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FROM THE SECRETARY:
Thank you to everyone who helped with the election, those who stood as candidates, delivered leaflets, donated funds or displayed a poster. You were all essential and we could not have managed without you. A special thank you for those who attended the vote count which went on till 7.30am Friday morning - a marathon 9½ hours! We slept well that night!
Evelyn Rolph - Branch Secretary
Election results - Parliamentary
Edmonton
Andy LOVE (Labour) 21,665 Andrew CHARALAMBOUS (Con) 12,052 Iarla KILBANE-DAWE (LibDem) 4,252 Roy FRESHWATER (UKIP) 1,036 Jack JOHNSON (Green) 516 Erol BASARIK (Reform 2000) 379 Clive MORRISON (Christian Party) 250 David McLEAN (Ind) 127
Enfield North
Nick DE BOIS (Con) 18,804 Joan RYAN (Lab) 17,112 Paul SMITH (LibDem) 5,403 Tony AVERY (BNP) 1,228 Madge JONES (UKIP) 938 Bill LINTON (Green) 489 Anthony WILLIAMS (Christian Party) 161 Raquel WEALD (English Democrats) 131 Anna ATHOW (Workers Revolutionary) 96 Gonul DANIELS (Ind) 91
Enfield Southgate
David BURROWES (Cons) 21,928 Bambos CHARAABOUS (Lab) 14,302 Johar KHAN (Lib.Dem) 6,124 Peter KRAKOWIAK (Green) 632 Bob BROCK (UKIP) 505 Asit MUKHOPADHYAY (Ind) 391 Samad BILLOO (Respect) 174 Ben WEALD (English Democrats) 173 Mal The Warrior (Ind) 88 Jeremy STURGESS (A Better Britain For All) 35
Tottenham
David LAMMY (Lab) 24,128 David SCHMITZ (Lib. Dem) 7,197 Sean SULLIVAN (Con) 6,064 Jenny SUTTON (Trade Union) 1,057 Ann GRAY (Green) 980 Winston McKENZIE (UKIP) 466 Neville WATSON (Ind) 265 Abimbola KADARA (Christian Party) 262 Sheik THOMPSON (Ind) 143 Errol CARR (Ind) 125
Election results - Council
We did not do so well in the Council election.
In Bush Hill Park Gwyneth came 9th with 618 votes behind the 3 Conservatives, 3 Labour, 1 Lib.Dem and 1 Green.
In Chase Roy came 10th with 559 votes behind 3 Conservatives, 3 Labour, 1 Save Chase Farm, 1 Lib. Dem and 1 Green.
In Enfield Highway Madge came 8th with 537 votes behind 3 Labour, 3 Conservatives, and 1 Lib.Dem. but ahead of the BNP and Green candidates.
In Enfield Lock Gary came 9th with 540 votes behind 3 Labour, 3 Conservative, 1 Lib.Dem, and 1 Green but ahead of the BNP candidate.
In Southbury Fred came 9th with 506 votes behind 3 Labour, 3 Conservatives, 1 Lib.Dem and 1 Green.
in Turkey Street David Jeal came 9th with 486 votes behind 3 Labour, 3 Conservative, 1 Lib.Dem, and 1 BNP but ahead of the Greens.
Labour have gained control of Enfield Council with 36 seats to the Tories’ 27. Kate Wilkinson and Kieran McGregor of Save Chase Farm both lost their seats.
Jeremy, standing in the Hornsey ward of Haringey Council, got 136 votes. It was the first time we have contested a Haringey Council seat. The Lib.Dems were elected.
Edmonton/Bush Hill Park hustings
Roy braved the platform at the Bush Hill Park Residents Association hustings on 14th April. One of the points he made is that 70% of our legislation originates in Brussels to which Andy Love (Labour) argued that it is only about 6%. The Lisbon Treaty gives the EU control over agriculture & fisheries, environment, consumer protection, transport, telecommunications, energy, research, technical development, space, asylum & immigration, judicial (civil & criminal), police, public health, industry, culture, education & vocational training, youth & sport, civil protection, foreign policy, security & defence and commercial policy. Not much left for the member states to legislate on!
Nigel Farage
Nigel was involved in a light aircraft crash on the morning of 6th May and was taken to hospital with 3 cracked ribs, a bruised sternum and slight back problems. He was released from hospital on Saturday, 8th May having come third in the Buckingham election. The pilot was more seriously hurt but his injuries are not life threatening.
Nick Clegg
The Lib.Dem. leader came over well in the TV debates. I did not know until recently that Nick Clegg was an MEP from 1999 to 2004. As I have pointed out before, ex-employees of the EU are entitled to a generous EU pension which can be lost of the recipient does not support the EU at all times. I feel Nick Clegg is bought and paid for which is why he is so keen for Britain to give up its final remnant of sovereignty and exchange the pound for the euro.
The Lib.Dem. election manifesto copied word for word three of UKIP’s policies: the introduction of a flat tax and take the low paid out of tax altogether; elected County Health Boards; and plans to re-open thousands of miles of railway lines.
