The EU is a UN regional executive, not a sovereign state.

M.Thatcher took us further into europe but i believe she was well intentioned and mislead. She stood up in parliament and said no no no to the federalists. The subsequent coup was not suprising.
I cant imagine David Cameron doing that, but i agree he is the best hope.

The problem with the Tory party, is that it is infested with socialists. Those people who are prepared to see the party torn apart rather than see their pet project take a step back.

If honest, these people would be in the Labour party, but actually they serve the purpose of the Labour party, wheeled out to discredit the most recent Tory policy from the inside the party. We saw this behaviour time and again during the Blair years. These are the people who when Blair first came to government, enthuiastically joined him in his 'big tent', as the BBC adoringly called them "the BIG BEASTS" of the Conservative party, we hardly need to name them, we all know who they are. The fifth column in the party.

Mr Redwood on the other hand is, I believe, an honourable man, so are they all; these parliamentarians, honourable men. As they do call themselves honourable and right honourable men, it must be so.

Cameron is, he says, his friend, fathful and just to him, he is thought a ferice and ambitions Eurosceptic, who will bring many captives home from Brussels, the Euro trubutes will our general coffers fill.

When the poor cry out, Cameron too doth weep, comforting them
thus, "Fuel duty *might* be cut", "inheritance tax *may* be reduced (if the foriegners will pay)", "taxes *seem* to be high (but there is much work to be done in the schools n' hospitals)".

Perhaps his ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Secondly, to be effective as an army the military must be able to procure good weapons at good prices. The USA and Russia do this with huge home military industrial complexes. Israel does it by buying in everything save the all-important Merkava tanks. The UK does the same, but in an ineffective manner. An EU Army would likely be restricted to EU-manufactured military kit, which is a recipe for ineffective, overpriced garbage.

So, any probably EU Army would be politically hamstrung from the start, ill-equipped and highly unlikely to be effective, plus it everyone would know this. Have you noticed how the UK military now have a recruitment crisis? This is due to a high likelihood of dying somewhere sandy due to political incompetence at procurement and strategy; nobody with a brain wants to die for the sake of a muppet like Gordon Brown's poll ratings. I strongly suspect that people would be most reluctant to join the EU force, knowing what a suicidal farce it would likely end up as.

All in all, it is a really daft idea from the word go, and we really should not be handing over power to the incompetent nitwits in the EU who are proposing it.

Should Cameron propose a referendum on whether Britain stays in the EU or leaves it (to renegotiate a trading position afterwards) he will experience a landslide victory, and will likely trounce Labour into a poor third place.

I'd suggest talking to the electorate on this one, Mr Redwood; we all absolutely hate the European Union. Nobody who isn't a politician likes it, and nobody who isn't a politician can understand why the politicians so love the idea (most think that politicians like the EU as it represents a lavishly paid sinecure for life).

Go talk to your voters.

Ask what they want.

Thank you for your reply, I have never considered you to be anything other than a Euro Sceptic, I however, prefer the term Euro realist and a patriotic Englishman when describing my position.

The point I was trying, somewhat clumsily to make I admit, was this; you were rarely, if ever, critical of Mr Cameron, even when he was at his most Blair like.
We need people like yourself to steer Mr Cameron away from "Blair Lite" type policies and to speak up when he sounds like a socialist or Liberal rather than a Conservative.

One example, the new religion of climate change, it is all very well for relatively well off people to constantly demand more and more green taxation but, as with most tax schemes, the poorer people pay an ever increasing proportion of their income directly to the government. Green taxes will not change people's behaviour if they cannot afford to change.

In my view, we should be putting the green agenda on hold at least until after the world economic down turn is over.
I suspect many people in our region of the EUSSR, are more concerned about the price of their fuel, the cost of their food, the cost of their home and the level of taxation, rather than green issues. The whole Climate Change Religion was created by two politicians and the governments of the world saw it as a way of controlling the masses and making some money. How will more and more taxation save the planet? When was the climate fixed?

