The consequences of attempting to buy a Yes vote in the next Ireland referendum on Lisbon
Posts Tagged ‘EU’
Ireland and the I can’t really believe it’s not the Lisbon Treaty
Posted in European Union, Politics, tagged Commissioner, EU, Ireland, Lisbon, referendum, Treaty on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
VAT – the EU elephant in the room.
Posted in Economics & Finance, Politics, tagged Alistair Darling, Brussels, directive, EU, Gordon Brown, VAT on November 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alistair Darling, (the nominated UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, although some would allege it is still Prime Minister Gordon Brown who pulls the purse strings), is widely expected to attempt to kick start the economy this week by reducing the standard rate of VAT from 17.5% to 15%.
What of course goes unremarked by the europhile [...]
curved cucumbers & bent bananas
Posted in Civil liberties, Life, Politics, tagged bananas, cucumbers, directive, EU, European Union on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So after years of lying to us, and complaining that stories of bent bananas and curved cucumbers were wicked myths, put about by eurosceptics, the European Commission is today set to remove many of these ‘mythical’ directives from the statute book. Sadly however not all. So whilst the EU commissars are now permitting bent cucumbers [...]
Mandelson: up to old tricks?
Posted in Politics, tagged Brown, EU, Mandelson on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gordon Brown must be kicking himself.
After having what most people on both sides of the political spectrum would describe as a ‘good banking war’, he must be ruing the day he decided that in order to bring the Blairites on board, and recover his bad public image, he should bring Mandelson into the Cabinet.
Mandelson is [...]
