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EXPRESS COMMENTLET US DEBATE THE REAL ISSUES IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN
BRITAIN AND EUROPE: So much of our power has been exported to Brussels Tuesday March 16,2010 By Lord PearsonINDULGE me for a moment. Imagine an election campaign that actually talked about the things that really concern the British people rather than what the wives of the party leaders think about their husbands. What are the issues that should be tackled? What should the election be about?
I ask because this election will not be about the issues that really concern us: mass immigration, massive waste in the public services, crime, the European Union and our very democracy. These things will be avoided like the plague. Why is this? Why is there no straight talking from those who fill our TV screens? CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL: GET YOUR FREE £100 BET HERE... The simple reason is that the power over these and so many other issues no longer resides in Westminster, it has moved to Brussels. The promises of the establishment political parties melt away like the grin on the Cheshire cat once this stark reality shines upon them. That’s why they won’t talk about immigration. The fact that 5,000 people a week are moving to this country to live, a city the size of Southampton every year. Last week all three establishment parties sang in harmony: Turkey must join the European Union, they said. You heard that right, not content with throwing our doors open to all European countries with the result that millions have moved here they want Turkey to join as well. D avid Miliband, William Hague and the Lib Dems are all backing Turkish membership. Oh how pleased they are to be able to agree with each other. “Remarkable,” they said and of course they are right. It is remarkable that they all want to give 70million Turks the right to move to the UK. Madness might be another word, or more like arrogance in the face of the wishes of the British public. We should be discussing our public finances. The political class has brought our country to its knees. We look in pity at the Greeks humming and hawing about whether to apply to the IMF to bail them out. In Greece they are freezing public- sector wages (including for the highest paid politicians and the like), cutting social security spending by 10 per cent, closing down bulging aspects of the state and yet still the markets look with a wary eye.
Britain’s deficit is similar but nobody is facing up to it. There is no mention of the £45million a day going to Brussels in cash, part of the £120billion a year cost of our EU membership, according to the Taxpayers’ Alliance. No talk of a public- sector wage freeze across the board. Cosmetic gestures targeting the top 10 per cent just will not do. The public sector has been deliberately expanded at the expense of the productive private sector. Public-sector pensions now cost each of us £516 a year while most private- sector workers struggle by without proper retirement provision. This iniquity will grow as time moves on and trouble will out. The rise of the undemocratic quango industry must also be stopped. If ministers believe that a service should be provided it should be provided by the ministry. It would then be accountable and easily cut when no longer required. Jobs and wealth creation should be on the agenda. Everybody knows most jobs in the private sector are created by small firms yet nobody is setting entrepreneurs free from the oceans of red tape which drown them. Instead we get more and deeper problems with forms, bureaucracy and cost. Our post offices close, our waste is not collected. We get equality laws that drive firms SDHpaway from employing women and lifestyle laws that penalise legal behaviour and destroy our pub culture. W e should be talking about the rise of political Islam. The attempted takeover of Tower Hamlets in East London by a radical Muslim organisation should be a wake-up to us all. In a few years this country will be suffering from serious power shortages. Yet there are no plans to address this as the Establishment refuses to see reality, blinded by impossible dreams of carbon neutrality and the relentless swishing of 10,000 pointless windmills. We should be discussing the horrifying rise in violent crime and why our legal system puts the rights of the criminal ahead of the wishes of the decent majority. Above all we should be talking about a serious devolution of power to the people and away from the political class with binding national and local referendums to make politicians do what real people want. The Swiss have been doing this for years and it is surely an idea whose time has come. We do not talk about these things and more for one very simple reason: our political class is unanimous in its subservience to “Europe”. Immigration? The EU controls our borders. Job creation? Business regulations are created in Brussels. The looming energy crisis? Environmental policy is dictated by Eurocrats. Why can’t we treat criminals as criminals and protect our people? Because of European Human Rights legislation. So why on earth are we not talking honestly about the very simple, very central argument in all this: our relationship with Europe? This election should be about who governs Britain. Should it be politicians elected by the people of Britain? Politicians whom we can fire if they do not perform or prove themselves corrupt and dishonest? Or should it be run by ranks of foreign bureaucrats, unelected, unaccountable and immovable? Why shouldn’t it be the people themselves who have the power to govern? To ask the question is to answer it. To answer it is to vote UKIP.
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THE EU AND IMMIGRATION
23.03.10, 11:41pm
Last year Jack Straw's inability
on Question Time recently to answer the question from a member of the audience, "Can the recent success of the BNP be explained by the misguided immigration policy of the government?" Four times Jack Straw the Justice Secretary failed to answer the question and ended up mumbling about Enoch Powell's recruitment of immigrants to work for the National Health Service more than forty years previously, to which David Dimbleby pointed out that the Labour Party had been in power for twelve years. Eventually the slippery Straw on the fourth time of being asked for a straight answer, replied"I don't believe it is."
