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1 12TH FEBRUARY 2016 THE REALITY BEHIND EUROPE MONTHLY 3.50 The dead hand of the EU even on flood control In all the coverage of the floods in the North of England, the real causes are unclear. Exceptional rainfall, yes, but why didn t the flood defences hold? The cuts, of course - the universal whipping boy of the media. Climate change, naturally. But one key factor has been larg e l y ignored. Our rivers have not been dredged properly for over 15 years. Selective dredging, particularly in and downstream of towns and cities, lets rivers hold more water and flow faster. A deep and fast-flowing river takes water out of a town or city quickly, giving flood defences an easier job. The lack of dredging was eventually revealed as a major cause of the extensive flooding in the Somerset Levels in The Environment Agency was following an EU directive that positively encouraged flooding, in order to create wetlands for wildlife, and aimed to return rivers to their natural state. It ignored the needs of both farming and local businesses. The EU has deprived us of an important element of our flood controls. The EU Rejects Common Sense and Long Experience - The Environment Agency was set up in 1997 and the European Water Framework Directive was incorporated into British law in Between them they completely reversed a flood control approach that had been used successfully for hundreds of years. Dredging was the main target. It was stopped completely on major rivers and starved of funds elsewhere. A further handicap was to classify sand and gravel removed from rivers as hazardous waste, requiring expensive specialist disposal. As usual, Ken Worthy bureaucracy worked in devious ways to get where it wanted. The focus was totally on wildlife habitats, with the needs of local people, farms and businesses ignored. The Somerset Levels was actually designated as an area of wetland - flooding was positively encouraged, and mandatory national targets set. Despite official denials and expert advice, this was eventually revealed, in particular by Richard North and Christopher Booker. The Government had to act. The EU directive which apparently banned the government from dredging was somehow ignored, five miles of the Parrett and Tone rivers were dredged, and as a result flood levels dropped much faster than they had in previous years. A new approach was promised, and the Environment Agency heavily criticised by Government. No Lessons Learned - N o t h i n g Happened, no funds allocated. Philip Walling, author and former farmer, revealed that the new approach was remarkably like the old one. Could it have been designed by the Environment Agency? The EU s European Water Framework Directive, suitably reinforced, still directs our flood control policies, and the Environment Agency continues its feud against dredging. It throws up the same pseudo-scientific smoke-screen as before. Dredging is not the answer, they claim, supported by a host of well-briefed environmental activists. They are keen to protect wildlife, much of which drowns in the subsequent floods. As part of a carefully developed and maintained system of river and flood control, dredging worked for hundreds of years, systematically improving the welfare of local people. It also worked in the Somerset Levels in By itself, it wouldn t have prevented the flooding in the North. But properly dredged rivers, flowing freely as they had done for hundreds of years, would have got rid of a lot of water and made the task of flood control much easier. The Wider Lesson for Britain - The lessons go much wider than flood control. The EU s baleful influence here is just one example of how much the EU controls our lives. How badly, too. EU aims and policies are unrealistic. They are developed in isolation by unelected bureaucrats, devoid of common sense and any real understanding of how business, farming or anything else works. That is how the EU extends its influence - by swathing everything it can in layer upon layer of complex regulation, which in its turn is gold-plated by our own bureaucrats. It used to be the gentleman in Whitehall who was said to know best. Now it is the oldfashioned Brussels bureaucrat, convinced that more EU control is the answer to every problem. Their total failure to handle the problems of the 21st century has taught them nothing. More Europe, more control, is always their answer. They never see that their grand solutions - the Schengen Area, the Euro, and pretty well everything else they do - create massive problems rather than solving them. We need to be rid of them. We need to control our own affairs, like real countries do. INSIDE: More information on Brexit groups p 2 Book Review A Life Most Ordinary p 3 - The constant fear factor being used on the UK citizens p 3 Exports of services: a British success story - especially outside the EU p 4 - What is the future for the UK inside the EU? p 5 Letters p 6 VOL 21 NO 6

2 More information on Brexit groups According to the Vote Leave campaigning org a n i s a t i o n s web site the reason they wish to leave the EU is because: Technological and economic forces are changing the world fast. EU institutions cannot cope. We have lost control of vital policies. This is damaging. We need a new relationship. What happens if we vote leave? We should negotiate a new UK-EU deal based on free trade and friendly cooperation. We end the supremacy of EU law. We regain control. We stop sending 350 million every week to Brussels and instead spend it on our priorities, like the NHS and science research. We regain our seats on international institutions like the World Tr a d e O rganisation so we are a more influential force for free trade and international cooperation. A vote to leave and a better, friendlier relationship with the EU is much safer than giving Brussels more power and money every year. They go on to say: This campaign cannot be won from a London headquarters. It will be won by building an unprecedented decentralised national movement. We are building a national network combining traditional grassroots with new technology. We are working with many organisations and people. For example, Business for Britain who represent over 1,000 business leaders. Labour Leave, is the Labour campaign for a leave vote. Conservatives for Britain who support David Cameron s attempt to negotiate a fundamentally different relationship with the EU and supports the creation of a professional, crossparty campaign that can fight the referendum if the EU fails to allow fundamental change. All three organisations are helping Vote Leave build a new national campaign. There are many other groups working on this issue and we will do all we can to help coordinate efforts and empower people locally. We have the support of many leading business-people such as John Caudwell, entrepreneur and philanthropist; Joe Foster, Founder, Reebok; Michael Freeman, Co- Founder, Argent Group; Christopher Foyle, Chairman, Foyles & Noved Investment Group; Oliver Hemsley, CEO, Numis Securities; A l e x a n d e r Hoare, Managing Partner, C. Hoare & Co; Luke Johnson, Chairman, Patisserie Valerie; Lord Kalms, cofounder of Business for Sterling; Crispin Odey, Founding Partner, Odey Asset Management. Vote Leave is supported by a Business Board made up of the current members of Business for Britain s Board: Neville Baxter, Director, RH Development; Alan Halsall, former Chairman, Silver Cross; Robert Hiscox, Honorary President, Hiscox Insurance; Daniel Hodson, former Chief Executive, LIFFE; John Hoerner, former Chief Executive of Central European Clothing, Te s c o ; Brian Kingham, Founder, Reliance Security Group; and Jon Moynihan, former Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group. We have established a cross-party Parliamentary Planning Committee to liaise with senior MPs. This group includes Steve Baker (Co-Chairman, Conservatives for Britain); Douglas Carswell (UKIP); Kate Hoey (Co- Chair, Labour Leave); Kelvin Hopkins (L); Bernard Jenkin (C); Owen Paterson (C); and Graham Stringer (L). We will be making further announcements soon about supporters and about the structure of the campaign, including directors and a compliance committee. This is relevant to the Electoral Commission and the official designation process. We have instituted a strict salary cap of 99,000 so those giving money to the campaign know that the money is going to the campaign - not to huge six figure salaries - and they also know the differential between those at the top and bottom is no more than a factor of about 4-5. (voteleavetakecontrol.org) The new cross party organisation involved in the fight to get the UK out of the EU is called GrassRootsOut, under the slogan GO. According to the GrassRootsOut organisations web site: They are made up from a significant number of politicians from across the political divide, including Conservative, Labour and DUP Members of Parliament, UKIP MEPs and Councillors from across the country. S o, G O, rather than setting up another out campaign, does the reverse. It brings together existing leave campaigns and gets them to work as one in local areas. A n organisation that unites people from all political persuasions, and none, into one effective anti-eu campaign. There will be a constituency by constituency plan and strategy which will concentrate heavily on voter identification. A single campaigning unit will be working to a purpose and will be well organised. We will be rolling the GO campaign out across the country across the next few weeks and months. The national launch of GO took place on Saturday, 23rd January in Kettering, Northamptonshire, with speakers from the Conservative Party, Labour, UKIP and the DUP. The launch campaign attracted around 2,000 people to its first public meeting chaired by Margot Parker, UKIP MEP for the East Midlands, with Peter Bone, Conservative Member of Parliament for Wellingborough, Kate Hoey, Labour Member of Parliament for Vauxhall, Tom Pursglove, Conservative Member of Parliament for Corby & East Northamptonshire, Philip Hollobone, Conservative Member of Parliament for Kettering, Sammy Wilson, DUP Member of Parliament for East Antrim, and UKIP Leader, Nigel Farage MEP, all taking part. ( PAGE 2 eurofacts 12TH FEBRUARY 2016

