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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.


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We need your vote on the 23rd of June to Leave the EUROPEAN UNION so Britain can achieve a better way of life for everyone, not just for the richest.


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


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

 

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

Dear friend, You have until 5 p.m. tomorrow to apply for a postal vote. Postal votes aren't just for people who are on holiday on 23 June. You never know if you might have to work late, look after a family member who falls ill, or have something that crops up at the last minute that makes voting difficult. We've waited more than forty years for the chance to take back control from the EU. Don't miss out on your chance to Vote Leave – apply for a postal vote today. It should arrive by 14 June and you can fill it out at home and post it at your convenience – or take it to any polling station in your local area on 23 June to drop it off in person. You have until 5 p.m. tomorrow to apply. Here's a 3-step guide to doing it: Download your postal vote application form, print and complete it  Scan it or photograph it on your smartphone and save a copy Email it to your local Electoral Registration Office – find their email address by clicking here and typing in your postcode Additionally, if you have not yet registered to vote, please do so by midnight tonight (Tuesday 7 June 2016).  Information on how to register can be found here: http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/register-to-vote If you have any questions or require a proxy vote (where somebody else votes on your behalf), use the link in point 3 to find the telephone number of your local Electoral Services team and give them a call. Thank you, Dan Hannan MEP

It is time to vote Leave the EU

We need to take back control from the EU

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.

 

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.  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? 

 

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.  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.  This is dire discrimination against our tax-payers whose children are born and bred in this country.

 

Since 2007 Peterborough has created 8,300 extra school places costing £110million.  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.  No wonder Eastern European children are now higher achievers than our British kids, languishing on waiting lists.

 

Another bias expenditure 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.  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.

 

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.  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.

 

Just think how much we 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 our own nationals. 

 

It is time to put a stop to this topsy-turvy world created by the European Union, bringing chaos into our civilised society, whiles Eastern European countries are overtaking us.  We need to take back control!  It is time to vote Leave on 23^rd June.

Don't confuse Europe with EU

We love Europe but not EU's politics

Written for the Sunday Times commenting on Jeremy Clarkson's rumination:

Jeremy Clarkson has totally 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.

It's not about more Syrians if we stay in the EU, as surmised by Jeremy. 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. 


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. 


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. 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. 

These EU migrants with homes and 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.

The only way to stop Great Britain being reduced to third world country is to vote Leave EU. The British have supported the EU from a nine-country Common Market in 1973, through to its federalisation as European Union in 1993, which expanded to include most of the ex-Soviet ex-Communist States following the break-up of the USSR to today's 28-nation EU.

Britain's influence has fallen so low that our Prime Minister David Cameron had to grovel with cap in hand for a reduction of Value Added Tax on Female tampons, because our MPs cannot reject any proposal or law passed by the European Parliament without a Majority vote of 566 MEPs.  It is an undemocratic Union under the dictatorship of one Angela Merkel.  Britain needs to vote leave if we are to survive and prosper, and for our elected government to make our own laws for our citizens, instead of being a supervisor for EU's law making machinery.


The Government must change our economic course and let Britain be sovereign again.  We are still living beyond our means; our national debt is running higher than £1.5 trillion and our National Health is in deficit of a billion pounds with Junior doctors striking for higher pay.  The EU is costing Britain more than we can afford, even the British government doesn’t quite know exactly how much it hands over to the EU each year.

The Government’s current forecast for payments to the EU Budget for 2016-2017 is £19.228 billion gross contribution to the budget, £4.444 billion 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 £4.606 billion of our contribution to the EU is spent on subsidies to Wales,  Cornwall,  Fisheries Agriculture, universities in the UK, giving an estimated net contribution of £10.178 billion.

However, bear in mind that our 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.

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. Professor Tim Congdon has calculated that the direct and indirect costs on our economy for 2015 to be 12% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) or £190 billion 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.

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.

Vote "NO" at the EU Referendum on 23rd June 2016, for our bright future. 

  

VOTE LEAVE AT THE REFERENDUM

Published in the Echo on Saturday 16^th January 2016

 

Leaving the EU is the right choice

Leaving the EU is the only way to regain control of our borders, our economy and flooding. 

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. 

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”! 

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. 

