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William Dartmouth - UKIP MEP for the South West of EnglandWilliam Dartmouth your UKIP MEP for the West Country

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Baroness Ashton of Upholland - High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Building and maintaining the EU empire across the world - The EU needs to employ a lot of people to project their power across the globe and William asks how many civil servants does the EU employ worldwide in their delegations?

Free Chris Tappin

The unknown war Britain must win - If you want to keep your liberties you must challenge the political orthodoxy.

The great European Union pretence - The grand illusion of the EU super-state.

Abu Qatada – Behind the headlines - The real story behind the coalition's contorted dealings with Abu Qatada.

Who really is 'swivel eyed' here? - The Minister of state for energy and climate change Gregory Barker is challenged to a public debate by William over his remarks on UKIP being 'swivel eyed'.

Low taxes mean more jobs and more growth - William challenges the far left socialist orthodoxy and mindset that controls the European Union

Malcolm Wood has passed away - Malcolm was part of William's team in the South West and he will be sorely missed.

Blue cards – Yellow Answers - Questions and non answers about Turkey and the EU budget.

Asian Allies - Keeping up the pressure on Bashar al-Assad and the Turkish connection.

Surplus to our requirements - Why does Britain need to belong to a very expensive organisation that is detrimental to our interests and where 17 week holidays are the norm?

All your data and people 'are' belong to us - Pay Attention! - Baroness Sarah Ann Ludford MEP speaks for the illiberal undemocratic party in the UK and William Dartmouth responds.

Does Turkey have to join the EU to be an ally? - William challenges Tory MEP Geoffrey Van Orden MEP on the conservatives' policy on Turkey joining the European Union.

Mythbusters - The European External Inaction Service is based on a gigantic myth.

Bosnia-Herzegovina would have to join the euro - William challenges the Council and Commission statement on the enlargement report for Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Bosnia-Herzegovina - The never-ending cost of EU membership - William reveals how hard hit British and European taxpayers foot the bill for EU expansion.

EU eyes up Britain's pre-eminent legal sector - A new major threat from the EU to the UK‘s Legal success story.

Euro-Rendition - The time for debate is over - Mike and Jason have been trapped by a Kafkaesque bureaucracy thanks to the Liberal Democrats and their coalition partners the Tories.

Mike, Jason and William in Budapest

William will be in Budapest as an observer to support Mike and Jason - Jason McGoldrick and Michael Turner are returning to Hungary for a court hearing next week and William will be there as an observer of the proceedings. Update At the court  in Budapest William learned there will be another delay until June before Mike and Jason know their fate. Mike's father Mark said the proceedings were "completely alien" and the cost of defending his son and Mr McGoldrick was "disproportionate to the accusations" against them.

Lib Dem MEP Graham Watson in the dock over European arrest warrant - William accuses Graham Watson of trashing British freedoms.

Is Baroness Ashton hiding from scrutiny? - William says "Ashton was Gordon Brown's fourth choice for the position she now holds. MEPs were today showing what they think of this appointment. That is why the chamber was virtually empty."

The politics of trade - The EU uses weapons of mass production for political ends.

EU trade sanctions against Commonwealth countries will do great damage - William says sanctions by the European Union against Commonwealth nations are of grave concern.

Cameron in court of public opinion over human rights - David Cameron knows that so long as we remain in the European Union we must be a member of the European Court of Human Rights.

Blair was ready to surrender Gibraltar - What else would he have surrendered?

Pie in the sky - The Danish recipe for jobs in the EU.

Turkish threats to the Duchess of York - William says Cameron's coalition must stop supporting Turkish EU membership.

Rail plan will have no benefit for Bristol or the South West - William slams the Tories approval of High Speed Rail 2 over high costs and zero benefits.

Tory MEP thinks Icelandic Minister Stalinist - Sir Robert Atkins Conservative MEP - The true face of the Tories.

William pays tribute to Graham Booth - "His goodness, kindness and selflessness shone through all he did. Anybody who knew him will only remember the laughter and good humour that followed in his wake. "Devon has lost a great voice and a fine man. "My deepest condolences go out to his family, friends and to Devon itself which has lost a great advocate."

Voting for an open prison - William's amendment to safeguard liberties in Europe is rejected.

Trial by EAW - Locked up without trial – The European arrest warrant.

Euro-military clampdown threat to Britain - British Spring faces EU reprisal - Tanks and Kalashnikovs after Christmas!

Strip the British rebate! - Smash and grab - EU socialists want more British money.

Nul Point. - Standard and Poor's downgrade the Eurozone bloc.

Quota question - No Kidding! - EU trade with Pakistan and India.

The cost of Kosovo - A failed state - The price of EU enlargement

Economic Misgovernance - Very high levels of youth unemployment are still rising across Europe and the UK with more than a million 16 to 24-year-olds out of work in Britain.