3 This book by a UKIP activist, explores his life and the changes that have taken place especially in his native town of Slough. He covers a period of over sixty years, incorporating his slow awakening to the way that membership of the European Union has transformed his and the British way of life. Ken Wight then goes on to show why and how Mrs Thatcher s Bruges speech of September 1988, inspired him to think of the bigger picture about what and how EU membership was adversely affecting the lives of the citizens of the UK. In 2004 during the run-up to the European elections after reading literature from UKIP and attending a public meeting, he finally became The constant fear factor being used on the UK citizens On the 18th January 2016, the independent Labour Peer, Lord Stoddart of Swindon has rounded on Tory MP Nick Herbert for his quite ridiculous use of language and for trying to scare people into voting to stay in the EU, in the forthcoming referendum. Mr Herbert has described leaving the EU as a jump into a void. Lord Stoddart said: It is a quite ridiculous language use of language, designed to scare people. A void is nothingness. The truth is that by leaving the EU, the United Kingdom would be taking a bold step forward into the real world, by retrieving our right to govern ourselves unhampered by decisions taken by 27 unelected officials from other countries, most of which are inimical and unsuitable to the status and interests of the UK. This much needed freedom would enable us to trade on a worldwide basis, rather than on terms dictated by Brussels. BOOK REVIEW What happened to my life? Derek Stirling A Life Most Ordinary by Ken Wight June Press Pbk 177 pp 2016 Available from The June Press Price % p&p (see back cover) ISBN motivated and decided to join UKIP. After becoming actively involved delivering material and canvassing for UKIP, he stood for the party in his first Parliamentary election in Following this he was asked to join the Maidenhead branch and was The only void would be in respect of the immediate cessation of our net annual payment of 10 billion and rising to Brussels, which could then be used to put funds back into our much neglected public services and give aid to industry and agriculture. In my view, staying in the costly, incompetent, chaotic and corrupt EU is the biggest leap into darkness imaginable. On the 22nd January 2016, the Prime Minister, David Cameron has come under fire from Lord Stoddart of Swindon, over his contradictory tactics in Davos. Lord Stoddart said: How can we give any credence to a Prime Minister who one day says Trust the people with the European Union membership referendum but then at Davos appeals to international financiers and multinational industries to help him make the case to stay in, if he achieves the minor concessions he immediately selected to be their Parliamentary Candidate. In 2012 after realizing that Slough did not have a functioning branch he set one up recording a number of success. His experiences will be familiar to many especially those who feel they do not like the future direction of the UK and feel that something must be done to preserve the British way of life. He shows how the efforts of one man or woman when directed positively can actually achieve change, albeit gradual, and give hope to all those who do not want to be absorbed into an undemocratic organization like the EU whose aims and objectives do not sit comfortably with the UK voters. The EU appears to be trying to become a superpower like the former USSR. has so meekly demanded? C o m i c a l l y, the EU countries at Davos are wringing their hands about the dire consequences for the EU and the United Kingdom if our country decides to leave. We know that the EU would suffer from UK withdrawal because it has treated Britain as a milch cow for more than 40 years. In the process, it has crippled some of our great industries through overregulation and prevented our own governments giving early aid to ailing industries, without its permission. Freed from paying billions of pounds every year to the EU coffers to subsidise our competitors and no longer subject to bureaucratic impositions from the unelected European Commission, our country would be able to thrive in the wider world and our young people could then look forward to happy and successful futures in an independent, democratic country, of which they could be justly proud. eurofacts 12TH FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 3

4 Exports of services: a British success story - especially outside the EU Extract of Global Britain Briefing No 111 dated 22nd January 2016 Export growth faster in services than in goods. (Table 1, below) The ten-year period straddled the global financial crisis which began in During those ten-years UK exports of services grew fifty-two per cent faster - at 6.7 per cent than UK exports of goods. In 2014, the value of UK services exports worldwide ( billion) was almost three-quarters of the value of UK goods exports worldwide ( billion). Table 1: UK Export Growth to World by Type of Exports: bn Type Value in 2004 Value in 1014 Av. Annualised growth Services % Goods % 1) Annual average compounded over 10 years In the ten-year period , British exports of services to the EU grew at a respectable average rate of 5.8% per year. (Table 2, below) At the same time British exports of services to the Rest of the Wo r l d (RoW) grew 26% faster, at an average rate of 7.3% per year. Meanwhile, the value of British exports of services outside the EU was 70% greater than the value of British exports to the EU in Table 2: Growth 1 in UK Services Exports: EU versus RoW: : bn Destination Value in 2004 Value in 2014 Av. Annualised Growth To Rest of World % To EU % To World % 1) Annual average compounded over 10 years By category of services in the period , the biggest