Over 1000 Libertas leaders, members, volunteers, supporters and special guests are joining us tomorrow in Rome for our first Libertas convention.
From 11am CET (10am GMT) we'll be streaming the convention live on http://www.libertas.eu.
Libertas West Midlands candidates
These are your Libertas candidates for the West Midlands region:
Thursday 30 April 2009
Thursday 23 April 2009
EU Bureaucrats’ worst nightmare
Something is happening across Europe... For the first time in history, a group of ordinary citizens has grabbed the attention of the bureaucrats in Brussels.
Yesterday, we were attacked because we invited YOU – European people - to run as candidates in the European Election. Why would Brussels NOT want real people to be a part of the election? Because a movement of the people is their worst nightmare.
For too long, unelected bureaucrats - the same people who got us into this economic crisis - have been able to grab power and make decisions in back rooms, with no accountability and no vote by the people. Libertas puts an end to that. As Declan said, “We’re coming whether they like it or not.”
And, we are coming in big numbers. In the last few days, tens of thousands of you have signed our petition demanding a referendum on ANY new European Constitution or Treaty which transfers more power to Brussels. The people deserve a say.
But, the only way the people will get a say is with a grassroots movement demanding change. That’s why the most important thing you can do today is to grow our movement.
Please sign the petition and forward it on to all of your friends.
Click here to sign the petition.
The other 190 parties in the European Parliament don’t understand. They are content to take the people out of the process, relying on the same old politicians and the same old, tired ideas. They are happy for you to never even know the name of your local MEP or the 27 European Commissioners who make up to 80% of the laws affecting your life.
Libertas has a different approach…we are counting on YOU. If we continue to rely on hundreds of national parties with their own private, parochial and often petty political interests, we will NEVER change the status quo in Brussels. When you vote for any of these other parties, what you are really voting for is a weak Europe, a Europe that gives you no real say, and a continuation of the mess in Brussels.
Libertas began this movement because we believe that it’s time to take Europe back for the people. We stood up to the Brussels bureaucrats in Ireland and won… now our movement is spreading across Europe.
But there are only 42 days to go until the June election. What you do now really matters.
Please invite all of your friends to join our movement.
http://www.libertas.eu/spread-the-word
If you want a strong, democratic Europe that provides a real solution to the economic crisis; if you want a Europe where ONLY elected representatives make the laws; if you want a referendum on any Constitution; if you want to hold Brussels to account; if you want to renew the hope that we all had for Europe, then help build the first true party for Europe’s people. A party dedicated to openness, accountability, transparency and democracy.
If millions of us act together, as Europeans, we will create a new hope for the future – a Europe where Brussels is efficient, focused on creating jobs, restoring our economy and is accountable to the people.
There are millions of others like you who want a new Europe – they are your friends, your work colleagues, family members, neighbours, and members of your community and now we need you to get them to join our cause.
Our movement is in your hands. It will live or die based on what you do now.
Please email everyone in your contacts. Ask your friends. And get just one more person to join the movement today.
http://www.libertas.eu/spread-the-word
Thank you.
Yesterday, we were attacked because we invited YOU – European people - to run as candidates in the European Election. Why would Brussels NOT want real people to be a part of the election? Because a movement of the people is their worst nightmare.
For too long, unelected bureaucrats - the same people who got us into this economic crisis - have been able to grab power and make decisions in back rooms, with no accountability and no vote by the people. Libertas puts an end to that. As Declan said, “We’re coming whether they like it or not.”
And, we are coming in big numbers. In the last few days, tens of thousands of you have signed our petition demanding a referendum on ANY new European Constitution or Treaty which transfers more power to Brussels. The people deserve a say.
But, the only way the people will get a say is with a grassroots movement demanding change. That’s why the most important thing you can do today is to grow our movement.
Please sign the petition and forward it on to all of your friends.
Click here to sign the petition.
The other 190 parties in the European Parliament don’t understand. They are content to take the people out of the process, relying on the same old politicians and the same old, tired ideas. They are happy for you to never even know the name of your local MEP or the 27 European Commissioners who make up to 80% of the laws affecting your life.
Libertas has a different approach…we are counting on YOU. If we continue to rely on hundreds of national parties with their own private, parochial and often petty political interests, we will NEVER change the status quo in Brussels. When you vote for any of these other parties, what you are really voting for is a weak Europe, a Europe that gives you no real say, and a continuation of the mess in Brussels.
Libertas began this movement because we believe that it’s time to take Europe back for the people. We stood up to the Brussels bureaucrats in Ireland and won… now our movement is spreading across Europe.
