By Roger Helmer MEP. Follow Roger on Twitter. On January 9th I wrote a piece about the proposed wind-farm overlooking the historic battlefield of Naseby and I undertook to write to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles MP. I also promised to share his reply with you. I attach it […]
Roger Helmer MEP blogs here and you can follow him on Twitter. In October, I announced my intention to resign from the European Parliament on December 31. I was asked by our delegation leader Martin Callanan to postpone that date to January 20 to cover some key votes in Strasbourg in January, which I agreed […]
Roger Helmer MEP blogs here and you can follow him on Twitter. Cameron and Osborne have a clear line on the eurozone. While they think the €uro was a misguided venture, and they don’t want to join — ever — the argument goes that a disorderly breakdown of the €uro would be a disaster for […]
Roger Helmer MEP blogs here and you can follow him on Twitter. I picked up an incoming Tweet this morning from my good friend and colleague Dan Hannan MEP. It reads: “Denis MacShane told me, didactically, that we sell more to Belgium than Brazil. That, Denis, is precisely our problem.” Dan makes an important point. […]
Roger Helmer MEP blogs here. Chris Huhne is hailing the eleventh-hour Climate deal (more like thirteenth-hour, in fact) in Durban as "a triumph for EU diplomacy" — even as we watch the €uro crash and burn, and the EU's stock in world affairs slump. He tells us that EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has played […]
Roger Helmer MEP blogs here. I was delighted to see that Peter Oborne, in his Daily Telegraph article today about the €uro, quotes my line (tweeted earlier in the week). I said that asking “Can the €uro be saved?” is a bit like asking a cancer patient how we save the tumour. I received an […]
By Roger Helmer MEP. He blogs here and you can follow him on Twitter here. Economics is the butt of many jokes. The dismal science. Ten economists with eleven opinions between them. But I’m afraid we need a smattering of economics to get a grip on the euro problem, so please bear with me. Cameron […]
Roger Helmer MEP blogs here. Louise Mensch (née Bagshawe) has achieved a huge amount of airtime recently. She is of course the very model of a modern Conservative MP. Young(ish), a woman, a successful author, sitting on a small fortune made from her chick-lit ventures, married to the manager of a successful heavy metal band. […]
Roger Helmer is Conservative MEP for the East Midlands. I have recently announced my intention of leaving the European parliament at the year-end, and while several factors were involved in my decision, I have made it clear that my dissatisfaction with a number of areas of Conservative Party and/or Coalition policy played a major part. These areas of […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Roger Helmer, a Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands region has written to the Chairman of the East Midlands Conservatives, Stephen Mold, to announce his resignation from the European Parliament. Mr Helmer has been an MEP since 1999 and is known for his staunchly Eurosceptic views. Mr Helmer's […]
By Roger Helmer MEP (A wind turbine self-immolates, but that's nothing compared to the damage they do to the economy) Chris Huhne, described as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, has no time for any carping or questioning about his energy policy. Sceptics point out that increasing numbers of scientists are doubting the […]
Roger Helmer is Conservative MEP for the East Midlands. Matthew d’Ancona is that splendid chap who writes for the Sunday Telegraph, and whose weekly column is compulsory reading. I (almost) always agree with him. But I was struck by a recent Tweet from him (thoughtfully re-Tweeted by Tim Montgomerie, whom I follow). In a reference […]
This is a photograph I took last week of Coleton Fishacre in Devon. Now a National Trust property, it was built for the D’Oyly Carte family, and would be well within the Mansion Tax category. I was encouraged to see Eric Pickles’ robust rejection of the Lib Dems’ Mansion Tax in Saturday’s Telegraph, but rather […]
Roger Helmer blogs here. "Politics is the language of priorities". So said Nye Bevan, who was quoted by Harold Wilson, and they had a point. Judging by a recent poll on ConHome, there are a lot of Conservatives out there who have some concerns about the Prime Minister's priorities. I got into active politics in 1998, […]
By Roger Helmer MEP. Follow Roger on Twitter. We might as well hang up a sign in the airports: "Closed for Business". While EU leaders pontificate about prioritising growth and jobs, we have climate mitigation policies in place that massively raise energy costs and force industries, companies, jobs and investment out of the EU altogether. In […]