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My political views on Britain's influence on the world stage and my reasons for trusting the UKIP party to bring prosperity and stability into the realms of the United Kingdom and all we trade with globally.Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-83266125316627000362021-06-01T08:44:00.000+01:002021-06-01T14:30:27.064+01:00Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-42212577061355809292020-11-06T20:24:00.000+00:002020-11-06T20:24:53.138+00:00<p>I arrived in England on 25th of March 1965, started work at the Nursing Council in London on 1st April, moved to Forte's Holding Ltd, the hoteliers, restaurateurs hospitality conglomerate, then went to work in Fleet Street at the Birmingham Post and Mail's London Office, then joining the Press & Publicity Office of Overseas Containers Ltd at the most controversial period of convincing Dock labour to accept the latest technology in cargo handling in a hundred years. </p><p>With the largest container-ships built at the time to operate from Tilbury to Australia, OCL also needed a Container Port at Southampton to handle the Far East trade, as Container Ports were being developed in Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan with Road Hauliers and freight trains geared to transport huge 20-footers and 40-foot containers to connect with the Consolidation network in most UK industrial towns. This was a game changer for British Exports, yet the warped vision of politicians of the day could not see beyond Europe. And Britain joined the EEC in 1973, and I had just met my husband Roy and joined his design and photography business in Southampton, where we lived for over 47 years.</p><p>Today begins the winter of discontent as the UK's Second Covid Lockdown began last night Thursday 5th of November, Guy Fawkes Day and normally bonfire night is held in every community with fireworks displays well into the night. This year there was not a single gathering to be found in Southampton, in one of England's greenest county, Hampshire is slowly succumbing to Coronavirus since our schools and universities re-open to students under strict restrictions, after a short period of respite, when the Chancellor entreated all those able to help out by eating out, to give our desperate hospitality sector a boost to the industry. Did the Prime Minister let go of the Covid control too soon or have we become immune to the threat of Covid-19 as many had allowed their masks to slip at various recent gatherings?</p><p>Whichever the cause, the R rate of infection has suddenly shot up, especially in the North of England and Scotland, where Tier 2 or 3 had been applied, followed by Wales, with a smaller population, went into voluntary lockdown ahead of Scotland and Northern Ireland, and England's lockdown will end on December 2nd with the hope of breaking the R trajectory before Christmas. This will hit the economy harder than before, as many businesses and retail outlets had cut their workforce since the government furlough of 80% of workers' salaries ended in October, just before the new furlough scheme came into play this week. The government seems to be a step behind at every turn, which prompted many criticisms.</p><p>Meanwhile Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party, who had manoeuvred the last election for Boris Johnson to win the number of seats required to form his Tory government, has reinstated his Party to be renamed the Reform Party in readiness for Brexit, when the Prime Minister must get a clean Brexit deal (that is: No Deal is better than a Bad Deal) otherwise Farage with his Reform Party will go into action to agitate for a good Brexit, to gain back control of British Fishing Waters and retain control of our State Aid to our industries and businesses, which the EU Negotiator is trying to keep Britain under EU rules; their reason for not giving us the same deal as that for Canada.</p><p>Well, who needs neighbours when they try to stitch us up, to keep our economy down whilst continuing to receive £1 billion a month over four years since we voted to leave the EU in June 2016.</p><p>Meanwhile, Nigel is focused on the success of running a country on a low-tax, laissez-faire system like Hong Kong under <span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: "PT Serif";">Cowperthwaite. </span> In <span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: "PT Serif";">1960, with a GDP per capita of $429 (according to the OECD), compared to $1,380 for the UK and $3,007 for the US. Within 33 years its GDP per capita exceeded that of the UK. Within 50 years it overtook the US. Today it ranks among the ten richest nations in the world its per capita GDP is 40% higher than the UK’s.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: "PT Serif";">For those interested in how that was achieved, click on the link below and enjoy the article by the Editor of Fortune & Freedom:</span></p><p><a href="http://events-b.mb.fortuneandfreedom.com/z/18hik97kb?uid=919e15d5-8670-4599-b924-a3b0c97bb85b&mid=ad7604ba-ed96-44be-bf41-773b69a27191&utid=919e15d5-8670-4599-b924-a3b0c97bb85b-SB_FAF&bsft_ek=2020-11-02T09%3A01%3A06Z&bsft_mime_type=html&bsft_link_id=11&bsft_tv=3&bsft_lx=6">http://events-b.mb.fortuneandfreedom.com/z/18hik97kb?uid=919e15d5-8670-4599-b924-a3b0c97bb85b&mid=ad7604ba-ed96-44be-bf41-773b69a27191&utid=919e15d5-8670-4599-b924-a3b0c97bb85b-SB_FAF&bsft_ek=2020-11-02T09%3A01%3A06Z&bsft_mime_type=html&bsft_link_id=11&bsft_tv=3&bsft_lx=6</a></p>Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-39178020002160681222020-08-12T15:46:00.062+01:002020-08-12T16:14:02.661+01:00Memory of Slavery Vs British History<br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">One author taught history of scientific racism in New York - the theory that black people are genetically inferior to white! Another book, ‘How to Be Less Stupid about Race’ was written by a professor of sociology at Stony Brook University in New York. The book I found most apt<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the riotous BLM demonstration that followed was entitled ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race’, written when Reni was in her twenty's, about explaining to white people how tedious it was to be at the receiving end of racism.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Surely the Twenty's were for partying, singing the songs of love and discovery? </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Is racial prejudice so dire? How did those authors get to their luminary position? A secret so hidden from the students of Bristol University, causing them enough frustration to take to the streets to vent their ire, injuring 35 law-enforcement officers and "to hell with it" why not topple the statue of Edward Colston, a mere </span>philanthropist who financed their Uni; born in 1636, Colston joined his family business that involved transportation of enslaved Africans to the Americas. Slave trades existed from antiquity that comprised debt-slavery, crime-punishment and prisoners of war in the Roman Empire and Greece. The oldest known law tablet relating to slavery circa 2100-2050 BCE of the Sumerian king and the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi dating to 1700 BCE, which also made distinctions between the freeborn, freed and slave.<br />
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Slaves in Ancient Egypt are often prisoners of war, or inability to pay their debts and sometimes people sold their children or themselves into slavery because of poverty and needed food and shelter. In Egypt it was noted that the lives of slaves were often better off than a freeman elsewhere and young slaves could not be put to hard work or had to be brought up by the mistress of the household. The Bible too made references to slavery, which was common practice in antiquity. In Ancient Athens about 30% of the population were slaves and they could save up to purchase their freedom or could win freedom through bravery in battle.<br />
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In Ancient Rome freed slaves were allowed to become Roman citizens but during the Republic, Roman military expansion was a major source of slaves, some became manual labourer or in domestic services, others employed in highly skilled jobs and professions, even teachers, accountants and physicians. In Britain between 1699 and 1807 more than 3,351 voyages set out from London to West Africa as part of the transatlantic trade, which reached its peak in the 1780s and more and more people began to voice concerns about the moral implications and the brutality of the system. In 1776 the House of Commons debated a motion 'that the slave trade is contrary to the laws of God and the rights of men". The campaign to end slavery began in the late 18th century<br />
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Even today many countries are discovering elements of slavery in some labour-intensive industries and in the oldest profession in the world, where young innocent South-East Asians or Eastern Europeans had been smuggled into various countries as cheap labour and forced to work for pittance with no free time. These smugglers need to be stamped out and their slaves freed. By the same token, any smuggling of goods or people has no place in developed nations in the 21st century. Brexit will end all the EU restriction on Great Britain's future trade with all developing nations, we could look forward to helping many smaller nations progress, especially in view of the havoc caused by the Covid-19 on poorer economies still without water or sanitation. There is much to do globally and Britain is not afraid to extend a helping hand wherever possible.<br />
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We should be extremely proud of Britain's history, even though some who have migrated here for better work and pay, cannot see beyond their own immediate growth and attainment. The fact that they are here at all, enjoying the lifestyle that had evolved through the age long before their arrival, with infrastructure progressively improved by the taxpayers and traders who have made this country the fifth largest economy in the world, life for everyone has improved by leaps and bounds even for those EU citizens who migrated here unhindered in the last few decades, and with the 1950s Windrush migration our population today has increased by 50%.This must be the largest population explosion in the history of the British Isles.<br />
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I am specially proud of Britain's colonial history. Being Chinese born in India I count myself very fortunate to be calling Britain home, enjoying so many privileges, excellent culture of great diversity and able to develop my interests in any field I choose with no hindrance or prohibition from government, local authorities or neighbours. This is the most tolerant country I have encountered in the 55 years since leaving India and having visited over 85 countries in my life. Britain's greatest achievements in colonising almost half the planet had to be its strength and vitality in engaging half the world population into its history book, despite many criticism by sceptics decrying Britain's ulterior motives in her colonisation, the Empire had to some extend civilised many primitive tribal cultures, introducing western refined traits and mannerism, promoting education into villages and lifting peasants livelihood by building colonial railways to connect remote towns and suburbs. Most important of all is the introduction of the English language to the Commonwealth nations so they can come together to share in their community spirit, with a common communication language which Her Majesty the Queen reveres.<br />
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Britain's young citizens today, blacks, whites and all colours are in the best place possible to build a nation of great diversity, growing up together in harmony in the most progressive environment since ancient time. Each individual in school by the age of 18 is made fully aware of his or her rights as an upstanding citizen of the UK, with law and order to ensure everyone is entitled to their privacy, their rightful ownership of their property and goods, and the health and safety of family life from birth to death. British values in addition bestow on each family their right to peace and quiet, good manners and behaviour and to live life at our own pace and choice with no hindrance or violation. It is only right that their young vision is uplifted to achieve their best, without bitter historical grievances piled on their young shoulders to prevent them to stand tall as their school-mates. Their families too have a part to play in ensuring these young ideals are not tampered with fear and guilt, as equality and respect can only be achieved by fair play, with the condition of reciprocation: do unto others as you would have others do unto you,<br />
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This piece had taken longer to write as we experienced several demonstrations by thugs invading the protests of BAME minority groups, completely out of context with the brutality of Police in Minnesota trying to arrest George Floyd using fake money at a corner shop, which reported it to the Police, a crime that needs to be stopped and traced to the real perpetrators to eradicate this serious national fraud. Such crimes must be dealt with, but the Police has in this instance, utilised a new technique they learned to deal with terrorism that has reared its ugly head in the last decade. US law has found the three policemen guilty of manslaughter and they face imprisonment accordingly.</div><div class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </div><div class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">The lesson learned here is not racial but if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear from the law, it is not wise to run away from or evade being questioned by Law-enforcement officers , who are charged with keeping the peace by dealing with crimes; if you resist, force will be used and we should all help the Police to do their job to keep us all safe. <br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Winter of Discontent moves into Summer 2020</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Sunday 14th June 2020<span class="Apple-converted-space"> The </span>Daily Echo reported:-</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>TWO more Hampshire patients have died after testing positive for </b><a href="https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/coronavirus/"><span class="s2" style="color: #d8232a; font-kerning: none;"><b>coronavirus</b></span></a><b> in the last 24 hours.</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The number of patients who have died in Hampshire hospitals with Covid-19 is now at 598.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">University of <a href="https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/district/southampton/"><span class="s2" style="color: #d8232a; font-kerning: none;"><b>Southampton</b></span></a> NHS Trust has seen 191 deaths in total.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">While the number of those who have died at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has remained at 229 deaths.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Solent NHS Trust has had two recorded deaths and Southern <a href="https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/health/"><span class="s2" style="color: #d8232a; font-kerning: none;"><b>Health</b></span></a> NHS Foundation Trust has had 17.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A total of 159 people who had the virus have died at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a rise of two since yesterday. Every death is still a death too many, especially the total number is fast reaching 45,000.</span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The BlackLivesMatter demonstration on Sunday 7th June in Bristol was worrying, where thousands of people congregated disregarding social distancing rule, which was put in place for our safety so we could avoid being infected and impact on the NHS. But my sympathy was with some, who believe they suffered discrimination because of the colour of their skin, so I tweeted: "</span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11px;">Of course Black Lives Matter, but so do White or yellow and Britain's historical past. If you choose to live in this democracy you need to put in equal efforts and hard work to reap equal rewards. Wilful destruction of property is unacceptable."</span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The next morning we heard the demonstration was not a peaceful event, more like a riot against authority, targeting law enforcement officers tasked with keeping Britain safe and crime-free; they defaced national monument and pulled down the statue of Edward Colston, born in1636 who joined his family business</span> <span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";">trading in wine, fruits and textile with Spain, Portugal and other European ports, and became involved in the then-legitimate Atlantic slave trade</span> by shipping slaves to America.<br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Home Secretary Priti Patel said she was “sickened at George Floyd’s tragic death”, and fully appreciates “the strength of feeling over his senseless killing, and the inequality that black people can sadly still face, and the deep-seated desire for change”.</span></div>
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But speaking about the confrontation between protesters and police she told MPs: “This hooliganism is utterly indefensible. There is no justification for it.<br />
“There is no excuse for pelting flares at brave officers, throwing bikes at police horses, attempting to disrespect the cenotaph or vandalising the statue of Winston Churchill - one of the greatest protectors of our freedoms who has ever lived." <br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">"Many demonstrators in Oxford today are trying to take down the statue of Cecil Rhodes as they illegally removed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Edward Colston in Bristol.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Be grateful! These gentlemen brought Black Lives to the West, so you now enjoy Western hospitality.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11px;">Those who wilfully destroy public property and disturb our peaceful way of life cannot complain of inequality, but by respecting the rights of millions, who worked hard to make this country so beautiful and generously shared it with those who chose to live here, that's equality."</span><br />
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue";">"Wednesday<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>10th June - </span><span class="s1" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "helvetica neue";">BlackLivesMatter demonstrations are no longer peaceful protests. We cannot support their cynical agenda to destroy centuries of world history and their blame game of inequality when thousands of their ethnic cousins had grasped equal opportunities to reach pinnacles of top jobs." This tweet refers to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Sunday Times’ News Review on 7th June, 2020 featuring</span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";">Olivette Otele, first black female professor of </span><b style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>history and memory of slavery</i> </b><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";">at the Bristol University, who was literally pushing for racial demonstration and asking the public to do their homework by reading the 12 ‘classics’ from the anti-racist canon, highlighting these books and their black authors, all but one extolled pain and oppression by white supremacy.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica";"> </span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">One author taught <b>history of scientific racism</b> in New York - the theory that black people are genetically inferior to white. Another book, ‘<b>How to Be Less Stupid about Race’</b> was written by a professor of sociology at Stony Brook University in New York. The book I found most apt for the recent BLM demonstration entitled ‘<b>Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race’</b>, was written when Reni was in her twenties, about explaining to white people how tedious it was to be at the receiving end of racism. </span>If racial prejudice is so dire, how did those authors get to their luminary position? A secret the students of Bristol University couldn’t fathom, so they took to the streets, and injured 35 law-enforcement officers</div>
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I also came to Britain during the 1948 - 1970 rebuild Britain programme, arriving at Gravesend on the foggiest day on record, where I could not see the fingers at the end of my extended arm. However, just before disembarkation my passport was returned to me, with information to apply for British citizenship at the end of five years, if I wished to remain in the UK, which I did in due course and started work within one week of arrival until I retired; that was 55 years ago and I have never encountered racial prejudice at work or play; all because my parents taught me to respect everyone's right to privacy and their pace of progress. In return respect for my person and work allowed me to progress happily with my group of friends and family. So have many Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic immigrants and their children gone from poverty on arrival to becoming pillars of society, achieving recognition for their hard work and a rightful place in society.<br />
