UKIP Leader Nigel Farage was the victim of abuse and intimidation while supporting a UKIP candidate in a by-election in Scotland yesterday. You may have seen him on the BBC News being forced to take refuge in a pub and escorted to safety by the police as a result of the snarling insults and threats from the left-wing thugs and representatives of the Scottish National Party.

I have known Nigel for twenty years; he is a robust character who will not have been frightened by such loutish behaviour. But what if this had happened in London? What if Alex Salmond had visited London and been abused by a crowd calling him ‘scum’ and chanting that he should ‘go back to Scotland’? What do you think would have happened? Ten to one the police would have arrested the thugs for ‘hate crime’ and they would have found themselves charged and in court.

The BBC News this lunchtime then played a recording of Nigel stopping short a telephone interview and putting the phone down on BBC Radio Good Morning Scotland. The BBC played that part of the interview but they did not mention that the questions were ‘insulting and unpleasant’, and ‘condoned’ the behaviour that caused him to do so, as Nigel later put it himself.  The BBC just played the tape of Nigel putting phone down without mentioning the provocation that caused him to do so.

This is yet another example of the legendary institutional political bias of the BBC.  Nigel acquitted himself with dignity and humour in this shameful episode. It shows the snarling hatred of the English by some of the SNP and left-wing louts in Scotland. It won’t have worried Nigel in the slightest but it will have had a very positive effect on the English vote for UKIP.  Even more people will be making a mental note to vote UKIP at the next opportunity.

Mr Lamont is always careful and measured in his pronoucements. He said that the he agrees with Nigel Lawson that the econonimic benefits of EU membership are “overstated”, and that Britain “could survive outside the EU”. Being a cautious man he said that we should first try to renegotiate our terms of membership, and if we fail, to “leave”. Mr Lamont knows renegotiation is never going to be agreed to by the other 26 (soon to be 27) other member states. So this is as near as he is going to go at the moment in agreeing with UKIP that Britain has to leave the European Union.

Nigel Lawson called for us to leave earlier this week, but another former Chancellor of the Exchequer has also called for EU exit. Denis Healey who was Chancellor during the Labour Government of the 1970s. He was then, like Lawson and Lamont a supporter of Britain’s membership fo the EU.

Amazing how after forty years of EU membership three Chancellors of the Exchequer for Labour and Conservative  now accept UKIP’s analysis of the economic disadvantages of membership and call for exit. All we need now is for Geroge Osborne to join them! Let’s hope he doesn’t wait until he is an ex-Chancellor!

This is all the more relevant because when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer he pegged the exchange rate of the pound to the deutschmark in 1988, prior to John Major taking us in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1990 when he was Chancellor. Both of these measures were meant to be precursors to Britain joining the European Single Currency – which fortunately never happened.

If Mr Lawson has seen the light it means the light is streaming through the windows like the last scene in a Dracula movie. How long before our membership of the EU combusts?

On the BBC news this morning Mr Clegg trotted out the old chestnut that if Britain left ‘three million jobs would be in danger’. I have posted him a copy of Professor Tim Congdon’s booklet Europe Doesn’t Work that blasts this argument out of the water.  Hopefully he will read it, but I doubt it because then he would have to change his mind.

To read the booklet yourself go to this link.

People understand that membership of the EU means that we cannot tackle issues such as  mass uncontrolled immigration. They accordingly voted for UKIP in large numbers. UKIP is the only Party that wants Britain to leave the European Union and restore democratic sovereign government to the UK.

UKIP has finanlly broken the first-passed-the-post barrier which has prevented any new political party breaking into domestic politics since the Labour Party did it in the early 20^th century.  When UKIP was set up in 1993 it was done on the basis that it would become a force in national politics. Despite our spectacular successes in the European elections these results prove that we can win in domestic elections.

We now stand poised to win seats in the General Election of 2015.  Every new vote that UKIP wins, and every new seat we win, brings the closer when Britain will leave the European Union.

The Agreement does not consist of anything much more than the ‘urgent need to make Europe more competitive and flexible’ and to make ‘faster progress on trade deals the rest of the world and the USA’; and of course to ‘take concrete action to clamp down on tax evaders and avoiders’.

First of all, Europe’s un-competitiveness and inflexibility is due to the thousands upon thousands of job destroying directives and regulations heaped on businesses over the last forty years.  These things can only be changed by all the other EU Member States changing the laws through the mechanisms of the European Parliament. That is not going to happen because most of those who inhabit the Commission and the Parliament are died in the wool socialist, and indeed communists in many cases (33% of the EU Commission were card carrying communist party members in their own countries).

The EU now decides the trade deals of all EU member states, including the UK and Germany. Likewise the UK and Germany cannot make the EU do anything, the real power lies with the institutions of the EU.

Clamping down on tax evaders and avoiders is designed to win the favour of voters who are being taxed to the hilt as a result of EU policies. It is designed to appeal on the basis of ‘why should anyone else escape the tax man if I can’t?’ In fact tax evasion is already illegal and can be pursued under the legal systems of individual nations. Tax avoidance  is perfectly legal, and why shouldn’t anyone who has actually managed to save something try to protect it?

Remember that this is the same Mrs Merkel who is in favour of the EU achieving economic and fiscal government in the EU. This means that Brussels will become the real government of European by controlling member state’s budgets, and eventually it intends to have tax raising and spending powers.  She is in favour of ‘ever closer union’, not less closer union.

The people of Cyprus have just had some of their savings confiscated because the Germans insisted they were not putting any more money into bailing them out with them feeling the pain too.  It never occurs to them that the best way of helping Cyprus (and Greece, Italy, Spain etc…) is to help them out of the euro itself.

Dave Cameron has begged Mrs Merkel to give his some scraps to the throw to the British electorate in the hope that it will distract them from UKIP and its arguments of national independence and prosperity outside the EU.  Somehow I doubt it will work.

Leaving the EU would give Britain back power over its own Trade Policy (now determined by the EU). What we should then do is deal bilaterally or even multilaterally with the nationsof Europe, not with the EU. National governments at least have to worry about their voters, and will find it much more difficult to sacrifice their economic interests to punish us for ideological reasons.

The future of the EU looks highly uncertain. Membership of the euro, over-regulation on business, and misguided climate change legislation is destroying prosperity and jobs across Europe and chaos and civil disorder is rearing its ugly head. It is highly unlikely that the EU has any future in the long term. What we should worry about is not our future relations with the EU, but our future relations with the countries of Europe, and the World.

The Practicalities of Unconditional Withdrawal

Britain has the constitutional right to unconditional withdrawal from the EU. This would not infringe international law, and the EU has no right to impose conditions on that withdrawal. It is in our national interest to withdraw unilaterally and unconditionally.

All it would take to do it is a patriotic government and Parliament with the political will and courage to take the necessary actions. Read more..

• • Parliament votes to reject EU Budget.
• • Most boring speech ever made in Parliament – possibly.
• • Vice President collapses during mammoth vote.

On Wednesday 13th March,  towards the end of a mammoth three hour voting session, the Vice President in the chair collapsed with a suspected heart attack. This went unreported on the BBC and other main TV and Radio programmes.The European Parliament now passes over 80% of our new laws and yet the collapse of its sitting President during a vote goes unreported. Can you imagine the news coverage if the Speaker of the House of Commons collapsed during a session. It just demonstrates how the main so-called ‘news’ media in the UK pays little or no attention to what is happening in the law making body of the UK.

This is quite right, they should not be penalised and the taxpayer should reimburse them. However, what Mr Osborne should do next is to deduct this amount of money from our next contribution to the EU Budget.

The British taxpayer should not be expected to shore up the doomed euro.