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UKIP will tackle important issues

8:10am Thursday 11th March 2010 in


SIR – In answer to Stanley Parr’s letter (February 26), I welcome the chance to tell the citizens of Worcester on behalf of UKIP where I stand on the important issues facing the UK both now and in the future.

By far the most important is our membership of the EU. Some of the other important measures that UKIP would take are:

  • Stop all immigration for five years and send back all illegals without appeal immediately.
  • Use some of the savings from exiting the EU to provide the best care system in the world for the care of the elderly.
  • To reduce our deficit quickly.
  • By using our tax system, forbidden by the EU, to make manufacturing in the UK truly competitive and attractive to foreign companies and reduce corporation tax dramatically.
  • To be in charge of our own destiny by leaving the EU.

Jack Bennett
Worcester parliamentary candidate for UKIP

Comments(21)

Stan Parr says...
8:45am Thu 11 Mar 10

Thanks, Jack - I'm sure your comments will be noted and welcomed by many, who read these letters.

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Worcesterman says...
12:58pm Thu 11 Mar 10

If you really mean that, Jack , you will certainly get my vote, for the first time in my life, I have a party, to vote for.
But you have to keep that promise, and a word of advice, the day before, put an add on the front page of the News, and tell people especially the elderly as the are walking in.
Ill bet you will get more votes than you will be expecting.

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MrStJohns says...
1:13pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Yeah sounds great jack but how are you going to do it? I could write a letter in and say im going to do this that and the other but where’s the substance? This is the sort of talk that’s got the Tories into a lot of trouble we will do this we will do that but little or no explanation of how its going to happen.

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PeterNielsen says...
1:30pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Jack Bennett is living an illusion. He speaks like the benevolent dictator with a solution to all problems in a world that only exists in his imagination.
I support British EU membership, and I believe that a federal Europe is the best hope for the social and economic security of this country. The EU is an influence for good in the world and a federal Europe will stand with the world’s liberal forces against religious extremism and destructive capitalism and in support of the aims of the United Nations. We can choose to become the 51st state or integrate with the countries of the EU whose history we have shared for over 2000 years. The EU has raised the environmental, health, safety and human rights standards of the UK. The economy of the EU is essentially social democratic with a wide welfare commitment. British pensions are one of the lowest in Europe, not because we give money to the EU but because we have a neo-liberal economy joined at the hip to Wall Street. It is no longer logical for the UK to continue its half hearted relationship with the EU. We need to plan for the full integration of the EU and membership of the Euro across the board. A currency without a government is unstable as the Greek crisis shows. Could you ever bring yourselves to ask whether what you complain about is the result, not of being in the EU, but of not embracing the EU with real commitment?

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MrStJohns says...
1:38pm Thu 11 Mar 10

I certainly don’t support a federal superstate or Britain being Britain being sucked into it, my question is how are we going to get out of it?

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PeterNielsen says...
2:02pm Thu 11 Mar 10

The way to settle the question of our membership is by a straight "In" or "Out" referendum. I believe the loudest voices are for leaving the EU like the "No" voices were in the 1975 Common Market vote. But the "Yes" votes won by 2 to 1. I think the same would happen now, if only because the younger generation is more cosmopolitan and has grown up in a European Britain as opposed to the land of the dying echoes of empire. I support a referendum.

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MrStJohns says...
2:11pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Id support a referendum as well im sure that’s what most of the country want. Just for your information im 27 so hopefully classed as the younger generation and I would certainly support leaving Europe.

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Worcesterman says...
6:33pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Peter.. you come out with so much crap, you really sound indoctrinated,
Mores the pity when you mentioned the younger generation, because I believe they are being indoctrinated by the Left wing teachers, that seem to fill our schools these days.

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Cromwell of Worcester says...
9:10pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Once again more complete verbal diarrhoea uttered from this nauseating champagne socialist loser. After disappearing into some where in Scandinavia ,returns in the hope that the people of this City had forgotten how,useless he was and rejected in the Trade Union Movement was also rejected in a certain area of this City by the people there,does he really consider the nonsense that pures forth from him regarding the wonders of the EU is believed entirely . With out doudt he must be under the illusion regarding the people of this City they are so gullible Does he think people wish to have his and others like minded ultra left wing cronies who consider a Democratic Socialist police State that which has with held the people's freedom in places like Eastern Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, and other Eastern countries held in a grip of terror foisted on them .While he and his kind live in Isolated splendor.While Pontificating to the proletariat this is paradise on earth we promise and you will enjoy it or else. No Nielsen take you idealistic ideas and so called beliefs on the next trip to those far of places and stay there , and while on the way ,stop of in Frances and have a good look at the Military Cemeteries and you just possibility might grasp through your cuckoo clouded mind why so many people are slowly arriving at the conclusion that the sooner we divorce ourselves from the EU . Save £50 million a day which would go towards helping the lame ,the sick , pensioners with out them losing homes and savings, more hospital, schools , take the debt away from students the list is endless, and start to trade unhindered with the rest of the world as we have done these 1000s of years . And embrace once more our Allies of long standing .Canada, Australia, New Zealand , America. and other close Nations we ditch In preference to the EU when in 1973 we were lied to by the Traitor Heath & Co just as you are attempting to.

