Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all our readers and to eurosceptics everywhere!

Merry Christmas

It's been an interesting year for UKIP and for us here at Bloggers4UKIP.

Elections have been a bit of a mixed bag for UKIP this year with the best election result in the history of the party - second place in Barnsley - and some quite disappointing results such as Leicester South.  UKIP has started to overtake the Lib Dems in opinion polls and elections and should cement its position as the third party in the UK in 2012.

UKIP has had a number of defections, mainly from the Tories, but of course these were overshadowed somewhat by David Campbell Bannerman's return "home" to the europhile Tories (certainly no great loss to UKIP, I never could stand the bloke).

The Tories passed the EU Bill that was supposed to give us a referendum when they handed sovereignty over to the EU but it is so badly written they've managed to avoid it so far.  MPs also had the opportunity to vote for a referendum on membership of the EU but all three leaders of the LibLabCon whipped their MPs to vote against it, David Cameron even going as far as threatening MPs with the sack if they voted for a referendum.

The €uro has been on the brink of collapse for most of the year and the future has never looked so bleak for the europhiles.

We'd like to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Westbourne, Brighton & Hove by-election result

Another slightly disappointing election result yesterday in Westbourne, Brighton & Hove.

Paul Perrin contested this ward for UKIP for the first time yesterday and came fifth behind the Tories, Labour, Greens and Lib Dems (in that order).

There's no denying that the result is a disappointment for all involved but there a couple of things to take away from it.  Firstly, it is the first time there has been a UKIP candidate in Westbourne.  Secondly, the Green effect is a bit of an unknown in Brighton & Hove since they took control of the council and got an MP elected there and it will take another couple of elections to figure out how it affects the usual running order.  Thirdly, the Lib Dem vote collapsed again, achieving only double figure votes.

The full results were:

Conservative	1,027
Labour	826
Green	645
Lib Dem	45
UKIP	36
Trade Unionists & Socialists Against Cuts	20
European Citizens Party	13

Lord Pearson’s Bill passed in Lords.

This week heralded a victory in Lords for Lord Pearson and his European Union Membership (Economic Implications) Bill.

This could have a number of outcomes including being dismissed by the Europhiles in parliament.

The benefits of this being debated in parliament is that the public will hear about the implications behind it, the constant mismatch of figures of the costings of our membership per day and how much we could save by not being a member.

Also this could highlight the extra monies we put in for bailouts and handouts to less affluent countries and how much past bailouts have cost us.

Bearing in mind the want another 25 Billion for the bailout fund just this week.

I hope it is debated at a respectable time and is heard by many Mp’s, especially the ones that stood up to party whips.

We as a country should get behind bills like this, even if you think Camerons Veto had an effect. What did he veto excactly? Our future, us being on the outside looking in or nothing. Was it a ruse to get us back on side in the UK?

I for one agree with Farage, it is time for the great escape. Lets us get ourselves straight and solvent, immigration sorted and our people back on track.

This was sent out by the Press association.

MPs sent Ukip’s EU analysis plan.

A plan by the UK Independence Party to force the Government to carry out a cost/benefit analysis of Britain’s EU membership has been sent to the Commons.

Ukip peer Lord Pearson saw his European Union Membership (Economic Implications) Bill agreed by the House of Lords, meaning it will go to MPs to consider.

Before being picked up in the Commons, an MP will have to sponsor the Bill – but a Ukip spokesman said the party was “very confident” an MP could be found.

Following the third reading vote, Lord Pearson said: “For far too long the Government has simply maintained that the benefits of membership are so overwhelmingly obvious that such an analysis would be a waste of time and money.

“The people of Britain are no longer prepared to accept this. All great debates require knowledge, and there is no greater debate than the future governance of this country.

“It is in the interests of every single one of us that this ongoing debate is conducted from a position of knowledge rather than in a cloud of ignorance, obfuscation and dishonesty.

“My Bill provides for an independent panel, comprising of people from across the spectrum of opinion, to weigh up the evidence.
“We must know what the costs, and what the benefits, really are. This debate is long overdue.”

Lord Pearson’s Bill is unlikely to become law unless it wins Government support

Cross posted from: England Exists

UKIP Wales ignoring public opinion ... again

UKIP Wales has ignored countless opinion polls and two Welsh referenda in favour of devolution and published a "counter-proposal" to Paul Nuttal's Union for the Future policy proposal.

