The welfare state has been a failure, encouraging moral decay over two generations, and should be scrapped forthwith
• When the Lloyd-George government first floated the idea of a welfare state, it was a radical idea - paradoxically sparked by developments in Bismark's administration, in Germany, during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II. It was reappraised in wartime Britain by Beveridge, in 1943, as a blueprint for the modern welfare state. It matters not what style of welfarism a modern industrial economy runs, it is always subject to moral hazard.
The systems usually mutates into something quite different as politicians manipulate the concept to bribe voters with their own money. Given that politicians, with the aid of cronies at their central banks can print or borrow money almost without short-term restraint, the temptation to do so is irresistible to the electioneering politician.
MEP for Wales John Bufton in mass lobby of Parliament on Monday while MPs debate EU Referendum
• UKIP MEP for Wales is to join a mass lobby of Parliament in Westminster on Monday while MPs in Westminster debate whether or not the UK should hold its first referendum on its relationship with the EU in over 37 years.
The Conservative Party will operate a three line whip against having a referendum in the UK, despite the debate being triggered by more than 100,000 people signing a petition urging EU membership to be put to a public vote. The debate has been pulled forward by Prime Minister David Cameron in order that he and Foreign Secretary William Hague may attend.
The Labour Party are also said to be employing the three line whip against holding a referendum while all 57 Lib Dem MPs will also oppose the idea.
• Following David Cameron's use of diabetics having their licences removed under EU law in his party conference speech, UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall MEP launched an investigation into how this discrimination against diabetics could have happened. His discoveries show the scale of the impact of the new laws and both how the Government and the DVLA are directly responsible for the new law. It also shows how Cameron fails to understand how the EU works.
I have also discovered that when the decisions were made by the European Commission's "driving licence committee" in February in 2009, Britain was represented by both the DVLA and the Department of Transport. The decision to introduce this discriminatory rule was taken unanimously, with both the DoT and the DVLA supporting the measures."
A ban on tall trucks which will increase motorway congestion and affect the environment has been slammed by a campaigning MEP.
• East Midlands UKIP MEP Derek Clark joined with the Federation of Small Businesses to fight a controversial EU ban on UK trucks measuring up to 4.9 metres high, as opposed to the four metre trucks used on the Continent.
Along with FSB representatives he handed over a letter of protest outside the EU commission buildings in Berlaymont.
He said: "It does not take a genius to work out how an extra one fifth capacity will cut down on trucks, so less motorway congestion and less carbon dioxide.
"It's madness because UK hauliers will not be taking these high trucks abroad anyway, so it has no impact on the Continent, except to make our hauliers more competitive.
Nigel Farage MEP
• MPs will vote next week, 24th October, on whether Britain's continued membership of the European Union should be put to voters in a referendum.
This is after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a choice.
Although approval of the motion would not be binding, it would place enormous pressure on David Cameron to respect the will of the Commons and seek the public's verdict.
You need to contact your MP and tell them to support a referendum! Our future should not be left to 650 MPs who have, over the years, handed over power to Brussels without asking our opinion.
Write or email to your MP and demand that they LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!
UKIP MEP for Wales John Bufton slams €120,000 trip to French Guiana
• Some 13 MEPs and 10 interpreters are due on the three-day trip, from 2 to 5 November, which is estimated to cost €120,000 and has been organised by the Regional Development Committee.
The MEPs include four French, one Lithuanian, one Czech, four German, two Portuguese, and one each from Romania, Hungary and Greece. It also includes two secretariat staff from the regional development committee, two political group staff and 8 to 10 interpreters.
The visit follows the launch into orbit this week (20 Oct) of two Galileo navigation satellites via Russia's Soyuz VS01 rocket (pictured) from French Guiana.
A parliamentary source defended the visit, saying it would be "informative and very useful" for MEPs and staff alike.
But the trip was condemned by John Bufton, UKIP MEP and member of the regional development committee.
