[Notice: This e-mail is sent to you because I have been informed - or have good reason to believe - that you would like to receive occasional e-mails from me on why the UK must leave the European Union. If you do not want to receive e-mails from me, I apologise and perhaps you would let me know so that I can take your e-mail address off the list.] ..................................................... Dear fellow members of UKIP (and others concerned about the UK's relationship with the EU), On Sunday, 15th April, the Forest of Dean branch of the UK Independence Party will be holding a lunch-time meeting, with buffet. This will just ahead of the May county elections. We are fortunate to have as our guest speakers UKIP’s two most successful campaigners in local elections, Cllr. Lisa Duffy and Cllr. Peter Reeve. In May 2011 UKIP took 9 of the 17 seats on the district council for Ramsey in Cambridgeshire. Lisa Duffy then became first UKIP mayor in the country. She combines her local government responsibilities with being UKIP’s Party Secretary. Peter Reeve is a county councillor for Cambridgeshire and a district councillor in Huntingdonshire, as well as being UKIP’s Local Election Co-ordinator. The Forest of Dean branch is exceptionally lucky to have Lisa and Peter to tell us how to organize local election campaigning ahead of an important electoral test. I am sure attendees will pick up lots of tips and ideas for their own local election battles. Everyone in UKIP is of course welcome, subject to a limit of (roughly) about 80 – 85 in terms of the numbers that can comfortably be fed and watered. First come, first served! Tickets are available from the Forest of Dean’s branch secretary, Colin Guyton. Colin’s phone number is 01594 541486 and his e-mail address is colinguyton@onebillinternet.co.uk. A PDF file is attached, with more details. ………………… There is continuing interest in my speech to UKIP’s spring conference in Skegness, for which I am grateful. The “official” version of the speech on the UKIP website did not include my Powerpoint slides, although I did send these out with the link to the speech in a previous e-mail. Happily, Alan and Marilyn Day took a separate video which included the Powerpoint slides. The link is as follows, If you press that, you should have both my words and the slides! I am – as ever – hugely grateful to the Days for their interest and support. With their help, I plan in the next few days to send out a “fireside chat” (i.e., as a Youtube video) on the myth that three million jobs are at risk if the UK leaves the European Union. The whole notion that so many jobs are at risk from a loss of EU exports is bunkum, since the exports would continue if we left the EU. (The USA and China sell goods to EU countries, but don’t belong to the EU. The UK can sell goods to EU countries when it too does not belong to the EU.) But I will also show that - The decade after EU accession saw the destruction of 1 ½ million jobs, not job creation, and - Fewer men born in the UK are in employment now than in 1972, the year before EU accession. I know that party members repeatedly comment on the need to answer the “three million jobs at risk” claim. We must get back to the facts and nail this nonsense. I hope that my analysis will be useful in your debates with the other parties. With best wishes, Tim Congdon
Monday, 19 March 2012
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