What your MEP doesn't want you to know

Members of the European Union Parliament personal pension contributions are taken from office expenses.

No one checks whether the politician actually pays anything into the fund from his own salary. Many in Brussels believe that a "large proportion" of Euro-MPs are using their office payments to get a free second pension on top of national schemes. (Telegraph)


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Task for Today

If you do nothing else today, sign this Petition calling on the Prime Minister to refrain from signing any agreement to create a new European Union treaty without first holding a referendum to ascertain the opinion of the British public.

The Prime Minister is distorting the nature of the proposed treaty by insisting that it will not be a 'constituional' treaty. Anything that alters the relationship between the United Kingdom and Brussels must affect the way we are governed and undermines the ability of our Parliament to govern on behalf of the British people. This is a new EU constitution by stealth, a step that was rejected by the voters of France and The Netherlands

Phase No 2

By calling it a "treaty," the current German EU presidency has begun reviving the stalled approval process for a new constitution for the European union.

By leaving the word "constitution" out of the discussion, Angela Merkel hopes to get her colleagues to agree on a document that lacks the grave connotations and still manage to give the EU an improved voting system based largely on population size, a president and a foreign minister -- even though they might not be called that. (DEUTSCHE WELLE)



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It doesn't matter how you say it or in what language 'Shit Stinks'

Read Elaib's analysis at England Expects

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Counterfeit Democracy

Why do we bother to vote for our own MP's to represent us and make our laws in a United Kingdom parliament

The European Parliament for the first time ever is set to vote for criminal penalties – including imprisonment across the EU for counterfeiting and piracy.

MEPs gathering in Strasbourg ftommorrow (Wednesday (25 April) are expected to vote in favour of a first-reading report by Italian socialist MEP Nicola Zingaretti proposing criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights across the European Union.



The EU commissioner for justice and home affairs, Franco Frattini, said last year "We decided that counterfeiting is a real crime against industry, constituting a growing business for organised crime and is a real threat for consumers," Frattini said. "Our proposal aims to eradicate safe havens for the criminal organisations on counterfeiting and piracy."

What about our own legislature? This is piracy, a counterfeit democracy at work.
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Report handed to CPS

According to a Metropolitan Police Service News Bulletin, Detectives investigating the “cash for peerages” allegations against Tony Blair have handed 216 page file to the Crown Prosecution Service.



I wonder if Lord Goldsmith will be having supper at Chequers this evening.

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Can Cook, Will Cook

Following on from the gordon4leader story, that Dizzy scooped the other day, apparently the Treasury has now denied that it has ever worked with Silverfish TV. (Dizzy Thinks)
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change

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David Cameron Moving House

Months of planning and building came to fruition for David Cameron today when he and his family moved to their new home.

Builders were still at work but Mr Cameron said: "Moving into our new home is fantastic." (Daily Mail)

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Royal Navy Task Force To Iran

The Sunday Telegraph has learnt of plans to send a Royal Navy captain or commodore to Teheran



So who is counting them out and counting them back again.

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