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What lies ahead
Posted by Marta Andreasen MEP (@mandreasen) - UKIP
Friday, 15th January 2010
The new year brings excitement and challenges for Ukippers! At some point before the middle of the year we will be having a national election and for the first time the British people will have "an option". Although people want to see the present government out, the Tories will not bring the change that is needed, nor would a coalition with the Lib Dems make any change. Most of the laws come from Brussels so it is from there that we are being governed. UKIP’s pledge to leave the EU should move a lot of the voters to abandon their traditional choice.
In any case, I will be campaigning hard in the UK and from Brussels, exposing the true face of the EU. Next weekend I am going down to the South West for the official launch of the national election campaign in that region and will be speaking at different events. I will obviously spend as much time as I can campaigning in the South East, my region, but as I did during the European Election I will go wherever they need me to help the party succeed.
In Brussels, the hearings with the new commissioners have started this week. Last week we were bombarded with information about the different candidates (one for each portfolio... so no real choice offered). I wondered why we couldn´t have had this information before the Christmas holidays so we could read carefully. In any case this is all a charade as they will all be elected whatever their performance as has happened every time the commission is renewed even when personal history included criminal conviction. Nevertheless, I will not miss the opportunity to hit them where it hurts. In the next few days I will be telling you about my experiences at these hearings and you will be able to look at the videos of my interventions.
The scandal of illegal properties in Spain is also growing in importance and I am trying to help the people who are about to see their houses demolished or those who have no roads, electricity, etc around their houses. The Sunday Express has been publishing about this in the recent weeks. The alternative here is to put a motion in the European Parliament to block all subsidies to the regions concerned... a monumental task! But I am working on it and we shall see...In the meantime I am writing to the local authorities announcing my intention to get subsidies blocked...They might react!
