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Council Tax - an idea

2007-01-25T13:44:00.000Z

We all know that under Labour the Council Tax has doubled, and is particularly unfair on those living on a state pension - so here's my idea. UKIP led councils should pledge to the public that Council Tax rises will be capped at 1/2% less than the annual award given to pensioners each year.

For example, if the state pension this year is increased by 4%, then the Council Tax increase should be no higher than 3 1/2%.

When UKIP gets sufficient support at Westminster, then the whole issue of this tax should be raised. For a start, the Uniform Business Rate should be kept by local councils rather than paid to central government.

In addition, we will start to claw-back the over £2,500,000 taken out of the Council Tax each year to pay for the EU's council in our area, the West Midlands Regional Assembly - to paraphrase the Americans some time ago; no representation - no taxation.

It's time to abolish this EU imposed, un-elected, un-accountable, level of government answeable only to the EU commisars in Brussels.

Reid offer criminals 'Get out of jail free' card

2007-01-25T12:15:00.000Z

Today’s letter from the Home Secretary, Attorney General and the Lord Chancellor demanding that judges and magistrates go out of their way to keep villains out of prison is another example of how the Government holds the average citizen in contempt.
Gerard Batten MEP, the Justice spokesman of the UK Independence Party said, “What a gift to the criminal classes. It is already hard enough to get sent to jail, and now it becomes almost impossible. They must be laughing at us”.
“The Home office is abandoning the law-abiding to the mercies of petty criminals who now know that they have the freedom to do as they please with little risk of them going to prison. This is a criminal’s charter”
Of course there is a way to deal with prison overcrowding, build more jails. This government has had ten years to get a grip on the situation, yet instead of protecting the public, it has made the situation far, far worse.
“Muggers, burglars, thieves and assorted other criminals now have little fear of being arrested, and in the unlikely event of conviction they have very little prospect of imprisonment. Almost everyone now has personal experience of criminals who, even when convicted have got off near scot free”.
“This government has proved that crime does pay. Perhaps the reason that they are being so soft on crime is that they have their own concerns”.

Please support the West Midlands NO campaign

2007-01-25T08:51:00.000Z

There's a new petition on 10 Downing Street's site - not by me this time! It's been posted by the West Midlands No Campaign. Their website is http://www.westmidlandsno.org.uk/

You can sign their petition using this link - I have!

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/regionalquangos/

The more pressure that's kept on the LibLabCon-pact on regional assemblies - the better.

Petition against regional assemblies

2007-01-25T07:51:00.000Z

Thanks to everyone who signed the petition against the imposition of regional assemblies on the UK. This is an un-elected, EU imposed, level of government which is taking away power from your local council, both borough and county. You HAVE NO RIGHTS when it comes to their decisions, yet they take over £2,500,000 out of your council tax to pay for it.

The West Midlands Regional Assembly is not answerable to the government, it is the local council arm of the EU, and is answerable only to their EU puppet-masters in Brussels.

The EU has effectively disenfranchised us - they have taken away the power of democracy, the power of 'one person, one vote'.

What do we do after leaving the EU?

2007-01-18T11:49:00.000Z

I mentioned my membership of UKIP last night to someone, who said 'but what happens when UKIP succeeds and we leave the EU? We'll be on our own!'

'But we won't be on our own' I replied, and outlined the case for EFTA - European Free Trade Area - which is where the UK should have been all along!

For a detailed explanation, and of the advantages EFTA countries have over EU countries, go to the link below:

http://www.brugesgroup.com/mediacentre/index.live?article=10488

This is from the Bruges Group.

Enjoy!

Immigration - your right to know

2007-01-17T15:52:00.000Z

400 million EU citizens are at present entitled to come and live in the UK. Nearly 1,000,000 East Europeans have come to live in the UK since May 2005. From 1 January this year the LibLabCon-pact have voted to allow in another 22,000,000 Romanians and 8,000,000 Bulgarians. Now, 300,000 Moldovans are trying to get Romanian passports so they have the right to come to the UK as well!

Only UKIP MEPs voted against the enlargement of the EU.

Click on this link for the report in The Sentinel - 89 languages now spoken in North Staffs
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=158338&command=displayContent&sourceNode=158321&contentPK=16402992&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch

Isn't it time we called a halt to mass immigration?

