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1. Labour set to avoid promising EU referendum in general election manifesto

One likely consequence of the European elections in May will be to reopen the debate over whether Labour should commit to holding an EU referendum at some point after 2015. Despite consistently criticising David Cameron's pledge, Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander have been careful not to rule out the possibility of eventually matching it.

It beggars belief that these political fools believe that at this point, not giving the people of Britain a voice on their assimilation into this European Federal superstate, is actually a valid course of political action. Why might that be?

Well a new source of information has revealed to us that Devon and Cornwall Police have now opened a new position for Chief Executive, but to rub salt into the wounds internal staff have been told that up to 10 front line positions will go due to cut backs. Meanwhile the salary for this CEO position is over £100K, that's equivalent to 4 full time staffing positions.

It's going to require a revolution at the ballot box in May to get UK out of this mess.

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2. EU rules "mean children can't get life-saving cancer drugs"

Children with cancer are being denied access to potentially life-saving medicines because European Union rules allow drug firms to waive the need to test some drugs in paediatric trials, researchers said on Monday.

Calling for a loophole in EU legislation to be closed, scientists and specialists in childhood oncology led by Britain's Institute for Cancer Research (ICR) said changing the rules could extend or save many young lives.

"Many cancer drugs developed for adults could be effective in children if we were able to test them in clinical trials," Louis Chesler, an ICR researcher and a paediatric oncologist at London's Royal Marsden hospital, told reporters at a briefing.

Whatever your position is on this and the question is a difficult one. Surely in the first instance, the rights of the children are the responsibility of the parent and secondly, how has this legislation got anything to do with trading rules? Well clearly it hasn't and the EU has not got the consent of the people of Britain to legislate in this way. These are decisions that should be the responsibility of our parliament!

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3. Uruguay and Brazil prepared to a 'two-speed' Mercosur/EU trade negotiation

Uruguay and Brazil could be prepared to go ahead with a 'two speed' trade negotiations between Mercosur and the European Union if the Argentine tariff proposal is not as ambitious as that from the rest of its members, according to Uruguayan diplomatic sources.

Mercosur members are supposed to meet this week in Caracas, Venezuela to make compatible the different tariffs reduction policies.

Of course things are looking pretty fractious in Caracas right now, which might slow things up. When one connects the dots you can see the pattern emerging. These trade deals are little different to the Common Market deal undertaken by Britain and Europe in the 1970's. Ultimately nations are being played by the globalist corporations. What stinks about all of this is that the contents of the trade deals are secret and the people have no influence or voice about them.

Of course, the flip side is that all of this folly just adds more weight of proof to people like Steve Keen, when they debunk the Keynesian Economic theory of free trade. This Keynesian Economic model having become the world standard, but is a theory that in actual factual observation proves to be broken.

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4. Britons 'too ignorant' for EU referendum

Britons are too ignorant about Europe to vote in a referendum on the subject, a top Brussels official claimed last night.

Viviane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission, said the British debate about Europe was so ‘distorted' that people could not make an ‘informed decision' about whether or not to stay in the EU.

Well well, fancy that. We never expected that the EU Vice President would come up with the notion that the good folks of Britain have been so confused and bamboozled by the topic of democracy and the idea of a referendum on the EU, that she has decided it would be better all round if we didn't get a voice at all.

Listen here Mrs Reding, we in Britain know a thing or two about how to run a democracy, on account of the fact that we invented it. Ours is the oldest democracy in the modern world. I believe that also puts us in the ideal position to point out your European implementation of it is broken.

You have no opposition, no retrospective recourse. Your dictats bind in perpetuity and your policy making is done in secret with ministerial councils deeply influenced by paid lobbyist groups you call "think tanks" and your executive commission is internally appointed and cannot be empowered or deposed by the people!

So perhaps we in Britain are significantly more informed than you believe. Perhaps it is you who is ignorant!

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5. Euroflood: Drowning the Somerset Levels

A Big thank you to Steven Parris Ward who wrote to us on Google .

In his article he details the trail of policy and legislation that must carry substantial weight in the reasoning behind how the Somerset Levels flooding has gotten so out of control.

The EU's Natura 2000 strategy along with a sheaf of directives on "habitats", "birds", "water" and not least the "floods" directive of 2007, specifically requires certain "floodplains" to be allowed to flood. In 2008, when the EA was run by Baroness Young, this was reflected in a policy document which classified areas at risk of flooding under six categories, ranging from those in "Policy Option 1", where flood defences were a priority, down to "Policy 6'' where, to promote "biodiversity", the strategy should be to "increase flooding". The Somerset Levels were covered by Policy 6.

I highly recommend reading through Steven's work on this it is really eye opening stuff.

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Video Library

In our video library today, I wanted to pick up on the topic of immigration and to explain how and why it benefits no one.

Having worked with Hugh Scudder on the Christian response to Easter Europe project, I have seen this first hand. How society and communities get hollowed out by foreign immigration policy.

Andrew Fear our Webmaster, found this excellent piece of film, presented by Roy Beck.

Personally I think that it an excellent example of why immigration policy is doomed to fail the people it is supposed to help and doomed to fail the nations that implement it.


Watch here