Wednesday, 22 June 2016

Racism or Migration Watch?

Racism or Migration Watch?

UKIP leader, Nigel Farage’s poster, “The Breaking Point”, far from being Racist, is a wake-up call for the Tory Government and the Labour Party, to get us out of the EU before a fresh influx of new migrants, at this very moment being granted documents to travel in the Schengen zone and in the UK. As a member of the EU, Britain has no power to disobey its policy of freedom of people movement; anyone with an EU passport can breeze into the UK as easily as anywhere in the EU.

The poster, featuring thousands of Syrian refugees and other migrants entering Europe in the last few years, has no bearing on the images of Jews leaving Nazi Germany in WW2. Yet distastefully, the comparison was drawn by the establishment, inciting racism and hate for the UK Independence Party which had made this EU referendum possible, and completely failing to get the important message that by Remaining in the EU there are more problems arriving to challenge the hard-pressed British people, who are already facing an invasion by EU migrants, in such numbers as never encountered in their lifetime.

Armed with their new IDs, migrants will be heading for the UK: handouts of £38 per person, medical assessment to eliminate unknown diseases, and issued with a National Insurance Number for job-seeker’s allowance and other family benefits, with the Chancellor’s new £9-an-hour Living Wage requiring no qualifications or the English language, will be an offer found nowhere else on earth!

EU’s trade agreement with Canada has been ongoing for 9 years; 7 years with China and India, none of which are yet finalised. How long will it take the EU to incorporate the “reform” negotiated by the Prime Minister to delay for four years before new migrants can claim benefits? Let’s hope it’s before these migrants are allowed to draw on our pension fund!

Meanwhile, our national debt continues to rise from £1.5 trillion last year.

In some areas British-born children are being put on waiting lists so East European children, within three years of arriving in the UK, can claim £1,000 per child for their schools to employ extra Russian, Polish or Latvian staff, so lucrative for the education department, that more schools are being built for new arrivals from EU’s 11 ex-Soviet Communist states, turning Britain into a Slavic-speaking country. That will truly please Putin of Russia, and in time the ISIL leaders too, Mr Cameron.

Britain will thrive outside the EU

Just one hundred years ago Britain had an Empire that stretched across the world; our pioneers were brave; our politicians were energetic and far-sighted. Our Parliament made laws that improved life in Britain and countries across five continents, in both North and Southern hemispheres. For centuries our explorers had returned with innovative ideas and creative inventions. Britons enjoyed drinking tea from the East and coffee from the West and exported our expertise in building bridges and railways throughout the world.

We were the envy of the Americas as well as of Europe, Asia and the whole world, so much so countries like Germany and Japan made aggressive grab for a slice of our empire and ingenuity, causing the two World Wars which Britain, with the help of global allies, managed to defeat and contain, but the heavy cost depleted all our resources and manpower.

Many pensioners over age 80 would remember the severe rationing, the immense loss and sacrifices and making do with what minimum, life had to offer. With no cash or resources for reparation, Britain had to relinquish power for those colonies suitable for self-government, parting with good grace and mutual respect; with such dignity that the Queen is still held in high honour by 53 Commonwealth nations over half a century, a measure of Britain’s achievement no other country had ever attained.

Our establishment made the biggest mistake not quitting the EEC when Margaret Thatcher voiced her doubts in 1992 about the Maastricht Treaty, which transformed the Common Market into the political European Union, stripping the UK of powers to negotiate with non-EU countries and in less than a quarter of a century, decimated our agriculture and fishery; with wasteful directives that closed many small businesses, village stores, mining and manufacturing industries, and even our steel works today.

54,000 EU laws had sapped our Parliament of sovereignty. For Britain to regain our flamboyance and prosperity, we need to rebuild our supremacy over sea and air, recapture our self-reliance and be in control of our own destiny. The EU is chaotic, disorganised and extremely dangerous for democracy. After 40 years of dependence, our people are ready to take up the rein again. It’s time for sovereign Britain to thrive outside the EU. It is time to Vote Leave on 23^rd June!

