Click HERE. From the blurb...
MEPWatch is a party political campaign aimed at bringing further accountability and higher levels of democratic practice to the Conservative party's European Parliamentary candidate selection process.At the forthcoming hustings when the party membership select candidates to stand for election we hope to provide them with the best possible information to make their final decision. Over the coming weeks and months we will be providing highly detailed research on the performance and suitability of any potential future candidates.
Excellent. All power to their elbows. Hopefully we will get candidates who are actually Conservatives and agree with Conservative policies. I look forward to their monitoring of Christopher Beazley and the other Europhiles who have gone native.
Christ that was quick. Nice one Iain.
ReplyDeleteBest news this week.
ReplyDeleteExcellent!
Are Europhiles not Tories now?
ReplyDeleteExcellent riposte from anon 0855. Do we really want the militant tendency equivalent vetting all selections?
ReplyDeleteAnon-8.55 Is your name Beazley by any chance?
ReplyDeleteV well organised website. Nice one, Chris and team. Maybe we can get an MEP contingent that is fit to lead an EU reform grouping in 2009 rather than the ragtag rabble we have at the moment.
ReplyDeleteanon@11.14am,
ReplyDeleteIf by "militant tendency" you mean the mainstream of the Conservative Party, both grassroot activist and Parliamentary, who believe in a Conservative policy for Europe and look forward to the day we adopt a consistent line and finally withdraw from the EPP then let's hope so!
The Eurofanatic tail has been wagging the Conservative Party dog for way too long now.
I am old enough to remember a time when most Tories were Europhile!
ReplyDeleteThings may have changed but the Tories must remain a broad church.
Excuse me, but in the light of the continuing Conservative membership of the EPP, what are those Conservative policies? A broad church is one thing but believing six impossible things before breakfast is something else altogether. How can you support the European Constitution and oppose it at the same time. It is a vitally important document.
ReplyDeletept-perhaps when most thought we were joining a trade block and before the big CON played was realised.
ReplyDeleteWhy did you think that it was a trading bloc? Being too young to remember the 1975 referendum (before anyone writes in pointing this out) brings a certain objectivity to my observations, that the VERY FIRST CLAUSE of the legislation taking Britain in is a text-book definition of a federal state rather than a trading bloc (or anything else), and that this was pointed out time and again by Tony Benn, Enoch Powell, &c.
ReplyDeleteTo those who say that they thought they were just voting for a trading boock, I ask, did you simply not listen to the latter, or could you actually not read the former? It must be one or the other, if not both.