UKIP’s Euro elections results were simply stunning; showing we’re the only truly one-nation party with support throughout the UK – unlike other parties whose dwindling support is confined to a few strong regions.
Alex Wilson (Letters, June 20) is right to say the UK is a trading nation, but wrong to say UKIP only stands for isolation and insularity. In the EU we are denied the opportunity to negotiate with other countries ourselves. In the 1980s, the EU accounted for about 40 per cent of world trade and has been steadily declining ever since and is projected to only account for 10 per cent come 2037. As far as UKIP’s flagship policy is concerned, it’s therefore best thought of as: ‘Out of the EU to trade with the world’. The Europhiles are the isolationists and insulars; not us!
Only UKIP’s local councillors and candidates are in tune with Bucks voters’ wishes in opposing HS2 and favouring grammar schools. The three legacy parties oppose selective education and want to wreck our countryside with HS2; a project we can neither afford nor power on current UK energy capacity. How dare Miliband whinge about the cost of living when his implementation of EU Energy policies of closing down 20 per cent of the UK’s viable coal-fired electricity generating stations increased everyone’s energy bills by 10 per cent and sent steel and aluminium production overseas, where CO2 emissions are twice the UK’s!
Labour messed up the UK economy: wrecking our pensions, once the envy of EU countries; running up an annual deficit of up to £170bn and leaving an underlying debt pile of £700bn. The Con-Lib Coalition supposedly coming together to fix it have failed: giving us an annual deficit of £108bn and will have doubled the underlying UK debt to £1.5trillion come next year’s General Election – hardly surprising when they have continued to waste £76m a day on the EU and Foreign Aid. UKIP will easily better such an abysmal record left by the three legacy parties. Indeed, be assured UKIP are producing a fully costed national manifesto for the General Election which will be launched at UKIP’s Annual Conference in Doncaster in September and a local one for Bucks too. — Cllr. David G. Meacock UKIP Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Wycombe
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