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Power to local people

A message from Nigel Farage MEP, Leader of UKIP

Nigel Farage MEPParty Leader

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Why vote for UKIP in your local elections?Because UKIP stands for bringinggovernment back to where it belongs –with the people. We believe in power forlocal people over the councils, and forlocal councils over central government.

Elected councillors should put theircommunities, not party politics, first.Important local issues should be put tobinding local referendums; and above all,councils should be there to serve theircommunities, not just spend their money.

Today, local government is under attack.Central government insists that councils cutspending. Greedy council executives paythemselves huge salaries while slashingfront-line services, libraries, publictransport and road repairs. The politically-correct brigade go on creating non-jobswhile cutting care for the elderly andvulnerable.

Meanwhile the long arm of the EU isincreasingly reaching beyond Westminster,into the Town Halls and Council Chambers.If you want to know just how much the EUnow controls local government, please visitwww.ukip.org

Increasingly, UKIP is recognised as theparty with an honest, fresh approach togovernment at all levels: that's why asteady stream of local councillors havecome over to us this year.

Almost a million people voted UKIP in thelast general election, and we now havecouncillors all over the country,demonstrating what UKIP stands for inlocal government: taking responsibility,saving money, getting our sleeves rolled upand serving the people.



Democracy first, We, the people shall rule

We will� Empower local people by giving you the right to call

binding referendums on local issues.

� Let you, the people, decide major planning schemeslike supermarkets, wind farms, large housingdevelopments and major transport schemes like HS2.

� Grant no right of appeal for developers from thepeople’s decisions on planning schemes.

� Introduce election for county health, education andpolice boards. UKIP will give you the power to decidehow your health service, police and schools are run.

� Expect your councillors to put the people’s needs first,ahead of party dogmas.

� Make councils, schools, police, hospitals, planning andsocial care put local people first.

� Keep central government out of local government.

� Let councils control their own finances by keeping halfof local business rates.

� Give councils the power to reduce local business rates,in order to stimulate growth in the local economy.

Council services:No front-line cuts

To maintain and improve front-line council services

We will

� Halt all cuts to front-line council services.

� Keep police on the beat to protect the people from anti-social behaviour.

� Improve care for the elderly.

� Develop youth services.

� Maintain the roads properly.

� Give rates relief to local businesses.

� Increase provision of free parking.

� Invest in high-quality state education.

� Scrap council non-jobs.

� Close unnecessary central government departmentsand quangos.

� Preserve our public libraries.

� Improve public transport.

� Energise the voluntary sector.

� Devolve budgets, not burdens.

To pay for these commitments

We will

� Cut councillors’ allowances and expenses.

� Slash fat-cat pay deals for senior council staff.

� Limit the number of high-paid council employees.

� Restrict councils’ advertising andself-promotion budgets.

� Sell surplus council land.

� Abolish non-essential and ‘politically-correct’services.

� Leave the EU to save £50m a day for local services

� Drop the EU Landfill Directive, which adds atleast £50 to every household’s council tax bill.

� Control immigration and ease the burden on localservices

Protecting local peoplefrom crime

To keep the people and the streets safe

We will

� Halt the scrapping of frontline police jobs.

� Refuse to tolerate any anti-social behaviour orso called petty crime.

� Build more prisons.

� Make sentences mean what they say.

� Elect county police boards to let local peopleset police priorities.

� Cut police form-filling and free officers for realpolice work.

� Crack down on nuisance neighbours.

� Oppose votes for prisoners.



� End open-door immigration, which let in 3 millionpeople in 13 years.

� Withhold all State benefits from immigrants for fiveyears.

� Introduce proper border controls.

� Increase UK Border Agency staff as needed.

� Freeze permanent immigration for five years untilwe sort out the system.

� Deport all illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers.

� Target working visas only on those with the skills weneed.


We will

� End benefits in cash or in kind to anyone who is not aBritish citizen.

To cut immigration and the heavy costof Immigration

We will

Immigration:Britain for the British first

To put the people in charge of the decisions that affect our countryside

We will

� Put people’s wishes above central government andbig business with planning referendums.

� Ban new wind farms and subject existing ones todemocratic local planning procedures.

� Annul the Localism Bill’s right to build on thegreen belt.

� Direct new housing and business developmentsto brown-field, not green-field, sites.

� Build new power plants to secure our energy supply.

� Use existing houses more efficiently by encouragingrentals.


We will

� Close the Climate Change Department saving up to£18billion a year.

� End wasteful EU and UK subsidies to ugly, cost-ineffective ‘renewable energy’ scams.