by export value was Financial (Table 3, below) while the fastest growing, at an annual average rate of almost 10%, was Insurance and Pension Services. Travel includes expenditure by non-residents on holidays and business trips in the UK. Transport includes the cost of shipments of cargo by air, sea and land. Table 3: Growth 1 in UK Services Exports by Category: : bn Category Value in 2004 Value in 2014 Av. Annualised Growth Financial % Travel % Transport % Insurance & pension services % Telecoms, computer & information services % Other services % Totals: World % 1) Annual average compounded over 10 years Rate of growth in imports of services lower than rate of growth in exports of services On the Import side during the same period (Table 4, on the page opposite) expenditure by UK residents on overseas holidays is included in the Travel category. PAGE 4 eurofacts 12TH FEBRUARY 2016

5 Exports of services: a British success story - especially outside the EU Extract of Global Britain Briefing No 111 dated 22nd January 2016 Table 4: Growth 1 in UK Services Imports by Category: : bn Category Value in 2004 Value in 2014 Av. Annualised Growth Financial % Travel % Transport % Insurance & pension services negative Telecoms, computer & information services From Table 5, listing the balances - the differences between the values of exports and imports - shows that in aggregate the UK services sector more The real question should be not if the UK leaves the EU but what will happen should we remain? The EU is intent on further enlargement, with enlargement goes the reduction of any so-called influence the UK parliament has over the direction and implications of EU membership. At the same time the EU will be offering finance to new members in order for them to be % Other services % Totals: World % 1) Annual average compounded over 10 years than tripled its surplus with the rest of the world between 2004 and 2014, from 26.8 billion to 89.1 billion. Only the Travel category still integrated totally into the EU empire. This will result in the requirement of further funds from the hard pressed UK taxpayers. As new members are obliged to get into line and join the euro, no matter what the EU announces publicly it will have to favour those inside the eurozone and will constantly push those few members outside the recorded a balance of payments deficit in 2014, of 10.1 billion, but significantly smaller than that recorded ten years earlier. Table 5: Balances on UK Trade in Services by Category: : bn Category Value in 2004 Value in 2014 Financial Travel (16.5) (10.1) Transport (1.2) +7.3 Insurance + pension services Telecoms, computer & info services Other services Totals: World means UK surplus; ( ) means UK deficit Source: The Pink Book 2015, 30th October 2015: of Payments> The Pink Book 2015> PinkBook2015detailedGeographicalDatapdf. >Tables 3.1,9.1,9.2,9.4 and 9.5. From which the statistical data summarised in this Global Britain Briefing Note is extracted. ( What is future for the UK inside the EU? eurozone to join. The present force behind the EU is clearly that of Angela Merkel who like her predecessors is determined to act for the greater good of Germany and its influence over the direction and speed of travel of the EU project. The UK government has already agreed to enlargement so buyer be ware! eurofacts 12TH FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 5

6 LETTERS Tel: Brexit, good for farmers! In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the agricultural industry and farmers will be vital in the EU Referendum. Yet those associated with Brexit are almost totally orientated to London and the South of England and ignore this vital section of electors in the above three states in the UK. Farmers are being subjected to a scare mongering campaign i.e. Brexit will result in the loss of all CAP payments and of course this is true. But it is never told to farmers that Brexit would mean that no longer would the UK be making an annual contribution of 20 billion per annum to the EU and that therefore the UK Treasury would have available funds to make even greater payments to our agriculture industry than farmers presently get from the CAP. LORD KILCLOONEY Former MEP Armagh City Protection Ken Worthy s letter, in your December 2015 issue, is flawed and needs to be corrected. First he suggests the main parties are split on the EU but overlooks the history of MPs always in the end putting their party above the country. Second he has clearly not yet grasped what Cameron s game plan is which involves offering us his British M o d e l which is Associate Membership by another name. All the signs are there that the EU is currently working towards two classes of EU membership the existing relationship re-banded as an outer ring of Associate Members and an inner core of Euro countries whose leaders seek further integration. The offer of Associate Membership is of course a slight of hand but I feel sure will be enough to convince Tory Eurosceptics to support Cameron to help ensure they win the next election in Third Gerard Batten s book takes no account of the complexities of 40 years of integration into the EU and our increasing involvement in trading rules and regulations imposed on us from world bodies. Anybody who seriously believes we can simply walk away from the EU and negotiate ourselves back into a trading relationship