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Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-80611712849333851922020-06-17T00:19:00.000+01:002020-06-17T00:19:24.054+01:00<br />
A quick roundup of COVID-19<br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Boris Johnson and his cabinet have worked their socks off planning the steps to defeat the coronavirus from the first few cases that occurred in Britain in February. They sent to every household letters and leaflets on how to stay safe and stop the virus spreading by frequently washing our hands. The message from the government couldn't be more clear: </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Every week we are updated on new data and scientific findings that inform the government on actions to defeat COVID-19, and staying home or keep social distancing at two metres have been the core of the message. Even now with the Rate of virus slowing down, new measures are taken to relax the lockdown </span>safely and <span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">gradually, by </span>wearing face covering in public transport and other close proximity areas, but the message <span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">reiterated every week to keep us safe is the </span>2-metre <span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">social </span>distancing rule to curb transmission of this deadly virus.<br />
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Amidst all these warnings BlackLivesMatter demonstrators gathered in their thousands over several days in London and other cities, violating the social distancing rule, disrupting law & order and wounding 35 police officers on the first day. Will the government be blamed when they get infected with the virus?<br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has condemned the removal of the Colston statue, writing: 'I grew up in Bristol. I detest how Edward Colston profited from the slave trade. But, THIS IS NOT OK. If Bristolians wants to remove a monument it should be done democratically - not by criminal damage.' </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Helvetica; font-kerning: none;">Home Secretary Priti Patel is right to call Sunday's demonstrations lawless and reckless.<span style="background-color: white;"> 'Sheer vandalism and disorder is completely unacceptable and its right the police follow up on that and make sure justice is undertaken.' </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Helvetica;">As demonstrations continue to sweep Britain following the death of</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/george-floyd/index.html" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="s1" style="color: #003580; font-kerning: none;"><b>George Floyd</b></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Helvetica;">in America.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We have all heard the Prime Minister or Secretaries of State at BBC's weekly coronavirus briefings that </span>Health Researchers had found <span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the COVID-19 affects the elderly more than the young and it's more life-threatening for those with other health issues like diabetes, </span>obesity, cancer, <span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">cardio-vascular disease and a host of other </span>immune deficiencies caused by diet or unhealthy food, drink and drug problems. People ignore these findings at their own peril.</div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Yet the Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary, David Lammy accused the Government of having '<b>buried</b>' recommendations for people of black, Asian or minority ethnic background (BAME), who are disproportionately affected b</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">y the pandemic. Is he saying that people of colour require more specific treatment and attention than the indigenous white population? Are we not all equal: black and white and all the colours between them?</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Has David Lammy made his accusation from a racial or political standpoint? Does the colour of our skin require specialty treatment for the BAME population? But we are already receiving the same information and advice as everyone else! Why does he think the Black community needs to be treated differently? His accusation can provoke more </span>perceived discrimination that's causing a rift in the country. Being a black MP, his constituency would expect him to bridge the gap rather than widen the rift by creating more disparity between the indigenous and immigrant population.</div>
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BAME in Britain are enjoying more equality than anywhere else in the world, more amenities and benefits than in their ancestral homeland. Every child receives the same education and child benefits from birth, each individual progressing at his or her own pace. A BAME child should have no cause to feel different from other kids, unless their home life or family opinion impact on his view or sense of equality. Children's education is vitally important in shaping their future and aspiration and with a caring harmonious family background, there should be nothing to stop them reaching the pinnacles of any profession.<br />
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Anyone who has lived in Britain for a year or more will have noticed the civility and respect people of this country have for each other, and particularly for the Police force. If we all learn to live with tolerance like the 60 million local indigenous population, no one needs to carry a knife and no need to abuse a policeman asking questions to carry out his duty. We should appreciate the police forces are trained to keep Britain safe from crime and disorder. By objecting or disputing Police authority, you could be committing a crime if you struggle to escape from being stopped and searched under suspicious circumstances.<br />
We need to close the rift between the BLM and Indigenous population of Britain.<br />
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Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-41195633347610778972018-12-31T18:39:00.000+00:002018-12-31T18:39:09.837+00:00Theresa May's DEAL will trap us in the EU perpetuallyIs Theresa May really so naive?<br />
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The situation facing this nation is now more serious than anyone, who voted to Leave the EU in June 2016, ever thought possible. It is imperative to ensure we leave the EU without May's deal, to save us £39 billion to invest into our cash-strapped Health Care, Housing shortage and Education, rather than pay the European Union which had our support over 45 years, for which no reciprocal gratitude or appreciation had been shown. In fact, EU bureaucrats had been so indulged by Britain's largess and generosity, at the expense of our taxpayers and poorer wage-earners now dependent on food banks, that they are visibly taunting our government for more contributions, and in particular, taking undue advantage of our naive Prime Minister Theresa May, and hoodwinked her into signing a deal authored by this federal Union, which we trusted to have our well-being at heart, to entrap Britain in the Union in perpetuity.<br />
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Fortunately, the British people as a whole, and Parliamentarians in particular, are not so easily hoodwinked. Throughout the last hundred years, only three cabinet ministers stood out from the rest: Douglas Hurd, who signed off our huge war debts incurred by German bombing, allowing Germany scotch free from paying for reparation of devastation and wilful destruction on many European states, Britain only managed to pay off our huge war debts in 2006, whilst Germany was able to enrich itself by the Euro enforced on EU members. <br />
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While most of our politicians were sensible, pragmatic and practical, with foresight to achieve great progress for our citizens, Tony Blaire's flashiness and arrogance dragged Britain into the Iraq war in a pact with the President Bush Jr of America, the strife drained Britain's coffer and human resources, destabilised the Middle East and brought home the danger of primitive terrorism to our civil society.<br />
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Today we have the meek Theresa May who couldn't say boo to Tusks or oaf to Juncker, even as they call her nebulous, because she feels empowered by this pack of EU wolves that is giving her the authority to sign the death warrant of our sovereignty. For a Parson's daughter, this must have been the pinnacle of all her achievements, and the crowning glory will no doubt follow when Parliament, threatened by a 'No Deal' alternative, will vote to pass her deal of entrapment in mid January 2019.<br />
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The feather in her cap will help Germany to attain a bloodless coup, laughing all the way to the bank to deposit the £39 billion Sterling, that would help them buy up the rest of the European nations, to form the invincible United States of Europe with its own area forces to awe China, Russia and possibly the USA, too. We should be afraid, really afraid! Instead of a thousand rules and regulations a year, we could expect twice that number, one of which could lead to each of the 64 million British people issued with a number tattooed on our forearm to work for our crust of bread, no matter a pensioner or working-age delinquent. It happened in 1939; 2039 is fast approaching!<br />
Being 80 years old, I shall not be here to see the situation as it unfolds, but if all you 'Brits" like that idea, sit back and let it roll all over you. Theresa May will continue her good relationship with the Eurocrats, with or without a Brexit Secretary to aid her. In fact, she needs no other MPs to hurdle headlong into the perpetual vassal state designed by Michel Barnier and his cohorts.<br />
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[Ed: This article was published in </span><a href="https://briefingsforbrexit.com/every-claim-made-by-theresa-may-and-her-rebuttal-unit-is-false/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #800020; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Briefings for Brexit</span></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and we re-publish with their kind permission.]</span></span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theresa May is the most dangerously naïve Prime Minister ever to govern this country.</strong></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing demonstrates the Prime Minister’s bunker mentality better than the new Downing Street Brexit Rebuttal Unit. Theresa May has spent two years locked away with a small group of civil servants “negotiating” the Withdrawal Agreement with the EU. The rest of her Cabinet has not been involved. Having put in so much effort, she is determined to get it approved by Parliament, however disastrous the consequences. She has set up a unit to rebut any criticisms on the Downing Street website. Here are some examples.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Very Bad Deal</strong></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Withdrawal Agreement is a very bad deal for the UK. It was drafted by European Commission lawyers and it appears that the only role of UK “negotiators” was to raise objections to the proposed text in the different drafts. The result, if this Agreement is approved by Parliament, will be to permanently trap the UK as a satellite of the European Union: with no right to vote on or veto laws passed by the European Parliament that we will then have to obey, and no right to unilaterally exit from the Treaty that ratifies the Agreement.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The European Commission made clear at the beginning of the “negotiations” that they would only agree to a bad deal that was worse than continued membership of the EU. All the other leaders of the remaining 27 Member States know that this is a bad deal for us – which is why they all eagerly signed it on 25 November 2018. All our friends and allies abroad know it too. Everyone else in the UK knows it’s a very bad deal, including most of her Cabinet and party.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Downing Street Bunker</strong></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The only person on this planet who still thinks this is a good deal – indeed the only deal – is Theresa May herself. The striking evidence for this comes from the Downing Street Brexit Rebuttal Unit which has recently started a </span><a href="https://brexitfacts.blog.gov.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #800020; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to refute criticisms of the Withdrawal Agreement.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those whom it attacks include Martin Howe QC, chair of Lawyers for Britain, Graeme Leach, a member of Economists for Free Trade, Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, and Major General Julian Thompson, the Falklands War veteran.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/mays-brexit-deal-the-legal-verdict/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #800020; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Martin Howe</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> makes a number of significant points.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One relates to the backstop: “Once the Protocol [relating to the Irish backstop] is in force, the UK cannot leave it except by ‘joint’ decision of the UK and the EU. This gives the EU a right of veto over the UK’s exit. In agreeing to this clause, the government has caved in over seeking a right to leave”.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is undoubtedly true and the Prime Minister knows this because her own Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox, has told her that: “The Protocol would endure indefinitely” (</span><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/761153/EU_Exit_-_Legal_position_on_the_Withdrawal_Agreement.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #800020; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">EU Exit: Legal position on the Withdrawal Agreement</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and the </span><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/761852/05_December-_EU_Exit_Attorney_General_s_legal_advice_to_Cabinet_on_the_Withdrawal_Agreement_and_the_Protocol_on_Ireland-Northern_Ireland.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #800020; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Legal Effect of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">). The House of Commons EU Legislation Team also confirms this (</span><a href="http://2mbg6fgb1kl380gtk22pbxgw-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Withdrawal-Agreement-Legal-and-Governance-Aspects.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #800020; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">The Withdrawal Agreement: Legal and Governance Aspects</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">).</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Protocol is explicit in the legal text that it is intended to be a temporary arrangement. The Withdrawal Agreement establishes a binding obligation on both the UK and the EU to use their best endeavours to agree a future relationship which would supersede the backstop by December 2020”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“an obligation ‘to use best endeavours to agree’ could [not] be enforced by arbitration. An obligation on two parties to agree with each other is not justiciable because it is not possible for a judge or arbitrator to pin the blame on one party or the other if they cannot reach an agreement. The EU could carry on proposing terms which are unacceptable to the UK and/or spin out these complicated negotiations for years without it being possible to demonstrate that the EU is in breach of any obligation of best endeavours”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To back this up, the Irish Ambassador has made absolutely clear in a letter to The Spectator on 1 December 2018 that Ireland will always exercise the veto on the EU’s behalf since it will never accept that <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“existing technology and administrative facilitation can remove the need for any border infrastructure or controls”.</span> Further, at the European Council meeting on 13-14 December 2018, the EU has also made it clear that it would not change the legally binding Withdrawal Agreement and would only add non-binding “clarifications”. </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Howe continues that we are <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“throwing away in advance our two strongest negotiation cards: EU budget payments of £39 billion and the future access to our market for EU goods”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/04/uk-could-quit-eu-without-paying-a-penny-say-lords" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #800020; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">House of Lords</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> says that the UK has “no legal obligation” to pay any exit bill. So our very first “negotiation” must have gone something like this. The EU side opens with an off-the-wall demand for a divorce bill of £100bn and our negotiating team points out that actually we owe nothing. The EU responds by saying “okay, you’ve twisted our arm, you’re really good at this, let’s split the difference and settle for £39bn”. And our brilliant team says “sure”, and then returns to London basking in the glory that it has saved the British taxpayer £60bn.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/11/30/theresa-may-team-monstrously-misleading-try-pretend-still-delivering/amp/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #800020; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Graeme Leach</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> points out that</span></div>
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<a href="https://briefingsforbrexit.com/prime-minister-misleading-country-on-security/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #800020; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Sir Richard Dearlove and Major General Julian Thompson</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> argue that </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But this is not correct either. Based on evidence collected by Veterans for Britain, </span><a href="https://brexitcentral.com/despite-brexit-government-covertly-signed-us-eus-defence-agenda/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #800020; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Steven Edginton</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, Director of the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIltRVpE-Od_wnPligM5s8g/featured" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #800020; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Politics UK YouTube channel</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, has discovered that: </span></div>
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Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-82317117926101802782017-06-29T00:07:00.002+01:002017-06-29T00:47:01.049+01:00<br />
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<span class="s1">The PM seems unaware that Germany and France will not yield an inch. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">How wrong is Bojan Pancevski writing in the Sunday Times from Brussels! Mrs. May is not only a pragmatic Briton, but is made of such sterner stuff than any European could ever visualise. From the moment she entertained Jean Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier to her British hospitality at Chequers, she had her opponents well and truly sussed; their determination to punish Britain for Brexit and their nastiness towards our freedom to choose, Remain or Leave the EU, a liberty that is denied to 27 members of the EU. Hence the outrage leaked to the Press the following day by aides to President Juncker of the European Commission,. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Of course the PM is fully aware of the hard line being taken by Angela Merkel and her bureaucrats, especially when Juncker and Tusk’s uncompromising demands for Britain’s severance pay went from £50 billion to £100 billion and rising with the hope of seeing Mrs.May flinch, but she is canny enough to pre-empt the greed of this political Union by including in her 2017 Conservative Manifesto that if need be, she would withdraw from the Single Market with no deal (which is better than a bad deal!).</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Ironically, it’s the British Media in general and the European reporters in particular, who are incapable of reading Theresa May’s urgent resolve to negotiate Britain’s divorce, knowing what she already knows about the true character and bias of the European Union. Like the British benefits system in the last few decades, thousands on job-seekers allowance, who can never find a suitable job with enough leisure time, to warrant giving up their free hand-outs, so the EU too cannot give up their extravagance and luxury that British taxpayers had kept them accustomed to in the last few decades. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">It’s not “clueless’ May who needs to be informed of the complexities and realities of the EU position, these have been known to all Parties’ MEPs who have ever worked in Brussels, such as UKIP’s Nigel Farage and their 24 MEPs, whose research and tomes of evidence had brought about the referendum last year. It is more incumbent of our media to be better informed so as not to make clueless and crass headlines to slander MPs, in this case the PM of the largest Party with the most votes at the last General Election.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">The Sunday Times on 18th June, 2017, David Smith (Economic Outlook) wrote :</span><br />
