Anthony Butcher

John, you are issuing these at a faster rate than UKIP.

John Page

It's a tough challenge, Anthony.

Scotgirl, thanks for your interest. As I said at the start of the thread - and I know from your post that you realize this - "these are not designed to be professional, finished articles" (I believe UKIP has professionals in this field).

Rather, I want to show the sort of thing that I believe can be done.


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Angryjohn

Good work John Page. We certainly need more exposure. I feel we also need to comment on the other issues as well that are in the news. If we wish to be taken seriously then we need to act like a mainline party.

Percentage

Balls in your court John,have you got the motivation? :wink:

Angryjohn

I may shove in my contribution should I feel angy enough .

Indeed most weeks I write to someone or other in power (this week F and Com office European Office to discuss various things.)

Percentage

Well done,good on you! I wonder if John Page has the same motivation,i hesitate to point it out but its;

Anti EU issues 4 Domestic issues 0 ,so far! :wink:

John Page

*** This is not a UKIP press release ***

UKIP today criticised the sentence on a benefit scrounger, who escaped with a suspended prison term.

The Judge said he would have imposed an immediate custodial sentence if she had not "finally" admitted the offences. Over seven-and-a-half years she had got away with over £125,000. Additional benefit from rent and ever increasing property prices took the total to more than £350,000.

The Judge said because of her admission and the fact that she has young children, "special circumstances allow me to impose two years' imprisonment on each count concurrently, and that will be suspended for two years."

A UKIP spokesman said, "Ministers may say that they will continue to press for the strongest penalties in these cases. These are feeble words. It is wrong that such long term, large scale fraud can go unpunished by a prison sentence. Ministers frame the law, and the law should not allow it."

*** This is not a UKIP press release ***

Poster's comment - see http://www.24dash.com/content/news/v...=4&newsID=1788

I can think of several reasons why this wording might not do. But I think benefit fraud is an issue where UKIP can be hawkish, for both moral and political reasons.


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mkpdavies

I think we should just release your efforts via clickpress, on behalf of the UKIP supporters club or something.

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John Page

That's a kind thought but I don't think we should compromise the party's name by letting my untutored efforts loose on the world!

Nonetheless, I hope the party will soon re-organise itself so that it can start commenting promptly on issues of the day.

Clive's tour - http://www.ukipforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7806 - is promising, and I hope for action from the centre too, though it looks as if it may have to change the way it does things.

Meanwhile, I hope this thread will convince readers that these changes are worth pressing for. I'd really like to see us raise our profile in this way.


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*** This is not a UKIP press release ***

UKIP called on the government to withdraw its policy of combining counties' police forces after political leaders in Eastern England said their county forces should keep their independence, but with more co-operation on major crime.

A UKIP spokesman said: "The government has tried to rush through these ill considered arrangements for mergers. What are the benefits and the costs?

"The government is also promoting a policy of neighbourhood policing, but again without giving forces the money to pay for it.

"We say that police forces should be subject to more democratic control, not less. Different Chief Constables have different policies on matters like deployment of speed cameras. Police priorities should be influenced more by local public opinion.

"Government is moving towards centralisation of the police. This is completely the wrong direction.

"Government policing policy is a mess."

*** This is not a UKIP press release ***

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Poster's comments -

I stress again that this is just something I have knocked up to show what could be done. But presumably someone in UKIP has policy responsibility in this area, and we should be able to get a release out on this.

Background in the thread at http://www.ukipforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7834


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