Greece
Greece’s economic standard has been downgraded to “junk”, meaning that they will have to pay a higher rate of interest on any borrowings. The EU has agreed that Greece can borrow 30 billion euros from the EU and 15 billion from the IMF each year for the next 3 years on condition that it imposes austerity measures on its citizens. This has already provoked riots on the streets. Britain contributes 5% of the IMF annual budget so we are indirectly paying towards Greece’s bailout even though we are in debt ourselves.
There has been heavy resistence from the German people to shore up the Greeks and the Slovakian government has said it will not immediately contribute its share as it doesn’t “trust the Greeks”.
Standard & Poor’s, one of the international companies that decides a country’s credit ratings, is based in the US so the EU want to set up their own credit agency.
UKIP Annual Conference
This has been arranged for Friday, 2nd and Saturday, 3rd September in Torquay. Unfortunately this clashes yet again with the Enfield Town Show and some of our members don’t want to miss Conference for a third year running. This means that our publicity stall in Town Park is in doubt.
Sale of the family silver
The German state-controlled train group Deutsche Bahn has taken over our bus and train group Arriva for £1.59 billion so in effect the routes operated by Arriva have been re-nationalised - but not by our own government.
British Airways signed a £5 billion merger agreement with Spain’s Iberia. The merged company will be called International Airline Group.
Raymarine, supplier of marine radar, GPS systems and other navigation devices for leisure boats, has been bought by American Garmin.
The euro
Estonia and Bulgaria both want to join the euro although Bulgaria seems to be cooking its books in much the same way as Greece did. The Swedes have recently voted against joining.
Day-to-day news from April
1st - Unemployment in the eurozone rose to 10% in February, the highest level since August 1998 with Spain’s 19% jobless rate the most alarming.
2nd - Shops and clinics selling herbal and Chinese medicine are to be regulated for the first time.
2nd - Gordon Brown promised to waive the VAT on a charity record to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake but under EU rules he can’t exempt things from VAT. He decided instead to take the VAT cost from the aid budget of the Department for International Development meaning that some other poor country, like Malawi or Mozambique, could end up paying for Haiti’s VAT bill.
5th - Brussels is to issue new atlases to British schools which show the English Channel as the “Anglo-French Pond” and schoolchildren will be taught that Britain is part of France, Sweden, Denmark and a whole host of other European countries. The atlases will cost the UK over £1 million.
9th - Although the EU has banned all commercial trade in seal based products, it comes after it spent more than £260,000 promoting the seal hunting industry, including a cookbook with a recipe for “Seal Wellington”. The book is now to be published in Canada because its recipes are outlawed in Europe.
9th - An overwhelming majority of MEPs voted to secure EU citizens right to interpretation in their own language when facing criminal trial in another EU member state. Translation and interpretation costs will have to be met by the member state, not by the suspect.
12th - In order to comply with EU equality rules, the retirement age for women will gradually be increased to 65. Free bus passes will similarly be postponed to match a woman’s retirement age saving the Treasury more than £1 billion over the next 5 years.
13th - Lord Pearson’s wife, Lady Caroline Pearson, is standing as UKIP candidate in Westminster. She said she was standing in memory of her father, who resigned from the Tory party in 1992 over the Maastrict Treaty.
14th - The EU is threatening to take the UK to court over failing to adhere to EU planning law which could hit the UK’s push for more new nuclear power stations.
16th - The EU is considering plans for approving eurozone members’ budgets before they are submitted to national parliaments. The Germans are very much against this.
16th - Cricket bat makers could be forced out of business following an EU directive which has banned the use of methyl bromide, a vital insecticide which is used to treat the wood.
19th - The EU declares that “tourism is a human right” and plans to subsidise holidays around the EU for poorer citizens, pensioners and students.
20th - The EU wants to impose an energy tax “because that’s how energy consumption is reduced.” Already some pensioners have to choose whether to heat or eat.
21st - Some doctors are responsible for looking after up to 400 patients in hospital at night, since junior doctors were limited to a 48 hour working week under the EU Working Time Directive. The Royal College of Surgeons said there was now “overwhelming evidence that safe and effective hospital cover, especially at night, cannot be sustained” under the EU rules.
21st - Labour is supporting plans for a dramatic expansion in the powers available to fellow member states who accuse UK nationals of committing even the most minor crimes while visiting. Under the plans other countries could get the right to demand surveillance on a UK resident who has returned home, and access to his or her bank records. They could also be entitled to demand British police take a suspect’s DNA or other samples. The proposals are designed to bolster the new European Evidence Warrant, a partner to the European Arrest Warrant.
23rd - Nigel Farage has been visiting pubs in Buckingham and landlords are falling in behind Nigel’s campaign to save the local pub trade.
26th - Jobbik, a neo-fascist group won more than one in six of the votes in Hungary’s recent parliamentary elections. Their manifesto promise to “eradicate gypsy crime” has meant that thousands of Hungarian gypsies are planning to move to the UK.
29th - Spain became the latest country to have its credit rating cut, from AA+ to AA because it was likely to have an extended period of subdued economic growth.
30th - A burka ban is to be imposed in Belgium to come into force by July. Women who refuse to comply with the regulation face a £110 fine. France, Italy and Switzerland are also considering the ban in public places, such as banks, schools and airports.