Around the UK many councils will be having a local election today 1st May 2008. I’m not sure how well UKIP will do in these boroughs and I suspect the success will depend very much on the size of the team of volunteers and how well they have marketed their candidate but whatever the results please take time to look at the UKIP Local Manifesto 2008, www.ukip.org/ukip/

The Local manifesto is good covering Local Taxation, Immigration and much more. I’m going to pick out three points that I like the sound of or not as is the third point.

1. Local Taxes.
It is believed by the financial experts within UKIP that a cut in bureaucracy of just 10% would produced a cut in rates of 40%. I know that sounds hard to believe but the revenue received from the rates is approximately a quarter of its revenue.
2. Immigration.
Introduce proper border controls so we know who is in this country at all times.
Under Labour and the Tories there is no restriction on EU citizens coming into this country. All nations should be treated equally the same and that does mean open the borders but closing them. Assessing all individuals wishing to come here and treating equally. If the individual has been in the British armed services fight along side our soldiers then they have a right to be here. Lets exercise control fairly and tight. This small island of ours has not got the space.
3. Energy and the Environment.
Nuclear Power Station construction; sorry UKIP I still cannot support this. I saw an interesting program that cover the environment around Doonray and I apologise to you purist out there if the spelling is wrong, I will not be checking it. Around the coast 20 miles either side the beaches have radioactive waste on them. It is possible that other beaches are also polluted. But this is not acceptable. The problems are always covered up for many years and I cannot be party to this madness.

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By Trevor Cooper.