Batten Bulletin from Strasbourg January 2015
Why are we in Strasbourg this week? This week the European Parliament meets in Strasbourg Monday to Thursday for its regular monthly plenary session. However, there is quite a light agenda to say the...
View ArticleBatten Bulletin from Strasbourg 15th January 2015
Voting on Thursday Earlier this week I wrote about how slight the agenda is this week, and the enormous cost of bringing the Parliament to Strasbourg. Today (15th Jan) we had more to vote on, but...
View ArticleThe Pope and Piers Morgan both got it wrong
Pope Francis made an unfortunate comment yesterday in relation to last week’s Paris massacres by Islamist terrorists. He said to a journalist that “You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot...
View ArticleBritain and EU – Divorce imminent?
The Previous President of the European Commission, Manuel Barroso, and the previous President of the European Council, Hermann van Rompuy, bot told David Cameron when they were in office that the EU...
View ArticleWe are a modern nation that is caught like a rabbit in the headlights
I am quoted in today’s Daily Express in a story about a Mr Aysh Chaudhry. The story reports that Mr Choudhary posted a 20 minute video on the internet in which he said that ‘the shooting in Paris last...
View ArticleDavid Cameron – sounds familiar
David Cameron was in hot water yesterday because of the letter sent out by the Government to mosques asking them to work harder to combat Islamic extremism. The letter called on Imams and Islamic...
View ArticleOver 80% want to leave the European Union!
An opinion poll of 14,000 people conducted in three constituencies in Northamptonshire asked if they want to remain in the European Union or not. 81.1% voted to leave, while only 18.9% voted to stay...
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Dr David Starkey compares Henry VIII to Nigel Farage!
Eminent historian, the world’s greatest authority on the Tudor period, and outspoken commentator, Dr David Starkey has compared King Henry VIII to Nigel Farage. In a lecture given at the King’s Lynn...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Amjad Bashir – Do the decent thing and resign your seat.
Dear Amjad, I am sorry that you have decided to defect from UKIP to the Conservative Party. In your resignation email you said that your decision is a “principled decision”. Let me now call on you to...
View ArticleLitvinenko murder: “state sponsored terrorism”.
The Public Inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko opened today under the Chairmanship of Sir Robert Owen. Ben Emerson QC representing Marina Litvinenko the widow of Alexander, said in his...
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