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Health experts demand EU doctor checks

Medical experts today followed UKIP in calling for EU regulations to be changed so that doctors coming to practise in the UK can be properly assessed.Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the General Medical Council, has written to health trusts to explain how there is a "gaping hole" in the registration...

Bloom attacks flaws in EU’s ‘Tobin tax’

Eurocratic plans to introduce a wide-ranging, one-size-fits-all European tax system moved a step closer yesterday when MEPs voted to introduce a so-called ‘Tobin tax’ on transactions between banks.The new tax, which will be levied directly by Brussels, will take a proportion of the profit...

Voters need a choice on EU, says Farage

UKIP’s parliamentary candidate for Buckingham, Nigel Farage, yesterday slammed the Tory position on Europe and bemoaned the lack of choice facing the electorate at the forthcoming general election.His comments come after shadow foreign secretary William Hague said in a speech to the Royal United...

UKIP welcome landlord’s jail release

UKIP has welcomed the release from prison of Chorley pub landlord Nick Hogan who had been jailed for non-payment of fines levied against him for allowing two pensioners to smoke in his bar.Hogan, who was sentenced to six months, was released after his £10,000 fine was paid with donations from the...

The MEP for Wales tells voters why UKIP is the only party with a real solution

John Bufton explains the immigration problem facing the UK and the steps UKIP will take to solve it.

Immigration is key to election say voters

British voters say immigration will be a key issue in the 2010 general election, with none of the main political parties offering a real solution, according to a Daily Express survey. According to the survey, 69% of voters feel immigration has had a negative effect on society generally by putting...

Big three welcome Turkey into EU

The Foreign Secretary, William Hague and the Lib/Dems, Ed Davey have all agreed Turkey should join the EU.  "They seem to care more about the Levant than they do about the UK", said Nigel Farage.  "In order to appear inclusive they reject the opinion of a vast majority of their own country. "Between...

EU is killing car industry

UKIP MEP Mike Nattrass has welcomed a report which claims the EU is killing Europe’s automotive industry.  In a report which was published yesterday (March 8) on The Wall Street Journal website, Neil Winton, who writes the European Perspective column for Detroit News Online’s Automotive...

Tebbit on collision course with Dave

Conservative activists should be free to campaign for UK Independence Party candidate Nigel Farage in Speaker John Bercow's Buckingham constituency in the upcoming general election, the party's former chairman Lord Tebbit has said.The Conservative Party is officially backing Mr Bercow for re-election,...

UKIP on TV, but still marginalised by BBC

UKIP’s Nigel Farage will appear in a television debate with other political leaders in the run up to the General Election this spring – but not alongside the leaders of the three main parties. The BBC and ITV have already agreed to give UKIP, the Green Party and the BNP a chance to air their...

UKIP on TV in minor parties’ slot

UKIP’s Nigel Farage will appear in a television debate with other political leaders in the run up to the General Election this spring – but not alongside the leaders of the three main parties.The BBC and ITV have already agreed to give UKIP, the Green Party and the BNP a chance to air their...

Hugely experienced Tory defects to UKIP

UKIP's latest recruit is a hugely experienced former Tory councillor and constituency chairman who has defected just weeks before the General Election.  Ron Levy will now campaign on behalf of UKIP's parliamentary candidate for Colchester, John Pitts. Mr Levy accused Conservative...

UK drivers to foot bill for EU green tax

UK motorists could soon be paying higher petrol prices thanks to an EU green tax due to be formally announced later this month.Algirdas Semeta, the newly-appointed European commissioner for taxation, told European Voice, the weekly Brussels newsletter, that a direct tax on carbon is still a priority...

UKIP: A statement

Nikki Sinclaire says that her political views are incompatible with those of some members of the EFD Group in the European parliament, of which the UKIP MEPs form part. So she has been sitting as an unattached MEP since 18th January 2010. She has also proved unable to collaborate adequately with the...

EU push for economic control

Brussels bureaucrats want to commandeer the UK economy, using international financial difficulties as an excuse to introduce sweeping new EU powers. Speaking yesterday, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso said: “The economic crisis is worse than anyone imagined and increased economic...

Nattrass: Bring Back Coal

UKIP West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass has today fuelled calls to ‘BRING BACK COAL’ following his attendance at a high-profile debate in Stoke which focused on the events of the miners’ strike. The MEP joined a panel including Edwina Currie, George Galloway and film-maker Ken Loach on...
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