Today’s first letter is from our contributor Ceri Jayes who asked us to wait with publication so as not to hinder its publication in the local press:
Sir,
I have forwarded this letter to the South Devon press on the evening of 6th August. Publication day should have been Friday 10th August. The Gazette series had first dibs but didn’t publish it last Friday. But: jungle drums tell me that there are Sarah Wollaston themed letters being published this coming Friday:
“Sir
Maybe I was too hasty in my criticism of Sarah Wollaston’s lack of awareness of the employment opportunities that leaving the EU offers to us in South Devon.
Our MP’s intransigence and our Prime Minister’s dithering have led to the UK Independence Party Head Office in Newton Abbot recruiting new staff to handle a flood of new members’ applications.
If this was Sarah’s plan to boost local employment it’s working like a dream.
Ceri Jayes, Chairman, Totnes Branch UKIP”
This letter can now be published on UKIP Daily.
Respectfully, Ceri Jayes
Our reader Richard West sent in this letter in which he appeals to readers to email our PM:
Sir,
Brexit really must mean a full English Brexit! Only UKIP will keep and deliver the promises made by the British Government and give back freedom to the British people.
David Davis’s need to resign as Brexit Secretary, followed by the resignation of Steve Baker and Boris Johnson, highlights that the Government cannot be relied upon to implement the will of the British people to fully leave the European Union.
Your vote with UKIP in the 2016 referendum has changed Great Britain and the world forever. Make sure now that the change really is for the better, with decisions made solely by the British Government and not by the EU.
Great Britain and UKIP now needs your vote again in the increasingly imminent general election, to win at least twenty seats in Parliament and hold the essential balance of power in the Brexit final negotiations.
UKIP are the only political party that promises that Brexit really will mean Brexit, no matter what Prime Minister Theresa May says to the European Union.
The British people voted to get their freedom back! Theresa May needs to know that the British people will not stand and do nothing but fight back before allowing members of parliament not to carry out the will of the British people.
Please email Prime Minister Theresa May at https://email.number10.gov.uk stating that you will vote UKIP at the next general election if she does not deliver the Brexit promised by the Government at the time of the 2016 referendum.
No deal with the European Union is better than a bad deal. The British people do not want to make any payment to the EU. Great Britain must be allowed to make its own trade deals, make our migration policy and make our own laws. No compromises. World Trade Organisation terms or a comprehensive free trade agreement for goods and services are needed if countries are to successfully do business with the fifth largest economy in the world.
Brexit really must mean a full English Brexit and not the otherwise likely pig’s breakfast it is fast becoming!
Respectfully, Richard West, Chairman, UKIP Canterbury Branch.
Our star correspondent Roger Arthur sent in the following letter, addressing the fiscal problems on our High Streets:
Sir,
An article in the Sunday Telegraph recommended cutting business rates for Small to Medium Size enterprises (SMEs) such as High Street retailers.
But Chancellor Hammond discounted that, because Local Authorities have seen Government grants reduced substantially and they need the income. A review of the Laffer principle might help to concentrate his mind because he risks killing off many businesses, thereby recovering even less revenue.
SMEs have suffered from increased utility costs, while accommodating increased (living) wages and onerous regulations. They are competing with online retailers who often avoid UK taxes, by nominating EU centres such as Dublin, Luxembourg and Malta as where they want to pay tax – which is facilitated by EU free movement of capital.
That is of course one of the four freedoms, which the EU refuses to negotiate on. If the UK can regain some control of capital flight and limit the tax avoidance loss, then Mr Hammond might avoid killing the golden SME goose altogether.
But that depends on whether the PM continues to make concessions to the EU, or whether this is just another red line which will turn pink. The impact is far from insignificant as indicated in a 2013 DT article, which put the tax avoidance loss at over £100 billion pa. Let’s hope that the PM grasps that.
Respectfully, Roger Arthur
According to Bryan I am a snowflake now. Yet another comment he wont put his name to on this site. How very sad one has to resort to insults to make a point. I voted conservative once, but at least I am out there every day campaigning on behalf of UKIP and running street stalls, unlike some who just choose to moan without actually doing anything.
For the benefit of Bryan who has chosen not to have his reply to me included on this site. You just don’t get it and will never get it, it seems. UKIP will not form the government anytime soon whether we like it or not. Last year, we were faced with a choice, either bite our tongue and vote for a party that we wouldn’t ordinarily consider but had the best chance of securing Brexit, namely the conservatives, or vote for the other two parties namely Labour and the Liberal Democrats who would have done everything in their power to tie us into the EU for ever. Yes, I gave Theresa May the benefit of the doubt, but at least they eventually triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and made a half attempt to extricate ourselves from the EU. I wonder whatou did Bryan, just moaned perhaps, like you do all the time without providing any real answers. Am I having a laugh, no I am not……………
I always vote UKIP when UKIP stand a candidate because I’m a UKIP member. That’s how it works Colin.
I certainly would not vote for a Tory Remain MP in a Tory Remain Government because “I trusted them”…….rolls around floor clutching sides.
I wrote BREXIT NOW in big red capital letters on the ballot sheet when no UKIP candidate stood in the local elections.
In answer to your gripe. If I read positivity I try to add positivity and offer agreement and/or policy ideas to move UKIP up the voting league.
If I read nonsense that I disagree with I’ll let the person know. It’s how discussions and debating works. Sorry snowflake, your hurt feelz are your problem.
I have received a bit of a bad reaction from two subscribers. One votes Tory and has helped Theresa May stall Brexit and the other thinks promoting links reminding voters of historical UKIP problems is the way forward.
I believe in both cases I am correct.