But there are only 42 days to go until the June election. What you do now really matters.
Please invite all of your friends to join our movement.
http://www.libertas.eu/spread-the-word
If you want a strong, democratic Europe that provides a real solution to the economic crisis; if you want a Europe where ONLY elected representatives make the laws; if you want a referendum on any Constitution; if you want to hold Brussels to account; if you want to renew the hope that we all had for Europe, then help build the first true party for Europe’s people. A party dedicated to openness, accountability, transparency and democracy.
If millions of us act together, as Europeans, we will create a new hope for the future – a Europe where Brussels is efficient, focused on creating jobs, restoring our economy and is accountable to the people.
There are millions of others like you who want a new Europe – they are your friends, your work colleagues, family members, neighbours, and members of your community and now we need you to get them to join our cause.
Our movement is in your hands. It will live or die based on what you do now.
Please email everyone in your contacts. Ask your friends. And get just one more person to join the movement today.
http://www.libertas.eu/spread-the-word
Thank you.
Libertas launches Blogads campaign
Libertas’ innovative new media campaign has reached new heights following the launch of a “blogads” campaign.
The adverts, which link to the Libertas website will be EU-wide and on a variety of topics. The first will feature on some of the UK’s most influential and popular political blogs, including Guido Fawkes.
Libertas can now reach out to the millions of people that check these blogs every day, and offer them the chance to stand up to the unelected Brussels bureaucrats who are trying to take more power for the EU, bypassing the views of the people of Europe.
Robin Matthews, Libertas Party Leader in the UK says:
The adverts, which link to the Libertas website will be EU-wide and on a variety of topics. The first will feature on some of the UK’s most influential and popular political blogs, including Guido Fawkes.
Libertas can now reach out to the millions of people that check these blogs every day, and offer them the chance to stand up to the unelected Brussels bureaucrats who are trying to take more power for the EU, bypassing the views of the people of Europe.
Robin Matthews, Libertas Party Leader in the UK says:
"What this kind of innovative e-campaigning allows us to do is highlight exactly how badly all major national parties have let down British voters. It's not just that Labour have broken their promise to hold a referendum, or that the Tories are toothless and aimless in the face of Brussels. It is that their MEPs have gone totally native as well, voting themselves massive pay increases while British families go to the wall. It's time that somebody held them to account.''
Saturday 18 April 2009
Launch Date is set for Wednesday May 6th
I can now confirm that the official launch of Libertas' West Midlands candidate list will be made on the morning of Wednesday 6th May at a venue in central Birmingham. A number of venues are currently being held and a press release will be issued this week to the local media.
Robin Matthews, Libertas Party Leader in the UK will be a guest speaker and we hope to confirm another high profile speaker in the form of David Craig, the journalist who was written extensively on subjects such as the rampant extortion of Government departments by IT and other "strategy" consulting firms (he should know he used to work for one) as well as the orgy of excess being perpetrated daily in Brussels with public (i.e. taxpayers') money.
David's latest book covering this subject - "The Great European Rip-Off" - co-written with Matthew Elliott of the Taxpayers' Alliance was published recently and you can find out more by visiting his personal blog at www.snouts-in-the-trough.com
For more about the Taxpayers' Alliance activities in the West Midlands there's plenty to make your eyes water at The Taxpayers' Alliance West Midlands site
Robin Matthews, Libertas Party Leader in the UK will be a guest speaker and we hope to confirm another high profile speaker in the form of David Craig, the journalist who was written extensively on subjects such as the rampant extortion of Government departments by IT and other "strategy" consulting firms (he should know he used to work for one) as well as the orgy of excess being perpetrated daily in Brussels with public (i.e. taxpayers') money.
David's latest book covering this subject - "The Great European Rip-Off" - co-written with Matthew Elliott of the Taxpayers' Alliance was published recently and you can find out more by visiting his personal blog at www.snouts-in-the-trough.com
For more about the Taxpayers' Alliance activities in the West Midlands there's plenty to make your eyes water at The Taxpayers' Alliance West Midlands site
Sunday 5 April 2009
Tapping into the Obama effect
I honestly believe that 2009 will be a watershed year in politics everywhere - the election of Barack Obama last November in the US opened people's eye to what is possible using a genuinely democratic system, and the ensuing financial crisis has only reinforced that mood for change. US voters, many of them having never voted before, turned out in their millions to make sure a new administration was elected. They were not disappointed, and a new and very different America has undoubtedly been born.
