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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:31 | Written by Richard Curran |

31 August 2010

Thanks to new rules from Brussels we will soon be prevented from buying “a dozen eggs”. Foreign MEPs have just outvoted our own MEPs and imposed regulations on us, forcing retailers to sell eggs, oranges, bread rolls etc by weight, not by the number contained in the packet. If you think this is crazy, you’re right. It will cost producers £-millions and mean that they need to weigh every box or packet before offering it for sale. Instead of a carton of eggs saying “6 Eggs”, only the weight may be displayed. Showing the amount (i.e.: “6 Cup Cakes”) will be illegal.

Nobly standing up for Britain, the Food Standards Agency said: “It is important that information is provided in a way that is meaningful and beneficial to customers. The issue is still being considered by EU member states and it will be some time before the regulation is finalised.”… Note that they admit that it will be finalised, just not yet.

This is just another example of how British politicians sold us out for Euro Gold. If you want to help the Resistance, perhaps you’ll add this date to your diary. UKIP is holding its annual conference at the Torquay Riviera Conference Centre on Friday 3^rd/Saturday 4^th September 2010. The TV and Press will be there, along with Lord Pearson, Nigel Farage MEP etc. Tickets are £20 for the Friday (£15 for Saturday). It’s open to the public, so everyone’s welcome, even Gordon Brown who’s probably at a loose end right now. Come in, Gordon. Sit down. Fix yourself a drink. You look like you need one...

The Riviera Centre is a great venue, with bars, brasserie, swimming pool, trade area, and main forum. For anyone with an interest in politics, it should be a really entertaining event. Doors open 9.30am on the Friday for 10 o’clock start. Please try to make it if you can. Open to all. Cup cakes will be available singly.

David Challice

UK Independence Party

For more details please FREEPHONE: 0800 587 6587 or visit www.ukip.org

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Last Updated (Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:34)

The view from here

Monday, 23 August 2010 10:09 | Written by Richard Curran |

23 August 2010

It’s very strange. During the mad cow epidemic our government had the technology to trace a cow born three years earlier, tracking its entire history from farmyard to plate. But for years now they have been unable to locate hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who pitched up here looking for work or benefits. Rather than granting them amnesties (the Lib Dem solution) why not just give ‘em a cow?

On a different subject, someone pointed out that as we are determined to give Iraq a new Constitution, why not sell them ours (Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights etc)? We don’t need it anymore, because Brown and Cameron have saddled us with the Lisbon Treaty.

On yet another subject, here’s a date for your diary. UKIP is holding its annual conference at the Torquay Riviera Conference Centre on Friday 3^rd/Saturday 4^th September 2010. The TV and Press will be there, along with Lord Pearson, Nigel Farage MEP etc. Tickets are £20 for the Friday (£15 for Saturday). It’s open to the public, so everyone’s welcome, even Gordon Brown who’s probably at a loose end right now. Come in, Gord. Fix yourself a drink. You look like you need one...

David Challice

UK Independence Party

For more details please FREEPHONE: 0800 587 6587 or visit www.ukip.org

To book a local Torquay hotel, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Last Updated (Monday, 23 August 2010 10:22)

Art...or artillery

Friday, 20 August 2010 13:27 | Written by Rose Smith |

Art...or artillery

LABOUR whined it had no money for Our Boys - while squandering £272,000 on trendy "art" at the Defence Ministry.

More than £350million went on tarting up the MoD while soldiers bought their own boots and pleas for helicopters were snubbed.

Tory defence chief Dr Liam Fox will sell off the weird paintings to benefit Help For Heroes.

Again we see how appallingly Labour lied on defence. Bungling ministers starved troops of kit while pampering Whitehall warriors.

On defence, as in so many areas, Labour's legacy is shameful.

The view from here..

Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:56 | Written by Richard Curran |

19 August 2010

“Good evening. This is David Challice on the news-desk, and now we’ll go across to Germany for the latest developments…. Widespread unrest has been reported across the country as German taxpayers begin to understand the possible disaster facing their economy. In recent mid-term elections the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was punished heavily at the ballot box when voters realised that they were effectively bank-rolling the rest of the eurozone, including the so-called ‘Club Med’ countries, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, all of them in economic meltdown… Our Germany correspondent, Andrew Gilligan, now reports from Westphalia: Good evening, Andrew”.

“Good evening, David. Yes, day after day, week after week, the main German tabloid, Bild Zeitung, has been metaphorically stripping naked the same victim, then pouring cold baked beans over her head. Chancellor Merkel has had probably the worst seven days of her life. The deal she has done was only after repeated prodding by Mrs Merkel’s great European rival, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who reportedly threatened to pull out of the euro. ‘We are again the idiots of Europe!’ shrieked Bild, which has the power of the Daily Mail, The Sun, and the Mirror added together, and whose official slogan can be broadly translated as: ‘We think up your opinions so you don’t have to’.”

“So what’s the mood on the streets, Andrew?”

“Well, one of those I interviewed was Hendrick Bohmig, in the attractive old town square of Bielefeld. He told me: ‘Greece is only the first state that is going down, the next one will follow very soon and Germany will end up paying for them all. People don’t realise what’s coming. When their kindergarten closes to pay for Greece, people will go on the streets’… Mr Bohmig sells BMWs. When the luxury car salesmen start talking about taking to the streets, you know you have a problem.”

“Thank you, Andrew. And now, it’s across to Sharon and Tracy for the weather.”

David Challice

UK Independence Party

For more information FREEPHONE: 0800 587 6587 or visit www.ukipsw.org

Last Updated (Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:58)

Is Sir Phillip the right one to wield P45 axe?

Monday, 16 August 2010 09:34 | Written by Rose Smith |

Is Sir Phillip the right one to wield P 45 axe ?

Sir Philip Green (billionaire) has been given the job of handing out P45s to low-paid public sector workers.

Sir Philip, a retail tycoon who owns the Bhs and Topshop chains, will lead a review of Whitehall spending before George Osborne wields the axe in the autumn.

The fashion mogul has a reputation for lavish birthday parties – one rumoured to have cost £5m – and a complex tax arrangement which sees his Monaco-based wife, Tina, owner of his company Arcadia.

All of this sits uneasily alongside the sort of cuts that many fear will hit the poor hardest.

Vince Cable, Lib Dem Business Secretary, a fierce critic of tax loopholes, was not consulted about the appointment.

This overshadows Nick Clegg's big moment of being " in charge " as Deputy Prime Minister, including a speech on Wednesday on social mobility

Sir Philip defended his tax affairs, denying his wife was a tax exile and insisting his companies had paid £300m to £400m in taxes on profits in five years. " I'm a UK taxpayer. I work here every week. We employ 45,000 people in the UK and we have got a £500 m payroll."

But Richard Murphy, director of Tax Research UK, estimates that Sir Philip saved £285 m in tax by paying a £1.2 bn dividend in 2005 direct to his wife. Mr Murphy said: "I'm not disputing for a moment that Sir Philip Green is a first-rate retailer of cheap fashion. But, with respect to those who appointed him, what do they think this has to do with the appraisal of govt spending ? "

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