Nigel Farage
UK Independence Party
08th January 2009

Dear Nigel

I often wonder what to put on the UKIP Thanet Website and have decided to pass on some of my thoughts on economic policy especially since Labour has allowed this country of ours to fall in to such disarray.

1. It has been long know to many that the excessive pay rewards and bonuses to executives in this country were disproportionate to the work executives have put in. The papers have been reporting it for years and the Tories were as bad when they governed. Will you therefore ensure that UKIP would address this is some way? My own thought is a higher tax bracket for those earning over say £100k
2. Pay structure in companies too are unfair with the gap between rich and poor increasing. If UKIP were to be given the opportunity to govern could we introduce a guideline that recommends that those at the top of a company do not get paid more than say ten time those at the bottom. I suggest this as no one at my work works harder than I yet those above me may receive wages in excess of 10 times my income. If you take any company in the UK or any other country it success is due to all the team members working together. I would then suggest that any bonuses to be handed out should be shared equally among all employees. An honest government would treat it citizen with fairness it should be the same in the workplace.
3. Sticking with fairness my Father used to say to me when I was little you only get out of life what you put into it. In the UK at the moment UK citizens who have paid taxes and National Insurance, as did their parents before them, are placed at the bottom of many a waiting list as they see foreign Nationals jump the queues. I want to see a system that requires people to have lived and paid taxes for 10 years before they are entitled to full benefits of this country. Each year they work here would entitle them to 10% off the cost of care that may be free to others.

I am aware that you are busy and will not necessarily be able to respond straight away but I would be grateful for a reply at your earliest convenience.

Yours sincerely

T P Cooper.
Member and faithful supporter of UKIP.