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EU RUINING U!
Dear Voter,
If You Voted Conservative, Lib Dem, Green or Labour (it did not matter which) in the last general election then this is what you voted for:
1 You voted to increase council taxes, shut hospital A&E services and for the needless and criminal slaughter of British servicemen and women. ( See Notes below.)
2 You committed yourself and other UK citizens to carrying on spending up to an extra £60 per week to pay for EU taxes on food imports.
3 You voted to cripple British business with costs currently running at over £28 billion/year due to EU “over-regulation”.
4 You voted to continue to allow 530 million people living in the EU the legal right to come and live in the UK any day they want.
5 You voted to decimate Royal Mail services and close 2,500 Post Offices.
6 You voted to spend £100 Billion by 2020 on virtually useless wind farms and/or virtually to close Britain’s electricity system down by 2015.
7 You voted to commit democratic suicide and to lose even more of your vote. If you did not vote at all you left the people who did vote to decide for you.
BECAUSE the Conservative, Lib Dem, Green and Labour parties ALL want Britain to stay in the EU, and the LISBON TREATY will make things worse:
So,
there is only one answer: to get out of the EU. The ONLY credible party which promises to do that is the
UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY
SO REGISTER YOUR PROTEST AT THE UNDEMOCRATIC AND CORRUPT EU BY VOTING FOR THE UKIP IN THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS NEXT JUNE AND IN THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION
Explanatory Notes
1 By the end of 2008 the UK’s total net payments to the EU budget alone since we joined will be over £68 billion cash. We estimate this to be worth well over £500 billion at today’s values. This represents the total value of the investment lost in the UK, which could have been much better spent on reducing council taxes, keeping hospital A & E services open and providing our armed forces with better equipment to prevent needless and tragic loss of life. N.B. UKIP is the only party which has guaranteed to increase the defence budget by 40%, as called for by the UK National Defence Association.
2 Dalia Grybauskaite (WHO?), Commissioner for the EU budget, commenting on the EU Common Agricultural Policy, told the Irish Times, “…. we pay, all of us, all consumers, two to three times more for food than we would pay without this policy”. British families could expect to save up to £40 to £60/week when Britain comes out of the EU. (Eurofacts, 28th Nov 2008)
3 See the Bruges Group leaflet, “How much does the EU cost Britain?” by Gerard Batten, UKIP MEP for London.
4 This figure of 530 million will rise to nearly 610 million if the three extra countries currently wanting to get handouts from British taxpayers by joining the EU succeed. All 610 million will have, as now, the legal right to come and live in the UK any day they want. The UK is an island easily policed and protected. In the EU our borders are now on the continent, thousands of miles long and impossible to control, seriously threatening our national security.
5 EU Directive 97/67/EC “Privatisation of Postal Services”, issued on 15th Dec 1997, began the introduction of an EU wide postal service. This allowed foreign postal services to cherry pick profitable business mail leaving loss making social post to the Royal Mail. We even subsidise the Royal Mail’s competitors by 6p/letter!
6 The EU is making Britain comply with CO2 emission targets which are not only questionable but unattainable. The EU is making Britain close down coal fired power stations and Britain is set to lose 40% of its peak time generating capacity over the next 7 years. (See Eurofacts 28th Nov 2008 and “Scared to Death” by Christopher Booker and Richard North, published by Continuum.)
7 Last year it was estimated that over 80% of all new laws imposed on the UK originated from the EU. Our MEPs in Brussels are unable to change the laws. In any event, there are only 78 British MEPs out of 784 and they are all only allowed 30 seconds each to speak on each new law. Similarly, our MPs had NO say whatsoever in drafting the EU directives on their way through Parliament! In fact, most EU directives are never debated in Parliament but are passed by a Select Committee which never publishes minutes or a voting record. SO you have virtually lost the power of your vote as NO PARTY in Westminster can change an EU directive while we remain in the EU! And they all, except UKIP, intend to keep it that way. YET Gavin Barwell, prospective parliamentary candidate (ppc) for the Conservative party, says he “will be a strong voice for Croydon”! Of course he does not mention any of the points made in this note.
