Almost everything that we consume is imported and exported so currency is involved. Almost everything that we consume will therefore go up in price, as a result, fuel, food, electronics etc. The banks wont eat this tax out of the kindness of their hearts, as they don't have hearts, and why should they. They are hard nose businesses. We will pay and the poorest will be hit the hardest.

Oh, of course, the proceeds will be passed onto to the NGOs, after the UN, IMF, EU administrative costs have been taken out, then the NGOs will pay their administrative costs and then, there might, I emphasise might, be a few coppers left for some farmer or fisherman in some poor African country to feed his kids who has been driven out of business by the selling of his fishing rights to the EU, or the dumping of surplus food in his country. Aaargh!

The FTT is a Pandora's box that must not be opened.

This blog has served its purpose and has now been thoroughly eclipsed by many superior writers who keep us updated, on an almost daily basis. Therefore I will only post here occasionally.

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As the tentacles of the European experiment, move daily, tiny bit by tiny bit, around our throats, more and more people are waking up to the horror of the reality of the one European Government, governed by an unaccountable elite in the Commission, hell bent on controlling every minute detail of our lives. Andrew Symeou is free, at last and more and more people ...

are understanding the reality of European Civil Law, specifically The European Arrest Warrant, that is against the very freedoms that my father and grandfather fought for in two world wars.

I do recommend reading the following:

• Marta Andreasen's blog, as she continues to report on the financial corruption, and how the EU dips its hand deeper and deeper into your back pocket or purse, with seemingly nothing to stop it.
• Richard North's Eureferendum blog, with his analytical but increasingly irascible reporting style, as he provides thoroughly researched hard facts behind “The Great Deception” of the European Union, and our totally out of touch and very EU compliant British ruling Elite.
• Mary Ellen Synon's blog, from within the monster, as she brings a highly informed, eurosceptic but unusual view of the internal workings of the EU.
• Helen Szamuely's, Your Freedom and Ours blog, which focuses more on the slow chipping away at the freedoms that we once took for granted, in her own unique style.
• Alan Craig's Meet Alan Craig helps us see how far and fast we are drifting from God's plan to our own self destruction.

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Lisbon Treaty Exit Clause

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Responsible department: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

We the British people petition the Government to make use of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. Exit Clause."

From TaxProf Blog

(Compare with:

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.")
I'm beginning to understand the need for the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution

"The markets would prefer more and more money, and ever-increasing loans, but in the end, the money will not have much value anymore. The first serious experts are already talking of an impending need for currency reform, a traumatic idea for the Germans."

"Countries that live beyond their means should not be allowed to expect more money. Banks who make bad deals must be allowed to go bankrupt, without putting the whole system in danger. Creating the necessary structures to allow that is the task of politicians. What's needed are clear rules for national bankruptcies. It is also necessary to force banks to accumulate, as quickly as possible, enough capital so that they can survive a debt restructuring by, for example, Greece."

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"The west coast main line (WCML) is the most important trunk route in the United Kingdom's rail network with some 2,000 train movements per day. It links London and the south-east with England's largest conurbations (Birmingham and Manchester), as well as with Liverpool, north Wales, north-western England, Cumbria and Scotland, covering a distance of 850 km."

Yes, this is an EU Project. Did you know that? As Witterings from Witney reminds us

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"Conservative Home has an article by Mark Field on the subject of HS2 in which he confesses that the underlying logic of HS2 has always been something of a mystery to him. ... Needless to say not once in Field's article does he refer to the EU link so perhaps he needs to 'surf the net' a little more prior to putting fingers to keyboard. Mind you, the lack of any mention of the EU is hardly surprising when one remembers that he was one of those Conservative MPs that supported the Government giving the IMF an additional £9.2billion 'bung' - from which an educated guess can be made as to where his loyalties lie."

But as TENT-T EA also says "An effective Trans-European Transport Network benefits all European citizens by allowing more efficient and more environmentally friendly transport, while reinforcing economic and social cohesion across the continent at the same time."

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So protest all you like. It wont make any difference. Our real masters in Brussels have spoken. You will pay twice. Once for the British cost of the line and secondly for the EU subsidy.

