EU Plans to dissolve 850 London Jobs at Tate & Lyle

Time and time again I hear those sycophantic Europhiles spout that the EU has been amaaazing for Britain and the large number of jobs it has created for us. Time and time again I have shown with that amaaazing thing called evidence, proof of jobs lost, skills and sectors never to return such as our fishing industry ( Common Fisheries policy), coal and steel (original coal and steel agreements), manufacturing of trains, cars and other engineering ( euro creating a 20% price devaluation for Germany) etc etc.

However, the rich, wealthy privileged supporters of the EU ( and they are invariably a specific class of people who despise the "poor and unwashed " such as the Oxbridge educated, chianti drinking, Liberal Democrats living in Islington who feel more at home in their holiday homes in Tuscany than they are dealing with "those ghastly English people")  who invariably ignore jobs lost when done so by their favourite institution. They even ignore it when the Commission make it clear that they don't actually give a damn about British jobs.

Take Tate and Lyle. A veritable institution of a British business established in Silvertown East London for over a 100 years. The factory is top class, a combination of state of the art technology backed by high end skilled jobs with long tenured employees and offering fantastic traineeships. It provides thousands of tons of sugar and sugar products to the Britsh food industry each week and does so at a competitive price to ensure food inflation does not hurt the pocket of the consumer.

Several years ago based on EU policies it invested in eco friendly systems and developed a business plan to match. It employees around 800 people and was working 7 days a week. Jobs, as I say in a part of London that is desperately in need of such work. However, as I say the EU doesn't care about British jobs and has introduced a ban on Tate and Lyle importing sugar cane from Brazil, South Africa or Thailand ( thus providing work to poor people in those countries) unless Tate and Lyle pay very high tariffs. ( I ask you, where's the free trade here?)

Indeed under questioning from UKIP Agriculture Spokesman, Stuart Agnew, the EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dacian Cioloş did what all EU civil servants do, and blamed Tate and Lyle's own stategy, failing to acknowledge that EU quotas were the instruments changing the supply and price landscape. You can watch the video here.


http://youtu.be/VgfITFWxppk

http://www.ukipmeps.org/index.php?page=articles&op=readArticle&id=352&title=EU-plans-to-dissolve-Tate-%26-Lyles-Mr-Cube
Gerald Mason, Vice President EU Affairs for Tate and Lyle said that the answer was predictable.

"The answer is the predictable one he and his officials give - that their forecasts of cane imports doubling were only that and you cannot hold them to it if they were not subsequently correct. The bit they conveniently miss is that their whole policy was based on this forecast and, in particular, the abolishing of our import quota (the right we had to import cane sugar to run our factory). Their logic was that, with imports doubling, there would be no need any more for an import quota as there would be plenty enough sugar for everybody in Europe who wanted to refine."
Stuart Agnew said to the Commissioner that the EU policy is clearly protectionist to safeguard jobs in Germany and France.

"Your proposal is going to destroy up to 850 jobs in the UK and it will actually transfer them to other EU countries - most unfair - and I'm talking about proposals to cease quotas for sugar beet production by 2015, because this won't be matched by a relaxed quota or the cane sugar refiners, represented in my country by Tate & Lyle. That firm has been a strong player in the UK sugar market all my life; and long before we joined the European Union. It needs more tariff free raw material. It's got to have that to keep its refinery supplied. At the moment it's slowing down; its closing at weekends, its losing its critical mass and it means the costs of refining are becoming uncompetitive and the factory is going to close and you, actually, are the one person in the world who can keep it open. The beneficiaries of your proposal will be the sugar beet industries in France and Germany - not in Britain - because in Britain, we obeyed EU laws and we closed factories three years ago, and those factories cannot be rebuilt by 2015. Tate & Lyle have asked you to visit them, to come to that factory in London and see for yourself how efficient they are, but as yet, as I understand, you haven't answered their invitation. I have written to you on this subject and I haven't had a reply as yet. It would appear you are completely indifferent to the situation, which I think is scandalous because the UK is one of the few countries in the EU which is a net contributor, those contributions come from taxpayers. Employees of Tate & Lyle are taxpayers have peen pumping money into the EU and this is how they're being repaid.

