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National Manifesto

1. Independence. We shall return Britain to a self-governing nation with our own laws made in Parliament - as our constitution states. We will revoke the 1972 EEC treaty and replace it with EFTA membership - which is what the British people were told we had signed up to originally. And we'll spend the £52 bn+ annual cost of EU membership on ourselves.

2. Business We will scrap over 120,00 unnecessary regulations and directives that the CBI, FSB, TUC, and others, say harm competitiveness, particularly for small businesses who make up 99% of firms.

3. Income tax. We will set a flat tax rate at £10,000 that gives every worker more in their pocket, stimulates the economy, cuts tax dodging, removes 4.5 million workers from paying tax at all, and helps low earners to escape the benefits trap. We will scrap inheritance tax, period.

4. Health & Education. We will move power from politicians to the health & education professionals, end health tourism by visitors, and free our brightest from study debt. Allow parental choice and reinstate trades vocational training in place of 'social' degree courses.

5. Pensions. We will increase state pensions by £25 a week and reinstate the £5 billion annual pension tax credit stolen by Gordon Brown for his treasury.

6. Housing & Land Space. The UK is already an over-densely populated and grid-locked island with intolerably expensive land and house prices. We will end pointless and counter-productive uncontrolled immigration that depresses wage rates, creates house price inflation, strains infrastructure and social cohesiveness, and furthermore wrecks our environmental and sustainability aspirations to ourselves and the planet.

7. Crime. We will release the police from paperwork to tackle crime again, overhaul the justice system, and end abuse of the courts by ill-considered ‘human rights’ legislation that ignores responsibilities and protects the criminal instead of the victim.

8. Fishing & Farming. We will re-establish our lost marine waters and £2Bn fishing industry by scapping the CFP. We will also scrap the CAP subsidy to French farmers and give our own growers a level playing field, rewarding "green" farmers. We will end plans to plant GM crops and the illegalisation of herbal health remedies.

9. Local Government. Currently 75% of local goverment funding is actually from Whitehall who naturally dictate how it gets spent. We will return financial independence to local government so they can act locally and independently.

10. Trade: We will establish a free trade agreement with the EU, re-embrace today's fast-growing Commonwealth, and whomsoever we see fit to trade with, and free ourselves of EU restrictions to our global trade efforts.

Local Government Manifesto

1. Policing. Make all crime a high priority and end the "it's a waste of time 'phoning Croydon police station" malaise that Croydon enjoys.
2. Wasteful spending. Cut the politically correct non-jobs at the council that cost money but do no good.
3. Prioritise spending. Put important services into first place such as Meals on Wheels, Fire, Police, Health, Schooling etc.
4. Harassment. End the Council's unfair hounding of the motorist. Create more fair car parking spaces.
5. Over-development. Put a stop to ill-conceived tower block projects that bring inner city urban problems into our neighbourhoods.
6. Tax. Replace unfair local council tax with local sales tax.
7. Environment. Maintain the re-cycling, cleanliness, green programmes and parks, and actually improve them - not just talk about it.
8. Civility. Crack down on nuisance neighbours. Praise good neighbourhoods and community groups.
9. Community. Restore priorities to established citizens' needs.
10. Standing up for Croydon. End payment of the Olympics' precept and Greater London Assembly charges that spend your money for no local benefit.

UKIP National Website: www.ukip.org

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!