Restore Student Grants

UKIP County Durham is deeply concerned at the massive amount of student debt, estimated at £5 billion in 2010. We believe that those who really should be at university should be supported financially by the state according to their need through to the completion of their bachelor’s degree.

To make this possible,we propose the following:- read more...

Events

• Branch Meeting - 30th Nov 2011
• NOTE All meetings held at Shakespeare Hall, North Road, Durham.
  From 7.30pm to 9pm

The onward march of the Federal State

The EU continues to take ever more steps towards the completion of its ultimate objective: the creation of a United States of Europe.

The crisis in the Euro zone has at least caused federalists to admit the fact. European “President”, Herman Van Rompuy has announced his intention to run for a second term as EU President at the head of a “United States of Europe” (his words). Meanwhile, the former German Chancellor, Gerhard Shroeder, has admitted to Der Spiegel magazine that the creation of a euro zone economic government would “translate into a United States of Europe”. But still those in favour of our membership of the EU cling to the belief that it is all about trade. Or perhaps they don’t; perhaps they continue to obfuscate in the hope that we’ll all agree to walk blindly into the USE.

The move towards a common legal system continues, unannounced in the UK, but available on the EU Commission’s own web site for all to see and understand. Common Law is under threat as the EU Commission has adopted a policy paper aiming to ensure that 700,000 legal practitioners undertake training in EU law by 2020. The Commission previously set goals increasing the number of judges and prosecutors trained in European law with the aim of empowering them to apply European law at national levels. This is further evidence of additional attempts to give EU law supremacy over British law in all areas of our lives. The region’s own metric martyrs were victims of EU law taking precedence over laws enacted at Westminster.

The Commission has recently published a blue print for EU policy on Criminal Law. The Treaty of Lisbon, signed by Gordon Brown and accepted by David Cameron (what happened to the promised referendum?), takes huge steps in this direction. The Treaty and this blue print give powers to the EU to use criminal law in order to enforce its policies and rules. It grants powers to define common definitions of what is deemed to be a crime. Now that means that we would have to re-define, for example, xenophobia as a crime. In the UK we currently have no such crime although a number of European Countries do consider it so.

Criminal Law will be used to prevent and punish offences against EU Law and Rules in some policy areas. And the Europhiles tell us the EU is about trade.

Nigel Coghill-Marshall. Chairman, UKIP COUNTY DURHAM

Britannia

Arise, advance, Britannia
The Union flag still flies
March ever on, Britannia
With victory in your eyes

Lift up your shield. Oh Queen of seas
Unleash the Lion’s roar
And scatter to the great four winds
The shame of foreign law

March ever on, Britannia
Armed with truth and light
Let no act of treason
Deny us our birthright

Lead us on, Britannia
We’ll be free men in our graves
For the children of Britannia
Will not suffer to be slaves

To battle then, Britannia
Just freedom is our cause
Your history, our armour
Our swords, the Lion’s claws

To Victory, Britannia
A toast we raise to you
The Mother of democracy
Our homeland, staunch and true

(Bruce Reid. UKIP Co. Durham)