Today Parliament has voted to bomb IS in Syria.
The Government was supported by 67 Labour votes, winning 397 against 223 including the controversial Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbots and several Tory rebels.
“Tories ready to rebel over EU after Cameron’s
feeble demands”, (Tim Rose Sunday Telegraph 15/11) is music to all
Eurosceptics, backing the “Leave.EU” or the “Vote Leave” group, and especially
for the UKIP Party, whose leader Nigel Farage’s criticism of the EU Parliament
over 20 years for their undemocratic procedures in dishing out thousands of
directives to member states, regardless of their suitability or harm has been
vindicated.
Even Boris Johnson
challenged the Prime Minister saying our Parliament should be given the power
to block or overturn EU regulations and directives if it thought fit, and that
we should be able to make changes without EU or Angela Merkel’s permission.
The horrendous attack on Paris by the savage ISIL
terrorists is a wake-up call for Britain, expecting 1000 Syrian refugees from
the Camps before Christmas, and hundreds of radicalised Muslims returning to
the UK after fighting for and with ISIL.
Do we still consider them to be British citizens?
In four top security prisons gangs of Islamist
extremists are threatening non-Muslims with violence unless they pay them
protection money via their mobile phones or through families and friends
outside, transferring money to nominated accounts. Are IS terrorists already in our midst?
If we all vote “NO” at the EU referendum, our Home
Office could deport our most dangerous foreign criminals, and instead of
building more prisons, we could build more homes.
We would save a minimum of £12 Billion EU membership
fee and huge expenses, salaries, pension packets of redundant MEPs who were unable to overturn any laws from EU
bureaucrats. David Cameron tried 40 times and failed, so there’s no hope of any
reforms to curb immigration or limit benefits claimed for children living in
Schengen Zones.
By leaving the EU we could negotiate our own trade
agreements with any country, spend the
EU money on strengthening our defence, border, police force,
scrap austerity measures, local government
expenditure, save the NHS, and still have £billions left to reduce our rising
national debt of £1.5 trillion.
The EU
is an extravagant club which Britain can no longer afford. Brexit is our only solution as Grexit is for
Greece.
Published in the Daily Echo on Monday 23rd November 2015
Britain Makes Sovereign Decisions on Borders
Richard Grant continues to ramble on waiting for.. .. In My View 24 August. No use looking for a speck in Colin’s eye, Richard, being blinkered by the EU beam you can never see clearly! UKIP is very much alive and kicking. Losing two MEPs out of 26 did no harm to UKIP, but that’s a different story for the Lib-Dem. I hope you saw the sensational speech delivered by Nigel Farage to the EU Parliament, asking them not to dangle more carrots to cause refugees to pay for the horrendously perilous journeys operated by people traffickers.
Let’s hope the EU comes up to our expectation in solving the refugee crisis in the Schengen zone; some poor migrants have been in France, Italy and Greece since spring time, and the EU emergency meetings are taking forever, it would be too cruel for migrants to sleep rough when winter arrives. Since 2011 Britain has taken in over 5000 Syrian refugees plus 216 victims of rape, torture, and disability, who were transported to the UK for protection. Thank goodness the Lib-Dem can no longer hinder the Government from standing up to Angela Merkel and her colleagues’ diktats. Mr. Cameron was right to reject any involvement in the compulsory quota scheme, saying it would encourage more “dangerous journeys” across the Mediterranean.
Germany foolishly announced their intention to take in 800,000, which caused a near-stampede for the trains at Hungary’s Bicske station. It was heart-rending to see the refugees’ crestfallen faces when they arrived at a refugee camp instead of Germany. Other migrants too were spurred on by Germany’s offer of a better life, and paid dubious traffickers for their hazardous crossings from the relative safety of Turkey or Greece. The death of three-year-old Aylan and his brother and mother, would have been avoided if Angela Merkel had followed David Cameron’s lead to act more surreptitiously.
Britain has already provided £922 million to humanitarian efforts to build camps in Syria and neighbouring countries for refugees, more aid than any European country, one-third more than Germany. We have funded 18 million meals, sheltered 400,000 people from the elements, educating 250,000 children and provided 2.5 million doctors’ appointments.
