Political Confession

I remain confused by politicians and never cease to wonder why they do not listen to me! Ever since this country started importing labour to fill the jobs created for our youth I have been banging on about this foolhardiness and lack of foresight. Now we have one of the founders of this policy admitting the last government was wrong! Yes,Ed Milliband. Listening to John Denham wheeling and dealing with words to explain it, claiming that immigrant labour was necessary to fill the gaps in our own labour force was absolutely farcical. You will recall that thousands of jobs were created for our youth and  that all were taken up by people from Eastern Europe. Nothing could be done about that, of course, as the EU had opened our borders. There seems to be some progress in the control of people from the rest of the world with tighter controls at the airports. However we are left with a diminishing native population with ghettos sprouting everywhere and a country that is slowly being handed over to the powers in Brussels, with their debt and all. I look forward to wakening on that Monday morning to hear that Brussels has finally blown apart, Barroso. Rumphy Humpy, Fuhrerein Merkel and all.

EU Number Plates

There may be no better time to show your support for your country. Remove the EU emblem from you vehicle number plate. Many think this is legal necessity but it is not. Also it is thought that it is required for travel in Europe. It is not. All that is required is a national sticker. So with the EU imploding either replace the number plate adding your regional flag with GB or purchase a sticker from the UKIP Shop http://www.ukip.org/shop/category/view/rosettes-stickers In this way we can add to the ever increasing number of vehicles that have either a plain plate or one that is national. Long live Britannia!

Headache. The EU Cure

Spain has been promised 100bn euros to shore up its ailing banks. Will this cure the chronic problems within the euro zone? Yet again the whole point is being missed. When treating a disease it is the cause that matters and not so much the symptoms, not that the latter are not important but to hope for a cure treating these will get you nowhere. From the very start of the European project, as it now called, any attempt to rationalise the impossible task of bringing so many divergent nations together under one umbrella was totally ignored. There were fudges, deceits, subterfuge and total lack of democracy. It is now time as it was many moons ago, to revise the whole structure and recognise the many nations that compose the whole wretched organisation. Germany will not support them as they stand. We all know that this was their aim at the start of the last century and that did not work. The goal posts have moved and now they are to be expected to support them without tyranny. They will not. Who will? A break up has to happen with nations returning to their own management, particularly the fringe states, perhaps leaving a central core which might exist for a short while until Germany and France fall out! For Britain to be outside euroland is indeed a fortunate freak occurrence (against the wishes of such "silly" people like one K Clarke MP) and it looks that the dream of a referendum is not too far away. If won the world will become our oyster again with so many opportunities long denied us by the unelected scoundrels in Brussels. Think of world trade, the Commonwealth, fishing, agriculture to mention just a few huge opportunities. For the sake of our children I cringe if this does not happen.

The Traitor Clarke

Copied from the Peoples' Pledge. The best place for one dishonourable K Clarke is the Traitor's Gate. Dear Supporter, This man called you “silly” A few days ago, The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP said on Radio 4: “A referendum on our membership of the EU is an irrelevance. It is the demand of a few Right-wing journalists and a few extreme nationalist politicians. I cannot think of anything sillier to do than to hold a referendum.” As one who has signed the People’s Pledge, do you think an In/Out referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union is silly? Of course not. And nor do the other 108,760 Pledgers. A massive 70% of the British people want an EU referendum. The polls clearly show it. Thurrock people said they want a referendum In Thurrock, Essex, the proportion of people who want a referendum is even higher than that. It’s 90%. How do I know that? Well, the People’s Pledge asked them. Between 11 February and 5 April this year we knocked on doors in Thurrock. Electoral Reform Services Ltd, an independent balloting company, sent them ballot papers and 14,590 people voted. 89.9% of them agreed with a referendum. The 30.4% turnout was higher than the 24.6% at the local council elections in May. That huge response shows Kenneth Clarke what people think is important. The local Tory MP, Jackie Doyle-Price, has a wafer-thin majority of just 92. Does she agree with Ken Clarke that 13,111 of her constituents are “silly”? Help us prove Ken Clarke wrong. Here’s how. The People’s Pledge campaign has stepped up a gear and needs your help. We are now running three local referendums in the constituencies of Cheadle, Hazel Grove and Manchester Withington, all in Greater Manchester. The three constituencies are held by Liberal Democrats MPs who all pledged a referendum on British membership of the EU at the last general election. There are about 150,000 doors to leaflet and on which to knock to askpeople if they would like a national referendum on the EU. It’s 37 years since the country voted in a referendum to stay in the Common Market. These days the European Union has a political dimension as well that economic one. Democracy doesn’t come cheap! Campaigning and the balloting process costs money and we have an urgent need to get more leaflets out to the voters in the Greater Manchester constituencies. Our first referendum in Thurrock made people sit up and listen. The campaign in Greater Manchester will heap even more pressure on MPs in Westminster. So far, 71 MPs have signed the People’s Pledge (see a list here). But we need many more. It costs about £50 to leaflet just one polling district and there are [130] of them to get round. The more money we raise, the more leaflets we can deliver, the more doors we can knock on, the more voters in Cheadle, Hazel Grove and Manchester Withington will vote for a referendum, the more MPs we’ll sign up, and the more likely it is we will achieve our goal of a national referendum for all of us. And when THAT happens it won’t be People’s Pledge supporters left looking silly! So, please, please Donate generously today. With very best wishes, Ian McKenzie Director of the People’s Pledge PS The three Greater Manchester campaigns really are critical so we need you to be as generous as you can. Thank you so much for all your help so far!

Diamond Jubilee

Having seen the wonderful pageant on the River Thames today and under such appalling weather one is left with a real pride in Britain. Yet again those who organise such events have shown a wonderful expertise that can be second to none. Her Majesty has surely deserved it all. She looked wonderful and was obviously enjoying all. Of all the participants the greatest praise has to go to the singers with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Standing on the top deck of the barge in the pouring rain, drenched from the head down, they sang with enthusiasm that brought tears to ones eyes. Bravo!! We are indeed very fortunate to have a Queen who has served us so well over the last 60 years. She was taken to the Royal Barge in the launch of the Royal Yacht Britannia that now lies in a dock in Leith at the whim of politicians all for the sake of a £50m refit that we "could " no longer afford. This yacht was a great asset of the nation serving not only her Majesty but the country as a whole by all the trade and good will it brought us. It was a home to her and a vessel where she could relax gaining some respite from the public eye. It was a mean trick and all for a day's contribution to the EU. Now is the time to return this vessel to her service. It would be a small price for what she has done for us and she surely deserves it. Long live the Monarchy. We bless you Ma'm.