14 July 2010
Womens Committee
Debate
A Charter for Discrimination - Nikki Sinclaire MEP slams
the European Parliament.
The European Parliament insults all women with its call today for "positive
discrimination", according to Nikki Sinclaire MEP.
"
They sat there complaining that women could not make it in politics
without positive discrimination, and even claimed that women are unable
to acheive success in businesses such as professional football" said
Nikki. "I reminded them of Maggie Thatcher and Karen Brady,
but it appears that they will not let reality get in the way
of an opportunity
for a raft of new legislation"
Two reports were debated today by the Women's Rights Committee
of the European Parliament. The Committee is calling for positive
discrimination
which it believes is necessary to encourage women, and to facilitate
greater progress. "Rather bizarrely" Says Nikki "the
same report that calls for positive discrimination for women,
also supports a new anti-discrimination directive from the European
Commission.
The scary thing is that all this is likely to lead to even more
new and uneccessary laws, which we will all have to abide by."
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21st June
2010
Human rights debate
"Mr President,
as the rapporteur points out, under the terms of the United Nations
Charter every Member State has a responsibility to ensure that respect
for human rights is universal. The European Convention on Human Rights,
however, seems to think differently, as it bestows special rights on
some at the expense of others. The special rights, for example, bestowed
on travellers have meant that in the UK, in my own West Midlands constituency,
local people have seen their own rights eroded.
With the protection of the Convention, so-called travellers can build on land
that our people have nurtured and set aside for future generations to enjoy.
This is known as greenbelt land. With the protection of the Convention, travellers
enjoy special privileges in health care and education, services built up at great
expenses by successive generations.
In my local community, citizens are mounting 24-hour vigils in wind and rain
in order to ensure that travellers comply with legal obligations. They are prepared
to lie down in the road at great personal risk in order to stop convoys of lorries
from delivering concrete and asphalt. These are hardworking, law-abiding citizens
who only want to protect their own rights and those of their families. Thanks
to the Convention, we now have to fight for those rights in the fields and lanes
of rural England.
I agree with the rapporteur.
We must pay tribute to the defenders of human rights wherever they may
be, in Iran, in Gaza, in Cyprus -- or, thanks to the Convention, in the
English countryside. This may seem trivial when compared to the plight
of so many people in the world, but the point I am trying to make is
that human rights are in danger everywhere; rights that were so hard
fought in our own land are as precious to us as they are to anyone else."
19th June 2010
Translation of criminal proceedings
Nikki votes against the EU
"You are not a country"
Mr President,
I voted against this report, not because I do not believe in translation
of criminal proceedings - it is of course
very important that there is correct interpretation and translation in
these proceedings. However, what this actually does is purport to add
greater competence under the ECHR. The United Kingdom is already a signatory
under the ECHR and it was incorporated into our law in 1998, as it is,
I believe, across the European Union.
What we need to ask ourselves is why the European Union is going down
this road. I believe it is going down this road -- and I think we all
know why it is going down this road -- because this is another step on
the road to statehood. That is why I voted against this. National governments
must make these decisions. It is not for you: you are not a country.
How many times do we have to say this?
18th May
2010
Nikki fights for the rights of Meriden and Hatton residents
Local residents are up in arms about recent invasions by travellers
of Green Belt Land
"Madam President, the rapporteur states in his report that the accession to the
ECHR will afford citizens protection against the actions of the Union. I would
be far more interested in protecting the residents of my constituency, the West
Midlands in the UK, against the action of the Convention on Human Rights.
Of course in the UK we incorporated this into our law in 1998, allowing the ECHR
to have effect in all our courts. In the manifesto of the new Conservative Government
it was promised that they would repeal the Human Rights Act but, as they should
have known, Lisbon made the EU a legal entity and the EU has greater powers than
the electorate of the United Kingdom. We are reminded of George Orwell. The writing
is on the wall and, as we know, some people are more equal than others when it
comes to human rights.
