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Honeyball’s Weekly Round-Up 15 Jul 2013 | 01:55 pm
The Conservatives were accused of putting corporate interests ahead of public health last week following a decision by the government to postpone its plans on cigarette packaging. The Tories decision...
UKIP councillors favour the death penalty 12 Jul 2013 | 11:00 am
Almost half of UKIP’s pitiful gang of local councillors (202 in total) want the death penalty as a sentencing option for murder. The death penalty finds even greater favour amongst this barbaric grou...
Watch UKIP’s Godfrey Bloom’s latest anti-women rant 11 Jul 2013 | 11:00 am
The subject of women on boards was discussed at a joint meeting yesterday of the Legal Affairs and Women’s Rights Committees. The Committees were discussing the Commission proposal to increase the num...
UK Government embarassing U-turn over European arrest warrant 10 Jul 2013 | 05:01 pm
It was an embarrassing climb down for the Home Secretary, Theresa May, yesterday who was forced to agree that Britain should remain a participant in the European arrest warrant scheme. She had made p...
BBC Daily Politics 9 Jul 2013 | 02:08 pm
Last Friday I was invited on to the BBC Daily Politics show. As always it was great to debate news of the day with host Andrew Neil and guests. I discussed the EU budget, emissions trading, EU conce...
Honeyball’s Weekly Round-Up 8 Jul 2013 | 01:48 pm
Harriet Harman this week said that the lack of female sports broadcasters and players is “woeful” and called for government action. She criticised the inequality in funding for male and female sports...
From the Archive: Nigel Farage accused of being Stalinist and anti-women 5 Jul 2013 | 03:16 pm
This blog comes from February of this year at a time when Marta Andreasen MEP was thinking about quitting UKIP. Well for any of you who don’t know, she did quit in the end and is now a member of the ...
The EU Must Now Set the Gold Standard in Data Protection 4 Jul 2013 | 08:13 pm
Yesterday the parliament discussed the recent revelations from Anthony Snowden about NSA surveillance programmes. The council made their position clear that; they are unwilling to make any concrete s...
Marine Le Pen loses immunity as MEP 3 Jul 2013 | 01:53 pm
The far right leader Marine Le Pen has had her right to immunity from prosecution removed following a vote in the European Parliament yesterday. She will now face prosecution after she compared Musli...
EU Commission landmark legislation on mobile roaming charges comes into force 2 Jul 2013 | 12:59 pm
New European Union rules have just come into effect which will cut the cost of calls abroad. Making a call abroad will fall by at least 17% and downloading data will be 36% cheaper following EU legisl...