Meanwhile, all local river boards with experience of 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. 

The controversial act of the Environment Agency in opening the Foss Barriers to 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 properties.

But there are no directives for the safety of residents or their 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 livestock.  

What could David Cameron do with his promise of just £40 million? 

Leaving the EU will save the £12 Billion annual EU fee, plus 73 MEPs' salary, pension & expenses, amounting to several million pounds and 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.  

No need for David Cameron to go cap-in-hand for another round of EU reform when he can boldly announce the UK’s departure for independence.

Published in the Daily Echo 21 January, 2016.

Big mistake not leaving EU in 1993

Mistake in not quitting EU.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

Britain made the biggest mistake not quitting the EU when Margaret Thatcher voiced her doubts in 1992.   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.

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.  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)  

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.  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. 

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.  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.  Turkey is being fast tracked into the EU by Angela Merkel and Bosnia-Herzegovina has already applied to join.  With net migration last year at 330,000 should Britain be worried?

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.

Benefit of 'NO' vote at the EU referendum

Today Parliament has voted to bomb IS in Syria.




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.

“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. 

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.

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.  Do we still consider them to be British citizens?

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.  Are IS terrorists already in our midst?

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. 

 We would save a minimum of £12 Billion EU membership fee and huge expenses, salaries, pension packets of redundant MEPs 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.

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. 

The EU is an extravagant club which Britain can no longer afford.  Brexit is our only solution as Grexit is for Greece.

Published in the Daily Echo on Monday 23rd November 2015

Britain Makes Sovereign Decisions on Borders

Richard Grant continues to ramble on waiting for.. .. In My View 24 August.  No use looking for a speck in Colin’s eye, Richard, being blinkered by the EU beam you can never see clearly!  UKIP is very much alive and kicking.  Losing two MEPs out of 26 did no harm to UKIP, but that’s a different story for the Lib-Dem.  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.

Let’s hope the EU comes up to our expectation in solving the refugee crisis in the Schengen zone; some poor migrants have been in France, Italy and Greece since spring time, and the EU emergency meetings are taking forever, it would be too cruel for migrants to sleep rough when winter arrives.  Since 2011 Britain has taken in over 5000 Syrian refugees plus 216 victims of rape, torture, and disability, who were transported to the UK for protection.  Thank goodness the Lib-Dem can no longer hinder the Government from standing up to Angela Merkel and her colleagues’ diktats.  Mr. Cameron was right to reject any involvement in the compulsory quota scheme, saying it would encourage more “dangerous journeys” across the Mediterranean. 

 

Germany foolishly announced their intention to take in 800,000, which caused a near-stampede for the trains at Hungary’s Bicske station. It was heart-rending to see the refugees’ crestfallen faces when they arrived at a refugee camp instead of Germany. Other migrants too were spurred on by Germany’s offer of a better life, and paid dubious traffickers for their hazardous crossings from the relative safety of Turkey or Greece.  The death of three-year-old Aylan and his brother and mother, would have been avoided if Angela Merkel had followed David Cameron’s lead to act more surreptitiously.

Britain has already provided £922 million to humanitarian efforts to build camps in Syria and neighbouring countries for refugees, more aid than any European country, one-third more than Germany.  We have funded 18 million meals, sheltered 400,000 people from the elements, educating 250,000 children and provided 2.5 million doctors’ appointments. 

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.

Published Friday, 11 September 2015: In My View - Daily Echo - Jean Romsey,    Email : jromsey@yahoo.co.uk   

I think David Cameron is justified in allowing the 26 Schengen nations to deal with migrants arriving in the borderless Schengen Zone.  Britain has more aid to this Syrian crisis than any European country; a third more than Germany’s £622 million; France’s paltry £69 million; Italy’s £63 million; and Belgium’s  £31.5 million.

Absorbing Syria’s smart and educated citizens into Europe may be beneficial to EU countries like Germany with a dwindling youth generation, but warring countries will be deprived of their elite population to regenerate their national identity once their country is stabilized.

Britain is truly pragmatic in solving problems whilst charismatic EU leaders did nothing for six months, then scheduled an emergency meeting to take place in a fortnight, after which Junker and Hollande hypocritically criticised our Prime Minister for not doing enough for the refugee crisis.

