Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all our readers.

2010 will be the year that sees UKIP break into Westminster with two or more UKIP MPs being returned in the general election and taxpayer revolts over the EU bleeding us dry and stealing our country.

Taxpayer subsidised skiing holidays for EU officials' children

The European Empire is using our taxes to subsidise skiing holidays for the children of MEPs and EU officials.

Our imperial masters are already threatening legal action if they don't get a 3.7% pay rise next year on top of their already generous salary, expenses and perks.  A sizeable proportion of EU officials, including MEPs, get diplomatic immunity and pay reduced rates of tax.

The subsidy is worth up to 52% off the cost of the £822 holiday for someone on a meagre £69,620 salary and an official on a salary of £108,000 is still eligible for the subsidy.  If more than one child is sent on the holiday, a further 10% subsidy is available.

I'm sure we'd all love to send our children on a subsidised skiing trip - I know for a fact that my eldest son's school charges a damn sight more than £822 for their skiing trip - but we don't all have that luxury.  Whether we can afford to send him on the skiing trip remains to be seen - I don't earn half of the £69,620 salary the European Empire considers to be a low wage.  But I won't get a 50% subsidy on the cost of his skiing trip courtesy of the European Empire, I'll just have to pay for people who earn more than double what I do to send their kids on subsidised skiing trips instead.

And here was me thinking we were in a recession.

EU forces Lithuania to stop 80% of its electricity production

At one minute to midnight tonight Lithuania will shut down its only nuclear power station.

Once the Ignalia nuclear plant is turned off, Lithuania will rely on Russia for most of its electricity supplies as the power station currently supplies 80% of Lithuania's power. Importing electricity from Russia and Europe will mean higher electricity bills for Lithuanians and provide it with no energy security.

And why is Lithuania shutting down a nuclear power station with 10-15 years of useful life left, increasing electricity bills for its people and making itself reliant on its volatile neighbour for electricity? Because decommissioning the plant was a condition of Lithuania's membership of the European Empire.

Genius.

UKIP's Godfrey Bloom on the Alex Jones Show

UKIP's Godfrey Bloom, a member of the EU Freedom and Democracy Group was interviewed by Alex Jones.

He rails against politics and big business, global warming, the EU and describes the means by which the British constitution has been overridden, our democratic processes destroyed by treasonous politicians and how the BBC has been complicit from the beginning.

Four-part autoplay:



Read news articles on or by Godfrey Bloom

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Sittingbourne & Sheppey Branch Meeting

The first UKIP Sittingbourne & Sheppey branch meeting of 2010 is being held on 6th January at the Ypres Tavern, 22 West Street, Sittingbourne, ME10 1AP.

The meeting starts at 7:30pm and runs until 10:30pm.  UKIP members belonging to the Sittingbourne & Sheppey branch are welcome to attend, members of other branches or non-members wishing to attend should contact the branch in advance.

David Cameron: the gift that keeps giving

David Camoron is the gift that just keeps giving ...

Let's be honest that whether you're Labour, Conservative or Liberal Democrat, you're motivated by pretty much the same progressive aims: a country that is safer, fairer, greener and where opportunity is more equal. It's how to achieve these aims that we disagree about - and indeed between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats there is a lot less disagreement than there used to be.

A startlingly honest assessment from Dave: no matter which one of the LibLabCon coalition you vote for you're going to get the same outcome, it's just the way they screw you over that varies.

RAGE AGAINST THE POLITICAL MACHINE - UKIP TO JOIN TV DEBATES

To all UKIP supporters,

A Facebook group just changed the Xmas number 1 record in this country by giving a means to rebel against the person apparently running things to Indie (Independent) fans who felt that they were being ignored by the establishment in this country and their voice was not being heard on TV or in the music charts (read votes or polls). Does any of this resonate with our situation? We have seen the power of the internet, now let's try and make this technology work for us!

Please click the below link to join this new facebook group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=213962731315

As we can't protest by buying an .mp3 from the Internet, we are asking everyone to call the BBC over the Xmas period and make an official complaint to the BBC that only 3 leaders are being included in the 2010 TV debate, despite UKIP beating 2 out of 3 of the included parties in the most recent national election.