Earlier this month, my constituents in Meriden and Hatton suffered invasions
by so-called ‘travellers’, who have broken the peace and who are
building unauthorised and possibly illegal developments on what little remains
of our precious green-belt land. Thanks to the Convention on Human Rights,
these travellers have special protected rights. They have priority in health
care and
education, all at the expense of local taxpayers!
The rapporteur wants us to involve our national courts and ministries of justice
in this process. I say that the Convention on Human Rights has done enough damage
already. Perhaps the rapporteur would like to visit my constituency and witness
at first hand the desecration of our land. Perhaps he would like to speak to
the hardworking villagers who have seen the value of their homes plummet. He
can inspect the lines of police drafted in to keep the peace and of course preserve
the special rights of the travellers. He could even enjoy the spectacle of 90
lorries laden with gravel churning up the country lanes where parents walk with
their children. He might help residents as they rush to install security equipment
in anticipation of the surge in criminal activity that often accompanies such
developments.
Of course these are but small tragedies and are nothing when compared to the
important political project that is the European Union, but let us consider that
when we propose special rights on one group of citizens we automatically degrade
the rights of others.
The Convention on Human Rights has degraded the rights of my constituents. It
should not be up to unelected officials to decide who is special and who is not.
We have a newly elected government in the UK which has made promises in this
area. In the name of democracy let them carry out those promises!"
25th March
2010
Nikki Highlights
Criminal Elements of EFD group and European Parliament
and Slams EU Hypocrisy
24th March
2010
Nikki sticks up for the Countryside and the Greenbelt
16th March
2010
Tells the EU Parliament to Practice what you preach
in a debate on Violence on Women
10th March
2010
Nikki speaks to the European Parliament
"NATO kept the peace
in Europe not the EU"
23 February 2010
Nikki Sinclaire addresses The Women's Rights and Gender Equality
Committee of the
European Parliament
Wednesday,
16 December 2009
Strasbourg Speech to Euro Parliament in debates
"
Madam
President, I had the pleasure a few weeks ago of meeting some of
the UK returning
forces from Afghanistan and I heard the same story over and over
again that they were ill-equipped. Yet the UK pays GBP 45 million
a day into
this corrupt institution. Some of that money could be better spent
in arming our forces in Afghanistan, forces that actually train
the Afghan
police force, etc.
It is quite right, as some of you have said; this is an important area
in the world and an important area that we may need to make progress
in.
My problem is with the lack of experience of our High Representative
for Foreign Affairs, Cathy pass-the-bucket Ashton, with more than
a few roubles in it, no doubt. We need someone more experienced.
She
has not
had any Foreign Office experience; she has not been a foreign secretary
and I do not think she even had a part-time job in a travel agents’.
Come on! This is a delicate job; a job that needs to change things
for the better and she is simply not experienced enough."
Wednesday,
25 November 2009
Strasbourg Point of order
Thursday, 19
November 2009
Peterbourough, Leadership Hustings
Monday, 19
October 2009
Strasbourg, Speech to Europarliament in debates
"Nicole Sinclaire
(EFD ). - Mr President, I always thought being an MEP was a waste of
time, but this really takes the biscuit here this evening. We are here
talking about something that does not really matter, because the Lisbon
Treaty – which you know you have bullied your way through – is
going to come into force within the next month or so and we are going
to have to debate this again. So here we are, wasting our time, thank
you very, very much.
Let us take a critical look at the Schengen Agreement and what that has actually
meant for Europe: it has allowed criminals, people traffickers and drug dealers
to travel across thousands of miles unchecked; it has allowed camps such as
Sangatte and the Jungle to develop on the other side of the English Channel,
with people living in deplorable conditions. I hope you are proud of yourself.
You would be aware of the 1951 Convention on Refugees that says that a refugee
should claim asylum in the first safe country – but you disregard that.
You disregard international law and you purport to be a responsible legal personality,
as Lisbon would make you. Come on, pull the other one: this place is a joke!
The people of the United Kingdom want to control its own borders; it has had
enough of being ruled by you. I leave you with this warning: the British people
are a just, tolerant and trusting people, but when you push us too far, we
fight back. And when we fight back, we win."