<span class="s1">"Austerity has further to run..." as he extolled Philip Hmmond's good fortune in continuing as chancellor. But 51.9% of us who voted to leave the EU are dreading his softer Brexit approach as it will drag out the negotiations, meaning more austerity.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">The EU took nine years to negotiate a trade agreement with Canada; how long will it take to unravel </span><br />
<span class="s1">Britain's trade with just a few EU n</span>ations? Will our health service hold out that long? Will nurses, school-leavers or young graduate workers survive two further years of 1% pay rises against 2.9% inflation? How would the next generation of pensioners cope once their parents' savings invested in family homes get absorbed into hospital payments?<br />
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We urgently need to get out of the EU to allow those who wish to trade outside it to commence, and to stop any more EU payments so we can fund our education, health and welfare services.<br />
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Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-7191286817628878882017-05-05T01:29:00.002+01:002017-05-06T00:43:27.517+01:00VOTE UKIP FOR A GOOD BREXIT DEAL<br />
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>The longer it takes for our EU Brexit negotiations, the more obstructions and demands will be fabricated by the greedy European Commission; and the more jobs will be lost as many companies are preparing to move from the UK due to uncertainty and lack of assurance from Theresa May and her Brexit Team.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Apart from triggering Article 50 in the last nine months, nothing has indicated that research or analysis have been undertaken by the Brexit team led by David Davis in Theresa May’s government. Being secretive is her raison d’être </span>in her political career's ascendency so far, but jeopardising the British economy with unnecessary delays and indecision is bad for the British economy. </div>
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<span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Did Theresa May decide to call a snap June general election because the Tory cabinet agreed it was appropriate and timely, or was she having problems with staff at No. 10? Losing both her press secretary and communication director in the same week is shocking.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lizzie Louden quit Downing Street</td></tr>
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Well-respected Number 10 press secretary <b>Lizzie Louden</b> has quit the Tory Government, telling her friends that she's “moving on to other things”. Ms Louden had previously worked on the controversial, but successful <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/vote-leave"><span class="s2"><b>Vote Leave</b></span></a> campaign, in which <b>Boris Johnson </b>famously borrowed UKIP's well-researched slogan: leave the EU to save £36 million gross a week. But being Boris, he had this figure boldly painted on his red battle bus as a promise for the NHS. UKIP had nothing to do with this!<br />
Criticisms rained on the UKIP leader for the mistake, naturally<br />
Nigel Farage was not amused as people thought the Tory party's Vote.Leave campaign was the same as the UKIP's Leave.EU !! <br />
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Lizzie was Mrs May's senior political spinner in Downing Street following the sudden resignation of her boss, the communications director <b>Katie Perrior</b>, within hours of the election being announced, saying she "never intended" to fight a general election with Theresa May. </div>
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This came amid reports of a grim atmosphere inside Number 10 under the leadership of Theresa May and her all-powerful chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, since they came to power last July.</div>
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<span class="s1">It is a bitter blow to the Tories as they try to ramp up their PR for the election campaign, following a succession of other high-profile resignations:</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Downing Street's official spokeswoman <b>Helen Bower</b> quit in December following reports of angry bust-ups with Mrs May's top aides. </span><br />
<span class="s1">Ms Bower's deputy, <b>Greg Swift</b>, then quit to become a spinner for <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/brexit"><span class="s2"><b>Brexit</b></span></a> Secretary, David Davis.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Britain's Ambassador to the European Union, Sir <b>Ivan Rogers</b> quit in January with a devastating attack on Mrs May's muddled thinking over <span class="s2"><b><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/brexit">Brexit</a>.</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span class="s2"><b>T</b></span></span>he PM's national security adviser, <b>Mark Lyall-Grant </b>quit in February after reportedly falling out with Mrs May, f<span class="s1">ollowed by the Northern Powerhouse guru <b>Jim O'Neill</b>, quit as Treasury Minister within weeks of the PM coming to power, over her lack of support for his infrastructure projects. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">On the Conservative campaign trail Theresa May already sounds like a broken record repeating her carping criticisms of the Labour Leader, promising a vote for her at this general election will be for a strong and stable PM to lead the Brexit negotiations. Her avoidance of giving a straight answer to questions by pensioners or young voters is becoming tiresome, and may prove to be her achilles’ heel. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"> </span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span class="s1">We have no less than 20 UKIP MEPs who have spent time in Brussels, researching the internal workings of all aspects of the European Union, which brought home to the British people the realisation of 40 years of domination by the Eurocrats, costing our taxpayers more than £500 billion, and losing the traditional livelihood of our fishermen and farmers.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Let us not waste the findings and efforts of these patriotic MEPs, their Brussels experience in the European Parliament and the many good speeches made by Nigel Farage, who highlighted so much of the flawed EU ideology which cost us dearly and indirectly impacted all our public services today.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Labour’s predicament has been made worse by Theresa May's decision for a snap general election, and the Brexit referendum has not worked in their favour. Britain has voted to leave the EU and we certainly don’t want the undemocratic LibDem Party to aspire to revoke the democratic decision to leave the EU. Leave means Leave, with or without a free trade agreement or a single-market deal.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The EU is clearly struggling with a long list of problems, and losing the UK’s billions of pounds of annual contribution and our pro-trade influence on their policy do not bode well for their future. They would be anxious to make Britain pay for their future programmes and the lavish lifestyle they have grown accustomed to.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Theresa May has been accused by Jean-Claude Juncker, Angela Merkel and their Brussels chums, of living in another galaxy, living in a parallel reality with delusional views. On reflection, Mrs. May's Brexit Team under David Davis did seem delusional at times and until very recently Mr. Davis admitted knowing very little of how Theresa May will be advancing with our Brexit negotiations.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">For over 40 years UK's LIB/LAB/CON established Party leaders and MEPs had been so mesmerised by the EU's lavish perks and kudos, LibDem leaders specially had wallowed in their largess, they can find no fault with their methodology nor murmur a single word of criticism against their biased voting system that enables the European Parliament to pass every new law proposed by the Commission by a simple majority of those MEPs present on the day, but requiring an Absolute Majority of all 700 plus MEPs of 28 member-states to reject any proposed law, however harmful it might be to any one nation.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">UKIP MEPs have good knowledge of the EU, the European Commission and Parliament. In just four years of UKIP’s 20 MEPs arriving in Brussels, a dozen tomes of research had been published to expose major flaws of the Union’s ideology; UKIP newsletters and periodicals disseminated to reveal the EU’s wasteful spending and en-mass ferrying of thousands of MEPs, their aides and assistants, to and from Brussels, Luxembourg and the new palace in Strasbourg, which raised the UK annual contribution from £12millions to the latest figure of £16billion gross. Under Nigel Farage’s leadership, our MEPs’ work resulted in Britain getting our EU referendum and our vote to leave.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">UKIP members are from all works of life; their knowledge and experience in commerce, industry, administration and life in general, give them a down-to-earth approach to politics. UKIP is the Party that could successfully challenge the European leaders and Commissioners to ensure a good Brexit deal for the people of Britain. It was the intelligence of the UK Independence Party that calculated how much Britain paid the EU daily (that got Boris Johnson in trouble); and many of the UKIP brilliant policies in their 2015 manifesto were borrowed by the Conservatives to win David Cameron's last election.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Vote for UKIP's resourceful candidates on June 8 to ensure our Parliament has a cross-section of society with intelligence, common sense, diligence, business and financial acumen to support the Government for the good of our country.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">For best results in the Brexit deals, vote for the UKIP Party with intimate knowledge of the strength and weakness of the EU bureaucrats, to successfully negotiate in the shortest possible time to get our economy working again, and to continue the prosperity for all in the United Kingdom.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Vote for the UK Independence Party on June 6th if you wish to get Britain into free trade with the whole world, limit immigration to those with UK jobs, give our Health Service time to recover, get our younger generation on the property ladder and ease the congestion in our schools and nurseries. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Let’s help make the UK Parliament sovereign again, free to make our own laws, dredge our rivers of silt to stop damaging floods, be proud of our British values, our customs and beliefs and get our country manufacturing again without EU red tapes.</span></div>
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Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-73786973624974650232016-07-11T18:13:00.000+01:002016-07-11T20:30:00.645+01:00The country looked set to have a woman Prime MinisterThe EU referendum resulted in the UK leaving the EU<br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">Since the referendum
resulted in the country leaving the EU, five candidates came forward to vie for
Britain’s leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Theresa May had
the clear advantage of time to prepare for leadership of the country on David Cameron stepping
down, but I am not convinced she is the best person to negotiate terms with the
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">However, Liam Fox was the
first to be eliminated at the first round of Tory selection on 5th July, which triggered the withdrawal of Stephen
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">On Thursday 7<sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: #666666;">July Michael
Gove with the lowest Conservative votes was eliminated, leaving the two women in
the leadership contest. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Unfortunately
for Andrea Leadsom, who agreed to be interviewed for a newspaper, the reporter had an agenda to present her in an unfavourable light, quoting her saying she is a mum and
therefore would make a better Prime Minister than Theresa May. No one in their right mind would believe that of Andrea, who had shown herself as intelligent and a good debater for the Leave campaign, totally committed to fight for our country to leave the flawed European Union.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">Although she hastened to
rebut the biased reporter's account at an impromptu press conference, the damage has already taken
effect and the TV media had a field day at her expense. Meanwhile, Theresa
May cashed in on the situation to put out her story that she actually mentored Andrea when she first came into
Parliament in 2010, confirming Theresa May’s upper hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> However, Andrea Leadsom is in a strong position to negotiate a good deal as she knows the EU inside out. What she said a month ago before the campaign started on the EU referendum shows her commitment and ability to take the country forward to a successful exit of the EU :</span></span></span><br />
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innovative financial services industry in the world. London – rated number one
in the Global Power City Index for four years in a row – sits at the heart of
this diverse industry that stretches from Aberdeen to Bristol, from Birmingham
to Bournemouth, and even to Northampton, a bustling financial services area
right in my own home town. An incredible two million people are employed in
this enterprising industry right across the country and its potential is vast.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">A free trading, democratic Britain has SO much going for her! Not only is
our language, English, the world’s international business language, but we have
the best contract law you’ll find anywhere in the world. Our judicial system is
consistently rated as one of the least corrupt in the world. All are enormous
advantages for businesses looking to start, expand or move here.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Let me be very clear. EU member states need continued free access to our
financial markets regardless of whether we remain politically bound to them or
not. The UK accounts for 40 per cent of all wholesale financial markets in
the EU, and European businesses depend on continued access to the wealth of
expertise and capital that resides here. No financial </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">centre</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> on the continent can even pretend to compete with
us – we compete globally, with New York, Singapore and Hong Kong, and that's
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We are a truly global player, and I believe if we have the courage to
unshackle ourselves from the EU on 23 June we will find we are not dependent on
the EU for our success but quite the reverse – the EU is holding us back,
preventing us from </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">realising</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> our full
potential in the world.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">So I'm unimpressed to hear the Remain camp insisting that a vote to leave
means sterling will collapse, inflation will pick up, 3m jobs will be
lost, and now, the latest </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.cityam.com/240596/eu-referendum-george-osborne-warns-brexit-will-hit-britain-where-it-hurts-property-prices"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;">scare story, house prices will collapse</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">My own view, (not an economic forecast but a real world view based on 30
years of experience) is that if we vote to leave the EU on 23 June, the boost
to confidence from our newfound freedoms, the prospect of proper control over
the costs of immigration, as well as the £10bn per annum "independence
dividend", will boost markets and investment and put the UK on a path to
long term economic success.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Meanwhile, let's keep calm. Nothing will change on 24 June after a vote
to leave. The truth is, every bit of EU law is enshrined in UK law, so nothing
will change for at least two years while we negotiate the on-going tariff-free
trading with our European </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">neighbours</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, the arrangements for future immigration controls and caps, and the
plans for cooperation in intelligence sharing and counter terrorism.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">Don't let anyone tell you these things won't happen. No matter how
furious individual European leaders might be that we've had the temerity to opt
for freedom and democracy, they still have to get re-elected at home. The
European leader who tells Germany's BMW workers, or Spain's Zara staff or
Sweden's </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.cityam.com/company/ikea"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;">Ikea</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> employees that they can no longer sell tariff-free to the UK, or who
decides not to share information on known terrorist movements, will face
disaster at their own ballot box. It is not an option.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">So I was incredibly disappointed to see that the very man charged with
overseeing our monetary policy, the Governor of the </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.cityam.com/company/bank-of-england"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;">Bank of England</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">, went out on a limb recently, to give some totally biased and
indefensible predictions about our economy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.cityam.com/241091/mark-carney-defends-outspoken-boe-brexit-comments"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;">Mark Carney’s political “intervention”
into the EU</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> referendum debate has
been highly damaging for the Bank of England. For an institution with the very
grave responsibility of ensuring the short and long-term stability of the
country’s financial system whatever the scenario, the Governor's intervention
has actually increased the risk of high market volatility ahead of the
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staying in. The Eurozone's debt crisis together with their migrant crisis are
on-going and unresolved issues of great magnitude, that will have huge
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partners in someone else's failing project, or do we continue to trade with
Europe, but also look outwards and embrace the 80 per cent of the world
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State could leave the EU.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">However, if we
try to leave using Article 50, we might well find that we were never able to
leave. Under Article 50, 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
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Britain to leave the EU is for our Parliament to repeal the European
Communities Act of 1972. This would
immediately return supremacy of law to our own Parliament and courts and free
us from control by the EU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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. </span></div>
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On Wednesday 13th July, David Cameron will go to Buckingham Palace to officially resign as Prime Minister, after which Theresa May will go to see the Queen to officially inform her of her new position as Prime Minister of Britain. We look forward to Theresa May to be appointed our Prime Minister and trust her to do the right thing for a Brexit Britain. </div>
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</span></span><br />Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-25074935640029739122016-07-05T02:51:00.000+01:002016-07-05T03:11:29.170+01:00Congratulations to Nigel Farage for getting our country back!<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Character assassination of Nigel Farage by Camilla Long of the Sunday Times on 26th June 2016: "He's only making plans for Nigel", I sent the following to <a href="mailto:Letters@sunday-times.co.uk">Letters@sunday-times.co.uk</a> on July 2nd 2016:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For a man’s character to be so
demonised by Sunday Times columnist Camilla Long, (26 June) when Nigel Farage had spent
