Contrary to what Mr Osborne has been saying, I did think Scotland could survive as another Norway, one of the few European countries with no massive debt problem ( no euro or EU either ) with oil and gas and timber, tourism and new technology ( don't think they could be another Switzerland now after the RBS fiasco ). However, it looks as if Alex Salmond is as much of a Eurofanatic as Nick Clegg and would never let the Scottish people have another referendum ( i.e.to leave the EU ). What is most alarming is that he has said that an independent Scotland would initially retain the pound until such time as it might join the euro. Join the euro? Is he sure the Scottish people are with him on that one? Looks like he wants Scotland to be another Celtic tiger like the Irish Republic ( now a financial basket case ). No wonder Martin McGuiness was smiling. He thinks Scotland is going to be another Ireland and all those Glaswegians of Irish descent will feel at home. Personally I think the Scots would be better off having the Norwegian krona as their currency. Alex, you might just have blown it.

From: Sam Swerling, friend of the English Democrats
and former Westminster City Councillor and
ex-chairman Monday Club



Best wishes to all members and supporters of the English Democrats for a happy and politically successful New Year.

For all of us who love the idea of nationhood one myth needs to be exploded with urgency lest it takes root within the wider public unchecked. It is that David Cameron, a.k.a ‘Call me Dave’, has somehow “played a blinder”, to use Boris Johnson’s ridiculous and wholly inappropriate phrase in the context of the recent European summit of heads of states, where Dave vetoed a projected new treaty regulating fiscal policies of member states of the E.U. to a 3% ceiling above G.D.P.

This regulation will come into effect in 2012 anyway through the inter-governmental conference that Sarkozy/Merkel will introduce and, under qualified majority voting, the U.K. may become bound in any event.

All Dave did was to do what he said he would do. What sort of “blinder” is that?

The reality is that Britain, and England in particular, will continue to be dominated by the E.U. Commission and Council of Ministers. This cannot change until a referendum becomes inevitable so that the European Communities Act 1972, and, as a concomitant, the Human Rights Act 1998 are repealed. This is what the English people want. We must exert the necessary pressure to make it happen.

Patient analysis of the Treaties of Rome (1957), Maastricht (1992), Amsterdam (199, Nice (2000) and Lisbon (2007), as well as the Single European Act (1996), leads to the inescapable conclusion, moreover, that all talk of repatriation of powers from Dave, his Tory ministers (particularly William Hague) and his MPs is a complete charade. It can’t happen because the doctrine of ‘acquis communautaire’ (written into Maastricht and consolidated in Amsterdam) dictates that when the E.U. has assumed ‘competence’ over an area of policy it becomes entrenched in European law and has superior status to domestic law.

It would require all 27 European countries to endorse such repatriations to a member state and that is simply not going to happen so I fear that William Hague, not for the first time in European affairs, is talking through his baseball cap.

One day, the sooner the better, the betrayal of our English people and the loss of 760 years of parliamentary sovereignty and democratic control, will become manifest for all to see. Let the English Democrats be at the forefront in striving to achieve this principled and laudable objective. Our own courts of law can then decide upon the most suitable punishments for those who have consistently betrayed our English self-governance.

What worries me about the European debate is the way that lies have become accepted truths. The biggest lie of all is that our access to the European free market is a huge bonus. No-one seems to notice that we had a £46 billion pound trade deficit with the EU in the last reported year. (Click on: The EU and laying up treasure from overseas for more detail). Our total deficit with the EU, including our £9.2 billion net contribution is over £55 billion annually!