ACTA Legislation

Statement on ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)

This piece of legislation which is being proposed and led by the European Commission will be opposed by all UKIP MEPs when it is voted on in the European Parliament.

UKIP do not want the EU making decisions on behalf of the UK and in this case it is even more pertinent given that this multilateral agreement would never be passed through national governments and a supranational level gives it a greater chance of being passed than if it were passed through accountable parliaments.

ACTA would create an international legal framework and supporters have claimed it is required to combat counterfeit drugs and goods and pirated material.

However civil society groups and developing countries were excludes from the discussions during the drawing up of the legislation. Developing countries and many international humanitarian and welfare organisations are concerned about the impact of ACTA on life saving drugs in the developing world whilst civil liberties groups insist that ACTA will weaken fundamental liberties and freedom of expression.

The liability of Internet Service Providers is also a reason why UKIP could not support the legislation in much the same way as libel laws in the UK, where newsagents were liable for the sale of newspapers or magazines if they were found to contain defamatory material restricted freedom of speech.

Claims that UKIP have supported ACTA are grossly misleading. UKIP voted against a ‘motion for resolution’ in the European Parliament which is non legislative and non binding.

Furthermore, the reason UKIP voted against the motion was because it asked the Commission to continue negotiating the agreement, something which UKIP is opposed to. We did not support this as we did not support legitimising unelected bureaucrats negotiating matters which will affect Britain, hidden away behind closed doors.

Whilst we understand that there needs to be profits made by companies such as those who make video games and for research and development we do not feel this piece of legislation is the answer.

Cheeky EU twats and the stupid Brown The Clown Coalition, want to rename the English Channel, and spend our tax payers money to do it!!

How Eurocrats want to spend £1.1m changing the English Channel’s name to ‘Le Pond’

The English Channel is to be wiped off the map and replaced with the name ‘the Anglo-French Pond’ under plans by Brussels to bolster the notion of an EU superstate.

A new map to be distributed to schools and bureaucrats will downgrade the English Channel dividing Britain and France and rebrand it at a cost of £1.1million.

British taxpayers will pick up the bill for the revamped atlas, which creates new EU regions and wipes out 1000 years of history.

The rebranding is meant to foster ‘cultural identification within this transfrontier region’.

Britain is parcelled off to different parts of the continent under the Espace Manche Development Initiative, which phases out national boundaries to foster greater EU integration.

Re-branding: The EU want to call the English Channel the ‘Anglo-Saxon Pond’

Southern England, from Cornwall to Kent, is joined with northern France and becomes known as the TransManche zone. Its capital is Paris and it has its own socialist president, Alain Le Vern.

The West of Britain is parcelled off with parts of France, Spain and Portugal as part of a new Atlantic region.

Eastern Britain along with Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway becomes the North Sea region. And Scotland breaks away from Britain to become part of the Northern Periphery with parts of Norway, Greenland, Iceland and Finland.

The mapmakers state: ‘The channel has become a zone of multiple interacting and overlapping activities.’

‘It is a shared space, a small Anglo-French internal sea; the interplay of activities both on and around what has become known as the Anglo-French Pond.’

Eurocrats also admit they are trying to un-do the work of geographer Ptolemy who named the Channel the Oceanus Britannicus in the second century AD.

‘A 1,000-year period, beginning with the Norman invasion of England, now nears its end as that same island becomes physically linked to the continent of Europe.’

The Tories accused the government of backing plans to erase Britain’s history.

Shadow communities secretary Caroline Spelman said: ‘Labour ministers have already sought to replace England and its shires with government office regions.

‘Now British taxpayers’ money is being used literally to wipe our nation off the map, erase a thousand years of history and downgrade the English Channel to the insulting status of a pond.

‘Hard-working families and pensioners will be outraged. A Conservative government will scrap these Euro plans and save the English Channel.’

What are they going to do to us next. Get labour out, and get us out of the EU.