does not understand how the trading world we now live in works. Finally he believes a second referendum would be a disaster but given that Associate Membership will need a treaty change sometime after 2017 this country will be faced with another referendum as a result of our current treaty lock legislation. Ken Worthy s assumptions are not only wrong but dangerous as they distract us form Cameron s plans and allow him a free run. If we are to win this referendum we have to identify Cameron as the enemy and undermine him and his British Model which he will claim as his own. NIALL WARRY Somerset Who represents UK voters? David Cameron is trying to enlist the help of business to promote the in campaign. All the talk about jobs and business and exports is irrelevant. The vote should be a simple one - do the people of the United Kingdom want to be governed by 650 democratically elected representatives in Parliament or by a bunch of self-appointed clerks in Brussels? JOHN COOKE Gilsland Brexit, leader found! Is this the Brexit leader we are looking for? In the run up to the 8 o clock weather on the BBC Today programme on Radio 4 Friday 22nd January 2016, John Humphrys was interviewing Michael Caine, who will be celebrating his 83rd birthday in March. T h e interview as expected started by discussing Caine s new film. Towards the end John asked Michael what he thought about the forthcoming referendum? Michael said that he wasn t particularly interested in politics and reckoned he was middle of the road but said he found it quite unacceptable that we should be governed by unelected, unaccountable, faceless bureaucrats. After a pause, he said yes, he would definitely be voting to come out. The country would be very much better off. Remember they sell far more to us than we sell to them. So economically we would benefit. Another slight pause and then, I will definitely be voting to leave. He then went on to say, in his long life he had experienced every condition you could imagine from being dirt poor, working on the shop floor, and doing any job to earn a living, to eventually becoming a millionaire. Is this not just the charismatic, non political figure we need to head up the OUT campaign? Voters of all parties would be impressed by him. MRS WOODHOUSE Surrey EU trickery David Cameron is trying to convince the UK that he has won the permission from the EU to protect the UK, but has he? The UK taxpayers will still have to give large sums of money into the EU machine, EU citizens will still have open access, no matter how large the EU becomes! and further regulations and directives will occur under the existing treaty obligations. The UK will still be subjected to Qualified Majority Voting! SALLY MITCHELL Gloucestershire PAGE 6 eurofacts 12TH FEBRUARY 2016

7 UK Independence Party Saturday 27th February, 9.00 am Numerous speakers including Nigel Farage MEP NATIONAL CONFERENCE Llandudno, Wales Admission 30 Gresham College Tuesday 1st March, pm Are You Interested Or Discounted? Long-term Social Finance This conference will examine the implications of discount rates on society s long-term decisions such as health, education, infrastructure and the environment. Supported by the Z/Yen Group THE LONG FINANCE SPRING CONFERENCE Museum of London, London Wa l l, London EC2 Admission Free (Reservations Required) UK Independence Party Saturday 5th March, 9.00 am Speakers include: Stuart Agnew MEP Steve Crowther, Party Chairman William Dartmouth MEP Roger Helmer MEP Nigel Farage MEP Ray Finch MEP Nathan Gill MEP Diane James MEP Rupert Matthews, BOO Paul Nuttall MEP Dr Julia Reid MEP Simon Richards, Freedom Association Numerous speakers SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE Thornbury Leisure and Conference Centre, South Gloucestershire BS35 3JB Admission 25 EU Summit UK Budget UK Parliament Easter Recess Starts UK Parliament Easter Recess Ends Slovakia takes over EU Council Presidency 2017 MEETINGS Vote Leave voteleavetakecontrol.org A number of Street Stalls up and down the country. PLUS The Great European Question debate Friday 11th March, 7.00 pm PUBLIC MEETING Neath Town Hall, Neath, Wales Admission Free The Freedom Association Friday 11th March, 2016 until - Sunday 13th March The Freedom Festival A series of talks about the big political issues including a questions and answers session Full range of Speakers FREEDOM FESTIVAL Marsham Court Hotel, 3 Russell-Cotes Road, East Cliff, Bournemouth BH1 3AB Admission Free DIARY OF EVENTS Malta takes over EU Council Presidency UK takes over EU Council Presidency 19th February 16th March 24th March 11th April 1st July 1st January 1st July USEFUL WEB SITES British Constitution Group British Weights & Measures Assoc. Bruges Group Campaign Against Euro-Federalism Campaign for an Independent Britain Gonservatives for Britain Democracy Movement English Constitution Group EU Observer EU Truth European Commission (London) European Foundation EU Referendum Campaign Freedom Association Futurus Global Britain Global Vision GrassRootsOut June Press (Publications) Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign Labour for a Referendum Leave.eu New Alliance Open Europe Sovereignty Statewatch Team The Taxpayers Alliance United Kingdom Independence Party Vote Leave eurofacts 12TH FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 7

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