Sadly those of us that wish to see genuine change in the European Union are unlikely to see anything even remotely similar. Quite the opposite in fact. Rather like in Zimbabwe, you get to vote but it makes no difference. The fact is that the destination of the European "project" has to a large degree already been decided and we are marching inexorably to a point where the pillars of national sovereignty and autonomous government are starting to crumble. Not just in the UK but all member states.
As I write this the entire political machinery of Brussels is geared towards ensuring that the Treaty of Lisbon is "acceptable" to the Irish people (yes the very same ones who rejected it last year) with a multi-million Euro marketing campaign (funded by us) to sweeten it up. Henry Ford, founder of the model T, would be proud of them - after all when it comes to a referendum as far as Brussels is concerned it seems you can give any answer you like, as long its yes.
I know its depressing but don't give up. For the very first time there is a chance to make serious and lasting changes to the way the EU operates. The West Midlands team is now taking shape and you will start to see the tangible effects of our campaign over the next six weeks
Libertas is committed to defeating the Treaty of Lisbon before it passes into law. This virtually incomprehensible legal document of some 3,000 pages (previously called the European Constitution), which has already been rejected three times by France, the Netherlands and Ireland, is still being railroaded onto some 480 million citizens - the majority of whom haven't been given any chance to vote on it, despite the fact the ones that have don't want it.
Libertas supports the European Union as a concept but we believe that major and wholesale reform of its structure, institutions and methodology is now essential. Far from weakening the EU (as some insiders claim) we will in fact strengthen it - lending it legitimacy and authority where all has now been lost.
Sadly those of us that wish to see genuine change in the European Union are unlikely to see anything even remotely similar. Quite the opposite in fact. Rather like in Zimbabwe, you get to vote but it makes no difference. The fact is that the destination of the European "project" has to a large degree already been decided and we are marching inexorably to a point where the pillars of national sovereignty and autonomous government are starting to crumble. Not just in the UK but all member states.
As I write this the entire political machinery of Brussels is geared towards ensuring that the Treaty of Lisbon is "acceptable" to the Irish people (yes the very same ones who rejected it last year) with a multi-million Euro marketing campaign (funded by us) to sweeten it up. Henry Ford, founder of the model T, would be proud of them - after all when it comes to a referendum as far as Brussels is concerned it seems you can give any answer you like, as long its yes.
I know its depressing but don't give up. For the very first time there is a chance to make serious and lasting changes to the way the EU operates. The West Midlands team is now taking shape and you will start to see the tangible effects of our campaign over the next six weeks
Libertas is committed to defeating the Treaty of Lisbon before it passes into law. This virtually incomprehensible legal document of some 3,000 pages (previously called the European Constitution), which has already been rejected three times by France, the Netherlands and Ireland, is still being railroaded onto some 480 million citizens - the majority of whom haven't been given any chance to vote on it, despite the fact the ones that have don't want it.
Libertas supports the European Union as a concept but we believe that major and wholesale reform of its structure, institutions and methodology is now essential. Far from weakening the EU (as some insiders claim) we will in fact strengthen it - lending it legitimacy and authority where all has now been lost.
Thursday 2 April 2009
Libertas is up and running in the West Midlands
I am delighted to announce that Libertas - the pan-European party aiming to reform the EU - is very much up and running in the West Midlands, and our official launch to the media is less than three weeks away. Monday April 20th is looking like the day and a confirmation on that will be out shortly.
If you're reading this the chances are you're already aware of Libertas and what it stands for in the forthcoming European elections - if you're not then please visit our new site at www.libertas.eu and register. We'll keep you up to date with a Newsletter about daily Libertas life and also some snippets from Brussels to keep you amazed with what takes place with your money and in your name.
Over the next few weeks we will be campaigning hard in the West Midlands to ensure that Libertas candidates are elected - not just in the UK but across the 27 member states of the EU. Its a massive task and we need armies of activists and supporters to help spread the word - there is no other way. We are also still inviting high quality candidates to step forward and join our West Midlands list.
We will be fighting actively on a number of EU issues that impact directly on the West Midlands - setting out our case clearly and concisely so that people can make up their own minds. At Libertas we are not afraid of political debate and will taking the established parties and their MEPs head on. Its time we shone a light into some dark places - for example:-
* Have the Tories really made any difference since three Conservative MEPs were elected from the West Midlands in 2004? Sure they and their 24 other UK colleagues all joined up with similar centre-right MEPs from other countries in the European People's Party (EPP), but even this great caucus of 288 MEPS failed to stop the heavily-defeated European Constitution being resurrected from the dead as the "frankenstein" Treaty of Lisbon, a piece of superstate-enabling legislation now being steamrollered into EU law.
