A MORNING IN HEREFORD

Richard Lamerton, organises UKIP presence at Hereford College.

It's been a busy couple of days which has not allowed for much blogging, although there was time to cut and paste a couple of items, one from No2ID and one from UKIP, but little time to do much else.  So it's time for a bit of catching up.

Yesterday it was a case of getting up early for an hour and a half drive down to Hereford to join the enthusiastic Richard Lamerton who is the current UKIP chairman of the Hereford UKIP branch.  Each your he organises a UKIP table at the Hereford College freshers day, or as they call it in dumbed down parlance: "Stuff for students".

For the last three years I have been going along to give my help on what proves to be a busy morning.  These event where we get to meet and chat to the students are very interesting, the previous two events I attended the majority of students did not seem that bothered about the EU, or know much about it, also many regarded UKIP as a racist party and would say so as if it was just something taken for granted.  This year things have changed

We handed out loads of information about UKIP and many students expressed support.  It seems their parents have come out in favour of UKIP and the students had taken notice.  However, that did not mean we had it all our own way, there were still some students who thought the EU to be a good thing, one young lady was so brainwashed by pro-EU propaganda she accused UKIP of being "Parasites".  Considering it is the EU that is the parasitic organisation living off the the life blood of of its nation states she needs to consider what she says.

The Liberal Democrats were there too, one of them came around for a chat and told us how wrong were were on the introduction of ID cards and the closure of Post Offices.  Despite the fact both UKIP and the Liberal Democrats are against ID cards and the closure of Post Offices, the EU has nothing to do with it - I know, I had a job to take this in too.  Despite the fact Liberal Democrat MEPs voted with Conservative and Labour MEPs for the EU's Postal Services Directives or for a common EU-wide ID card, it is not the EU's doing that these problems are now with us.  According her the fact the Royal Mail has lost its monopoly because of the EU directives and that foreign postal firms have cherry picked the profitable stuff, leaving the Royal Mail with a duty to deliver to the places that the others don't want at a great loss thus turning a profitable state controlled monopoly into a loss making organisation does not matter, the Government could bail out the Royal Mail with £128 million of state aid, capped at that figure by the EU of course, but has refused to give the Royal Mail that funding.  

The morning in Hereford made for an interesting few hours, encouraging too as the students are beginning to see the EU in a less than favourable light.