The Conservative, Lib Dem, Green and Labour parties all say that the EU is “good” for Britain!
Why?
They may claim that the EU has stopped wars in Europe. This is nonsense. Since the end of the Second World War NATO stopped wars in Europe while the main threat was Soviet domination. Which wars did the EU stop? Why is it necessary for Britain to be in the EU to stop them going to war with each other?
They may also claim that the EU is the world’s largest single market and that 3 million UK jobs depend on our exports to the EU. If so 4 million EU jobs depend on their exports to the UK. By 2007 the EU had exported goods worth £369 billion more to the UK than we had to the EU. Some trading partnership!
Perhaps Gavin Barwell, Conservative ppc, can explain why it is so good for Britain to be governed by un-elected, un-attributable and un-sackable foreigners who are the EU’s commissioners, rather than by a democratically elected Conservative government in Westminster run by David Cameron as Prime Minister.
EU DIRECTIVES WHICH AFFECT US EVERY DAY
One hundred thousand new regulations have come into force since 1973 as a direct result of Britain’s EU membership. Although these regulations are foisted upon us by the European Union they are zealously enforced by our own bureaucrats, many of whose salaries are paid from your council tax and business rates.
80% of new UK laws are now made by the European Union and although you may not realise it, these affect YOU and cost YOU money.
Here are just a few recent examples:
Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste, implemented in the UK in 2001
Some EU countries are running out of space for landfill. This does not apply to the UK, which has plenty of space but nevertheless Council Directive 1999/31/EC dictates that by 2020 around 55 per cent of UK household waste must be diverted from landfill.
To ‘encourage’ recycling, UK landfill tax has been increased to £16 per metric tonne – so for every tonne of waste your council takes to landfill it has to pay £16. This is why there are now computer chips in many council wheelie bins, ready for the time, very soon, when you will be charged for every piece of rubbish you throw into your bin, over and above the already extortionate rates of Council Tax.
From 2010 the EU will fine local councils between £100 and £150 per tonne of rubbish taken to landfill. Just imagine what this will do to council tax rates.
Directive 2002/39/EC – bans state subsidies to Post Offices
Do you know the real reason your local post office is closing?
EU directive 2002/39/EC states that the size of the postal market reserved for national monopoly must be reduced and that the Government must seek permission before any state aid is granted.
As a result of this, in 2003 the Government signed away the Royal Mail's ability to control its financial affairs and a deal was struck which allowed the Government to grant £150 million to the Post Office each year for three years. However, the cost of running the postal service is £208 million a year, which means there is a £58 million deficit each year.
The Government does not have permission from the EU to increase the grant. As result, the debt is increasing and matters will only get worse as inflation rises – result, closure of post offices all over the country.
Directive 97/67/EC – opened up the UK postal services market to foreign competition
Ever wondered why the cost of sending a letter has increased so much recently? Or why you are now charged nearly 75 per cent more to send an A4 letter, even if it weighs no more than a standard-sized envelope? Well, it’s due to ‘harmonisation’ of European postal services, of course. Translated, that means the Royal Mail had to open up its business mail services to foreign competition like Deutsche Post which has now creamed off all the lucrative bits, leaving poor old Royal Mail trying desperately to keep the cost of domestic deliveries viable.
Directives 96/92/EC; 93/98/EC; 2003/54/EC – the Directives which implemented the EU’s ‘liberalisation of the Energy Market’
‘Liberalisation’ in this case means that all but one of our major gas and electricity suppliers are now owned by foreign companies. When global gas supplies were very scarce in 2004-2005 these greedy companies put their own requirements first and starved the UK of economically priced gas. That’s why gas and electricity prices have doubled in the past few years.
