Letter received at the UKIP Bromley By

Letter received at the UKIP Bromley By-Election Office just after

the Election Day on 29th of June.

Antonia Smith

(address supplied)

Kent

29.6.06

Dear Mr Allison

Please stop sending your fascist propaganda to this house.

Neither myself, nor any of my family members, agree with right-wing Nationalist parties

such as yourself and the BNP.

How do you plan to support crime and other public sectors by lowering tax?

Also, how do you think that many public sectors, such as the NHS, would operate without

immigrant workers?

You may want to try slightly harder with your campaign if you’re claiming to be

‘the real opposition’. Not only losing to Labour, but Liberal Democrats.

Good luck in the forthcoming elections.

Yours sincerely

Antonia Smith

Reply from UKIP -----------

UKIP

Antonia Smith 7 Hestia House

(address supplied) City Walk

Long Lane

Kent date 27. 7. 6 London SE1 3ES

Dear Ms Smith,

Fascist? Us? Where on earth is there any evidence for that? But let's start seriously.

Your letter to Steve Allison has been passed to me for reply as he's back in Hartlepool and up to his neck in follow-up work. Our headache is that you're right – we've got to try harder if we're to persuade thinking people like yourself to support us. We've got to eradicate the erroneous concepts broadcast about UKIP that have coloured public perception.

You raise several very important points and I've attached some edited sections of our manifesto that I hope will answer them. Please do read them – and if you agree (or have any comments) I would appreciate it if you will let me know.

But first I have to tackle the 'fascist' tag head on – and sorry if it sounds serious, but it is a very serious accusation.

We believe in a constitutional Monarchy whereby the Monarch has no executive power. The Monarch is the representation of our nation state to give continuity to our society - irrespective of the government of the day.

We believe in free elections at five-year intervals, a parliament with free debate prior to voting and a tiered democratic system that starts with Parish Councils. We believe in elections by ballot, free speech and a free press that can, as a right, closely question our government ministers. It's vital that the electorate are kept fully and freely informed of political issues and it's they, ultimately, who must always have the final word.

Is this a fascist set of beliefs? If you're with me so far, please do find a few minutes to read the notes I've attached. I'm guessing that your final phrase – ' Good luck in the forthcoming elections' - was ironic.

I hope will reconsider your opinion of UKIP after reading them.

Sincerely,

pp Nigel Farage UKIP MEP for the South East Region

PS: If you find the attached notes of interest, or wish to discuss them further you will be most welcome to come to our regular monthly meeting in

The Church Hall, Park Rd, Bromley on the first Tuesday each month (next is on Sept 5^th)

0780 259 7692 : 0780 134 1476 : 01 689 857 710 0800 587 6 587

(In the by-election UKIP did very well and came ahead of Labour)

POINTS RAISED AND UKIP'S POSITION

· Politics – Left, Right and Reality

Originally, you either supported a monarchy with a divine right to rule (Right Wing) or a republican cause with some form of representative assembly (Left Wing).

The current use of these terms now seems depend on whether you support:

a). Unfettered capitalism and globalised multinational trade with a disinterest in the problems of the disadvantaged, the environment and the ‘Third World’ and where ‘big money talks’.

b). A socialist system where all social activity, commerce, media, arts, education, personal choice and personal opinions are controlled by the state.

The reality of our ‘State’ is that it's now, in effect, a small group of cross party political and administration elitists in the upper echelons of government. They're increasingly removing, or ignoring, our democratic traditions and are steadily making themselves immune from being questioned or prosecuted.

They believe that – to quote the late Edward Heath: "The British public are too stupid to be involved in governing themselves." and meaningful elections should not feature in their remit.

This is also the firm belief of the pro-EU lobby: all political power in Brussels is vested in the unelected European Commission. The elected European Parliament is formally restricted to no more than a one-minute statement per MEP. They must then ‘rubber stamp’ the EC Directives presented – questions, any form of debate or amendments being absolutely prohibited!

· What UKIP Does and Does Not Believe in:

We don't believe in unfettered capitalism and ‘globalised, multinational trade,’ but a free trade policy controlled by mutually agreed rules of a rational, moral, ethical and balanced nature without protectionist trade barriers. A ‘Common Market’ in fact.

For example, we believe that an industry, however essential for our continued wellbeing, is responsible for the consequences of its industrial process and has a duty to prevent any subsequent damage – or make good any caused – wherever it occurs.

We also believe that one of the greatest defences of our freedoms is a free press – warts and all. Yet there's a draft EC Directive to make it a criminal offence to do or say anything 'deemed hostile' to the EU.

· Our Thoughts on Fascism

Hitler’s Nazi party members were the archetypal fascists, yet ‘Nazi’ stood for ‘National Socialist German Workers Party’. A contradiction in terms? – perhaps not. Their method of control, in practice, was almost exactly the same as that used in Stalin's Soviet Socialist Russia.

They didn't believe in democracy, free elections, freedom of speech, a free market of any sort or a constitutional monarchy. Their doctrine was of rule by an all-powerful, unelected elite. The control of all commerce, the media, education – even people's personal lives – was exercised through a police state and a pampered, compliant executive that did as it was told without question. Anyone who disagreed or challenged the state disappeared.

The German and Russian public were effectively disenfranchised within their own country.

This sort of absolute state control, exercised by these two supposedly diametrically opposed states, over people like you and me is what the BNP want to achieve and what the EU is certainly moving rapidly towards.

