THE FREEDOM ASSOCIATION

Stuart Wheeler to speak at Freedom Association Summer Party on 18 July

We are delighted to announce that Stuart Wheeler will now be joining the panel of speakers at The Freedom Association Summer Party at Stanway House, Gloucestershire on Saturday 18 July. 

Stuart will join Roger Helmer MEP, Lindsay Jenkins, the Rev'd Dr. Peter Mullen and Sam Westrop on the platform at this BETTER OFF OUT event.  Tickets are still available at the discounted price for early bookers.  MORE 

Don't miss these two great TFA events

Join us at these two great summer Freedom Association events in the English countryside.

You are invited to come and hear John Whittingdale OBE MP and enjoy drinks and live music in the attractive gardens and terrace bar at the Broomhill Hotel, in the Northamptonshire countryside on Friday 10 July 2009, from 7.00 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.  MORE

Roger Helmer MEP, Lindsay Jenkins, the Rev'd Dr. Peter Mullen and Sam Westrop will put the case for leaving the European Union in the beautiful and historic setting of Stanway House (see photograph, above), Stanway, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL54 5PQ, home of the Earl of Wemyss and March DL, on Saturday 18 July 2009, from 6.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.  MORE

Conservatives defy their critics by forming new eurorealist group

For years, the Conservative Party received a lot of criticism for sitting in the federalist EPP group in the European "Parliament".  Then it was repeatedly attacked by Eurofanatics such as Lord Patten for planning to join forces with "extremists".  Now, Mark Francois deserves praise for putting together a group which will provide a fresh new voice for Eurorealists.  Contrary to scare stories suggesting that the Tories would rub shoulders with unsavoury types, the new group includes thoroughly respectable parties from a wide range of countries.  MORE

Roger Helmer launches TFA Ulster

Roger Helmer MEP (Hon. Chairman of The Freedom Association) was the principal speaker at the launch of The Freedom Association in Ulster at the Premier Inn, 2-6 Waring Street, Belfast BT1 2DX on Friday 19 June 2009.  MORE

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The Freedom Association launches in Ulster

The Freedom Association launches in Ulster this Friday 19 June.  Following involvement in two Campaign Against Political Correctness fact-finding visits to the province in 2007 and 2008 and the launch of TFA Scotland last September, Jeffrey Donaldson MP MLA and Roger Helmer MEP will speak at the launch event in Belfast, which will be chaired by Philip Davies MP.  Sammy Wilson MP MLA will also be attending the launch.

As well as cementing its friendly links with the Democratic Unionist Party, TFA, as a cross-party organisation, will be meeting with Ulster Unionist and SDLP representatives in Belfast.

There have been important developments in Ulster politics recently, with the Conservative Party strengthening its ties with the Ulster Unionist Party.  The Freedom Association has taken a close interest in Ulster matters from its earliest days and is keen to strengthen its ties with the province and to demonstrate its support for the Union.  MORE

How best to respond to the BNP

The Atheist Conservative blog is currently featuring some interesting articles by Members of the University of York Freedom Association Society on the British National Party and how best to respond to it.  MORE

UKIP overtakes Labour to snatch 2nd place in EU election

Despite every effort by the media to play it down, the biggest story of last night's European "Parliament" elections was that the UK Independence Party - so often derided and ignored by the pro-EU establishment - overtook Labour, the party of government, to finish second in the election.  Nigel Farage - shown above with Daniel Hannan - has every reason to look happy.  His party had been written off, but overcame the absence of the Kilroy factor from which it had benefited last time, to plunge a dagger in to the heart of the cosy pro-EU consensus that has treated it as a minority party of nutters and fruitcakes.  Nigel Farage - and Kenneth Irvine who ran the UKIP campaign - deserve praise for their successful "lend us your vote" strategy.

The other big messages from these elections are:

• The national socialist BNP will now receive massive funding from the British taxpayer to propagate its message of bigotry and hatred - yet another reason why we'd be BETTER OFF OUT.

• The Europhiles who run the Conservative Party machine succeeded in preventing talented and principled candidates such as Jean-Paul Floru and Rupert Matthews from being elected.  The undemocratic selection procedure they forced through robbed the Conservatives of the opportunity to present themselves as a genuinely Eurorealist party in touch with the anti-EU sentiments of the majority of British voters.

• The new group the Conservatives will form in the European "Parliament" will provide an opportunity for them to redeem themselves by creating a strong opposition to the anti-democratic monster that the European Union has become.

• It is time for the three main established British political parties to get real and acknowledge that, as poll after poll has shown, a majority of the British people think we'd be BETTER OFF OUT of the corrupt, costly and anti-democratic European Union.

• Even by its own woeful standards, the BBC election night coverage was a disgrace.  Giving as much publicity as it could to the national socialist bigots who run the BNP, its panel of experts consisted of Steve Richards (left-wing Europhile), Polly Toynbee (left-wing Europhile) and Danny Finkelstein (pro-EU Tory).  The BBC typifies the contempt the political class shows for the anti-EU majority which pays its TV Licence poll tax.  It must change, start to recognise political reality and adhere to its statutory requirement to be politically even-handed.

Rebecca Harding defeats LibDem Group Leader in Northampton

 

Rebecca Harding, Hon. Chairman of the Northamptonshire Branch of The Freedom Association (shown above, with the Rt. Hon. David Davis MP), won an impressive victory in Northampton, where she moved the Tory vote from third to first place, unseating the Liberal Democrat Group Leader in the process.

Congratulations, too, to Ron Forrest, Hon. Acting Secretary of the Somerset TFA Branch, on retaining his Mendip West seat on Somerset County Council and to Alan Griffiths, Leader of Christchurch Borough Council, who won a thumping victory in Mudeford and Highcliffe, to gain a seat on Dorset County Council.

Sensational victory for Freedom Association Member in Doncaster

Peter Davies, the father of Philip Davies MP, won a sensational victory, on an anti-EU platform, in the Doncaster Mayoral election.  In the biggest father and son act to hit British politics since Boris and Stanley Johnson, Peter - the English Democrats' candidate - is following in the political footsteps of his son, Philip, who is Hon. Chairman of The Freedom Association's BETTER OFF OUT campaign.  MORE