Man in a Shed: EPP

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

At last our departure from the EPP looks imminent

A while ago I resolved that I wouldn't vote for the Conservative euro list if the party was still in the EPP at the time of the Euro elections.

It would be the first time in my life that I'd have voted for another party, and wasn't something I was looking forward to having to do.

But the good news is that its looking like the Conservatives will have pulled out of the EPP by the time of the June elections.

Fantastic.

See also Reuters:Conservatives confirm plan to launch new EU group

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

I'm not voting for the EPP

The usual deals, smokescreen and deceit is coming from Europe again as they try to keep the Conservative party in the EPP.

There is little party members can do about this. We elected a leader who promised to take us out of the EPP.

We are not allowed to deselect the Euro-Quisling MEP's who support the EU proto-super state against their own country and party.

All I can do is say I will not vote Conservative at the european elections if at the time of the election the Conservative party is a member of the EPP. ( Frankly I am no longer interested in promises - I want verifiable action ). It will be a shame not to vote for Daniel Hannan who is an excellent Euro MP - but the underlying issue must be addressed.

It is my strong recommendation that if you feel the same way you do likewise and state as much.

The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman