The administration of this country is a dollop of dodgy doodah on a doily

GET IN TOUCH

The administration of this country is a dollop of dodgy doodah on a doily

Ben Walker • 6 February 2023

Patricia Mountain - Party Director

We are now suffering massive inflation and eye watering gas and electricity prices with huge numbers of people now struggling to pay for heating and cooking. Many are going into debt and it is unlikely this is going to improve while the UK does not allow licences to mine for coal, frack for gas and drill for oil. Energy prices are not coming back down anytime soon and fewer people will be travelling overseas.

Food prices are still spiralling upwards as processing costs continue to filter through. Mortgages are also rising and many are now struggling to pay the premiums because they thought interest rates would always stay low. The money is haemorrhaging away from the family income.

In fact, the UK is grinding to a halt. I doubt Rishi Sunak can win the next election next year. His replacement with Labour or a rainbow coalition will just increase our race towards the precipice. You cannot tax a country into prosperity. Nothing now works except the General Register Office for Birth, Death, and marriage they can still send out a certificate in 5 days. Can’t think of anything else that works.

Beverley Turner on GB News the other day had a chairman of a teaching mental support group putting the case for a teacher’s pay rise. Actually, the problem with the teaching profession is that it is totally micromanaged, and everyone has to conform to the National Curriculum. Teachers have to keep filling out a whole load of forms, so everything is monitored. They have to struggle with unruly children and children from homes that cannot feed them or clothe them properly before sending them to school.

During the term times the teachers have to work well into every evening to do the admin and marking of homework and preparation for the next day. Every year the Department of Education changes the curriculum so that the teachers have to rework all their previous class notes during the 'so called' summer holiday. The Department of Education runs the Continuing Professional Development programme forcing successful teachers to go on unnecessary courses that only cause them to question their teaching ability. It is brutal and no amount of money is going to solve it. The average working life of modern teachers is 3 years before they leave and get a job with less stress and more job satisfaction.

The real problems are not registering with this government.

Let’s look at the NHS, nearly all of us realise that a crisis point has been reached. The patient-to-staff ratios considered adequate in the past no longer work well. Even during non-peak times there are more patients than nurses can safely care for. The expectation seems to be that nurses will do double shifts when needed, adding exhaustion to the physical and mental challenges of the job. The NHS is in crisis, not just from a lack of adequate funding but because of the inefficient use of funds and ever-increasing demand from an aging population and foreign nationals. The NHS is a national health service not an international health service. It is open to widespread abuse by non-UK citizens. Open borders have had a major impact on existing NHS resources however, this just doesn’t seem to register with this government.

Estimates by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) indicates that household bills now exceed income in 60% of UK homes. And there we have it! This government is not doing its job, we see a complete failure to manage the economy and safeguard UK citizens. Sadly, the powers that be, show more concern for the welfare of illegal immigrants and we the taxpayers are footing the bill for this folly.

Lack of talent? Complete disregard for the general public? Or are they more concerned with showing off on the World stage pretending to have the answers to every problem in every other country while many of their own citizens freeze, go hungry, cannot access health and dental care, struggle to keep a roof over their head and some parents left in despair as their children cannot access appropriate education? There are many more problems too numerous to mention. A complete shambles all round!

If you believe charity begins at home, you should be voting for the UK Independence Party candidate at election time.

Patricia Mountain

Party Director

UK Independence Party

< Older Post Newer Post >

Recent National News

Enough is Enough

by Cameron Bishop • 2 November 2024

Cameron Bishop Former Police Crown Servant, Solicitor & UKIP Activist

Ever wondered what makes UKIP different?

by Ben Walker • 21 October 2024

Ben Walker National Party Chairman - UK Independence Party

The Father of BREXIT Dies

by Stuart Gulleford • 11 September 2024

Jeffrey Titford 24.10.1933 – 09.09.2024 Jeffrey Titford, the former Leader of the UK Independence Party and two term MEP for the East of England, has passed away, after suffering from cancer. His family announced his death on 10 th September, aged 90. Jeffrey was one of the fathers of Brexit, coming to the fore in national and international politics at a time when leaving the EU was considered unthinkable and long before it became official Conservative Party policy. A visionary and a democrat, who did not believe that EU membership provided a viable future for Britain as an independent, self-governing nation, Jeffrey Titford was elected to the European Parliament at the 1999 European Parliamentary Elections, aged 63. He was one of three UK Independence Party MEPs elected, which sent shock waves through the political world. He became Leader of the Party in 2000 and served for three years bringing stability and respectability to its campaigns. During this period, he made seventy speeches a year, travelling all over the country. He also served as interim Leader from September to November 2010, following the resignation of Lord Pearson of Rannoch, while the election of a new Leader was held. During his time in the European Parliament, he made dozens of speeches in Plenary session severely criticising the EU and particularly the level of fraud in its finances. He also extensively lobbied the European Commission and the Government in Westminster on behalf of the British fishing and farming industries. He led several delegations of fishermen to see UK Agriculture Ministers in Westminster and also took a delegation to meet the European Commissioner for Fishing in Brussels. He wrote monthly columns for the East Anglian Daily Times, the Hertfordshire Mercury and Farmers Guide and made many appearances on regional television. He also made a guest appearance on Breakfast with Frost. Jeffrey Titford’s political career began in 1970, when he became a Councillor on the Clacton Urban District Council. He ended his association with the Conservative Party in 1992, in protest over Prime Minister John Major’s signing of the Maastricht Treaty. He joined Sir James Goldsmith’s Referendum Party and, in a sign of things to come, stood in the General Election of 1997 in Harwich when he was the Party’s most successful candidate, securing almost 10 per cent of the vote and, in the process, unseating the sitting Member of Parliament. Following the death of Sir James Goldsmith, Jeffrey was invited to join the UK Independence Party (UKIP), where he established a branch in Clacton and a regional committee, which led to his successful campaign in the European Elections in 1999. He paved the way for Nigel Farage’s subsequent success in Clacton at the 2024 General Election. He was re-elected to the European Parliament in 2004, with a greatly increased share of the vote and UKIP also returned a second MEP. He retired from European Politics in 2009 and was made an Honorary Patron of the Party in 2006 and became President for Life in 2011. Life before politics Following National Service in the RAF, Jeffrey joined the family’s funeral directing business in 1956, where he had a 35 year career, during which he served for 12 years on the National Association of Funeral Director’s (NAFD) National Executive and rose to National President in 1975-76. He was instrumental in developing an official code of practice for the funeral profession, at the request of the Office of Fair Trading. He also successfully campaigned for funeral directors to have the right to sell a package funeral and carried out the first review of the practice manual for funeral directing, which led to the creation of a formal qualification for funeral directors, recognised by the NAFD. He sold the company in February 1989 and retired from the profession. An enthusiastic Rotarian, Jeffrey served as President of the Clacton and later Frinton Rotary Clubs. He also belonged to the Clacton Operatic and Clacton Dramatic Societies, taking lead roles in both companies. However, his most successful hobby was rally driving. He was a leading light in the Clacton Motor Club in the early seventies for whom he was the regional rally champion for six consecutive years. Jeffrey Titford was a devoted family man and is survived by his wife Margaret, one son, three daughters, eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren.