Over
the last 60 years, the Labour-Tory consensus has been to
build a “Big State” at the expense of the liberty
of the individual. We are now more regulated than ever before,
less free than ever before to make our own decisions, saddled
with a bloated “client state” , taxed to the
hilt to pay for it and as a result less and less competitive.
Abroad,
both parties have agreed to imprison Britain in the supra-national
Empire, controlled by the French and Germans - the European
Union - noted for its corruption and opposition to democracy
(witness its recent bypassing of the 2005 Dutch and French
referenda against the EU constitution) These
policies have been imposed on us undemocratically, and
in particular are opposed by the
vast majority of the rank and file of the Tory party,
whose Leadership, except for a short period in the 1980s,
has systematically betrayed what used to be fundamental
Tory principles.
People
have now become disillusioned with the lack real choice
, and so are refusing to vote in larger and larger numbers.
At the last General Election, despite the frantic expansion
of postal voting, only 61% of us voted, and Labour, the
Governing party, secured the votes of barely one-fifth
of the registered electorate. Some mandate! Some
of us are beginning to support alternative political
parties. Which to choose?
The
UK Independence Party, founded in 1993, is the only REAL
alternative . Why ?
It
pledges to make Britain an independent state once more,
removing it from the political control of the European
Union whilst retaining free trade with it, in common
with other non-EU states such as prosperous Norway and
Switzerland. At
home our watchwords are individual liberty and a State
sector which is as small as possible. No other “alternative” offers
this.
We
shall renew our formerly close links with the Commonwealth
and strengthen our bond with the United States, with
whom we have far more in common than our continental
neighbours. No other “alternative” offers
this.
The
Liberal Democrats are the “alternative” the
Labour and Tory parties love you to vote for. |
The
Liberal Democrats always present themselves as
the “alternative”. They are indeed
the “approved” alternative but are
no different from the big two in any material way.
When push comes to shove they will always support
the Labour-Tory consensus on important issues,
and often seem neither Liberal nor Democratic.
For
example, in March this year, when they had the
opportunity to make a real difference and force
a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, in line with
their own election promise in 2005, they chose
to break their promise, and so enable Labour
to deny to the people a referendum on whether
or not we should be an independent country.
The
Liberal Democrats are the “alternative” the
Labour and Tory parties love you to vote for.
The Liberal Democrats always present themselves
as the “alternative”.
They are indeed the “approved” alternative
but are no different from the big two in any
material way. When push comes to shove they will
always support the Labour-Tory consensus on important
issues, and often seem neither Liberal nor Democratic.
For example, in March this year, when they had
the opportunity tomake a real difference and
force a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, in line
with their own election promise in 2005, they
chose to break their promise, and so enable Labour
to deny to the people a referendum on whether
or not we should be an independent country.
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What
of the Greens ? All of us care about the environment.
It is common sense to be anti-pollution and anti-waste.
For example , UKIP opposes the imposition of the
dangerous incinerator – like the one proposed
at Capel – which is the EU-approved method
of waste disposal, at the expense of Britain’s
very successful and less polluting landfill sites.
But
what we have seen in recent years is the appearance
of a strident aggression in the Environmental
movement and an intolerance of any view which
opposes its conviction, despite the absence of
scientific proof, that the world is heading towards
doomsday. This movement, well funded, is supported
by the Green party.
Until
their convictions can be proved, it is quite
simply undemocratic and irresponsible to subject
this country and the World to the sort of taxes
and measures now being imposed in the name of
unproven science : the landscape despoiled by
ugly and ineffective wind-farms ( how does this
reconcile with the protection of the environment
?) ,“Green” taxation in many forms,
harming the economy and a convenient excuse for
HMG to tax us even more , targets for reducing
carbon dioxide which will hinder economic growth. Indeed,
only this month, the UK Hadley Centre, formerly
a bastion of the Al Gore School of warming “theory”,
confirmed the absence of any direct causal link
between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration
and average global temperature.
The
Global Warming Juggernaut must be stopped before
it does more damage to the economy for no good
reason. Regular
warming and cooling periods have occurred throughout
the Earth’s history ; there is no
conclusive proof that the current warm period
is anything unusual. For example, we know that
in the early Middle Ages, during the mediaeval
warm period, vines were grown in Northumberland.
Researchers have discovered that in past ice
ages, atmospheric carbon dioxide was at much
higher levels than today
One
senses that, just as the Left has exploited “social
injustice” to achieve other political ends,
the cause of Environmentalism and “Climate
Change” has today been embraced by people
with wider political motives. If the pro-EU Green
Party does have a wider agenda, which it claims
to, what is it?
One
gets a clue when one looks behind its carefully
groomed “cuddly” façade to
find slogans such as “One world; One chance”.
Peter
Lindsay
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