Businessman Stuart Wheeler, a major Conservative Party donor, claimed he had "a legitimate expectation" that Gordon Brown would hold a vote on the Lisbon Treaty and the decision to go back on their promise should be declared unlawful.

Mr Justice Owen ruled that Mr Wheeler, 73, had "an arguable case" that should go to a full hearing.

Mr Wheeler made more than £30m from spread-betting firm IG Index and raised £150,000 from 150 donors to pay for his High Court battle.

He said: "I am absolutely delighted that we won the case".

Full story may be found HERE

On a further take on this story, it would appear that a supposedly anti EU political nasty party is rather miffed that this wheeler chap has the audacity to legally challenge the establishment, they say on their nasty website

“A breakthrough on the block on legal challenges to the government over the EU? Or a red herring that may waste a little time, and swallow up precious resources allowing the establishment to call a biased referendum to complete our captivity. Remember, any such referendum would be in contradiction of our own constitutional laws.”

“Why? Because our constitution prevents anyone from giving away our freedom. And one generation making a decision that would enslave the next is certainly not acceptable. In other words each and every one of the EU Treaties is by British Law illegal. The problem is that the Courts no longer obey Laws that the establishment find inconvenient.”

take a long hard look at the last line “The problem is that the Courts no longer obey Laws that the establishment find inconvenient.” ???......

It is for that reason we suspect wheeler is challenging those laws and so far he has been successful, and who knows what will happen in this uncertain political climate, the courts often smash the government proposals and ill thought out policies on crime, immigration by throwing human rights and other nonsense back at the government, just maybe, this guy may get lucky, not forgetting opening a can of worms for the fence sitting no policy Cameron.

Should Wheeler be successful, then the EU will become paralysed once more, and just maybe, the penny will drop when the politicians start tearing themselves apart and start asking should we ask the ultimate question, In or Out.

Our only conclusion to the nasty “pro EU” BNP is that they don't want to be isolated from their far right chums in France, Germany and Italy who are dreaming of the day they can huddle together, wear long leather coats, sing songs and form the European wide forth Reich.

Climate change (although it exists) is just an excuse to raise as much revenue from ordinary people as it possibly can. Cities that adopt the London model of congestion charging will follow suit in offering no discounts for people who make the effort and convert to low carbon fuels.

Councils up and down the country are shipping your “green” waste to china for enormous financial returns, yet they still want to introduce the refuse charging on top of the council tax to encourage us to go green. They say they will offset this by lowering council tax to those who comply and recycle waste and make it a tax neutral system

If these boneheads now think we believe this deliberate lie, then we suggest they think again.

Removing the discount for LPG vehicles is not a good move, if they do this, then, they show they are only interested in taxing us, so if this is the case, why bother recycling or buying a fuel efficient car or even converting your vehicle, you may as well just carry on as before.

Popular Alliance can only say this about the career clowns who make up these insane policies, DON'T TRUST THEM, DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR VALUABLE VOTE, they are ALL lying to you.

Please read the following report, the link to the item may be found HERE

LPG cars lose C-charge discount

The discount will be phased out by 2010

Motorists who converted their cars to use environmentally friendlier fuels to avoid paying the congestion charge could lose their exemption.

Transport for London (TfL) has announced plans to phase-out the Alternative Fuel Discount (AFD).

But the move would only affect a "very small number of car owners," a TfL spokesman said.

Vehicles running on fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will be affected by the proposed change.

TfL plans to stop offering the 100% discount completely by 2010 and will not offer the AFD to new registrations.

Highest polluting cars

The announcement is part of plans to charge £25 for the highest polluting cars entering central London zone.

Michael Jameson, from Victoria, central London, paid £2,000 to convert his Hyundai Trajet 2.0 petrol car to run on LPG in September 2003.

He has discovered that he may now be forced to pay to travel in the congestion zone.

"It looks like I will have to pay the £25 per day charge because if my car ran on petrol it would be above their threshold, slightly," he said.

Totally unjust

"But, as it runs on LPG at a considerably lower CO2 level it should be still exempt.

"It's totally unjust. How does this encourage people to be green?"

A TfL spokesman said: "A very small number of car owners will go from qualifying for a 100% AFD to falling into the £25 a day CO2 charge bracket.

"That is why the AFD will not be phased out for almost two years, giving owners time to change their vehicle."