Drink driving - here's a thought

2007-01-16T10:01:00.000Z

In my opinion anyone caught driving a car with more than the legal maximum alcohol level allowed in their bloodstream should face an automatic charge of 'attempted manslaughter to person or persons unknown' and should carry a minimum 1 year imprisonment. Where an injury occurs, the minimum should be 2 years, and where death occurs, a minimum of 5 years.

Yet more littering!!!!

2007-01-10T12:01:00.000Z

I walked past a well-known burger bar in Newcastle this morning. Outside were a group of about 8 youths. One youth, who was stood right next to the litter bin outside the burger bar, had a carton of hot drink and a burger. As I watched, he took off the plastic lid of the cup, threw the lid onto the pavement, then put the cup ON TOP OF THE LITTER BIN! He then unwrapped his burger, and the packaging of that went straight onto the pavement!

Hasn't this youth got any pride in his town? Obviously not!

When will Newcastle Council introduce Town Warders as in Gloucester, who give out on-the-spot fines for littering of up to £75 per offence. Anyone who refuses to pay is automatically caught on cameras they have strapped to their heads, and these pictures are then put on a council website asking for information concerning the identity of the offenders, leading to prosecution.

UK Independence Party secures foothold in Westminster

2007-01-09T16:42:00.000Z

09-01-2007

Two former Conservative peers will defect to the United Kingdom Independence Party today, giving the Eurosceptic group its first foothold in Parliament.

Lord Pearson of Rannoch and Lord Willoughby de Broke will create a UKIP group in the House of Lords, promising to recruit other members and to persuade leading Conservative donors to switch allegiance.

The development is a severe blow for David Cameron, whose leadership faces mounting criticism for ditching traditional Conservative beliefs, with warnings from his own MPs that he is losing the support of core voters.

Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP, said: “It’s an important step in UKIP’s development. To have a foothold in Westminster will make quite a difference. It means we have a voice inside the Westminster village, which has been badly needed. It will also help us raise money.”

Lord Pearson, who was put forward for his peerage by Margaret Thatcher, and Lord Willoughby de Broke, a former member of the House of Lords EU Scrutiny Committee, will enable UKIP to fulfil its long-held aspiration of a Westminster power base.

UKIP has ten members in the European Parliament, but has failed to get anyone elected to the House of Commons.

Several former MPs, including Roger Knapman and the television presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk, defected to UKIP, but only after they had left Parliament. Lord Pearson, chairman of PWS insurance broker, said that he was joining UKIP because Mr Cameron had softened his stance on Europe, particularly after a recent trip to Brussels, when he promised to work with the European Commission on tackling climate change.

He said: “We’ve really given up hope that under its present leadership the Conservative Party will be appropriately Eurosceptic by the next election. Under David Cameron, the leadership has become a lot more Europhile even than it was under Michael Howard,” he told The Times.

The two Lords took the Conservative whip for 15 years, but had it withdrawn in 2004 after they urged voters to support UKIP. They are now embarking on a full-scale defection, insisting that the interests of the country must be put before those of the Conservative Party.

Lord Willoughby de Broke, who is posting back his membership card to his local Conservative association, of which he is still a member, said: “This country’s best interests are served outside the European Union, and UKIP is the only party campaigning for that. Some will say we have let the Conservative Party down, but the party has let us down, and the country down.”

The peers hope that about half a dozen of their colleagues will follow their lead. Lord Pearson, who was offered a ministerial position by John Major, has been a leading party fundraiser. He is confident that donors will also make the switch. He said: “If you are a big funder of the Conservative Party, you are likely to be frustrated with the current leadership, and I know quite a few who are. I don’t see why people who have been funding the Conservative Party for a long time shouldn’t put their country before the current leadership.” UKIP has been targeting disaffected Conservative supporters, recruiting several highprofile activists and former Tory candidates. However, the breakthrough into Parliament was possible only after UKIP dropped its previous pledge to destroy the Conservative Party. It recently said that it would not stand against any Tory MP officially supporting Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.

Let's have Churchill Day

2007-01-04T11:07:00.000Z

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Churchill/

I've put a new petition on 10 Downing Street's site, this one calling for the abolition of the Socialist May Day Bank Holiday and asking for a replacement called Churchill Day celebrating the birth of Sir Winston Churchill on 30 November.

