I mentioned my skepticism in the post below that there was anything meaningful about the NuGovt's E-Petition gimmick which is more about fooling the public into thinking tyrannical Govt policy is popular rather than any real attempt to put democracy back into the hands of the electorate.
And it looks like my instinct might be right given that Camoron and his EU bought and paid for bunch of ministers have completely dismissed any concerns about our membership of the EU and it's unelected leadership that dictates and enforces Iron Curtain ideology on people who don't want to be its citizens.
For me the biggest insult is to dismiss even a debate on membership if enough signatures are gained on the E Petition scam because:
"Britain delivered a “very clear result” on the issue 36 years ago."
Errr - no we didn't Dave. We delivered a very clear result on the common market and trade - or at least our parents and grandparents did even though they pretty much regretted it straight away when they realised how ridiculous some of the demands were to be. But we have NEVER been asked about political union. We have NEVER been asked if we wanted to sign up to scams like Global Warming or bullying of those in poverty to change their lifestyles in line with the middle and upper class whims of the unelected who now rule us and have destroyed British culture and heritage as well as many other countries in Europe that simply want to be left alone to set their own policies.
I think this monstrosity that no one in Britain or the rest of Europe voted for is even killing the native language of some countries and that is criminal.
When the Westminster Parish Council of the EU can dismiss a debate on our membership when a huge majority of British subjects want it, then what hope for a minority that wants to be treated with equality on issues of lifestyle like smoking and choice? Well, I'm still waiting for a scam E-Petition on that to be accepted.
I think it's got to the stage where there is now no choice. The ONLY hope for this country, for fairness, for equality, for self respect, is to vote UKIP, stand for UKIP, show the corrupt LibLabCon that we have had enough. When the balance of power between state and citizen is restored, and the corrupt MPs in Parliament who ignore their voters realise that we actually do matter, only then will the oppression end.
UPDATE 08/08/11 : In response to this clear snub of the will of the electorate, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said:
"I think we have finally seen the Prime Minister's true colours when it comes to the EU - he's a fan and despite the weak euroscpetic posturing we have witnessed recently by parts of the Conservative Party, it is clear that Mr Cameron has no intention of letting us have our say on future EU membership.
"The argument that the 1975 referendum delivered a clear mandate for membership is incredibly poor. Firstly, that was when the British people were asked about the European Economic Community. Over the last 36 years the EEC has morphed into the EU with its tentacles now reaching far and wide. Secondly, anyone under the age of 53 was not able to vote in 1975. By refusing a referendum it shows utter contempt for a massive chunk of the population."
Job hunting was getting me down so I decided to step right away from it, take a few days out in the glorious weather we've had here of late and do something different so me and my other half got on our push bikes and looked for something to do out in the nearby countryside.
And we found a veritable treasure of a spot by the riverbank, picked cherries from trees on a public footpath and bemoaned the fact that some woods are private so we couldn't explore further.
My other half made wine and I made jam and in the spirit of good weather, we cycled some 36 miles in a few days. The best news is we can still walk as we haven't stiffened up from using muscles that were last used on how ever many nice days we had last summer which brought about the same urge for physical exercise.
Now the rain is back, it's time to get back to jobhunting. Lack of funds means I won't get to this year's UKIP conference nor will I be able to make this event in Manchester or any of the fringe events organised for the Conservative Party Conference in a bid to make the Tories listen that their persecution of people's lifestyles is ruining more than just the economy and long held British traditions.
During my latest absence from blogging, I've logged back into this virtual world occasionally to check the latest outrages and have much to say about Govts which seeks to destroy legal industry by giving a monopoly to one industry over another.
And I could also write reams on the confirmation that the EU is a dictatorship that ignores its so-called citizens in favour of Iron Curtain ideology, and my disappointment that Smoker heroes Philip Davies and David Nuttall would both want to see the reintroduction of state murder but the job hunting calls so I'll leave that for another day.
Meanwhile, I'm hoping that I will at least have enough cash to go on this trip which is one not to be missed and probably the last trip I'll be able to make until next summer - job permitting of course.