over twenty years of his working life in and out of Brussels, trying to alert
our establishment to the flaws of the undemocratic EU, that has made British
workers poorer (confirmed by Sigmar Gabriel, the German Economy Minister), and
rendered our Parliament of MPs powerless and mere disseminators of EU regulations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As leader of the UK Independence
Party, his manifesto had inspired many of the policies that swept the
Conservatives into government last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thanks also to Nigel Farage that our Prime Minister promised to hold the
recent referendum which finally vindicated his persistence and the excellent
work of UKIP’s 24 MEPs, whose in-depth research had brought to light the
underlying weaknesses of this federal Union and its wasteful squandering of
British taxpayers’ money that should be spent on our own priorities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Leaving the expensive Union will
bring back British rights for fishermen to fish in British waters, our farmers to
grow whichever crops suit them, and our starter enterprises and small
businesses can negotiate free-trade with countries of the Commonwealth and the rest of the developing
world without having to comply with thousands of EU rules and directives that
only big corporations with a large workforce can, and if they wish, they can continue to trade
with selected EU member-states by paying a small percentage of levy, rather than the billions of pounds being sent by our Treasury into the EU budget every year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Far from “only making plans for Nigel,”
Mr Farage deserves his last laugh of jubilation that had come after years of self-motivation
for the country he loves, at a price not many in Camilla Long’s circle could possibly
contemplate. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">July 4th 2016 - With the resignation of David Cameron as a result of the UK wining the Leave vote, five candidates now contest for position of Prime Minister: Andrea Leadsom (Leave), Michael Gove (Leave), Liam Fox (Leave), Stephen Crabb (Remain) and Theresa May (Remain) - as Home Secretary she had not been effective in keeping down immigration to the tens of thousands promised by Conservative manifesto, instead had allowed our maritime borders to be breached by 4,600 Albanians, jeopardising UK's security by terminating the £4 million contracts on aerial surveillance in advance of providing alternative border control to replace this vital service. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;">Sadly, I received the following letter from the Nigel Farage, which will be a big blow to our Party. In view of so many incriminating accusation from various newspapers and politicians, we respect Nigel's wish to step down from the leadership, having achieved his biggest ambition in life of getting our country back, he now deserves a rest and a bit of peace and quiet to regain his own life back to spend time with family and friends. We thank him for his hard work and tenacity and hope he will find the time to reflect on his success and rejoice in the result of his achievement. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: black;">Dear Jean, </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><strong>Statement from Nigel Farage</strong></span></div>
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I have decided to stand aside as Leader of UKIP. The victory for the 'Leave' side in the referendum means that my political ambition has been achieved. I came into this struggle from business because I wanted us to be a self-governing nation, not to become a career politician.</div>
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UKIP is in a good position and will continue, with my full support to attract a significant vote. Whilst we will now leave the European Union the terms of our withdrawal are unclear. If there is too much backsliding by the Government and with the Labour Party detached from many of its voters then UKIP's best days may be yet to come.</div>
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank you the membership for your extraordinary support and generosity over the many years, I could not have done it without you.</div>
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Yours as ever,<br />
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<strong>Nigel Farage</strong></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span>Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-28640729577941547282016-06-22T18:51:00.000+01:002016-06-22T18:51:00.434+01:00Racism or Migration Watch? <br /><br />
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Racism or Migration
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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 <b>get
us out of the EU</b></span><span style="color: #666666;"> before a fresh influx of new migrants, at this very moment
being granted documents to travel in the Schengen zone and in the UK.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">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. </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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! </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">EU’s trade agreement with Canada has been ongoing for 9 years; 7 years
with China and India, none of which are yet finalised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">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?</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Let’s
hope it’s before these migrants are allowed to draw on our pension fund!</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">Meanwhile, our national debt continues to rise from £1.5 trillion last
year.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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. </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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. </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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. </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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<sup>rd</sup></span><span style="color: #666666;"> June! </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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. </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">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. </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">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</span><sup><span style="color: #666666;">rd</span></sup><span style="color: #666666;"> of
June.</span></span></div>
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The Queen is reported to have asked dinner guests to give her “three good reasons why Britain should be part of Europe”, according to royal author Robert Lacey said the monarch posed the challenge recently.<br />
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“'Give me three good reasons', she has apparently been asking her dinner companions recently, 'why Britain should be part of Europe?'” Mr Lacey wrote.</div>
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LET'S DO OUR DUTY! Take Back Control - Vote Leave on 23rd June, 2016<br />
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Cameron wants Turkey
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">On BBC1 Question Time EU Special at 6.45pm on Sunday 19<sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: #666666;"> June
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>David Cameron</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> was not truthful in his desperation to win
this campaign and refused to say whether he would veto Turkey’s membership of
the EU.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Government slammed for
economic forecast</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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 </span><a href="http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2016%2F05%2F23%2Fnicola-sturgeon-warns-overblown-treasury-brexit-report-could-bac%2F&e=5d27dd5dd676c0c99e094582eec89aac&utm_source=voteleave&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cnew24_05&n=7"><span style="color: blue;">IN
campaigner and First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> who described it
as overblown and not credible. Meanwhile, even the pro-EU </span><a href="http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnext.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F66170460-1ea4-11e6-b286-cddde55ca122&e=5d27dd5dd676c0c99e094582eec89aac&utm_source=voteleave&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cnew24_05&n=8"><span style="color: blue;">FT</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">
said: ‘more likely, the numbers are just made up’.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #666666;">UK can protect women’s rights without
accepting supremacy of EU law</span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">The IN campaign claimed women’s rights will be put at risk if we Vote Leave.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">London is second only to San
Francisco in the world tech stakes, according to EY </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Source:
Getty) </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">London has overtaken New York and Shanghai in a global ranking of top
tech cities, thanks to its "incredible entrepreneurial
attitude".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">The result moves London up from fourth position last year, closing in on
its American west-coast rival.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Index has a new $550m
VC fund and its eye on London startups</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">“That was unimaginable five years ago,” Caroline Artis, EY’s London
market segment leader, told City A.M.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">“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.”</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.”</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">"Pro-EU supporters have run a campaign of doing down the British
economy but<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">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."</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>Lord Owen</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, 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.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b><span style="color: #666666;">Jeremy Corbyn</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">, the leader of the Labour Party </span><a href="http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/in_campaign_acknowledge_there_is_no_way_of_controlling_migration_if_we_stay_in_the_eu?e=5d27dd5dd676c0c99e094582eec89aac&utm_source=voteleave&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=qt_cameron&n=2"><span style="color: blue;">admitted</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">
that there is no limit to immigration as long as we are a member of the
European Union.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Dr Chris Leigh</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> 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. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="color: #666666;">By contrast, about 45% comes from business and 35% from
UK government and not- for-profit sources.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Collaboration</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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. </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">Alternatively the British government could meet any shortfall in
funding directly from the savings that will be made by not paying into the
EU.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Strong Scientific
Standing</span></b></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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 </span><a href="http://www.express.co.uk/latest/brexit"><span style="color: blue;">Brexi</span></a><a href="http://www.express.co.uk/latest/brexit"><b><span style="color: blue;">t</span></b></a><span style="color: #666666;">. 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.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">Many in the “Remain” campaign told us that British people can travel to
other EU countries to live and work under EU law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Would British children receive the same
benefits and education in Romania or Bulgaria?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">Are they likely to receive reciprocal health benefits?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">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? </span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>The LEAVE campaign</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>Telegraph </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/19/rents-property-values-drop-after-brexit-landlords-house-prices-eu-referendum"><span style="color: blue;">The
Guardian</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> 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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
<div align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">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 <b>United States of Europe</b></span><span style="color: #666666;"> and after the
British Referendum, whatever the result, that project will resume.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;">We need to vote <b>LEAVE the EU</b></span><span style="color: #666666;"> on Thursday, 23</span><sup><span style="color: #666666;">rd</span></sup><span style="color: #666666;"> June
2016 and Take Back Control of our borders to stem the EU migration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Article 50</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> of the <b>Lisbon Treaty</b></span><span style="color: #666666;"> 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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>The only sure way for
Britain to leave the EU is for our Parliament to repeal the European
Communities Act 1972. </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">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).</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Jean Romsey, Email:
</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="mailto:jromsey@yahoo.co.uk"><b><span style="color: blue;">jromsey@yahoo.co.uk</span></b></a><b><span style="color: #666666;">
Tel: 023 80760758</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span>Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-23617528248833218822016-06-07T19:58:00.002+01:002016-06-07T19:58:58.972+01:00VOTE Leave EU for a brighter future<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><strong>How Long can Britain afford to remain in the EU?</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Published in the <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Daily Echo – In My View on 25th February 2015</strong></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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. </span></span></span></div>
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</span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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! </span></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As responsible Britons, we all need to think carefully before the next
General Election on May 7<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup>, 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.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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 </span></span><a href="http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people</strong></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Mahaffey said “In the
modern world, safety in number is crucial.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>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?</span></b><br />
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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. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">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</span></b></span><span style="color: #666666;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> 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.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">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.</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Even our Queen has no power to refute. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">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.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">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!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Jean Romsey,
Southampton, Hampshire.</span></b></div>
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</span>Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-82022043181330896012016-06-07T18:04:00.000+01:002016-06-07T18:04:11.754+01:00Postal Vote can be arranged before 5pm on 8th June 2016<img alt="Vote Leave, take back control" height="61" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465310393787_4312" src="http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/voteleave/mailings/2639/attachments/original/VL_logo.jpg?1465290044" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Vote Leave, take back control" width="633" /><br />
of our borders - our sovereignty from too many legislation - our democracy!<br />
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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.<br />
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Please go to the Polls and cast a vote for Liberty, Fraternity and Democracy.<br />
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.<br />
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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. <br />
Jean Romsey.<br />
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<strong>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.</strong> 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.<br />
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Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-52657377439578302162016-05-27T14:50:00.002+01:002016-05-27T14:50:34.740+01:00It is time to vote Leave the EU<br /><br />
We need to take back control from the EU<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Schools are having to
turn away British children in order to cope with an influx of Eastern European
pupils whose parents have come to work in the UK, the Times (22 May 2016)
revealed it has been a real challenge for some schools, having to hire European
teaching assistants or bilingual staff from Poland, Slovakia and Lithuania to
cope with children speaking no English.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The Government and the
Remain campaign tell us that EU migrants are here to work, paying their tax and
contributing into our economy, but nobody mentions how much the UK spends on child
benefits and in-work credit from funds built-up by our working and retired
population over a lifetime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">The Prime
Minister tells us he has negotiated for EU migrants to delay getting benefits
for four years; if it is true, when is that going to start?</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">In many areas of
Peterborough, Boston and Harrow, 100% of pupils do not speak English and millions
of pounds are spent on support services and buying different language books and
dictionaries to cater for their lack of English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">More distressing for mothers to hear that
some schools have put British children on waiting lists, giving priority to
Polish pupils from church-going families.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;">
</span></span><span style="color: #666666;">This is dire discrimination against our tax-payers whose children are
born and bred in this country.</span></div>
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has created 8,300 extra school places costing £110million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">When Bulgarians and Romanians were given the
right to live and work in the UK, the city has opened one new secondary school
and is building a second, as well as planning a third school for children with
special educational needs.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">No wonder
Eastern European children are now higher achievers than our British kids,
languishing on waiting lists.</span></div>
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by this chaotic government: for every child who has been in the UK less than
three years, the school gets an extra £1,000 per pupil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">At St. Norbert’s Catholic primary school in
Spalding, Lincolnshire, nearly 70% of pupils are from Eastern Europe (eight
years ago it was just 17%), which brings in £375,000 a year to pay for extra
staff speaking Russian, Polish or Latvian. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Meanwhile, due to the
Chancellor’s austerity cut, local councils are closing Sure Start Children
Centres which are lifelines to young parents and local families struggling to
make ends meet while working full time to raise kids and buy their first homes.
