Bruges Group: Needs No Introduction, Only £20 for Minogue Folly

THE BRUGES GROUP

The Bruges Group spearheads the intellectual battle against the notion of "ever–closer Union" in Europe and, above all, against British involvement in a single European state

BRUGES GROUP CONFERENCE
The Future of the EU ... Can it Survive?
Saturday, 21st November 2009

EU leaders have decided behind closed-doors who will become the European Union President and who will be the Foreign Minister. The Presidency is a key element in the Lisbon Treaty and is intended to be the capstone on the project to build an EU super-state. This is historic, but far from welcome. The French and the Dutch, and the Irish first time around, rejected such a development but were ignored. With the EU’s drive for power over our democracy and everyday life continuing unabated the Bruges Group holds this conference to oppose the surrendering of our freedoms to Brussels.

ADMISSION: £20 payable on the door or in advance. Including lunch, coffee, wine, orange juice, mineral water, tea and cheese and biscuits

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO BOOK ONLINE.

QUOTES FROM THE SPEAKERS

Gerard Batten MEP is an expert on the costs of EU membership. He is a member of the European Parliament’s Security & Defence Committee, and is a candidate for the leadership of the UK Independence Party. Gerard Batten will be discussing the issue of immigration.

Gerard Batten MEP will say;
“Thanks largely to the EU immigration to the UK is uncontrolled and effectively unlimited. We are adding another one million people to the population every four years – equivalent to building a new town the size of Birmingham. This is unsustainable from any perspective.

“None of the economic arguments for mass immigration stack up, and recent revelations by a Labour Government advisor show that unlimited immigration was a deliberate ideological policy to create a 'multicultural and diverse society'.

“We now have to end the age of mass immigration and multiculturalism. We must integrate the migrants we have, expel illegal immigrants, and reduce any further immigration to a trickle of appropriately qualified people.

“We must abandon multiculturalism. Anyone who wants to live under Sharia law should be invited to go and live somewhere else where it applies. The doctrines of 6th Century Arabia have no place in modern Britain.”

Dr Lee Rotherham is an adviser to the Bruges Group. After working for the Westminster Group of Eight rebels, he became adviser to three successive Shadow Foreign Secretaries. Lee Rotherham has also served with the armed forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a Conservative Parliamentary candidate in the 2001 and 2005 elections. He has widely written on European issues. He is the author of EMU Understood and All At Sea; and co-authored the Bluffers Guide to the EU. Lee will talk on, Ten Years On — Britain without the European Union.

Lee Rotherham will say;
"Brussels is about 'ever-closer union' and closing ranks when things go horribly wrong, which these days unfortunately is a perennial event. But there is a spark of hope. Britain doesn't need to be a part of it, and would positively thrive as a friend and trading associate rather than a partner in crime."

Professor Kenneth Minogue is a frequent commentator for radio and television on European issues, he was Chairman of the Bruges Group 1991-1993; he remains a member of the Group’s Academic Advisory Council. Professor Minogue will discuss, The implications of the vote on the Lisbon Treaty and what this means for Britain and Europe.

Ken Minogue will say;
"Democracy is dying in Britain because we have been stitched up by Westminster folly and international bureaucrats. The last time we got stitched up by law was at the end of the Middle Ages, and we solved it by inventing the sovereign state. We need to get that back."

Bruno Waterfield has been Brussels correspondent for The Daily Telegraph since December 2006. He has been reporting on the EU and European affairs since 2000, first from Westminster and then from January 2003 he has been based in Brussels. He is also a regular contributor to www.spiked-online.com

Bruno Waterfield will say;
“The European Union has emerged as the institutions and practice of a unique form of twenty-first century statecraft based on cooperation between national elites and the active exclusion, and hostility, to European publics. The defining feature of European-level politics and decision making is secrecy.

“The structure of EU decision-making has evolved to provide maximum privacy for political elites and maximum insulation from public pressure and scrutiny – it is a public-free zone.

“The EU’s mission to evade popular vote on the Lisbon Treaty and hostile responses to referendums in France, the Netherlands and Ireland, reveals that it is a Union or rulers united in mistrust of the people, not a Union of leaders prepared to make a case and to take their people with them.”

