EU Migration Costs

We are continually told by the government that immigration is good for the economy. True, but not the entire picture.

High levels of migration from new EU countries have pushed UK rental growth to its highest level in eight years, the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors lettings survey has found.

They are selling this as a great opportunity for property investors, which of course it is. First time buyers might not agree.

First-time buyers will find it hard to enter the housing market with higher rents making it difficult to save sufficient sums for a deposit.

Government lies and spin over this issue are legion. It is no surprise that the public is no longer willing to believe them.

Waste Waste Waste

Another day another small example of the waste that we have come to expect from our super state.

Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are being wasted every year on EU interpreters who turn up for meetings only to find they are not needed. A report on the EU's annual interpretation budget to be published next week found 16%, or £17m, was wasted on staff who find themselves kicking their heels.

Apparently, MEPs, "our representatives", often order a translator for a meeting and then fail to show up. In a more rational world, such offenders would be punished, but this is the EU..... so..... nothing.

In God We Trust

We eurosceptics thought that the constitution was dead. When the Federasts started to pretend that it wasn't, we scorned them, thinking it would need a miracle to revive it. Now Angela is appealing to the leader in the provision of such miracles:

Europe's "Christian values" should be enshrined in a new version of the EU constitution, the German chancellor declared yesterday after meeting the Pope.

So she thinks that appealing to a higher court will do the trick.

One Seat

For those of you who have not added your support to the One Seat Petition, please do so. They want to reach 1 Million supporters by September 1st and currently have 920,000. What they want:

It costs European taxpayers approximately 200 million euros a year to move the Parliament between Brussels/Belgium and Strasbourg/France. As a citizen of the European Union, I want the European Parliament to be located only in Brussels.

It will achieve nothing, except upset the French. Reward enough I think :)

Helpful Government Regulation

I'm back, and to my surprise, not, nothing ever changes. EU regulations threaten yet more jobs.

North Sea oil industry employers fear that upcoming U.K. legislation putting offshore oil and gas workers outside U.K. territorial waters under E.U. rules covering working hours and holidays will lead to legal claims that could close large parts of their business.

Of course the fact that the workers spend days at a time away from home, means that the most logical form of employment is for them to work long hours whilst there, and then spend days at a time on shore. If they get to spend hours more hanging around on a rig, but lose some of their shore leave, will they be happier?

Thats to completely ignore the cost side of it all. As the North Sea fields become ever more depeleted, they become more marginal too. At $70+ a barrel, that made not be a problem, but who guarantees that the prices will not fall?

Never mind logic and common sense, this is the usual evil axis of EU rules and UK idiots that has done so much damage in so many ways. Everything must be harmonised and damn the consequences.

I'll be Back

For those of you wondering where the hell I am, I will not be blogging again until the end of the month. For those in search of a discussion, why not have a chat in the Right Links Forum. Meanwhile, on my other blog, we have scored an interview with Richard Barnes, London Mayoral candidate.

EU Regulation

Its a fairly bland press release, but it has a number of important points to make.

The perception of many is that chemical volumes increase year on year and so heath and environment risks must be increasing. In reality this is untrue. Over the last two years the movement of chemicals in the United Kingdom alone has reduced by up to 100 million tonnes!

So the common fallacy behind the push for regulation is wrong.

Governments are relying less and less on science and more on opinion. The problem with regulatory groups is that their existence relies on regulating! They seldom allow time to complete a task before offering more regulation.

There is always a stock reason though

When using a 'precautionary principle' it is not too difficult for them to justify their actions.

And to finish on a positive note.

The number of legal actions being taken against the EU is growing.

I won't hold my breath, but I am happy to support anyone fighting back.

EU allows Discrimination Shock

I found this story both funny and pathetic.

The European Commission said the EU's wide-ranging anti-discrimination laws did not apply to tobacco users. It was responding to concerns raised about a job advertisement placed by an Irish e-commerce firm which warned "smokers need not apply".

Funny because so many people are getting into a tiz over the actions of one small firm in Ireland. Pathetic because this is inevitably where the whole culture of anti-discrimination leads you to. A society where everyone is scared of making choices, in case they upset the thought police.

Bulgarian Crime Wave

According to a famous "Roma Leader" in Bulgaria, the entry of that country into the EU will spark a crime wave.