"Germany is dominating Europe" - Pulling the strings - Political Puppetry in the European Union.

A bad day for Dave and the political classes - A good day for the resistance - On Monday 24th October 2011 Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats MPs voted by a majority of 372 to oppose the motion for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.

Cat-astrophic! - Human wrongs and legal rights.

Projecting 'soft' power through trade - Cloaking the real agenda behind trade agreements.

Cashflow Crash - The market markdowns the stupid Euro.

Blue Cards - Points of light in the Strasbourg 'Parliament'.

The door marked exit - William responds to a letter from Guy Verhofstadt.

Trading places - Better off out - Making our own choices in our own interest.

More Europe - Failed federasts get their beneficial crisis.

Through the looking glass - DOHA - Let them eat jam tomorrow (The full text of William's speech is here)

One sided immigration is harming Britain - William hits back at the EU open border policy fully supported by the politicians in Westminster.

Seems like 1984 - The EU becomes Eurasia - William finds out that Turkey is now considered a 'European State' by the EU. (Which should please the fake Tory Euro-sceptics who want Turkey to be a full member of the EU in line with US state department policy)

How much do the EU commissioners spend on travel and representation? - What price the EU Quangocrats?


European arrest warrant
European arrest warrant
Economics and the EU
Economics and the EU
Turkish EU membership
Turkish EU membership
Baroness Ashton
Baroness Ashton

The European arrest warrant

Cause and effect - (1m 53secs) Contrasting Graham Watson's enthusiasm for the European arrest warrant with the reality as told by Jason McGoldrick. If you wish to make a donation and help Mike and Jason with their costs click here
No Truth - No Justice
(8m 57secs) - Mark Turner and William Dartmouth expose the British politicians who are giving away our liberty.
Lowering the standards of justice
(3m 11secs) - EU harmonisation is destroying British justice.
This has to stop!
(1m 11secs) - William demands an "immediate suspension of the European arrest warrant".
Doing time in Budapest (5m 35secs) - As of the 13th of February Mike and Jason have been locked up without trial for 114 days.
A father's story (7m 28secs) - After the release on bail of Michael Turner and Jason McGoldrick, Mark Turner speaks about the ordeal they’ve been through.
EU Justice (7m 43secs) - A visit to a Budapest prison to discover at first hand the reality of being caught up by the European Union arrest warrant and Lib Dem MEP Graham Watson is confronted by William over his part in the creation of the E.A.W. The Observer has the background.
J'accuse (5m 37secs) - William names and shames the political suspects.
Prisoners of the European Union (2m 2secs) - The realties of being caught up by the European Arrest warrant.
French justice is EU justice is bent justice - Mary Ellen Synon exposes continental style justice.

The economy and the European Union

Trade works better than aid (2m 8secs) - But why should the UK need to ask with whom it may trade with?
Irresponsible socialism (2m 34secs) - Job creation and the rhetoric of socialism.
Cheese Eton Surrender Monkeys
(5m 54secs) - David Cameron and George Osborne are in Europe and run by Europe.
Read the label
(1m 55secs) - Will the UK be forced to comply with new labelling requirements?
Transfer Union
(1m 52secs) - EU2020 strategy will bring about economic chaos
Beneficial crisis
(2m 55secs) - The AIFM directive - turning a crisis into a regulation opportunity.
It's all Greek?
  - A question on the Greek economic bailout leaves a lot unanswered.
Enterprise
(2m 14secs) - William speaks out on behalf of the unemployed across Europe and supports small businesses being the engine to create new jobs. You can watch the full debate here.
From Redcar to Copenhagen - Christopher Booker, columnist for the Sunday Telegraph,  makes the connections between job losses, the EU and 'global warming' in our guest slot.
Jobs crisis in the European Union (1m 59secs) - "They are ringing the bells now, very soon they will be wringing their hands"
The Three Amigos (2m 48secs) - Euro-Med trade-offs are not in the UK's interests.
UK - Japan trade links (3m 27secs) - We have bigger ambitions than the E.U. cul-de-sac.

Turkish EU membership

Turkey - A State too far (8m 24secs) - William Dartmouth talks Turkey at the UKIP national conference.

David Cameron gives his full support for Turkish membership of the EU. (If you hear no sound please adjust the slider above the sound icon after you click play.)

Were you asked? (3m) - Do you agree with the conservative party that Turkey should join the European Union? For a longer version click here.
The Turkish question
(52secs) - Is Turkey actually in Europe?
The bigger picture
(5m 48secs) - Sizing up the future of the European Union.
European fault line (1m 19secs) - The cracks are beginning to show in European Union.