Now it appears that contrary to what Jack Straw said the truth is somewhat different according to a recent article by Andrew Neather, a former advisor to Jack Straw, Tony Blair and David Blunkett. Neather reveals that labour ministers had a hidden agenda in allowing immigrants to flood into the country. According to Andrew Neather, who was present at secret meetings during the summer of 2000, the government had a "driving political purpose" which was " mass immigration was the way the government was going to make the UK truly multicultural."
This was a deliberate policy and one of the greatest mistakes made by a modern British government, who not only deluged the British people with every race culture and religion under the sun, who will compete to promote their culture and beliefs while in future years will push our British culture and traditions into the background.
Not only have they given away our culture and heritage and certainly that of our children, many who has to share classrooms where a myriad of languages are spoken and catered for at the expense of their education.
Not being satisfied with that, the Labour government decided to give away our sovereignty to the EU.
One couldn't put a cigarette paper between the three main parties, whoever get elected will only mean more of the same. The only way out left to the people of Britain is to vote either for UKIP or even the much maligned BNP. The possibility that either could take power is most unlikely, but if their votes increase considerably, maybe, just maybe it will put a shot across the bows of the next government.
• Posted by: Ludensian • Report Comment
UKIP'S FIGHT AGAINST THE PUPPETS
22.03.10, 10:44pm
i firmly believe that the UK independence Party is the only party to get us out of Europe. The other three are just puppets, dancing to its every whim1
instead of addressing the issues that really concern this country, they can do no better than get their wives to say what lovely men they are. What NONSENSE! And we - the stupid public, as they see it - are supposed to say oh how lovely; he is a nice man after all. Shame on any one who can be fooled by that1
This country is facing a crisis, likely to get worse, and all Gordon Brown could do when Nigel farage reprimanded him for not listening to the people, was to grin like a Cheshire cat. How embarassing for us having a prime minister like that.
i really hope that UKIP will win the elections, because a change is badly needed and i know the other three are not capable of doing the job.
• Posted by: PanDeva • Report Comment
UKIP VOTES NOT WASTED.
22.03.10, 8:54am
In the press and on tv the news media remain silent about the EU. The Daily Express alone has been bold enough to come out and say what needs saying.
If all the media followed this example, and printed only the facts about the EU, it would be a UKIP Government by a landslide in May.
People call UKIP a "wasted" vote but surely the truly wasted votes are those cast in favour of the thre EU puppet parties?
People say UKIP only has one policy but that policy is "Let's rule ourselves" and their manifesto lays out how that can be done.
People say we can not afford to leave the EU but the truth is we can not afford not to. Forget what the LabLibCon say and look at the figures yourselves via the independent Taxpayers' Alliance (of which I am not a member).
Let me ask those who say UKIP's policies are "racist" over immigration "When would YOU say stop"? When we have covered our last remaining green field in tower blocks?
The media play an important role in our politics and it's time it followed the example set by Daily Express and was honest over the EU.
• Posted by: WesternPatriot • Report Comment
GOOD SENSE FROM UKIP
21.03.10, 3:26pm
I have never heard such good sense and straight talking from any politician, well done sir, you’ve hit the nail on the head with such unerring accuracy, that it’s driven the nail itself straight through the plank.
The very fact that the whole political/media circus are avoiding discussion, or even mention, of the EU - the immensity and implications of which are too horrendous to image, yet all I can see are backsides in the air and heads buried in the sand.
Lord Pearson has drawn the veil from this unmentionable subject, thanks to the Daily Express, let’s hope other papers and the TV companies see the wisdom of his words and open-up a pubic dialog in the run-up to the forthcoming election.
There is only one solution to this catastrophic dilemma, and that is to ensure that sufficient UKIP MPs are elected to alter the lemming-like attraction Westminster has with being subservient to Brussels.
This whole argument is so surreal and I think that is why the general public are failing to see that we are being dragged, in a state of national stupefaction, ever deeper into a wholly undemocratic organisation, whose ultimate aims are most certainly not in the national interests of the UK.
Only complete withdrawal can save the UK now, the tragedy is that this may well be our last opportunity to break-free, as the EU has it in mind to ban all opposition parties – like UKIP, so if we don’t speak-up now, we may lose that right forever.
Vote for independence – vote for UKIP.
• Posted by: Popsk • Report Comment
UKIP
20.03.10, 8:20am
Who on earth believes that the bankrupt UK could consider leaving the EEC?
There could surely be few quicker ways of creating even more economic uncertainty and therefore reducing UK sovereignty.
So vast and important is the EU's single market of 450 million people that, to survive economically, the UK must have full access to its lucrative benefits. Gaining these from the sidellines as UKIP suggest is so clearly nonsense I can't understand how anyone can believe them.
• Posted by: Brunoc • Report Comment
UKIP ARE THE ONLY PARTY
19.03.10, 1:15pm
Who'd take on the vile Islamic **** who're starting to turn England into a Muslim country.
We, the loyal, indigenous brits must stick together and put two fingures up at the immigrants who're ruining this once great land.... and us all voting UKIP is the best place start.
GSTQ
• Posted by: Sankster • Report Comment
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