Back in the late 1920's Sir Winston advocated a form of 'United States of Europe' and said in a famous speech that Britain should be "interested in it, but not absorbed by it," and that we should be friends with it, along with the British Commonwealth and America.

I wonder how he would have felt today, seeing our freedoms that he and his generation fought to preserve, being taken away from us by the EU.

It's been said before, but it's worth repeating, we are sleepwalking into a silent coup d'etat.

It is time we said NO to the EU.

EU 'TRYING TO BRAINWASH CHILDREN IN CLASSROOM'

2007-01-03T11:26:00.000Z

REPORT FROM THE YORKSHIRE POST Simon McGee Political Editor

THE EU has been accused of using underhand means in the classroom to try to "brainwash" British children into becoming enthusiastic supporters of the European project.

http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1953121

A new teaching pack on the EU has been introduced for use in Key Stage 3 and 4 "citizenship" classes that claims to offer a balanced view of the organisation and its role.The taxpayer-funded materials – available to schools in bulk and at no cost from the European Parliament's UK office – hail the effectiveness of EU legislation on everything from smoking and workers' rights to genetically modified organisms and food labelling.

But Eurosceptics were up in arms last night about elements of the lesson notes and pupil worksheets, which guide teachers and pupils in "de-bunking" the views of a man who is critical of a lack of democracy in the EU.

The UK Independence Party, which blew the whistle on the pack, also attacked the way the Eurosceptic character featured in the pupil worksheets – "Portsmouth plumber Charlie Bolton" – is an ageing, white man who contrasts with other young, smiling, fresh-faced people. Below a chart showing how the various institutions of the EU, such as the European Parliament and European Commission, interact, Charlie Bolton says: "Europe – it's just faceless bureaucrats – none of them elected. "And they impose their laws on us from Brussels whenever they fancy. All that red tape to make our lives harder."

It then guides pupils to reject the notion that the EU is anti-democratic by reminding them of the elected European Parliament. "Do you agree with Charlie? What does the flow chart tell you about how laws are made?" it asks. The teacher is also instructed to show pupils how to counter his argument and to lead the pupils to conclude that he is wrong and that the EU is democratic. The lesson plan reads: "Discuss Charlie Bolton's attitude to EU legislation. If Charlie knew that the Members of the European Parliament are elected and that the Council of Ministers represents our governments, do the students think that he would change his mind?"

Yorkshire's UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom hit out last night at the pack, branding it "bias and propaganda, masquerading as neutral fact". "At a time when the Government has been downplaying Britain's history and political traditions in our schools, taxpayers are instead forced to pay for our children to learn EU systems," he said."Given that up to 75 per cent of our laws are now made in Brussels, I suppose it does make some sense, but I am sure that most parents would want their children to learn our political systems and institutions rather those that are being imposed upon us."It is obvious that the EU has given up on persuading the grown ups, so now they have started on the children."

Shipley's Tory MP Philip Davies, spokesman for the Better Off Out campaign, added: "The EU gets more like the Soviet Union every day when it resorts to brainwashing children. "All it does is confirm my worst fears."But it's not just Charlie Bolton who's sick of the EU – opinion polls show that more and more people are fed up with membership and now a majority of businesses are against it."It smacks of utter desperation on their part because they know they've been rumbled."The European Parliament insists that the pack is impartial and that it helps pupils make their own minds up about the EU."The resources have been designed to offer a balanced introduction to the European Union and the European Parliament, to encourage students to take part in discussion and to form their own view on the subjects covered in the resources," say the officials responsible for the pack.

IS THIS HAPPENING TO YOUR CHILDREN/GRANDCHILDREN HERE IN NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME?

Migrants contribution 'very slight'

2007-01-03T10:23:00.001Z

Around 600,000 workers have come from Eastern Europe in two years. The contribution of immigrants to the UK economy is "very slight indeed" and the main benefits are to the migrants themselves, a pressure group has said.

Read the full article here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6226217.stm

So much for Marion Becketts assertions that migrants benefit the UK. How many more are we going to take in before we see the truth?

Happy New Year - particularly if you're Bulgarian!