On Friday 4th September 2009
Speech to UKIP Party Conference by Nikki Sinclaire MEP
" It is
a privilege to be one of the two UKIP MEPs representing the counties
of the West Midlands.
We achieved UKIPs highest vote increase last June, coming first in three council
areas. This is a significant success, and I pay tribute to the hard working
UKIP volunteers.
I will do my best to repay your efforts.
The West Midlands is the home to so much of Britain’s creative and scientific
genius – the birthplace of the industrial revolution and of such historical
giants as Elgar, Darwin, Shakespeare and Ozzy Osbourne! It has a population
of 5.2 million people, and stretches from Herefordshire in the South to Staffordshire
in the north, encompassing the metropolitan area of the West Midlands, Shropshire,
Warwickshire and Worcestershire. It has proud traditions and a great people.
The EU has had a very negative affect on these people – manufacturing,
such as the iconic HP sauce factory, lies in ruins and rubble. Jobs moved to
the continent.
The car industry is a pale shadow of its former glory – plants like Ryton
have been transferred to Slovakia with the help of EU funding, yet our government
was powerless to bail out Rover due to EU trade rules, which put thousands
on the dole queue.
Agriculture has also been adversely affected – tied by the bureaucratic
hands of the Common Agricultural Policy. Our dairy farmers closed due to unfair
and unrealistic quotas.
Three months ago a significant number of the people in the West Midlands took
the opportunity to say ‘NO’ to the EU, ‘NO’ to unelected
bureaucrats making 75% of our laws, and ‘NO’ to the EU taking £40
million a day, £40 million pounds better spent on our schools, hospitals
and on OUR infrastructure.
In the West Midlands we are ready to fight a General Election in every constituency.
To build, on our first places in Stoke, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Dudley. Between
now and the election we will distribute more than a half a million newspapers.
We will be giving our all the send MPs to Westminster to keep Nigel Farage
company.
I have been involved with UKIP for 15 years. In this time the party has grown
and can take great credit for changing attitudes to the EU, by reporting the
reality and exposing its lies. Not to mention the duplicity of the LibLabCon.
The activists of this party can take great satisfaction from the fact that
even according to the Brussels Broadcasting Company the majority in this nation
want to leave the EU.
My first loyalty is to our country and to its independence – this is
the cause we all share.
I fully appreciate that I owe my position to the ordinary members of the party
who elected me to represent them. I understand that loyalty is a two way street
and it is my turn to repay them and today I recommit to that promise.
In 1998, I attended the Party Conference that changed our policy in sending
MEPs to Brussels. I attended that day to vote against but after listening to
the arguments and the assurances - I voted in favour.
I still believe we made the right decision I also recommit to those aims and
assurances of that Conference.
Rule from Brussels is unacceptable in any form - to the people of our party,
and to an ever-growing majority of people in this country.
I therefore see my role in Brussels as to make the bureaucrats’ life
as difficult as possible – to rub their noses in their mess as often
as possible. To report back on their fanaticism – to utilise the resources
open to me to the best of my ability for the best use of UKIP.
We may have had no choice but to supp with the devil by taking seats at his
table. However, at that table it must never be forgotten that our aim is unequivocal
withdrawal from the EU.
Compromise is not and must never be an option.
These are not just words but my principles.
So today I am going to put my money where my mouth is – in the next 12
months I will donate at least a third of my net salary to the campaign in the
West Midlands.
I also believe we need to invest in our future and Young Independence is our
future. Congratulations to Lisa Duffy and all those at Young Independence for
the strides they have made. To assist them I will be donating to their campaign.
Further, I will not be forgetting our friends in Scotland and the North East
who continue to grow in strength.
The management of our money is important. All my staff are managed and paid
directly by a chartered accountant. I never see a penny of that money. Each
year my office allowances will be audited and a certificate produced.
We British are a trusting people, but this trust has been abused. History has
shown that when we are pushed too far, we will fight back, and that when we
fight back, we win.
We must galvanise this fighting spirit, to lead our people to that independence
that will be our victory."
