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Farage has reacted with some anger to news that the three establishment parties are all supporting Turkish entry into the EU,

Establishment Parties all agree Turks should be allowed to move to the UK

The Foreign Secretary, William Hague and the Lib/Dems, Ed Davey all agree Turkey should join the EU. "They seem to care more about the Levant than they do about the UK", said Nigel Farage. "In order to appear inclusive they reject the opinion of a vast majority of their own country".

Between them the three establishment parties show yet again the utter contempt they feel for the people of Britain. No poll has ever suggested that Turkish entry into the EU would be anything other than wildly against the wishes of Britain".

To witter on about immigration policy in the EU as Ed Davey did is absurd, and if he doesn't know it then he should resign from his post. The fact is that the UK can do nothing about immigration from within the EU, and if Turkey was to join then 74 million Turks could, if they wished, move here. The provisions available to stop them are meaningless as the evidence from Bulgaria and Romania has shown." he went
on.

Milliband says it is "remarkable" that there is agreement amongst the three establishment parties. It is not remarkable at all. They all believe that Britain should cease to be a self governing country, just as they agree we should remain in the EU. They are a shower who deserve to be thrown out of all their offices as soon as this election finally comes".

Not only is this stupid politically for the big three it is also morally reprehensible when it comes to Turkey. The years of blandishments from Western European politicians about possible EU membership for Turkey has an enormous and damaging impact on the body politic of Turkey itself. The majority of secular, democratic politicians in Turkey have aligned themselves to the hope of EU accession. This sort of statement from teh Hague/Miliband/Davey troika gives them hope.

But the fact that France Austria and possibly othetrs are allowing themselves referenda on the subject means that there is no way Turkey will join.
In turn this makes the decent Turks look like dupes of the west, and plays seriously into the hands of the Islamists who are continualy gaining ground in Turkey.

Way to go boys, way to go.

We should offer Turkey preffered trading status at least, or full free trade, but not offer false hopes of accession.

Milliband to be European Foriegn Minister?

Well that is the gossip dug up by the Guardian this evening. Weirdly though it would be appalling if it were to happen, I can see how the Europeans could see it as appealling.

1) Britain has to have one of the top jobs, mail to try to placate the UK's notorious scepticism.

2) If he got that job then Blair wouldn't become President. From what I hear Wiliam Hague's campaign is begining to bear some fruit. Brussels and the Chancellries of Europe are beginning to understand that as much as they dislike the Tories, making Blair President could spark all out diplomatic warfare with the likely incoming Tory Government. Though they could handle it (probably, they don't yet know how far they can push Cameron. He did in the end leave the EPP). However though it wouldn't be a "declaration of war" in the same way as the Blair appoitment, it would seriously piss off the Tories, particularly Hague who he has been winding up a treat over the Poles and Lithuanians in the CER.

3) He is as Iain Traynor points out "seen as the most genuinely europhile of senior people in the Brown cabinet".

Milliband stoops to stoop

Milliband's comments today in Foreig questions were illustrative of exactly what is wrong with this government, and sadly how weak Her Majesty's Opposition are,

"The future of this country depends on whole-heartedengagement in the EU, making Britain's case and ensuring that we arepart of a mainstream majority. This Government is proud to be alongside 27 governments, 26 opposition parties in saying that now is the time to put the Lisbon Treasty into practice and to ensure that it benefits all the citizens in Europe."

Of course the one thing that this devalued Goverment would never dream of doing is 'to be alongside' the wishes of its people, no it couldn't do that, but it sides with the political elites across Europe against their people.

"It is a great pity that the party opposite is stuck in the past."

But of course it is the elite that are stuck in their centrist sclerotic past.

However the Tories were hamstrung with Hague trying but failing to put his new EP Group behind him.

The best he could come up with uis that is was a"great pity" that the Government had broken an election manifesto promise to hold a referendum on EU reform.

A great pity!

I wonder why he was as weak as that? Is it because he knows that his own party will not be able to offer his much vaunted referendum, because he knows that it will be a fait accompli and he and his cohorts haven't the stomache or the bottom to take up the cudgels required for our freedom.

Milliband is offered an easy target, no matter how disegeous he is, because the Tories have nothing to say, nothing to add.

"We stand ready to have questions on Europe, of which there are none, and debates about Europe, which you are refusing to have."

The bugger is that Millband has a point. The Tories will do anything rather than have a debate about Europe.

Fit for purpose

David Milliband is speaking tonight on "An EU 'Fit for Purpose' in the Global Age". His first problem will be to try to define what its purpose.

I shall look at his speech tomorrow, should be a hoot

Milliband fibs on EU diplomacy

Feeling somewhat fatheaded this morning, what with the MEP Facebook story doing the rounds, and an earlier post being picked up in a more substantive piece about the creation of the European Diplomatic Corps, or European External Action Service. The Telegraph reports that, as we all know, the EU 's plans for the external action service are well advanced, despite them not having a legal base until the full ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.

Miliband's protestations of innocence are flimsy at best,

"While the commission or member states may draw up or circulate ideas for an external action service those ideas will have no status until they are agreed by all member states including the UK. There will be no final agreement until ratification is complete"

Pull the other one. The EEAS is up and running already, all that is going on now is some switching of the furniture. The idea that in order to placate the British,

"the name "Embassies of the Union" for EEAS offices has been dropped",

is transparent hokum. The title Foriegn Minister has been dropped, but we know what the High Representative is. Likewise the heads of EU delegations are already called Ambassador as an honorific and in general parlance rather than 'Head of Delegation' which their official title.

My hit is the comment from Robert Cooper,

Robert Cooper, the director general of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, the body that represents national governments, has argued that the EEAS would make Brussels the diplomatic capital of Europe.

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