Month: March 2018

The Home Office has revealed that it has lost track of over 600,000 foreign visitors to the UK; the same amount as the population of Belfast. UKIP Leader Gerard Batten is furious and calling on Home Secretary Amber Rudd to stand down over the debacle.

The Conservative Government has spent £800 million on a borders system designed to log every entry into and departure from the country. However, the immigration watchdog has revealed gigantic failures in the system.

David Bolt, the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, found that the exit check system was so unreliable that there were no departure records for more than 500,000 non-visa travellers including those from the US, Australia, Argentina and Brazil. Also, 88,000 non-EU citizens, whose visas typically last six months had disappeared.  This is equivalent to around one in 20 people whose leave to be in the UK expired between 2015 and 2017.

UKIP Leader Gerard Batten commented on the report:

“The revelation that the Home Office has lost track of over 600,000 foreign visitors; enough people to fill the city of Belfast, is scandalous. £800 million of taxpayers’ money has been wasted on what is an utterly useless system.

“Successive British Governments have proved that they are either completely incompetent or really don’t care how many people stay illegally in the UK. Which is it?

“Mrs May was totally useless as Home Secretary and the current Home Secretary Amber Rudd is following in her footsteps. She should do the decent thing and resign as Home Secretary so that someone else can sort out this this scandalous mess.”

The proposal is to make our British Passport, yes! the lovely blue ones, outside the UK.

Obviously UKIP are fully opposed to such an action, we must retain jobs within our own borders. Especially with such a prestigious task.

We ask you to join the Daily Mail and sign their petition fighting, as we do, the retention of jobs here.

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Video produced by our friends in UKIP Wales, Note where Northern Ireland sits in the education tables.

Wake up Brexiteers; the Irish / EU caucus are sleep walking the UK Government into a ‘New Ireland.’

Guess what? They are including Northern Ireland in their plan to bulldoze British soil smack bang into an all Ireland EU customs union.

When the Nation voted to take back control of our borders; it meant all of our borders. The trick in the slight of hand Irish are attempting is to summarily remove the only land border in the United Kingdom.

The political elite have shown an eager willingness to acquiesce in this dangerous backstop proposal. Never write again letters of controversial double talk implications Mrs. May. In fact, Mrs. Prime Minister – It would be appropriate that you write an open letter to the people of Northern Ireland withdrawing your December commitment to Donald Tusk. 

Our Government have a duty to publicly denounce this backstop proposal.

The longer it remains on the table as the only proposition; the more Varadkar, the Irish and those who seek to break up this Union will agitate.  

Brexiteers UK-wide must demand when the Government will produce a coherent alternative to the backstop nonsense. The Government will ignore at its peril denying the 320,579 Northern Irelanders who voted to leave the EU their right to be treated no different from any other part of this United Kingdom.

So come on the 44% here in Northern Ireland who voted leave: Let’s get Brexiting with a social media campaign driving home the compelling message that the border stays and it is going nowhere.

Opinion Piece By David McNarry (former UKIP MLA & NI Leader.)

UKIP fisheries spokesman, Mike Hookem MEP, has slammed new EU demands for continued fishing access to our waters after 2020, saying “the EU is holding the UK’s fishing grounds hostage.”

Mr Hookem’s comments came after the EU published new guidelines to future UK/EU trade talks, which state, “in the overall context of the FTA, existing reciprocal access to fishing waters and resources should be maintained.”

Speaking from his Yorkshire constituency, Mr Hookem said, “this latest EU demand is nothing more than an attempted daylight robbery of the UK’s rich fishing resources.”

Mr Hookem continued, “Unlike the British Government, the EU understands the true value of our fishing resources and are trying to blackmail Britain in allowing continued access after the transitional period ends in 2020.”

“Given Theresa May and David Davis’ track record so far in Brexit negotiations, I have no doubt that they will roll over and allow EU negotiators to walk all over them. However, for many in the fishing industry, this will be the final nail in the coffin.”

