After the elections - Where We Stand Series
After The Elections - Where We Stand Series
Local, Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament Election Response – May 2007
Which way did you vote? Did you vote? There’s no doubt the most popular vote in last Thursday’s elections, as has been the case for many years, was the no vote. You can’t blame people for not voting, UKpopdems don’t. At local authority level particularly, there’s hardly a difference to speak of between the main parties. Some folks say the biggest factor in the pro-Tory vote was a protest against the mad and unhygienic, so-called green, policy adopted by many local authorities to collect rubbish every other week. Maybe, but UKpopdems believe this is just a side-show. Everybody knows Council Taxes will continue to go up and services will continue to deteriorate. You’ll still pay more for less next year whichever party got in in your area.
The biggest reason local people don’t vote is because they think it’s all a waste of time and that no-one is going to listen to the voice of real local people like you and me. UKpopdems agree. Councils aren’t interested in local peoples’ problems any more than our national government is interested in truly representing the British people. Labour, LibDem and Tory are only in it for themselves at national level and it’s the same at local level. Individually, some MPs and local councillors really do want to do their best to help, but they are soon stymied by the power play of political shenanigans and mired in the treacle of politically correct bureaucrats. In any case, most of the money the council spends is not even determined by councillors; it’s dictated by government. Look at the bureaucratic job titles on offer in your council and you can see hardly any of them are relevant to your lives or what you want. But you are still paying for them.
UKpopdems is the only national party that wants to end the overbearing, undemocratic, bureaucratic and politically correct nonsense of local councils, where ordinary people have no voice to determine what needs to be done to make life for themselves and their neighbours better. Our policy on local government is to get rid of a whole tier of bureaucracy by eliminating all county, district and metropolitan councils. Instead, Parish and Community councils will be strengthened so that you can be truly involved in making the decisions that affect your daily life. Your local community will have the funding and professional support necessary to encourage you and the people you know to get involved in and decide on local issues yourselves, and your community leaders will HAVE to listen to you. It’s not a dream, it will happen with a UKpopdems government. Furthermore, UKpopdems will, at the end of our first term, hold a popular vote that will allow you to decide on national taxation and whether to eliminate what many people feel is that most vile of all taxes, Council Tax. If you vote to reduce taxes and, therefore, end Council Tax, it will not be replaced. There will be no stealth taxes with the Popular Democrats.
Only at regional level (London, Welsh Assembly, Scottish Parliament, and let’s all hope Northern Ireland Assembly) can be glimpsed just the tiniest ray of light that ordinary people may get some benefit from their vote; that their voices may be listened to. Recent regional policies such as free prescriptions, free elderly care and free university education cock a serious snook at the failing dogma of labour’s policies that only England now has to endure. And last Thursday’s elections not only kicked labour where it hurt most (far more than local council election disasters) but showed the people of Scotland and Wales for the first time that they could afford to flex their muscles in an outburst of democratic power favouring dedicated regional parties over the failing triumvirate of what some people call the Lab/Lib/Con alliance.
UKpopdems want England to benefit from regional democracy as well, but not those awful Stalinist regions dictated by Europe and quite rightly defeated by local people (though, unbelievably still in place as unelected quangos thus demonstrating the contempt Blair and Brown have for the voters of England). No, like the emblematic regions embodied in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, UKpopdems will implement English regions that distil the same pride and belonging personified in the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, Anglia and Wessex; regions of true geography and emotion. London will continue to be a powerful separate region as befits the capital of the United Kingdom; if the people wish it, perhaps a region for Cornwall, too. In addition, and to make sure regional decision making really does reflect what local people want, UKpopdems will implement regional upper houses consisting of representatives from community councils. These new senior chambers will approve policies made at regional level before they are implemented. So you will have a direct voice, through your community, in regional assembly decision making.
These and all other UKpopdem policies are designed to put Britain and the British people first so that all law abiding Britons can feel better off, both financially and socially. With UKpopdems the democratic millions of ordinary people will be able to take back control of their own country from the damaging self-seeking dogma of today’s politicians. In government, UKpopdems will be the servants of the British people while the people, acting together, will be the masters. Instead of telling, we’ll be listening; instead of controlling, we’ll be serving; instead of lying and spinning, we’ll be delivering. Join UKpopdems now and together we can build a better Britain.
