Richard Hendron (22/11/09) Senior Tories have received the appointment of the relatively unknown Herman Van Rompuy as the first European President and Lady Ashton as first European Foreign Secretary with surprise and some disdain…[Continue reading]
Tory splits over Europe? In fact, the party has never been more united over Europe.
David Vaiani (08/11/09) David Cameron performs an uncomfortable U-turn. David Davis writes an article that goes against party policy. Daniel Hannan and Roger Helmer resign from their frontbench posts. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose, as the media claim that the Tories are, once again, split straight down the middle over the issue of Europe. It’s [...]
The biggest problem for the Conservatives in Europe:
Jenny Riddell (7/11/09) I don’t often like Iain Dale, but his interview in this month’s Total Politics with Michal Kaminski (on the left), the Polish MEP and head of the Conservative and Reformist group in the EU, was quite frankly -fantastic. He clearly has little time for this man, and neither do I. To [...]
Miliband’s approval: another reason not to appoint Blair as European Council President
Siobhán Gabriella Gibney (28/10/09) Having recently assured the public that he has no ambitions to be new High Representative for CFSP (huge sighs of relief across the continent), David Miliband has just made a strong pitch for Tony Blair to be European Council President. Shocking – one Labour politician supporting another’s sly bid for the [...]
Nick Griffin, MEP: Holocaust and Climate Change denier
Siobhán Gabriella Gibney (24/10/09) Among all the ignorant, offensive, and at times simply confusing things BNP leader Nick Griffin said on Question Time (22/10), was a dismissive comment, in which he declined to state his opinion because it was not allowed under ‘European law’. He was referring to a question posed by host David Dimbleby [...]