In my view, the UK has always been the leader; capable of thinking outside the box, beyond Europe, shouldering responsibilities, and effectively solving world problems at source. Queen Elizabeth is today declared history’s longest reigning monarch, whose travels have jelled together the Commonwealth countries, all of Europe and America. David Cameron today at Prime Minister Question Time also declared Britain a sovereign country able to make our own decisions within our own borders.
Published Friday, 11 September 2015: In My View - Daily Echo - Jean Romsey, Email : jromsey@yahoo.co.uk
I think David Cameron is justified in allowing the 26 Schengen nations to deal with migrants arriving in the borderless Schengen Zone. Britain has more aid to this Syrian crisis than any European country; a third more than Germany’s £622 million; France’s paltry £69 million; Italy’s £63 million; and Belgium’s £31.5 million.
Absorbing Syria’s smart and educated citizens into Europe may be beneficial to EU countries like Germany with a dwindling youth generation, but warring countries will be deprived of their elite population to regenerate their national identity once their country is stabilized.
Britain is truly pragmatic in solving problems whilst charismatic EU leaders did nothing for six months, then scheduled an emergency meeting to take place in a fortnight, after which Junker and Hollande hypocritically criticised our Prime Minister for not doing enough for the refugee crisis.
Back in the UK, hypocrisy is all around the PM; ignorant attacks by biased BBC presenters, Labour, SNP and the Green Party, including people who should know better, like Emma Thompson, all found our PM wanting.
The media’s sneer at the government taking just two hundreds refugees, was misleading. That figure related to victims of rape, torture, disability and the elderly identified in the Syrian camps, who were transported to the UK for protection. Since 2011 more than 5,000 Syrians had been given asylum in Britain, and David Cameron has since confirmed Britain will take in another 20,000 at source, from Camps in and around Syria. These will be the real refugees as opposed to economic migrants who had huge financial backings to make it to Europe by any means, swelling the funds of pirates and people smugglers pocketing thousands of pounds to ferry migrants from Turkey, Libya across to Greece and Italy, both EU member-states.
Britain had already donated over one billion pounds to shelter refugees on the borders of Syria, a third more than Germany, three-quarters more than from France or Italy or Belgium. Yet leaders like Junker, Tusk and Hollande hypocritically denounced David Cameron for refusing the EU quota. It is more important to help the refugees nearer their home country, to stop them paying for a possible death sentence.
Don’t forget it was the UK Independence Party and their sensible policies that persuaded David Cameron to offer the promise of an In/Out referendum. UKIP’s robust belief in Britain’s sovereignty won them four million votes at the General Election, that figure could have been more if UKIP’s leader had not advised many voters to tactically vote for the Tories in the face of a possible SNP and Labour alliance that could be disastrous for the UK's economy.
Various Press Reports include:
How do we stop more pictures of dead three-year-old kids being dragged out of the Mediterranean?
JR writes: Stop them paying People Smugglers huge sums of money, send them a strong message that EUROPE is full, we cannot take any more. Go back to refugee shelters built for them until Syria is stabilised, by peace talks and disarmament by the UN.
“Do we accept the European policy that says that anyone who comes are welcome?”
JR writes: NO, this is all due to Angela Merkel's Germany, dominating the EU in the despotic way they know best. Winston Churchill had countered their Nazi fascism by his buccaneering spirit at the cost of completely depleting the British Treasury in 1945, and we paid the price of losing all our colonies and Commonwealth allies in one fell swoop. Germany has a lot to answer for the UK's poverty post WW2 when we had to repay an American loan of £21 billion over 35 years, which resulted in our joining the European Economic Community in 1972 when Workers Unions were in their ascendancy and successive British governments could not resolve our ailing industries.
The Guardian claims Cameron’s moral failure over refugees ‘will cost him the Europe negotiation’.
JR writes: It certainly did, as the Prime Minister came back from the EU Summit meeting with nothing of import to offer the British in our determination to vote In or Out at the referendum scheduled for June 23, 2016.
