My votes passed (From Worcester News)
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My votes passed
9:42am Monday 3rd November 2008 in Read
SIR – I have voted to stop the 97 million euro subsidy to bullfighting and the 305 million subsidy to grow EU tabacco, which is cancer promoting poor quality rubbish anyway. Both were passed. If only the taxpaying voters understood.
MIKE NATTRASS MEP, UKIP West Midlands.
Comments(8)
Norton sage
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10:44am Mon 3 Nov 08
I cannot remember seeing any anti smoking material in his election address and I certainly didn't see an so called animal rights material.
Imagine if the EU had tried to stop fox hubnting in this country and there is Natrass trying to stop bull fighting.
So uk is clearly anti rural puruits.
Common Sense
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11:00am Mon 3 Nov 08
I think you may have "tunnel-vision", Norton - sorry.
Bull fighting - bad!
Tobacco - bad!
Fox hunting - not quite the same.
EU - bad! - Very bad!
True Democracy - good!
English Democracy - very iffy!
Hospitals - good!
Hospital Management - Bad!
That's how it goes, Norton - get the idea?
jean shaw
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4:39pm Mon 3 Nov 08
You show your ignorance of how the EU elections work and also make me question the veracity of your comments.
You could NOT have read Mike Nattrass' EU election address. In the EU elections no individual candidate has an election address as you do NOT vote for individuals you vote for a Party. The only manifesto which exists are Party manifestos , I can guarantee that you did not read the Party manifesto for the last EU election because otherwise you would know where UKIP stands on rural issues and animal rights.
You have also not appreciated that the point of the EU is that every country/MEP has the right to vote on all issues brought before them whether they concern them or not. This is one of the main reasons I am against the EU because we can be outvoted now on almost any issue which may be of major significance to us and of total irrelevance to other countries
johnwhite
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6:02pm Mon 3 Nov 08
Forthright
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10:26pm Mon 3 Nov 08
Let`s see whether the entire BBC decamp to the far flung reaches of the EU to cover the 2009 EU parliamentary election.....some hope!
Common Sense
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11:22pm Mon 3 Nov 08
They live in Cloud Cuckoo Land, all pro-EU people!
We have to either convince them, kill them, or change the system - the solution is simple.
..and it WILL come to one of these three - sorry, but they need to be told that!
It will be "them or us", when the chips are down, we all realise that, I think.
No more Mr.Nice Guy!
We must try hard to convince them first, though - eh?
Norton sage
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8:46am Tue 4 Nov 08
Just because I criticise UKIP it doesn't mean I am pro EU indeed the UKIP's behaviour since the elections suggests to me they are luke warm on being anti EU and do the anti's a huge diservice.
With UKIP's lily livered approach to the EU there is no chance we will leave.
For heaven sakes show some leadership. IF Natrass wrote to the paper about front on EU issues rather than bull fighting the anti EU cause might get somewhere.
Attacking Spanish bullfighting and stopping Belgium's growing tobacco will not get my beloved country out of the EU.
Cromwell of Worcester
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8:45pm Tue 4 Nov 08
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