It's been deathly quiet today, May 8th, 2011, on what has been the 66th anniversary of VE Day - the day that marked the end of Adolf Hitler, 1940s Nazism and the war in Europe.
I would have expected at least some acknowledgement of this mark in our history and I wonder why the media has been silent.
The other day I posted a piece about how I came across the grave of my grandparents on the internet.
I've since learned that my grandfather fought in WW1 and WW2 and died of his wounds in 1946. My dad also fought in WW2. He never talked much about his wartime experiences. I imagine it's the sort of thing you'd want to forget but can't.
They did their duty like millions of other men and women and it was hell. The only release from that hell was death or discharge but they did it to beat tyranny so that their children and grandchildren would be free. I think that deserves remembrance and a reminder of why the fight against modern Nazism and Fascism must continue.
Today the zealots who call for one nation, one country, one leader, are not behind Hitler but the unelected, appointed Presidency of the EU.
It only takes a few moments. Don't let the undemocratic EU get it's own way. Consultation is supposed to involve the actual public. It's not supposed to be a matter for Eurocrats to sort out among themselves based on the ideology of wealthy and powerful self interest lobby groups.
Whatever your view about tobacco and smoking, anyone with an ounce of perception can see that if these measures go through then it clears the way for restrictions on all sorts of legal products that the authorities don't like.
That is why it is imperative that you add your name to the petition. If you don't, and this goes through unchallenged, then it's time to take bets on what will be next.
For my money it will chocolate and sweets in plain packaging - cakes which are not allowed to look pretty, burgers sold on the black market on street corners, and fizzy drinks being hidden under the counter.
If they manage to eradicate tobacco use, and ultimately move to the next stage of criminalising law abiding smokers, don't think it won't be you next and whatever it is you like.
These proposals are preposterous. Tobacco is legal. There is no evidence that these sort of restrictions make smoking less attractive or accessible to youths.
I hate perfume. I hate the smell of it and that it makes me sneeze. I can't bear sitting near anyone wearing it in a restaurant as it spoils the taste of my food. The packaging is pretentious, the contents poisonous when inhaled, but I would not back any moves to restrict it's point of sale. Nor would I expect those who have a favourite brand to have to guess what they're buying because someone else like me hates it and starts making laws to eradicate it.
Look - we know what risks we take when we smoke. Kids are far more knowledgeable than we were about the dangers of active smoking. It's almost the first thing they learn these days. It's probably why the numbers of people taking up smoking are markedly lower than they were when I started.
When we reach the age where we can legally smoke it should be our choice based on informed risks, and not because Nanny Britain has sent us to the Bully to be punished because we won't take her good advice.
SHS, which I do not accept is any kind of major risk, can be avoided with choice so banning the consumption of a legal product in public is nothing to do with health and everything to do with Govt backing of denormalisation of a minority social and lifestyle group.
Further restrictions are just the next step towards making a legal product illegal.
I've always supported education on tobacco risks but I am against propaganda.
These proposed restrictions are simply propaganda. They will achieve no aim but further denormalisation of law abiding and mostly older lifelong smokers who face criminalisation if they do not comply with this new health world order.
Whatever it is that you like, do you seriously want to be next? Sign the petition and make sure you won't be.
A new piece from political comic genius Phil Williams. Enjoy!
On a more serious note, I hope you can watch this linked video which explains how the British people were conned by successive leaders who sold out their freedom, economy, culture, and constitution to make us that which we said we'd never be - Slaves.
It's moving and poignant but I have no idea how to share it from Facebook to here.
UPDATE: A friend has uploaded the aforementioned video (best watched in full screen).
An actual mainstream newspaper that actually cares about its readership's views and not just moulding a news agenda.
The Daily Express has come out fighting for the right to leave the EU and it gives good and valid reasons for doing so.
Today's edition, for example, highlights the madness of the EU waste of cash.
EURO MADNESS
- £350,000 for a dog fitness and rehabilitation centre that was never built. Plans included developing a hydrotherapy system to “improve dogs’ wellbeing”
- £4.5m for a fleet of limousines for Euro-MPs in Strasbourg. Green Party estimates already show that travelling between and maintaining the European Parliament’s two buildings in Strasbourg and Brussels already costs European taxpayers £170m
- £13,500 to Tyrolean farmers to boost their “emotional connection with the landscape.” They were expected to become “more aware of their emotional reactions to it compared to their prevailing rational economic ones.”