“Any move to allow the EU to continue stripping the UK’s rich fishing resources after 2020 will be the completion of a betrayal that started with Edward Heath in 1972; continued when the Tories allowed fishing to be included in the transitional arrangements; and will end with continued access post-2020.”

“When will Theresa May grow a pair and start to stand up for the United Kingdom and tell the EU to get lost.”

“Should the UK reclaim its full fishing rights under international law, the industry is worth at least £6.3billon to the British economy at today’s prices. The potential boost in income would help many struggling coastal communities and protect a historic industry that has been practised in Britain for millennia.”

East Midlands MEP Jonathan Bullock said he was disappointed the new post-Brexit passports may not be made in the UK.

The British firm, which has made the UK’s passports for ten years, wants answers from the Government on reports it is set to award the contract for the new blue passports to a Franco-Dutch company.

Mr Bullock said: “The new blue passport is one symbol of us voting to leave the EU. It is disappointing they look likely to be made abroad and they should be made in this country for security reasons.

“Of course, this also means the loss of business to the current makers of the passports – a British company. I hope the Government will look at this again.”

Inspire YOUth is funded through the Ulster Skills and Opportunities Fund.

The programme is specifically targeted at 16-25 year olds currently not in education or employment; this programme is designed to assist with building  new found knowledge and expertise in business and enterprise by providing signposting, training and mentoring as well as a workplace within a local business, using local entrepreneurs as mentors to give an insight into self employment or enhance employability skills and add to a CV

The Inspire YOUth programme of support includes:

• FREE support, advice and signposting
• FREE 8 session Exploring Enterprise programme
• 12 day placement over a period of 12 weeks with a local company to gain valuable work experience and knowledge
• Funding to cover travel expenses for placement stage
• 1:2:1 coaching and mentoring from local business entrepreneurs
• Access to local young business owners and ambassadors
• Help to plan your next steps ….

 We are running to information workshops over the next few weeks and hope to try and reach as many young people as we can and would really appreciate it if you could help us get the word out there.  I have attached our programme flyer and all information is outlined on our website.

Emma Pearson
Business Development Manager
North Down Development Organisation Limited
Enterprise House
2-4 Balloo Avenue
Balloo Industrial Estate
Bangor
Co. Down
BT19 7QT
Tel:             028 9127 1525
E Mail:       emma@nddo.co.uk
Facebook:  @NDDOBusiness
Website:    www.nddo.co.uk

”Keeping UK fishers tied to EU for another two years will kill the fishing industry” says UKIP fisheries spokesman.

Dear UKIP

We expect you will all be aware of the rape grooming gangs that have been operating in Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford, Telford and many other parts of the UK. The offenders are predominantly Muslim Pakistani men targeting non-Muslim girls and it has been going on for years. Lord Pearson of Rannoch (UKIP Leader Nov. 2009 – Sep. 2010) spoke in the House of Lords on Tuesday 13 March and described the situation as follows:

“… these girls are usually raped several times a day. If we accept the views of our lead police officer for child protection, of Rotherham’s MP and of the recent Jay and Quilliam reports, we are looking at millions of rapes of white and Sikh girls by Muslim men, only 222 of whom have been convicted since 2005.”

Like yourselves, we are hearing about rape grooming gangs from various media sources, but we would like to build our own knowledge base so that we can contribute to the current pool of data. We have supporters all over the UK and we would like to hear about what is going on around the country. If you have any information about what’s happening in your local area, from local media reports, personal contacts or situations that you know about, please get in touch with us. Everything you tell us will be held in the strictest confidence and will be anonymised, obscured, and reduced to statistics as required, and nothing will be published without your consent.

Subject to these conditions, we will have to decide what to do with the data when we see what comes in, but in the first place we will want to get people talking about this issue so that they can overcome their fear of being denounced as “racist”.

Mike Gascoigne

Secretary and Webmaster

Support 4 the Family

www.support4thefamily.org