I can only speak for myself, but in recent years (at least 15 years) I have only ever voted for UKIP. However last year in the general election, I broke that trend and voted conservative, only because Theresa May was starting to talk the talk and saying things like ‘Brexit mean Brexit’ and so on and so forth. We all know that the one political party that had the capacity to get this through parliament was indeed the conservative party and gave them the benefit of the doubt I mean I didn’t really trust her at all, bearing she was an abysmal Home Secretary and my local MP (Tom Tugendhat) campaigned for the ‘Remain’ side during the run up to the referendum, even though ‘Leave’ won by a margin of 8%. However, true to past form she has been an absolute disaster and has betrayed all those who lent her and her inept party our vote. Never EVER again will this occur. They had their chance and spectacularly blew it. In fact the Conservatives are no longer conservative at all, but more like a Social Democrat party. My branch Tonbridge and Malling held a street stall 3 weeks ago and we had at least 40 people coming up to the stall alone, stating how they had all voted conservative all their lives, and felt utterly betrayed by Theresa May and the conservative party as a whole, and would never vote for them again. Since then we in Kent have held streets stalls in Gravesend and Chatham and will be holding another in Dartford this coming Saturday, and then Tonbridge again on Saturday 25th August 2018 I will never need to be reminded not to cast my vote for the conservative party. It will not happen. I have to say we have had a very positive response to the street stalls we have held in Kent so far, and met with very little negativity. The challenge for UKIP now, is how to harness this fluid vote in its favour. We must hold Theresa May and her traitorous government to account on a daily basis, and I mean on a daily basis, until we get the Brexit we all voted for back in 2016.
You’re a UKIP member that voted for a Tory Remainer MP in a Tory Remain Government.
You’re having us on for a laugh ?
Bryan, you are obviously new to this. If you had been around last year you would have seen that half the members of every branch across the country voted tory, and in at least a third of branches they decided not to even put a candidate up against tories. And I am talking about committee members and activists, not the ‘members’ who you never see.
The point you are unable to comprehend from my comment is that it is ridiculous for a UKIP member, especially one like myself that has stood for election, to vote for a Tory Remainer in a Tory Remain Government.
Ps, not new to this. I frequent various sites, blogs and forums and have been for decades. I have also done more than my fair share of leafletting and Street stalls. I don’t like canvassing so I don’t do it.
I fully comprehend your point. I suggest you must be new to UKIP as you don’t seem to have lived through the experience of the last GE. If you had, you would know that most branches were split in two between committee members and activists who advocated a ‘vote tory’ or ‘don’t stand’ strategy, and people who stayed loyal to UKIP. I.e. half of UKIP members, including the most committed, decided to vote Tory remainer in the hope that the tories overall would deliver brexit and to avoid socialism. Another huge chunk of constituencies didn’t put candidates up for the same reason, aided by the general confusion of the message coming from HQ at the time. If you don’t understand this then you haven’t been paying attention. It was about achieving Brexit and avoiding socialism, not wasting a vote.
Almost the same here, always voted Con mostly while holding nose, but had no choice the last but one election, as UKIP candidate stood no chance, so it was a case of vote Con just to keep out the Lab candidate who was marginally worse than the useless Con. At the last election I just ‘spoiled’ the paper ( no UKIP). Mostly the people I know won’t vote or say they won’t vote for the LAB/CON artists again. Next election is going to be interesting!
Sir Humphrey explains Brexit:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/aug/07/yes-minister-brexit-eu-jonathan-lynn-sir-humphrey
Thanks Spon! Two years since first published but still superbly relevant.
No wonder I hadn’t seen it, the Guardian……….I wouldn’t pay out good money to read that leftie rag. I have just given up reading the Daily Express and turned to the Daily Mail for a week, until I read an online by one of their incompetent journalists that Henry Bolton was the UKIP leader. Some gullible people out there will believe that tripe.
Same here, just dumped the Express, having dumped the Mail and MOS along with the Telegraph, BBC and SKY, the local so called ‘newspapers’ are also just comics written by ill informed incompetents, reading the ‘comments Section’ I can see why these people are employed, I can’t make up my mind if the readers are at the level of the ‘journalists’ or the other way round, either I no longer read or listen to the childish inaccurate rubbish they turn out.
Inread the Mail because a lot of voters read it…
Yes, you may just as well read the tea leaves at the bottom of your cup each morning. More chance of reading the truth there. There is one thing worth reading in the Daily Express and that is Rupert Bear and his Adventures. Just about the only thing going for it these days.
Who says I paid good money, or indeed ANY money to read it? ?
Hammond and Laffer Principle: It speaks volumes of Spreadsheet Phil that when asked about issues of High Street retailers against internet sales is that all he could propose was additional taxation … on internet sales!
Ont thing that would help would be to return to the original principle of rating which was to base the rateable value of a commercial property on the rent which could be achieved. With the state of the High Street at present, so many empty or charity shops the rents achievable are now down through the floor.This should trigger a revision in the rateable values.
I don’t expect Hammond to understand this because he is just a lackey in the hands of the civil servants somewhat like his mistress, Treason May, who is being run by Ollie Robbins.
One wonders, have we ever been governed before by people of such towering ignorance?
He was just the same when he was the Secretary of State for Transport, he was going to change everything! End result? Wasn’t he in Insurance or something?
the only answer to the internet massacre of the high street, as the EU fully understand, is to repeal the retail price maintenance act, which ted heath was forced to sign by de gaul, as a condition. There were two different perspectives The British one of competition between manufacturers to reduce prices and the continental one of competition between retailers. Matters of geography, transport, financial and focus.
Apparently ignored, misunderstood, or unknown to economists