John Mills is the Secretary of the Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign and the Labour Economic Policy Group. He is also the Chairman of one of the fastest growing companies in the UK, JML, which has extensive trading relations with much of the world. John Mills is the author of Europe’s Economic Dilemma.

John Mills will say;
“The euro is the EU's weakest link. Currency unions without full political union have almost invariably failed in the past.

“EU elites will do all they can to hold the eurozone together and it will be very difficult for any country to leave the euro. The crucial issue, nevertheless, is whether the problems involved in holding the eurozone together turn out to be overwhelmed by economic failure and unmanageable unemployment and social stress in the weaker EU economies.”

Ian Milne is the author of an analysis of the net economic costs and benefits for the UK of EU membership, titled; A Cost Too Far?. Ian Milne has had a forty-year career in industry and merchant banking in the UK, France and Belgium. He is the author of the Bruges Group publication; Lost Illusions: British Foreign Policy. Ian Milne will discuss, Who Needs the Single Market?

Ian Milne will say;
"British exports to the world OUTSIDE the EU have grown by almost 40% faster than British exports TO the EU since the turn of the century. Consequently, the share of worldwide British exports going to the EU is shrinking, and will be down to a third by 2020, which means that in 2020, for every pound of British exports going to the EU, two pounds of British exports will be going OUTSIDE the EU.

"You don't have to belong to the EU to export to the EU. The USA, not an EU member, with zero votes in the EU Council of Ministers, having to export over the EU tariff barrier, sells more to the EU than does the UK, without paying a cent to Brussels or imposing one iota of EU regulation on the domestic US economy."

Peter Davies, the Mayor of Doncaster, is dedicated to slashing costs and ditching political correctness. He is the first English Democrat to be elected to a key council position. His youngest son, Philip, is the Conservative MP for Shipley. Peter Davies is a member of the Campaign for an Independent Britain and will talk on; The European Union and British politics.

Christopher Booker is a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of the Bruges Group paper Britain and Europe: The Culture of Deceit. And also co-wrote Scared To Death: From BSE To Global Warming, Why Scares Are Costing Us The Earth.

Richard Conquest is an economist, hedge fund consultant and author whose research focuses on economic history, market developments and crises. Richard has also authored a number of publications on Eastern Europe and Russia. He has also served as the Chief Economist for a number of City institutions.

LOCATION:
The Great Hall, King's College London, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS

AGENDA:
Registration and Coffee: 10.30am
Morning Session: 11am – 1pm

Lunch: 1pm – 2pm
Afternoon Session: 2pm – 4pm

Refreshments: 4pm - 4.15pm
Evening Session: 4.15pm – 6.15pm

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For further information please contact:

Robert Oulds Director
The Bruges Group
227 Linen Hall, 162-168 Regent Street, London W1B 5TB
UK

Tel: +44(0) 20 7287 4414
Mobile: 07740 029787
E-mail: info@brugesgroup.com

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Honorary President: The Rt Hon. the Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, LG, OM, FRS
Vice-President: The Rt Hon. the Lord Lamont of Lerwick, Co-Chairmen: Dr Brian Hindley & Barry Legg
Director: Robert Oulds MA,
Head of Research: Dr Helen Szamuely
Washington D.C. Representative: John O'Sullivan, CBE
Founder Chairman: Lord Harris of High Cross, Former Chairmen: Dr Martin Holmes & Professor Kenneth Minogue

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Nuts in November: Some Comments on Comment is Free #GoNads

Let me see if I understand Nadine, writing on Comment is Free today. You are actually saying that it is Labour and Newsnight's Michael Crick that treated Liz Truss wrong? What follows is my comment HERE.

This seems completely delusional Nadine.

Also disappointing is the fact that you've not brought your own experience of a mysterious de-selection attempt in Hazel Grove in 2000-2001 to bear on this matter. What was that all about then?

On 28 October on my Labour of Love blog I broke the story of Nadine's second daughter getting a surprise job with her Mum-P.

And during November I have been running a series of questions for Nadine.

Question 1 concerns the job with my information, via the daughter's mouth, being that around £50,000 not £28,000 is involved.

Question 2 concerns the failure to fully declare this employment.