The "counter-proposal" is basically a restating of UKIP's currently policy that doesn't make sense, has minority support amongst the electorate and is so fundamentally flawed that it could never work.  The document contains just about every lie, misconception and misunderstanding about devolution that has been put out by the Big Britishers that oppose devolution.

I have taken apart the "counter proposal" almost line by line (it's that bad) and corrected it.  You can read it here.

The message from the party on this rubbish from UKIP Wales is that the NEC supports Union for the Future, the policy committee supports Union for the Future and the leader supports Union for the Future.

Fourth place for UKIP in Worlingham

UKIP contested a by-election yesterday (unusual day for a by-election) in Worlingham, Suffolk.

The UKIP candidate, Stuart Foulger, came fourth behind the Green Party candidate which is a bit disappointing but last place fell to the Lib Dem who got just 36 votes.  The Tories took the seat which became vacant after the previous Tory resigned following a conviction for drink driving and assaulting a police officer.

The results were:

Con	706
Lab	586
Green	137
UKIP	64
LD	46

Farage interviewed in Grauniad

I normally wouldn't go anywhere near the Guardian because it's usually just full of hate-filled far left bile and the hypocritical ravings of millionaire class warriors but they've done the unthinkable (for a left wing rag) and interviewed Nigel Farage.

Guardian journalist, Andrew Sparrow, threw the interview questions open to their readership and surprisingly got some sane and reasonable questions.

Farage came out of the interview really well considering the hard time he was always going to get from the far left.  The only disappointing bit was when he hinted at the possibility of UKIP offering an electoral pact to the Tories if they supported an EU referendum.  We've had a cast iron guarantee from Cameron for an EU referendum and it was worthless.  UKIP is not a Tory pressure group, it's a political party and if an MP or prospective MP is genuinely eurosceptic then they should be in UKIP, not propping up the europhile Tory dictatorship.

BACK HOME TO JESUS

David Cameron has spoken words of support for Christianity, in case this is an off the cuff remark to keep Christians quiet, let me explain what
the seriousness of the situation. God demanded loyalty to him, he gave us this land that we live in and the people became Christians for the most part, and under the God of the Britons we became a great Nation because God strengthened us and caused us to be great in the world. In our times of trouble we always used to put our trust in God and come through it.Until we joined the E.U. When we did this we rejected God,s protection and put our Trust in our enemies, and expected that would cure our ills.It was a sin to do this when we think of all the blessings our country had at Gods hands.Now we were set the stall out for captivity and enslavement by our old enemies. The wisdom in decision making would have to be made by mans understanding without Gods input on the spirit of the decision maker as he had been rejected.
The Political class are now alone with a bad decision the E.U. and God and his ability to help has been mocked, and all the decisions have led
to disaster,for Britons, but the rich think they will be immune. Jesus Christ knew what would happen but could do nothing because of his law of
freedom of choice, he was not chosen to help. David Cameron needs to realize that he needs to take his own words deadly serious and make rapid arrangements to leave the E.U. And come home to Briton and Jesus Christ, because his foreign lovers in Europe have ripped of his Country. Yes we will have a bit of a hard time at first, but that is no more than we deserve, for our stupidity. Our teachers and their pupils and their masters on high do not know right from wrong because of the betrayal of our lord. Briton will never rise again without God shows them how Cameron needs to put on a coat of faith and lead Briton home.

Billericay by-election result

The Feltham &; Heston by-election was the big one this week with it being a Westminster election but there was another election contested by UKIP: Billericay parish in Essex.

Labour and the Limp Dems failed to put up a candidate so it was a straight contest between UKIP and the Conservative &_٨^European Unionist candidate with a token English Democrat to hoover up the Monster Raving Loony Party vote.

The result of the Billericay by-election was:

Conservative	365 (59%)
UKIP	202 (33%)
ED	50 (8%)

Feltham & Heston – The final day, the result and what comes next

Feltham & Heston – The final day, the result and what comes next

by CLIFF DIXON on 16. DEC, 2011 in ELECTIONS, NATIONAL EVENTS

Thursday 15th December saw the final day of the Feltham and Heston by-election, with polling stations opening at 7am and a final push from UKIP activists to try and make Andrew Charalambous (above) a common sight as the new MP at Westminster.

