singular_me
28th June 2014, 05:44 AM
‘Britain has moved a step closer to leaving the European Union after David Cameron declared “war” on Brussels over the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker.
Keeping Britain in the EU “has got harder”, the Prime Minister said, after he was outvoted by 26 to two in his attempt to prevent Mr Juncker becoming the European Commission president.’..........
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10932111/One-step-closer-to-quitting-Europe.html
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Hidden expenses make UK monarchy world's most expensive govt institution
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MEANWHILE.....
Another boat packed with migrants heads for Europe as it's revealed Britain's population has grown by 5million in 12 years: This human tide will be the crisis of the century, warns DOMINIC SANDBROOK
By Dominic Sandbrook
28 June 2014
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/27/article-2672843-1F2F983500000578-894_634x370.jpg
Truly, it is an image of almost Biblical desperation, both disturbing and moving. From above, we see a boat ploughing through the crystal-clear waters of the Mediterranean. Every inch of the deck is packed with humanity.
Everywhere you look there are faces: excited, expectant, nervous, terrified. Hundreds of people, fleeing the poverty of Africa for a new life in Europe — and this, remember, is just one boat.
The picture, taken earlier this month, showing a flimsy craft carrying immigrants towards the coast of Italy, could have been shot at almost any time in the past few years.
Yet, although our politicians routinely promise to impose tighter controls on the numbers settling in this country, the pictures from Italy suggest we have not even begun to grasp the unparalleled scale of the flow of humanity across Europe’s borders.
As Italian interior ministry officials explained this week, the crisis is simply without precedent. Already some 60,000 people have landed this year on the Italian coast, which is almost as many as arrived in the whole of 2011.
And thousands more are expected during the peak migration months of July to September, most of them — like their predecessors — landing in poor, crowded harbours and fishing villages in Sicily.
Meanwhile, in North Africa, thousands of migrants are camped outside the Spanish enclave of Melilla, a tiny slice of EU territory on the Moroccan coast.
And in the Aegean, wooden boats bob across the narrow waters between Turkey and Greece — an EU nation, of course — carrying thousands of refugees from the bloodshed in Syria and Iraq.
Little wonder that the UN warns of a ‘colossal humanitarian catastrophe’ unless European leaders take immediate, decisive action.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2672843/Britains-population-grown-5-MILLION-12-years.html
Keeping Britain in the EU “has got harder”, the Prime Minister said, after he was outvoted by 26 to two in his attempt to prevent Mr Juncker becoming the European Commission president.’..........
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10932111/One-step-closer-to-quitting-Europe.html
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Hidden expenses make UK monarchy world's most expensive govt institution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx6mTakGbfA
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MEANWHILE.....
Another boat packed with migrants heads for Europe as it's revealed Britain's population has grown by 5million in 12 years: This human tide will be the crisis of the century, warns DOMINIC SANDBROOK
By Dominic Sandbrook
28 June 2014
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/27/article-2672843-1F2F983500000578-894_634x370.jpg
Truly, it is an image of almost Biblical desperation, both disturbing and moving. From above, we see a boat ploughing through the crystal-clear waters of the Mediterranean. Every inch of the deck is packed with humanity.
Everywhere you look there are faces: excited, expectant, nervous, terrified. Hundreds of people, fleeing the poverty of Africa for a new life in Europe — and this, remember, is just one boat.
The picture, taken earlier this month, showing a flimsy craft carrying immigrants towards the coast of Italy, could have been shot at almost any time in the past few years.
Yet, although our politicians routinely promise to impose tighter controls on the numbers settling in this country, the pictures from Italy suggest we have not even begun to grasp the unparalleled scale of the flow of humanity across Europe’s borders.
As Italian interior ministry officials explained this week, the crisis is simply without precedent. Already some 60,000 people have landed this year on the Italian coast, which is almost as many as arrived in the whole of 2011.
And thousands more are expected during the peak migration months of July to September, most of them — like their predecessors — landing in poor, crowded harbours and fishing villages in Sicily.
Meanwhile, in North Africa, thousands of migrants are camped outside the Spanish enclave of Melilla, a tiny slice of EU territory on the Moroccan coast.
And in the Aegean, wooden boats bob across the narrow waters between Turkey and Greece — an EU nation, of course — carrying thousands of refugees from the bloodshed in Syria and Iraq.
Little wonder that the UN warns of a ‘colossal humanitarian catastrophe’ unless European leaders take immediate, decisive action.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2672843/Britains-population-grown-5-MILLION-12-years.html