Libertas not UKIP on 4th June

Libertas offers the best hope for changing the trading arrangements, political secrecy and the undemocratic nature of the European Union. Libertas stands for ending the corruption, stopping the waste, putting democracy at the heart of Europe and returning control to the member nations. It does NOT want Britain to be consumed by a bureaucratic European superstate. It does want the UK to be a leader in a free, democratic, efficient European Union that only tackles those things that are best done at an international level.

That means NO MORE laws interfering in the domestic UK governance. NO MORE quangos set up to waste money. NO MORE undemocratic decisions taken by "ministers" who only want it their way. The Irish, Dutch and French are the only countries to have had a democratic vote in recent years and they were told that their answers were "un-European".

Libertas wants co-operation only on an international level. This would obviously benefit trade, travel, employment, investment and environmental issues. So it is a positive YES to beneficial international agreement.

You can vote for the goons, gadflies and general expenses grabbers if you want. Only Libertas offers a constructive approach for eurosceptics. In fact, I don't really like that word. I'm positive about wanting a Europe of co-operating nation states, where each can be proud of its culture, its laws, and its lawmaking. I am positive about protecting the UK from the superstate bureaucrats.

Anthony Butcher is standing for Libertas in the North-West. He says, "Why am I standing for Libertas? Libertas is offering a future for Europe never seriously considered before. Until now, the choice has always been 'more or less' Europe. But it doesn't have to be that way. Because Libertas is standing right across the European Union, we could have the power to change the entire direction of the EU. I don't want an EU superstate. I want a Europe of cooperating sovereign nations. Cooperation doesn't work when it is forced upon us top-down by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. As we have seen, all this achieves is growing resentment and an ever increasing bureaucracy."

That's the kind of MEP I know we need in this country. He also says, "...I later joined the UK Independence Party and was elected to their National Executive Committee. In 2006 I left the party feeling that although I agreed with many of their complaints about the European Union, I couldn't support their negative direction and hostile form of politics, both internal and external." Negative direction. That's it in a nutshell. You only have to look at UKIP's track record to find that it is a kind of "ferrets meets Kilkenny cats party" to put you right off. Expense scandals, mortgage frauds, leadership battles, backbiting and defections. Not a particularly good endorsement for elected representation.

For a positive approach to tackling the wrongs in the European Union vote for your Libertas candidates. Let's make it right for us in Europe.

Libertas or Jury Team? It has to be one of them!

The European elections on Thursday are going to be a watershed for British democracy. In the wake of the expenses scandal, the three main parties are going to get a battering. I see that UKIP and the BNP are favoured by some and UKIP's sun is rising. However, the sun goes down at night time and that's usually when UKIP's plotters are seen about town. In today's Daily Mail Peter Oborne says it all. He says -

"Both party leaders have protected more senior MPs. For example, Brown gave a clean bill of health to Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon, Work & Pensions Secretary James Purnell and Chancellor Alistair Darling. Yet all three are tax-cheats whose conduct, if replicated by an ordinary member of the public, would undoubtedly lead to a criminal investigation. These men should not be allowed to remain in British public life.

Cameron is guilty of the same inconsistency. While being tough on some backbenchers, he seems blind to the fact that a number of his Shadow Cabinet have been guilty of loathsome and amoral conduct. I would never vote for a political party which includes Francis Maude (who claimed almost £35,000 for for a mortgage on a London flat a few minutes' walk from a house he already owned and then rented out) or Alan Duncan (who submitted thousands of pounds of expenses for his garden before agreeing that the spending 'could be considered excessive')."

If only this scandal was not promoted by the general public as being about duck houses and moat cleaning only. It is about cynical manipulation to keep acolytes in place and to feed a few MPs to the electorate to stave off the full effects of a political lynching. Oborne suggests -

"It goes without saying that it is impossible to support a racist party such as the BNP. Also, UKIP, the most obvious choice, can immediately be ruled out because one of its MEPs is facing prosecution for fraud. This leaves those of us seeking politicians of integrity and decency with just two possible parties: Jury Team and Libertas.

Jury Team is a new political movement set up by philanthropist Sir Paul Judge, who has an outstanding record as a businessman and has donated generously to many charities. His own integrity is beyond reproach and his list of candidates standing next week are independent figures (his team includes Esther Rantzen and former anti-sleaze MP Martin Bell) who are determined to clean up politics.

Meanwhile, Libertas was founded by charismatic Irish businessman Declan Ganley who, in a referendum, persuaded Irish voters to reject the Lisbon Treaty which would have given Brussels many more powers. As a result, the British people already owe Ganley an enormous debt of gratitude. Equally, the European political class hate him - spending hundreds of thousands of EU money on a propaganda campaign linking him with a CIA plot devised by U.S. neo-conservatives to weaken the EU.

Significantly, this smear campaign has failed.

At a time of moral squalor and decay in Westminster and Brussels, both Libertas and Jury Team offer voters a hugely refreshing - and, perhaps, the only proper - alternative on Thursday."

I will be supporting Libertas. It was a tough choice, but in this respect Libertas is fighting for transparency in the European Parliament and the EU instutions. Jury Team would be a better bet for Westminster elections. But that's my view. I'm still a conservative thinker and politically driven in conservative ways. Just as Tories are not necessarily Conservatives, I am now a conservative that is not completely Conservative.

Leaning towards Libertas

I am leaning towards Libertas. An EU-wide vote of significant numbers would send a message both to the Brussels troughfeeders and the Westminster fees fiddlers. Anyway, here's Robin Matthews, UK leader of Libertas, on YouTube.

Libertas is let out of the stable!

Libertas, the pro-European anti-EU centralising party started by Irish political maverick Declan Ganley, is out of the stable and running around the EU paddock. They hope to have candidates across the EU, so that every citizen can vote en masse against the constitution of the elite.

It is going to be some kind of electoral fisticuffs this time round. In the right corner is the BNP talking tough on any subject passing them by. Then in the middle to muddled ground there are the Ukippers, still fighting the cause but with folding tents to contend with in several constituencies. They've even got this United Kingdom First Party sniping at them. It is a bit of a pompous title considering that there are plenty of us who want to put the country first but may not necessarily agree with them! The English Democrats are giving it a whirl again, plus all manner of disparate groups, who whilst not being in the contest will be adding their ten pence worth.

Libertas may well do well. I will look at their manifesto. The LibDems have gone all prissy and EU protectionist. A spokesman said "anti-European voters in Europe were spoilt for choice" in the upcoming election. Cheeky sod! He thinks every person who is not brown-nosing in Brussels is anti-European. Well, chummy, they are not! Those of us opposed to the corruptions and vices of the European Elite are very pro Europe. It's just that we want a democratic, open and free Europe devoid of these pointy penpushers and legalised layabouts.

Roll on the voting!

A postscript! I've just seen this from the cravenly slavish EU fan by the name of Graham Watson, a LibDem MEP. Rather takes the biscuit. Watson is as undemocratic as they come when he wants his own way. Fancy that. He thinks that Ireland could be chucked out of the EU for voting no. Well, he may not last past June, so that won't be a bad thing. Democracy? Not in Graham Watson's mind!