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by Press Office 30 Apr, 2020
When we, as a nation, experience a crisis, it’s crucial that we pull together. But more essential is that we each do everything we can to help those around us. Whether this is calling a friend, going to the shops for someone in a high-risk category, or even volunteering to help your community. The government may be doing its part on a national scale, but it is up to the individual to offer what they can on a local level. Over the last few weeks, UKIP has been receiving pictures and news from members who are doing their part. Marietta King making hospital scrubs, or Pete Muswell helping out a foodbank, or Interim Leader Pat Mountain organising neighbourhood sing-alongs (as featured in The Argus ), whatever you’re doing, let’s share the positive instead of the negative.  Let’s spread some inspiration. Post a comment or a picture of what you’ve been doing to help out.
by Press Office 11 Dec, 2019
Exeter used to be a small city with a university, now it’s a university with a small city, UKIP election candidate Duncan Odgers has been telling voters. Speaking to electors while campaigning in the city he said it was clear there was growing resentment at the way the university now dominated the city and seemed to get a ‘free pass’ on planning, with skyscrapers and student housing taking over the city centre. He said: “It’s increasingly becoming a tale of two cities, which is perhaps best illustrated by two adjacent building sites: the new multi storey student accommodation at the bottom of Paris Street and the still unfinished bus station.” The massive student block by the Western Way roundabout replaced one of the city’s oldest pubs, the Honiton Inn, which was demolished to make way for the latest in a series of student accommodation developments. Local residents in Exeter have been waiting for decades for a replacement for their chilly out-of-date bus station. Planning permission was granted nearly four years ago and it’s still just a boarded up building site. “The Honiton Inn survived Hitler’s bombs but it couldn’t withstand the influx of foreign and other students,” Duncan said. “Exeter used to be a small city with a university, now it’s a university with a small city. The university has just been allowed to take over and no one is speaking out. “It seems to get a free pass on developments that previously would never have been countenanced in our historic city. And where’s the housing for locals?” Earlier this year, it was revealed that Exeter University Vice Chancellor, Sir Steve Smith, knighted for his services to higher education, could bag himself a whopping £830,000 payout next year in annual pay and bonus package. There are 23,613 students at the university (2018/19) up from 19,586 just four years ago. Of these nearly a fifth are from outside the EU (the students from the EU are included in the remaining 80%). It also emerged a few weeks ago that UK intelligence chiefs are concerned about the growing reliance of universities on Chinese students for income, with growing fears about the theft of research and intellectual property. The warnings from MI5 and GCHQ come as universities have seen an unprecedented rise in Chinese students attending their courses. Numbers have doubled in the last decade. In that time, it’s estimated that 500 Chinese military scientists have attended lectures and study programmes at UK universities. Last week, Duncan Odgers was not invited to an election hustings event held at Exeter University. “Perhaps they were afraid of what I would say,” Duncan said. UKIP’s manifesto includes a pledge to drop ‘the artificial target of 50% of people going to higher education’ introduced by Tony Blair’s Labour administration. Duncan added: “Ben Bradshaw likes to boast that during his time the university has expanded and he brought the Met Office here. It’s no coincidence that his majority has also increased. “Our historic city is being changed out of all recognition and ordinary Exeter folk have been left behind. It’s time for a new direction.”
by Press Office 11 Dec, 2019
UKIP supporters have been proving that distance is no object when it comes to supporting the election cause. Two activists from Wales travelled all the way up to the North East to join candidate Richard Elvin on the campaign trail with the purple battle bus. Richard Elvin, who is standing in the Houghton and Sunderland South constitency, said: "I was absolutely delighted that they made the journey. We've had a great response from people to our battle bus. "This is a strongly Leave-voting area of the country and people are really not happy with the position the Labour Party has taken on the issue of Brexit. "They realise that the only true Brexit is the one UKIP is calling for, not the Bogus Brexit being offered by Boris Johnson and the Conservatives." The deal being touted by Boris Johnson would be a Brexit in Name Only, keeping the UK shackled to Brussels and still paying out billions for the privilege.
by Press Office 11 Dec, 2019
UKIP candidate for Carlisle Fiona Mills joined local Councillor John Denholm at one of his regular community surgery sessions. As a genuine grassroots movement, UKIP has had councillors at local level for years, taking on the big issues that matter to people at a local level. The party has a comprehensive programme for local government, including ending the ‘cabinet’ system of governance which puts too much power in the hands of too few people. UKIP believes in keeping Council Tax low and holding a binding referendum on key local issues like major housing developments and out-of-town supermarkets. Fiona, who is the party’s Health spokesman, said: “UKIP is gaining votes from disillusioned Labour voters here. They voted leave, can't vote Corbyn and won't vote for Boris's Bogus Brexit, or Tory ever, really.”
by Press Office 09 Dec, 2019
UKIP candidate Geoff Bentley has been out campaigning in Romsey in Hampshire at a street stall, talking to voters in the town. “I feel very proud to have been able to provide a real choice in Romsey and Southampton North for those who really want this country out of the European Union,” Geoff said. He was dismayed to find some Brexiteers still willing to back Boris’s bogus Brexit by voting for a Conservative candidate who is an arch Remainer and who voted for the ‘Benn Surrender Act’, preventing a withdrawal from the European Union. This is a Remainer who had the party whip removed for voting against her own Conservative government and against the wishes of the 17.4 million people who voted Leave in the Referendum. She did all this despite promising to honour that result when she stood as a candidate in the 2017 election. “This is why it is so important for me to be standing here in Romsey and Southampton North. I urge all Brexiteers to vote for UKIP in this general election because we need to send a message to any future Government that only a full clean exit from the European Union is good enough,” Geoff added. In the House of Commons a UKIP MP will hold the government's feet to the fire. A UKIP representative would raise every important question without fear, no matter how ‘politically incorrect’.
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