Recently, following yet more large price rises, Energy Watch accused the foreign companies of using the UK as a ‘Treasure Island’ where they are free to rip off UK customers in order to subsidise their national customers.
Naturally companies in Germany, France Spain etc have declined to sell off their utility companies, citing ‘reasons of state security’.
Directive 2002/01/EC –The ‘Home information Packs Directive’
This directive requires all UK homes to be energy-rated every ten years. With typical cunning and spin the UK government saw the opportunity to implement yet another stealth tax on the hard-pressed homeowner.
By inventing Home Information Packs, or HIPs, they can implement this Directive by the back door and also make a few quid for Gordon Brown.
Under the pretence that HIPS would make the home-selling process easier (which they won’t because there is nothing practical about them) they sneaked in the need for an Energy Performance Certificate to be obtained before any house sale can take place – and it is this Certificate which meets the requirements of the Directive. So every homeowner now faces this stealth tax of £600-£800 when selling their homes in order to satisfy the mandarins of the EU Commission.
Directive 2001/18/EC – GM Foods
When she was Environment Minister, Margaret Becket admitted that even though almost 90 per cent of British people are against it, GM crops will be grown in the UK thanks to this Directive.
All the ‘consultation exercises’ carried out by the government are a sham as there is nothing the UK government can do to stop it.
Directive 2001/85 – Bus and Coach Directive
The Directive which sounded the death knell for the Routemaster – which doesn’t meet EU ‘accessibility and safety’ standards – and encouraged the proliferation of the ghastly ‘bendy’ buses.
Boris Johnson can say what he likes – there is no way he can resurrect the Routemaster on London streets unless we leave the EU.
Directive 91/440 – Privatisation of the UK Rail Network
Don’t blame John Major - under the catchwords “liberalisation,” “deregulation” and “competitiveness,” the EU decreed that state-owned companies, including the railways, which were hitherto regulated and operated on a national basis and subsidised by taxes, were to be restructured and made profitable for private investors.
In June 1991, EU directive 91/440 was agreed by the twelve EU transport ministers. This directive was the first shot in the privatisation of the European railways. It contained the basis for all the liberalisation projects subsequently passed: all railway companies in the EU must now operate without any state subsidies.
Directive 2005/32 – Low Energy Lightbulbs
In the name of the great god Global Warming, the EU has now decreed that our safe and efficient incandescent light bulbs are to be withdrawn from sale so we are forced to use flickering, dim, expensive and dangerous so-called low energy light bulbs. Not only are these hideous objects totally unfit for purpose, i.e. won’t fit many UK light fittings; can’t be used in domestic security lights; can’t be used with dimmers; and, most importantly, don’t give enough light to see by (as admitted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said ‘When I drop something on the carpet they don’t give me enough light to find it and pick it up’) but they are also actually dangerous, as they contain mercury.
The Department of the Environment recently issued the following instructions on what to do should one break:
• Evacuate the room and open the windows for at least 15 minutes
• Do not use a vacuum cleaner as this will stir up the mercury dust
• Put on rubber gloves and a face mask to avoid inhaling the dust and carefully sweep debris into a dustpan
• Place remains in plastic bag and seal it
• Do not put into dustbin as it might then be incinerated and release the mercury into the air, or be put into landfill and contaminate the water course. Instead take to specialised disposal site.
Unbelievable isn’t it? They can be dangerous to our health in other ways, too. The Migraine Society has expressed great concern that the flickering bulbs can exacerbate both migraine and epilepsy attacks and the British Dermatology Society has warned they can aggravate eczema and other skin conditions.
It is appalling that the UK government is prepared to accept this dictat and make the British people give up our efficient light bulbs in favour of these filthy things. But it’s true, and just to make sure we do, incandescent light bulbs will be withdrawn from sale over the next couple of years. STOCK UP NOW!
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And I Quote ......
Smile at us, pay us, pass us but do not quite forget. For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet..
G K Chesterton (The Secret People) 1915
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