- £4,300 on a “Europe Horse” to promote the EU to German children. A booklet was produced chronicling the cartoon animal’s trip from Germany to Brussels, meeting various EU figures along the way
- £763,000 for a golf course, hotel and spa whose guests include German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The platinum membership fee for the club is 1,100 euros per year
We've always known the EU was barmy but I personally find it offensive that the Eurocrats promote those who disagree with this political project of being mentally ill or plain and simple nutters.
I know which daily paper I'll be buying from now on.
Nigel Farage is without doubt the best Prime Minister this country could have if only the voter would wake up and recognise that until we are out of the EU we have no British leader in anything other than name and appearances only.
David Cameron has about as much power as a parish council leader because thanks to NuLabour the last of our country has been given away and Dave is not bothered to get it back. He's happy playing leader knowing he doesn't have to make any real decisions as they are done for him by unelected president Herman Van Rompuoy.
We cannot even decide ourselves what laws are best for us or whether we can hold our own elections if Ireland is anything to go by. Dave just has to keep telling us to sshhh while telling the wider public that UKIP is a nutty party to ensure the voter stays compliant and uncomplaining.
In truth, he's just desperate to hide the fact that he has no power. Like Ireland, his "govt" is forced to attack the poor to keep the Eurocrats happy. Ireland, lets not forget, has been told it must cut welfare and the minimum wage among other things before the EU will let it hold it's own general election. A new party will change nothing. The EU has already decided for Ireland and she is not in control of her elections, laws, social or economic policy.
Our Govt can do nothing more than meddle in our private affairs to give it some kind of sense of being in authority. That's why it interferes with the little issues in our lives like what we eat, drink or smoke, because it cannot make the big decisions.
Those are made by van Rompuoy and the two other unelected officals - CND activist Baroness Ashton (NuLab) and a foreign chap few of us know called Barrosso. They are nameless, faceless, unaccountable officials and very dangerous for the cause of civil liberties. Our Govt is simply their enforcer.
Klaus Vaclas, president of the Czech Republic knows it too. His speech linked here is like an apology to his people that there is nothing he can do about encroaching EU control and power that aims to rob nation states of their cultures, identities, history and heritage.
As Nigel says, the suppression of national identity is what will lead to violence. Certainly it seems to me that if you enforce rules, regulations, and laws on people who have no avenue to hold an election to remove you if they don't like your ideology, then you are asking for long term unrest and trouble.
National elections currently don't matter. They are just a front. Nothing changes no matter what party gets voted in because the EU is the Govt and we cannot elect it. That's why all of the laws we hate so much will stay.
The smoking ban is one such example. We only have it because the EU insists. That is why Cameron makes no mention of it. He is too scared to let the British people know he has no power to change it so he brushes it under the carpet. Other countries don't enforce it as rigorously as Nanny Britain but they have it only because of the EU. Former unelected president Pottering was duped into it by the unelected EU SmokeFree Partnership director Florence Berteletti Kemp, who has no support from the public but merely heads an EU quango.
When the voter and their EU Parliament representatives wanted to meet in the alleged home of European democracy, they were banned from the Parliament building after one call from the unelected Ms Berteletti-Kemp. Just one example of how democracy does not work in Europe. That was when I woke up. A kick in the teeth tends to do that.
Free speech in the EU means you can say what you like but you will be ridiculed, condemned and slandered for it if the EU three don't agree. That's why UKIP has been criticised as "Little Englanders" or "Racists in Blazers". It's because the establishment is terrified that this new party of the people will be heard as more and more voters get wise to what is really going on. UKIP came second in the EU elections. It will do better than the Tories next time as disillusioned former Tories drift over to a party with guts and courage.
Van Rompuoy has tried to incite fear by claiming that without the EU state, individual nations would not survive. Of course we would. We have done for centuries and our friendships will remain unchanged.
What started as an avenue for trade with European friends and neighbours has become a huge multi-state state Govt that frowns on democracy. No one wanted this.
