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• UK to protect EU depositors when their countries cannot do so

03-Sep-2010

By Marta Andreasen MEP

• The United Kingdom will have to loan money to countries that cannot protect their depositors under a new law proposed by Brussels. The European Commission has proposed two directives to update bank deposit protection.

One very interesting and to my mind quite sneaky part of the proposal is for a compulsory credit mechanism to protect the bank deposits in countries that could not afford to protect their depositors in the event of bank failure.

02-Sep-2010

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• Speaking in a debate on EUobserver TV (01.09.2010) on the French repatriation of Roma to Bulgaria and Romania, UKIP MEP Nigel Farage said this issue "gets to the heart of the relationship between Member States and the European Union."

"From 2014 there will be absolutely no possibility for Sarkozy sending people home, because they will have total rights of movement and of work, and all the transitional arrangments would have ended," Mr Farage said, referring to France's current legal basis for the expulsion of Bulgarian and Romanian citizens who settle in France.

"If the president or prime minister of a country doesn't have the right to say who should come to live, work and settle in their country, then do their own population realise just how much power this European project has got? So this is a fundamental debate about the European Union - and do the peoples of Europe really want this?"

"Any uncontrolled, large-scale migration poses a threat to the whole cohesion of a society," Mr Farage pointed out.

27-Aug-2010

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• The European Union is an economic and democratic disaster, UKIP MEP Gerard Batten has told Russia Today.

Describing the EU as "an economic and democratic disaster," the London MEP said: "The way it was sold to people 40 years ago and has been ever since is that we must have it for trade and jobs. We do not need it for trade and jobs, even the European Union has backed down from that argument,” he said. “What we need is trade with Europe and the rest of the world, friendship and cooperation. We do not need to be members of this vast bureaucratic organization in order to achieve that.”

27-Aug-2010

Writing in Exeter's Express and Echo, UKIP MEP William Dartmouth warns of the potential wave of immigration from Turkey should they be given EU membership

• When Prime Minister David Cameron declared that he was in favour of Turkey being allowed to become a full member of the European Union it was possibly of little more than passing interest to people living in the Exeter area or indeed the South West.

After all why should it be? The huge waves of immigration that the UK has seen over the past few years has had little or no impact on the region.Immigration, with its huge demands on schools, hospitals, housing and social services, was a problem for places like London, Birmingham or East Anglia.

• UKIP leads way on EAW protest

25-Aug-2010

• The UK Independence Party has consistently opposed the introduction of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) and The Extradition Act 2003.

It has done so because, unlike the Old Parties, it always understood that the criminal justice systems of many of the member states of the European Union did not measure up to the high standards set by the Common Law and other legal systems in place in the UK, and that many people being haled off to face criminal proceedings in far-flung corners of the EU would do so on the flimsiest of pretexts and without any Judge in the UK being able to scrutinise the evidence on which the draconian EAWs are based.

Read entire article on ukip.org

• Big names line up for Torquay

24-Aug-2010

www.ukip.org

• This year’s UKIP Annual Conference in Torquay will see an unprecedented line-up of guest speakers and participants over two days.

The Conference, entitled A Positive Vision for the Future, and held on September 3-4, will hear from:

• Petr Mach, young leader of the new Czech Eurosceptic party, the Free Citizens Party, which has picked up the baton from Vaclav Klaus

• Lord Stoddart of Swindon, former Labour MP and chairman of the Campaign for an Independent Britain, leading Eurorealist

• Steven Woolfe, General Counsel at a leading City hedge fund, and a vocal campaigner against EU financial services regulation

• Tom Hind, chief economist at the National Farmers Union

• Mark Turner and Jason McGoldrick of the Budapest Two campaign against the European Arrest Warrant

• Andy and Denise Harris of Afghan Heroes

Setting the tone for this year’s Conference, David Campbell Bannerman will be unveiling the party’s Positive Vision project – a detailed prospectus for the UK’s future outside the European Union.

A major Fringe programme, organised in association with The Freedom Association, will see contributions from Dr Lee Rotherham, author of Ten Years On, Phil Booth of NO2ID, Alex Deane of Big Brother Watch and David Atherton of Freedom2Choose.

A fringe highlight will be the Devon Cream TEA Party, the latest in TFA’s series of UK events following the success of the US Taxed Enough Already movement.

There will be Keynote Speeches from Nigel Farage and Lord Monckton, as well as major contributions from Marta Andreasen, Godfrey Bloom, Gerard Batten, William Dartmouth, Stuart Agnew, Derek Clark, John Whittaker, Tim Aker, Jeremy Nieboer on climate change… plus the mystery speaker still to be announced…

View programme on www.ukip.org

• Lord Pearson resigns as Party Leader

17-Aug-2010

• Although under his leadership the vote in the last General Election increased by 50% Lord Pearson feels that other interests in his life are demanding more attention.

Leadership Resignation Statement by Lord Pearson of Rannoch

I took over as leader of UKIP last year to see the party through the General Election, and said I would then consider my position. We increased our vote by 50%, and have many exciting plans for the future. But I have learnt that I am not much good at party politics, which I do not enjoy. I am also 68, and need to give more time to my wider interests. These include the treatment of people with intellectual impairment, teacher training, the threat from Islamism and the relationship between good and evil - not to mention my dogs and my family.

11-Aug-2010

Joao Vale de Almeida, José Manuel Barroso and Herman van Rompuy (European Commission)

• Following the comments of the new EU Ambassador to Washington earlier today, William Dartmouth MEP, UKIP's spokesman on International Trade pointed out, "Cameron's trip to see Obama can now be seen to be a complete waste of time."

The Portuguese diplomat João Vale de Almeida, who reports only to EU Presidents José Manuel Barroso and Herman van Rompuy and to EU foreign minister Cathy Ashton, told local press in Washington that he was now the man to call, echoing Henry Kissinger's famous question "When I want to call Europe, who do I call?"

"In this area code, you call me," de Almeida told reporters in Washington.

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• 01 Sep 2010: Roma issue 'gets to the heart of the relationship between Member States and the EU' - Nigel Farage on Let's Talk About EU (EUobserver TV)

• 27 AUG 2010: 'EU an illegal state built on false principles' - Gerard Batten on Russia Today

• 25 AUG 2010: 'We don't know you': the video with 1.5m views

• 14 AUG 2010: Why UKIP?

• 04 AUG 2010: Colonisation by the Euro-Nomenklatura

• 22 JUL 2010: Nigel Farage returns on BBC's Question Time

• 14 JUL 2010: EU harmonisation of laws can threaten the rights of individuals - William Dartmouth (INTA Committee)

• 08 JUL 2010: Terrorism must not be used as excuse to spy on citizens - Gerard Batten

• 08 JUL 2010: Current agri reforms could jeopardise Welsh economic future - John Bufton

• 08 JUL 2010: If there has to be a CAP, let it assist farmers not hinder them - Stuart Agnew

• 07 JUL 2010: David Campbell Bannerman in support of Kyrgyzstan's democracy

• 07 JUL 2010: With 'External Action Service' EU is now a Single State - David Campbell-Bannerman

• 07 JUL 2010: Iceland, don't do it! - Nigel Farage

• 07 JUL 2010: Beyond satire: divided Belgium is EU prototype - Nigel Farage

• 07 JUL 2010: Rules of the House must be applied even-handedly - William Dartmouth

• 06 JUL 2010: Central Banks are part of the problem not the solution - Godfrey Bloom