Question 3 asks questions - like a Millionaire starter question, about the order of events.

Question 4 wonders about Nadine's marriage to Paul David Dorries which does not show up in the register of births, deaths and marriages.

Question 5 wonders what on earth the wronged Nadine was doing defending Sir Nicholas Winterton. She had been a lowly nurse and a flight attendant, two roles prone to unwanted male attention. She would of course go on to smear other MPs as a group before honing this in to specific claims about three.

Question 6 was about spiders in the bath the size of dinner plates.

Questions 7 to 16 concern nursing qualifications and attitude to abortion.

Questions 17 to 22 are largely about a "Community School" with a return to the Bargery-Dorries marriage.

There are many many more questions to go at. I have used my Twitter account to give some "tags" HERE and HERE.

The idea that Labour or indeed Michael Crick are responsible for mis-using Elizabeth Truss is way way out there on the spectrum of Tory delusion. Meanwhile very little in the Nadine Dorries Mum-P CV appears to stack up as fully open or fully honest.

Any Comment is Free reader who can contribute to our research is welcome to send email via the blog. Here's a specific question for crowd-sourcing:

Can anyone give us the name of Nadine and Paul's ill-fated beauty salon in Cheshire? We think Prestbury. And we think opened by Julie Goodyear aka Coronation Street's Bet Lynch. We think early noughties.

UPDATE Thu 08:53: Links to twitter feed repaired. Apologies.

Rochdale Libdemologists: Rowen Quaffs as Rochdale Sinks in Mud

Over at Paul Rowen MP - News we have another unfortunate juxtaposition (screengrab, above) and we happen to know that an anonymous comment has been submitted. In fact we typed it in ourselves. But knowing our own words may well get binned unread - for some reason - and won't even get the classic Hennigan furious riposte any longer, we're anonymising it in plain view.

We feel it is vital to warn PR Paul Rowen that this is a major PR fail. What would happen if the papers got hold of this flaunting of champagne in the face of the jobless of Rochdale? Could the constructively dismissed Parliamentary Researcher Alex Webster have had mischief in mind when she filed the picture? Here's a sample of the sample of the text that captions the picture of champagne Paul, quaffing while Rochdale town centre fails:

Paul Rowen said: "My biggest concern about these new figures is the percentage of young people that are not in education, employment or training. It is simply unacceptable.

And here's LOL's "anonymous" comment on the same:

What a ridiculous photo to illustrate a "bad times" item. So here's some bad unemployment figures and some bad youth NEET figures too. And here's Paul Rowen swilling champagne. Come back Dave, all is forgiven. You'd have never allowed this wassive PR fail.

But - Rochdale Observer - that *is* "she" by the way, Alex Webster is not a man as you assumed in your political agent moider mystery piece, and now she's a woman scorned;

Observer speculation that Dave Hennigan may have been sacked over sharing a confidential letter of complaint with the subject of that complaint viz Malcolm Porn-O, proprietor of the failing Rochdale Online web organ, who incidentally gets 40 pieces of tax payer gold to produce Rowen's puff site, with collateral benefits in editorial nay advertorial, is a bit far-fetched;

Trying to smear a prominent ex-Labour leader with a decades old sex smear seems perhaps more serious and a more sackable offence;

Threatening to cut of Rochdale MBC advertising while shouting the odds at Rochdale Observer editors, and demanding retractions of a fair comment from the MEN Editor in Chief must also feel like another shooting-self-in-foot moment, bound to cause resentment that;

Perhaps promising that new Arts Centre, within a year, back in 2006 I think it was - or else no-one should ever vote Lib Dem again - was deemed a mistake? Especially when the way out of town location of the Gracie Fields Theatre had been a curious Sir Cyril Smith stitch up in times past;

Rolling up at Castlemere Community Centre as persona non grata and Rowen's fifth choice for substitute for a speaking engagement he was ducking, and some say the worse for drink, having already made a drunken exhibition of himself at the same Muslim venue berating Jack Straw and spoiling a nice moment for the Muslim community getting such an illustrious visit, may also be more serious;

Giving MPUK access to the Lib Dem printing press and office facilities to produce vile libels against Lorna Fitzsimons back in 2005 may also be on the charge sheet;

