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Our New Year Message

Monday, 31st December 2007

Nigel Farage MEP

A New Year Message from Nigel Farage MEP, leader of the UK Independence Party.

The Prime Minister tells us, "For Britain, 2008 will be a year of real and serious changes", but as we have come to expect from him, he refuses to come clean about the biggest single change that will affect Britain in 2008.

In the spring Mr Brown will force through the ratification of the new European Constitution: A ratification that will occur against the wishes of the people of the United Kingdom and against the manifesto promise of over 90% of MPs in Westminster.

The fact that he has been so dishonest at this time has its own irony, for the 1st of January is the 50th anniversary of the ratification of the Treaty of Rome.

In the coming year we will see another challenge which Brown, Cameron and Clegg have all seen fit to ignore: the very strong likelihood of vast increases in consumer prices.

We could be seeing prices for bread rocketing by up to 100%, massive hikes for meat as the cost of feed goes through the roof and, according to the Campaign for Real Ale a 60% rise in the price of beer.

These increases will hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest: pensioners, the disabled, the unemployed and those working on minimum wages.

Of course these problems are exacerbated by Brussels' Common Agricultural Policy, which was designed to handle surplus and cannot deal with the global shortfall, and the mad dash to environmental policies such as bio-fuels. The latter will take 40% of agricultural land out of food production to satisfy climate change enthusiasts, whilst ignoring the very real problems of the rising cost of day-to-day living.

We in the UK Independence Party will do everything in our power to highlight these dangers. At the same time we will be bringing forward positive policies on trade, defence, criminal justice, housing, healthcare and the environment and others which if adopted will make our country a happier more secure and more prosperous place.

And there is more good news. I will make a prediction that 2008 will be the year that the people of the United Kingdom will wake up to the negative impacts of EU policies and will no longer remain docile in the face of a political class that holds them in contempt.

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