Tim Worstall

Volkerkerker, a new word for me (yes, there should be an umlaut in there, as there indeed should in the word umlaut, but I’m afraid my technical skills don’t extend that far).
Nigel Farage used it in a speech in the Parliament in Strasbourg yesterday to describe the euro.
Volkerkerker. "A prison of nations". Has historical resonance [...]

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Graham Booth….
I’m retiring as an MEP at the end of this month for personal reasons.
But the final straw of EU interference has been the ban on our using acres. So I’m going to find Gert Pottering in hte Parliament next week and I’m going to kick him where it hurts. Leave him with two acres [...]

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David Campbell Bannerman runs through the transport proposals. A quick run through of the paper in preparations.
Now Richard Heaslip on defence matters. One of the things which we need to spend more upon ….paid for of course by the money that we’re not sending to the EU…..and the money that the regulations cost us, a [...]

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John Whittaker…..everyone’s been talking for years about reducing regulation….why hasn’t anything been done to actually reduce it?
Because most of it comes from the EU….so we can’t cut it without leaving the EU.
Now Mark Wadsworth is on talking about the problems with the welfare state. His fuller proposals can be seen at his blog of course. [...]

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Excellent speech from the Taxpayer’s Alliance….readers here will know the contents…
Now it’s Tim Congdon talking about Northern Rock.
Essentially the problem was that the usual head bashing and a banking takeover was not possible because of  the European Markets Abuse Directive.
Yes, there’s still a lot of arguing about this…..but it’s the uncertainty that did the damage. [...]

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Question and answer session…..first one, why don’t we make more about the regional system of government? We know it’s appalling and wasteful….
Nigel’s response is that yes, we have indeed got our plans to abolish that level of government but we need to remember something….
We can’t go around banging on about just the issues that interest [...]

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Harry Aldridge with the policy paper on the British Constitution "How we are goverened".
Rather detailed and not really for blogging from a speech. We’ll have the full paper up later!

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Michael McManus with a lovely joke…
Who’s the greatest living Briton? 16 year old says Churchill…
Um, I said living…..yes, Churchill.
No, sorry, he’s dead……what, that cute little dog died?

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David Campbell Bannerman’s speech….the deputy leader of the party.
What has the EU ever done for us?
No, not a lot. Peace is down to NATO.
A great story from the past: Hugh Gaitskell pointing out that if we joined the EU (EC as was) then we would be unable to feed ourselves cheaply from our friends in [...]

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John Whittaker stands down as Chairman, Paul Nuttall steps up to take the post.
Paul got 38% in the Bootle local elections….pretty good.
It’s also interesting that in Labour areas like that UKIP picks up a lot of support from such disaffected voters.
"Our leader is 44, out Chairman 31 and the new general secretary is 27. UKIP [...]

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Nigel Farage’s speech.
"I’m told that the European question has gone away…..but we’re all talking about post office closures, about rubbish rules, about windmills littering the country, but no one seems to be willing to point out that these are all from European laws….as with over 75% of all the new laws imposed upon us."
The Lib [...]

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David, (Lord) Willoughby de Brooke).
We have a problem in the Lords. If you have a financial interest then you’re supposed to declare so in a debate. But the ex-Commissioners in the Lords never do declare their interests. For they can lose their EU pension if they act against the principles of the EU.
That’s, umm, a [...]

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Clive Page now introduces some of the candidates for the euro elections.
"The danger with political jokes is that they end up being elected".
" You can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you concentrate on." GW Bush.
First up, Godfrey Bloom….."the worst two things about Godfrey is his face".
Godfrey…..nice [...]

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Coffee break.
What, you didn’t think we’d just not done anything for half an hour did you?

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James Whale comes on to speak.
"I don’t respect many politicians but one of the few that I do is Nigel Farage."
James will be starting with LBC in November…..
Rather teasing the audience about the euro….
"I love it when the skinheads come up and say "I’m of Anglo-Saxon stock"….well, piss off back to Germany then."
 
 

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Bob Spink, the party’s first MP.
"We’ve an honourable history of fighting for freedom"….absolutely right, given that we pretty much invented the concepts of individual freedom and liberty.
"In joining UKIP I put my country before my career. The young men and women in our Armed Forces put their country before their very lives: my risk is [...]

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Just a delightful little story here.
Quite gobsmacking actually.

A former chief scientific advisor to the government has said that EU renewable-energy quotas will cause widespread fuel poverty. Sir David King believes that European heads of state, in agreeing the targets, may have mistaken electricity usage for total energy consumption – leading to overly ambitious and expensive [...]

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John Whittaker’s Chairman’s introduction.
We’ve made talking about leaving the European Union a respectable view to hold. 5 years ago only cranks, and on this point I happy to be called a crank, could say this. Now it’s part of the mainstream debate.
We are the only political party putting forward this view and in the lead [...]

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Just going through the outlines of what is to happen. Where’s the coffee, how to get your voting papers, who is what at the fringe events, no news yet as to whether Polly Toynbee is to be manning the British Humanist Association stall.
Pity really, we’d like to expose her to some sensible political ideas.

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In an exciting addition to your regularly scheduled blogging entertainment we bring you a running report from the UKIP Party Conference here in sunny (ahem) Bournemouth.
There’s a certain justice to coming to an English seaside town on the day that reports are coming in of 2 inches of rain in 24 hours in parts of [...]

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