Feltham & Heston has been a safe Labour seat for many years, and a victory would have been highly unlikely. However, with the economy and the effect of the EU upon it on our news screens daily, hopes were high of a top three finish and a continued surge in the ratings.

In to the fray

I arrived at campaign HQ around 10am to find Operations director Lisa Duffy busily organising the plan of action for the day. Janice Small was in the office manning the phone lines, and had already been on polling station duty before I had arrived.

Lisa passed me a tally sheet, and despatched me to a polling station in Hanworth to collect the polling card numbers of those coming to vote.

This is a vital part of any election, and you may well have seen various political party’s ‘Tally counters’ when you have been to vote before. The rules state that no canvassing or promotion can be done at the polling station, but you are allowed to say good morning/afternoon and wear a rosette as long as it does not mention the word ‘vote’ on it. You may ask for the polling card number which identifies that voter, but you are not allowed to ask how they have voted (Although there is no problem if somebody volunteers that information to you, and you can answer a direct question from the voter). The idea of this is that the information can be fed back to your campaign HQ, and you can see which areas have good turnouts and if people who have pledged to vote for you have actually been and done so. If you have not seen the voter number of your supporter turn up on the tally card, then you can give them a gentle nudge by phone or doorknock to get down to the station for you. (The electoral register that candidates are given when standing carries a voter number next to it so you can cross reference)

 It also lets you know who has said they will vote and has, giving you an idea of where your potential support is coming from next time.

After three hours of freezing cold and a surprisingly low number of people turning out I called in to take a lunch break, dropping back to the office to hand in my tally sheet and from there in to the cafe next door for a fry up and a much needed mug of tea. Refreshed and thawed out, I was then despatched to my second polling station of the day to relieve a young lady who had been working away at the tally sheet since early in the morning – Fortunately, this one was a scout hut and I could stand inside next to the radiator! For the second time, I found myself stood next to a Conservative activist who happily chatted away to pass the time between people arriving. The Conservatives were rotating their tellers on an hourly basis, and had brought people in from all over London and the South East. Like ourselves, they had called out a number of elected officials to help on the day and raise profile. I had yet to see a Labour activist, but was informed by my Tory counterparts that they were receiving information that they were concentrating on Heston as it’s demographic was more suited to their potential support.

It was also around this time that the strains of ‘The Great Escape’ could be heard echoing down the streets – The UKIP lorry was out with a huge TV screen on the back which had a series of rolling logos being displayed, the music being reference to a speech that party leader Nigel Farage had made in Brussels earlier in the week. The young lady stood next to me with the blue rosette said she would be cursing us all night if she couldn’t get the tune out of her head!

After an hour or so, I was relieved at the station and advised to report back to HQ, where Lisa put me on doorknocking duty. Basically, I had a shoulder bag full of campaign newsletters (Left) with a leaflet inside, and the idea was to remind people that if they hadn’t voted or were unaware of what was going on to get out and down to the polling station.

With darkness now fallen, I spent around an hour and a half picking out houses with lights on, knocking on doors with a cheesey grin and politely reminding people that there was an election on. I have yet to meet anyone who truly likes doorknocking within the political crowd, but it can be effective and a few people I spoke with did comment that they had forgotten and thanked me for the reminder. I also got more than a few cases of ‘twitchy curtain’, where the residents probably took a peek and thought, “Oh no, not him again!” and went back to their TV’s!

With my stash of newspapers exhausted, I returned to the office which was now a hive of activity. The familiar figure of Gerard Batten MEP was manning a phone, Winston McKenzie was taking a well earned dinner break after pounding the streets with Andrew and National Council member Steve Crowther was assisting Lisa Duffy who was in the thick of things organising everyone once again. I was despatched back tothe scout hut for my final tally session, finally stopping at nine and going back to campaign HQ.

Out for the Count

By a quarter to ten, the office was full with around twenty people all chatting about their day and how it had gone. The initial signs were very good, and most reported a positive response although the turn out from the tally cards seemed to be very low. I had noticed myself that the main people who had been in to the polling stations during my three stints had been predominently from the over 40 age section and the ethnic minority community. I find this trend very worrying as it suggests to me a disengagement from the electoral process by a large part of our society. Maybe the elderly use their right to vote as they are more aware of the sacrifices that were made to give them that right, whilst many of the minority communities cherish theirs maybe because they have been denied similar freedoms in their own countries?

