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8/03/2010 - Enterprise
William speaks out on behalf of the unemployed across Europe and supports small businesses being the engine to create new jobs.  You can watch the full debate here.

8/03/2010 - Thank you
Mark Turner thanks William for his support in helping his son to be released from prison.

3/03/2010 - William Dartmouth wants the EAW to be scrapped
William has welcomed Mike Turners return to the UK and has called for "an immediate suspension of the European arrest warrant".

13/02/2010 - British Earl Becomes Patron Of Afghan Heroes
Supporting our troops in the Afghanistan conflict.

13/02/2010 - Doing time in Budapest
As of the 13th of February Mike and Jason have been locked up without trial for 114 days.

10/02/2010 - Naked EU
The sticking point of job destruction in the UK.

9/02/2010 - Tory Turkeys
The Tories support Turkish membership of the European Union.

2/02/2010 - The bigger picture
How big will the European superstate get? Sizing up the future of the European Union.

25/01/2010 - EU Justice
William Dartmouth travelled to a Budapest prison to witness EU 'justice' at first hand and the realties of being caught up by the European Union arrest warrant.

19/01/2010 - J'accuse
William names and shames the political suspects.

14/01/2010 - Square pegs and round holes
One size doesn't fit all

12/01/2010 - Non Je Ne Regrette Rien
Being a CND activist means never having to say your sorry.

15/12/2009 - Freedom of information
Public access to EU documents and openness in decision making.

15/12/2009 - Money to Burn
The EU spends money like there's no tomorrow.

25/11/2009 - European fault line
The cracks are beginning to show in European 'union'.

24/11/2009 - The Three Amigos
Bad EU trade deals hurt the UK economy and give succour to rogue states.

23/11/2009 - Letters of support for Mike and Jason
William was surrounded by armed police whilst attempting to hand in letters of support for Michael Turner and Jason McGoldrick to the Hungarian Authorities.

Mike and Jason

12/11/2009 - UK-Japan trade links
The world is an oyster, the EU is but a winkle.......

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8/03/2010 - Ministry of Defence has warped spending priorities.

The Ministry of Defence has come under fire for its warped sense of priorities in how it spends its multi-billion pound budget.
UKIP MEP Lord Dartmouth said it was only right that senior figures in the Armed Forces should question the financial support of Gordon Brown during his time as Chancellor.
"Gordon Browns evidence to the Chilcott Enquiry has been challenged by senior military figures", said Lord Dartmouth, "but it is only fair to point out that the Ministry of Defence must answer for its weird and warped sense of priorities on how it has allocated its funding.
In 2007 it was revealed that the MOD had spend £2.35 billion on a lavish refurbishment of their Whitehall offices.
This money could have been spent on providing nearly 2,500 armoured vehicles which would almost certainly prevented loss of life and severe injuries caused by roadside bombs "
Lord Dartmouth added, "This £2.35 billion included more than £3million spent on custom made oak doors and an equal amount on ensuring their staff sat on ergonomic chairs
"The taxpayers money spent on their own comforts instead of the required equipment for front line troops makes you wonder how they see their responsibilities.
Gordon Brown may or may not have been guilty of cutting funding to our armed services at a time they were desperately needed.
What is not in doubt however is that the MOD spent a vast amount of money on its own office and not in vitally needed front line equipment

24/11/2009 - Asking the Hungarian authorities for a speedy resolution for the 'Budapest Two'.

Today two British men Michael Turner and Jason McGoldrick, are locked in a prison cell in Budapest for 23 hours a day.
We are here to ask Her Excellency, the Hungarian Ambassador Ms. Czako politely, for that is the British way, to ask her government to release these two men.
Failing this we ask her to use her best efforts to ensure that this case comes speedily to trial.
We also ask her to improve the conditions under which they are being held. That includes provision being made for them to have full contact with their families and their legal representatives.
Michael and Jason are imprisoned through a mechanism called the European Arrest Warrant. This was introduced, or so we were told at the time, to help fight terrorism and serious crime.
This is NOT the situation with Michael and Jason. All they are guilty of is of setting up a business venture in Hungary which sadly failed. They lost their own savings of £100,000 and left further debts of around £18,000.
It would appear that in this case the European Arrest Warrant has been grossly misused. For the record the UK Independence Party fought long and hard against the European Arrest Warrant coming into force in the UK - even though the three Big parties supported it.
But this is not a day for politics or political speeches.
Our focus MUST be on the release of Michael and Jason. When that happens, we must re-examine the whole concept of the European arrest Warrant. Otherwise and unfortunately there are likely to be yet more cases like this one.

03/11/2009 - Conned by the Mod Cons - How the Tories duped the electorate.

“In May, immediately before the European Elections David Cameron promised in a letter sent to me and several hundred thousand other people that the Conservatives would definitely hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
He has now cynically broken that promise. This demonstrates yet again that the Conservative Party cannot be trusted on the EU and probably not on anything else either.
Is this what Cameron’s Conservatives mean by the ‘New Politics’?” - William Dartmouth SW UKIP MEP

18/09/2009 - Two faced Tories vote for "the integration of Europe".

The Conservative MEPs and their Group have voted in favour of a second 5 year term for Senhor José Manuel Barroso as President of the European Commission.
In his acceptance speech Senhor Barroso said that he was "...committed to the exciting journey that is the integration of Europe...."
William Dartmouth said "Yet again the Conservative Party in Britain makes eurosceptic noises at Election time, but when they get to the European Parliament, Conservative MEPs continue to vote for a European superstate." Read Barroso's acceptance speech here where he thanks the European Peoples' Party for their support and those who want to "see the European project succeed".

16/09/2009 - William Dartmouth UKIP MEP says "Let them wait".

In an open letter to Václav Klaus, the President of the Czech republic, William Dartmouth MEP has asked the President to delay ratifying the Lisbon treaty until the UK gets a new government, paving the way for a UK referendum on the Lisbon treaty. He said "the 3 established parties secretly want the Lisbon Treaty to go through "on the nod" before the UK General Election. This is to avoid the inconvenience of British voters having to be asked their views on a European superstate.

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LetterRecent correspondence

  • "Disclosure"
    Dear Baroness Ashton,
    Re: Your Disclosure to the Foreign Affairs Committee
    I am writing to you in the matter of your response to me at your hearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee in the European Parliament on January the 11th.
    I pointed out that you had been one of 4 paid employees of CND and then Treasurer of CND and this had NOT been "...disclosed on your Personal Details...." circulated to the Foreign Affairs Committee.
    You answered "...My employment record is a matter of public record. It has been published all the way through my career.... you can look, I think, probably in Debrett's...."
    I have looked at Debrett's and although it does state you were "an administrator for CND 1977-79", Debrett's does NOT mention your tenure as Treasurer of CND which ended only in July 1983. You were then elected Vice-Chairman of CND. I would point out that the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
    May I ask you to disclose properly your past involvement with CND?
    Yours sincerely,

    William (The Earl of) Dartmouth MEP