Complete failures over expenses claims, local party accounts, dodgy donations and local Lib Dem group tithes may also have contributed, Bananas, secret payments to region, ridiculous stuffing machines, secret payments for videos that never appeared, the Porn-O website contract, the hoarding at the sports ground on the tax, the over-priced adverts effectively funding party printing, all this may be in the Lib Dem play book but Hennigan was so clumsy with it;

And let's not forget the great mystery of the illicit Party Political working. Even the name "Agent" applied to several workers in the tax payer's remit indicates a craven abuse of tax payers' money. And exposing this in the party accounts was yet another fail. Not to mention showing off the contrived rent arrangements for the office;

The charge sheet is spinning out of control now. But allowing PR Paul Rowen to remain commercially associated with Corinya Holdings wasn't right now Dave was it? They're a local property company that rents offices to Rochdale MBC, that is responsible for lots of empty property. On which PR Paul has objected so very recently over rates treatment, yet with whom he shares a directorship and a shareholding in an overseas company. It's not offshore but it has been quite difficult to investigate.

This stance also potentially aiding and abetting the current owners of the asbestos dumps to whom Rochdale Lib Dems have been in hock for almost half a century and who may have the potentially biggest empty property rates bill in the North West;

Indeed, putting his now replacement Adam "The Power" Power up to defaming Tony Lloyd and saying he was suing his comrades in the Rochdale party, plus then having PR Paul "cock crew three times" Rowen deny Power was working for him, may also score more highly than a mere beytrayal of a strict confidence;

What's more, compiling a horrendous dirty tricks dossier on PR Paul's Labour rival Simon Danczuk and plotting with Malcolm Porn-O to see this published may also be considered more outre than some mere blabbing within the extended tax payer funded PR team;

And there's the old kebab and chips and cooking lager and vodka sojourns, sleeping in the parliamentary office, even getting police attention for extremely drunken slow motion shutter action and presumed burglary;

Interfering with local ward candidate selection to protect a wicked henchman may also come back to haunt PR Paul Rowen in the future. Essentially the team ruled out the memberships of some voters until their man got the win. Corrupt as fuck;

You can see the "solutions" picture in its full glory HERE though we wouldn't bet the farm on it being there for long.

Rochdale RAW: A Hanging, A Castration, A Sacking and A Shafting

Apart from their serious investigation and hot scoop on the Rochdale Lib Dems plans to rebrand their benighted town (Powerpoint Image, above) those naughty boys at Rochdale RAW have been up to their sleazy tricks again. We cannot condone their attitude. Just mud slinging all day every day. But they do dish the odd speck of true grit in the process.

It seems that Cyril Smith is to be hung! In the Town Hall. As an outspoken illiberal supporter of (a) corpulent (b) corporal and (c) capital punishment this must be the end he would have wanted. And indoors too. Lest he catch his death of cold. In the bleak mid winter.

Hanging was what Sir Squirrel wanted for the wrongly convicted Stefan Kiszko, with his old mate and Tory freemason big wig David Waddington - supposedly defence QC but utterly incompetent - and his old muckers in the craven and corrupt local constabulary conjoined in one of the most ridiculous justice fails of the century.
The real child sex killer Ronald Castree was an approximate contemporary of Paul Rowen MP in the children of Liberalism in the town. Castree's mum and dad were in fact major Cyril Smith supporters it seems. While Paul's mum Mrs Rowen was among Smith's successors as Mayor of the town.

Following this and continuing the cruel and unusual punishment meme the nutty RAW boys claim that when Legg's over Rowen will be castrated. Not, they are at pains to point out, chemically as Sir Cyril Smith was apparently, but where it really really hurts in his million pound expenses, salary, mortgages, allowances, gravy train.

Which makes the "Sacking" of Political Agent Dave Hennigan and the "Shafting" of Parliamentary Researcher Alex Webster quite the come down. This appears to leave Rowen with only a few banana chomping unpaid interns and a known ex-Tory smearologist on his books in London. And only the boy Adam Power, that he disowned completely over yet another smear, and the dirty mac caravan man John Swarbrick, continuing to illicitly do politics on the taxpayer in the former dynamic duo's crap cave at Drake Street, Rochdale.

