister of State for DEFRA (The Department for the Elimination of Farming in Rural Areas) "In 2007 it is estimated that Scottish vessels discarded a total of 55,703 tonnes of cod, haddock whiting and saithe in the North Sea and the west of Scotland. This represents 51% of the total catch of these species."

Inigo Mendez de Vigo, a Spanish MEP, bossing the Irish, who have turned down the Lisbon Treaty by a referendum " You are not going to stop us, we'll go ahead. There are ways to do this. This is the history of the EU, if compromise is not possible the others will go ahead. To me it is shocking that a government who held a referendum and failed is still in office. A government that puts a question to a referendum and loses has to resign: that's democracy." It may be Inigo's version of democracy !

UK BILL FOR EU IMMIGRATION

168,000 migrants from the EU accession states are now claiming benefits in the UK at an annual cost of £190 Million. This is up by £90 Million on last year. [The Express 21 May 2009]

WACKY BACCY BILL

There is no shortage of tobacco on world markets, but the EU pays farmers (mostly in Italy, Spain, and Greece)  £5,250 a hectare to grow tobacco. Wheat producers are paid £240 a hectare. European tobacco is sold mostly to third world countries, while we choose better quality tobacco to kill ourselves with from elsewhere.

Not only that, but the EU taxpayer is paying 98% of the actual cost of producing this tobacco [EU Commission Report  2003 'Tobacco Regime. Extended impact assessment'] . So thanks to Brussels we are undermining poor tobacco farmers in the third world, and supplying them with something that EU health ministers say killed half a million people in the EU last year. In the UK the NHS spends £1.5 Billion a year treating smoking related diseases.

UK PARLIAMENT VOTES ITSELF OUT OF BUSINESS!

Here it is, straight from Hansard, when Parliament was waffling about the Lisbon Treaty:- (in a desperate attempt to stop Parliament negating its own powers Mr Cash MP put in the new clause 9 in the hope that it would get a majority.  As it failed, once the Lisbon Treaty is in business all that will be left for our MPs to do in return for their fat salaries, pensions and expenses is listen to gripes from constituents, hope that Brussels can sort them out, and think of ways to be voted in at the next General Election).

"New Clause 9.

Supremacy of Parliament

'Notwithstanding any provision of the European Communities Act 1972, nothing in this Act shall affect or be construed by any court in the United Kingdom as affecting the supremacy of the United Kingdom Parliament'. [Mr Cash]

Brought up and read the First time

Question put, that the clause be read a Second time:-

The Committee proceeded to a Division.

The Chairman: Order. I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.

The Committee having divided: Ayes 48, Noes 380

(Hansard 5th March 2008)

THE EU BY-PASSED PARLIAMENT ANYWAY TO LAND US WITH:-

Higher food prices, higher Council Tax, new Royal Mail pricing rules and closure of Post Offices, fewer and more expensive fish, extinction of swathes of vegetable varieties, home information packs, fortnightly bin collections, more wind turbines, car booster seats for children of 12, cutting many rural bus routes, creation of Railtrack, higher  ticket prices for football fans, banning workers from earning higher wages instead of taking holidays, permitting migrant workers to undercut the UK minimum wage, the run on Northern Rock, fewer training hours for doctors...... and many more. To see a more comprehensive list, with explanations, go to

http://www.openeurope.org.uk/research/euandyou.pdf

WHY DO WE GET LANDED WITH STUPID RULES?

Well, here's a couple of reasons. The Landfill Tax idea came from Holland and the EU made sure we all had to do the same as Holland. If you dig a hole there it fills with water, so landfill is a non-starter for them, hence the same must apply to us. Soon it is likely that the EU will require us to waste energy by having our vehicle lights on during scorching sunlight as well as at night. This regulation began its life in Sweden and Finland, where it is dark for half the year. Oh dear. Incidentally, the cost to the driver of a family car in the UK has been estimated at £68 per year,  it will cost HGVs an additional £260 per year. Worse even than that, Stephen Ladyman, former Labour Transport Minister, points out that "This directive will kill a lot of motorcyclists. They use daytime lights to make them easier to see, but if cars are using them, they will just merge into the background".

HOSPITAL BEDS:

Hungary learns to cut back, the EU way

The European Union is a wonderful thing. It endeavours to provide a level playing field for all its member states, as Hungary has just discovered.

Hungary is one of the newer members of the EU – it joined in 2004 – and it has been told it must phase out 9,000 hospital beds in order to be in line with the EU average.

Hungary currently supplies 780 hospital beds per 100,000 people compared with the EU average of 640 per 100,000. This restructuring will cost Hungary around £72m (US$140m).

Lajos Molnar, Hungary’s health minister, describes his country’s health service as “excessively wasteful”.

Too right, make ‘em wait like they have to in the rest of Europe.

(Source: British Medical Journal, 333: 1140).