UK Independence Party Cornwall

Now, where do you want to start and how long have you got?

John Kelly

PS. I agree that any turbine is a beautiful thing, but then I’m a professional electrical engineer!!

http://www.ukipcornwall.org.uk/articles/wind-turbines-the-argument-against · 120 days ago

Wind Power Generation – Wind Turbines - The Argument in Favour

There are people who find the sight of Wind turbines on the skyline, an ugly eyesore.

There are others who see them as elegant, with an artistic beauty, which, for them, greatly enhances the landscape.

There are those who, having experienced the misery and pollution of dirty power production, want our power production, here in the far south west, to be clean and non-polluting.

The monstrosity and terror of the numerous cancers, which appear to have been introduced into our world with the advent of the splitting of the atom in the first place, and the ignorant misuse of nuclear everything in sight from the atom bomb to aerial nuclear testing to nuclear power production and nuclear weapons, must make us wary of continuing any further down that road.

Certainly, having trialled my dogs right underneath the wind turbines at Delabole in Cornwall, where neither sheep, dogs nor men and women were in the least affected, I feel that I can speak with some assurance as to the safety, as well as, in my eyes at least, their beauty.

Indeed, the gentle, rhythmic swishing of the sails was relaxing and peaceful, even when the youngest dog took off across the skyline with his packet of sheep racing, ears and tails up in panic – in short – no different to sheep and dogs anywhere else in the UK and certainly not caused by the wind turbines – just lack of training and discipline.

Further, it is testimony as to their efficacy, that we can still see every rock and stone, every bush and roof, festooned in lichens – not just one type, either, but probably hundreds of different ones.

And lichens cannot live in dirty polluted air, proving that the air of Cornwall is as clean as anywhere in the Country and probably cleaner than most.

Do I want nuclear or coal fired energy production in my back yard?

No, I do not, and I don’t want it in anyone else‘s either.

And that isn’t ‘Nimbyism’, it’s just plain common sense.

Wind power is only one way of achieving clean energy and as an Island, Britain is probably one of the most fortunate places on earth because we can choose so many different methods to enhance the whole of our production, with the minimum of pollution.

Yes – I have heard the argument that there are nuclear power stations just over the Channel in France.

Indeed, and every 3rd person over here, just across that narrow stretch of water, is going down with cancer.

I rest my case.

Tess Nash
Chairman
UKIP St Ives
Cornwall

http://www.ukipcornwall.org.uk/articles/wind-power-generation-wind-turbines · 120 days ago

European Elections

You will probably remember that we have been denied a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, which is the replacement for the failed Constitution. Although it is still going through parliament, it looks increasingly likely that the House of Lords will allow it to go through. (By the way, did you know that members who are in receipt of a European Union pension are obliged to support EU policies or risk losing it? This applies to people like Neil Kinnock, Chris Patten and Leon Brittan!)

Whilst we are still fighting the cause for a referendum, we must also consider what will happen if it goes through. Well, here is where you can help. Next June, we will be voting in the European elections again. We need to treat this as the referendum on the reform treaty we were not allowed to have. UKIP will be putting up candidates and this election will have no bearing on which party has control of the House of Commons so it is an ideal opportunity to ask a large number of people to lend us their vote, even if they don’t vote for us normally. Here in the south west, UKIP had the largest share of the vote in 2005, shocking the other parties at the obvious strength of feeling.

Don’t forget that all the three main parties will keep us in the EU and, since the Lisbon Treaty is self-amending, we have no idea what other initiatives they have in store for us. It makes no difference which party is in power in Westminster if our government is in Brussels. So please start talking to everyone who is angry at being denied a referendum. (At least 80% according to opinion polls.) Ask them to consider whether our first priority is to ensure that it matters whether it is Labour, Conservative or Lib Dem in power. The more we talk about this now, the more people we will reach to think about how they use their vote next June.

http://www.ukipcornwall.org.uk/articles/european-elections · 129 days ago

Post Office Closures and the Liberal Democrats

Those of us who are concerned about the closure of many of our rural post offices are astonished to find our local Lib Dems actively supporting the protests. Given that they are the most pro-EU party of all, they must surely be aware that it is EU Directives 97/67/EC and 2002/39/EC that are to blame.

This is how it used to work. We had an excellent system in place where you paid the same to have a letter delivered to the Scottish Islands as you did to have it delivered to an address three streets away. This meant that the expensive delivery services were subsidised by the more cost-effective ones, especially business post in the large cities. The post offices themselves could also be subsidised so that rural areas were not disadvantaged.

And what happens now? Well, the EU decided to open up postal services to competition and reduce the subsidies national governments were allowed to provide. The result, of course, is that the rural services are being hardest hit and the local post offices, providing a variety of really important services for local people, are having to close because they are not financially viable.

So if your local Lib Dems try to join protests in your area, ask them if they are aware of EU Directives 97/67 and 2002/39. Do they realise they are part of the problem? Do they realise they could have helped give us a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty before we have to suffer any more of these ill-thought out European initiatives? If they do, how have they got the nerve to be protesting against the closures they helped to cause? If they don’t know, should they really be in a position of authority over us? And will you be voting for them in future elections?

http://www.ukipcornwall.org.uk/articles/post-office-closures-and-the-liberal-democrats · 129 days ago