East Midlands MEP Roger Helmer has spoken in a plenary session on the Florenz Report to condemn climate change alarmism. Here is his speech:
Roger Helmer is an MEP for the East Midlands and Chairman of The Freedom Association. Two for the price of one – This week brought news of new health tests for drivers, and of proposals (from the "Commission for Integrated Transport" and the "Motorists’ Forum", whoever they are) for "voluntary" Speed Limiters to be fitted […]
Roger Helmer is an MEP for the East Midlands and Chairman of The Freedom Association. He blogs here. The idea of the "tipping point" is fashionable, cogent and attractive. It is a concept that applies in many walks of life. But like any compelling concept, it is sometimes applied inappropriately. The climate alarmists are warning […]
Roger Helmer, MEP for the East Midlands, looks at some of the counter-poroductive attempts to reduce carbon emissions. Put ten economists in a room, and they’ll come up with eleven different opinions. But there’s one thing they’ll agree on, and that is that taxes (if we must have taxes) should be clear, fair, predictable, easy […]
At a "Mini-Plenary" in Brussels on Jan 31st, my good friend and colleague Dan Hannan MEP was expelled from the EPP group, in circumstances uncannily similar to my own expulsion three years earlier. In the December Strasbourg session, we had agitated for a referendum (see my website). In January, we decided to stay strictly within […]
Roger Helmer, MEP for East Midlands and Chairman of The Freedom Association, argues for the PMOI to be delisted as a terrorist organisation. "We have accepted a promise we know Iran won’t keep, in exchange for making a statement we know to be false". An extraordinary headline, but a sad truth. The British government has […]
Roger Helmer, MEP for East Midlands and Chairman of The Freedom Association, describes some lessons on liberty from America. "I have heard more about conservative values in one hour in Philadelphia than I have heard in years in the Conservative Party". So said one of the Conservative MEPs with me on a visit to the […]
Nick Hurd MP has previously written for this site to warn against ‘climate change scepticism’. Today Roger Helmer MEP writes about his Counter-Consensual Climate Conference due to take place in the European Parliament with Lord Lawson next Wednesday, 18th April. PDF flyer here. Is the earth getting warmer? Slightly. Is there good evidence that the […]
Roger Helmer is a Conservative MEP in the East Midlands and chairman of the Freedom Association. He writes here about a recent meeting of climate realists in New York, where he is pictured, right, with the Czech President, Vaclav Klaus. I’ve just got back to Strasbourg from the Heartland Institute’s International Climate Conference in New […]