** Nikki SINCLAIRE BOUGHT A NEW VEHICLE for HER CROSS PARTY PETITION

** Nikki SINCLAIRE BOUGHT A NEW VEHICLE for HER CROSS PARTY PETITION   


Nikki SINCLAIRE MEP BOUGHT A NEW VEHICLE for HER CROSS PARTY PETITION - We Understand Paul Nuttall UKIP MEP spent some £30-40,000 on his personal delux Range Rover with its tinted windows and personalised number plate and Graham Booth UKIP MEP (rtd.) bought an Aston Martin!

I would guess Ms. Sinclaire spent a tad under £10K on hers and a further £2K refurbing it to make it fit for purpose - unlike the other UKIP MEPs who are neither fit for purpose nor worth refurbing nor trustworth!

MEP Nikki Sinclaire holds roadshow in Stoke-on-Trent

Nikki Sinclaire is determined to continue representing the West Midlands

Elizabeth Glinka Political Reporter

One of the West Midlands' six MEPs was in Stoke-on-Trent to collect signatures for a petition calling for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.

Former UKIP member Nikki Sinclaire was elected in the 2008, but subsequently left the party.

She lost the whip after refusing to sit alongside UKIP's allies the EDF (Europe of Freedom and Democracy) group.

Ms Sinclaire has described members of the EDF as holding "a variety of extremist views". 

Despite no longer having the support of her party the Euro MP said she was "determined to continue representing the people of the West Midlands". 

In the meantime her brightly decorated campaign van will be travelling the six counties of the region in an effort to generate publicity for her petition.

To view the original BBC Article with soundtrack CLICK HERE

As an aside - The Petition Campaign is strictly Cross Party and although our means and numbers are low Nikki Sinclaire has accepted the support of our small but 'embracing' Party/Alliance.

Really all we have to offer of consequence is some time, some endorsement but most of all the status of The Petition as a Cross Party entity which may make it easier for others to join.

We wish the petition every good fortune at  

 INDEPENDENT Leave-the-EU Alliance

 We shall within a day or so add The Petition logo and a direct link to the site to SIGN The Petition on EVERY main page on our web site and I hope also on our Forum (IF I can work out how to do it as 'me TechNoCrass!)

Our unreserved congratulations as devbotees of leaving the EU to Nikki Sinclaire for her initiative which we endorse wholeheartedly. It will be remembered that the main thrust of support in fact the foundation of 

 INDEPENDENT Leave-the-EU Alliance

was based upon UKIP supporters disgusted with the dishonesty and corruption of UKIP under its present leadership team.

You will no doubt have noted already there is a direct link to sign up to The Petition in the right sidebar on various blogs - JUST take a moment to make a Patriotic action setting party, views, petty jealousies aside - never forget 60,000 people fell at the Somme in a day in defence of these United Kingdoms few knew who their politicians were and amongst them were Jews, Homosexuals, Christians, Muslims, Aetheists, Wikka, Catholics and those of no belief or superstition - they set aside their petty squabbles for the sake of these United Kingdoms - please be man enough to do the same, in their memory.

 Top pic. Jim, Des, Ken & Alan
Center pic. Banner for DesWatkins blog

Lower pic. Win doing dawn checks on a Spitfire

As you do so I'd like you to spare a thought for Jim Watkins of The Gloucesters who stood his ground at The Somme, Ypres, Paschendale, Marne and many more FOR YOU, and for Kenneth Lorraine Watkins who with REME in The 8th. Army traversed Africa in Tank Recovery and up through Italy to stand in The Reichwald Forest Battle and more, and Winifred Beatrice Ferris/Watkins WRAF and Desmond John Watkins who as a fighter pilot died in his 80s still waking with nightmares from Bergen Belsen and before that the Falaise Box and scared to meet his maker for fear of the 1,000s he had killed for YOU & I.

I receive only today just over 100 photographs of North Africa from Lesley's Grandfather, who did his duty for you in the RAF, which will find their way onto the internet soon.

 One of Jack Christie's pictures that Lesley has sent me

You too have family who risked their all, think of them as you make YOUR small contribution to liberty as you sign The Petition.

  INDEPENDENT Leave-the-EU Alliance

to

Reclaim YOUR Future 
&   
GET YOUR COUNTRY BACK

Write Upon Your Ballot Paper at EVERY election:

(IF You Have No INDEPENDENT Leave-the-EU Alliance Candidate)

LEAVE-THE-EU  
to Reclaim YOUR Future   
& 
GET YOUR COUNTRY BACK

July-2010 - & The COSTS ARE!!! The Pink Book

& THE COST IS!!

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88 per cent of the UK Trade Deficit

over the last five years was with EU-26

In 2009 the UK traded in deficit with sixteen of its twenty-six EU partners.

UK exports  contracted sharply compared with 2008; so did imports. 

 The UK Gross Contribution to EU Institutions continued its inexorable upward march, costing the British taxpayer £ 48 million per day in 2009.

• The UK current account balance (“trade deficit”) with the whole world, having reached alarming levels in 2006 & 2007, contracted significantly in 2008 & 2009.                             