“Crime and corruption in Bulgaria are huge problems and once the borders open up the country will be exporting both to the EU,”

At least we in Britain don't need to worry. Our Home office is a well oiled machine, efficient and ruthless in its pursuit of justice, effective in controlling our borders and well placed to deal with whatever problems come its way. I hate to think what would happen if it were unfit for purpose.

Australia Should Know its Place

The Prince of Darkness is upset.

European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson criticised Australia on Monday for taking the U.S. side in stalled World Trade Organization talks on global trade liberalization.

You see, Mr Mandelson thinks that Australia should know its place, and bow down to its former Colonial Master. But instead the upstart colonials are completely disrespectful:

"At the moment we hear from some quarters, from the Australian government, a lot of bashing of Europe,"

Has it never occured to Mr Mandelson that Australia, as a sovereign country, has the right to side with who it likes in international trade talks?

Stupid me, of course not, how could we expect an EU commisioner to understand the concept sovereign country?

Wrong Kind of Democracy

We have seen in previous years how the EU has always held up democracy as an absolute, unless the wrong people win. Now it seems they are tearing their hair out once again over those barbaric Poles.

Poland's rightwing president has been condemned across Europe after calling for the reintroduction of the death penalty.

Oh how could he.......

Stefaan de Rynck, the European commission's spokesman, said: "The death penalty is not compatible with European values."

So Mr de Rynck is the arbitor of the values of 450 Million people. Again he shows why EU (not European) values are incompatible with Anglo Saxon ones. Evil criminals need to be strung up. The Polish President puts it quite well:

Mr Kaczynski said he hoped Europe would change its mind because "countries that give up this penalty award an unimaginable advantage to the criminal over his victim, the advantage of life over death".

The Kaczynski brothers are not really my cup of tea, but they are good for all of us. At least they are standing up to the wet leftie consensus that condemns us all tofuture irrelevance.

Fingerprinting Your Children

I saw this story a little late, but I can't pass it over.

British children, possibly as young as six, will be subjected to compulsory fingerprinting under European Union rules being drawn up in secret. The prints will be stored on a database which could be shared with countries around the world.

Bastards. They create the rules in secret, then they want to fingerprint our kids, and they will share the data with everyone else. Thanks to His Grace Archbishop Cranmer, for the story

Those Barbaric Poles

One of the "Polish Good Guys" is berating the Polish Government over their boorish and ignorant approach to Europe.

"This government is focused on internal politics and EU affairs are a distant question. They don't adequately identify the impact of European policies on national politics,"

One might ask what the problem is with a Government focusing on internal issues, though one would hope they understand the power of the Brussels Politburo.

"The cost of this is that Poland won't be among those EU countries shaping new political realities,"

OK. Its the "Heart of Europe" cliche from a Polish point of view. But apparently it gets worse:

Poland could find itself short of qualified officials to run the EU presidency in 2011.

Wow they must be really worried by that one. Why can the Federasts not realise that right thinking people don't give a toss about their stupid little games. In what way will having a bad presidency be bad for Poland. To judge by past experience, a good presidency is one that takes the federast nightmare forward and a bad one is one that doesn't.

Anyone But Ken talks to Victoria Borwick

My other Blog, Anyone But Ken, has managed to score an interview with London Mayoral Candidate, Victoria Borwick.

Its well worth a read.

Free Movement of People

Were we right, or were we wrong? The UK was one of only 3 countries that opened its doors to the citizens of new EU members, back in 2004. The government very obviously lied to us about how many were expected to arrive. Because I believe in personal freedom, I was actually positive about us "doing the right thing" at the time. Now I am not so sure, and neither is Frank Field, former minister in the Blair government. Mr Field's particular area of interest is welfare, and he thinks that immigration is placing a huge burden on public services.

"We foolishly went ahead and had an open-door policy and instead of between 5,000 and 13,000 people arriving, in the first year something like half a million did."

Now he wants to limit the numbers coming from Bulgaria & Romania.

"We've now got Bulgaria and Romania coming down the road at us. We need to impose those barriers until there is a Europe-wide policy."

It's difficult to argue with the logic that says, if everyone shuts their doors, then they will all come to Britain.

However, I have one big problem with the whole argument. If we are being told the truth (that they all come here to work) then their utilising public services should be no problem whatsoever. They are all tax payers after all. If they are unregistered, welfare cheats or otherwise criminal lowlifes, then that's a different matter, but that is certainly not what the government is telling us.

So which is it? Are they useful additions to the work force or a drain on public services?