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I can’t believe the Home Secretary had terminated the £4 million contract with the aviation firm Cobham that provided round-the-clock monitoring over British waters, when CCTV revealed Albanians are being smuggled into Britain over several years. The Home Office had processed over 4,650 Albanian asylum applications, seven out of ten given permission to stay.

Former head of the Navy, Admiral Lord West said cancelling airborne surveillance had left coastal defence “in a very parlous state”. The MP Christopher Chope told Theresa May, taking away our coastal protection would leave our country vulnerable. The UK Border Force responsible for tackling illegal immigration is forced to rely on the charity National Coast Watch Institution to help police the region.

British taxpayers who made this country the fifth largest economy in the world should be adequately protected. If Albanians can be smuggled ashore, so can ISIL activists in Belgium and France; clearing up their atrocities would be costly and devastating. Based on our economy this year the EU is likely to demand payment of £19 billion gross into its budget; with a rebate of £4 billion for agriculture and fishery and £4.4 billion given as EU grants or subsidies to Wales, Cornwall, university science & research and other public services, £10 billion could be saved to support the NHS and other priorities, if we vote to leave the EU.

It’s not right to put British-born children on waiting lists in some schools where Eastern European children arriving in the UK less than three years, get an extra £1,000 per pupil for their schools to employ staff speaking Russian, Polish or Latvian. At St. Norbert’s Catholic primary school in Spalding, Lincolnshire, 70% of pupils from Eastern Europe (eight years ago it was just 17%) bring in £375,000 a year.

George Osborne had claimed pensioners would be £32,000 worse off with Brexit, but annuity payouts have plunged nearly 17% in the past year, and new EU rules on Solvency II coming into force, in 3,200 pages of legislation, are forcing insurers to stock-pile cash for emergencies, and will cost a hefty £3 billion to enforce, with complex software. New savers leaving work now, buying a twenty year retirement pot of £100,000 would receive £10,600 to £15,040 less a year, even before we vote to Leave. The longer we Remain in the EU the more rules will erode our savings. Fortunately the EU is one mistake we can un-make by voting to leave on 23^rd of June.

EU referendum: Queen reportedly asks dinner guests for ‘three good reasons why Britain should be part of Europe’

Buckingham Palace spokesman says monarch ‘is above politics and acts on the advice of her Government in political matters’ in response to royal author Robert Lacey’s claim

Queen Elizabeth II during a reception in Buckingham Palace, London, to mark her 90th birthday PA

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LET'S DO OUR DUTY! Take Back Control - Vote Leave on 23rd June, 2016

Cameron wants Turkey to join the EU. Do you?

With just a day to go, it’s clearer now more than ever that the only way to take back control of our laws, our money and our borders is to Vote Leave.

On BBC1 Question Time EU Special at 6.45pm on Sunday 19^th June 2016

David Cameron was not truthful in his desperation to win this campaign and refused to say whether he would veto Turkey’s membership of the EU.

Government slammed for economic forecast

The Government has received widespread criticism for its report on what would happen to the economy after we leave the EU. The Treasury’s report was dismissed by IN campaigner and First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon who described it as overblown and not credible. Meanwhile, even the pro-EU FT said: ‘more likely, the numbers are just made up’.

The IN campaign cannot make the positive case for staying in the EU, therefore they have resorted to doing Britain down. The reality is that our economy will thrive after we take back control. We can support British businesses and strike our own trade deals with economies around the world to help drive jobs, growth and prosperity.

UK can protect women’s rights without accepting supremacy of EU law

The IN campaign claimed women’s rights will be put at risk if we Vote Leave. This is yet another case of those wanting us to stay in the EU doing Britain down. It is disappointing to see that they have so little faith in themselves and other UK politicians to continue to protect the rights of women after we take back control.

The reality is that the UK took steps to protect women’s rights long before we joined the EU, such as ensuring equal pay for equal work and providing support for women when going through a divorce. After we became a member of the EU, the UK Government legislated for paid maternity leave and protection against sexual harassment in the workplace, all without the help of bureaucrats in Brussels.

On top of this, the UK has lead the way in promoting and protecting workers rights, and it's deeply misleading to suggest that leaving the EU would put them at risk. Workers’ rights are best protected when there is a parliament that is directly accountable to the people; yet the EU prevents this, with unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats imposing rules and regulations which the British people have no say over.

