message to UKIP supporters

UKIP Councillors are expected to follow the best interests of their constituents.
They do not just toe the party line, as the other parties do.

Democracy:
Introduce binding local planning referendums on major decisions, such as out-of-town or large-scale supermarket developments, wind turbines, incinerators, solar farms, major housing developments and transport schemes like HS2.

Economy and Enterprise:
Reduce tax and business costs to stimulate the local economy. Make it easier for smaller and local businesses to tender for local authority contracts.

Environment, Planning and Housing:
Reduce the pressure on housing by ending open-door immigration. Oppose the bedroom tax, but provide incentives to re-use empty homes. Protect our green spaces by directing new housing and business developments to brown-field sites. Stop preferential treatment to special groups such as travellers - rules should apply equally to us all.

Education:
Improve access to quality local education and create more grammar
schools and technical skills colleges, encourage vocational apprenticeships,
give parents the right to choose where their children go to school, protect rural
schools and support home schooling.

Public Health and Social Care:
Put local communities at the heart of health care. Oppose health tourism and cuts to front-line doctors, surgeons, dentists and nurses, but reduce the number of managers and executives.

Transport and Roads:
Improve road maintenance as a priority. Mending potholes should take priority over council vanity schemes. Upgrade public transport, especially maintaining and reinstating rural bus routes that many communities depend on and which feed town-centre businesses and markets. Increase provision of free parking to regenerate town centres and boost business. Oppose any introduction of tolling on our roads and motorways.

Bin Collection:
We are opposed to the loss of weekly bin collections and will restore it in councils where the majority of residents seek for it to be returned.

Culture and Heritage:
Preserve our public libraries and develop a local buildings listing programme to allow communities to protect buildings of local importance.

Safer Communities: Keep real police officers on the beat and stop the scrapping of front-line police jobs. Adopt a zero tolerance approach to anti-social
behaviour and crack down on nuisance neighbours.

Energise the voluntary sector:
UKIP believes that the best decisions are decisions that are made locally. Community groups and volunteers are often better placed to run facilities and services than the State. By ensuring that these groups are supported, empowered and energised much more can be achieved.

Here are just some of the ways we will save your money:

Cut councillors’ excessive allowances and expenses
Slash excessive pay deals for senior council staff
Limit the number of highly-paid council employees
Cut the councils’ advertising and self-promotion budgets
Build partnerships to reduce costs
Abolish non-essential and politically-correct jobs and red tape
Leave the EU and save £55 million every day
Drop the EU Landfill Directive to cut refuse disposal costs
Control immigration to ease the burden on local services
Close unnecessary central government departments and quangos
End wasteful EU and UK subsidies to ‘renewable energy scams’, such as wind turbines and solar farms
Require all visitors to show adequate health insurance at the point of entry into the UK
Make it easier for schools to sack bad teachers
Reduce bureaucracy in the education system
Sell unused state-owned property and assets
Oppose EU directives adding artificial and detrimental costs

Bang on moisok.

Can never see how being in or out of the EEC is viewed simplistically as a left wing or right wing thing.

For me, the issue of Europe is all about what Tony Benn said. Who governs us and where is that power based and how accountable is it, what purpose is it serving etc.

Whilst clearly not cut from the same bolt of cloth, Kilroy-Silk was another left winger and liberal thinker who supported (and joined) UKIP.

An interesting, potent, precise and revealing post big issue.  You should be congratulated on your erudition and political insight.

Oooh, I dunno.


Open any page on chit chat.

There'll be dozens of threads complaining, often at great length, stuffed full of examples (both real and imaginary) of how the liberal elite / pc brigade / Grauniad rewaders / lefties are censoring their right to free speech.

BUT ONLY IF IT IS THEIR OWN!!!  and they hurl fascist and nazi comments all over the place but actually practice fascist tendencies themselves as far as debate is concerned - ironic!!!  Northernliar being one of the worst.

Well said sj...as the Euro elections get ever nearer the defamation of UKIP gets louder and louder from the other interested parties..ie: all of em.The bookies odds at  4/9 on UKIP tells its own story.