• Conference held in the European Parliament, Brussels, on Wednesday, 12th October 2012, with German economics professors Dr Wilhelm Hankel and Dr Philipp Bagus.
Introduced by UKIP Leader Nigel Farage MEP and chaired by UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom, the event was sponsored by the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group (EFD). More information about the two professors here.
• Members of the Slovak political elite have promised to pave the way for approval of an EU bailout package by the end of the week.
The head of the main opposition party, Direction-Social Democracy leader Robert Fico, claims he has worked out a deal with the outgoing government leaders to approve the bailout changes.
“Slovakia will ratify the EU bailout fund without any problems,” Fico told the Associated Press. “I believe it will happen on Friday this week at the latest.”
His statement echoes promises to swiftly approve the bill made earlier by Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova and her main political opponent, Richard Sulik.
• Bureaucrats have been squandering EU funds for years, using the cash to enhance the body’s public image in order to ensure its survival, claims Marta Andreasen, European Member of Parliament [UKIP] and former Chief Accountant to the European Commission.
Marta Andreasen said she was not a Eurosceptic when she was appointed chief accountant but she now believes that Brussels only cares about propping up the idea of the EU, however much the budget grows.
“I thought the European project was a project of corporations, I thought they were sharing solutions among different member states, so I was quite honoured to be able to be a part of that and the administrative reform that it was undergoing,” she told RT.
Andreasen explained that she changed her mind about the EU after she found out that “they had no control of the payments they were making out of the EU budget.”
• The East of England MEP, Stuart Agnew has launched a campaign to ensure that eggs bought and sold in the UK, as well as those used in food products after 1st January 2012, will be from legal sources. From that date, the EU has banned eggs produced from battery cage hens but, despite being warned many times, has failed to take any serious steps to enforce the ban or to pressure member states to prepare for it.
Mr Agnew, who is the UK Independence Party’s agriculture spokesman and a free range egg producer himself said: “I have had no choice but to launch this campaign after hearing at this late stage from the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, John Dalli, that the Commission itself is not going to rigorously enforce the ban, but merely send inspectors and threaten member states with fines. British egg producers have invested over £400 million to meet the terms of the ban but many other EU countries haven’t bothered.
• The whole concept of carbon trading, seen as a saviour by the European Union and the British government to solve the whole carbon 'problem' is likely to fall apart as it becomes collateral damage in the European Financial Crisis.
"It is becoming obvious even to policy makers that their artificial market in carbon credits is in their favourite word, 'unsustainable'," said Godfrey Bloom MEP, the UKIP Energy Spokesman.
The European slowdown is having an impact that echoes that of traditional climate policies. As factories close then the market is glutted by empty factories thus it is glutted with carbon permits.
"Those who came up with the daft idea of carbon permits didn't reckon on the economic slowdown. So it turns out that the system designed to prevent carbon emissions actually needs people to emit carbon," said Bloom.
• UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall has accused the EU of trying to distort history.
His comments came after Euro-MPs approved plans for a ‘European Heritage Label’ to mark sites with ‘a symbolic European value that have played a key role in the history and/or the building of EU’.
The plaques aim “to strengthen European citizens’ sense of belonging to the EU”. A total of 650,000 Euros has been allocated for the project over next two years.
Commission officials have confirmed that the “heritage labels” will be used on war memorial sites, despite the fact that Brussels-based EU institutions do not mark the Belgian bank holiday of Armistice Day on November 11, to avoid offending German sensibilities.
• Wednesday started with an MEP complaining that there was no translation into his language, Danish. He's right of course, and several others supported him, but in terms of showing "solidarity" with him. They just can not talk in ordinary terms, they have to use Euro-speak.
We must help combat poverty and social exclusion, apparently, by submitting a Reform program to the Commission, that's in the Lisbon treaty. We must also provide more affordable housing and there are moves afoot to introduce a minimum income.