London is second only to San Francisco in the world tech stakes, according to EY (Source: Getty)

London has overtaken New York and Shanghai in a global ranking of top tech cities, thanks to its "incredible entrepreneurial attitude". The capital is now the second most likely city in the world to create the next big tech giant, according to EY’s annual Attractiveness Survey, behind only San Francisco.

The result moves London up from fourth position last year, closing in on its American west-coast rival.

Index has a new $550m VC fund and its eye on London startups

“That was unimaginable five years ago,” Caroline Artis, EY’s London market segment leader, told City A.M.

“Financial services remains important, clearly it does, but other services – like business services and tech – are now adding to the things that make London seem attractive to the rest of the world.”

She added: “It’s incredible testimony to the things that have been going on here. You’ve got this incredible entrepreneurial attitude that seems to have grown over the last few years, definitely encouraged by things like Tech City.”

Some say London’s tech sector is united against Brexit, but campaigners who want to leave the EU hit back. "It is clear if we vote leave the strengths of London, which have made it the financial capital of the world and which we have in abundance, will help us to grow and prosper further," a spokesman for Vote Leave said.

"Pro-EU supporters have run a campaign of doing down the British economy but this makes clear Britain is a world leader with a bright future. If we vote leave and take back control then we can ensure that the environment is best suited to entrepreneurs and liberated from the red tape that holds back start-ups and those unable to lobby in the corridors of Brussels."

EY, which interviewed nearly 1,500 decision-makers across 440 international companies, found that London continues to be “incredibly attractive” to foreign investors across a range of industries. The survey revealed 2015 was a record year for foreign direct investment (FDI) into the UK and the capital. During 2015, London secured 406 FDI projects – up seven per cent on 2014 – which created an estimated 7,026 jobs.

London outperformed all other European cities surveyed. Some 57 per cent of investors named London as being in their top three European cities for FDI, ahead of second-placed Paris with 43 per cent.

Lord Owen, backing Vote Leave, has dismissed the “voices of doom” warning against Brexit, saying "the sooner the UK can quit the EU, the better; the quicker it began, the less likely the UK was to be “dragged down” should the Eurozone collapse. The former SDP leader accused Downing Street of “manipulating the FTSE 500” to back the Remain campaign.

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party admitted that there is no limit to immigration as long as we are a member of the European Union.

Dr Chris Leigh of the Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University has debunked claims that science in the UK would suffer if the country leaves the EU. He pointed to the fact that only about 3% of funding for research at UK universities comes from the EU, through its Horizon 2020 programme. By contrast, about 45% comes from business and 35% from UK government and not- for-profit sources.

Collaboration

13 non-EU countries take part in the Horizon 2020 programme and there would be no reason why the UK could not continue to participate.

Alternatively the British government could meet any shortfall in funding directly from the savings that will be made by not paying into the EU.

Strong Scientific Standing

The UK has 0.9% of the world’s population, but 3.3% of its scientists, who produce 6.9% of the world’s scientific output and 15.1% of the most highly cited papers. Those who argue UK science will suffer ignore the reality of the UK’s strong scientific standing.

We have already seen here in the UK the reduction of wages, increasing the wage gap between rich and poor resulting from the burgeoning immigrant population, we have seen how the growth in our GDP, a figure much vaunted by our government, has not kept pace with the growth in our population. This last aspect is not only downplayed by our government but indeed lied about with their proven understatements of how many, by fair means and foul, have come here to grace our green and pleasant land.

TRADE unions have slammed the “myth” that Britain’s membership of the European Union boosts workers’ rights. The RMT, ASLEF and the bakers’ union BFAWU last night issued a joint statement explaining why they back Brexi t. They attacked David Cameron’s deal to reform Britain’s role in the EU, saying he secured “only very minor changes”. The 28-member bloc “acts overwhelmingly in the interests of big business” instead of ordinary Britons, they added.

Many in the “Remain” campaign told us that British people can travel to other EU countries to live and work under EU law. Would British children receive the same benefits and education in Romania or Bulgaria?