2007-01-01T12:58:00.000Z

According to Marion Beckett, the influx of yet more 'EU' migrants will be of benefit to the UK. See the full report on the BBC website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6221979.stm

Walking around Newcastle at times, it sound like we are living in a foreign country. I was barged into the other day, and, being British, apologised even though I wasn't in the wrong. In return I had what can only be described as an angry torrent of words from the other person. I'm assuming that I was being told off, but as the words were in a foreign language, I am unable to tell you what the person said!

I have no objection to legitimate asylum seekers, but when people flock in to our country simply for the welfare state benefits they get, then I do object.

In 2004 when the last accession countries joined the EU, our government was one of the few who allowed residents of those countries immediate access; most other countries accepted the interim measures which prevents access for 7 years. Why are we so lenient?

IS IT BECAUSE, UNLIKE FRANCE AND GERMANY, OUR GOVERNMENT DOESN'T FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS?

NOW EU WANTS A £510 INCOME TAX

2006-12-31T16:57:00.000Z

By Kirsty Buchanan Deputy Political Editor, The Express http://express.lineone.net/news_detail.html?sku=973

BRUSSELS politicians have drawn up proposals to create a European income tax which would leave Britons shelling out £510 a year to the superstate. The rumbling row over the size of Britain’s rebate from Europe resurfaced as an influential committee of MEPs received recommendations for sweeping reforms to the Union’s current funding system. The Committee On Budgets is facing calls to scale back the current system in favour of a form of direct taxation when Britain’s rebate is re-negotiated in 2008. A report drawn up for the committee urges MEPs to “seriously consider the necessity of ensuring a direct and transparent link” between the Union’s resources and its citizens.It adds that, “in the search for such a link due considerationbe given to paying part of an identified direct tax” to the Union’s budget.

The recommendations, drawn up by the Committee On Regional Development, have been seized on by the UK Independence Party as evidence that Britons face the threat of a Brussels tax on their pay packets on top of ordinary tax. Currently the Treasury pays £9billion to the European Union and receives a rebate of up to £3billion annually. Our Euro funding is not sliced from earners’ income tax but is raised primarily on levies on imports into Britain and on VAT charged on most goods we buy. A portion is also taken from Britain’s own gross domestic product.

John Whittaker, Ukip MEP, warned that Britons would end up out of pocket if Brussels looked to raise revenue through direct taxes.“British taxpayers are already paying through the nose to fund the EU, the last thing they need is yet another tax,” he added.“The EU is not directly accountable to the people of this country. To give these unelected bureaucrats power over tax is a massive step in the wrongdirection. Most people see the EU wasting money left, right and centre. The last thing we need is them having more to pour down the drain.”

The committee’s paper accepts that while national contributions will remain an important source of the Union budget it proposes a revenue-raising system to reduce the importance of national contributions.Rebates which are “manifestly no longer justified” shouldbe abolished, the paper adds, while any new system should “reflect the relative prosperity of each member state and itsability to pay”.The paper suggests a direct tax could take the form of an income tax or a corporation tax.

The rebate was won by former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984 to make up for the huge farming subsidies enjoyed by France and Germany.But even with the rebate, Britain remains the second highest Union contributor out of an institution that will, from tomorrow, boast 27 member states.

In 2005, Tony Blair suggested Britain would be prepared to give up some of the £3billion rebate in return for cuts in German and French farm subsidies but French President Jacques Chirac refused to give way.

The Union budget is still dominated by farming payments which eat up £37.73billion, or 49 per cent of all spending.

The end to red?

2006-12-23T12:41:00.000Z

I was talking to a couple who now live full-time on a narrowboat on the canal, and they were complaining of the increase in duty on red diesel. I have copied an article below, which appeared in Motor Boat Monthly.

On Thursday a Communication from the European Commission revealed that they have rejected the UK's arguments for an extension to the red diesel derogation.

You can read the Communication here

This means that pleasure boaters will no longer be able to use the low-tax fuel. But it also raises numerous questions.The first question is how the Government will react. The Commission only specifies a minimum rate of tax, which is considerably lower than the rate charged on petrol and diesel in the UK.

We will be arguing very strongly that marine users should be paying the European minimum (around 20p per litre) rather than the current roadside diesel duty, which is 48.35p per litre. Currenly red diesel is taxed at 7.69p per litre.

