NEWS ........

Kenneth Clarke is one of those MPs who believes explicitly in the abolition of the pound, the Bank of England, the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (i.e. he believes in the Euro). Clarke supported the catastrophic ERM in 1990 which led to 3 million unemployed and he supported the Maastricht Treaty (the greatest ever destruction of our democratic nationhood). Clarke, as a member of Blair's Britain in Europe Campaign is a close ally of the Labour Prime Minister and he has been an avid attendee at meetings of the euro-federalist Bilderberg Group.

When I and others wrote to Clarke as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the early 1990s about his attendance at Bilderberg meetings and his support for abolition of the Pound he wrote back: "I can assure you that I am totally unaware of anyone considering the "abolition of national currencies". I do not believe there was anybody there who could have contemplated such an agreement or that it would have had the slightest effect." Given that 12 European currencies have now been abolished and Clarke's present support for the abolition of the Pound this denial was either an expression of abysmal ignorance of the true meaning of the Euro or of his extreme mendacity.

On 22nd July 1997 the House of Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges published its report on the "Complaint against Mr Kenneth Clarke". He was found guilty of not declaring his expenses (luxury hotel accommodation) for attending a Bilderberg Group meeting in Greece. (Bilderberg was founded by two men - a committed Nazi and an anti Nation State activist who was expelled from both France and Britain during the First World War).

As a student at Cambridge Kenneth Clarke invited the fascist Oswald Mosley to address the Student Conservative Association - his fellow student Michael Howard to his great credit resigned in protest! Needless to say Mosley, the Wartime Leader of the British Union of Fascists, agreed wholeheartedly with Clarke's views on the creation of a European State built on the bones of democratic nations. Michael Howard's tolerance of Clarke today is all the more incredible.

Another student at Cambridge at the time was Norman Lamont, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer who in a Times article wrote: "I was worried about the direction Europe was going. I remember Ken's words to this day - the sooner the House of Commons beomes a county council the better, he said". Lamont also revealed that, while he himself was opposed to remaining in the European Exchnage Rate mechanism it was Kenneth Clarke who in Cabinet pushed for the raising of interest rates to 15% in 1992 in order to defend the Pound so it could stay in the ERM. Three million unemployed was the result.

Clarke opposed the legitimate war against Iraq (based on Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the use of chemical weapons to kill thousands, the ignoring of 17 UN Resolutions, the subsequent end to the cease-fire and the removal of the evil dictator in Saddam Hussein) and yet he supported the illegal war which destroyed our long time ally Yugoslavia where no UN resolution was even sought never mind granted.

On a visit to the North East in 1991, 12 years after the great steel works at Consett had closed Clarke praised its continuing success! When corrected in Parliament for his gaffe he then praised another "Consett company success". Unfortunately that company had also closed down! Other Clarke blunders over recent years have included statements like "The ERM had no effect on British business", "A Single European Currency (ie the abolition of the Pound) would not be a major constitutional issue" and, on failing to enforce Sunday Trading laws as Home Secretary he said "I felt it was not appropriate to apply the law".

Clarke is a Director of BAT, a company which is active in the euro-federalist cause and which was found, after an investigation by Channel Four, to have deliberately targeted supplies at the cigarette smuggling market.

When Clarke was Secretary of State for Education a letter was sent out from his Ministry to Chief Education Officers up and down the land directing them "not to urge religious beliefs on pupils". This was against the law. All that was legally prohibited was the urging of denominational beliefs on pupils. Clarke claimed he "had no recollection" of such a matter. Once again his actions were either grossly incompetent or deliberately destructive of Conservative principles. The same prohibition was wrongly inserted into a Government Circular in 1994 and the result of Clarke's incompetence is the mish mash of "multi faith education" which relativises Christianity in schools.

Kenneth Clarke's membership of the Conservative and Parliamentary party contrasts with the disgraceful treatment of decent Conservatives like Lord Deramore in the Lords and the Eurosceptic MPs in the Commons who - at Clarke's behest - had the Conservative Whip withdrawn by John Major for doing no more than defending the democratic sovereignty of the British people and expressing the views of most Conservatives. To say that Kenneth Clarke has no support within the party and that he is therefore no threat is a dangerous approach to a very serious problem for the Party's credibility and cohesion - as Clarke's repeated appearances on BBC radio and television and on platform's with Tony Blair (Britain in Europe) regularly demonstrate.

There can be no doubt that Kenneth Clarke's time is up. His continuing presence in Parliament and in the Conservative Party alienates 90% of the party membership and certainly any potential Conservative returnees or new recruits. His anti- Conservative sniping gives Tony Blair a valuable ally within Conservative ranks in his fight against the "forces of Conservatism". Clarke's presence may well encourage other anti-Conservative infiltrators to pursue a career in the Conservative Party. Clarke makes a mockery of the vital Tory Party stance against both the Euro and the European Constitution (which Michael Howard "totally rejects"). Kenneth Clarke must be expelled forthwith from the Conservative Party.