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My Politics by Brian Gilbert – UKIP General Election Candidate for Twickenham 2010
Summary
1. Your
The British Government has surrendered more than half of its
powers to the EU making you subject to European law. You are no longer governed
wholly by British MPs. Only leaving the EU will restore all Government power to
the
The British Constitution was the contract between you and the Government protecting you from abuse by the government such as Fixed Penalty fines with no right to appeal to a jury. A Judge decided the Parliament could amend the British Constitution so you are no longer protected from the Government by it. UKIP will restore that protection. Only a referendum will be allowed to amend the British Constitution.
2. The Recession.
Labour borrowing and incurring liabilities wholesale has caused this recession and their so called cure is to borrow more. The official figure for the National Debt is £801 Billion. Obvious Liabilities on record such as the unfunded public sector pension fund add up to £7,655 Billion. Only UKIP will cut government spending to those things that the private sector cannot do instead of ruining your lives with increased taxation. UKIP will repeal bad laws imposed by the EU.
This is my view and will govern my actions on your behalf subject to the UKIP policies outlined in my final Election Address. That will be delivered to all households during the election.
The Detail
1. Your
The British Constitution is a set of documents such as the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights forming a contract between the British people and the British Government namely the Parliament, Cabinet, Judiciary and Crown. It limits the power of the Government. To say it is just a few laws like others and can be amended by Parliament is absurd and therefore unacceptable as it would then be pointless.
However in a judgement in the case of the Metric Martyrs
http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/judgmentsfiles/j1008/THOBURN_v_SUNDERLAND.htm
In paragraph 63, it was ruled that Parliament could change the British Constitution.
We are no longer protected by the British Constitution. We are no longer governed only by the UK Parliament subject to the British Constitution as agreed by you directly. The Government is subjecting us to the EU.
The Lisbon Treaty allows the European Government to give itself extra powers by a majority vote of its leaders and can thus give itself absolute power. The powers can only be removed by a unanimous vote of the leaders and that is extremely unlikely. Currently we can still withdraw from the EU as the laws imposed by the EU are put into effect by our own Parliament and can be repealed.
Our only way out is to leave the EU while we are still able to.
UKIP will do this and only UKIP will do this while there is still time.
An example of how your constitutional rights have been taken away.
The right to trial by jury before fine or imprisonment.
Magna Carta
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/magnacarta/translation/mc_trans.html
+ (39) No free man shall be seized
or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled,
or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force
against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his
equals or by the law of the land.
Bill of Rights
http://www.webmesh.co.uk/englishbillofrights1689.htm
That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void.
Despite this you now receive £Billions of fixed penalty fines
and are forbidden a trial by jury whether the fine is reasonable or not. If you
appeal against a parking fine by the Council you have to travel to
With the Magna Carta etc you gave the Government (Parliament, Executive and Judiciary) the right to govern you subject to the British Constitution. You did not give the Government absolute power . You did not give them the right to transfer that power to the European Union as has been done with the Lisbon Treaty etc,
2. The Recession.
You have not yet suffered much
so far because the Government has been printing and borrowing money like
there was no tomorrow. The GDP is given by the Government as about £1 ,000,000,000,000. (£1 Trillion)
The government took about half that in taxes, and is
borrowing another
£180,000,000,000 this year so that at least seven tenths of your income will be
spent by
the Government in the current 2009-2010 tax year. After the election the
Conservatives
or Labour will increase taxes when they should be cutting Government
spending. They will plan on the basis that the National Debt is about
£1,000,000,000,000. That for our 25,000,000 households is
£40,000 each.
That is nothing like the true figure. They do not include
in this figure things like the unfunded public sector
pension fund and various other obvious things coming to more like
£7,500,000,000,000.
So the liabilities per household are more like £300,000 per household!
UKIP will concentrate on cutting public spending rather than increasing
taxes which are probably past the point of diminishing returns anyway.
Publicly available figures for Government liabilities:-
The following were noted by me and are obviously not the whole story:-
£Billion
The most recent figures for public sector net debt excluding financial
sector intervention are for July 2009, Net debt was £801 billion (56.8 per
cent of GDP).
Source: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=206
£801 Billion excluding financial interventions which I think excluded the following:-
(Since updated to £743.1 BN as at end Dec 2009)
200 Budgeted deficit for 2010/2011 (Richard Fletcher Telegraph 08AUG2009)
73 Nuclear cleanup as at 2007
63 PFI and PPP
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/pfi_signed_projects_list.xls
1350 Public sector pension liability (Dec 2009 according to Edmund Conway in Telegraph Page B1 - Government Actuaries Dept said £1350 Billion in 10DEC2009) )(BNAC BN49/Neil record)
June 2009
http://www.bnac.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=3&Itemid=3
1200 G8 Agreement to cut CO2 emissions by 80% (Telegraph Page B3 13JUL2009)
1227 Bank Bad Debt Guarantees (Telegraph 1AUG2009 Page 31)
810
for National Statistics
348 Additional Pension (Serps etc ) http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-book444pdf
175 Bank of England Quantitative Easing (Printing of money)
07AUG2009 Telegraph by Edmund Conway
100 Renewable Energy Strategy - Public and Private Investments
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/what_we_do/uk_supply/energy_mix/renewable/res/res.aspx
(Amended 28AUG2009)
(Acknowledgements to 'Open
219 Pension Protection Fund
£53 BN deficit in Council Pension Funds (Taxpayer's
7655 Total £Billion National Debt/Liabilities
Reducing hardship.
Many public servants
will lose their jobs as Government spending is cut. UKIP will drop the EU's and
Labour's oppressive regulations. These and many other steps will make
Businesses more
profitable. So that Business expands to provide more jobs.
Repeal of bad laws
Many bad laws have
been passed recently. I suggest that there be a blanket Repeal Bill repealing
those laws subject to amendments during the debates in Parliament.
- The law which said
that the British Constitution could be amended by Parliament. It will only be
amendable by referendum. Human rights Act no longer necessary as covered by
British Constitution.
- Any laws not
consistent with the restored British Constitution. This would cover those
inflicting fines or imprisonment without the right to a Trial by Jury.
- Government not
allowed to increase the total deficit/liabilities whether ‘investment’ or not.
- Law allowing
Quantitative Easing.
- Law allowing
Deliberate inflation..
- Law allowing
penalty for crimes to vary with prison capacity.
- Law allowing
Pension schemes. Having proved unsafe they are to be wound up and the funds
returned to contributor.
- Laws discriminating to as to race and religion.
- Law allowing Government participation in ‘investment’.
- Law allowing release from jail despite being a threat to others.
- Law requiring Home Information Packs.
The following suggested by other UKIP members should also be reviewed for inclusion.
The Human Rights Act. The Equality Act(s).
The Race Relations Act. The Sex Discrimination
(Election Candidates) Act. The Identity Cards Act.
The House of Lords Act 1999 ,Civil Contingencies Act
28 days detention, ID Cards, Series Organised Crime and Police Act, Terrorism
Act, PPERA 2009 (!)
fixed penalty notices, civil charge notices,
Section 27 and Schedule 4 of the
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004, allowing anyone to enter our homes
other than uniformed policemen with a warrant, such as bailiffs and council workers.
The one's that allow burglar's to sue if they injure themselves
when robbing your house.
The cost to ISPs of complying with the provisions of the Digital
Economy Bill will cost each broadband customer an extra £25 a year. The Times
28th DEC 2009 .
The law dropping the death penalty for treason.