Growing Support for Libertas

With just two days to go before the EU elections, support for Libertas, the pan-European reform party is growing rapidly in the media. As the shine comes off UKIP as the alternative vote, journalists across the board are taking a fresh look at Libertas, the party that took on Brussels and won.

In just the last day or so, the Daily Mail included a glowing piece by Peter Oborne and then the Sun joined in with an endorsement by Trevor Kavanagh and a further compliment in the editorial.

Here are some of the highlights:

“A better bet is Libertas, the new party that sensationally humiliated established political parties in Ireland last year. In a brilliant campaign, backed by The Sun, Libertas turned a near-certain YES into a bombshell NO on the Constitution.”
- Trevor Kavanagh, The Sun

“Many voters are tempted by the increasingly credible Libertas.”
-The Sun Says column

“At a time of moral squalor and decay in Westminster and Brussels, both Libertas and Jury Team offer voters a hugely refreshing - and, perhaps, the only proper - alternative on Thursday.”
- Peter Oborne, Daily Mail

UKIPOCRISY

In a video sent around Europe today, Libertas exposes the hypocrisy of the UK Independence party.

www.libertas.eu/ukip

UKIP’s message of cleaning up Brussels is in direct contrast to how its members operate. Instead of fixing the problem, UKIP has become the problem. During the past European parliamentary term, a full quarter, 25%, of UKIP MEPs were either convicted of fraud, expelled for the same reason, or resigned in disgrace.

Nigel Farage can't stop the sleaze because he employs his wife, they refuse to publish even the most basic details of their expenses and UKIP has the laziest MEPs in Britain, attending just 60% of votes over the last five years.

DON'T judge UKIP on what they say but on HOW they behave. UKIP cannot change anything in Brussels - Libertas is the ONLY party that can change what is happening and stop the gravy train that is pouring out of Brussels. UKIP are NOT the answer, Libertas is.

www.libertas.eu/ukip

Labour MEPs should disclose ALL expenses

Under pressure from Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley, former Labour Minister Denis MacShane MP admitted on television that Labour MEPs should disclose ALL expenses claims in advance of the European election on the 4th June. Labour MEPs just weeks ago voted to keep their expenses hidden from view.

Speaking on the BBC's Daily Politics Show, Mr MacShane also said that Libertas' campaign to put Europe back in the hands of the people, 'sounds terrific'.

Chairman, Declan Ganley said, "it's easy to make promises and conjure up soundbites on television, when the Brussels reality is completely different. On 12th March, Labour MEPs voted to keep their taxpayer-funded expenses a secret."

"We will be watching the British Labour Party closely on behalf of voters over the next three weeks, to ensure that - this time at least - they stick to their word."

The Great European Rip-Off

Best selling author David Craig made an impassioned plea today to voters to send an unequivocal “enough is enough” message to our politicians in Westminster and Brussels.

“You may think that most of our MPs at Westminster are crooks, but their stealing and thieving is petty cash compared to what’s happening in the European Union” claimed the author.

The vast scale of corruption and waste in Brussels is exposed in his latest book “The Great European Rip-Off”. David Craig is a candidate for Libertas in the South East region in the European elections on 4th June.

“Libertas has a mission to stop the waste, end the corruption and put democracy into the heart of Brussels. I want to do everything I can to assist that mission.”

David Craig previously caused a political storm when he released “Squandered – How Gordon Brown is wasting over one trillion pounds of our money”, exposing the shocking amounts of money wasted under New Labour.

Libertas – creeping up on the blind side?

Lord Tebbit urges us not to vote for the larger parties in elections to the European Parliament.

His implication is that a vote for a less mainstream party would serve as a slap on the wrists of the bigger parties for their appalling behaviour.

Undoubtedly, a vote for the fringe parties such as UKIP would serve as a wake-up call in Britain.

But I think Lord Tebbit has failed to realise the full implications of a vote for the ‘less mainstream’ Libertas.

Because Libertas is committed to contesting these elections all across Europe, with nearly 600 candidates at the last count, on a pro-democracy, pro-accountability, anti-sleaze ticket, it will most likely accumulate a large bloc of MEPs, with real influence – a larger bloc than either Labour, or Tory, or UKIP could ever hope to achieve. This will be unprecedented.

In any case, a vote for the fringe UKIP would be entirely counter-productive, since it has been shown to be abusing the expense and allowance systems as much in Europe as Labour or the Tories have in the UK.

Lord Tebbit complacently believes he is encouraging people to vote for benign sheep on the fringes of politics. If people vote for Libertas, they will actually be voting for a sizable pan-European party committed to reform, with real teeth. How refreshing it will be to have a meaningful option.

Should we pity the poor hardworking MPs?

One of the commonest reasons made by MPs for their disputed expense claims, is that such claims ‘slip through the net’ because MPs have taken their eyes off the ball, so busy are they with working for the electorate.

Huge workloads would not constitute an acceptable ‘excuse’ for equally busy people in other jobs.

Salaried nurses, tradesmen of all sorts, teachers, small business owners, doctors, and countless others all over the country are expected to work however long it takes to perform their duties, without making such ‘careless’ errors. Most do not use hard work as a way of legitimising false claims.

Is this a perfect example of how some MPs, detached from the people they are supposed to serve see themselves above the laws that they have helped to create?

Stamp Out Sleaze

Libertas has launched a 'Stamp Out Sleaze' campaign, aiming to put an end to the abuse of taxpayers' money in the name of the EU.

It is interesting to observe some of the other parties seeking to occupy the moral high ground in wake of the latest revelations.  Let us just hope for their sake the journalistic microscope of enquiry does not turn to MEPs expenses.

Whatever has happened at Westminster surely bears little comparison to the systematic abuse of taxpayer's money that has been taking place in Brussels.  

We have committed to a series of five pledges, which all our MEPs undertake to adhere to when elected.

You can view our 'Stamp Out Sleaze' campaign at:

http://www.stampoutsleaze.co.uk/