The only democratic thing about it is that we can vote in MEPs. They have no power, however, except that they can raise concerns and highlight the threat to democracy from the EU and the adverse effects its dominance has on British life.
Nigel is passionate and not afraid to speak his mind, like other UKIP MEPs but unlike Lib/Lab/Con party MEPs who appear to do no more than just nod agreements between naps as they let the EU dictators just get on with ripping Britain's soul out.
Some are just simply trainee MPs and career politicians like Nick Clegg who start in the EU parlt, keep their mouths shut, comply with all and everything they are told, and then get themselves a nice little earner as an MP in the castrated British Parliament when a seat becomes available.
There is only one way to end the EU oppression and rid ourselves of the conflicts that will come in a few years' time as rage rises in nation states and European economies implode. We must get out. That can only happen if UKIP is voted into the British Parliament. It desperately wants out of the EU and to stop paying the £120 billion we give to the Eurocrats but more than that it wants democracy back and wants the British people to decide their own future, their own economy, their own way of life, their own security, their own social policies, and their own laws.
The British people have never been asked how far they want to go towards cultural, military, economic and political integration via a referendum as is their right by constitution. The Lib/Lab/Con has continually denied them since 1973. Union with Europe was never supposed to be about three people who aim to remove power from national Govts. Isn't that what Hitler had in mind for Europe?
Polls show that 75% of British people want a say on whether we stay in the EU or come out. That 75% should vote UKIP in the next general election. Only by voting UKIP do they have any chance of getting a referendum and ending the tyranny that is the EU. Only by voting UKIP into the British Parliament can the people of this country begin to get control of their own lives back.
Other European countries feel exactly the same as we do. Once one country drops out of this hell, others will quickly back away too, and then go back to how they should be - proud of their own, tolerant of others, and able to make the decisions that the people and not the Eurocrats want.
At least someone is trying to make the voice of the ordinary voter heard on the issue of the money draining waste of EU space.
Note the arrogant response from the Irish minister in the middle of the report who thinks he knows better how the people of his country should be spending their money.
Typical Tories. They don't win the election with a landslide and so they blame UKIP for taking their votes.
According to The Telegraph UKIP "may inadvertently have handed the pro-European Liberal Democrats the possibility of a role in government."
The truth is the Tories lost themselves an outright victory in this election because of Call Me Dave's cowardice in refusing to make an announcement on smoking choice for pub landlords and customers who have flocked to UKIP's ranks, because of its pub policy, and a referendum on the EU to end the bitter dispute on this issue once and for all. Had Dave made clear the Tories would address both of these issues and the party would have won with a very clear majority. It is no good blaming the voter for voting elsewhere because the Tories haven't offered the voter the choice that the voter wants.
It's certainly not worked out that UKIP took Tory votes in my constituency. We booted out St Gillian of Merron, NuLab Govt chief health persecutor, and voted in Tory Karl McCartney, and in Louth and Horncastle, the UKIP vote was down, the Tory vote up by several thousand. Why are the Tories not blaming the BNP for taking their votes when the BNP is UKIP's closest political rival and not the sitting Con MPs in any other UK constituency?
Opinion seems very divided on UKIP's role in this election. An obvious Tory supporter was saying on Newsnight last night that the UKIP vote had collapsed in this election. The Cons can't have it both ways. Either UKIP took their votes - or the UKIP vote collapsed.
The public wanted a hung parliament because it wanted None of The Above. Maybe, just maybe, if we have another election very soon, the smaller parties and independents - and there were hundreds of them - might not be able to afford to stand again so soon. Therefore the race will be limited to the big three parties. Dave will have his chance to show he listened to the voter on smoking choice and EU membership, and he might just be surprised to find he can win the election, get the dictator and tyrant Gordon Brown out of office, and win with the full support of the majority of British people.
Tomorrow we will know which leader of the three main parties will be our new master after the greatest battle in modern times to save Britain's soul. This is the most important election in our history. It is the duty of all of us to go out and vote and tell the three main parties what we think and what we want. They bribe us like naughty children with that word "change" bandied about like free sweets to get us to do what they want. In truth, however, nothing will change under any of them or they will seek the kind of change that we don't want.