• John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, during an appearance before the European Parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee today (5th October), has made it clear that the Commission is abandoning British egg producers by making no serious attempt to ensure that the battery cage ban will be properly enforced or that consumers will be made aware that they are buying battery eggs after 1st January 2011.
This has brought a furious response from Committee member Stuart Agnew MEP (UKIP), who represents the East of England and is a free range egg producer himself.
• As the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg was drawing to a close and MEPs rushed off to get back to their constituencies, the European Commission picked this opportune time to release a devastating report that made an astonishing claim: more cases of ‘irregularities’ are being detected because greater controls are in place.
This is the worst kind of spin from the European Commission. It seeks to dress up failure in a mantle of success.
Irregularities – or fraud to give it its proper title – is on the rise because the Commission still does not have adequate checks in place to prevent it. Not all their money can be properly accounted for. The failure of the Court of Auditors to give their accounts a clean bill of health for almost two decades attests to this.
• With every passing day the news in the Eurozone becomes more depressing. Ever bigger bailouts, riots in Greece and a helpless and somewhat lost look on German chancellor Angela Merkel’s face. But this week, the travelling circus that is the European Parliament came to Strasbourg and heard a rather different version of events.
On Wednesday morning at 9am European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso rose to deliver his “State of the Union” address. To my mind it was more a case of the union being in a state!
While he admitted that there were a few problems, he did, he assured us, have the answer. The solution was to be more “Europe”, using what is called the community method whereby the unelected commission runs everything.
"This report shows how UK taxpayers' money is being used by the EU – totally wasted," Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP leader and member of the EP Fisheries Committee said today.
"The Common Fisheries Policy has produced an economic and ecological disaster. We now see clearly that the Spanish fishing industry is over-sized, over-subsidised and its waters over-fished. The basic problem is that fishing in Europe is now under the control of the EU, and we can observe that anything it touches, be it Agricultural policy or fisheries policy, is an expensive exercise in economic waste.
John Bufton slams legislation that will allow Turkish “experts” to make EU policy
• The Turkish Government has boasted that Turkish officials will be 'shaping the EU's future politics and legislation.' This is because the EU has quietly agreed to accept Turkish technocrats at its Brussels offices.
UKIP MEP John Bufton (Wales) said: "The European Commission makes upwards of 75% of our laws. We now learn that some of them are to be written by Turks despite Turkey not having membership of the EU.
"Nobody has voted for this, and nobody apart from the European Commission wants it. It is outrageous that laws affecting everybody in Britain can be written by Turkish officials who have absolutely no accountability to the public and won't reflect the interests of the UK.
"The British government must demand that this utterly ridiculous plan be halted."
• A 'new democratic revoution is sweeping northern Europe', UKIP Leader Nigel Farage told Euro-parliamentarians in Strasbourg today, contrasting this to a 'Union of intolerance that wants to abolish the nation states.'
"Anybody that stands up here and dares to give a political view that is different to the received wisdom is written off as 'mad', 'insane', 'violent', 'fascist'", Mr Farage said. "The intolerance is so deep that when we get referendums in France, the Netherlands and Ireland that reject your view, you see it as a problem to be overcome."
Speaking during Mr Barroso's 'State of the Union' debate, Mr Farage said: "You want to abolish the nation states... and you don't care how you get there; if you have to crush national democracy; if you have to oppose popular referendums - you just sweep this aside and say that it's 'populism'. Well, it's not. It's democracy.
• With world markets in turmoil and gold and silver tremendously volatile, today King World News interviewed former LBMA commodities broker and trader and current MEP Nigel Farage to get his take on the situation.
Asked what is happening with the Eurozone crisis, Farage responded, “Paralysis, I think that’s the only way one can describe it. They put together a currency, an economic and monetary union of countries that were entirely unsuited to each other. The idea that Greece and Germany could coexist under the same monetary framework was always a joke as far as I was concerned.”
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