CIB CAMPAIGN E-NEWSLETTER NO.2 - JULY 2006

AUGUST ACTION

With - hopefully - fine weather and plenty of people out and about, August is the ideal month to help Campaign for an Independent Britain gather signatures for our hard-hitting petition calling for Britain to leave the corrupt and obsolete European Union.

Copies of the petition form can be downloaded from our campaign website at http://www.eurosceptic.org.uk/campaign/cib_petition.pdf


PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT OUR CAMPAIGN!

Please forward this e-newsletter to your friends and colleagues. Remember that the huge costs of Britain's membership of the EU affects us *all* - not just those interested in politics or current affairs.

You can forward friends a link to our campaigning website by going to http://www.eurosceptic.org.uk/campaign/recommend.html#recommend


THIS SATURDAY! VIRTUAL MARCH

This Saturday (29 July 2006) our friends at the Democracy Movement are organizing a 'virtual march' on the Treasury!

The Democracy Movement is opening a new front in their 'Stop the Cheques' campaign designed to put pressure on Gordon Brown to explain where the extravagant £42 billion (net) Tony Blair has promised the EU over the next seven years is actually going to come from.

With government borrowing already rising rapidly, Gordon Brown must explain whether he's going to add to his growing public deficit problems, or alternatively which public services he is going to cut, or taxes raise, to pay Mr Blair's EU bills.

So on Saturday 29th July the Democracy Movement is organising a 'virtual march' on the Treasury to demand some answers. Here's how to take part:

On Saturday 29 July, anytime after 12 noon, we'd like to ask you please to send an e-mail asking Gordon Brown where the £42 billion is going to come from, and demanding payments to the EU are stopped until we can be sure that public money is being protected from fraud - something that hasn't been possible now for eleven years running - to this HM Treasury e-mail address: public.enquiries@hm-treasury.gsi.gov.uk

Please personalize your message a little if possible, asking a question on this topic of your own too, so that a personal rather than standard reply is required.

If you can't send an e-mail on Saturday afternoon, please do it at the soonest convenient time afterwards. It's most important that they get as many messages of protest as possible.

Blair's concession will hit us all in the pocket and will mean less money available for public services on which we all depend. This issue affects everyone directly, whether they are interested in the EU issue or politics in general or not.


WRITE TO YOUR M.P. ABOUT WORLD TRADE SCANDAL

Talks aimed at producing a fairer system for world trade have collapsed. The failure of the deal to reform the World Trade Organization (WTO) means that food producers in poorer under-developed countries will continue to be denied access to European markets, while every household in Britain continues to pay over £1000 more in food bills each year. Although European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson was naturally keen to blame everyone else for the failure, the fact is that it is Brussels' refusal to reform the ruinous Common Agricultural Policy that lies at the root of the problem.

Write to your MP protesting at this scandal that keeps the Third World in poverty while forcing British consumers to pay through to nose for their grocery bills!

You can contact your MP electronically via http://www.writetothem.com



JOIN US!

Have you joined Campaign for an Independent Britain yet? If not, please consider doing so - we need your support. Campaign for an Independent Britain membership only costs a minimum of £10. (That's about as much as the EU wastes of British taxpayers' money every minute of the day.) Check out our website at http://www.cibhq.co.uk or write to us at the address below for details.

Thank you for your continued support!
THE CAMPAIGN FOR AN INDEPENDENT BRITAIN WEB TEAM


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USEFUL LINKS

Campaign for an Independent Britain: http://www.cibhq.co.uk
Campaigning website: http://www.eurosceptic.org.uk/campaign
General facts about Britain and the EU: http://www.eurosceptic.org.uk

Democracy Movement Virtual March webpage at: http://www.democracymovement.org.uk/march
HM Treasury email: public.enquiries@hm-treasury.gsi.gov.uk

To UNSUBSCRIBE from further mailings, please send an email with the single word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to: info@eurosceptic.org.uk

CIB Head Office
81 Ashmole Street
London SW8 1NF
Tel: 020 8340 0314
Fax: 020 7582 7021
Email: info@cibhq.co.uk

Lord Stoddart regrets that owning to pressure of work on the campaign it may not be possible to reply to individual enquiries.