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Article in the Sheffield Star
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BY Jonathan Arnott (PPC for Sheffield Attercliffe; UK Independence Party)
In the last seven years, the Labour government has created over 270 new crimes. Unfortunately the police, who spend more time filling in forms than on the beat, simply don’t have the resources to cope. They plan to make everyone pay £85 for an ID card (woe betide anyone who can’t produce it on request), at a cost of £6 billion or so to introduce. Terrorists or fraudsters will eventually find a way to compromise the database, and everyone will wonder why we didn’t simply employ an extra 20,000 police officers to police all the new crimes that Labour has introduced. Many of these laws do nothing to make the streets safer – unless you count those dangerous criminals who dare to sell goods in pounds and ounces!
Often the Labour Party take the blame for decisions made by the European Union – after all, they wouldn’t want everyone to blame the EU when Tony Blair has his heart set on winning a referendum on the draft EU Constitution.
The EU vitamins and minerals directive will ban most vitamin and mineral supplements, helping only the multinational pharmaceutical companies. The implication is that the public are incapable of making their own informed choice about alternative remedies. In a similar move, the EU recently decided that gardening products, subjected to rigorous scientific tests under UK law, would be banned – unless companies spent roughly £1 million per product to have them tested again by the EU. Some stumped up. Products like Cutlass (a must for anyone with a large hedge) simply disappeared from the shelves overnight.
For fear of causing offence to Moslems, authorities in Birmingham even banned Christmas celebrations in the town centre. The Moslems I know are more offended that the government seems to think they must be handled with kid gloves rather than treated as intelligent members of society, tolerant of beliefs they disagree with. The Women’s Institute had to stop making cakes because of a potential ‘health risk’. Of course, the government supports GM crops – about which the public have real health concerns.
On immigration, the government issue work permits and visas with barely a second thought. Failed asylum seekers are almost never sent back to their home country – there simply aren’t enough workers to police it. Yet suspected terrorists are denied their legal rights and held without charge.
Crime, political correctness, health, ID cards, immigration and petty bureaucracy all have one thing in common: the government is controlling our lives more and more each day. The tax burden has risen sharply, but people are seeing no real improvement in services to pay for it.
The UK Independence Party is the only party speaking out on all these issues. As a liberal, I object to government control where it is not needed. Rather than charge everyone for ID cards, we should put more police on the streets. Instead of banning health products, we should take money from health service bureaucracy and put it into treating patients. By leaving the EU, rather than spend money on EU red tape we could raise the tax threshold substantially to help everyone (especially the poorest members of society) – and increase pensions by £25 per week.
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