Is it not a fact that, as technology develops then we will become naturally more green and the old poluting technologies will naturally die out?
In my opinion, the green agenda is a luxury item and we should do without it until the current economic crisis is over.

Perhaps you would give an honest straight opinion in your capacity as an individual citizen of the UK, do you consider Mr Cameron to be Pro the EU or a Eurosceptic? Do you honestly believe he is the right man to deliver the changes both you and I seek? If not, will you tell him so? If he is, then we should both get behind him.

Reply: If I ever have criticisms of the leadership I put those to them in private, not in public. I voted for Cameron because I know he is a Eurosceptic.

Why are so many British politicians and those of other nations, so keen to loose their national identity? What is in it for them?

I feel many people in this country feel betrayed by their politicians of all political parties, after all, it was our own party under Edward Heath took us in to Europe in the first place.

I am all for trading agreements with the Europeans but, I and many others I suspect, feel we have had a drip drip effect towards futher and further assimilation into a giant socialist style superstate.

At no time can I remember being asked if I want to effectively surrender my heritage, identity, customs and culture to Brussels. I am English and proud of it, I am not European and never will be.
We have seen our nation become little more than a region of the said state. Our courts no longer have supremacy over the law of the land. Our parliament in effect opperates subject to European approval. Our so called elected representitives happily implement each and every diktat given by Europe, often to our nation's detriment.

I suspect that many of those that gave their lives to keep our country free from the last European onslaught, are turning in their graves and in my opinion, we have let those brave souls down.

It makes me so angry the way our country has allowed itself to be sold out to a foreign power and all those politicians responsible should be tried for treason in my view.

Reply: I understand your frustration. The problem in 1975 was that the Treaty of Rome said very different things from what the politicians of all 3 main parties told us it said. That is why so many people feel cheated by the whole thing. Why do politicians go along with it? Because that is the easy option, with the establishment briefing pro the whole U scheme and against us Eurosceptics.

The Tories took us into the EU. Ever since, the Tories have continued to strengthen the hold of Brussels at every opportunity. Did anyone seriously believe that they would give the people a referendum if they formed the next government?

No way would the Tories do anything to risk fracturing the EU project, not now nor in the future. The parliamentary Tory Party is no longer a conservative party it is a left/liberal Quisling party and can never, ever be trusted to protect British interests."

This is taken from the BNP's Website. They are standing in the wings, waiting to hoover up when they can……
That is why I agree with john – support Cameron! Trust the man, even though we live in lying times.

Those are the words of a surrender monkey John.

Those powers belong to the people. On who's authority have they been surrendered. No government can legally hand the sovereignty of our nation over to another state it is our birthright, you are complicit in an act of treason.
We do not want some of our powers back, we WILL have them all returned to us. You are putting our backs agianst the wall.

"DC is the best hope we have of rescuing some powers for self government here in the UK".

I've voted Conservative all my life. My father was Labour and my Mother was Liberal. As you can see, we have a mixed 'working class' background which welcomed debate.

David Cameron has not spoken out on the EU and I can tell you this: Ifsomeone comes forward, pledging (ie a Court-honourable manifesto) to take Great Britain out – to denounce it as the corrupt totalitarian construct it is, we will vote for such a party.

Please don't post a reply about changing it from the inside – we all know that once we are inside the only option we have is to repeal the 1972 Act and get out. The EU does not like negotiation or different opinion.

Some Powers ?

I want them all back,

No Gold, no Fish, No food, no Fuel, no Industries, except the perceived wealth in houses and the stock exchange, and our armed Forces demoralised and culled.
The picture looks very clear and consistant to me, Great Britain is being deliberately Gutted, and by our own Parliament.
6 Million abortions, a bill to sterilise (only) British schoolgirls.
And what happens when the numbers are correct, are we to have a 'cultural revolution' is that how the food, fuel, housing shortages congestion problems are to be solved.
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