UKIP Uncovered

UKIP Uncovered
What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Why UKIP must win Harlepool!

The Land Registry reported yesterday that house prices in neighbouring Middlesborough rose last year by almost 60 per cent, read from here. (Mandelson might make two hundred thousand pounds profit on his Hartlepool house according to one press report!) The lunatics have taken over the asylum!

Who will provide this undeserved windfall to an MP already shamed over undeclared housing loans! Some middle-class family saddled with a huge mortgage debt for twenty-five or thirty years presumably! What local employers pay the salaries to justify such an advance? Not the hospitals, schools or other instititions upon which the any town or community depends! The lunatics have taken over the asylum!

Not everyone in Hartlepool owns a house! But everybody needs a place to live almost to the day we die, so for most single home families the feel good effect of a sixty per cent price hike brings no immediate material benefit - but with it comes fear - the fear of an even steeper price fall - should a family trade-up or scale-down (decisions of how and where to live become a speculative lottery) normal considerations of family size and needs become secondary and nagging doubts over fulfilling the housing needs of those who come behind us loom large! The lunatics have taken over the asylum!

Second-home owners, or multiple home buyers such as our Prime Minister ( remember he and his wife, seeing the direction his government's policies were inevitably leading the country bought not just one flat in Bristol for their student son - but two). Tony Blair, therefore like his crony Mandelson can now directly benefit from his Chancellor's reckless and unsustainable policies. Prudence! Gordon Brown declares as his watchword, while recklessly inflating a market hugely important in the daily lives of all in the nation but deliberately excluded from the inflation indices by which he measures his own performance. The national currency and wealth of the nation is squandered as a result. The lunatics have taken over the asylum!

Take the average MP in Westminster, how many do not own a home? How many - rather own two? How many protests have been heard from Parliament? From overseas I can see the wood from the trees. Although living outside my country for some dozen odd years I have not been absent nor felt apart. Britain is on the brink of chaos! A regular but infrequent visitor perhaps sees this more clearly.

Nothing is what it seems nor works as it should! Ordinary people and ordinary lives used to go something like this - start school- get a job - marry- make a home - raise a family- retire. None of these basic steps is nowadays either sure or secure. Politicians of all three main parties are to blame - pretending to be in control but effectively having abrogated much responsibilty and control elsewhere - the EU is both their excuse and vehicle towards their own greater comfort. The climate of non-accountability among the political classes caused by the EU - spreads into areas still securely within national control.

Thanks to the efforts of Sir James Goldsmith, Britain is not within the Eurozone. Thanks to the common sense of the ordinary people of the nation, who with his lead demanded and obtained - first from the conservatives and then labour, the right to a referendum - an exit zone still exists. Thanks to the hard work and persistence of the anti-EU lobby culminating in UKIP's successes last June, the EU failure is now accepted and acknowledged across the nation.

As the Eurozone economies face collapse and the first signs of civil unrest appear on the Continent (see Ironies post of yesterday, from here,) - the people of Britain must deliver the strongest possible message to all those within Westminster- ' that an urgent return to accountable governance in the country has become a burning necessity'. Reducing the votes of the three main parties to the merest handful at the Hartlepool by-election, especially given the cause for the contest - would seem the most feasible means of getting that message to Westmister. Using the vehicle of a vote for the UK Independence Party candidate would seem the best possible way to make the message crystal clear. The lunatics have taken over the asylum!

The Hartlepool by-election needs fighting on National Survival Issues, as the root cause of our problems lies within the corrupt and non-democratic EU!

posted by Martin |7:39 AM