Whatever the reasons, this is a malaise that needs to be rectified as our country and our society suffer – To those who told me, “I don’t bother voting because nothing will change”, I suggest they DO vote so things CAN change!

By 10pm, many of our supporters were drifting away to the count at Hounslow town hall. I had been advised earlier that the tickets to get in were strictly limited and there were nowhere near enough for the activists and supporters we had put out. The general consensus was that those who could not get in would meet in a pub local to the count and carry on from there. I gave a lift to one of our activists to the Feltham National Rail station, but then got completely lost in Hounslow and after circling trying to find my way for ten minutes thought better of it and headed home to watch the result on the news at home with a bottle of Vina Sol!

The Result

I settled down to watch events, flicking between Sky News and the BBC. Both Nigel Farage and Andrew Charalambous were interviewed, and the point was put across that David Cameron’s use of the veto in Brussels over the financial transaction tax could adversely affect our vote. Whilst acknowledging the argument, both leader and candidate pointed out that Mr Cameron’s ‘standing up for Britain’ is not all that it seems and is more a short term political gesture than a long term plan to give us a referendum and at the very least repatriate powers which is part of the Conservative manifesto.

The commentators on both channels fairly early on came to the conclusion that this was going to be an easy Labour hold,but that it was too close to call between UKIP and the Liberal Democrats for third.

Finally, at around 1.30pm, the Returning Officer came to the microphone to announce the result. It appeared we were correct concerning the tunrout, which was announced at just 28.8 % of those eligible (23,299 used their vote). This is the lowest turn out for a Parliamentary by-election in 11 years. 

The result was as follows -

Labour – 12.639 votes (54.4%)

Conservative – 6,436 (27.7%)

Liberal Democrats – 1,364 (5.9%)

UKIP – 1,276 votes (5.5%)

BNP – 540 votes (2.4%)

Green – 426 votes (1.8%)

English Democrats – 322 votes (1.2%)

London People before profit – 128 votes (0.6%)

Bus Pass Elvis Party – 93 (0.4%)

An Encouraging Performance

Whilst many of us were hoping for third place, fourth is still a very encouraging and respectable result taken in the context of where we were in this constituency before the election and where we stand now after such a short campaign (The BBC website quotes the average time between a by-election being called and the vote going ahead is 73 days, yet we had just 35 days in Feltham & Heston)

Sky News when reporting on the result last night showed four rosettes on their coverage, marking us out as now being considered a mainstream party. Likewise, after being trounced in the last by-election in Barnsley by UKIP and having suffered in local elections, the Liberal Democrats targetted us with a last ditch leaflet yesterday (left) saying that we were polling in fifth with just 2% of the vote - A clear case of using last year’s figures to try and project an incorrect image of the real situation!

Taken in the context of the 2010 General Election result, Andrew Charalambous was spot on when commenting on the news channels last night. He correctly pointed out that UKIP were the only one of the parties who contested the seat last year to increase not only their number of votes, but also the percentage (992 votes and 2% to 1,276 votes and 5.5%). This has been done in three weeks in an area that would not be considered traditional UKIP territory, so what will the result be like next time around with the active local branch that looks likely to grow from the embers of this campaign?

It was also really encouraging to be a member of a party where the National Council members and party leader are all prepared to roll up their sleeves and get out on the streets and support their candidate. I am convinced that Nigel Farage must be running on Duracell, bearing in mind that he has made numerous appearances on the campaign trail, has been on all the news channels and has still found time to travel to Brussels and harangue the unelected clique in the EU who are threatening the sovereignty and stability of our country.

Likewise, Gerard Batten has spent more time campaigning over the last 3 weeks than I have and has also fitted in his MEP duties and TV appearances around this.

GLA mayoral candidate Lawrence Webb has also been out in support, and the energy of Operations Director Lisa Duffy in getting things organised has been nothing short of inspirational. She got a well deserved round of applause at the Campaign HQ last night from UKIP activists, and rightly so.

GLA Elections 2012

The next major elections up for contest are the GLA and London Mayoral elections is May next year.

UKIP already have our mayoral candidate, Lawrence Webb, in place and will be fielding a strong line up. A unique part of the GLA Elections is the ‘Party List Vote’, where members are elected to the London assembly based on a percentage share of the vote across London. If our current poll ratings were replicated in this vote, then two UKIP members would be elected to give a voice to our capital city. The result in Feltham & Heston shows that UKIP can be the new voice to take the fight to the old three establishment parties in the new year.