In the past a few phone complaint phone calls to the BBC have produced a massive reaction and by doing it over a period when staff are taking leave, it should really put a spanner in their works and make the whole protest even more difficult to ignore!

The phone number to ring is 03 700 100 222.

Insist on making an official complaint, make them take your details and ask that you get a proper response within a week!

If you don't have time to make the call on Xmas Day itself, then please call on Boxing Day or the Sunday for maximum impact.

New EU disability tax

A new tax on disability is being introduced courtesy of the European Empire.

The EU Commission has ruled that mobility scooters are leisure vehicles and should be subject to the same 10% import duty as a racing car or camper van.

The average mobility scooter costs about £2,500 which means this new tax will add about £250 to the cost of a mobility scooter.

But why would the European Empire want to impose a tax on some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in society?

The tax, which follows a 2005 ruling by the World Customs Organisation, will raise £6million for the Government, estimates the Elizabeth Finn Care charity.

Ah yes, follow the money.  The European Empire takes 75% of import duty collected by member states and calls it "traditional own resources".  And of course import duties are one of the European Empire's most effective protectionist tools, keeping bloated and inefficient industries in the black at the expense of the consumer by adding punitive import duties to goods imported from outside the empire.

The European Empire decided last month to extend import duty on shoes imported from Asia, adding between 10% and 16.5% to the cost of importing shoes from China and Vietnam - a cost passed on to the consumer.  Tariff's on shoes were introduced to protect Italian shoe makers who were struggling to sell their expensive shoes in competition with cheap imports from countries that aren't subjected to the expensive bureaucracy of the European Empire.

Energy saving light bulbs, which the European Empire has made compulsory, are subject to punitive import duties to protect the German manufacturer, Osram, which was slow to move from manufacturing incandescent bulbs and found itself unable to compete with Chinese bulb manufacturers who were already producing energy saving bulbs on a massive scale and free from the expensive bureaucracy of the European Empire.

Most mobility scooters are made outside of the European Empire, these import duties are just a protectionist scam to protect inefficient, uncompetitive European companies at the expense of disabled people who have no choice but to pay.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all our members and supporters.

New Branch Website

UKIP is delighted to announce a new branch website is now online at

Click here

Any suggestions , criticisms welcome !

PPC's Beware: Another LibLabCon Stitch-up

New rules covering election expenses come into force in January aimed at depriving smaller parties of publicity.

The new rules mean that any activity that would normally have to be declared as an election expense will be backdated six months from the date of an election, even if there was no reasonable expectation of an election in that six month period.  Receipts must be provided and the spending limit for the election will be backdated for the six months.

This benefits the LibLabCon immensely because the only way smaller parties will ever effectively challenge the LibLabCon is with publicity.  The media generally ignores smaller parties in favour of the LibLabCon so smaller parties have to rely on leaflets, newsletters and public meetings to get their name about.  And because smaller parties have proportionately more activists willing to get off their backsides than the LibLabCon, you are much more likely to get a UKIP leaflet through your door than one for the LibLabCon.

The upshot of all this is that a party could go out and deliver 10,000 leaflets and hold a public meeting in January and find that they've spent more than they're allowed for an election campaign and can't stand a candidate.  Without regular leafleting campaigns, smaller parties like UKIP will suffer at the ballot box in a way that the LibLabCon never will because they just don't need the publicity.  The system is deliberately skewed in the favour of the LibLabCon and today's announcement that the BBC, Sky and ITV will hold a "leaders debate" for Comrade Brown, Comrade Camoron and that bloke who leads the Lib Dims* in the run-up to the general election gives the LibLabCon even more of an advantage.

Forcing parties to scale back their campaigning between elections will harm the prospects of everyone but the LibLabCon.  It's a stitch-up.

* I know who it is

Germans plan to neutralise UK's EU sceptics and recruit Cameron

As if we didn't know, the EU's plan is for ever closer union and an ultimate end to the sovereignty of nation states.

The Germans are now pushing to recruit Cameron and neutralise the sceptics, ever fearful (and rightly so) that the UK's scepticism will cause it to leave the EU eventually and destabilise the EU in the process.

