•UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall has urged the Government to spell out how it intends to prevent hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans from travelling to the UK to draw state benefits, following a change in the law.
“The working populations of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia now have the right to draw benefits in the UK on the same basis as UK citizens. We are talking about a combined population of over 74 million people,” said Mr Nuttall, UKIP Euro MP for the North West.
“Thanks to a European Union ruling and the impotence of our own government, the benefits they are entitled to include income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit.
• A €500 million EU fund to help workers who have been laid off as companies move to cheaper markets is open to question and open to fraud according to UKIP MEP and EU Former Chief Accountant Marta Andreasen.
The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGAF) which has already been earmarked to receive 500 Million Euro in the 2012 EU Budget, is designed to help retrain workers whose job losses are linked to changes in global trade patterns. However, there is the specific case of DELL Computers in Ireland and other examples in Spain where funds have been misused to the tune of 14.8 Million and 23 Million respectively.
Speaking from Brussels where the European Parliament’s Budget Committee just approved €9.6 Million to help ‘retrain’ workers from the General Motors plant in Antwerp, Marta Andreasen said:
• UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom has hit out at the apparent “fundamental misunderstandings” at every level on European energy policy.
“The whole process has become politicised, common sense has been abandoned and the major sufferers in years to come will be ordinary working folk and pensioners.
“Let us just look at facts, a novel idea in the realm of energy policy. In the UK six large conventional power stations produce 20% of the nation’s energy needs.
“In order to chase European CO2 emission targets in 2013 a government tax of £600 million per year will trigger. Even with 3,000 wind turbines the inevitable 40% shortfall left by closing conventional stations cannot begin to be met.
By Marta Andreasen MEP • In the Budget Committee this morning Commissioner Lewandowski was wheeled out to defend the indefensible – a rise in the European Commission’s budget. Using the 99p tactic beloved of supermarkets to mask a rise of almost 5 per cent, he didn’t even have the good grace to look embarrassed or sheepish.
There is to my mind something fundamentally wrong when an EU institution preaches the need for austerity to every member state and tries to strait jacket their budgets citing the financial crisis, yet asks for a rise for itself. It is as if the European Commission sees itself as detached from the real world and immune from the financial crisis.
I listened intently and with increasing concern as the Commissioner cited the Europe 2020 strategy as the basis for its projections.
Mass migrants to spill over open borders while UK is in EU
• (RT) It is impossible to cut immigration to the United Kingdom with the European Union allowing for freedom of movement, argues Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party.
The British coalition government has clashed over how to deal with rising immigration to the UK. Leading Liberal Democrat Vince Cable has criticized Tory Prime Minister David Cameron over a speech in which the premier vowed to cut immigration to “tens of thousands.” Cameron also said that some immigrants’ failure to learn English was “wrecking communities.”
It comes as member states in the EU are locked in a battle over the deluge of North African immigrants seeking refuge in Europe.
The UKIP MEP for South West England met H.E. Mr Jalil Abbas Jilani, Ambassador of Pakistan to the EU, Belgium, Luxembourg and NATO, and presented him with a special edition of speeches made by all the MEPs who spoke at a debate on Pakistan on January 20th.
Ambassador Abbas Jilani described the book as a "wonderful gesture" and promised it would be passed onto the family of the murdered Governor.
By Marta Andreasen • Last week in Strasbourg the European Parliament decided to show its true colours following the rejection of a number of multi-million cost saving amendments contained in a report on estimates of revenue and expenditure for 2012.
In the vote, despite all the talk about the need for austerity, despite government cut-backs across the Member States and despite the fact that we are all in the midst of a severe financial crisis, MEPs decided to reject the following:
"The Commission cannot fail to register that the European Arrest Warrant has resulted in many miscarriages of justice across Europe. But their report fails completely to get the point. They say it is 'an important tool to catch criminals'. No it isn't. It is a device for transferring suspects from one EU state to another. The police 'catch' criminal suspects, the courts should decide on the quality of evidence against them.
They also voted against or abstained in Amendment 13, which stated MEPs should not be paid for being both in the European Parliament and travelling to or from it.
Labour and Lib Dems voted against or abstained in Amendment 15 which called for a freeze on MEP salaries and allowances.
UKIP MEP Derek Clark said: "I am appalled that Labour and Lib Dem MEPs voted to fly in the lap of luxury at taxpayers expense. While ordinary people are taking cuts in services and paying more tax, the Champagne socialists are voting to make their high salaries increase even more.
VIDEO • "There is a sea-change going on in local politics. I think the public's disaffection with the political class is the greatest that it's ever been," UKIP leader Nigel Farage said today on Daily Politics (BBC).
"UKIP has made a big move forward... we're being seen to be far more relevant than ever before"
Speaking on the coming local elections, Mr Farage said, "May the 5th is very important to us. And the people that are coming to us are not just disaffected Conservatives, there are disaffected Lib Dems as well. The other big change in the UKIP vote are the number of 18 to 30 year-olds who are voting for UKIP."