Remember Tony Bliar and the change he gave us? War in the Middle East, a huge public sector workforce that spies on and monitors its citizens, poor people poorer, rich people greedier, traditional British pubs closing by the thousands every year. A vote for Labour is nothing short of treason. If that party wins again, Britain will be ruined, in tatters, and there will be nothing left to save. It is a party that cares not for its people but for itself. We don't want more of that from Bliar's underdog Brown who is happy to dismiss anyone who doesn't share his megalomaniac view like Gillian Duffy, the woman he branded a bigot for daring to question him about her concerns on immigration and the cost of education.
Politicians will have been promising you the earth to get your vote. They have listened to your concerns. When they are elected, however, they will forget everything you said and the oppression will begin again. Cameron's Tories don't offer you anything different. If you think you're going to get the good ole Cons of Thatcher's 1980s, think again. Cameron is not Tory in the traditional sense. He is what he says he is - the Heir to Bliar. What does it matter if Blue Labour or NuLabour dishes out more of the same. Cameron need do only two things that will get the British electorate 100% behind him and give him the landslide he wants. He must promise us a vote on EU membership and he must reintroduce choice on the smoking ban for struggling pub landlords who own their own property and should have the right to set their own smoking policies. He won't do it because he is a coward, scared of taking on the EU, frightened of Quangos like Action on Smoking and Health and the Smoke Free org which rules with an iron fist over British choice from the safety of their central office in Brussels. Cameron, frankly, doesn't care about Britain, her independence, her culture or her proud sovereign history. Along with Nick Clegg, he would put the EU's priorities before our own whether the EU policies are good for Britain or not.
Nick Clegg, the current darling of British politics, would be disastrous for us. He is fake and knows how to perform having studied at stage school but don't be fooled. He is false. We haven't seen the real man yet. What we know of him is that he would take us further into the belly of the EU beast. Five more years of that, when we could still stop the Lisbon Treaty which has not yet been ratified if he gave us choice, and Britain will be no more. There will be no point in even having another election in future. Westminster under EU rule will be about as effective as a parish council.
The BNP is no answer. They have policies which would take us back 100 years. They are bigots. They lump people into groups and then judge and condemn them according to their own twisted ideology. A Britain under the BNP would be terrifying. They've promised the earth while campaigning and they lie to fool the electorate. Their election address, for example, in Louth and Horncastle says UKIP is for immigration when this is plainly not true. UKIP is for the immigrant but against uncontrolled immigration on the grounds of space not race.
The only way to gain control back from these puppet masters is to ensure we get a hung parliament. Only then can we as a nation decide what sort of modern voting system we want. Currently, it matters not whether you vote Lib/Lab/or Con - the Government will still wins and it still won't listen. It will stuff its own pockets with our cash, put it's highly paid and wasteful quangos between the people and the services they need, and it will not give a damn what the people think. We have no economy other than public service jobs. Business is strangled and stifled with red tape, high taxes, and health and safety over regulation. Entrepreneurship is frowned upon, and we have no manufacturing base. We have the illusion of an economy in the huge amount of public sector jobs that indicate personal wealth. We raise taxes to pay public service workers who go shopping, buy houses and go on holidays. That is the biggest part of our economy.
The only real and meaningful change can come if we the people take control and get out there and use that vote we only get every five years.A pathy is the enemy of democracy and the main parties depend on it for their return to power. If you want things to stay the same, the answer is simple - don't vote or just put your cross where you put it last time. If you want real and meaningful change in the true sense of the word, then vote with your heart. Find that party that best suits your beliefs and give it your vote no matter how big or how small. There is nothing to lose and everything to gain. If you can't choose between them, then vote with your spleen against the worst Labour Government this country has ever seen. And don't be scared into voting for a party because of the fear factor which the main three have been using to terrify you into submission.
My party is UKIP because it is the only party that speaks from the heart and listens to the people it serves. It was born from a desire to give the British people a say on their own future in the EU and it is the most democratic of the lot. It has grown and evolved into a party that can match the others for the number of candidates standing for the election. It needs only voter support. It wants to return power to you the people, to make your own decisions at both local and national level. It has some great policies for Britain and her people. It's candidates are both humble and expert in varying fields. It is worthy of support.