It is the complete opposite of just about everything that UKIP stands for!

It is surely perverse to label UKIP fascist when our main aim is to extricate the UK from the EU that is becoming disturbingly close to something very similar.

· Why Are We So Concerned?

Peter Mandelson ('our' man in the EC...) has stated: "The democratic experiment in Europe has failed: we must now move on into the post-democratic society."

He's also said: "We cannot allow the (rebranded) European Constitution to be held hostage to democratic voting."

David Miliband is quoted as saying that the 2009 Council Elections 'could be unnecessary' as by 2010 all their functions will be transferred to the unelected Regional Assemblies or to Brussels. Our elected parliament in Westminster will then be left 'with no further significant function either...'

Who is closer to being Democrats or Fascists?

· The Public Sector – Our Worries

UKIP is distinctly unhappy with the wholesale privatisation of our public services – particularly so where overseas companies, who've no interest in the wellbeing of the UK, gain control and effectively loot our assets (think Thames Water, who've put up our water rates considerably, failed to adequately repair our water supply system, failed to meet Ofwat standards and are, apparently, the worst polluter of the environment in this country. They could, as I write, be fined – perhaps? - £140 million for their incompetence and not recompensing the customers they've failed. It is owned by a German firm who have diverted many £ms into their own pockets instead of repairing leaky supply pipes).

The transfer of many of our other significant national assets (e.g. such as Associated British Ports, which owns virtually all our strategic ports) to foreign ownership and control is also deeply worrying.

Some services we feel simply operate better nationalised, others better when privatised. The supply of electricity, gas, roads and water, for example, are assets that should be owned and operated outright by us.

Such cases as the cars or lorries that run on the roads or kitchen cookers that use the gas - should be subject to a controlled ‘Free Trade’ policy. That is - the cars should be left to individual car makers to design and produce and the public’s personal choice to decide which one they buy. (If the state were to decide this it would mean we would end up with another disastrous Trabant car permitted only for favoured ‘non-party’ members of the public and limos for the political elite. – as was the situation in the erstwhile Communist Block).

There certainly needs to be national/international standards for such parameters as safety, exhaust emissions, built in recycling etc. These must be set by the State in full consultation with the manufacturers and consumers representatives.

A vast amount of tax revenue is squandered on unnecessary, ill-thought-out and incompetent projects. Compile your own list, but don't forget such idiotic ideas as ID cards, Regional Assemblies, £39million+ a day to the EU, the Iraq war, the Foot & Mouth debacle, the house-sellers pack etc. etc – the list is almost endless. We feel that this money, wasted on such projects, would have allowed ample scope for significant reductions in tax without degrading Public Services.

You now 'work for New Labour' in tax terms until nearly the end of July - all your income until then goes to Gordon Brown - longer than for any other government in our history.

In recent weeks, what with the 'cash for coronets' and assorted other sordid disasters (and we certainly include Deputy PM Prescott amongst them) hanging over his head, Blair has ordered several daft ideas to be reconsidered. I wonder why...

I could labour this subject for hours, but I'm sure our concerns must be clear.

· The National Health Service

This is now a monster, completely out of control.

My friend's brother-in-law, to make it personal, has just had a serious operation for cancer in Addenbrokes, Cambridge. Every pre-op visit cost £2.50 an hour to park – typical bill: £15 per visit. Same costs for visitors. The day after his operation he was transferred, with draining wounds, to a mixed ward where some patients were in there with MRSA. The nurses, whose grasp of English was minimal ( more ), ignored two alarms from the various machines he was attached to (It was my friend who requested help both times and was initially ignored - he has been very vocal about it since).

Want to make a phone call? You can't use your own mobile, must have theirs ... at 50p a minute charged to both patient AND caller. And, of course, given the filthy state of the ward, and the presence of MSRA patient, he also got MRSA. It's something of a miracle (and the protestations and care of his ex-nurse wife) that he's still alive and making something of a recovery. (see note below)

This is now the state of our ‘free’ NHS that is ‘..the envy of the world..’.

Much of this has, of course, recently been aired in the press, but there's nothing like first-hand experience.

NHS hospital administration, meanwhile, continues to expand while the medical staff and front line services continue to contract. We estimate that, at this rate, by 2015 there will be no medical staff left in the NHS, only administrators.

That said, UKIP has never objected to immigrant or overseas workers in any industry. Our objection is to the uncontrolled and unlimited immigration that we now suffer. We have no objection to those who want to come here to fill job vacancies, have the necessary skills and contribute to the UK.

We do object to those who come here to take advantage of our facilities without contributing or are allowed to behave in a criminal manner without sanction. And we also strongly object to the fact that our elected government is no longer able to do anything whatsoever about this situation. They make very public declarations about ‘sorting out’ the illegal immigrant problem but it is all a complete sham. Blair has signed over full control for this to the unelected European Commission.

· Finally...

As you say in the letter, and you're quite correct: we must try harder. But we have a major problem.

One of our main handicaps is that the BBC and ITV will not allow UKIP to present its case freely on TV or radio. When they do deign to give us airtime, the result is usually so heavily edited as to seriously distort what we stand for – they continually line up UKIP with the BNP, despite our protestations.

There's a couple of websites that explains this more fully if you're interested. – www.theeuroprobe.org and www.ukip.org

In conclusion, I would like to put your letter – and our reply – onto a website and trust that you will have no objection?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Signed

pp Nigel Farage MEP for the South East Region