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Jan 19, 2024 | 
ukip.org | Pat Bryant |Patricia Mountain |Janice MacKay |Steve Grimes
Wednesday 3rd January marked the start of a new 6-day strike by the junior doctors in England over pay. The longest strike in history during a period of the year typically characterised by seasonal pressures of winter flu, holidays and staff absences due to sickness. I remind readers that junior doctors carried out strike action last month prior to Christmas, and also in March, April, June and July last year.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
ukip.org | Patricia Mountain |Janice MacKay |Steve Grimes |Donald MacKay
Pat BryantUK Independence Party Spokesman for Food and Rural Affairs If you like to wear wool, one of the most sustainable of fabrics, do you ever wonder why it is so expensive? Well, I have more questions than answers… Many farmers are just burning fleeces or giving them away to gardeners because the British Wool Board who buys them pay so little. A fleece shorn from a lowland sheep will weigh approximately 2kg and the average price paid to the farmer is 20p per kg.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
ukip.org | Janice MacKay |Steve Grimes |Donald MacKay |Pat Bryant
Donald MacKayUK Independence Party Spokesman for Education and Religion Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK, made such a song and dance about the huge announcement he planned to make on the 3rd January 2024. Telling all and sundry to make certain they did not miss his proclamation, organising national press to be at the ready with their recording machines and notebooks, declaring on Social Media that he had big breaking news to share with everybody. He had everyone champing at the bit.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
ukip.org | Peter Richardson |Donald MacKay |Steve Unwin |Janice MacKay
Antony NailerUK Independence Party Spokesman for Treasury The Autumn Statement was hailed as being pro small business and the Self Employed. A freezing for a further year of the 75% reduction of business rates for Retail, Hospitality, and Leisure doesn’t help any business that is growing the economy by manufacturing, or any form of technology. A reduction of employees National Insurance contribution from 12% to 10% looks really good on the surface.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
ukip.org | Donald MacKay |Steve Unwin |Janice MacKay |Ben Walker
Sqn Ldr Peter Richardson CFS(H) R’tdUnited Kingdom Independence Party - Defence and Veterans Spokesman As we head into the most solemn weekend in our calendar, our veterans are told not to wear their medals and regimental insignia for fear of retribution from pro-Hamas protestors. Every veteran served with pride to protect our freedom, to protect free speech and the right to protest within the law, as did those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
ukip.org | Steve Unwin |Donald MacKay |Janice MacKay |Ben Walker
Donald MacKayUK Independence Party Scotland Scotland , as you would expect, is in the middle of a housing crisis. Too many prospective tenants and not enough properties. So, what does our Holyrood titans do? Naturally, make it as unattractive as possible to be a landlord!The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland ) Act 2022 must have been thought through by a professional buffoon. Mortgage costs are soaring so let’s make sure we cannot increase the rent. Tenants not bothering to pay the rent?
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
ukip.org | Donald MacKay |Janice MacKay |Ben Walker |Patricia Mountain
Our voting system for parliamentary and local council elections: First Past the Post - where the winner takes all – is outdated. Designed in an era of Whigs v Tories, and more recently, the Reds v the Blues, it takes no account that in our modern democracy the choice on a ballot paper is rarely binary. Yet under our archaic voting system anyone who does not support the winning party gets no political representation at all.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
ukip.org | Janice MacKay |Ben Walker |Patricia Mountain |John Gartside
Donald MacKayUK Independence Party Scotland Demand Exceeds SupplyScotland , as you would expect, is in the middle of a housing crisis. Too many prospective tenants and not enough properties. So, what does our Holyrood titans do? Naturally, make it as unattractive as possible to be a landlord!The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland ) Act 2022 must have been thought through by a professional buffoon. Mortgage costs are soaring so let’s make sure we cannot increase the rent.
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
ukip.org | Janice MacKay |Ben Walker |Patricia Mountain |John Gartside
Hamas intended to provoke a massive reaction by Israel. It intended to kill as many peope as possible in the most savage ways imaginable, but it always wants as many deaths of Gazans as possible and will work to ensure that's the case by preventing people from leaving northern Gaza, thereby enlisting them as human shields. The game is to leverage public opinion in their favour so that Israel bows to international pressure and pulls back from its mission to deny Hamas a base of operations.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
ukip.org | Janice MacKay |Ben Walker |Patricia Mountain |John Gartside
There was only one pertinent point in Sunak's speech yesterday. He said "we will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by 2050". Us plebs were thrown a couple of scraps from the table in the form of a delay to the petrol vehicle ban, but he's spent today reassuring the blob that the Net Zero destination remains the same. And indeed it does. Always read the smallprint. Extending deadlines is smoke and mirrors.
