ELECTORAL TOP GEAR

Below is an article from this week's Wigan observer which highlights our push in Wigan and Leigh. The picture of me is at least 5 years old and although I have not improved with age and look a bit scruffy there, I was at the time working full time as a farmer and thus in my work clothes
One thing the picture does show on close inspection, I was wearing a Wigan Rugby League tee shirt so my claim to be a true Wiganer is borne out by the photo.

We have had a very busy week organising candidates and preparing our election campaign. Deposits have had to be given out to candidates over the North West and now it is leaflet time.

Fortunately we have had offers of help and we should be able to manage to put up a fair show in this mammoth task.

Parliamentary leaflets have been printed paid for out of local funds and will be delivered by the Post Office. These are the best we have produced and will lift our profile.

Our three parliamentary candidates are campaigning on our local origin. We have not been imposed on the area from on high in an effort to gain politiclly correct "diverse" MPs as our representitives.

This week I had a leaflet from the Tory candidate for Makerfield. An attractive looking woman but her name shows she is not of English descent. She will not be able to empathise with our concerns . She is at the bottom of the greasy Tory pole trying to shin up to power in that sham party which is trying to demonstrate its "diverse" credentials to the electorate.

She will not get in of course but it will make Cameron look good with his multiculti Metropolitan elite.

The Labour candidate, in line for a cosy job for life she hopes is also not local and has had her leaflets printed in Essex. No doubt she is on line with New labour and PC.

Wiganers and Leythers do NOT want to be diverse nor be used by the elite of the bigger parties to further their policies.

We need and want local people who have a bond to our area and will work to reverse the neglect of several decades. That is why I am standing for Wigan.

I believe in Wigan AND WILL DO THE JOB FOR NOTHING. I want to put something into Wigan, NOT TO MILK THE TOWN.

Yes I can afford to do so but so can many MPs in all parties BUT THEY DONT.

Do these other candidates really care about our town? I doubt it.

WELL I DO, and I'm putting my money where my mouth is.

UK IMMIGRATION - REUTERS INDIA

Here are some facts about inward migration in Britain, the policies of the main political parties and those of minor ones, like the anti-immigration British National Party (BNP), whose resurgence analysts say could erode support for the big three parties in some areas.

MAKING SENSE OF THE FIGURES

* The Office of National Statistics (ONS) says net inward migration to the UK is up threefold since Labour came to power. It increased from 48,000 per year in 1997 to 163,000 per year in 2008. New entrants peaked at 237,000 in 2007 before falling back.

* According to a London School of Economics (LSE) pre-election report, 10.2 percent of Britain's population is foreign-born (based on OECD 2007 figures).

* LSE report says inward flows have fallen since 2006, and from late 2008 the pool of immigrants has shrunk due to the recession.

* Migrants from Central and Eastern Europe from countries that joined the European Union in 2004 fell 32 percent in the year to June 2009 (ONS).

* Interior ministry (Home Office) says asylum applications dropped 30 percent in the final quarter of 2009 compared with the last quarter of 2008.

* Home Office says provisional figures show 30 percent more people were allowed to settle in the UK in 2009 versus 2008.

* Pool of immigrants has risen in all regions, but most in London followed by West Midlands and Greater Manchester (LSE).

* Immigrants made up 39 percent of London's population in 2009 (LSE).

* Migrants are arriving from more countries than ever before, with the most coming from Poland, India and Pakistan, followed by South Africa and the United States (LSE).

* An LSE report commissioned by the Mayor of London estimated there were 725,000 illegal immigrants in the UK in 2007.

* UK (with 10.2 percent) has a lower share of foreign-born people than Australia (25 percent), Germany (12.9 percent) or the United States (13.6 percent).

And look at how the British are portrayed.
As Ignorant illiterates

"* Immigrants are on average more educated than their UK-born counterparts. More than half of the UK-born workforce left school at 16 or earlier, but fewer than one in six new immigrants stopped education at 16 (LSE study)."

And how they compare Britain (an Island) to Australia (an Continent)

"* UK (with 10.2 percent) has a lower share of foreign-born people than Australia (25 percent), Germany (12.9 percent) or the United States (13.6 percent)."

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-47754720100416?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true

for complete story please click anywhere on the above.

THE THREE STOOGES

As you know I take a keen interest in politics, I must do otherwise I would not be doing this blog.
The much awaited televised debate last night turned out to be even more boring than I thought, so boring that I fell asleep half way through, a first for me in a political programme.
The three lightweight leaders waffled on with their usual platitudes while failing to answer any serious questions.

On immigration there was no mention that it must STOP if we are to remain a British country and not become a minority in our own land.
If occasionally we need a foreign expert he could come on a work permit and go home when his job finished.
Talk about reducing numbers and counting them in and out misses the point.

They talked about the NHS and how immigrants were important to the running of the service.It didn't say much about decades of Labour and Tory education when they seem unable to train care assistants, nurses and doctors, but Africa can?

The claim by Brown that you could get for the first time a GP appointment in the evening is laughable and shows how far he is removed from reality.
When I was working we were always available from 8 AM until 8 PM and had Saturday surgeries. Now we must rely on foreign doctors with little English and dodgy qualifications.

Clegg on class sizes says they want to reduce them to under 20.
When I was at primary school we had 35 per class in old buildings were well taught with good teachers and DISCIPLINE.
It's not the buildings or class sizes but the teachers and discipline which count most.
Cameron stating that his children go to state schools, (yea for now) and the best ones he can find, not the local "bog standard" local comp that most have to put up with.

On the economy no real mention on how to cut the deficit to a meaningful degree. No mention of the cost of illegal wars, the EU ,the spiralling cost of foreign aid and asylum.
He thinks increasing National Insurance is putting into the economy. No Gordon, you are NOT the economy. Leave the money in people's and industries pockets. These are the REAL economy and what we need to pull us out of the mire he has created. Higher taxes stifle the economy.
Clegg's "idea" to cut taxes for the low paid is old BNP policy.

I did hear Clegg say that he would scrap our nuclear deterrent saving £2.5 billion per year.
Does he not realise that is the reason we fear North Korea and potentially Iran? They are or will be nuclear powers. A nuclear deterrent is a last resort, hopefully never to be used but an insurance policy against those who would attack us.

I'm sorry I can't go into more detail about this uninspiring "debate" as I was dozing most of the time and then fell asleep.
Who needs sleeping tablets when these three stooges are on telly.

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