Both Dave and Alex are seething at their treatment at the hands of the ineffectual and grasping bananas man of the Lib Dems. Seething. The truth will out. Though not perhaps on the Rochdale Online forums on which Henn so regularly made a cock of himself and had his opponents silenced so casually. Then again the "Spinning Out of Control" thread is now back!

Nuts in November: Qs 17-22 Nadine Bargery's Community School

Strange wasn't it that just as LOL put up some questions for Ms Nadine Dorries MP on her nursing qualification and experience it was announced that new Nursing entrants, from the next intake, will all need to complete the degree route.

Presumably this leaves three cohorts in process on the parallel diploma route with the newest intake completing their diplomas in 2012.

As ever these diploma nurses will I believe be able to learn and earn and take extra exams to achieve graduate status.

Things were very different back in the day when one Nadine Bargery became a pupil nurse. Whether by choosing the second level SEN route, or by it choosing her, LOL understand that this lower qualification is what Nadine held.

We're still waiting for her to confirm that, or otherwise.

Personally thought Nads rather struggled in her 'phoner with Jeremy Vine at 13:10 pm on Thursday. Apparently in the lobby at the HoP between a vote - in which the Cons were whupped - and a trip to the Speccie awards.

Sticking up for the heart of gold practical nurse and extremely sniffy about the plan to give entrants the chance to get a degree to recognise their status and expertise.

We may come back to the "year out traveling" and the couple or three years (agency?) nursing and medical repping later.

But the next item on the Central Casting CV issued when Nadine was standing for Hazel Grove, as a pro-abortion candidate by all accounts, was what looks on the face of it like a considerable spell in Zambia, from 1982 to 1984 the Nads CV suggests. The exact words were:

In 1982 she moved to Africa and established a community school in Zambia.
In 1984 she returned to England, married and had two daughters in 1985 and 1987.

These end points can include a period of either just over a year or just under three years. So clearing that up is probably a very good place to start.

Question 17: Nadine, can you please clear up the dates that you traveled to and from Zambia and actually lived there?

Question 18: Nadine, your Central Casting CV states that you established a "Community School" in 1982. When you were around 25 years old and a prematurely retired practical nurse (and sometime flight attendant) with no experience as an educator and some say scarcely a CSE to rub together from your own schooling. Is that statement actually correct? A Community School? In 1982?

Question 19: Nadine, when you told them about this community school of yours I'd imagine they had something in mind like the schools in these pictures? Of actual, real Community Schools in Zambia. Would that be the kind of Community School you established and ran?

Question 20: What is the name and location and intake of the School? And who is running this school now?

Question 21: Nadine, are you able to to put your hand on your heart and state that there actually was a Community School in the usual sense we understand, that you founded it, and that there is no exaggeration and spin going on?

I'll be candid Nadine. That's the kind of researcher I am. Don't like secrets much. The reason I'm asking these questions is that some of your and Paul's well wishers have been insisting, insisting, that all is not as it seems with this little story. Not quite true.
Even having the temerity to claim that the "Community School" was little more than a child-minding service for the families of expatriate experts and bosses at the Copper Mine. Perhaps a few offspring of senior servants in the mix also.
How very unkind of them to make such accusations. We need to clear your good name!

One last question to be going on with:

Question 22: These experts and bosses and their wifes and girlfs were people like your own soon to be husband, the Copper Mining Engineer Paul David Dorries. This being the person the Tories state that you married when you returned to England. I'm pretty sure I have a cutting somewhere on the file that states that you married Paul David Dorries in Zambia and then returned. It's hard to keep track! Was it:

A. A marriage on your return to England as the Tory biographers claim? Or
B. A marriage that had already taken place in Zambia? Or
C. None of the above?

Grrrr. No upload facility just now. I'll be back later or tomorrow to add in some illustrations. UPDATE 00:41: several illustrations and a few tweaks. There may be more. Fettling graphics in list mode can be tricky.

No Talent and No Direction: Forget Jedward, It's Boy Daveorge

No talent. No direction. And at last the public are seeing through the new clothes and stopping voting for the empty non promises party. Hat tip: Political Scrapbook, the work of @Gavin Trait.