Are they likely to receive reciprocal health benefits? And above all, are the British people fairly served by this Tory Government, fighting so hard to keep Britain in an undemocratic EU, being controlled by thousands of EU rules with prospects of being conscripted into the EU Armed Forces?

In a detailed review of the 2015/16 financial year, the influential King’s Fund think-tank found 67% of NHS trusts ended the year on deficit – including 86% of acute hospitals. Some 65% of NHS trust finance directors thought patient care had got worse over the last year, as did 54% of finance heads from clinical commissioning groups, which look after a large chunk of the NHS budget and manage local services. More than half of finance directors expect their trust to end the next financial year in deficit, too, and are “very pessimistic”, the report said.

The LEAVE campaign has pledged the £350 million we save by leaving the EU, to various priorities such as the NHS, which will help alleviate the dire funding problems they face by the end of the next financial year.

Telegraph reported: David Cameron abandoned plans to make Parliament supreme over European courts as ministers admitted the proposals were “unworkable” with Britain in the EU. In a row that overshadowed the Queen’s Speech, the Prime Minister was accused by Iain Duncan Smith, a former Cabinet minister, of “jettisoning” domestic priorities because of his “helter skelter” attempt to win the upcoming EU referendum.

The Guardian reported: Rent bills are likely to fall if Britain exits the EU and property will become more affordable to first-time buyers, according to the bodies that represent the UK’s estate agents and landlords. The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and the Association of Residential Letting Agents (Arla) said that Brexit would cut levels of immigration and depress future price rises, leaving the average UK house worth £2,300 less in 2018, and £7,500 less in London.

The EU intends to implement full economic and financial governance of its member states from Brussels, to create its own armed forces to implement its Foreign and Security Policy, and import millions more migrants from Africa, the Middle East and beyond to form a United States of Europe and after the British Referendum, whatever the result, that project will resume.

We need to vote LEAVE the EU on Thursday, 23^rd June 2016 and Take Back Control of our borders to stem the EU migration.

Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty laid out, for the first time, the means whereby a Member State could leave the EU; however, we might find that there is a two-year negotiation period which could be prolonged indefinitely by unanimous agreement of EU member states. Even if we did manage to leave using Article 50, we could find ourselves with a ‘deal’ that still required us to pay contributions to the EU budget, having to accept a large proportion of EU laws and with open borders to EU citizens.

The only sure way for Britain to leave the EU is for our Parliament to repeal the European Communities Act 1972. This would immediately return supremacy of law to our own Parliament and courts and free us from control by the EU. Chaos would not ensue because all EU Directives, which have been transposed into Acts of Parliament, would remain in place. These could then be repealed when needed, leaving what laws we might need to interact with the EU (if it continues to exist).

Jean Romsey, Email: jromsey@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 023 80760758

Tuesday, 7 June 2016

VOTE Leave EU for a brighter future

How Long can Britain afford to remain in the EU?
Published in the Daily Echo – In My View on 25th February 2015

For many years Great Britain has maintained an open-door Border as a member of the EUROPEAN UNION, and in the last ten years millions of migrants from EU member-states have arrived to live and work in this country, their families have enjoyed the hospitality of our Health and Housing Services and good free schools in convivial environment.

There are more than 6 countries waiting to join the EU, such as Turkey, Montenegro, etc. With our housing, school and health services already stretched to breaking points, can Britain afford to continue her membership of a Union that is so inflexible in their rules for work, business, and benefits, and their uncontrolled immigration law has greatly impinged on our people’s rights and freedom, sometimes unlawfully by British standards.

Britain paid the EU more than £8illions every year and in 2014 our fee was increased to £11.3billion plus other penalties and levies such as the surprise extra £1.7billion, for achieving the tiniest growth in our economy. It’s any body’s guess what we would have to pay in the future!

This payment from our taxes partly caused the austerity faced by the poorest in our society, but kept the EU leaders at Brussels well financed. In return they issued us over 6,300 new laws since 2010 to control our legal system, employment, environment, including no dredging of our swollen rivers, and even our politics in trading with non-EU countries and deportation of foreign criminals.