These centres are important for new parents to learn from each other about
child healthcare and ways to cope with difficult babies and sleepless nights, giving
them brief respite from isolation and a place where children can play together
and learn to share and interact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Our
Treasury should take care not to squander hard-earned taxpayer money on EU
member-states who have yet to contribute into our precious welfare.</span></div>
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will spend on foreign children with little English, when Turkey, Macedonia and
six other waiting countries join the EU, at a time when many of our local
youths are finding it hard to find jobs or get on the housing ladder, Eastern
Europeans are now getting Council homes and special places in schools ahead of
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to this topsy-turvy world created by the European Union, bringing chaos into
our civilised society, whiles Eastern European countries are overtaking us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">We need to take back control!</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">It is time to vote Leave on 23</span><sup><span style="color: #666666;">rd</span></sup><span style="color: #666666;"> June.</span></div>
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missed the point of Britain’s EU referendum. Like many people he is confounding
the 51 nation-Europe, where we all love to holiday, (News Review 13th March
Jeremy recalls pottering down the canals of France or hurtling along a motorway
in Croatia), with the political European Union that has systematically stripped
the UK of power to negotiate trade agreements with the 53 Commonwealth nations
and non-EU countries of the world.</span></span></b></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #666666;"> It's not about more Syrians if we stay in the EU, as surmised by Jeremy. </span></strong></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="color: #666666;">The
“normal people” Jeremy spoke to, tell him it comes down to the Freedom of Movement of people from 27
EU member-states, mainly ex-communist , Eastern Europeans with much lower economies.
The last three to join the EU were Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia, with a
combined population of 33 million and a GDP two-thirds lower than the UK’s. </span></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="color: #666666;">EU laws allow these new migrants to plunder the generous UK benefit system from the day they arrive, when issued with a National Insurance Number, they sign up for Job-seekers allowance, child benefits even though the family do not live in Britain and Tax Credits if they are on low pay. Most unskilled migrants who do not speak English will naturally pocket a huge amount to spend like a king when they go home to Eastern Europe in six months, then come back again for another six months benefits allowed. </span></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="color: #666666;">Meanwhile, our taxpayers have to work till they are 68 or 70 before they can access their pension, into which they contributed through a lifetime of work. It is totally unfair to our citizens, but the Tory government turns a blind eye. </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="color: #666666;">Net migration for 2015 was
reported by our Home Office to be 323,000 (Net = those who arrived less those who left the UK). However 828,000 National Insurance numbers were issued to foreign workers last year,
of which 630,000 went to EU citizens, who all have homes in Bulgaria, Romania, etc. Meanwhile, our own Youths can't even find shelf-stacking jobs in supermarkets during holidays or after leaving schools, many of them are unemployed and homeless, sleeping rough.</span><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></b><br />
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families across the British Channel, can spend their earnings and benefits
at three times our value outside of Britain, whilst our young employees are
trapped in this artificial depression, without the means to buy their first
homes or even pay back their tuition fees. And Turkey with a population of 77 million, being fast tracked into
the EU by Angela Merkel and other countries like Bosnia-Herzegovina’s application having been lodged, things
will get worse, not better for the Brits.</span></span></b></div>
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doesn’t quite know exactly how much it hands over to the EU each year.
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is </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">£19.228 billion</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> gross
contribution to the budget, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">£4.444 billion</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> is held back
as British Rebate that was negotiated by Margaret Thatcher just before she was ousted as Prime Minister and John Major stepped into her shoes, but he lacked her patriotic sense of duty to Britain. Today </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">£4.606 billion</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> of our contribution to the EU is spent on subsidies to Wales, Cornwall, Fisheries Agriculture, universities in
the UK, giving</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> an
estimated net contribution of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">£10.178
billion</span>.</span></b></div>
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gross contribution is rising, the rebate is declining (thanks to Tony Blair’s ‘renegotiations’
of 2006), and the EU spends £4.6 billion of our own money in our own country on
projects which they, rather than we, deem fit, such as the European Water Framework that stopped us from dredging our rivers, so the raised beds of silt and mud and contributed to damaging flooding during the severe weather in the last few years, costing Britain £millions. A British government should be able to
make better decisions than the EU on how to spend taxpayers’ money in Britain.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The indirect costs on the economy
are much higher. These include the Common Agricultural Policy, the Common
Fisheries Policy and over-regulation on business, to name just a few. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Professor Tim Congdon</span> has calculated
that the direct and indirect costs on our economy for 2015 to be <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">12%</span> of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">GDP </span>(Gross Domestic Product) or <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">£190 billion</span> per annum. It is time for our government to act sensibly for the people who elected them to power, not to flitter away our taxes on Europe, especially in view of the lack-lustre leaders making all our policies and half-cock decisions on our behalf. Just the way Germany handled the refugee crisis is evidence enough of their capability and their secret agenda in terms of equality for EU Members.</span></b></div>
<strong>Our Empire once stretched to half the world before the two world wars knocked the stuffings out of Britain, which took us years to recoup. It's time to assert our sovereignty again so we could thrive again without Germany looking over our shoulders all the time.</strong><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Published in the Echo on Saturday 16<sup>th</sup> January 2016</span></div>
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our economy and flooding.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Scrapping many of the thousands of EU directives will enable us to
restrict immigration; to alleviate housing shortage; lighten workload on our
hospitals, A&E and Junior Doctors; and lift the ban on Home Office to
deport foreign criminals.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We need to scrap the European Water Framework (EWF) directives
that stopped us dredging, embanking and maintaining our rivers; requiring the
Environment Agency (EA) to let rivers “re-connect with their flood plains” in
“undisturbed natural condition”; “giving rivers more space”; and “to improve
habitat of wildlife”!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To this end the EU made certain no funds are available for
dredging and the removal of silts and gravel, considered as hazardous waste,
instead, granting huge subsidies to improve wildlife habitats and for building
flood defences that do not disturb river beds, some 47 river trusts had since
sprung up to take advantage of EU grants.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></div>
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river-dredging were replaced by the Environment Agency (EA) which takes their orders directly from the EU and whose chairman was found wanting, as he enjoyed his holiday in Barbados whilst the severe storms raged over Britain through December 2015 into the New Year.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></div>
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safeguard their pumps, would appear to comply with the EWF Directive, sending
raging torrents of mud, silt and water through the streets of beautiful York, flooding 3,500
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premises; mud and silt that should have been dredged to deepen our rivers, had
caused billions of pounds worth of damage to homes, businesses, farms and
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salary, pension & expenses, amounting to several million pounds and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">George Osborne can afford to abort his austerity measures against
police, defence, fire-fighters and Local Councils, who can relax their cut-back
on libraries and pensioner care homes, which in turn will stop hospital bed-blogging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #666666;">Britain made the biggest mistake not quitting the EU
when Margaret Thatcher voiced her doubts in 1992.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">The Maastricht Treaty of 1993 transformed
the European Economic Community (Common Market) into the political federation
of the European Union, stripping the UK of powers to negotiate with non-EU countries;
rendering impotent our once-thriving industries like, manufacturing, the steel
works and mining; decimating our agriculture and fishery with wasteful directives
that closed many small businesses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #666666;">Each EU Treaty eroded more British sovereignty; and
thousands of mindless directives turned our Parliament into paper-shuffler,
disseminating their regulations, and supervisor of obeisance by our government
departments and local councils. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Like
Greece, George Osborne had to obey EU directives to put austerity measures on
our spending, because “We have one of the worst debts on the planet”, as
observed by a Lib-Dem supporter (In my view Feb 6) </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #666666;">The EEC’s nine members in 1973 had broadly similar living
standards, thriving well on the four freedoms of movement of capital, goods,
services and people travelling for work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Today’s 28 disparate EU members, mostly ex-Soviet or ex-Communist nations
with much lower economies and earning expectation, make the four freedoms especially
unworkable in EU’s shambolic organisation, where for 19 years auditors could
not pass their accounts due to errors and misspending of 6.7 billion Euro just in
2012.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #666666;">David Cameron’s proposed reform to stop new migrants
claiming benefit on arrival was irrelevant, when Germany and Austria kept
controls on workers from Eastern Europe for the full seven years allowed under
EU rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">UK GDP per capita is three
times that of Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia, the most recent countries to join
the EU with a combined population of 33 million.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Turkey is being fast tracked into the EU by
Angela Merkel and Bosnia-Herzegovina has already applied to join.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">With net migration last year at 330,000
should Britain be worried?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #666666;">EU’s travelling circus of 751 MEPs and staff, shuttling
by rail, road and air between Brussels and Strasbourg costs over 180 million
Euro a year, plus Luxembourg with a secretariat employing 2,432 officials, hosting
a third European Parliament, the European Court of Justice with one judge from
each member state and the European Council with 28 leaders that met recently in
Paris. Britain’s EU fee of £12 Billion a year could be better spent on our NHS,
Nurseries, children’s centres, tax credits... Britain needs to leave the EU. Vote Leave at the EU referendum.</span></span></div>
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</span>Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-24176869675587708392015-12-03T00:57:00.000+00:002016-04-29T17:26:30.366+01:00Benefit of 'NO' vote at the EU referendum<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today Parliament has voted to bomb IS in Syria.</span><br />
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The Government was supported by 67 Labour votes, winning 397 against 223 including the controversial Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbots and several Tory rebels.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: #666666;">“Tories ready to rebel over EU after Cameron’s
feeble demands”, (Tim Rose Sunday Telegraph 15/11) is music to all
Eurosceptics, backing the “Leave.EU” or the “Vote Leave” group, and especially
for the UKIP Party, whose leader Nigel Farage’s criticism of the EU Parliament
over 20 years for their undemocratic procedures in dishing out thousands of
directives to member states, regardless of their suitability or harm has been
vindicated.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Even Boris Johnson
challenged the Prime Minister saying our Parliament should be given the power
to block or overturn EU regulations and directives if it thought fit, and that
we should be able to make changes without EU or Angela Merkel’s permission.</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: #666666;">The horrendous attack on Paris by the savage ISIL
terrorists is a wake-up call for Britain, expecting 1000 Syrian refugees from
the Camps before Christmas, and hundreds of radicalised Muslims returning to
the UK after fighting for and with ISIL.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;">
</span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Do we still consider them to be British citizens?</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: #666666;">In four top security prisons gangs of Islamist
extremists are threatening non-Muslims with violence unless they pay them
protection money via their mobile phones or through families and friends
outside, transferring money to nominated accounts.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Are IS terrorists already in our midst?</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: #666666;">If we all vote “NO” at the EU referendum, our Home
Office could deport our most dangerous foreign criminals, and instead of
building more prisons, we could build more homes.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">We would save a minimum of £12 Billion EU membership
fee and huge expenses, salaries, pension packets of redundant MEPs</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">who were unable to overturn any laws from EU
bureaucrats. David Cameron tried 40 times and failed, so there’s no hope of any
reforms to curb immigration or limit benefits claimed for children living in
Schengen Zones.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: #666666;">By leaving the EU we could negotiate our own trade
agreements with any country, spend the
EU money on strengthening our defence, border, police force,
scrap austerity measures, local government
expenditure, save the NHS, and still have £billions left to reduce our rising
national debt of £1.5 trillion.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: #666666;">The EU
is an extravagant club which Britain can no longer afford.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Brexit is our only solution as Grexit is for
