Well done to UKIP - and it's not often I say that. On Monday there will be a vote in Brussels on the EU Draft Directive on Audio Visual Media Services Directive, which if passed could threaten the future of internet TV in this country. Click HERE to read what UKIP have to say. I still haven't managed to ascertain how the Conservatives will vote. Perhaps someone reading this in Brussels could enlighten me...
On Monday I shall get the chance to thank Nigel Farage in person, when he is my guest on Vox Politix at 9pm.
UPDATE: The House of Lords EU Committee has also come out strongly against the Directive HERE.
16 comments:
Iain,
as per my previous comment on your last post about UKIP, their leadership may be a shambles and not particularly likeable but they are making all the right noises.
If they keep this up and sort out the leadership, they are going to attract many more people like me (natural conservative but utterly alienated by and fed up with Cameron's wittering)
Just so long as they roll out of the bar and find their way to the chamber in time for the vote...
Are you sure it's not 9am for Farage? I thought he was a morning person.
The UKIP say the right things it's just the people I can't stand. Have fun with "nasty" Nigel
Chad will be choking on his cornflakes.
All these EU stories in many cases boil down to one thing for me - why do they need to get involved in the first place?
Don't worry - UKIP are back to their nasty horrid ways.
UKIP MEPs have voted almost unanimously to reject a European Parliament resolution seeking to save the lives of 31 000 breast cancer victims each year.
Messieurs Batten, Booth, Clark, Farage, Knapman, Nattras, Titford, Whittaker and Wise appallingly attempted to deny free biannual screening for women aged between 50 and 69 years of age, through which it is hoped early detection would lead to a 90% cure rate.
Trying to save internet TV but couldn't give a toss about potentially saving 31,000 women a year!
UKIP - don't you just love them!!!!
Well done Iain. That title is very welcome but it is worth mentioning that it is just one of a long series that includes:
UKIP comes to the rescue of the lowx taxation.
UKIP comes to the rescue of border controls.
UKIP comes to the rescue of democracy by opposing state funding of political parties.
etc etc! :-)
11.55am - One can only live in hope!
Strange you should mention Chad - Apparently Chad is leaving Britian and moving abroad - Could he be going to another European Country - I wonder if he is taking advantage of the free movement of people within the EU? The very thing UKIP are campaigning against - possible sniff of hypocrisy from Mr Noble!
I think you'll UKIP abstained on the breast cancer vote, because health should be decided by national governments.
Also, a European Parliament resolution is non legislative - it just gives the opinion of the Parliament, which is then usually ignored by everyone.
As for how the Tories will vote on this, Christopher Beasley is the Tory MEP on this committee and the one to ask.
Trixy - only Ashley Mote abstained.
And UKIP are more interested in scoring cheap political points than make a strong statement from the EU Parliament regarding breast cancer and the health of EU citizens.
UKIP MEPs are disgusting.
As someone who has been following this in Brussels, I find it strange to see that UKIP seem to be getting credit for this. The main Tories on this (Kamall, Heaton-Harris, Harbour and Purvis) have all the way through questioned whether there should be a regulation at all - a lost cause unfortunately - and have all fought very very hard to keep it to an absolute minimum. They are all against any European product placement regulation, advertising regulation, and increase of scope to include the internet.
I have been to every single meeting and committee vote on this and I don't remember seeing UKIP once(including times when 1 vote would have swung the issue towards a more liberal package).
I see little point in voting for sceptic ukip MEPs if there are not going to do anything!
Iain, I agree with Europarl Insider: I'm afraid you've got this one wrong. UKIP may have issued a press release but in reality their inaction in Committee has contributed to how bad this regulation is.
If people genuinely want Euroscepticm to have a strong voice, don't vote UKIP. Instead, make sure you get along to the Conservative MEP selection meeting in your region, and pick some real Tory Eurosceptics that will do some real work. The East Midlands managed it (Helmer, Heaton-Harris) so if other Tory regions make sure genuine sceptics are elected, it would make a difference.
It's now easy to tell which of your MEPs have gone native: ConservativeHome are tracking it, and a simple Google search is revealing. Let's not reward UKIP for saying but not doing: let's get our own house in order instead!
Brusselsdweller,
Choosing a Conservative MEP whose a Eurosceptic. Isn't that like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic?
The Conservative Party at home and in Yerp (where most of their MEP's vote with the dastardly federalists)still needs a firm boot up the backside for continually lying to the British people about the evil Common Market/EU since 1972.
Iain,
Surely a quick word with Dave could sort this out, Afterall, this could potentialy affect webcameron.
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