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Weak and powerless local councils
Today, local councils have no real power. They have to do what they are
told by central government and the EU - looking after the interests of
their local communities comes last. Only the UK Independence Party
believes in true local independence from Whitehall interference. This
manifesto sets out UKIP’s vision of how this should be done:
* Independence for local councils, schools, police, hospitals,
social care and planning.
* Independence for local people to decide local issues in referendums.
* Independence to spend local money the way local people want.
* Independence from the costs and interference of the European Union.
Local taxes - Independence for local councils over finances
Council tax has risen dramatically over the past few years, hitting
pensioners in particular. Councils control just a quarter of their
funding needs - the rest comes down from central government, with
strings attached. A vast amount of money is wasted on bureaucracy and
politically-correct jobs without the public ever being consulted.
* Slash council tax by 40%.
* Since Council Tax forms less than a quarter of councils’ budgets,
our war on waste and bureaucracy cutting council spending by just
10% is enough to give the public a 40% reduction in Council Tax.
* Give local councils majority control over their finances by
letting them keep local business rates and by replacing VAT with a
simpler Local Sales Tax, with a proportion going direct to local
councils.
Immigration - Independence for Britain to take back control
Under European Union law, anyone from other EU countries can live in
Britain. EU rules also govern how we deal with asylum seekers. The
system is overwhelmed and too many newcomers are settling here - our
housing, NHS, schools and services can’t cope with the scale of
immigration..
* Introduce proper border controls so we know who is in the country
at all times.
* Freeze permanent immigration for 5 years to let the authorities
catch up with the backlog of cases.
* Ensure that our own UK government determines who can stay, not the
European Union.
* Deport all illegal immigrants; give work permits only for those
with skills that our economy needs.
* Fair, compassionate treatment for law-abiding people who are
genuinely fleeing persecution or torture.
Local democracy - Independence for local decision making
Local councils rely on government funding and obey government orders
rather than listening to those who pay the council tax. And more and
more functions of councils including planning are being taken over by
unelected EU-inspired regional bodies.
* Let local people call a binding referendum on any major local
issue, such as planning schemes.
* Dismantle regional government and return powers to county and
borough councils.
* Reform the ‘cabinet’ system of local government for greater
representation and transparency.
Crime - Independence for local policing
There are more police officers today than ever before but violent crime
is getting worse. Our police are hamstrung by politically correct rules
and bureaucracy, and our courts can’t sentence properly because there
are not enough prisons.
* Elect police chiefs and make police forces accountable to local
authorities for policing priorities.
* Leave our police free to arrest criminals instead of filling in
forms, and retain local police stations.
* Ensure stricter sentencing and zero tolerance of antisocial
behaviour and petty crime.
* Build enough prisons urgently and make sure those who are a danger
to the public stay locked up.
Transport - Independence for local decision-makers
Public transport needs to be more attractive and responsive to local
needs, and there’s gridlock on the roads. Over- zealous traffic
enforcement is used merely to raise funds.
* Improve local control and management of public transport - rail
and bus.
* Rule out satellite vehicle pricing and oppose privatisation of
parking facilities.
* Oppose new speed cameras which do not cut accidents, and use
traffic calming measures instead.
Housing - Independence for local planning
The government claims that two million homes must be built to solve the
housing shortage, yet most of this demand arises from immigration.
Hardworking local people find it increasingly difficult to afford decent
housing.
* Genuine independence for local planning - no more overriding by
remote appeal bodies.
* Restore proper controls on immigration to ease the demand for housing.
* Crack down on nuisance neighbours and repair council housing to
restore civic pride.
Education - Independence for headteachers
Continuous central government interference in schools prevents them
doing their job properly. Teachers are forced to put paperwork, targets
and bureaucracy ahead of pupils and 1 in 4 leave primary school unable
to read and write.
* Give independence to headteachers over teaching, examinations and
discipline.
* Scrap useless paperwork and trust teachers to do their jobs;
oppose the closures of special schools.
* Encourage competitive school sports, playing fields and school trips.