Our National debt today is a whopping £1.48 trillion (figures from the Office for National Statistics), a record 80.9% of GDP. We owe £60,000 per household, for which we pay a £billion each day on interest. Borrowing by this Coalition Government for the fiscal year, April to December 2014, was £86.3 billion, and the Chancellor is planning to borrow £91.3 billion this year, albeit less than the £153 billion borrowed by Labour in 2009-10.

This Government’s austerity measures had reduced many of our essential services to dangerous levels and Britain can certainly use the money we hand over to Europe annually, for Defence, Police force, schools, A&E and Care Homes, not to mention the indescribable disruption of the bedroom tax and the desperate dependence on food banks. It must impact on the poor to realise that the top 1% of our rich society owned nearly half the Nation’s wealth. Would they spare a thought for this disparity?

The chaotic system of our National Health Service is lamentable with so much money spent on so-called Management Executives that the re-structuring had rendered the NHS not fit for purpose, with A&E closures and hospital bed-blocking the NHS came to a virtual stand-still, at a time of its greatest need.

This was the second re-structuring of the NHS in five years where more money ring fenced for the Health Service were squandered on useless chief executives, some on a daily rate of £1,740; others worked 11 weeks for £95,000, and most didn’t even stay the course of a year, but were paid £251,000 for five months or £185,000 for six months and £105,000 for 12 weeks.

Was there a Health Minister in charge of spending? Our doctors, nurses and medical personnel are excellent but let down by bureaucracy, red tapes and multi-layered management that hindered their work. Systems analysts are required to bring the NHS into streamlined uncluttered efficiency to care for the present inflated population explosion with much larger families.

As responsible Britons, we all need to think carefully before the next General Election on May 7^th, to make sure we vote the right Party into power to secure a good future for our grandchildren. Whilst we are still able to stop the rot, we must stop our debt from spiralling out of control. This is our last chance to change British Politics and get our country back to basic good value.

UKIP has just pledged an extra £3 billion to NHS frontline services and we need to vote for them in May to make it happen. UKIP’s policies have struck a chord with me. You can study them for yourselves at: at http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people

Peter Mahaffey derided MP Steve Baker’s comment (Sunday Telegraph) to take Britain out of the EU if the UK is not allowed a new relationship of trade and cooperation. Mr. Mahaffey said “In the modern world, safety in number is crucial.” Yes he is right, why should we confine ourselves to trade with just 27 countries of the European Union when the whole world, including the Commonwealth nations, are waiting to trade with Britain?

Peter Mahaffey is probably also right about Germany being the world’s second most-powerful exporter, because EU laws are sometime biased against us, but sometime flexible in certain situations, such as the admission of Greece into EU membership without full compliance with its rules; or when Britain had to pay a fine of £15million to the EU for a shipment of garlic from China, because the EU trade agreement with China has taken 7 years and still no sign of completion.

This also affected our steel industry as David Cameron has no power to stop China dumping cheap steel on the UK's fragile steel industry as stopping the EU’s surprise levy of £1.7 billion last year on UK’s slight improvement in our economy. He loudly protested against its payment, but paid it all the same. The Coalition government with a Conservative majority made no protests, even when issued with over 3,600 new EU laws and directives during their five-year in office.

Laws that were not made by our own Parliament in Westminster, but were conceived by the EU Commission, drafted by bureaucrats (civil servants delegated from EU member states) of the 170 different Committees of Permanent Representatives, who then pass the summarised laws down to EU Council of Ministers for their consent when they convene, generally over a weekend, with neither the time nor the ability to wade through acres of boring legal small prints.

When these laws are sent down to the European Parliament, our elected MEPs can only vote to pass them but are powerless to reject or reform any law without a Qualifying Majority, which is a minimum of 376 MEPs out of the EU’s 751 component members as stated in Clause 7 of Article 294 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU). These laws are proposed and drafted by unelected civil servants, passed by a handful of EU Council of Ministers and issued as fait accompli, to our elected government to execute as mandates from the EU.

Even our Queen has no power to refute. Steve Baker is right to campaign to exit the EU to allow Britain to trade with all countries of the world as well as Europe, as we had done before the EEC, which morphed into the federalist EU in 1993 without consultation with all nine members.