He added vehicles converted to use LPG can still use petrol, which is associated with CO2 emissions.

Last Wednesday, thousands of people from various political parties and anti-European Union groups met outside the House of Commons, united in their demand for a Referendum on the so called revised EU Constitution.

Most entered the house to speak with their own MPs, face to face, demanding that all three parties honour the promise of the referendum in their manifestos at the last General Election.

Party Leader Brian Buxton and a group of Popular Alliance members were there at 10.30 and helped to get things going.

Meanwhile, across the road at Central Hall, there were continuous meetings with well known anti EU speakers, whilst the lobbying of MPs was still in progress.

Brian said, “after all the lies, sneaking and hypocrisy on this issue by Labour and the Lib / Dems, I am amazed that people can still vote for them in any elections and remain as members of these two parties, who are determined to hand over the complete governing of our country to faceless, unelected officials in Brussels.”

He also stated, “it is also time for the Conservative party to come clean and tell us their position on membership of the EU.”

There is still time, and I hope and urge everyone who has not yet written to their MP’s to do so today.

Also The Liberal Democrats are stepping up their campaign for British people to be given a real choice on Europe with a petition.

In an email sent to party members today, Nick Clegg says, "In the next few weeks Parliament will be voting on whether to hold a European referendum. The Conservatives are proposing a restrictive referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. My colleagues and I are campaigning hard for the British people to be given a real choice through a referendum on our membership of the European Union as a whole."

The European debate has poisoned British politics for too long. If we as a nation are to stride forward confidently into the 21st century and tackle all the new global issues like climate change and terrorism we need to decide once and for all whether that future lies within the European Union, or outside it. (Clegg)

However, the Popular Alliance must point out that while we agree that a referendum on being in the EU itself is one of our main policy aims, we have to warn that the Lib Dems like Labour have already lied to the nation as they promised a referendum on the “constitution” and have now reneged on this manifesto pledge

We have, along with many members signed the Lib Dem petition, but we make clear in no uncertain terms that we DO NOT endorse any of the soft criminal loving Lib Dem policies

Related Links:

Libdem petition on EU referendum

BBC - 88% want referendum in latest poll

Sorry we got our numbers wrong again !

The new contract for general practice has contributed to improved recruitment and retention of GPs, with numbers increasing from 26,833 to 30,931 since 2003. However, according to a report out today by the National Audit Office, the contract has cost the Department £1.76 billion more than it originally budgeted for.

Today’s report found that, in the first two years of the contract, productivity has fallen by an average of 2.5 per cent per year. GPs are working on average seven hours less per week than in 1992, partly because of the removal of the responsibility for out of hours care. While the number of consultations with patients has increased, these are not in proportion with the increase in costs. Primary Care Trusts’ spending on GP services has however now started to level off.

The largest overspend of the contract was due to an underestimation of the amount that GPs would earn from the pay for performance scheme, the Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF). While there is evidence that the QOF has improved consistency in the quality of care, it is too early to say if overall patients’ health has improved as a result.

In 2005-06 the annual average pay of a GP partner was £113,614, an increase of 58 per cent since 2002-03. GPs report, however, that over the last year their pay has stayed the same or decreased. GP partners have taken more profit from the practice as pay while the average salary for GPs they employ increased by only three per cent in the first two years.

The report found that nurses are delivering more practice work leaving GPs to spend more time with more complex cases. The proportion of consultations undertaken by practice nurses increased from 21 per cent to 34 per cent between 1995 and 2006. GPs now spend more time with each patient, an average of around 12 minutes compared to 8 minutes in 2002-03.

The report concludes that Primary Care Trusts have not made use of all the levers in the new contract. Money for new local services has not led to improvements such as increased opening hours and some of the most deprived areas remain under-doctored. Some 40 per cent of GPs believed that aspects of the contract had not helped tackle health inequalities.

Popular Alliance Comment:

Whilst we recognise the very valuable role that general practitioners play in improving the health of the nation we cannot ignore the fact that this Labour government has got it sums wrong once again.

This is a huge extra burden on the taxpayer not just for one year but for many years. How can it be that more money is going in and productivity has fallen.

Oh we forgot. When this Labour government is running the show that is exactly what happens !

A further BBC report of Johnson clowning around with the NHS may also be found HERE