Britain’s failure to live up to its “moral obligation” to accept a fair quota of refugees from Syria will damage David Cameron’s hopes of achieving a successful renegotiation with Brussels, a former president of the European commission has claimed.
JR writes: All leaders of the European Union have no high opinion of Britain's Tory government, so no matter what reforms David Cameron seeks, there will never be a 100% agreement. The undemocratic procedure of the European Parliament made certain that no Member-state could win on any proposal submitted by the unelected European Commissioners, however damaging their legislation is on the UK economy, environment or livelihood of the common wage-earner.
Each legislation can be passed in the European Parliament by a simple majority of just those MEPs present, but for a law to be rejected by any country, it would require the Absolute or Qualifying Majority, that is a majority of the total MEPs of 28 Nations in the EU, in 2015 the number was 752 and increased to 766 after Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia joined. Britain's influence on the EU is diminishing from the day the EEC was transformed into the political federal union in 1993, with the inherent policy of 'ever closer union' to advance the political amalgamation of a United States of Europe.
But with so much diversity in languages, customs, religious beliefs and economies, the single currency of the euro and the single market with such disparity in GDPs, especially the newer members from ex-Communist and ex-Soviet countries, will produce an insurmountable unequal society, that will cause its demise, not just the wealth and prosperity of Germany in contrast to the poverty of South Eastern Europe.
A former Italian prime minister and EC president, condemned Britain’s stance on the crisis and warned of dire consequences for Cameron ahead of the UK’s in/out EU referendum.
JR writes: The Tory Prime Minister's stance on not taking refugees or economic migrants from those affluent enough to make their way into the European Schengen zone is a good safeguard for Britain's security, as the militant ISIS had promised a million terrorists will arrive with the exodus of migrants welcomed by Angela Merkel, undemocratically speaking for all 28 members.
UKIP’s leader Nigel Farage says the EU’s policy on migration will lead to more children drowning.
JR writes: Nigel Farage is a shrewd observer for 20 years, and what he says makes a lot of sense, especially when he tackles the European Parliament for their democratic deficit in empowering themselves to make 54,000 pieces of legislations since year 2000 (millennium) and even the most profitable of our corner shops, grocery stores and village post offices gave up the ghost for earning a living. Only 10% of UK business trade with the Euro Zone, yet 100% of all UK businesses have to succumb to EU rules and regulations and paying £19.6 billion gross this year into the EU funds for them to support our agriculture, fishery, Wales and Cornwall, with propaganda to schools and universities promoting the benefits of staying in the EU.
Nigel Farage talked about his own children, and how the German and broader European response will likely lead to more incidents such as the one featuring drowned Aylan Kurdi and his brother.
JR writes: It is a worrying time for British families as the millions of EU migrants can enter Britain whenever they wish so long they have papers to prove they are EU citizens. Speaking no English, these unskilled workers had compressed wages for our school leavers, many are homeless and unemployed. Even seasonal fruit picking is out of their reach as new migrants from poorer economies can accept lower remuneration, just a UK job-seeker allowance will exceed the money they can earn back home in a week. What's to stop them collecting a month's benefits then return to their homeland to spend it like kings? Our workers have no such holiday homes to retreat to in times of unemployment.
The beginnings of the latest crisis for the government of President Bashar al-Assad came with the capture by Isis on 6 August of the strategically placed, largely Christian town of al-Qaryatain, north-east of Damascus. Since then, Islamist units have advanced further west, capturing two villages closer to the M5. The Syrian Army has so far failed to retake Qaryatain, where Isis has demolished the St Elian monastery, parts of which were 1,500 years old.
JR writes: This is a continuing saga of migration that will change the face of Europe forever. Britain needs to leave the EU to make a change for the better.
The four million Syrians who are already refugees mostly came from opposition or contested areas that have been systematically bombarded by government aircraft and artillery, making them uninhabitable. But the majority of the 17 million Syrians still in the country live in government-controlled areas now threatened by Isis. These people are terrified of Isis occupying their cities, towns and villages because of its reputation for mass executions, ritual mutilation and rape against those not obedient to its extreme variant of Sunni Islam.