By re-joining the World Trade Organisation which we had to relinquish in 1973, we could have free trade with whomsoever we wished, without EU tariffs will, bring prices down for food grown overseas such as bananas, mangoes, lychees and other tropical fruits. It should make no difference to our relationship with EU countries unless the EU restricts its 27 member-states from a good relation with Britain. In which case, they would be cutting off their noses to spite their faces! The world is our oyster!

Jean Romsey, Southampton, Hampshire.

Postal Vote can be arranged before 5pm on 8th June 2016

of our borders - our sovereignty from too many legislation - our democracy!

Then, we can make our own trade agreements with the Commonwealth and the rest of the nations outside of the European Union, to boost our global trade.

Please go to the Polls and cast a vote for Liberty, Fraternity and Democracy.
We need your vote on the 23rd of June to Leave the EUROPEAN UNION so Britain can achieve a better way of life for everyone, not just for the richest.

Less than 15% of British economy trade with the EU but 100% of us have to obey all 54,000 EU rules, and pay VAT and taxes to the EU. We need to use the £19.2 billions gross for our NHS, Schools and Universities as well as building homes for first-time buyers and council homes for renters.
Jean Romsey.

Any reading this blog, who has not registered to vote can get a postal vote now.

You have until 5 p.m. tomorrow to apply for a postal vote

Dan Hannan <info@voteleave.uk> Today 7th June 2016 at 12:20 pm

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Dear friend,

You have until 5 p.m. tomorrow to apply for a postal vote.

Postal votes aren't just for people who are on holiday on 23 June. You never know if you might have to work late, look after a family member who falls ill, or have something that crops up at the last minute that makes voting difficult.

We've waited more than forty years for the chance to take back control from the EU. Don't miss out on your chance to Vote Leave – apply for a postal vote today. It should arrive by 14 June and you can fill it out at home and post it at your convenience – or take it to any polling station in your local area on 23 June to drop it off in person.
You have until 5 p.m. tomorrow to apply. Here's a 3-step guide to doing it:

Download your postal vote application form, print and complete it
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Additionally, if you have not yet registered to vote, please do so by midnight tonight (Tuesday 7 June 2016). Information on how to register can be found here: http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/register-to-vote
If you have any questions or require a proxy vote (where somebody else votes on your behalf), use the link in point 3 to find the telephone number of your local Electoral Services team and give them a call.

Thank you,

Dan Hannan MEP

A Change for the Better

With so many hospitals closing in the UK, today we have less than 140,000 hospital beds compared to 550,000 beds in 1948 when our National Health Service was founded. But modern technology from America will soon step in to relieve the pressure on our A & E Centres. Take a look at iDoctor here

iDoctor http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=r13uYs7jglg

We can change our life to do some of the things you have always wanted at any time you feel it is time. Take a look at the SLOMO clip below, just click on the link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/opinion/slomo.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

A Lion called Christian

In 1969 Ace Bourke and John Rendall from Australia bought a lion cub from a London department store, Harrods, and named him Christian. He grew too big to keep as a pet in Chelsea and had to be returned to the wild in Kenya.

Years later Christian still remembered his 'parents' and like long lost friends. What a reunion! Click this link to watch the video: http://youtu.be/4enNZqNrwYc

My view on current situations

Could our climate really be changing in this Millenium?

Only a week ago we had snow in Devon, one of the warmest places in the South of England that even boasts a comparison with the Riviera in Europe.

In the USA's Tornado Alley, the most destructive tornado in history travelling at 200 mph, flattened the suburb of Moore in Oklahoma City in just 40 minutes without warning, causing so much grieve and loss of lives. This powerful tornado had been rated four, on a five point Enhanced Fujita Scale, making it the second most dangerous type, with more warnings to place Central Texas on further tornado watch.

More importantly the US government must ensure that any new buildings constructed in the Tornado Alley should include shelters, basement or safe rooms, specially built to protect from such tornadoes. This Great Plain experiences more tornadoes than any where else, at the height of the season in May and June, there may be two to four each day.

There are fears that tornadoes may become more common as global temperatures change, and such devastation as Moore must be avoided at all costs.