� Stop all payments to the Intergovernmental ClimateChange Panel and other UN climate-related agencies.

Health:Sorting out theNational Health Service

To keep the health service safe and protect our elderly and disabled people

We will

� Let the people elect county boards to oversee vitalservices.

� Halt all cuts in front-line NHS doctors, surgeons,dentists and nurses’.

� Axe failing, surplus NHS management.

� Reintroduce proper matrons to run clean hospitals.

� Return nurses training back to hospitals rather thanUniversity class rooms.

� Make specialist care available as needed, to savelives now lost through delay.

� Cut waiting lists to European levels - Poland treatscancer patients faster than we do.


We will

� Restrict free health care only to UK Citizens.

� Require all visitors to exhibit adequate healthinsurance at the port of entry.

� Introduce lifelong private insurance against thecosts of long-term care.

Planning for our greenand pleasant land

Foreign Affairs Economic Affairs

Public Heath Transport

Justice Energy

Employment Environment

Police Farming

Social Affairs Fisheries

Immigration Law Enforcement


Housing:Local British people first

To address the housing shortage caused by3 million immigrants in 13 years

We will

� Restore proper controls on immigration to ease thedemand for housing.

� Incentivise re-use of 970,000 empty houses, equal toeight years’ English house-building.


To aid economic recovery

We will

� Let the people decide on local transport infrastructureby calling binding referendums.

� Reopen local railway lines where needed.

� Preserve way-leaves of disused railway lines incase they are needed again.

� Halt widespread over-zealousness in parkingenforcement.

� Remove all speed cameras, except those proven toreduce accidents or demanded by the community.

� Provide free parking at all hospitals.

� Oppose HS2 (High Speed Rail 2).

� Protect free parking for Blue Badge holders.

� Protect rural bus services.


We will

� Tax foreign lorries using British roads.

� Ensure that road maintenance is more efficientthrough better, more competitive tendering andstopping authorities’ ‘gold-plating’ schemes.

BUT, whatever we - the people - decide…

UKIP would like to point out that unelected EUbureaucrats set overall policy in

Transport: Keeping ourCommunities on the move

Education:Put pupils and parents first

To bring Britain’s education up to international standards.

We will

� Let the people elect county education boards to make ourschools better.

� Scrap useless paperwork and trust teachers to do theirjobs.

� Build more Grammar Schools.

� Insist that schools teach the 3 Rs.

� Close colleges using bogus courses as a back door intoBritain for foreign students.

� Reinstate the student grant and educational maintenanceallowance.

� Encourage vocational apprenticeships.

� Give parents the right to choose where their children goto school.

� Protect rural schools.

� Offer better support for home schooling.


We will

� Let head teachers sack bad teachers.

� Reduce Local Education Authority bureaucracy.

We will

� Audit all council-owned and state-owned property.

� Sell most surplus or disused state-owned property.



UKIP- the party with common sense policies

Compare the different parties positions:

THE ISSUES

Freedom

Public Services

Taxation

Immigration

Democracy

Education

Crime

TORY/LABOUR/LIB DEM UKIP

The older parties no longer represent mainstream voters in the UK.UKIP is the only party offering a viable alternative.

Brussels initiates 70% of thenew laws passed in Britain.

We should make cuts at homein order to spend more abroad

Tax rates have been raised.No plans to cut them.Unlimited immigration fromEU countries is unstoppable.

Politicians and Whitehallknow what’s best.

Limited parents’ choice and brokenpromises on tuition fees.

Support the new European ArrestWarrant, which has been introduced.

The only way to reclaim ourfreedom is by leaving the EU.

We should stop bailing out the EUand cut aid to foreign dictators.

Tax levels are too high. Cut taxand incentivise growth and jobs.

Britain should have the final sayin who can visit and settle here.The public should be able to initiatebinding referendums on important issues.

Give parents better choice andfree education for all through our

Oppose the EAW, under whichBritish people can be arrested withouthaving broken British law.

voucher system.


* Committed to cutting council tax and business rates

* Committed to saving our greenbelt.Say no to wind farms and HS2

* Tough on crime and anti-social behaviour

* More police on the streets

* Cut council executives andmanagers not public services

* Control EU immigration

* Give real decision-making to local communities

* Money for local services, not the EU

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Roger Helmer MEP

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has lost touch with the grass roots’ and broken too many promises

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no longer the moral crusader for a lowertaxed nation; no longer the party that

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UKIP believe in low taxation andhave a wide-ranging manifesto

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