EU campaigning High Court judge rules MPs must be allowed to block Brexit

Three High Court judges have ruled that the Prime Minister can't invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to begin the process of leaving the EU without parliamentary approval.

The judges have thrown out 800 years of precedent in ruling that the Crown can no longer enter into or repudiate treaties without the permission of Parliament. Ironically, the Remainiacs behind the case have been spinning the Royal Prerogative as a 13th Century anachronism that has no place in a modern democracy had their case heard by three unelected judges representing offices created in the 13th Century, sitting in a court that dates back to the 12th Century.

The ruling came as a surprise to most people and has been described as judicial activism. Lord Thomas, who led the hearing, is a founding member of the European Law Institute which was set up to promote the integration of legal systems in the EU.

The British government is appealing the decision to Supreme Court and farcically it could even end up in the European Court of Justice as the final court of appeal. The pound has experienced a temporary bounce as big business weighs up how much influence they're going to have in the decision through their extensive lobbying networks and the probability of Remainiac MPs keeping us tied into the protectionist single market.

It is unlikely that MPs will vote to block our independence but rather introduce so many amendments that whilst we'd technically be out of the EU there would be very little difference between being in and out. In the British government's £9m propaganda booklet they were very clear that the decision on leaving the EU was ours not theirs. They were also very clear that they would do what we decided. MPs have no moral right to block Brexit and judges have no legal right to change government policy.

UKIP should now be leading efforts to organise pro-Brexit protests all over the country. We have sat back and watched the Remainiacs protest against democracy confident that the clearly expressed wishes of the electorate would be honoured but with an increasing number of Remain supporters being placed on Brexit committees, a Remain-supporting Prime Minister and a High Court judge who actively campaigns for more EU integration overturning several centuries of precedent to try and stop Brexit it is clear that we now need a show of force against the corrupt establishment.

Corruption costs EU economies €120bn per year

The EU Commission has released the findings of a study into corruption in the EU (no, I don't think they were being ironic) which shows that fraud and bribery are costing the collective economy of the EU €120bn per year.

It isn't clear from the reports whether the estimated €4bn a year that is lost to fraud within EU budgets is included in this €120bn but presumably it isn't as an assessment of the level of corruption in EU institutions was dropped early on. It will come as no surprise that the report was accompanied by a call for the EU's fraud investigation department, OLAF, to be given more money. The report says that the quality of corruption investigations varies widely across the EU so calls for more powers and harmonisation will no doubt follow shortly.

Unsurprisingly, corruption was most prolific in Greece and Spain where between 60-69% of people said they were personally affected by corruption in their daily life. Romania and Croatia were next at 50-59% and Italy and Slovakia at 40-49%. The UK was low down the corruption list at 10-19%.

EU budget: the missing €6 billion

Via UKIP.org

After 14 years of trying, the European Union has finally managed to have its budget passed – even though the auditors say they have no idea where €6 billion have gone

The European Court of Auditors said it had signed off the budget, to which the UK contributes £40 million a day, but it added that it could not trace the missing €6 billion.

UKIP MEP Jeffrey Titford, who sits on the Budgetary Committee of the European Parliament, said it was beyond belief that with so much public money missing the budget had still been passed.

Marta Andreassen, a former chief accountant for the EU and now a UKIP candidate for the 2009 Euro-elections, said the systems of financial control were so complex that the auditors had no way of telling where fraud began or ended.

Following the release of the ECA report, UKIP issued a statement in which it said:

"The report claims to have passed the accounts in an 'unqualified' way and yet it also states that 'the Court cannot provide a clean opinion.' The truth is that the ECA is a European institution and therefore has been politicised in order that it sanitise the devastating truth about the accounts."

Eastern Counties MEP Jeffrey Titford added: "Year after year the European Parliament goes through the motions of considering the Court of Auditor's report and its failure to approve the EU's accounts, and each time, over the strenuous objections of a tiny minority of people like myself, the Parliament tamely nods through the accounts.

"Fourteen years of failure, 14 years of grotesque mismanagement of public money and 14 years of mealy-mouthed acquiescence by most British MEPs is enough. If any British MEP either votes to approve the EU's 2007 accounts or abstains from the vote, then his or her party should not receive a single vote in next year's European parliamentary election. The politicians are failing us, therefore, it is time for the public to act by holding them responsible at the ballot box."

Marta Andreassen said the ECA had asserted without room for doubt that they had found at least €6 billion to have been wrongly paid out in 2007 from the European Union Budget. The court said it did not imply the transactions were illegal or irregular, or that there was fraud, Mrs Andreassen went on. They added that "only if funds have intentionally been improperly claimed can we talk about fraud." But the court had failed to produce an analysis on the intentionality of the improper claims.

"They confirm that the improvements said to have been made in the control of the use of EU funds do not change the overall negative opinion given in prior years.

"The court confirms that it is the Commission that retains overall responsibility for the execution of the budget and is accountable for this to the European Parliament and Council. So, can we please ask the European Parliament and the Council to call the Commission to account for their persistent failure in managing European taxpayers' money."