Having visited Shanghai thrice, I am still astonished at the constant changes to this great city's skyline and the speed of its industrial revolution, from 1949 when Chairman Mao's Communism took power, to 1992 when the People's Republic of China opened its doors again to foreign trade, and to today's superpower it has become, as discovered by Piers Morgan.

This video was recorded over 5 years ago, but if you have never been there, or even if you have but don't know much about the place from your tour guide, then you will be amazed to see how Shanghai has progressed - especially with regards to women CEOs. Click on the link to see modern, glamorous Shanghai today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wbGFeDR7Gg&feature=endscreen&NR=1

FOR OUR ECONOMY TO GROW

We need to get Britain manufacturing again; for goods to utilise our rail freight, road haulage and container ports; to expand our market worldwide and to be self-reliant.

With so much intelligence and creativity in our young and educated population, I am amazed to find that our UK Business Sector has not developed a strong, effective Export and Marketing Department to help develop products created by our inventive industrialists, nor facilitate co-operation between Universities and businesses to research new ideas and promote British Manufactures for export. All over the world, entrepreneurs are learning English to be able to trade with us, we do have the advantage of doing business anywhere.

For the Conservatives to win in 2015, David Cameron cannot rely simply on rhetoric about turning the tide on years of decline here or in the EU, in the battle for Britain’s future.

The government is likely to double the national debt inherited from the Labour government, if we continue to lose high street shops, vital businesses, century-old corporations and franchises, leading to empty premises and redundancies, which serve only to reduce the much needed Corporation and income tax, whilst swelling the ranks of the unemployed queuing for benefits, job-seeker and housing allowances.

The government must put a stop to the culture of rewarding failure with disproportionate pension packages, and gross bonuses unrelated to services rendered, for bankers, health service managers and local authority leaders alike, especially those who failed in their jobs. When an executive is recruited for a job in the public sector, the salary determines the job’s worth, there is no reason why bonuses or pensions should exceed the total pay, particularly in the present economic climate.

Any government that cannot legislate against this extortionate ransom culture, practised by leaders of public services, then they don’t deserve to be re-elected.

Take the news of Sir David Nicholson stepping down next year, retiring with his full pension of £2 million. Not more than a few decades ago he would have recognised his failure in running NHS England and resigned. Should he be allowed to take his full pay and pension package? It's an astronomical sum by any standard, and that same sum spent on improved nursing care at Stafford Hospital would probably have saved all those who died, from living under those unbearable conditions as described in various reports.

How does one man who could never do the job of supervising the whole of the NHS all by himself, deserve so much? We also must remember that in the costly reorganisation of the NHS, hundreds of managers were made redundant, obviously because they have not achieved success in their particular sector. After receiving huge severance pay and pension, why are some of them re-employed with new contracts, and probably on even higher pay packages, to carry on doing what they did before? Are we spending tax-payers' money wisely?

It is indeed time for the Chancellor to look into how much the re-vamping of the NHS is going to cost the nation and really cut down on management expenses, but increase training for good nursing care to properly run each hospital, to make them fit for purpose. Cut out the middleman, trim the fat and get Britain back to basic good value, responsible and trustworthy.

Only then will the Conservative government be returned to power. Austerity alone will not suffice. The voters need to see real changes, and good value for their taxes instead of wastage.

Congratulations to Nigel Farage for leading the UKIP to win almost a quarter of the votes cast at our local elections, thus forming the fourth major political party of Britain.

This is not just a protest vote from the public, but a vote of confidence in Mr. Farage as an honest man of integrity, not greedy for power for himself, but for the nation in trouble, and in debt to the tune of £billion, which no successive governments since WW2, had been able to eradicate.

UKIP's common sense approach to easing our national debt by opting out of EU membership will save us £billions in subsidies, huge MEP pay and expenses, and massive prison expenditure for un-deported foreign criminals. If we also temporarily withhold foreign aids until our own debt situation is no longer as bad as those we sought to assist, we should come out of debt sooner.

Chancellor Osborne should continue with our austerity policy, and also bring civil servants' pay and pension in line with the rest of the private sector remuneration to encourage growth in our economy with youth employment and private enterprises.