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Tuesday, February 17, 2004 

Barnstaple Protest

I call upon my fellow Devonian's, or any others in the area who are able to get to Barnstaple on Thursday morning, to protest on Elisabeth Winkfield's behalf.

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PRESS RELEASE FROM UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY

Monday Feb 16th For Immediate Use

83 year-old summonsed for £98 council tax

Elizabeth Winkfield, of Westward Ho! in North Devon has been summonsed to appear in Barnstaple Magistrate's Court on Thursday 19th February for refusing to pay what she considers to be an unjustified increase in her council tax.

After making an allowance for inflation from the previous year, Elizabeth, who lives alone, has paid her council tax of more than £700, but excluded the excess of £98 above that amount. She argues that her council is guilty of making illegal payments to the SW Regional Assembly
and a SW Brussels office, for which it has no mandate, and that council tax should be only for local services.

The SW Regional Assembly is a voluntary body of self-appointed people pursuing John Prescott's "dream" of regional government, and which has little or no support from the population in the SW, despite Prescott's desire to "bring government closer to the people". It is a government in waiting with no legal authority, and Elizabeth Winkfield believes that it is wrong for her council tax being used to support such a political experiment.

The SWRA levies "subscriptions" from the counties and districts in the SW, and these, together with the costs of the SW Brussels office amount to more than £1 million of council taxpayers money. It now employs 54 full-time staff in Taunton with a wage bill of more than £2 million.

The EU has a programme of fully integrating the regions across the EU, and the regional assemblies are part of that plan - but they have no mandate for taxing 83-year old pensioners, or indeed anyone - yet.

Contact:
John Kelly
UKIP SW Press Office 01395 276130
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posted by Martin |3:10 PM
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