mkpdavies

They had a load of cardboard cutouts of the clowns, I mean EU leaders with their fingers ing their ears.

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tito

UKIP had an inflatable tank.

Britannist

I've just had the BBC 1 Television news on and saw the 'Open Europe' cardboard cut outs of the leaders of the Governments of EU nations.

The cardboard images - showing Blair and others putting their fingers in their ears so they can't hear the people speaking - looked good, I thought.

I shall check the national newspapers tomorrow to see how many of them show pictures of these clever cardboard images.

* They have just shown them all again on BBC 2 Television Newsnight and described them as "a stunt by a British eurosceptic group". They did not name the group (Open Europe) but are now interviewing Derek Scott (formerly a Downing Street man during some of the Blair years). They have - unusually - not put his name up on the bottom of the screen; nor stated in writing (on the bottom of the screen) which organisation he is from (Open Europe). The reporter is David Grossman.

mkpdavies

Newspapers suck. We have the web

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There's more on the EU Constitution version 2 and this week's EU Summit at:

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http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/view...=21126&start=0

steve fowler

the EU bosses are shooting themselves in the foot by saying thinks about the other countrys in the eu for refusing the so called treaty!.

the secret nazis that they are! :twisted: .

kernow

http://www.ukip.org/ukip_news/gen12.php?t=1&id=3079
UKIP
Brussels bulldozes peaceful protest
21-06-2007

The Bulldozer

Four MEPs were threatened with arrest today after Belgian police objected to a
peaceful protest outside the European Union summit.

Divisional Commander Pierre Vandernissen said he was "acting on instructions
from a higher authority" when he confiscated an inflatable bulldozer and
threatened to arrest MEPs Nigel Farage, John Whittaker, Derek Clark and Gerard
Batten. When questioned why he was doing it, he answered "because I have the
power" and refused to say whether or not it was politically motivated. "I don't
have to answer you" he said.

Part of the discussions over the new EU Treaty is the plan to decide Justice and
Home Affairs by Qualified Majority Voting and remove the veto which Britain
currently has.

The inflatable bulldozer was part of an 11,000 euro display by the Independence
and Democracy group attacking EU politicians for their secrecy over the treaty.
On it was written, 'Clearing the way for the EU constitution' and 'don't let
them bulldoze the treaty through'.

Within 20 minutes of the bulldozer being inflated, just yards from the entrance
to the European Council on the 'Zone of Free Expression', 35 policemen had
arrived, switched the generator off and parked their police vans to obscure the
view of the world's TV cameras which had been trained on the spot. The
inflatable was confiscated and will not be returned until the end of the summit,
if then.

The police commander told Mr Farage that "you will go to a cell for 12 hours and
then we will sort it out." He later threatened to arrest everyone in the area,
including civil servants and members of the press.

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage slammed the moves by police as "storm
trooper tactics."

"I have seen the future of Europe, and I don't like it." said Mr Farage. "It was
an outrageous response to what was intended to be a humorous counterpoint to the
debate over the future of the continent".

"We have protested all over Europe without a complaint from anybody. This is a
deliberate attempt to stifle any objection to the new EU treaty.

"Once again we have seen that the EU don't want to know about concerns people
may have. They can't accept that 'no' means 'no' which is why they are holding
discussions over this treaty in secret, and they are trying to sneak in parts of
the EU Constitution even though the French and Dutch voted against it.

"How Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats can want to hand over more
power to these people is, frankly, astonishing."

Britannist

This is not the first time I have read of the Belgian policy being - allegedly - less than friendly to anti-EU demonstrators. :evil:

And wasn't it the Belgian police who - several years ago - allegedly arrested the German journalist who was writing a report critical of someone who worked in an EU agency? :shock:

tito

I meant bulldozer, sorry!

Zak64

I think it was the journalist, Hans Martin Tillack who was arrested by Belgian Police after writing critical articles about Brussels beauracracy. If I recall correctly the grounds for his arrest was that he had in his possession documents which should not have left various offices. All a bit sinister.