Would you like to help in the GLA 2012 Elections? If so, please contact our campaign team on 020 8816 8112 or visit our site www.ukipmayor.com

UKIP fourth in Feltham & Heston

UKIP narrowly missed out on third place in yesterday's Feltham & Heston by-election, coming 88 votes short of the Limp Dems.

Labour increased its vote share, taking almost double the votes of the Tories who suffered a big slump.  The Lib Dems collapsed to just 5.8% compared to UKIP's 5.5%.

It's disappointing not to have at least come third but Feltham & Heston is a safe Labour seat and Andrew Charalambous kept his deposit unlike the BNP, Greens, English Democrats, London People Before Profit and the Bus-Pass Elvis Party who all failed to secure even half of UKIP's vote.

The turnout was just 28.8% which is the lowest election turnout in 11 years.

FOI submitted for copy of mythical EU treaty

As no details of this mysterious EU treaty that David Cameron claims to have vetoed have yet materialised and the media is ignoring the fact that he has agreed to the creation of a financial transaction tax that will be applied to financial transactions made in the UK by institutions in the UK, we have today submitted the following Freedom of Information request has been made to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office ...

1. Please provide a copy of the treaty that David Cameron is reported to have vetoed this week. If no draft treaty exists, please provide a précis of the intended purpose and contents of the proposed treaty.
2. Please confirm the ratification process for the protocol change that was required for the introduction of the financial transaction tax and other measures agreed this week.  Did the UK formally agree to the protocol change, was a veto available on the protocol change and which treaty was the protocol attached to?
3. Please confirm which financial transactions carried out in the UK and which types of institutions in the UK will be subjected to the financial transaction tax.  Approximately how many institutions in the UK will be subject to the tax, approximately what value of transactions in the UK will be subject to the tax and approximately how much financial transaction tax will be raised in the UK?

No doubt the request will be rejected as a state secret or undermining the principle of collective responsibility or some other guff.

The final push in Feltham & Heston

by CLIFF DIXON on 11. DEC, 2011 in ELECTIONS, GENERAL

 Yesterday saw the start of the final weekend of campaigning for the Feltham & Heston by-election.

There are nine candidates standing, and this was an opportunity to get their message out during one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year.  After leafletting last week, I managed to tidy myself up for this week’s assault on the electorate (left, apologies for the curtains!)

I arrived at the campaign headquarters on the High Street around lunchtime to see Nigel Farage on his way out as I pulled in to the road next to the office. The office was a hive of activity as I entered, with the formidable operations officer Lisa Duffy getting everyone organised. Three activists were manning phones at the back of the office dealing with both outbound and incoming calls, whilst yet more new leaflets had arrived bearing the slogan ‘Kick them in the Ballot Box’ on the front.

Lisa assigned me the task of doorknocking in one of the wards, and armed with a clipboard,list of electors and some of the new leaflets, I set off towards Bedfont. (That will serve me right for wearing a suit!) The familiar figure of Harry from Young UKIP passed me on the way out, coming back for another batch of leaflets.

Driving up the High Street, the yellow UKIP stand was plainly visible outside the front of the main shopping centre. A few yards down, the BNP had pitched up and had their GLA Mayoral Candidate, Carlos Cortiglia, pacing back and forward in front of it with a megaphone. Some ten yards further on, The English Democrats had a wallpaper pasting board out with a St George Flag stuck to the front and some leaflets on the table.  I decided to pull up in to the car park around the corner and pop back to have a chat with our members manning the stand.

Walking past the ED stand, I stopped to have a word with my former colleagues Janus Polenceus and Mark Twiddy. Mark was reluctant to talk and walked away, but Janus was happy to shake my hand and advise me that the campaign was going well for them. The leaflets had turned up (Which had been a worry for local candidate Roger Cooper when I last spoke with him), and he advised me that they were getting a good response. I bade farewell and walked past the BNP to where our UKIP stand was positioned (Right)

Activists on the stall had come from as far afield as Yorkshire, and they had positioned leafletters at strategic points on both sides to catch shoppers entering and exiting the complex. Whilst I chatted with them, the BNP battle bus pulled up in front with loudspeakers on full – The familiar figure of their London Organiser Steve Squire was in the front seat, I shouted up to him and asked if he was up for a spot of boxing again this week to which he just smiled and laughed.