Health and Social Care - Independence for local providers
Our hospitals and vital health services are at real risk. Services for
patients and the elderly are being tied up in too much red tape and
central interference, and they are being starved of cash.
* Save hospital services, manage hospitals locally, and make
decision makers responsible to local people.
* Improve services for the elderly and remove unnecessary bureaucracy.
* Create more residential home places and resist increases in home
care charges.
* End the practice of forcing the elderly to sell their house to pay
for a spouse’s residential home care.
Energy and the Environment - Independence for British energy supplies
Britain is increasingly dependent on energy supplies from Russia.
Today’s wind turbines are unreliable and unsightly, and the climate
change doomsday theorists prioritise reducing CO2 emissions but ignore
other environmental issues.
* Protect the Green Belt and use central brown field sites for
future developments.
* Build nuclear and hydroelectric power plants to make Britain
cleaner and self-sufficient in energy.
* Keep recycling local - stop damaging the environment by sending
waste to China for recycling.
UKIP and independence
Although known for its commitment to withdrawing the UK from the
European Union, UKIP is in reality a much broader nationwide party
campaigning to return power and independence to the people.
UKIP already has local councillors, 2 members of the House of Lords and
9 Members of the European Parliament who do not think it right that most
new UK laws now come from unelected Brussels bureaucrats. The same
principles apply at local level: only by returning power to the people
from unaccountable bureaucrats and restoring representative democracy
can things change.
UKIP POLICIES IN BRIEF - Wednesday, 09 April 2008
UKIP will leave the political EU and trade globally and freely. We will re-embrace today’s fast-growing Commonwealth and we will encourage UK manufacturing so that we make things again.
We will freeze immigration for five years, speed up deportation of up to a million illegal immigrants by tripling the numbers engaged in deportations, and have ‘no home no visa’ work permits to ease the housing crisis.
We will have a grammar school in every town. We will restore standards of education and improve skills training. Student grants will replace student loans.
We will radically reform the working of the NHS with an Insurance Fund, whilst upholding the ‘free at the point of care’ principles. We will bring back matrons and have locally run, clean hospitals.
We will give people the vote on policing priorities, go back to proper beat policing and scrap the Human Rights Act. We will have sentences that mean what they say.
We will take 4.5 million people out of tax with a simple Flat Tax (with National Insurance) starting at £10,000. We will scrap Inheritance Tax, not just reform it and cut corporation taxes.
We will say No to green taxes and wind farms. To avert a major energy crisis, we will go for new nuclear power plants on the same existing site facilities and for clean coal. We will reduce pollution and encourage recycling.
We will make welfare simpler and fairer, introduce ‘workfare’ to get people back to work, and a new citizens pension and private pensions scheme insurance.
We will support our armed forces with more spending on equipment, military homes and medical care. We will save our threatened warships and add 25,000 more troops.
We will be fair to England, with an English Parliament of English MPs at Westminster. We will replace assembly members like MSPs with MPs. And we will promote referenda at local and national levels.
We will make customer satisfaction number one for rail firms – not cost cutting and will look seriously at reopening some rail lines that Beeching closed. We will make foreign lorries pay for British roads with a ‘Britdisc’ – and we will stop persecuting motorists.
Last, but never least, we will bring in fair prices and fair competition for our suffering farmers, and restore traditional British fishing and territorial waters.
19 April 2008
Gordon Brown Out By Christmas?
Bookmakers William Hill are offering odds of 20/1 that Gordon Brown will not be the British Prime Minster by the end of the year and also offer just 6/1 that he will not lead Labour into the next General Election.......
For the first time, there is expected to be significant interest in the performance of UKIP (UK Independence Party) in the next General Election. UKIP are the only main political party to have stated in their manifesto that they intend to repeal the smoking ban. As a result, many of the UK's huge base of smokers who have seen their local pubs, clubs, casinos and bingo halls empty almost overnight as a result of the smoking ban are expected to switch loyalties to UKIP.
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Last Update August 13th 2008