A Fringe Meeting

CONFERENCEFRINGE MEETING

BRUGES GROUP CONSERVATIVE PARTY FRINGE MEETINGTHE EU:

OPTIONS FOR BRITAIN

2.30pm – 4.00pm Tuesday, 3rd October 2006

Lectures: 2.30pm

THE SPEAKERS

DOUGLAS CARSWELL MP and CHRISTOPHER BOOKER

Admission Free Open to all
The Restaurant Bournemouth International Hotel Bournemouth

DOUGLAS CARSWELL MP

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The member of Parliament for Harwich and Clacton. Dod’s political biography describes Douglas as being “Tall and Eurosceptic ...He is one of his party’s radical thinkers.''

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Douglas believes that public services fail all too often because power has increasingly been put in the hands of remote and unaccountable elites. The answer, believes Douglas, is Direct Democracy – pushing power away from Whitehall and Brussels, down to the individual, where possible, or failing that the town hall.Issues advocated by Douglas are; the abolition of the Council Tax and for VAT to be converted into a local sales tax, to make local authorities self-financing, more accountability in public services, directly elected sheriffs, decentralisation of the NHS, public hearings for judicial appointments and the democratisation of quangos. Achieving Britain’s independence is one of Douglas’ overriding political interests.

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CHRISTOPHER BOOKER

A journalist for The Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of the Bruges Group paper Britain and Europe: The Culture of Deceit and the co-author of The Great Deception: Can the European Union Survive?

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