What we don't know is when the new tax rate will come into effect. Banning motorboaters from using red diesel will require a change to our legislation, which obviously takes time. It is thought that we could not implement a change before March or April at the earliest.

Finally, the Communication from the Commission mentions that "the applicant Member States may adopt measures aimed at alleviating or mitigating problems of transition to the regime of standard taxation". Exactly what this means is unclear, but we are talking to the Treasury to learn more.

This is yet another example of how the EU is taking control of our tax and duty regulations.

What will be the knock-on effects on our local economy? Fewer narrowboat holidays, resulting in un-employment?

It is time we said NO TO THE EU.

Join UKIP today and support our aim to leave the EU. Support your local UKIP candidates who are not scared to tell you the truth about the EU and their attempt to control all aspects of British life.

Say NO to ID cards

2006-12-22T11:10:00.000Z

UK IDENTITY CARDS - THE FACTS

Reproduced from The Freedom Association

1. The simplistic argument that if one has nothing to hide then one has nothing to fear ignores the infringement of civil liberties that the imposition of Identity Cards would represent and totally overlooks the practical problems implicit in administering the system.

2. It is well known that any form of documentation from a Passport to a 100 Euro note is obtainable from counterfeiters and it is improbable that forged ID cards will not also be available, in spite of the use of ‘state of the art’ technology.

3. On the admission of no less a person than Patricia Hewitt, whilst Secretary of State for Trade & Industry, some 15 million National Insurance numbers cannot be accounted for. In the realms of Agriculture the British Cattle Movement Service lost 93,000 identities in one year alone (2003) in spite of having been established only 6 years previously in purpose built accommodation equipped with the very latest in computerised systems. Examples of where Government run any service efficiently and effectively are difficult to identify. That they will administer ID cards any more efficaciously is extremely doubtful.

4. Government claim that ID cards will help to stamp out illegal immigration, organised crime, terrorism, stolen identity and social security fraud. The reality is that the introduction of ID cards will impose a burden upon millions of bona fide law abiding British subjects (i.e. the majority) whilst failing to tackle the underlying problem which is that, for whatever reason, the army of civil servants that we are employing and who, in the main, are answerable to the Home Office and the Department of Health & Social Security are failing to discharge their functions in a satisfactory way. Instead of concentrating upon improving the performance of the departments for which it alone is responsible Government, as always, tries to shift the spotlight elsewhere, hence ID cards as the panacea for ills.

5. Even without ID cards it is practically inconceivable that a bona fide British subject would have difficulty establishing his or her identity (birth certificate, driving licence, passport, pension book, utility bill, National Insurance number, NHS number etc. etc.). On the other hand an illegal immigrant armed with a forged ID card would instantly acquire a legitimacy to which he was not entitled and which he would not otherwise have.

6. There is little or no evidence to demonstrate that in countries with ID cards the incidence of offences in the categories highlighted by Government are any less. Identity cards in both countries did nothing to prevent the 9/11 bombing of the Twin Towers being planned in Germany nor the explosions on passenger trains in Spain.

7. Inevitably there will be huge cost implications associated with the introduction of ID cards – figures in the region of £3bn centrally + £93 per person have been bandied about – and the view might reasonably be taken that this money would be better spent strengthening the forces of law and order rather than on a project of dubious benefit.

8. The strong suspicion remains that the real reason why the Home Secretary is pushing for ID cards, just as Michael Howard did whilst Home Secretary in the last Conservative government, is to satisfy the European Union.

9. By the creation of a National Database the power of the state over the individual subject is increased immeasurably.

The Freedom Association, PO Box 2820, Bridgnorth, Shropshire WV16 6YR
Tel/Fax: 01746 861267 Email: mail@tfa.net Website: www.tfa.net

NEW EU TAX TO BE IMPOSED ON THE UK

2006-12-21T14:01:00.000Z

A row has developed over the European Union's plans to impose tax harmonisation.

The European Parliament wants power to be given to the EU to impose direct taxation in all member countries to end the squabbles over national contributions.

Currently, the majority of EU funding comes from government contributions but the Euro Parliament wants to force a new "revenue raising system" which would include a new EU tax and the end of national rebates.

UK Independence Party MEP John Whittaker said,

"British tax payers are already paying through the nose to fund the EU; the last thing they need is yet another tax.