1. EU coastguard corps to replace our coastguards. While we discuss which stations to close, the EU plans to vote on the pan-EU corps, in October.
2. EU VAT Levy to go up from 0.3% to 1.3%. While we plan our supposed austerity cuts, the EU plans to increase the amount it takes from VAT. Plans for a direct EU Tax on Banks also continue.
3. EU calls for joint military HQ. EU foreign affairs and security chief Baroness Ashton presented a proposal for a new permanent headquarters. (This one did get into the press.)

European Police Force grows. At a meeting in Rome in June, as Albion Alliance reports, "Attention was focused on the various European Agencies such as Europol, Frontex, Eurojust and CEPOL [European Police College]. In particular, the importance of CEPOL was pointed out in relation to the training of the “European policeman” aimed at safeguarding EU citizen’s security."

.. and so it goes on and on and on

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At PMQs today, Margaret Beckett felt she had to raise the issue of the lost contract but knew only too well, that it was as a result of EU rules, gold plated by her government, when she was in power. The result was that she avoided the obvious about the Westminster government having little power in this area. See her Question below.

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The Prime Minister also avoided mentioning the EU by saying that "the procurement process was designed and initiated by the government of which she was a part." Not true, of course.

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Philip Hammond, the UK’s Transport Minister is quoted as saying "“we should certainly look at how we apply the system..I wrote to the Prime Minister suggesting we use the next phase of the growth review to look at how we apply EU rules, how we use them to support domestic supply chain in the way the French do extremely well.." See UK Minister – we want our procurement to be more like France. Maybe this might be an issue that will wake people up to who is really in charge as more and more jobs are lost. Don't hold your breath though.

Margaret Beckett MP Labour Derby South "Is the Prime Minister aware that when yesterday Bombardier had to announce the redundancy among others of skilled engineers and designers the company made public for the first time that they had offered to establish a new academy in this country for the design and manufacture of cars for the next generation of high speed trains for this country and across the world, a global centre of excellence more jobs and jobs with even higher skills. He wont have had time to familiarise himself with the detail of that but will he undertake to look into it with care to give substance to the commitment he gave in my constituency to British manufacturing."

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Prime Minister "I will look very carefully at what the Right Honourable lady has said about this issue but let me just say this because obviously I want to see more British jobs in manufacturing indeed as we are seeing across our country but in the case of the Bombardier train contract, the procurement process was designed and initiated by the government of which she was a part. I have to say we are bound by the criteria that they set out and therefore we have to continue with the decision that's been made acording to that criteria. Now separately we are setting out to ask the question; what more can we do within the current rules to boost manufacturing in our country and not have situations like this in the future."

From Saxon Times - "This image is copyright. The European Union Commission, Parliament or any other European Union Institution has no right to use this idea."

Being against the euro does not make you 'anti-European'. In my case, it just means that separate countries cannot, as an economic matter, join their currencies together, without joining their governments together, with the central government having full tax-raising powers to transfer tax-payers' money from Germany and France, for example, to help Italy and Portugal. No currency in history has survived without a central government to support it. Tim Martin, Chairman Wetherspoon.

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Tim Martin reminds us that in the 1990s Wetherspoon News campaigned against the euro on economic rather ...

than political grounds. He was spokesman for the 'no' campaign and debated the issue in front of European business people with, then MEP Chris Huhne. That part of the article is well worth reading.

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He goes on to make the point: The surprising aspect of the euro, as I've argued before, is that it was an invention of what the French call 'les énarques': intellectuals from our great universities, who presumably felt that they could invent a new type of economic system, in defiance of history. In this respect, the euro's intellectual and Utopian appeal recalls the almost religious allure of the work of Marx and Engels, a century and a half ago.

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and then reminds us of the folly of some of 'the great'.

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Nigel Lawson, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, disastrously 'shadowed the Deutschmark' and advocated entry to the ERM. His predecessor, Geoffrey Howe, was a similar advocate of the single currency, forcing the then prime minister's resignation, following his speech on this issue. Michael Heseltine, Roy Hattersley and Tony Blair were in the same boat, with many others.

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Outside the world of politics, Adair Turner, now Lord Turner and the chairman of the FSA, which oversees the banks, was a fanatical advocate of Britain's euro entry. Richard Lambert, then editor of the Financial Times, was fervently pro-euro, censoring anti-euro comments in the Financial Times. Until very recently, he was Director General of the CBI, the most important big business representatives for governments.

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Enjoy a very good value breakfast, well cooked, an economical pint, and be educated at the same time.