HELPING GLENN

The reason there has not been much activity on this blog was due to trolling off to Norwich to help the UKIP Parliamentary by-election candidate, Glenn Tingle's campaign.  

A number of campaigners from the Midlands descended on North Norwich and helped shove leaflets through letter boxes and speak to the locals.  Generally the feedback is good although, as with all elections, you come across some negative vibes - fortunately these were few and far between.

The biggest obstacle when campaigning for UKIP is getting past the years of brainwashing that the EU and Government has been putting out - some people (fortunately not many) actually believe the years of hype and spin that that we can't afford to leave the EU and if we did the nation would crumble, even cease to exist - despite the fact that this is what will happen if we remain in the EU.

One group of people I came across sitting outside their homes on this particular sunny day in North Norwich were typical of what we have to get past if we are to succeed in our campaign to save the UK from EU domination.  I had leafleted a number of houses and then spoke to the three people enjoying the sunshine.  The near neighbour sitting with them, when I said I was with UKIP that she had already voted by post and it hadn't been for UKIP, her friends said they never bother to vote but then began moaning about immigration.  I responded that as the EU has open borders and that everyone living in any EU member nation has as much right to live and work here as anyone born here.  They couldn't believe or take in that we could do nothing about this as long as we stay in the EU, or that the EU is taking over policy on asylum and immigration.

Despite telling them the facts they still can't believe that we as a nation are becoming increasingly powerless to govern ourselves on these and many other issues.  The neighbour then chipped in how we need the EU for our jobs and trade.  I had to explain that this was far fro the case and EU membership was not only costing us £40 million a day in membership fees, through its mad bureaucracy, directives and regulations it was costing us jobs and that the figures given for trade with the EU were a sham.  In reality when you take into account the real total of our exports to the EU we are being asked to surrender 100% of our sovereignty for around 10% of trade, which is far from a good deal.

After I put her right about why our post offices are closing due to EU postal directives, the very serious threat now facing the City of London due to the EU's proposed rules on regulating the markets and a few other facts, the response I got was: "I don't want to talk about it anymore."  The problems is that not talking about it has got us into the mess we are in - hence the reason I have driven almost 400 miles there and back to help Glenn Tingle.