On the march towards a European army
The current president of the European Commission wants it. So did his predecessors. And now the whole EU is taking steps towards the creation of a unified European military, along with unified defence research…
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Brussels eyes procurement
The EU wants a single military procurement policy, coordinated by a newly empowered European Defence Agency.
EU: new call for integration
Martin Schulz, head of Germany’s Social Democrats, is calling strongly for ever-closer European integration to build a “United States of Europe” by 2025.
Pensions: academics ballot over action
29 December 2017
University workers across Britain are being balloted over whether to fight to prevent the closure of their University Superannuation Scheme, a final salary arrangement.
Safer out than in?
23 November 2017
Veterans for Britain has produced an extremely useful free pamphlet showing that leaving the EU will have little if any impact on Britain's national security or counter-terrorism capabilities.
Stop the EU War Machine!
Tuesday 20 February 2018 18:30
CPBML Public Meeting, Tuesday 20 February, 6.30 pm [note time]
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
During the referendum campaign anyone who mentioned the development of a European army and a common defence policy was dismissed by the establishment as a fantasist. Now everything is out in the open – and it's taking shape in front of our very eyes. Come and discuss. All welcome.
EU: making pain in Spain
The EU is standing to one side in the crisis over Catalonia. But the situation is also of its own making…
Migration - The truth is out
Data from the Office for National Statistics published in October show the number of Romanians and Bulgarians resident in Britain soared by 79 per cent in the previous two years.
EU causes pain in Catalonia
10 October 2017
The separatist movement in Catalonia and the reaction to it have raised questions about the future of Spain. The EU pretends to stand to one side but the cause is its policy of "A Europe of the Regions".
Paying the price of the European Union
It’s become a mantra, endlessly repeated by the TUC: “Workers must not pay the price of Brexit.” What price would that be? And how about acknowledging the price of staying in the EU?
Research and division
British universities have been doing well out of EU funding – but at a cost for everyone else…
Government backing EU-Ukraine deal
Despite the vote to leave the European Union, the government is still facilitating EU interference in Ukraine.
Downward spiral
With 20:20 hindsight, a former chairman of the Financial Services Authority looks at debt…and the EU
Free movement? More a free ride for universities
Academics complain that their wages have been capped since 2008, and they’re right. But they don’t seem to be applying their collective intellect to working out why…
EU claims 'superior' law
The EU is now saying: our law is superior to your law. Or more specifically, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union is superior to British law.
Albania's election – with EU interference
Socialism brought real progress to Albania, but now the country is a playground for capitalism being driven remorselessly into the arms of the European Union…
The election: this time, only one thing matters
24 May 2017
Read the manifestos and one thing is clear: not a single one can be implemented unless Britain leaves the EU, including its disastrous single market.
Rail: a test case for independence
Building the new Britain means building new railways, making the equipment here in Britain, and running the rail network in the way we decide, for the benefit of the people.
European Parliament dodges its own budget debate
23 March 2017
The leaders of the European Parliaments political groups have abandoned plans to allow the body to debate its own controversial 2018 spending plans.
Vauxhall: smoke and mirrors
17 March 2017
Those who still resist Britain’s departure from the EU are deliberately misrepresenting the decision by car maker Groupe PSA to take over the General Motors Vauxhall and Opel car plants at Luton and Ellesmere Port.
The EU's propaganda war
Despite the decision in June 2016 to leave the European Union, the European Commission is continuing to try and widen its network of propaganda outlets in Britain.
Why the movement of labour is not "free"
People smuggling, trafficking, organised gangs – what’s free about that?
Manufacture defies the Remain lies
31 October 2016
The Remainers are professional denigrators of Britain, running down anything in an attempt to show they were right. Manufacturing is proving them wrong.
Fancy That - Brexit Bloomers: No. 1
A lot of dire warnings were issued during the Referendum campaign, and before. We’ve started keeping track of what happened…
Why the euro was bound to fail
Economic journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson explain why the EU is failing: because the single currency was not a progressive project and never could be.
Bring back control over power generation
The opportunity of Brexit has to be about how we determine a strategy for power generation which will serve the nation for at least the next 100 years…
Build the team: promote British players
Asked to rule about footballers’ freedom to transfer, the EU went further and removed restrictions on EU players in national clubs. England haven’t won a tournament since…
Eurozone stagnation in Italy
Italy’s GDP is up by only 0.8 per cent on last year. In this year’s second quarter, there was no growth at all.
NHS still tendering contracts across the EU
27 October 2016
NHS England is trying to defy the historic referendum vote to leave the EU by applying EU rules to the procurement of up to £15 billion of specialised services contracts.
Get on, get out
The British people made a declaration of independence. Now we have to get the independence we voted for.