In Louth and Horncastle, most people expect Tory Sir Peter Tapsell to win, despite the amount of times I've heard people say they don't want him back. At 80 he is outdated, he lives in an ivory tower, wrapped in an olde English bubble of a stately home, and he is there for his own needs. His biggest motivator in this election is to be re-elected so that he can become Father of the House as the longest serving member of Parliament. There have been calls for local hustings in the constituency so that local people can see what is on offer, but Sir Peter doesn't see the point. He's said he debated on one BBC local radio show. He doesn't need to debate further. As a long standing sitting MP, he says people know what he is about. True, indeed, but the electorate hasn't been given a proper chance to browse other goods in the shop.
If I was elected to serve as the member for Louth and Horncastle, then I would be your servant. I would work for you. You tell me your priorities and they become mine. I am not in this for myself. I have stuck my head above the parapet because I truly believe that it is time for Parliament to become a real representative body for the people. No matter where you live, you can make it yours too. Vote UKIP tomorrow and take the first steps to getting Britain's dignity back.
If we wake up to yet another five years of Labour - the absolute worst result there could be - then the only hope is emigration. If we can't afford to run away to a more tolerant and less oppressive country - like Zimbabwe, for example - then we might as well all take a rope to the bottom of garden and hang ourselves.
This may well be the last blog post I ever write. Those of you who know me, know that the unjust smoking ban, and the ill-treatment and exclusion of smokers, is what brought me into politics. At the beginning of the year, when we were all so full of hope that we had this one chance to make our feelings known, people began to chat and analyse which party they should vote for. To me the choice was clear. UKIP stands up for choice and it is not ashamed to stand up for smokers. Smokers, and others concerned about the erosion of civil liberties, didn't see it the same way. They somehow have this false belief that if they vote Tory, then Dave will miraculously drop the false act and become the free marketeer we expect from a Conservative.It won't happen. What will happen instead is that the smoking ban will be brushed under the carpet. Personal choice will become more limited, and that wall that came down in Eastern Europe will go up again metaphorically and surround us all in the EUSSR.
12 million smokers' votes for UKIP would have gone a very long way to tell the three main parties that a line has been crossed and we, the people, want our lives back. Too many of those 12 million don't care. That is why after this election, the smoking ban fight will be over. We will have let ourselves down and demolished any hope for freedom of choice for the next generation.
I had an email this morning from a disgruntled UKIP voter who doesn't understand why I am not pushing my anti EU views more strongly and favouring what he sees as an irrelevant policy instead.
My answer is that of course I am anti EU - I've written here before about my views on it's undemocratic political system and it's encroaching power that takes away an individual country's sovreignty and independence. I thought that as anti EU is the very heart and soul of UKIP that it would pretty much go without saying. What I wanted to try and achieve is knowledge that UKIP is no longer a single issue party and has lots of policies on all of the big issues and brave enough to touch others that dare not speak their name.
I must also admit that I haven't seen my electoral address so I have no idea what it says, but if it is based on my UKIP candidate's page, then that would explain why health propaganda, the smoking ban, and denormalistion is high on the agenda. These are all issues which affect personal freedom and civil liberties and are not, in my opinion, issues that any govt should be concened with. Much of it has only come about because of EU directives and this chap explains far better than I could. An oldie, but still a goodie.
I also know that a lot of the new groundswell of support for UKIP has come from disaffected former Labour supporters who feel like I do that there is something terribly un-British, and unfair, about this fascist type of control over simple lifestyle pleasures. It is more of them that I am trying to reach in a bid to stop them turning to the BNP which, I'm told, they doing in droves in L&H.
I believe that in this election, where the result will be very tight, traditional Tories will vote Conservative. Despite being disappointed by the Party's stance on the EU and immigration, they are too scared of voting UKIP for fear of getting in another Labour Govt. That would bring us to our knees and there would be nothing left to save in another five years' time.