If they couldn't stop it from within the EPP - the largest single political grouping in Brussels representing some 37% of the entire European Parliament - how on earth are they going to stop it once David Cameron pulls them out in June (as he has promised to do).
* Labour's record on Europe is almost too shameful to report. Having said that the blame for this actually lies at the door of No. 10 Downing Street not with the individual MEPs elected, who will no doubt dread being asked by their constituents why exactly the Referendum on the EU Constitution (which was promised as a cast-iron manifesto pledge in the 2004 European elections and the 2005 UK general election) was quietly dropped in time for Gordon Brown to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon in Dec. 2007.
Historians will look back at this decision as one of the most disgraceful democratic deceits of modern times: at Libertas we believe that voters will acknowledge this fact and will punish Labour for it accordingly on June 4th. Libertas insists that all countries (and especially this one) should consult their electorate on such a fundamental Treaty as this one.
* And lets not forget UKIP - as if we could ! UKIP really must now come clean and admit the appalling consequences for the West Midlands car industry (already on its knees) of withdrawal from the political EU - its cornerstone policy. It may only be 30 years since British Leyland represented the pinnacle of British car manufacturing, but the fact is that Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Ford, General Motors and other smaller manufacturers have all invested heavily in the UK since 1979 not despite our EEC/EC/EU membership, but of course because of it.
We will keeping our readers in the region up to speed with these and many other themes over the next few weeks as we ramp up our campaign.
If you are interested in helping, joining or supporting us please contact wm@libertas.eu.
If you're reading this the chances are you're already aware of Libertas and what it stands for in the forthcoming European elections - if you're not then please visit our new site at www.libertas.eu and register. We'll keep you up to date with a Newsletter about daily Libertas life and also some snippets from Brussels to keep you amazed with what takes place with your money and in your name.
Over the next few weeks we will be campaigning hard in the West Midlands to ensure that Libertas candidates are elected - not just in the UK but across the 27 member states of the EU. Its a massive task and we need armies of activists and supporters to help spread the word - there is no other way. We are also still inviting high quality candidates to step forward and join our West Midlands list.
We will be fighting actively on a number of EU issues that impact directly on the West Midlands - setting out our case clearly and concisely so that people can make up their own minds. At Libertas we are not afraid of political debate and will taking the established parties and their MEPs head on. Its time we shone a light into some dark places - for example:-
* Have the Tories really made any difference since three Conservative MEPs were elected from the West Midlands in 2004? Sure they and their 24 other UK colleagues all joined up with similar centre-right MEPs from other countries in the European People's Party (EPP), but even this great caucus of 288 MEPS failed to stop the heavily-defeated European Constitution being resurrected from the dead as the "frankenstein" Treaty of Lisbon, a piece of superstate-enabling legislation now being steamrollered into EU law.
If they couldn't stop it from within the EPP - the largest single political grouping in Brussels representing some 37% of the entire European Parliament - how on earth are they going to stop it once David Cameron pulls them out in June (as he has promised to do).
* Labour's record on Europe is almost too shameful to report. Having said that the blame for this actually lies at the door of No. 10 Downing Street not with the individual MEPs elected, who will no doubt dread being asked by their constituents why exactly the Referendum on the EU Constitution (which was promised as a cast-iron manifesto pledge in the 2004 European elections and the 2005 UK general election) was quietly dropped in time for Gordon Brown to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon in Dec. 2007.
Historians will look back at this decision as one of the most disgraceful democratic deceits of modern times: at Libertas we believe that voters will acknowledge this fact and will punish Labour for it accordingly on June 4th. Libertas insists that all countries (and especially this one) should consult their electorate on such a fundamental Treaty as this one.
* And lets not forget UKIP - as if we could ! UKIP really must now come clean and admit the appalling consequences for the West Midlands car industry (already on its knees) of withdrawal from the political EU - its cornerstone policy. It may only be 30 years since British Leyland represented the pinnacle of British car manufacturing, but the fact is that Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Ford, General Motors and other smaller manufacturers have all invested heavily in the UK since 1979 not despite our EEC/EC/EU membership, but of course because of it.
We will keeping our readers in the region up to speed with these and many other themes over the next few weeks as we ramp up our campaign.
If you are interested in helping, joining or supporting us please contact wm@libertas.eu.
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