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Fact of the day

January 27th, 2015 · Comments Off on Fact of the day · Politics

Did you know that if you hold a large seashell to your ear you can hear the deafening silence of UKIP complaining about the London Ambulance Service bringing 175 foreigners into the country to be paramedics, with plans to have another overseas recruitment drive in September.

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Another one bites the dust

September 1st, 2014 · 2 Comments · Politics

It appears that Crawley is now a UKIP-free zone, as our only UKIP councillor resigned on Friday. To be honest, it doesn’t sound like it will make a big difference as he was rarely spotted in the town hall. I suppose he should be congratulated on doing the right thing, eventually. Having spent several years […]

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The circus comes to Clacton

August 28th, 2014 · Comments Off on The circus comes to Clacton · Politics

Today’s ‘shock’ announcement of a Tory MP defecting to UKIP has been a bit of fun for all the non-Tories, but not entirely a shock in some respects. OK, so it wasn’t expected or even hinted at, but once you saw the headline, the identity of the MP in question was far from a shock. […]

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Making Your Mind Up

November 20th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Politics

The Rev John Stanton gets about a bit doesn’t he?  According to the Times he appears on the infamous BNP members list, but before that he had been a local party chairman of the Green party, had spent four years as a Lib Dem councillor, five years as a Tory and before joining the BNP […]

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Feed the World?

July 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Feed the World? · Jane, Politics

Just to show that Skuds isn’t the only one who can use song titles for his posts…. We have been a touch busy recently and, among other things, we spent a very rainy Saturday last week helping the Huddersfield Friends of the Earth Group in their protest against EU Biofuels targets. (I’m holding the % […]

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Local politician banged up

September 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politics

Nobody likes to see a 71-year-old man sent to prison, but when they are an ex-UKIP MEP its a bit harder to find sympathy, especially when they have been flirting with the various far-right groupings in the European Parliament. My favourite bits of the story: Mr Donne said Mote had worked tirelessly for the European […]

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Lancaster UAF

February 6th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Politics

The Lancaster UAF blog has moved onto a Blogspot server. It can now be found at http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/ and is always worth a read. One recent post on there is about Andrew Spence joining the BNP, a story which amused me when I saw it in the papers. It amused me because in the comments on […]

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Vote blue get red, white & blue?

May 15th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics

Fortunately that is not the case everywhere, but there still seems to be a significant number of BNP supporters hiding within the Conservative ranks, as the story of the Rev Robert West shows. In a statement, Mr West said: "I have decided to seek refuge from political correctness by applying for asylum with the British […]

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Election material – UKIP

April 27th, 2005 · Comments Off on Election material – UKIP · Politics

I have been looking at the UKIP leaflet – a single glossy A4 sheet folded in half. The only topics or policies mentioned are withdrawal from the EU and immigration. The candidate’s biography states that his career has been sales and marketing. I hope he does a better job of selling his automotive parts than […]

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Victory for Europe

September 19th, 2004 · Comments Off on Victory for Europe · Life, Politics

So. Europe won the Ryder cup. I am not a big fan of golf. I got a set of clubs for Christmas several years ago and haven’t used them yet except to take a couple off to the pitch & Putt course. But its good to see Europe competing as a team. Because of the […]

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