Up Close and Personal
A brief summary by CTM founder, Phillip Day

ECLUB: So we lost the vote, eh?
PHILLIP DAY: Yes. Tony Blair has now made it completely clear his party supports the EU's supplements ban for Britain. Another reason to ensure this man never continues his havoc upon our country after the next election….
ECLUB: Although quite what we have to replace him with is another question.
PHILLIP DAY: I long to see a day when we have politicians other than failed attorneys running for office. Dogs scratch. Lawyers lie. The big problem in the recent vote was that only a small percentage of Britain's population had any idea what was on the cards. Many thanks, though, to all who took the trouble to harass their MPs, the response was overwhelming. Several of you sent back official replies from MEPs which said we've all got it wrong and the benevolent EU only wants to ensure we don't take too much Vitamin C. Well, the 1st August ban is not such a distance away. We'll soon know what's involved.
ECLUB: And in the European Court there's been a challenge too?
PHILLIP DAY: The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) has been spearheading attempts to persuade the EU (and our Labour Government) to change its mind either by trying to negotiate amendments to the legislation or declare the whole enterprise unlawful. Their recent communiqué reads as follows:
The Alliance for Natural Health today presented its oral submission to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in its landmark case challenging the ban in the EU Food Supplements Directive on 75% of vitamin and mineral forms currently sold in the EU market. Opposing oral submissions were made by the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament and only one EU Member State, Greece.
UK Government did not present its objections to the challenge. Interestingly, neither the UK government nor Portugal attended to present oral arguments despite having filed Written Observations in the case. This means that none of the major EU countries felt the need to oppose the ANH's application for a declaration that the ban in the Directive was unlawful. (Full ANH press release, click here).
ECLUB: What was the outcome?
PHILLIP DAY: A baffled judge and a court decision sometime in June. The across-the-board ban will commence in the UK from 1st August if no reprieve is granted.
ECLUB: Are you hopeful?
PHILLIP DAY: Not unless ANH lawyers pull a rabbit out of the hat. I've always had strong reservations that the EU will in any way be turned from its course even if it does offer any carrot of apparent amendment. I do support Dr Verkerk's efforts, however, since ANH will serve to bring to wider attention the bankruptcy of the EU system and raise public awareness.
ECLUB: What position is CTM adopting?
PHILLIP DAY: That Britain withdraws her membership of the European Union, a goal supported by almost 70% of our country. Those familiar with the Campaign for Truth in Europe know the corrupt and unreformable EU represents a clear and present danger to our nation's interests in more ways than just in the realm of supplements. CTM's line in the sand will be drawn the day the country votes on the EU constitution and whether to adopt it. If we do, of course, the changes will be irreversible. What most Britons seek is an amicable divorce from the European Union and a free trade agreement with Europe, which is what we thought we were setting up in the first place.
ECLUB: What can people do?
PHILLIP DAY: Tell everyone they know about the encroaching danger of the EU and its constitution, which, far from being a 'tidying up exercise' as Peter Hain declares, or merely the 'rule-book of a golf club', seeks instead to undermine and change irrevocably the freedoms this nation and its citizens fought so hard over the centuries to preserve. In EClubs to follow, I will be advocating exactly this course, using our expansive network and books and videos to give Britons the optimum shot at fighting off this peril. If we don't succeed, then we have only ourselves to blame with what will follow. If we do succeed, then once the country is firmly back in British hands, our parliamentary system will enable us fairly and effectively to lobby and change any harmful legislation concerning vitamins or anything else.
ECLUB: And elsewhere in the world?
PHILLIP DAY: The same attempts by the Codex initiatives to ban alternative remedies continue apace. But the resistance is well organised. In New Zealand, there is the New Zealand Health Trust. In Australia, there's the Alliance for Health Freedom and Eve Hillary. In Europe, there's the mighty Rath Foundation, which warns: "The Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) will come to be seen by future generations as the greatest threat to the basic human right of health the world has ever known. Never before in history has a special interest group, the pharmaceutical industry, so shamelessly tried to compromise the health of billions of people for no other reason than its desire to maintain multi-billion dollar markets for prescription drugs." In the UK, as we know, there's Dr Verkerk's Alliance for Natural Health. In the US, there's John Hammell's excellent International Advocates for Health Freedom.
ECLUB: Very well, what else do you have for us?
PHILLIP DAY: The first of a four-part series on AIDS to celebrate the imminent release of the new Credence title, The Truth About HIV. Many feel the AIDS issue does not concern them. Yet on Saturday, 6th November 2004, in the UK county of Berkshire, 48-year-old Brian Drysdale deliberately parked his car on the rails at a rural level-crossing and waited for the London-Plymouth express train. He was killed instantly, taking with him six other lives and injuring one hundred more as the train ploughed into his car at high speed and derailed. Drysdale had been previously told he was 'HIV-positive'. To understand the pernicious nature of this type of testing is to realise many are being condemned to an unnecessary and dreadful fate at the hands of their doctors. This practice is becoming more widespread as the new epidemic of Medical Testing Disease takes hold.
ECLUB: When will the new book be available?
PHILLIP DAY: People can order it now over the Internet. We should have it in stock by the end of the week.
ECLUB: Thank you, Phillip.