Greece.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Published in the Daily Echo on Monday 23rd November 2015</strong></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard Grant continues to ramble on waiting for.. .. In My View 24 August.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No use looking for a speck in Colin’s eye, Richard, being blinkered by the EU beam you can never see clearly!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>UKIP is very much alive and kicking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Losing two MEPs out of 26 did no harm to UKIP, but that’s a different story for the Lib-Dem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope you saw the sensational speech delivered by Nigel Farage to the EU Parliament, asking them not to dangle more carrots to cause refugees to pay for the horrendously perilous journeys operated by people traffickers. </span></span></b></h3>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my view, the UK has always been the leader; capable of thinking outside the box, beyond Europe, shouldering responsibilities, and effectively solving world problems at source. Queen Elizabeth is today declared history’s longest reigning monarch, whose travels have jelled together the Commonwealth countries, all of Europe and America. David Cameron today at Prime Minister Question Time also declared Britain a sovereign country able to make our own decisions within our own borders.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The media’s sneer at the government taking just two hundreds refugees, was misleading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That figure related to victims of rape, torture, disability and the elderly identified in the Syrian camps, who were transported to the UK for protection. Since 2011 more than 5,000 Syrians had been given asylum in Britain, and David Cameron has since confirmed Britain will take in another 20,000 at source, from Camps in and around Syria. These will be the real refugees as opposed to economic migrants who had huge financial backings to make it to Europe by any means, swelling the funds of pirates and people smugglers pocketing thousands of pounds to ferry migrants from Turkey, Libya across to Greece and Italy, both EU member-states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JR writes: Stop them paying People Smugglers huge sums of money, send them a strong message that EUROPE is full, we cannot take any more. Go back to refugee shelters built for them until Syria is stabilised, by peace talks and disarmament by the UN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JR writes: NO, this is all due to Angela Merkel's Germany, dominating the EU in the despotic way they know best. Winston Churchill had countered their Nazi fascism by his buccaneering spirit at the cost of completely depleting the British Treasury in 1945, and we paid the price of losing all our colonies and Commonwealth allies in one fell swoop. Germany has a lot to answer for the UK's poverty post WW2 when we had to repay an American loan of £21 billion over 35 years, which resulted in our joining the European Economic Community in 1972 when Workers Unions were in their ascendancy and successive British governments could not resolve our ailing industries. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Britain’s failure to live up to its “moral obligation” to accept a fair quota of refugees from Syria will damage David Cameron’s hopes of achieving a successful renegotiation with Brussels, a former president of the European commission has claimed.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JR writes: All leaders of the European Union have no high opinion of Britain's Tory government, so no matter what reforms David Cameron seeks, there will never be a 100% agreement. The undemocratic procedure of the European Parliament made certain that no Member-state could win on any proposal submitted by the unelected European Commissioners, however damaging their legislation is on the UK economy, environment or livelihood of the common wage-earner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But with so much diversity in languages, customs, religious beliefs and economies, the single currency of the euro and the single market with such disparity in GDPs, especially the newer members from ex-Communist and ex-Soviet countries, will produce an insurmountable unequal society, that will cause its demise, not just the wealth and prosperity of Germany in contrast to the poverty of South Eastern Europe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JR writes: The Tory Prime Minister's stance on not taking refugees or economic migrants from those affluent enough to make their way into the European Schengen zone is a good safeguard for Britain's security, as the militant ISIS had promised a million terrorists will arrive with the exodus of migrants welcomed by Angela Merkel, undemocratically speaking for all 28 members. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JR writes: Nigel Farage is a shrewd observer for 20 years, and what he says makes a lot of sense, especially when he tackles the European Parliament for their democratic deficit in empowering themselves to make 54,000 pieces of legislations since year 2000 (millennium) and even the most profitable of our corner shops, grocery stores and village post offices gave up the ghost for earning a living. Only 10% of UK business trade with the Euro Zone, yet 100% of all UK businesses have to succumb to EU rules and regulations and paying £19.6 billion gross this year into the EU funds for them to support our agriculture, fishery, Wales and Cornwall, with propaganda to schools and universities promoting the benefits of staying in the EU. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JR writes: It is a worrying time for British families as the millions of EU migrants can enter Britain whenever they wish so long they have papers to prove they are EU citizens. Speaking no English, these unskilled workers had compressed wages for our school leavers, many are homeless and unemployed. Even seasonal fruit picking is out of their reach as new migrants from poorer economies can accept lower remuneration, just a UK job-seeker allowance will exceed the money they can earn back home in a week. What's to stop them collecting a month's benefits then return to their homeland to spend it like kings? Our workers have no such holiday homes to retreat to in times of unemployment.</span></div>
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</span>Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-17848889862543560842015-04-16T20:05:00.000+01:002015-04-16T20:05:36.115+01:00Many UKIP policies_for_ people adopted by the Tory manifesto!<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">David Cameron pledged yesterday to deliver the 'good life' to hard-working Britons when he unveiled a radical Tory Manifesto, promising voters 'security at every stage of your life',</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> only to find many of the Tory giveaways were in the original <a href="http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people">http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people</a> published last year for UKIP's Conference held at Doncaster. </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;">UKIP policies proposed to abolish inheritance tax and increase personal allowance to £13,000, this is the minimum wage that incurs no tax. UKIP offers a better deal for those earning £42,285 to £55,000 with tax at 35p, thereafter the 40p rate is payable. The conservatives apply the 40p from £50,000.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The Tory also adopted UKIP's policies on abolishing green taxes and charges; withdrawing subsidy for wind farms; scrapping Human Rights Act in favour of British bill of rights. UKIP's policies went much further than David Cameron's offers, proposing to reoccupy the UK's vacant seat at the World Trade Organisation to continue trading with Europe as well as the rest of the world by exiting the EU and save £55million a day; UKIP will cut Foreign Aid by £9billions to spend on all the above pledges. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The Tories have not yet determined what services and spending they will need to cut to fund these 'good life' promises. </span><span style="color: #666666;">It’s not easy to stand by
these pledges to win back Tory
voters under the authoritarian watchful eye of the EU, with George Osborne's final Budget based on keeping annual net migration well above
100,000, which already broke David Cameron’s promise of 2010 to keep net migration
within “tens of thousands”. UKIP will be able to limit immigration by the point-system of entry without interference from the EU. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Under the EU open
border law, 187,370 Romanians and Bulgarians arrived for work in the UK in 2014 and were
given National Insurance (NI) number, an increase of 576% up on the 27,700
figure used by the Coalition in January 2014 to justify EU free-movement. The revelation by the
Department for Work and Pensions that the Romanians and Bulgarians now make up a
quarter </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666;">of new NI numbers given to
foreign workers, that is an outrageous number of nearly </span><span style="color: #666666;"> a million extra workers in one year, being supported by the UK’s infrastructure; putting
unsustainable strain on housing, transport, schools and the NHS.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666;">It's the century’s most
unfair competition for our under-privileged youths, the unemployed and the newly
redundant by Mr. Osborne’s austerity measures on Police, Border and
military forces and local Council workers up and down the country.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">Most of our job-seekers have high overheads
of rented homes or mortgage responsibilities and families of school-going and
college age, who will face a grim future queuing for jobs against new
migrants who are unafraid of sleeping rough like the Romanians in London’s
Park Lane 18 months ago, who were sent back to Romania with free bus fares, but
soon came back after a brief (paid for) holiday at their Romanian home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666;">This kind of
scenario is lowering British standard and our lifestyle, and the UK
Independence Party has a plethora of policies to bring this country back on
course, firstly to exit the EU to limit immigration with a point-based entry
system for migrants with sufficient English language for work, with an NHS-approved health
insurance, a job offer and accommodation arranged.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">After
paying tax and NI for 5 years they will then be eligible for benefits and after ten
years permanent residency will be granted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666;">By re-joining the
World Trade Organisation we can continue our trade with Europe, but will have
the freedom to trade globally with a vast number of fast developing countries
without incurring EU penalties. With the saving of our annual fee of over £10
billion plus perks, expenses and pay for numerous MEPs, UKIP will kick start
the economy</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">by increasing full-time
minimum wage earnings to £13,000 before tax (personal allowance), and introduce
a 35p income tax rate on £42,285 to £55,000, thereafter the 40p rate will be
payable. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666;">These savings plus
cutting back £9 billion on Foreign Aid proposed by UKIP will ease our national
debt as well as stop over-crowding hospitals and A&E and will give our own
people a fair crack at housing and jobs.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">George Osborne’s final budget show the £23 billion surplus
outlined in his Autumn Statement for 2019-20 is down by £7 billion. The growth
forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility is at 2.3 to 2.4% per annum
over the next five years, but our actual growth since 2010 has only averaged at
1.8% so far.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">David Cameron knows that
many things don’t add up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">George Osborne’s optimism knows no bound.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">In his June 2010 Budget he said he would
borrow just £37 billion in 2014-15, instead he is borrowing £91.3 billion this
year and last year £86.3 billion loan was added to our spiralling national
debt, nearly doubled since he took office despite many austerity measures that
reduced essential services to dangerous levels, particularly in our police,
border and vital Defence Programme, especially as we face more aggression all
around us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Many of the Tory giveaways were borrowed from UKIP’s
policies, which were published since last year’s UKIP Doncaster Conference,
such as the increase in Personal Allowance to £13,000, scrapping the
Inheritance Tax and an extra £3 billion to NHS frontline services.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">UKIP leader Nigel Farage is right to lead Britain’s fourth
political party away from the costly EU whose 3,600 laws had hampered our
prosperity and competitiveness. Our taxpayers are rightly fed up with all three
main Parties’ blind submission to EU's uncontrolled migration law and the gravy
train mentality in Brussels and Strasbourg, many voters from all walks of life
and society can see the sensibility of UKIP policies to halt the rampant advance
of immigrants, in such high number that can eventually destroy Britain’s
heritage, culture and intrinsic value.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">David Cameron seemed to be under great pressure facing up to even a
second term.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">His reluctance to face a debate
with his oppositions revealed his sensitive personality to criticism and all
the broken promises he had made rest heavy on his shoulder.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">He could sense the people’s discontent in his
poll rating, and knew full well that he would be powerless to change EU’s
open border requirement, notably evident in the EU President’s response of “Mission Impossible”
when he likened himself to Tom Cruise to reform the EU before referendum in 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Weighing heaviest on his shoulders is George Osborne’s final
Budget, presented on a wish (and a prayer) that the next Parliament would produce the hat-trick economy he so bravely
forecasted, if the Tory Party is returned to power. </span></div>
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Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-16109265930030173342015-03-30T14:46:00.002+01:002015-04-15T19:56:10.267+01:00ANOTHER 39 DAYS TO THE GENERAL ELECTION<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">It’s no surprise to find David Cameron not considering a
third term even if he were voted back in office in May.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">It’s not easy to stand by George Osborne’s
final Budget that’s cunningly constructed just to win back Tory voters, and is based
on keeping annual net immigration well above 100,000, which mocks the PM’s
promise made in 2010 to keep net migration within “tens of thousands”. He
showed no sign of regret as he made new promises to reform the EU and hold a referendum in 2017, fully aware that our membership of the EU is the root cause of so many hardship for lower income families, all the benefits are reaped by just 1% of the rich and MEPs. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">All three established Parties have no plans to exit the
EU, knowing full well EU leaders are too inflexible to consider any reform, especially for Britain. Most voters know how adamant the EU leaders are in keeping
the UK under strict control with thousands of regulations and by-laws, about 75-80% of UK laws come from Brussels, restricting our global trade, closing hundreds of Post Offices; VAT, Fuel tax, policing, farming and open border immigration, are all controlled by the EU, leaving the PM time to squabble with Ed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">This
government told us only 27,700 arrived from Romania and Bulgaria at the beginning of last year, but they made no mention of the 187,370 who arrived later in 2014, an increase of 576%, all were given (NI)
National Insurance number to register for work, state benefits and tax credits. The
Department for Work and Pensions revealed that the Romanians and Bulgarians (215,070) accounted for a quarter </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">of new NI numbers given
to foreign migrants. That's a whopping influx of nearly a million workers!</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">To add such high numbers of