In case the article "End of Sovereignty" disappears from the server, I've reproduced it in full, below (my emphasis):

German government advisors are insisting on concerted efforts to politically neutralize British EU-skeptics. As explained in a recent paper published by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), the British Conservatives' attitude will have a "decisive influence on helping to set the EU's future radius of action," because the ambitious possibilities in EU foreign policy making, opened through the Lisbon Treaty's coming into force, will depend, to a certain extent, on London's cooperation. It is expected that the elections scheduled in May will bring a government change - from Labor to Conservative. The chairman of the conservatives, a flexible "Euro-pragmatist," is taking a Euro-skeptic position because of the balance of forces within his party, according to the authors of the SWP paper, but he can be brought to oppose his party's EU-critical wing. The main reason for British EU-skepticism is the fear of the loss of the country's sovereignty. This is not unjustified, as can be seen in the controversy around Greece's national debt. The German chancellor is threatening Athens that the EU needs to consider whether it should impose an austerity budget on Greece - if necessary, even against the will of the elected parliament in Athens.

Globally Designed

According to a recent paper published by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), London should be more firmly integrated into EU foreign policy, if for no other reason, than for Britain's political economic significance. The authors explain that "Great Britain, the second largest economic realm in the EU, with London being a hub of international finances" could definitely not be ignored "because of its globally designed foreign and security policy."[1] Because of the United Kingdom's well known EU-skepticism, continental European countries have paid "little attention" to London. That was a mistake. It would "behoove" EU members to insist on the British government's firm engagement for Brussels after the Lisbon Treaty takes effect. Attempts should be made to gain influence on the Conservatives, since they will probably win parliamentary elections in the spring.

EU-Pragmatism

Because of the growing popularity of the EU-critical forces, the SWP describes the current development within the Conservative Party as "somber." "The new generation of the Conservative parliamentarians will further strengthen the EU-skeptical camp." Therefore it will "sooner or later" be necessary to seek a closer integration into the EU. To achieve cooperation with the current party leader, David Cameron, is not out of the question. Up to now, his EU-skeptical statements have "mainly been out of consideration of internal party power struggles," whereas he, himself, tends more toward "conservative EU-pragmatism." This has become clear already through his backing off from holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The SWP authors suggest that on the basis of this sort of "conservative EU-pragmatism" Cameron could "use his party leadership position, to place the [EU-skeptical - gfp] rank and file under pressure." Of course Cameron's previous "failure to settle accounts with the hard-liners of his party sends a signal" even "to the dyed-in-wool optimists that there is still a lot of work to be done." But it is worth the effort to attempt to continue to marginalize the EU-skeptics.

Constructive Potential

According to the SWP document, various extraneous circumstances are advantageous to this project. The paper points out that the possibilities of the British Conservatives influencing the European Parliament have been "weakened" since they broke off from the European People's Party, forming a new group ("European Conservatives and Reformists") this year. The authors are also of the opinion that the US government, which is so important to Great Britain, is, under the Obama administration, increasingly seeing "Britain's significance within the EU as a constructive rather than a conflict potential." Therefore the conditions are not disadvantageous for taking action against the EU-skeptics. One cannot avoid the task of forcing the EU-critical circles into retreat, because even if Labor - against all expectations - does remain in government, it can "not be excluded that the national viewpoint, will not come to the fore" - meaning the EU-skeptical tendency. That is why, in any case, an "open debate" with and in Great Britain around the extension of EU activities must be initiated. The SWP authors' suggestions concerning how this should be done remain non-committal and rather ambiguous.

Austerity Policy

The main reason for British EU-skepticism remains the fear that in the future the EU could usurp the sovereignty of the nation-states and blatantly rule the member states, even Great Britain from abroad, bypassing the elected national parliaments. That this fear is justifiable can be seen in the recent developments in Greece. Greece's national debt has reached about 120 percent of its BNP, which is twice what is allowed under the EU's Stability and Growth Pact. Several EU states, including Germany, are exerting strong pressure on Athens to reduce the level of debts at all costs. Whether this is a justified demand, is a matter of dispute. The Prime Minister of Luxemburg, Jean-Claude Juncker considers "the perspective being painted by some, as if Greece is on the brink of national bankruptcy, is at variance with my observations."[2] Axel Weber, President of the German Federal Bank, on the other hand, demands that Athens impose a rigid austerity policy, that would also drastically cut salaries.[3]

