Cllr Tim Aker MEP pays for free bus service in Thurrock

UKIP's Cllr Tim Aker MEP has put on a free bus service through a foundation he launched last year.

The Aker Foundation has given bursaries to college students and is now paying for a free wheelchair-accessible bus service from Aveley and Upminster.

Aker is using his councillor allowances to fund the foundation and the bus service is delivering on one of his election pledges.

If you live in Thurrock and believe you have a good cause worthy of funding you can apply to the Aker Foundation through his website.

Volunteers Needed in Thurrock

Call to arms.

Thursday we desperately need as many volunteers as we can muster to man polling stations on behalf of Tim Aker.

There are many key areas needing activists and all deservedly so.

Thurrock has a really good chance of being won for UKIP. The Team need to be out knocking doors and reminding pledges they desperately need to vote for a Better Britain.

So if anyone you know or if you have any free time on Thursday can you please come and lend a much-needed hand.

Meeting place is at the White Hart Inn, Kings Walk, Grays RM17 6HR.

Come and join the fight.

Tim Aker MEP wins Thurrock Council by-election

UKIP MEP for the east of England, Tim Aker, has won a by-election for the Aveley & Uplands ward of Thurrock Council which became vacant after the sad death of UKIP councillor Maggie O'Keefe.

Despite the Conservative Party putting out leaflets calling Tim, who was born in England, by his Turkish name Timür in a direct appeal to BNP voters he still out-polled the Tory by over 12% and secured almost twice the Labour vote.

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Tim Aker	UKIP	747	41%
Teresa Webster	Conservative	520	28.5%
John O'Regan	Labour	338	18.6%
Eddie Stringer	Independent	217	11.9%

Thurrock Labour campaigning before deceased councillor's funeral

UKIP Thurrock have criticised Thurrock Labour Party for campaigning for their candidate to replace the recently-deceased Labour councillor, Andy Smith, before his funeral has even been held.

Thurrock Labour have been delivering newspapers eulogising Cllr Smith and attacking UKIP whilst the man they hope to replace him and their PPC for the general election have been attending surgeries held by Labour councillors to promote themselves.

Tim Aker MEP said that UKIP made the decision not to start campaigning for the by-election until after Cllr Smith's funeral out of respect for his family and friends and described Labour's political campaigning as "shocking and completely inappropriate".

The fact that Labour are already putting out leaflets that promote their new candidate and attack UKIP is in my view, shocking and completely inappropriate.

We all know that Labour's Polly Billington is scared stiff of UKIP’s rise in Thurrock. But this really is a brand of desperate politics that represents the lowest of the low.

UKIP will not be campaigning in West Thurrock and South Stifford until after Andy Smith's funeral.

Thurrock Tory says Vote UKIP!

Thurrock's Tories are revolting ... and I mean that in the nicest possible way!

As recently as last month, Councillor Stuart St Clair-Haslam defected to UKIP from the Conservatives after a year of sitting in an Independent Conservatives group set up with another three Conservative councillors on Little Thurrock Council.

Now another Conservative councillor in Thurrock, John Cowell, has put up UKIP posters in his shop windows and told people to vote for the UKIP candidate, Tim Aker.  Councillor Cowell is not seeking re-election this year but is considering returning to politics under the UKIP banner, which is great news.

The Conservative Party have told Your Thurrock that Councillor Cowell has left the party which makes it 5 councillors the Tories have lost in Thurrock.