The two big EU roles created by the undemocratically ratified Lisbon Treaty have been handed out to two complete unknowns. Two people with profiles so low, I’d be surprised if anyone outside of the EU-ocracy had ever heard of them before now.
In the role of EU President is Belgian Prime Minister, Herman van Rompuy (seemingly pronounced “Rumpy“. He is very much a consensus politician – not particuarly surprising considering he’s Belgian – and is not known outside of his own country and has only attended to European summits.
The appointment of …

So the Czech Republic, the final country, has now ratified the Lisbon treaty/EU constitution and it is expected to come into force as soon as December.
Of course, it is wrong that we – or any of the other peoples in the EU – have not had a democratic chance to have our say on it (Ireland does not count – being forced to vote twice because you gave the “wrong” answer the first time is not democratic). But there is simply no point in holding a referendum on a treaty …

The Irish have, at the second time of asking, voted Yes to the Lisbon Treaty. One must ask, however, why shouldn’t there be a third referendum and “best of three” rule applied?
A referendum is supposed to be a one-off event – you ask the question, people vote, and the answer comes back in which should then be accepted by all, no matter which side of the debate they sat on or voted for. But the EU don’t like that – they will only accept one answer, the “right” answer, the …

This headline is immeasurably misleading:

No, the UK does not. Gordon Brown’s government does. That’s an entirely different thing.
Gordon Brown and his ailing government certainly does not represent the UK – as both opinion polls, by-elections, local elections, European elections, and every other possible measure of popularity shows.
The UK only managed to get rid of Tony Blair a little while ago. We don’t want him to lord over us as President of the EU just a few short years later! After all, he’s hardly shown himself as an international statesman: he …

The Conservatives have now set up their new group in the EU Parliament – called the European Conservatives and Reformists Group and has 55 MEPs from across eight countries. The Conservatives have split from the EPP and started this new group due to the other members of the EPP’s desire for a federal Europe – which is something Conservatives oppose.
The “Prague Declaration of Principles” which forms the foundation the ECRP says:

1. Free enterprise, free and fair trade and competition, minimal regulation, lower taxation, and small government as the ultimate
catalysts for …

The former EU constutiton, now republished as the “Lisbon Treaty” should, if the EU commissariat believed in democracy, be dead already. It was originally rejected by the French and Dutch and then again by the Irish after its repackaging. But, like with Nice, they won’t accept “no” for an answer – and it appears likely that the Irish will give in on the second go again.
Conservative policy is, and always has been, that we should have a referendum on it (just like it had been Labour and Lib Dem policy). …

The EU elections were a complete disaster for Labour. Their vote share fell by 7% and they have lost 5 MEPs – and UKIP beat them into third place overall, both on share of the popular vote and on number of MEPs elected.
The Lib Dems didn’t do well either, with their vote share dropping by 1.1% – even though through the quirks of the electoral system they gained an MEP.
The only main party to increase its share of the vote and its MEP representation is the Conservative party, who got …

Fuck.

It’s so complicated!