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extradition warrant claims another BritonLocal man Michael Turner has been snatched by the Serious Organised Crime Agency who handed him and his business partner Jason McGoldrick to the elite special forces from Budapest. They are now facing a long time in gaol before the case comes to trial. Michael's father said “My father, and his father before him, fought in two world wars to make sure this kind of thing couldn’t happen today. So when the secret police come here, knocking to take my son to eastern Europe to stand accused of charges of a ridiculous nature, how am I going to explain to my grandchildren that I allowed this to happen?". Graham Watson, Liberal Democrat MEP for the South West wrote the legislation for the European Arrest Warrant and pushed it through the European Parliament. We have written to Graham Watson and you can read the exchange of emails here. Update - Mike and Jason are now back home having been released on bail.  Bournemouth
councillors and the EU dimension.We wrote to every local councillor, (details below), asking if the EU affected their decision making: 'Dear Bournemouth Councillors, As the most popular political website in Bournemouth we are keen to hear from local councillors for their views on local matters to keep our readers informed. With over 70% of new UK law affecting local councils now originating from Brussels we were wondering if this affects local decision making when a conflict arises between the wishes of local constituents and mandates from Brussels? Please let us know if you are happy with this state of affairs and we will publish your comments on the website.' We followed this up with a reminder in case some were away or too busy at the time to give us an answer.....and not one of them has bothered to respond. Make of this what you will.  A
message of thanks from Philip Glover, UKIP's Prospective
Parliamentary Candidate for Bournemouth West"I am delighted that UKIP came second nationally in the recent European Elections. May I express my thanks to all of you who voted UKIP and helped to send a message to the Labour Government that their broken promise to hold a referendum on the EU Constitution, renamed The Lisbon Treaty, will not be tolerated."  European
Election vote results for the Bournemouth West and East
constituencies.These are the voting figures for Bournemouth: Conservative 12124 31.6% - UKIP 9875 25.8% - Lib/Dem 4739 12.4% - Greens 3183 8.3% - Labour 2708 7.1% - BNP 1624 4.2%. In the South West 2 UKIP MEPs were elected, (Trevor Colman and William Dartmouth), on a turnout of 38% which is slightly up from 2004 and Labour lost their only MEP in the West Country. 13 UKIP MEPS have been elected across the UK, (UKIP narrowly missed number 14 in the North West), which puts UKIP in second place overall in front of New Labour.  Gawain Towler,
UKIP activist from Dorset supports the Save the
Vale
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Silton Campaigns and slams Ecotricity for milking public subsidies"Ecotricity just don't know when to give up. Wind farms are inefficient, massively subsidised and devastating to the local landscape. To have six massive turbines marching over the Vale would create enormous disturbance and for what? Turbines in general produce less than a third of the energy they claim due to the simple fact that the wind does not blow in the right way the right speed or at all for a majority of the time. Traditional electricity generation has to be maintained in order to cover for it. Worse still are the contemptuous comments from Ecotricity Director Dale Vince. He obviously doesn't give a damn about local people. The way he dismisses their concerns is disgraceful. He demands that they be less selfish. Maybe he shouldn't be so greedy to pick up public subsidy". Update - Gawain has lambasted Robert Walters, the sitting Conservative MP for hypocrisy. "Bob Walters has to answer some pretty searching questions now that it has been revealed that the Tory Party is doing deals with Ecotricity". Ecotricity is the firm that is planning to build a wind farm at Silton near Gillingham which is opposed by the vast majority of local inhabitants. Robert Walters has been prominent in opposing the farm. However the Conservative Party has set up a sponsorship program with the firm, part of its Affinity scheme that can be found on its website. According to the firms's website Conservatives can, "WIN a year's supply of electricity from Ecotricity - worth £400 - simply by watching our stunning new time-lapse video of the construction of 3 wind turbines at Bristol Port and then answering the question below". "So backing this firm is fine for fundraising for their elections, but local people will feel let down and abused by such naked double dealing", said Towler. Gawain Towler first got involved in the campaign against the windfarm in early February.  UKIP takes the number 3 spot and beats Labour in local electionsAvril King, the local UKIP candidate for Poole Town is delighted by the results from UKIPs’ first serious foray into local elections across Bournemouth and Poole. Avril said, "This is a tremendous result for a relatively new political party and to have beaten the governing party of New Labour by 9716 votes to 9273 where we stood shows that UKIP have thrown off their ‘single issue’ image and are on their way to being a serious player in future politics. In some of the wards we contested we attained 14% to 16% and beat the Lib Dems. UKIP were the only party to campaign against the cuts and changes in rubbish collection and disposal and to point out that council targets are being driven by Brussels. Local taxpayers will be the ones to pick up the bill when our councils are fined for failing to meet those targets." Avril continued, "It is a pity that 2/3rds of people stayed at home. These are the people who never show up in the opinion polls, entrenching the political outcome and giving them more reason not to vote as they feel nothing can be changed. Our next battle is against Gordon Brown, who like Tony Blair has gone back on his promise for a referendum on the EU constitution, and signed away our remaining sovereignty. The treaty has yet to be ratified and we must make sure that if the Tories win power there will be a referendum come what may" |
