Lord Hague once warned that plans for a “red card” system to block EU laws, which are now at the heart of David Cameron’s renegotiation strategy, would be almost impossible to implement.
Here are ten renegotiation aims which the Prime Minister has first proposed and then dropped.
Source: Cameron’s vanishing renegotiation | Conservative Home
Former Tory chancellor Lord Lawson has been named as the chairman of a group campaigning for the UK to leave the EU.The 83-year-old will chair Vote Leave, one of two groups vying to be the official Out campaign in the EU referendum.The group’s CEO Matthew Elliott, campaign director Dominic Cummings and company secretary Victoria Woodcock are leaving the board.These changes were previously planned, Vote Leave said.
Source: EU referendum: Lord Lawson to chair Vote Leave campaign – BBC News
Lord Lawson will be better known to the younger listeners as Nigella’s Dad.
The EU referendum debate is well underway. Whether we vote this year or next, David Cameron has abandoned any pretence of attempting to fundamentally alter our EU relationship – with previous promises to repatriate employment law, clamp down on free movement, and change EU treaties all jettisoned. What tweaks Cameron is seeking look largely cosmetic or trivial, but even these seem difficult to achieve.
Source: The EU referendum is too important to be left to the BBC | City A.M.
When the UK leaves the EU it will carry on paying all the current grants to farmers.
We will have our own money to spend, and will have all the money we had to send to the EU to pay for our farm subsidies back under our own control.
Mr. Cameron of course, was technically right to use the term. There was certainly a “bunch” in its strictest sense. And they were indeed “migrants”. But forget the English language, as we’re so often pressured to do – the outrage is about “tone” or the “respect” that the phrase connotes. I’d say Mr. Cameron was too kind.
Source: Let’s Face It, David Cameron Didn’t Go Far Enough With His #BunchOfMigrants Comment – Breitbart
The European Committee of Social Rights, which is part of the Council of Europe, wants children’s paper rounds outlawed as they believe it could harm their education.
Europe’s human rights watchdog chastises Britain over children’s holiday jobs, smacking and immigration policy
Source: Newspaper rounds may breach children’s rights, warns Strasbourg – Telegraph
Labour and Tories MEPs voted in the European Parliament today to support the European Commission in the restriction of oven gloves in a legislative report on Personal Protective Equipment
Source: Labour and Tories support EU restriction on Oven Gloves and it’s not a joke – UKIP
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Alan Johnson launches his ‘Leave’ campaign with a company that say they’d support leaving… And they highlight more bonkers EU red tape.