"The EU is not directly accountable to the people of this country: to give these unelected bureaucrats power over tax is a massive step in the wrong direction.

"Most people see the EU wasting money left, right and centre. The last thing we need is them having more to pour down the drain. If they want fewer fights over national contributions, then maybe they should consider the way they spend the money.

"What we need in this country are tax cuts, not another tax to harm our competitiveness."

Do you have a question for your local councillor?

2006-12-21T13:54:00.000Z

If you have a question for your local councillor, or your county councillor or your MP, email them through

www.writetothem.com

Please note that you will be unable to talk to your councillor on the West Midlands Regional Assembly because THEY ARE UNELECTED!!!!!!

Labour have taken away from you the right to vote for a level of government - a regional assembly imposed upon 8 areas of England by The European Union.

POST OFFICE CLOSURES - SOME FACTS

2006-12-21T11:33:00.000Z

2,500 post offices are scheduled to close in the coming year, why? Due to European Union rules the British Government no longer has the right to provide the traditional £150m Social Network Payment which has kept small local post offices in business.

Under Article 88 of the Treaty of Amsterdam, signed by this Labour Government, the payment will have to cease, throwing thousands of post office staff out of work. The new confusing regulations on sizes and weights of letters and packages are directly imposed under the Postal Directive (97/67/EC), which also forces postal services into greater competition with firms such as the German state-owned DHL.

Yet Tony Blair, whose government has allowed this to happen, blames postal workers themselves for failing to attract greater business, all the time taking more and more services out of the post office (vehicle licences, pensions etc.).

Conservative and Lib/Dem politicians make much of this but won’t admit they too are powerless in the face of these EU rules.

Of course, there is something you can do about it. Join the UK Independence party to campaign for withdrawal from the EU. It will then be up to British people to decide what happens to British jobs, not unelected, unaccountable Brussels Bureaucrats.

You can join UKIP either online at www.ukip.org or Freephone 0800 587 6587

Stop the littering!

2006-12-21T06:42:00.000Z

Walking through Castle Walk yesterday I was saddened to see a young mother, with two children, stop next to one of the many litter-bins along the street, take a cigarette out of a packet - which was then apparently empty - which she then threw on the floor!! She was standing NEXT to a litter-bin! Why don't people in Newcastle have pride in the Town?

Is it any wonder that children throw litter if they see and follow the example of their parents?

On a recent journey through France, we stopped at a services for a snack. We watched a French family eat a picnic; at the end of the meal, the three children of the family collected all the litter, walked across to the litter-bin, where they binned it. Why aren't children in Newcastle like that?

When I was a child, we had litter patrols. Each week a class had the responsibility for tidying all litter away from the playground, supervised by a teacher. Do schools do this nowadays?

Make you local councillor aware of the problems in your area.

2006-12-20T17:08:00.001Z

Hi all

Can you all please sign the petition below calling on the government to abolish the Regional Assemblies imposed upon the UK by the EU.

Please forward this request on to everyone you may think will support it.http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/antiregions/

My petition reads:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to abolish the Regional Assemblies in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern IrelandWe disagree with the imposition of an un-elected level of local government on the citizens of the UK. The Regional Assemblies were brought about by the 1957 Treaty of Rome and do not have the support of the majority of British citizens. We disagree that council tax money is used to finance these un-elected bodies - there must be no taxation if there is no representation. These bodies are an attempt to destroy the UK and for the UK to be subsumed into a socialist federal state of Europe.

Thank you all for your support.

2006-12-20T16:37:00.000Z

The letter below was emailed to P Farrelly (Labour MP for NUL) on 20 December 2006 - I await his reply and will post it here as soon as it comes - BUT DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH!

Dear Mr Farrelly,

As a constituent of Newcastle Under Lyme, may I ask you the following questions:

#1 Do you personally support Britain's withdrawal from the EU?

#2 If yes, are you willing to declare your support for EU withdrawal by joining the non-partisan BetterOffOut campaign as a declared supporter?

This issue is of vital importance to me, so I would really appreciate a direct Yes or No answer to my two questions.

Yours sincerely

2006-12-20T16:35:00.000Z

Hello all UKIPers, members and supporters, in Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire.

This is the blog for your comments and suggestions.