Still Independent

The German chancellor is demanding that Brussels should be granted new rights of intervention into central areas of national sovereignty, for such cases. If, for example, an elected parliament refuses to enact substantial cuts in wages, Brussels must have the power to order these cuts against their will. "National parliaments do not like to have things imposed," observes Angela Merkel and demands "we have to discuss this type of problem."[4] The extent of this sort of intervention, particularly affecting the smaller EU nations, placing them under de facto direct control of the EU hegemonic powers, in particular Germany, has been anticipated by the Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou. According to Papandreou, the country's sovereignty is under threat for the first time since 1974, through the external pressure on Athens to reduce its level of debts at all costs. In 1974 the military dictatorship in Greece was replaced by a parliamentary democracy. Papandreou added that Athens itself must institute the reductions demanded by Berlin and others. This is "the only way to insure that Greece does not lose its independence."[5]

[1] Martin Kremer, Roderick Parkes: Großbritannien: "Being nice to a sceptic?" SWP-Aktuell 66, Dezember 2009
[2] EU macht Druck auf Griechenland; Handelsblatt 10.12.2009
[3] Bundesbank fordert Griechenland zum Sparen auf; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 10.12.2009
[4] EU verweigert Griechenland Soforthilfe; Spiegel Online 10.12.2009
[5] Bundesbank fordert Griechenland zum Sparen auf; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 10.12.2009

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Carbon tax scam: Nigel Farage on the Alex Jones Show

5-part autoplay of UKIP's star, Nigel Farage, on Alex Jones show:



Cross-posted

Gordon is leading the EU, apparently

The British Climate Change Minister, Joan Ruddock, was interviewed this morning on BBC Breakfast from the Copenhagen World Government Climate Change Conference.

Throughout the 5 minute interview she talked constantly about the European Empire - the offers it has made, the deals it has done, the laws it has passed, the promises it has made and of course, Gordon Brown is leading it (seriously, she said Gordon Brown was leading the EU at Copenhagen!).  When asked what the British government was doing she went straight back to the European Empire again.

The reason?  We are entirely in the hands of the European Empire as far as this charade goes because when Gordon Brown signed the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution, he gave the EU unlimited and exclusive control over "combatting climate change" without a national veto.  If the EU issued a directive saying all cows had to be ritually sacrificed and used to build a bridge over the Channel and the entire population were allowed to eat nothing but lettuce and celery, the British government would be legally obliged to carry it out.

Cui Bono, Mr Pachauri?

Emperor Barroso has urged the boss of the Tata Foundation, Rajendra Pachauri, to sue UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall for pointing out that Tata stands to make £600m from trading "carbon credits" under the Carbon Trading Scam Scheme invented by ... erm ... Rajendra Pachauri.

Nuttall's speech is as follows::

Mr. Barroso,

Recently we have heard that there is to be a closure of the Corus Steel Works in Teeside, in North East England. This is due to the EU target of a reduction of 20% of Carbon emissions. Thanks to "Carbon Credits", Corus can no longer afford to employ over 5,000 Steel workers including suppliers.  We also have the spectacle of the British government admitting that its hands are tied on this issue by punitive EU Competition Law.

The real gain to Corus from stopping production on Teeside is the saving it will make on its carbon allowances, allocated by the EU under its Emissions Trading Scheme which will be worth up to £600 million over the next three years. As the head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, is the head of the Tata foundation, one must ask "qui bono?" Needless to say, Tata of India owns Corus.

Is it now official EU policy to offer incentives to companies to close plants, such as Teeside, so that they can out-source their business to countries such as India, or is there a more personal interest at stake here?

Cui Bono, indeed.  Pachauri is clearly a blagger, he managed to get himself appointed to the management team of the IPPC and oversaw the creation of the "carbon credits" pyramid scheme yet he has no relevant qualifications.  A PhD in industrial engineering and economics doesn't qualify someone for this sort of thing.  So how exactly did Pachauri manage to blag his way into this job?

Viaticus Sermo.