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local election gains across the UKUKIP won seats across the UK. Yarmouth, Norfolk, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Newcastle under Lyme now have UKIP local and county councillors. The results show that UKIP were up against the BNP in 9 seats and finished higher in all of them. They were up against the Greens in 19 seats and finished higher in all of them and when up against Labour in 46 seats they finished higher in 42 of them. Many second and third places have gone to UKIP and Labour have become a fringe party.  Red
tape damaging businesses in DorsetA survey has revealed the extent that red tape has hit employment levels in small firms throughout Dorset. Because of excessive bureaucracy 16 per cent have made job cuts, 39 per cent of these firms are not employing more people due to employee regulations and 45 per cent of sole traders with no workers decide not to become employers to avoid red tape altogether.  Does the European Union (EU) affect local issues in Bournemouth?You bet it does! And nearly all local issues, because the EU now make the laws on most issues affecting Local Government. The European Union will ultimately run Britain by directives to Local Government. In fact it's happening already but the Government doesn't want you to know, and the other parties, being pro-EU, have kept remarkably quiet. The EU's full title is the European Union of Regions and Cities. Fancy most people not knowing that - not surprising because it's all being done quietly. It is intended that Regional Assemblies like the unelected Exeter Assembly, sub-Regional Groups centred on cities like Bristol, and sub-sub-Regional Groups centred on Towns like Devizes carry out the EU instructions. There are already such bodies in place called Strategic Partnerships and Community Planning Partnerships. Britain's public services are being regionalised and reorganised. The Regional Assembly deals with the Regional Spatial Strategy which affects all local planning issues. The strategy covers policy matters like waste incinerators, windmills, and housing. The interesting point is that the Government has awarded itself the right to overrule all local objections. The Primary Care Trusts are centralising hospital treatment on large hospitals. The Courts Service has been reorganised, as has the Probation Service, the Police and the Fire and Ambulance services. Local objection to the cutting out of smaller hospitals has been ignored and only Police Regionalisation has been stalled. The EU working Time Directive is having a massive effect on hospital services because Doctors and Surgeons can only work limited hours. People like lorry drivers have had their hours cut and consequently their take-home pay. You may think that electing a Councillor will make a difference and that they will stop all the nonsense? Wrong. If your council is run by Liberal-Democrats, Conservatives or Labour they can make a difference? Wrong. They have to obey Government targets based on EU directives. They must set Council Tax within a Government limit and spend it on Government priorities. The worst point about Regionalised Local Government is that your vote doesn't make a difference. It doesn't matter who you vote for, the scope for local decision-making is almost negligible. Your local councillors will barely have any power to change things. A slight change of emphasis here and there. The EU directives, as followed by the Government and being implemented through Regional Local Government leave virtually no scope for change. The paid Officers drive through the Government's EU agenda with pretendy consultations; to paraphrase Billy Connolly. This is why you have bugs in your wheelie bins, your mail is now priced by size and weight and older youngsters who are short in stature must sit in child car seats. And what about Council Tax? Councils receive about two-thirds of their budget allocation from Government taxes like VAT, Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Inheritance Tax. The trouble is that they give £41m every day to the EU and are forced to implement costly EU directives plus Regionalisation. Not much left for local services! So why vote for UKIP? Because the other parties want to be in the EU, which means that things can only get worse. More Council Tax, local democracy replaced by government by bureaucrat - the EU way, with the 25 unelected Commissioners in Brussels like Peter Mandelson making the Directives which the Local Council Officers have to implement. Sounds a bit like the Soviet Union doesn't it? A vote for UKIP is a signal to government and the other parties that you want local democracy restored so that your local councillors do what you want, not what the EU wants. And that you want your taxes spent here, not on EU follies. Alan Wood (A UKIP Councillor) Post Office Closures Post offices in Poole and Bournemouth continue to be shut. The reasons for this can be traced back to yet another E.U. directive which, (as usual), Whitehall has gold plated with the expected results. Our impotent politicians won't admit it, but there is nothing they can do about this. 'Recycling' The Tories are at one with the Lib/Lab/Con-sensus on 'green' issues and seem very happy with the costly recycling systems set up at the behest of EU waste directives. In trying to out-green each other they ignore the facts and have jumped onto another costly bandwagon with very little benefit. This provides a perfect excuse for the bureaucrats to extend their power over our lives  Council TaxThe Lib Dems, (Working harder for EU), perform linguistic contortions in their election flyers by claiming 'credit' for the massive rise in council tax by using the word 'cut' in conjunction with 'rise'. As usual with a Lib Dem leaflet there are the infamous bar charts and the staged poses of the candidates to make them look as if they're doing something. What is always missing from the bar charts is the numbers of people that no longer bother to vote, (they love you for not voting!), as they're now in the majority. If they turned out to vote there would be no such thing as a safe seat. |