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]

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 a good story, but the reality is that nothing could be further from the truth…[Continue Reading]

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 be honest,  much of my dislike for Mr Kaminski rest on his appearance: he looks more like a worm than a politician. I wouldn’t have trusted him with a vote because of his face alone, forget his politics. Sadly, many of the active voters in Poland disagree….[Continue Reading}

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 new top EU job. It’s no secret that Miliband was an advisor to Blair before running for MP himself, and was given his first cabinet posting by former PM Blair as well. Perhaps he felt it was his time to return the favour? …[Continue Reading]

 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 about his beliefs about the Holocaust. In 1998, he stated that he was ‘aware that the orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades. Orthodox opinion also once held that the Earth was flat’, concluding that the history of the Holocaust as we know it is thanks to propaganda and a profitable lie.…[Continue Reading]