Huntingdon MP Jonathan Djanogly likely to be prosecution witness in perverting course of justice trial involving former mayor


Huntingdon MP Jonathan Djanogly is likely to be called as a prosecution witness in the trial of a former town mayor accused of perverting the course of justice
Mr Djanogly has been named as one of the witnesses who will testify later this year during the trial of Councillor Saeed Akthar, who is accused of committing a series of acts between September 18 and October 16, 2013, with intent to pervert the course of public justice in relation to his son’s court case.

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http://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/latest-news/huntingdon_mp_jonathan_djanogly_likely_to_be_prosecution_witness_in_perverting_course_of_justice_trial_involving_former_mayor_1_3599092

Labour councillor stands down from Co-Op board in row over fake qualifications
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/co-op-board-member-labour-councillor-munir-malik-leaves-amid-qualification-probe-1448467

Labour council leader stands down in Thanet amid allegations of homophobia
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http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/council-leader-resigns-after-angry-17091/

Entire Independent Remuneration Panel resign in protest as Tory councillors in Surrey increase their personal allowances by 60%.
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http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/11207641.Shock_resignation_in_council_expenses_row/?ref=var_0

Tory Peer and former leader of Essex County Council fined £3,300 and suspended from Lords over expenses 'signing in' fraud - he has already served a prison sentence for fraud
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10824430/Tory-peer-set-to-receive-record-Lords-ban-for-abusing-expenses.html

Tory councillor fails to enter plea to child pornography charges at court hearing
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http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Resort-s-mayor-court-facing-child-indecency/story-21081963-detail/story.html

Correct Bigmo they're all the same

I'm surprised the news of one labour candidate being exposed a conservative party member has passed without comment. The horror! You couldn't make it up!

sj
20 May 14 18:28   
HGV drivers have also been badly affected by eastern european drivers, again those in high paid jobs will probably tell others British HGV drivers are and also always been lazy as well. Nothing at all with now, no weekend rate or bank holiday with haulage companies. I've no problem with the influx as long as it doesnt affect people already doing the job massively and it has done. I've also no problem with those coming from abroad to get more money I do though have a problem with the government not protecting those already doing the job

Eastern european drivers who work for bosses (like Willie Betz) not themselves, are notorious for coming to the UK with nowhere near a full lorry, or a full load (24 tons. I recall one case about 12 years ago of port authorites taking 2 pallets from each of 10 x 40 footers, leaving them empty  and turning them away, then loading the lot on 1 x 40 footer to go on to England.

The UK based driver needs a full load (volume wise for groupage) or weight wise, to make any profit. He purchased his fuel in the UK, not at the cheap eastern european rates.

Willie Betz drivers wages (back then) were absolute crap by UK standards, about £140 a month. Because of this, once Willie Betz trailers are in the UK, their boss can undercut UK driver rates for returning to Europe by a fair bit.  Don't forget that these fully loaded vehicles are well over 30 tons (gtw) and only do 8 to 10 miles to a gallon.

Betz drivers (and he has two in each vehicle to keep it moving 24/7) whizz about and are off back across the channel as fast as possible. And their crap wage is why you never see them eat in motorway service stations, they park in the far corners of the lorry park, and have gas mini-cookers folded up under their bodywork.  In some places they are banned from using the toilet facilities because of the mess they leave behind.

And having worked for years in a groupage warehouse where Betz trailers were used a lot, you really do have to 'nail everything down' because their pay is so bad they will nick anything they can sell for a few bob elsewhere.

We lost stuff as trivial as marker pens, biros, rolls of brown selotape, staplers, brooms, shovels, extension leads with lights on, waste bins, even plastic chairs that were outside for staff to sit on, when on their dinner break and smoking. Any overalls discarded by warehouse staff on a hot day during a shift, also went missing.

Sergio ---a treat



http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3yVJmBwSk

i live in sheffield and i never see any trouble. lovely city. lots of nice trees, leafy suburbs. million pound houses. anybody who thinks its a rough "northern" place hasnt got a clue. the city centre is reasonably ok but a bit dodgy cos of chuggers, beggars, swindlers and rotten bounders. but apart from that, stay away from the poor people and its the best city in the country!

a bit like the 'riot' at croydon, but nothing on line about the supposed stabbing of a ukip council candidate
I do love the selective reporting.