Now as a result the owners of Tate & Lyle have said they may well close the factory and 850 jobs as the EU policies are "prohibitively high" and unfairly stifle competition by favouring domestic producers of beet sugar.The European Commission's (EC) tariffs are unfairly putting jobs at risk in Britain and throughout Europe.

http://www.just-food.com/news/tate-lyle-sugars-may-close-london-factory_id117127.aspx

So whilst Nick Clegg looks to book his holiday in the Med with his wealthy EU backers will he spare a thought for the 850 Londoners who could lose their jobs because of this failed political project? I doubt it.

Racist and xenophobic to oppose the EU? Ordinary Londoners don't think so

There are those in all sections of the political and media spheres that continue to claim that a love of this country equates insome way to xenophobia. The BBC, and the Lib Dems in particular, believe that proponents of the view that Britain governing itself is the wish of only some unholy alliance of unreconstructed Little Englanders and skinheads.

Take a look at this video of vox-pops taken at Walthamstow market.

What we see here is that young men and women, as well as a mixture of Europeans and other countries can plainly see (and what the Coalition and their friends in Europhilia coven try to hide) that they have not been fooled and see the EU as the creation of a newform of political dictatorship. They are not Little Englanders, (although fact the only man who seems to fit this bill is the the gentleman at the end of the clip), they are not old, they are not racist, (all the names thrown at opponents of the EU or UKIP). They are deeply concerned citizens who are awake to the dangers we are facing.

The thing about freedom is that it sits in the soul of all those who feel it and they simply know when politicians and their lackeys in the civil service are trying to take it away. And when they see it being attacked, as clearly as they do with the EU, they know they don’t want it. UKIP is at the front of a movement that is rich in our country’s history and its struggle for democracy, the vote and equality. It is a movement that is not going to go away and each day the young and old, men and women, rich and poor, from North, SouthEast and West recognise its powerful message.

The simple fact is that all who live and vote in this country deserve to be taken seriously. That those who live here are well aware of the way in which the EU is stripping away control over their lives. Listening to these articulate and passionate voices you realise that everybody in Britain should have a say in their future.

Are Greeks to be the modern day European Slaves?

" A free man, there is no such thing! All men are slaves" 






Euripides, the last of Athens great tragic poets, wrote this in circa 420 BC. He expressed succinctly his view that man can be slave to many things, money, greed, power and fear. For the word slave originates from the word Slav, a tribe that was captured by the German tribes and sold to the Romans to live a life of work and penury.

Following the incendiary German governments plans proposing that Greece should subject its budgetary plans to an EU Budget Commissioner, I wonder if Euripides would extend his theory to include that a people can be a slave to the idea of a common European Union and that Germany will now ensure that like the Slavs before them, the Greek people will be sold to the EU as holiday resort employees for rich Northern manufacturing employees.

Not content with dispensing with the fiction of democracy by installing a gross puppet and mandarin technocrat as President of Greece. The EU, having not obtained complete control of the country and fearing that there is a head of steam to opposing perpetual occupation, they are trying to act fast to exercise a complete takeover. Angela Merkel is wheeling such a stick and letting it be known that that democracy is not even being considered. At Davos she stated, with no hint of embarrassment that EU countries must do as EU Commission tells them.

It has long been a dream of the European elite to install technocratic governments upon their peoples and ensure a unified Europe under their control. The Romans succeeded for many centuries, Napoleon and Hitler equally dreamed of such domination, the evil and oppressive dictatorships of Salazar in Portugal, Franco in Spain and viscious Italian, Mussolini, all played their part in such disgraceful ambitions.

The Greek people know the frightening consequences of a coup d'etat and living under the fear of dictatorship. The seven years between 1967 and 1974 when the "Colonels" dispensed with democracy and took control led to over 10,000 arrested in the first few years, over 3800 tortured in secret torture centres and a life of fear and hopeless for a generation. On that occasion a coalition of the left and democrats fought the battle to help the Greeks regain their freedom. On this occasion it is the left, in the guise of the Liberal Democrats and Labour party and their socialist parties comrades in the EU parliament joining with the Corporatists and Technocrats who want to enslave the Greek people.

A free man, there is no such thing, all men are Slaves whilst the EU exists!

Chester Local Elections - No Seats but votes doubled

The sun was out for the dryest April for many a year and despite the disappointment of not winning a seat in the Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council elections a sunny smile was on all the local UKIP activist faces. The local party had more candidates standing than ever before and the results showed the continual growth of the party in the constituency. Our constituency vote doubled, the average vote in each ward we competed in doubled to 7.2% and new members joined.