                                                                                                                                           Table 1

• The contraction in 2009 occurred in spite of a large increase in the UK deficit with EU-26. The UK deficit with the world outside the EU,  strongly negative in 2008, almost disappeared in 2009 (a deficit of £ 1.1 bn).                                               Table 2

  

Table 1: UK Current Account Deficit with World 2005 – 2009*
Year	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
£ bn	32.8	44.9	36.5	23.8	15.5

• Cumulatively, over the period 2005 – 2009, the UK deficit with EU-26 accounted for 88 % of the deficit with the whole world.  Cumulatively, on its trade with the world outside the EU, the UK has been almost in balance.                                           Table 2

Table 2: UK Current Account  Balance With EU-26 & Rest Of World*
Year	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Cumul. ‘05 – ‘09
Balance UK/EU-26               £ bn	(40.6)	(35.5)	(38.5)	(5.5)	(14.4)	(134.5)
Balance UK/Rest of World   £ bn	+7.8	(9.4)	+2.0	(18.3)	(1.1)	(19.0)
Balance UK/Whole World   £ bn	(32.8)	(44.9)	(36.5)	(23.8)	(15.5)	(153.5)
UK Deficit with EU-26 as a proportion of UK Deficit with World						88%

 

• The value of UK exports to EU-26 shrank by almost a fifth in 2009 compared to 2008; the shrinkage in UK exports to the Rest of the World was less.                           Table 3

Table 3:  Shrinkage of UK Exports from 2008 to 2009*
£ bn	2008	2009	Difference
Exports to EU-26	342	277	(19%)
Exports to Rest of World	359	300	(16%)
Exports to World	701	577	(18%)

• On its trade with the whole world in 2009 the UK ran a large deficit on Goods,

      (£ 82 bn), offset by  surpluses on Services & Income.                            Table 4

  

Table 4:  UK Current Account in 2009: £ bn*
	Goods	Services	Income	Transfers	Total
Exports:-
To EU-26	124	64	77	12	277
To Rest of World	104	95	97	5	300
Exports to World	228	159	174	17	577
Exports to World as percentage	40	28	30	3	100
Imports:-
From EU-26	161	55	58	17	291
From Rest of World	148	54	85	14	302
Imports from World	309	109	143	31	593
Balances:-
With EU-26	(37)	9	20	(6)	(14)
With Rest of World	(45)	41	11	(9)	(2)
With World	(82)	50	31	(15)	(16)

 

• In 2009, UK exports of Goods (“visibles”) accounted for 39.4% of all UK exports worldwide.  “Invisibles” (Services, Goods & Transfers) accounted for 60.6% of all UK exports worldwide.  In other words, for the UK, the export value of “invisibles” is 54% (60.6/39.4) higher than the export value of “visibles”.                        Table 4 

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• In 2009, the UK increased its surplus (+ £11.5 bn) on its trade with the USA, though it was less than the surpluses of more than £ 17 bn  recorded in 2005, 2006 & 2007. The cumulated trade surplus with the USA over the five–year period 2005-2009 is £ 75 bn, compared with a cumulative deficit with EU-26 over the same period of £ 135 bn.

                                                                                                                                     Table 5

Table 5: Balances: Largest Surpluses & Deficits in 2008: £ bn*
Surpluses	Netherlands	12
	USA	12
	Luxembourg	8
	Switzerland	8
	Australia	6
Deficits	China + Hong Kong	(19)
	Norway	(12)
	Germany	(12)
	EU Institutions	(7)
	France	(6)

• In 2009, the UK Gross Contribution to EU Institutions hit a new record of £ 17.4 bn,  equivalent to £ 48 million per day.  UK Gross & Net Contributions are set to rise sharply from 2009 onwards as a result of the  abandonment by Mr Blair, then Prime Minister, on 17th December 2005, of part of the Fontainebleau Abatement.                                                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                                           Table 6

Table 6: UK Contributions to EU Institutions: £ bn*
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Cum. 05 – 09
Gross Contribution	(15.1)	(15.4)	(15.8)	(16.4)	(17.4)	(80.1)
Receipts from “Brussels”	9.1	9.3	8.5	9.8	10.7	47.4
Net Contribution	(6.0)	(6.1)	(7.3)	(6.6)	(6.7)	(32.7)

Notes & Data Sources

* The Pink Book 2010, 31^st July 2010,  www.statistics.gov.uk > Economy >  Balance of Payments > The    

   Pink Book 2010

a)       Payments to & from supra- & international organisations, & remittances by expatriates, which are included in “Transfers”, are not strictly–speaking “Trade”, but a large proportion of them are trade-related.  HM Government itself justifies UK net payments to the EU on the grounds (unsupported by any evidence)  that  “the UK needs to be in the EU for trade”.

b)       The data above is not adjusted for the Rotterdam-Antwerp Effect (described on pages 200 & 201 of the Pink Book 2010) or the separate Netherlands Distortions (see Global Britain Briefing Note No 52, “UK plc’s Export Growth is Coming from Outside the EU”, 21^st November 2008).  The effect of these two distortions is to significantly overstate (in the Pink Book) the value of UK exports to EU-26.

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Global Britain Briefing Note

No 60                                                                                                              xx September 2010       

Lord Stoddart of Swindon      (Independent Labour)                                     

Lord Pearson of Rannoch        

Lord Willoughby de Broke     (United Kingdom Independence Party)

Lord Harris of High Cross (1924- 2006)   (Cross-Bencher)

Enquiries: Ian Milne, Director, Global Britain

  Web :http://www.globalbritain.org

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