Local, Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament Election Response – May 2007
Which way did you vote? Did you vote? There’s no doubt the most popular vote in last Thursday’s elections, as has been the case for many years, was the no vote. You can’t blame people for not voting, UKpopdems don’t. At local authority level particularly, there’s hardly a difference to speak of between the main parties. Some folks say the biggest factor in the pro-Tory vote was a protest against the mad and unhygienic, so-called green, policy adopted by many local authorities to collect rubbish every other week. Maybe, but UKpopdems believe this is just a side-show. Everybody knows Council Taxes will continue to go up and services will continue to deteriorate. You’ll still pay more for less next year whichever party got in in your area.
The biggest reason local people don’t vote is because they think it’s all a waste of time and that no-one is going to listen to the voice of real local people like you and me. UKpopdems agree. Councils aren’t interested in local peoples’ problems any more than our national government is interested in truly representing the British people. Labour, LibDem and Tory are only in it for themselves at national level and it’s the same at local level. Individually, some MPs and local councillors really do want to do their best to help, but they are soon stymied by the power play of political shenanigans and mired in the treacle of politically correct bureaucrats. In any case, most of the money the council spends is not even determined by councillors; it’s dictated by government. Look at the bureaucratic job titles on offer in your council and you can see hardly any of them are relevant to your lives or what you want. But you are still paying for them.
UKpopdems is the only national party that wants to end the overbearing, undemocratic, bureaucratic and politically correct nonsense of local councils, where ordinary people have no voice to determine what needs to be done to make life for themselves and their neighbours better. Our policy on local government is to get rid of a whole tier of bureaucracy by eliminating all county, district and metropolitan councils. Instead, Parish and Community councils will be strengthened so that you can be truly involved in making the decisions that affect your daily life. Your local community will have the funding and professional support necessary to encourage you and the people you know to get involved in and decide on local issues yourselves, and your community leaders will HAVE to listen to you. It’s not a dream, it will happen with a UKpopdems government. Furthermore, UKpopdems will, at the end of our first term, hold a popular vote that will allow you to decide on national taxation and whether to eliminate what many people feel is that most vile of all taxes, Council Tax. If you vote to reduce taxes and, therefore, end Council Tax, it will not be replaced. There will be no stealth taxes with the Popular Democrats.
Only at regional level (London, Welsh Assembly, Scottish Parliament, and let’s all hope Northern Ireland Assembly) can be glimpsed just the tiniest ray of light that ordinary people may get some benefit from their vote; that their voices may be listened to. Recent regional policies such as free prescriptions, free elderly care and free university education cock a serious snook at the failing dogma of labour’s policies that only England now has to endure. And last Thursday’s elections not only kicked labour where it hurt most (far more than local council election disasters) but showed the people of Scotland and Wales for the first time that they could afford to flex their muscles in an outburst of democratic power favouring dedicated regional parties over the failing triumvirate of what some people call the Lab/Lib/Con alliance.
UKpopdems want England to benefit from regional democracy as well, but not those awful Stalinist regions dictated by Europe and quite rightly defeated by local people (though, unbelievably still in place as unelected quangos thus demonstrating the contempt Blair and Brown have for the voters of England). No, like the emblematic regions embodied in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, UKpopdems will implement English regions that distil the same pride and belonging personified in the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, Anglia and Wessex; regions of true geography and emotion. London will continue to be a powerful separate region as befits the capital of the United Kingdom; if the people wish it, perhaps a region for Cornwall, too. In addition, and to make sure regional decision making really does reflect what local people want, UKpopdems will implement regional upper houses consisting of representatives from community councils. These new senior chambers will approve policies made at regional level before they are implemented. So you will have a direct voice, through your community, in regional assembly decision making.
These and all other UKpopdem policies are designed to put Britain and the British people first so that all law abiding Britons can feel better off, both financially and socially. With UKpopdems the democratic millions of ordinary people will be able to take back control of their own country from the damaging self-seeking dogma of today’s politicians. In government, UKpopdems will be the servants of the British people while the people, acting together, will be the masters. Instead of telling, we’ll be listening; instead of controlling, we’ll be serving; instead of lying and spinning, we’ll be delivering. Join UKpopdems now and together we can build a better Britain.
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