The old Labour supporters, the ones that NuLabour abandoned, are the ones who can really make the difference to UKIP this election. Their concerns are debt, housing, uncontrolled immigration and whether or not they will be able to find jobs where they live. Not everyone wants to take advantage of free movement around the EU. They should have the right to work where they live. They also want to be able to go down to their local and have a pint and a smoke without having to feel like the worst kind of leper ever to inhabit the planet.
This issue is the most important to me because if we are not free to live our lives as we want, then what is the point of freedom? We agree that exclusion is bad but then we deny those that feel excluded the right to complain. We know that bullying is bad, and yet we hold up overweight children for public riducle as examples of how not to be. We know that we have a minority problem of people who behave badly when drunk - yet we make it a state of national emergency and penalise the majority by demonising what they tend to do responsibly.
This kind of social engineering - changing behaviour to get people to live the kind of lives that the state wants - is also very bad for the economy. We have seen the devastation to the pub industry. We will see small shops go out of business, and the associated suppliers of other goods, because of the tobacco display ban - the number one selling product this year. We will see small, local vending machine companies go out of business because of the tobacco vending machine ban.
This election is about taking control back from the state. That control is not just about demanding to have our say on Europe, it is about demanding the choice to live our lives as we want.
There was some comfort to be had despite the ilLibDem surge in the polls last week after leader Nick Clegg's sudden popularity.
The declared "winner" of the first round,in the TV " I can be more boring than you" debate, soon came out and said he would hold a referendum on the EU if his party won the election.
But before anyone starts popping the Champagne corks in celebration that any of the three old parties care what the British people think about this issue, check out this post from Conservative MEP Dan Hannon
It's good to see some Conservatives care as strongly about this as UKIP . Con MEP Roger Helmer recently blogged about how bad for British business the EU is, something UKIP has been saying for a long time.
"Oxcera took a sampling of 1300 large, struggling Europe-based companies and found that nearly 70% of those who didn't receive government aid were able to weather the storm. Of those who received monetary aid from the European Commission nearly a third had failed, compared to the other two thirds that were now surviving through artificial means," Helmer said.
"The standard EU line on corporate assistance is that it "saves jobs and activities which would otherwise disappear". Government intervention can sometimes be an effective support, in the way wooden stilts can hold up a house. Without a proper foundation, however, that inadequate buttress will only prolong the inevitable."
My own view is that the open door migration policy, which is a result of EU membership, is also bad in that it does give British jobs to foreign workers. This came up in the BBC Radio Lincolnshire debate I took part in last week. Louth and Horncastle, for example, would have had many British landworkers in fields and in factories. These jobs are now filled by EU migrants and they are on the dole. I pointed out that while it is true to say that British people have as much right to work in foreign EU countries, many don't want to and they want to work where they live. They should be given that opporutnity. They will not get it if we stay in the EU.
Whatever the voter's view is on membership of the EU, it is time the issue was put to bed. What have the politicians at Westminster to fear by allowing the British people a say in the matter? In or Out? We should decide. No more spin or lies, please, Mr Clegg, Mr Brown or Mr Cameron. We've had enough.
We've seen this video before but just for the sake of balance, let's have Call-Me-Dave in the starring role this time.
If you love Europe and the Queen - vote UKIP. If you want to end up like Eastern Europe, before the wall came down, vote for the Lib/Lab/Con alliance and continued memberhip of an elite, unaccountable organisation, the EU, paid for with £40 million a day of British tax-payers hard earned cash.
Nigel Farage speaking about what Britian needs to do. Well worth watching. He is a man who speaks common sense, simplifies issues, and he has real vision. He does come across well despite the interviewer trying to tie him in knots.
To all my readers, followers, friends, contacts and acquaintances, HAPPY NEW YEAR !
I hope it's a gud 'un. Meanhile I post below a video from Hairy Chestnuts with his New Year message.
I raise my glass of home brewed mulled wine to each and every one of today's social freedom fighters who work for fairness and equality in society.
Here's to you in 2010. At least we'll get our vote in the election. That, I think, is all we can look forward to. Whoever wins won't matter. We are not self ruled anymore anyway. Westminster is now about as powerful as my local parish council.