extra workers in one year to any nation is unsustainable; and together with their spouses and children this number would overwhelm any country, but in the confined space of UK's islands it's totally wrong for any government to punish their people with this kind of overcrowding. That's an unprecedented strain on all our infrastructure! </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"> Yet, the government blamed the chaos of overstretched A&E and hospital closure on</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"> the few elderly pensioners who have lost their beds in care homes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">Many care homes were closed by the government without first replacing them, or putting in place a system (carers or home-care) prior to closing them down. This Coalition government has failed to protect the NHS to deliver at the time of need, many residents incurred high parking fees for lengthy wait or being turned away. The PM pledging</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"> £2 billion during the chaos to fund the NHS does not solve the problem in an instant. Sticking plaster on chaos never worked, more nurses and doctors had to be trained
before the influx, in the same way that all essential services like police, army or border require training time to ensure the smooth running of the country. </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">Surely the Home Office of this Coalition knew and expected this influx of migrants since Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, having experienced the exodus of Poles arriving in the UK, the government has had five years to be prepared or should have taken the EU to task for an unsustainable policy. After all the UK pays dearly (£11.3 billion) for the privilege of our expensive membership. There was no reason why the NHS was so over-stretched and running on a deficit of £500million, with doctors’ surgeries scheduling appointments for over a week or two. </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">A million new workers, many speaking no English, must adversely impact </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">on all other services like housing, </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">schools, roads and transport, and placing</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"> an unfair competition for Britain's
unemployed and those recently-redundant by the Chancellor’s austerity
measures on police, prison, border, military and local council workers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">Britain is now the
second most crowded country in Europe, with another six countries waiting to
join the EU, Britain is a soft touch for all EU member states and it's not fair on our taxpayers and pensioners who have paid into the system, to be plundered by government and foreign migrants, robbing them</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"> of their birth right.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">The UK Independence Party is the only party with policies that can
counteract the EU’s ambitious federalism.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">UKIP members come from all walks of British
industry and commerce, with intelligence to make UKIP policies work towards a Great Britain, regaining control of our borders, a sove</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">reign country in our own right</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">, making our own laws for our own people.</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">If you want to see change for the better, then VOTE for UKIP in May. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">To see the UK Independence Party's policies on Apprenticeship Qualification in education; reduction of national debt for our grandchildren; repairing the economy, starting with the increase of personal tax-free allowance to £13,000; reduce Foreign Aid by £9 billion; scrap wind farm and solar arrays subsidies; take back control of our agricultural and fishery policies by reinstating British territorial waters; and many more on NHS and support for Defence and military care. Visit: <a href="http://www.ukip.org/Policies_for_People">www.ukip.org/Policies_for_People</a> </span></div>
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Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-70670017707261414102015-02-05T02:24:00.000+00:002015-03-29T23:17:34.611+01:00JUST 90 DAYS TO GENERAL ELECTION<b><span style="color: #c0504d;"> </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">VOTE FOR A PARTY THAT IS FOCUSED ON CHANGE AND PROSPERITY!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For many years Britain had maintained an open-door
Border as required by the EUROPEAN UNION, and 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 free good schools in convivial environment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are six more countries waiting to become
members of the EUROPEAN UNION, such as Turkey, Montenegro, etc. With our housing, school and health services
already stretched to breaking points, Britain can no longer afford to be a
member of a Union that is so inflexible in their membership rules for work,
business, and benefits; and their uncontrolled immigration law has greatly impinged
on our citizens’ rights and freedom. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a member, Britain paid the EU more than £8billions
every year, which increased to £11.3billion last year, plus other penalties and
levies such as the surprise £1.7billion extra, for the imperceptible growth in
our economy. It’s any body’s guess what
we would have to pay in the future. This
huge payment has added to the austerity that impacted on the lowest-paid of our
society, whilst financing the upkeep of a lavish lifestyle of EU leaders at
Brussels and their new, impressive billion Euro HQ in Strasbourg. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our National debt today is a whopping £1.48 trillion
(figures from the Office for National Statistics), a record 80.9% of GDP (gross
domestic product), that means £60,000 per household, for which we pay a
£billion each day just on interest. Borrowing
by this Coalition for the fiscal year from April to December 2014, was £86.3
billion, and the Chancellor is planning to borrow £91.3 billion this year, slightly better than the £153 billion borrowed by Labour in 2010. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Coalition has no idea how to stop our debt
from spiralling monumentally. Their austerity
measures only managed to reduce many essential services like police, border and defence to dangerous levels; causing the poor to depend on food banks and allowing the top 1% of
the richest in our society to get indecently richer, owning more than half the
Nation’s wealth. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for the restructure of the NHS, six-figure salaries
were paid to attract hundreds of ‘high calibre’ executives to improve the Health
Service, only to find they managed to produce the most costly chaos the NHS has
ever experienced. With no clear vision
for people management or skills in organising care for the frail and elderly, they
simply left them occupying beds that are the most valuable stock-in-trade of all hospitals and their A&E departments, which recently ground to a halt all around the country due to lack of sufficient beds. Those highly-paid
executives were nowhere to be seen, leaving our Health
Service sick and in ruin. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UKIP alone has the policies inspired by vision and focus
to bring the UK back on course, by first regaining our Democracy from Brussels,
whose thousands of new laws and regulations are causing Britain a lot of misery as
well as financial loss. Next, the focus
is on repairing our economy. The £11.3
billion we paid the EU last year would have trained hundreds of nurses and
doctors to improve our NHS, and, by cutting back £9billion from our Foreign Aid
each year, we could begin to reduce our National Debt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the General Election in May, we the people must take our
duty seriously, by voting for UKIP, the only capable Party with policies to
turn the UK economy around - not with higher taxation but with due diligence to
review all legislation and regulations from the EU (they issued 3,600 new
laws since 2010) and remove those which hamper British prosperity and our
competitiveness. Study their policies at: </span><a href="http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people </span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Join me in voting for UKIP and you will be helping to
re-build a Great Nation, fit to bring up your children and grandchildren in the
best way possible. Let us work together
to grow our economy, whether in business enterprise or manufacturing, in
commerce or financial investment, in education or health. It is time to get the country moving again
towards a thriving and resourceful economy that sees great work ethics, good
education and pride in achievement. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let’s all help to put the GREAT back into BRITAIN! Why not join UKIP at: </span><a href="http://www.ukip.org/"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.ukip.org</span></a><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and vote for the United Kingdom
Independence Party to regain our independence from the EUROPEAN UNION and make
Britain a better place for the future. This is our only chance to make a fresh
start, by working together with UKIP to eliminate wasteful and fraudulent practices that are holding us
back from success and prosperity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We all need to vote for UKIP on
7<sup>th</sup> of May at the General Election and also at local and borough
elections to change British politics for good. With our monstrously huge National Debt, it's the only way to make a fresh start by getting back to basic British values. We cannot afford to let the Tories continue their spending beyond our means; we cannot afford more debts and more borrowing because we have already spent all our kids' inheritance. </span></div>
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There is much talk about the forthcoming General Election in just five months' time and having heard so much from the main Parties, I decided to take a look at what UKIP has to offer, under the leadership of Nigel Farage, and was pleasantly surprised by the seriousness of their policies and their conviction that British tax-payers' money is best spent at Home instead of being squandered on EU luxuries. I am now convinced of UKIP's ability to take on the greatest challenge faced by any British political party since WW2.<br />
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Take a look at the UKIP website for yourselves at: <a href="http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people">http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people</a><br />
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See if you agree with my views, that this youngest Political Party will grow in stature, and will mature quickly to grab this big opportunity to show the Nation who they really are! Fruitcakes or some sterner stuff with strength, endurance and great intelligence to take our country to prosperity.<br />
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There is a great need today to slim down government expenditure to repair the economy and to save Britain from paying £billions each week on interests alone for our insurmountable national debt, a debt created by Labour but doubled by the Conservative-Lib.Dem Coalition. That leaves the only other Party - UKIP to take up the reins of government at next year's General Election.<br />
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UKIP Government do for us? Their answers are in their website: Policies for People: To</span></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> protect jobs and increase prosperity, which entails much more than the few I list below:</span></span><br />
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UKIP with their many sensible, down-to-earth candidates will never allow those austerity measures that make the rich richer, and the poor more dependent on Food Banks, nor would UKIP's sensible candidates let the upheaval of the bedroom tax cause so much heartache for re-locators. Moving into a new home should always be a joyful event!<br />
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At the next General Election in May, we the people will be able to take part in the reparation, by voting for UKIP, the only Party sensible enough to turn the UK economy around - not by higher taxation but with due diligence to reviewing all legislation and the regulations from the EU (they issued 3,600 new laws since 2010) and remove those which hamper British prosperity and competitiveness.<br />
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To withdraw our membership from the EU will save us over £11 billion a year, and judging by the surprise £1.7 billion demanded from Britain for the recent imperceptible growth, it's any body's guess what price will be levied in the future! On leaving the EU, UKIP would seek to re-occupy the UK's vacant seat at the World Trade Organisation to continue our 'most favoured nation' status in trade with the EU, under the WTO rules.<br />
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UKIP is totally focused on repairing this Nation's economy by abolishing the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the Department for Energy and Climate Change; scrap subsidies for wind farms and solar arrays, but support a diverse energy market including coal, nuclear, shale gas, geo-thermal, tidal, solar, conventional gas and oil; scrapping green taxes and the costly unjustifiable HS2 project; and cutting the foreign aid budget by £9 billion a year.<br />
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With these savings, UKIP will be able to increase the Personal Allowance to a full-time minimum wage earning (approximately £13,500 by next election) and be able to introduce an income tax rate of 35p on £42,285 to £55,000, thereafter 40p rate becomes payable. The Inheritance Tax will be abolished and a Treasury Commission will be set up to design a Turnover Tax, so big businesses will pay a tax proportionate to their UK turnover.<br />
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Take a moment if you would, to read about UKIP's aspiration for the British people's prosperity at:<br />
<a href="http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people">http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people</a> and you will find the youngest political Party in the UK, whose manifesto will be crammed with fresh ideas, appealing to most British tax-payers looking for a way out of today's "spend your kids' inheritance" culture. It's refreshing to find a party not afraid to cut government spending but also keen to keep all the basic British values. UKIP will make a lean, mean, and cost-effective government, worth at least one term of office, to bring our economy back from the brink.<br />
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Numerous policies are embraced by UKIP to counter any proposed cuts and for leaving the EU: such as reinstating British territorial waters, and requiring foreign trawlers to apply for and purchase fishing permits to fish British waters; students from the EU will pay the same fee rates as International students; and businesses will be able to discriminate in favour of young British workers.<br />
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On the home front, UKIP will protect our Green Belt; planning and building regulations for Brownfield sites will be simplified as also for vacant commercial property. VAT on old property renovation will be relaxed, and for the redevelopment of Brownfield sites, their new homes' first sale will be exempt from stamp duty.<br />
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To prioritize Education and Skills, UKIP will introduce an option for students to take an Apprenticeship Qualification instead of the four non-core GCSEs which can, if wished, be continued at A-Level. <span lang="EN">Subject to academic performance UKIP will remove
tuition fees for students taking approved degrees in science, medicine, technology,
engineering, or mathematics on condition that they live, work and pay tax in the UK
for at least five years after the completion of their degrees. UKIP will scrap the target of 50% of school
leavers going to university.</span><br />
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UKIP is adamant that NHS will be free at the point of delivery and need, but visitors and migrants, until they have paid NI for five years, must have NHS-approved Private Health Insurance as a condition of entry to the UK, saving £2 billion a year, £200 million of which will be allocated to hospital car parking. And hurrah! UKIP will maintain the pensioner BUS PASS! I am 75 and I certainly need mine!<br />