Baroness Ashton and the CND connection

Smiling Cathy
Why is our High representative Cathy Ashton smiling? - Find out here.
Explanations please (1m 31secs) - William demands an explanation on why his mike was switched off.
Time to get angry
(6m 23secs) - Politics with a passion.
Lady Ashton's record
- William sets the record straight in a letter to the Telegraph.
Arctic freeze!
(1m 41secs) - William has his microphone switched off in the EU 'Parliament' during the EU's 'Arctic Policy' debate.
A seat on the UN security council?
(1m 36secs) - Ashton is quizzed over her views on a common seat on the UN security council.
Asking questions
- William writes to Baroness Ashton to clarify her past connections to the campaign for nuclear disarmament.
Non Je Ne Regrette Rien (2m 23secs) - Does Ashton regret her past involvement with the CND?
Cathy come home - Mary Ellon Synon goes in search of Baroness Ashton.
Could this woman have a veto over the Falklands dispute? - With Argentina making noises over the Falklands again, it's important to know how the 'High Representative for Foreign Affairs' treated this issue in the past.

Our Vision

Welcome to my website.
I hope that you will share our aim for a better tomorrow for the United Kingdom outside the European Union (EU).
Outside the EU, Britain would no longer be paying £45 million a day in gross contribution, we would no longer have 75% of our laws derived from the EU - many of these are ill-considered, ill-thought out and inappropriate, even unto light bulbs - and we would be safer. This is because we would be able to control our borders.
Britain would be able to engage with the world outside the EU, in particular the fast-growing economies of India and China, on our own terms and in our own way.

My vision is for an independent United Kingdom in control of its own laws, in control of its economy, in control of its trade relationships and in control of its borders and foreign policy.

My personal mission is to protect the interests of the United Kingdom in the European Parliament and, as the best solution, to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union.

*"Yes we will" - These 3 words summarise well the optimism of UKIP supporters that Britain will be a free nation once again and leave the EU sooner rather than later. When that happens Britain will regain its pride and will be better off economically, socially and politically. - William Dartmouth UKIP MEP

Why should the United Kingdom be independent?

  • Out of the EU, we would save £45 million per day in gross contribution.
  • Out of the EU, we would regain control of 75% of our laws, many of which are ill-considered, irrelevant or inappropriate.
  • Out of the EU, we would be able to negotiate our own trade agreements, allowing us to benefit from our special relationships with the growth economies of India and China.
  • Out of the EU, we would be in charge of our own borders and our foreign policies.

What would we lose?

  • Access to the European market of 400 million consumers? Nonsense. Even Libya has been offered a trade agreement with the European Union that is more attractive than the United Kingdom’s current position.
  • The stabilising influence of the Euro and the European Parliament? Nonsense. We will never constrain our freedom by joining the Euro; and the European Parliament is a source of muddled compromise, bureaucracy and inaction.
  • The reduced risk of conflict in Europe? Yes, Europe has had a torrid past. But binding us together with legal straight jackets, corrupt officials and unelected bureaucrats is more likely, rather than less likely, to lead to conflict between us.

The 'Europe of Freedom and Democracy' GroupThe EFD Group

Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group
The UK Independence Party is a member of the EFD (Europe for Freedom and Democracy). UKIP MEPs sit with likeminded members from other European countries and form a Group. Being part of a Group gives UKIP MEPs additional speaking rights. It also gives access to additional funds for research and secretarial help.

Connections with the the electoral area

The West Country and Gibraltar
  • I have been elected (along with five other MEPs including my fellow UKIP MEP Trevor Colman) for the European Union's South Western area.
  • This encompasses 55 parliamentary constituencies. It covers the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Dorset and Wiltshire. It includes the city of Bristol. On the mainland it stretches East - West from Penzance to Swindon and North - South from Tewkesbury to Bournemouth.
  • It also includes the Scilly Isles and Gibraltar. Of course Britain's membership of the European Union threatens Gibraltar's continuing independence from Spain.
  • I have family roots in South Devon. Separately, my brother Rupert and sister-in-law Victoria have lived between Bath and Bristol for over 20 years. In addition in the grounds of Tewkesbury Abbey there is a memorial to my great grandfather Bertram Cartland; killed in action in World War 1 and his two sons (my great uncles) Captain Tony Cartland and Ronald Cartland MP who were both killed in action in 1940 fighting in the rear guard at Dunkirk.
  • The Cartlands suffered proportionately to many other families in the First World War but disproportionately in the Second. When I visited the Memorial in Tewkesbury it was quite a thought that Ronald Cartland was a sitting Member of Parliament when he died as a member of the TA. Ronald Cartland MP did not have to be fighting at Dunkirk at all - rather a contrast from today's professional politicians. There were then many other MPs in uniform.
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