Tim Worstall

Lovely story in the News of the World about MEPs’ expenses.
Here for a right old bashing of Tom Wise (I’m told by those in the know that at least one of the reasons he left UKIP was so that he might continue to avail himself of some of these possibilities).
Here for a look at some […]

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Economic illiteracy over trade perhaps?

"I don’t want to leave the European Union and I’ll tell you why. This is a trading nation. Yorkshire relies on traded goods and on businesses which can trade all over the world and particularly in Europe. We export more per head of the population than America, Japan or other countries. […]

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My word, so we do indeed have referendums in the United Kingdom to decide matters of constitutional importance.

Wendy Alexander, the Scottish Labour leader, announced her backing for a "Yes or No" vote on independence.
The U-turn was a further blow to the authority of the embattled Prime Minister who was not informed of Ms Alexander’s announcement.
It […]

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Hmm, this is intriguing.
The Adam Smith Institute is urging that you sign a petition on the Lisbon Treaty set up by Nigel Farage.
And no, it’s not me doing the urging….

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Mhmmm.

Following our coverage (March 13) of the Conservative party’s withdrawal of the whip from Dr Robert Spink MP (Castle Point), Dr Spink maintains that he had, in fact, resigned from the party before the whip was withdrawn.
We now recognise that the there is no basis for the allegation that […]

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A 50% rise!
 
 
Yes. yes, I know, but…

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You’ll like this.
The PR bods at Aviva sent a release to all MEPs about how Norwich Union, Commercial Union and Hibernian will all now be known as Aviva.
The text:

Dear Member of the European Parliament,
I wanted to let you know about an announcement we have made today, confirming our plan to move to a single global […]

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As Gawain keeps telling me, it’s a political party, so of course there’s politics in it.
That said, Roger Knappman’s current internal party poll to ask whether UKIP should stand alone in the EU Parliament seems to be taking things a little too far.
Yes, there’s a romanticism in "Ourselves, Alone" despite the origins of that phrase. […]

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Lib Dem MEP has a Google Alert set up for his name.

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Did you know he’s just added a comments section to his blog?
Here.
Just been emailed by the Great Man himself. Apparently the blog I linked to is a fake!
Who knew?
The real one is here.
As he says:

Following a Google Alert I was very surprised to find a replica of my blog, that someone has bizarrely gone to […]

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