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Worcesterman says...
6:46am Fri 12 Mar 10

Well said cromwell.. even I couldnt write, that much, you said it all, but what I cannot understand, is why people put them in power, dont they have a brain between their ears? why is it that you get these traitors (because thats what they are) they open their lying mouths, and tell you utopia is around the corner ( it is for them) and people believe them, its madness.
Why do we have to have three parties? why not independents, and let people decide who they want,and not decided by mass ideology and Unions.

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Matthew Jenkins says...
11:47am Fri 12 Mar 10

Just a quick point re. the amount we pay to the EU. The oft-quoted £40 - £50 million per day is the gross amount, but this ignores the rebate we receive and other money for projects, etc. The net amount per day is closer to £12 - £16 million.
There are arguments for and against our membership of the EU, but it's important to be clear about the figures.

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PeterNielsen says...
12:33pm Fri 12 Mar 10

Cromwell, As the Editor grants you anonymity on this site, is there not an obligation by you not to take advantage by being abusive and personal?

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Paul Griffiths says...
3:23pm Fri 12 Mar 10

Mr Jenkins, I read your comment in disbelief.
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There was not a single spelling mistake, you made a rational point, and you failed to gratuitously insult anyone.
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Really, you’re going to have to buck your ideas up if you intend to post in these forums!

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Matthew Jenkins says...
4:22pm Fri 12 Mar 10

I do apologise, Paul. I'll try harder in the future.
I have been posting for a while under the name "topspin", but decided to use my real name rather than hiding behind a pseudonym.
Is this the point when I'm supposed to insult you?

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Angus Mecoatup says...
5:39pm Fri 12 Mar 10

I heard a quote once, don't know who by - 'Politicians are like nappies. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason'

I've lived long enough to realise that the higher MP's are just put there for us, the voter, to be seen to be making a choice, when in all reality, in the great scheme of things, everything's already been decided by people much higher than our Presidents and Prime Ministers!

And there ain't a thing we can do about it.

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Cromwell of Worcester says...
5:52pm Fri 12 Mar 10

Deary.Deary me Nielsen so now you start to appeal to the editor of this News paper .Typical .I have fought very hard against you and your kind and their policies,and beliefs. And always when on the receiving end and going down you and your sort scream foul and shout for fair play and better treatment .Abusive,personal, In my time Iv received far more from your lot then you have received from me . I have always commented well with in the remit of this News paper and I don't need your typ to lecture me on what for or why .If at any time or other don't you think my comments would be band by this Editor as you and your kind would do if unfortunately you ever gain power. Why do I and many more trad unions despise you and your kind.In my time Iv travail many countries in western Europe as a civilian and always have been glad to be back here.I have covered three or four European countries sell we say as a British serviceman in the early part of the 50s. And witness and seen men,woman,and children putting their live on the line literally climbing through and over a wire fence ,not a wall under the noses of thugs in watch towers, some made it others didn't and we had to stand by helpless, you could see the results the following morning.where were they running from .Your idea of a people's Democratic Socialist Federal Republic Eastern Germany.So now Nielsen don't cry foul to me about the language I amply to you and your sort I have a very good reason to do so . By doing so I am try to enlighten people to you and your kind.

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Worcesterman says...
6:44pm Fri 12 Mar 10

Peterneilsen.

Peter, you say that Jack Bennett, is living an illusion,a Benevolent Dictator,
a world that exists in his imagination?.
And yet you castigate Cromwell, for his choice of words, theres an old saying the kettle calling the teapot black, if you cannot take it, dont give it.
Now I respect your right to say what you want to write, but it does not mean that I have to like what you or other progressives are doing to destroy this Country of ours.
Peter they do not need you, or your Party, they are already doing it, and all of us are guilty, for allowing it to happen. And the trouble Peter, is that no Party exists at the moment
to stop the rot.

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PeterNielsen says...
12:45pm Sat 13 Mar 10

Worcesterman, You say "your Party". What party would that be? I don't belong to any party.

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Worcesterman says...
6:33pm Sat 13 Mar 10

sorry Peter, i got my wires crossed, I thought you were someone else, having said that, I still think you are a progressive. You certainly lean to the left. But i have said I respect your right to say what you like, but I am not going to agree with it.

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PeterNielsen says...
10:44am Sun 14 Mar 10

Worcesterman, Fair enough. Let us go on talking. BarryB thought I was Richard Burt and Cromwell thinks I am the Devil. My website will tell you who I am and what I stand for. See www.peternielsen.org
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