It was a great campaign and I will not forget the conversation with one Labour spokeswoman who agreed with me that local democracy is very important and Councils should carry out the wishes of the people otherwise the people will feel they have no part in determining their future. However, the true nature of the inner Labour dictator came our when I said that if she agreed with the quote from Thomas Paine "governments must have arisen from out of the people" why does she accept the EU dictating to Councils on such things as the landfill directives and forcing 3 or 4 bins on some of Chester's constituents? Her response was priceless Councils need to be told what to do by a larger organisation otherwise they wont do it? Ah Paines second part of his quote came to mind "governments must have arisen over the people". Ah the art of Stalinism is alive and well in the Chester Labour party.

Well done to all those elected and I hope you will do a good job for your wards for be rest assured UKIP will be watching you and reporting on your actions.

UKIP: Right on the economy, and right for Britain

Out of touch? Little Englanders? Europhobes? What silly words have you heard used, to describe UKIP? I bet there’s one word you haven’t heard used by the media at all. But it’s the one more and more people are using about UKIP every single day: right.

Around the world increasing numbers of people admire Nigel Farage. And looking at this collection of his speeches on the Euro, it’s easy to see why. He’s become an icon. An embodiment of the spirit of resistance against an impersonal bureaucratic foe; for people from Copenhagen to Colorado.

The next general election will be fought on economics. But only one party
has been right on the most fundamental economic questions for over a decade.

But personally, I admire Nigel chiefly for his patience. Can you imagine what it’s like? Every single parliament in Europe operates on the established principle that if a democracy is to work properly, there should be checks and balances: the side in power needs to have an opposition. Except in one parliament of course, the European Parliament.

There every MEP, apart from a tiny handful of people, is expected to be a cheerleader for a project dedicated to the twin objectives of their own enrichment, and the removal of power from the people. And in this environment day in day out, Nigel stands up, and is frequently the only voice of opposition. The only voice of sense, of sanity.

Beijiing gives verdict on Europe, and the verdict is bleak

Asia: vibrant

In a few hours I will leave Hong Kong to catch a flight back to the UK.

For those who haven't been to the former jewel in the UK crown, the trip from my mid-price range hotel (with service that would grace a five star hotel in the UK, at a fraction of the price) to the airport, will be by complimentary express bus, which naturally always  runs on time. It bristles with efficiency as it deposits me into the gleaming HK airport, where luxury shops are filled with Asian tourists and business people.

I will then climb aboard a British Airways flight where the contrast between the go-getting Asian economic character, and the lack of ambition shown by British companies (and hindered by Unions stuck in a by-gone era) are on show.  I still use BA only because of a patriotic belief that spending on a Britsh company keeps jobs in the UK, and is every British citizen's duty.

But it was business that took me to Hong Kong and China in the first place, and it is the latter's growth and power that were on display at the International BAO Forum in Hainan. 

For here, the world's senior bankers, businessmen and politicians came to hear Zhou Xiaochuan, the Governor of China's Central Bank, give his verdict on the worlds' economies. In the audience were Spanish Prime Minister Jose Zapatero (more on him later), ex French Premier Jean-Pierre Raffarin, and ex Croatian President Stejpan Mesic; as well as John Rice the Vice-Chairman of that great US girant General Electric.

After Zhou had given a glowing report on China's success, he stated that they would have to tackle growing inflation by reducing demand. This was all bad news, as it will feed heavily into the West. He also mentioned that in this process he was requiring China's biggest banks to maintain 20% of their deposits as reserves!

We may look on in envy, but any such requirement in the UK would kill the British economy.

The capture of Gbagbo: a warning to Khadafy?

Caught by the "UN"

Yesterday, regime-change "French style" showed its subtle touch in the Ivory Coast, when UN (or rather French)  troops supported president elect Quattara's forces, in capturing the current President Gbagbo in his underground bunker.

It is clear that increased French confidence in the military sphere has been bouyed by a number of factors.

Nicolas Sarkozy's comments, on coming to power, about forging a new relationship with the US. France's political dominance in the EU Commission, and on the subject of Europe-wide defence. Weakened British miltary prowess, forcing us for example, into a treaty with France on things like aircraft carriers. Not to mention a clear Sarkozy lead on regime change in Libya (to ensure continued oil distribution to France).

All of these have self-evidently emboldened the French into using their forces to support their national interests, in the Ivory Coast. However, the more subtle message is celarly to Khadafy and his family, and you've got to be blind not to see it.

If the defections from within the regime don't work to engineer its collapse, and you insist on holding out, because you know the West of the country is actually behind you; don't let that fool you. It doesn't matter.