The British legal system is an organic and evolutionary system of law that avoids prescription and adapts swiftly to changing circumstances, whereas the continental or Roman legal system is prescriptive - you follow the rules without question. British people do not need more and standardised legislation, writes Marta Andreasen MEP, outlining her speech at the2011 Practitioners Summit on Fund Management Regulationin Central London, March 30-31.
• This morning I spoke at the 2011 Practitioners Summit on Fund Management Regulation in Central London.
VIDEO: Part 1Part 2 • Speaking to Alex Jones on PrisonPlanet.tv, yesterday, UKIP Leader Nigel Farage said the war on Libya "is a classic case of what we call the 'beneficial crisis'.
"Whenever there's a crisis it's used by big government and by supernational global government as an excuse to say, 'Look, we're doing the right thing,' [in order] to take more powers and to further rob us of our democracy. We've got to resist. We've got to take to the streets. We've got to withdraw our democratic consent from politicians who are not ready to stand up and fight this," Mr Farage stressed.
• A referendum will be held on 5 May on whether to keep the first-past-the-post system for electing MPs or to switch to the alternative vote (AV). The BBC is asking a variety of people to give their view
The UK Independence Party firmly supports the alternative vote. First-past-the-post has become a broken system. It no longer reflects properly what the voters want.
At the 1955 general election - the high water mark of the "two party system" - nine out of ten MPs elected won more than 50% of the vote in their constituency.
At last year's general election, only one in three MPs were elected with 50% or more of the vote.
VIDEO "It seems that what we have in [the UK] Parliament now are a political class. They all go to the same schools, they go to the same universities, they get the same jobs in research offices, they spend their careers in politics, having never had jobs in the real world, and they operate, speak and vote like sheep.
"We don't have enough independent thinkers sitting in the House of Commons prepared to make counter-arguments." - UKIP Leader Nigel Farage MEP
• The UN says it's alarmed by the looming humanitarian crisis in Libya. Officials warn food supply lines have been disrupted and over three hundred thousand refugees have already fled the country. Nigel Farage, MEP and leader of the UK Independence Party, speaks with RT (March 25) about the Western intervention in Libya and the Eurozone bailouts.
• Just hours before the budget was announced by the Coalition, Tory MEP Sir Robert Atkins demanded increased spending on more Eurocrats within the new European Foreign Service.
Speaking in a hearing with Baroness Ashton (pictured) in Brussels, Atkins, who was embroiled in the MEP expenses scandal, called for Ashton to appoint 'half a dozen' junior ministers in addition to the 7,000 staff she already employs, some of whom earn more than Foreign Secretary William Hague.
"It is outrageous for the Conservatives and Sir Robert to demand more taxpayers' money be spent on Baroness Ashton. The unelected Baroness is already the world's highest paid female politician and enjoys a huge entourage of privileged staff and advisors.
Compare and contrast: An austerity budget in the UK; EU demands an increase for 2012.
• Chancellor George Osborne delivered a budget that told the story of where we are financially at the moment. I am not here to debate its merits or its failings, I merely point out the strong emphasis on fiscal belt tightening that it contained. Clearly, there is a modicum of realism as to the current state of the economy and the need to make savings and cut costs.
Less than 24 hours later, MEPs in Brussels debated the basic guidelines for preparing the EU’s 2012 budget.
"Yesterday George Osborne was worrying about £2bln in the budget, and yet today we are faced with another bill of at least £3bln." - Nigel Farage
• "The British taxpayer should not have to bail out the stupidity of the Eurozone," UKIP Leader Nigel Farage said today in response to the imminent bailout of Portugal, amid claims that British taxpayers could be forced to contribute more than £3 billion of the £61 billion rescue package.
"The Euro was a bad idea from day one, the bad fruit was already contained in the seed."
Mr Farage said the Portuguese government of Jose Socrates is now the second victim of the Eurozone crisis, after the Irish threw out Brian Cowen, and he will not be the last.
'UKIP considers this intervention the wrong decision' - Nigel Farage
• "This military intervention in Libya is ill-thought out, unprepared and unjustified, UKIP Leader Nigel Farage said today.
"The War coalition has no coherent strategy for North Africa and the Middle East, and is walking into a chaotic situation of which it knows little.
"UKIP considers it rash for ill-equipped soldiers and airmen of this country to be led into an open-ended commitment which reminds us of Afghanistan.
"There is no exit strategy or even clear objectives in this war. We have gone into Libya - but where does it stop? Should we also go into Yemen, Bahrain and then Syria?
VIDEO The BBC "is institutionally politically biased, certainly in favour of things like the European Union, mass immigration, and a whole other host of ‘politically correct’ ideas that I think it peddles to the public,” UKIP MEP Gerard Batten told RT.
He added that taking this money would expose hypocrisy at the heart of the BBC, because "the EU bans sponsorship of any news and current affairs TV programs across the EU.”
“If the US State Department is going to fund the BBC, that would appear to be in breach of the directive."
• One of the best-known broadcasters, the BBC World Service, has applied for a grant from the US State Department. The company says it needs the funding to develop anti-jamming technology, but some fear the US might use the deal to promote its agenda.
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