Back in the UK, hypocrisy is all around the PM; ignorant attacks by biased BBC presenters, Labour, SNP and the Green Party, including people who should know better, like Emma Thompson, all found our PM wanting.

 

The media’s sneer at the government taking just two hundreds refugees, was misleading.  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. 

Britain had already donated over one billion pounds to shelter refugees on the borders of Syria, a third more than Germany, three-quarters more than from France or Italy or  Belgium. Yet leaders like Junker, Tusk and Hollande hypocritically denounced David Cameron for refusing the EU quota.  It is more important to help the refugees nearer their home country, to stop them paying for a possible death sentence.

Don’t forget it was the UK Independence Party and their sensible policies that persuaded David Cameron to offer the promise of an In/Out referendum.   UKIP’s robust belief in Britain’s sovereignty won them four million votes at the General Election, that figure could have been more if UKIP’s leader had not advised many voters to tactically vote for the Tories in the face of a possible SNP and Labour alliance that could be disastrous for the UK's economy. 

Various Press Reports include:

How do we stop more pictures of dead three-year-old kids being dragged out of the Mediterranean?

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.

“Do we accept the European policy that says that anyone who comes are welcome?”

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. 

The Guardian claims Cameron’s moral failure over refugees ‘will cost him the Europe negotiation’.

JR writes:  It certainly did, as the Prime Minister came back from the EU Summit meeting with nothing of import to offer the British in our determination to vote In or Out at the referendum scheduled for June 23, 2016.

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.

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.

Each legislation can be passed in the European Parliament by a simple majority of just those MEPs present, but for a law to be rejected by any country, it would require the Absolute or Qualifying Majority, that is a majority of the total MEPs of 28 Nations in the EU, in 2015 the number was 752 and increased to 766 after Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia joined.  Britain's influence on the EU is diminishing from the day the EEC was transformed into the political federal union in 1993, with the inherent policy of 'ever closer union' to advance the political amalgamation of a United States of Europe. 

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.  

A former Italian prime minister and EC president, condemned Britain’s stance on the crisis and warned of dire consequences for Cameron ahead of the UK’s in/out EU referendum.

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. 

UKIP’s leader Nigel Farage says the EU’s policy on migration will lead to more children drowning.

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. 

Nigel Farage talked about his own children, and how the German and broader European response will likely lead to more incidents such as the one featuring drowned Aylan Kurdi and his brother.

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.

The beginnings of the latest crisis for the government of President Bashar al-Assad came with the capture by Isis on 6 August of the strategically placed, largely Christian town of al-Qaryatain, north-east of Damascus.   Since then, Islamist units have advanced further west, capturing two villages closer to the M5. The Syrian Army has so far failed to retake Qaryatain, where Isis has demolished the St Elian monastery, parts of which were 1,500 years old.

JR writes: This is a continuing saga of migration that will change the face of Europe forever.  Britain needs to leave the EU to make a change for the better.

The four million Syrians who are already refugees mostly came from opposition or contested areas that have been systematically bombarded by government aircraft and artillery, making them uninhabitable. But the majority of the 17 million Syrians still in the country live in government-controlled areas now threatened by Isis. These people are terrified of Isis occupying their cities, towns and villages because of its reputation for mass executions, ritual mutilation and rape against those not obedient to its extreme variant of Sunni Islam.

Many UKIP policies_for_ people adopted by the Tory manifesto!

In My View - it's a copycat Tory manifesto


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', only to find many of the Tory giveaways were in the original http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people  published last year for UKIP's Conference held at Doncaster. 


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.


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. 


The Tories have not yet determined what services and spending they will need to cut to fund these 'good life' promises.  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. 

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 of new NI numbers given to foreign workers, that is an outrageous number of nearly  a million extra workers in one year, being supported by the UK’s infrastructure; putting unsustainable strain on housing, transport, schools and the NHS.

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.  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.

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.   After paying tax and NI for 5 years they will then be eligible for benefits and after ten years permanent residency will be granted.

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  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.

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.         

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.  David Cameron knows that many things don’t add up.

George Osborne’s optimism knows no bound.  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.

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.

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.

David Cameron seemed to be under great pressure facing up to even a second term.  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.  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.

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.