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In honouring the Military Covenant, UKIP will guarantee those who have served in the Armed Forces for more than 12 years, a job in the Police or Border Force, or Prison Service. They will receive a Veterans' Service Card for after-service or mental health care.<br />
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UKIP seemed to have considered every important topic from Transport, Childcare and Welfare, Border control, Immigration, Culture, Law and Order, Democracy and Constitution, and more; the policies for their manifesto even include such items as making crime for non-payment of BBC Licence Fee to come under civil offences; and the law will be rigorously enforced against illegal 'culture' practices such as FGM, forced marriages, and so-called 'honour killings'; but recognising that the unifying British culture is open to anyone of whatever ethnic or religious background that identify with Britain and British values.<br />
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With so much on offer, UKIP certainly deserves our support for the opportunity to carry out those well-thought out proposals. I am willing to give the devil his due, so why not also to UKIP? After all, the three main Parties have had their chance to prove themselves in the last three decades, and with the debt spiralling out of control, desperate measures are now called for, such as those proposed by UKIP. I am in favour of giving UKIP a chance to use their practical and common sense approach, and with a lot more middle management and workers joining the UKIP's aspiration to prosper, they have a better chance to succeed than re-electing the Tory back to power to continue paying vast sums to the EU as well as perpetuating the merry-go-round fiasco of re-organising the Health Service that had benefitted only the retiring consultants rather the sick and the elderly.<br />
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Nigel Farage, sitting beside Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt at Question Time on BBC1, calmly let Russell Brand heckle him as "the Dude at the end of the table - a pound shop Enoch Powell, and we've got to watch him!" I am afraid Russell Brand's ranting made a spectacle of himself and showed us what a level-headed leader is Nigel Farage, whose composure will take UKIP right up to the top to lead this country to true prosperity by simply being British. <br />
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<br />Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-41947863609720995062014-05-21T03:02:00.000+01:002014-05-21T03:02:24.029+01:00SUMMER IS FINALLY HERE!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZd8LvXB8ap38h3MXlIAncBt0IYMNkumTWDJer-j8oAOZ3QZUKWXIWtAl0pSyG4L4SQ53kTHhnaH9urwqVCc4e_0Wut5QWmkXN8QvEuaD40OKt9SsRT65fJ1dg_eKyHBylKkTvs8VPMaw/s1600/Bluebells+&+rhododendron+(17).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>MARCH AND APRIL WHISTLED AWAY...<br />
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For many people, who had been adversely affected by Britain's inclement weather that flooded thousands of homes and turned many business ventures into negative equity, damage costs are still rising as they rented and salvaged whatever they could save. Costs to the Nation are into £millions; many are looking for ways to alleviate their burden; and others are trying to muster enough strength to re-build their lives or their livelihood, from scratch. <br />
Our thoughts are with you, wishing you success in all your efforts!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi9RcYpfxjJhe__7pNKPUNbK9fy-vmcnd2guof7wHNGRheLPkqNmn2wevz3_kpiHhGp22Tvd8dJDFkKlKE1w7T0yMmPXxx-62p5AfELQPaPB8gSY_kUSk16a6Gd9dHi1_t07xJQ0mVtLA/s1600/Bluebells+&+rhododendron+(31).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi9RcYpfxjJhe__7pNKPUNbK9fy-vmcnd2guof7wHNGRheLPkqNmn2wevz3_kpiHhGp22Tvd8dJDFkKlKE1w7T0yMmPXxx-62p5AfELQPaPB8gSY_kUSk16a6Gd9dHi1_t07xJQ0mVtLA/s1600/Bluebells+&+rhododendron+(31).JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a>Hopefully, Government grants and aid, will speed up the repairs and compensation for those who have lost everything. Many charities have set up food banks all around the country, giving a lifeline to the homeless, the unemployed and disabled, especially for the sick and elderly, whose health had been damaged by strong winds and disease-causing damp in their homes. We wish you a speedy recovery and good humour to enjoy the best of our summer.<br />
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At last the weather is showing signs of warming up and drying out, and the countryside becoming more beautiful every day; the trees are greening and the flowers are brilliantly colourful, even the bluebells are a deep azure, the most vibrant violet blue I have seen in many years.<br />
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Roy and I braved the torrential rain to visit Alan and Jan Olden's bluebell fields this year, and we were duly rewarded with a delightful show of bluebells at their best, followed by a welcoming hot tea at their beautiful home, surrounded by various animal statues, carved by Alan's own fair hand, whenever one of their trees fell. His next project has already presented itself by a tree, knocked down in the recent storm, asking to be turned into another piece of art.<br />
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Camellia and rhododendron bushes are bursting into shocking pink and mauve flowers, against verdant green woods and hedges. Summer is indeed a gorgeous time of the year in Great Britain! With longer daylight hours, many of us will be spending more time tending the gardens, eating alfresco and working up an appetite for a BBQ meat fest.<br />
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We continue to enjoy local theatres, such as The Maskers, in their cosy, mini-stage in Shirley, or their open-air productions held previously at Mottisfont and Hamptworth House. Our favourite local amateur group is The RAOD, performing at the Plaza theatre in Romsey, their dramas, comedies and musicals have entertained us for decades. Occasionally we venture up to London for a musical or a play in the West End, but the shows have to be really fantastic to entice us to travel to London. <br />
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Eating out is now becoming a favourite pastime, and finding new restaurants on our doorstep is always fun. Most enjoyable of all is being with friends and eating together, whilst catching up on each other's news. We often have coffee mornings at elevenses, or afternoon tea with friends at home, all very pleasant indeed. <br />
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Our friends, Youzhi and Jerome's little Amelie is growing up into a most delightful, intelligent and bright young lady of under two years old. She absorbs everything like a sponge, and is a gleeful mimic of sound, action, and any new words she hears, so lovely to talk to and to sing with, especially Nursery Rhymes!<br />
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I had a most wonderful weekend in London, to celebrate our friend, Gordon's 79th birthday, when Genevieve generously treated us to a champagne dinner at the Waldorf Hotel, in Aldwych. We started the day with a guided tour at the busy National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, on the works of several Impressionists.<br />
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Those who know us well, will wonder why we had not made a trip abroad in the last two years. Google's Blogspot writing, as well as renewed interest in digital photography, and the desire to sort out hundreds of diaries that recorded our 25 years of travels, in conjunction with thousands of photographs taken in over 80 countries, that have kept us busy, enough to take time off from our love of gallivanting the globe, in search of pastures new. It was time well-spent to rest and reflect, and take stock of our life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doors and Portals by Jean Romsey</td></tr>
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I even found time to paint three pictures to exhibit at Romsey Art Group's Spring Exhibition, The 'Doors and Portals' was inspired by a PhotoBook, 'Pushbikes and Portals' produced by Roy, from his photo collection. I chose to collate the second PhotoBook, entitled: 'A Pictorial Peek into Roy and Jean's Life Together', with 26 pages of photographs selected from thousands, to feature the<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcR6yjBNE8OaAiEWD_u947yljszco7xhqXyHgX1oVtXQykTmp6cOge_03pm5YxmTmhcuv6rhAGzn6V8X8JElsnz0hGas5oKmdAOyVFfyidRLd1IDmTvxlb_DSuWPDGySWXc-lBEpNjMvg/s1600/Roy%2526Jean%2527s+Life+Together+book+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcR6yjBNE8OaAiEWD_u947yljszco7xhqXyHgX1oVtXQykTmp6cOge_03pm5YxmTmhcuv6rhAGzn6V8X8JElsnz0hGas5oKmdAOyVFfyidRLd1IDmTvxlb_DSuWPDGySWXc-lBEpNjMvg/s1600/Roy%2526Jean%2527s+Life+Together+book+%25281%2529.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a>many activities we shared with our friends and families, in the 42 years we've been together. Quite a task! But what a life!<br />
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These two PhotoBooks were gifted to us by our good friends, Youzhi and Jerome at Roy's birthday. It feels so good to be able to hold a book of memories in your hand, and flick through it at any time you like. It's not the same clicking through folders in your computer, looking at masses of thumbnail images. Thanks to our friends, I am so happy with this gift of a Photobook - it's a great idea.<br />
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I shall catch up with you again in a few weeks with more news.Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314860658887715858.post-80183226271972227442014-02-15T03:00:00.000+00:002014-05-13T17:14:39.228+01:00A HAPPY START TO THE NEW YEAR<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq293UrKR0xZqfVTdsejCg7ZbBge38FV-QIpNG0I6xYtsUbpt3Og5MQnfX1_KFOQpS_BJzQRqIRbepmySH7racJw2jAIqLKHkBxADsHBn6oho165mKmWp_TvXb5-AEH6qj5JaQaHxhvgY/s1600/Happy+New+Year+2014+London+(11).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq293UrKR0xZqfVTdsejCg7ZbBge38FV-QIpNG0I6xYtsUbpt3Og5MQnfX1_KFOQpS_BJzQRqIRbepmySH7racJw2jAIqLKHkBxADsHBn6oho165mKmWp_TvXb5-AEH6qj5JaQaHxhvgY/s1600/Happy+New+Year+2014+London+(11).JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a><br />
NEW YEAR FIREWORKS FOLLOWED BY STORMS<br />
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New Year arrived with pomp and ceremony as the grand London fireworks vied with global sparklers throughout the night, under clear blue skies everywhere. Alas! this brief respite was not a forerunner of good weather in the United Kingdom, as storms of heavy rainfall and 100 mph winds, vindicate our good wishes.<br />
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Our little kingdom of Britain had been battered by strong winds, rain and turbulent seas, continuously for two months, the wildest and windiest weather recorded in decades, a situation never faced before, in my 49 years of living in England. There had been the occasional flooding here and there, when rainfall was exceptionally heavy, as in 2003 or 2007, but never had the ground saturation been so sodden for so long.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A mirage of tranquility</td></tr>
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You would be forgiven to think these homes were built with exotic water features around them, but the serenity belies the turmoil faced by residents, imprisoned in their own home with no clean drinking water and no way to launder their clothes or flush their toilets. Many had found their homes contaminated by sewage, and the flood water is posing health hazards to children and pets, if swallowed, as many areas had tested positive with fecal bacteria.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unrelenting waves bashing Cornwall </td></tr>
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Everyday we hear reports of more disasters: rivers overflowing into flood plains; unprecedented flooding in towns and cities, like Winchester, Capital of Hampshire, being sandbagged to divert flood water from city centre businesses; uprooted trees landing on cars; rooftops lifting or borne away by high winds; railway lines crumbling under incessant rain and 100 mph wind swiping at everything in its path. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul Daniel and wife waded outdoors</td></tr>
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Roads, bridges and river banks are collapsing under ferocious on-shore waves; electricity lines destroyed by storms are cutting off power to tens of thousands of homes, some of whom had been without any fuel since before Christmas and had to dispose of food languishing in fridges and freezers. Many households had to abandon their flooded homes, inhabitable due to sewage seeping up the floorboards, or becoming inaccessible except by boats or wading through waist-high water levels.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Romsey bandstand reflected by flood</td></tr>
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There is no sign what-so-ever of the flood water receding from our saturated landscape, as the Met office warned of more devastation on the way: wind gusting over 80 mph, with heavier downpour throughout the night and possibility of snow on some high ground. Already Hambledon had been under water for 40 days and nights, Datchet near Windsor had been flooded since early January, and Jenny, Roy's sister, living in Romsey, was house-bound for a few days last month, due to flooding.<br />
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The Government is finally deploying the army to shore up flood defences up and down the country, joining forces with the fire fighters, volunteers, and hundreds of employees of the Environment Agency distributing sandbags and helping vulnerable homes to seal off flooding wherever possible. The endurance and strength of our British flood victims deserve our admiration and full support from the Government for any help and funding required. <br />
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We wish them greater resilience in the face of so much atrocity dealt them by Nature, Global warming and Climate Change, and to a great extent, exacerbated by ill-conceived EU directives to our Environment Agency, not to dredge the many rivers that had, for centuries, been the lifeblood of Britain's infrastructure in carrying away glacial and rainwater to the sea, and supplying many counties the means for fishing, farming, irrigation, sport and navigation.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDCNHEB1TEl4AnNQ1rFFNFvEZmrLa9EwVMNwwU91ddPr2K0mop2QxlWtoPXrT6JGyg1898pw3iRf6OUucUhUPzZVc4BNB9WxJSas0ZHArUMSR5_6_6D_sDrfEA0qe7OHrvEt0mQUNfaw/s1600/Severe+flooding+2014+%25284%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDCNHEB1TEl4AnNQ1rFFNFvEZmrLa9EwVMNwwU91ddPr2K0mop2QxlWtoPXrT6JGyg1898pw3iRf6OUucUhUPzZVc4BNB9WxJSas0ZHArUMSR5_6_6D_sDrfEA0qe7OHrvEt0mQUNfaw/s1600/Severe+flooding+2014+%25284%2529.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a>This is another example of EU blundering by autocratic officials, ensconced in their urban ivory-tower in Brussels, unfamiliar with Britain's climate and geology, and ignorant of the millennia of indigenous good practice in river management, that had balanced the usefulness of our waterways with a high degree of nature reserves required for British birds, fishery and game, that already proliferate in our green and pleasant land.<br />
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Too much tampering by too many over-paid and under-employed EU agencies from across the Channel, are destroying quality of British life that had evolved through diligent study of our own environment. Who could better administrate our rivers than our own local homegrown, resident landowners, farmers and businesses? Just a small local environment agency in each county would surely be better than a massive, national one, located in London, but directed by distant EU mis-informed officials.<br />
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In spite of the atrocious weather, I wish you all a happy Chinese New Year of the Horse, giving you strength and sense of purpose in everything you do and whatever life throws at you.<br />
Happy St. Valentine's Day!<br />
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I shall speak to you again soon.<br />
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<br />Jean Lai Romseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198523786560847658noreply@blogger.com0