Taking my leave, I then collected the car and set off to my destination just before the Clockhouse Roundabout.

The road I had been allocated was a fairly common suburban close, and after adjusting my tie in the wing mirrors I started to knock on doors. What I found were many people with similar worries to those I had canvassed previously when out before the 2010 General Election. Law and order was a common gripe, with some of the residents complaining that they had reported antisocial behaviour and damage to cars with descriptions and registration numbers of the perpetrators to the Police, and had got no reply or been told that their compliants had been noted and then no action was taken.

One lady spoke to me at length on the doorstep as to how she had no intention of voting as nothing will change – She pointed out that she had three children in their late teens and early twenties who were all working but couldn’t find or afford places to live, whilst immigrants from Heathrow were being placed in housing locally by the council. This was a theme I came across at many doors, but it was good to hear the residents blaming the system for the problem rather than the immigrants themselves. UKIP’s message regarding immigration and prioritising local residents for housing may have motivated some of these people to get out and vote for an alternative on the 15th, it certainly seemed to make people who were initially disinterested start to talk about what they wanted for their families.

Further doorknocking yielded views from the locals on corruption (I Won’t vote for any of them, they are all on the fiddle with their expenses), lack of local parking, failure to repair broken pavements and anger at the amount of money being sent abroad whilst we are suffering cutbacks at home.

These are all areas where UKIP policy can make a difference, and those that stood and chatted with me on the doorsteps seemed fairly receptive to the message.

One gentleman informed me that he would be voting Tory, at which his wife shouted from behind, “I’m voting for you lot, and if he’s got any sense so will he!” Hopefully, I have not caused a domestic in that household!

Another lady advised me that she couldn’t decide whether to vote for our candidate as ‘he is not very attractive, is he?’ I advised her that neither was Winston Churchill, but he got the job done!

Walking past an alleyway to the next batch of houses I caught the unmistakeable smell of Cannabis smoke in the air. Looking to my right, I saw three youths down an alleyway puffing away in plain view without a care in the world, seemingly backing up what the residents had already told me about the breakdown of law and order locally.

The next door I came to I was invited in by the pensioner whose house it was, who had just arrived back from a shopping trip with her daughter. She very kindly made me a cup of tea and allowed me to thaw out a bit whilst telling me her story, and all about the unruly behaviour of some of the local youths such as those I had just seen. She had already spoken with our candidate the previous week about this, and had been impressed by his attempts to get answers from the local authorities for her. Her daughter pointed out that there were no youth facilities locally, and whilst this was no excuse for the behaviour of the minority of the youngsters who were causing the problems it would certainly help to take some of them off of the streets.

Back to the Office

With time marching on, I bade my farewells and started to drive back to Campaign HQ. The three stands were still in evidence at the front of the shopping centre, and the two English Democrat activists had now been joined on their stall by the familiar trilby wearing figure of Roger Cooper, their London Chairman and candidate for this election.

Our activists had been joined by more high profile party members, the unmistakeable figure of Winston McKenzie now prominent on the stall. Further on, Gerard Batten MEP could be seen out canvassing within a few hundred yards of the office.

I pulled in to the side road again as Nigel Farage was pulling out for the second time, and we waved to each other as we passed (Was it something I said, Nigel?)

Inside the office, Lisa was still nose to the grindstone getting everybody organised. Andrew Charalambous was now sat at the front desk, canvassing by telephone, whilst more activists were still talking away on the phones out back.

I passed across my voter sheets to Lisa, and apologised for not getting more doors done (I had spent some time talking to a number of the locals, and had probably only got around 30 doors). The good news was the message was well received by a number of those I had spoken with, and one lady advised me that she had already voted for us by post.

Word had also come in that for a second week running there had been an altercation involving the BNP, although this time it had not involved pushing and shoving with our youth branch. Some eggs had been thrown, and we had been told that one of the Tory campaigners had been arrested.

Leaving at 4pm, another upbeat day was rounded off by the news that we still looked to be ahead of the Liberal Democrats in the local polls and heading for a massive increase in our share of the vote since the General Election in this constituency in 2010.

The Election for Feltham and Heston is this Thursday, 15th December. If you can help over the next few days, please pop along to our campaign headquarters at 107 High Street, Feltham, Middx, TW13 4HG