The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
We’ve had the vote, what’s next for UKIP?
By coincidence and by saving hard, I’ve visited the same three EU countries for the last three years – Italy, Spain and France. This included industrial cities.
Italy, in particular, is very clearly suffering from severe economic decline – though they all are.
You can judge by simple factors, taking one city and using Italy as an example, in a year these are the changes:
- The number of secondhand clothing stalls on one street market – up from one to six
- The empty shops – from none to multiple ones
- Beggars and migrants on the street trying to sell small quantities of cheap tat – from few to one every 50 feet
- Building work – the cranes have gone or are idle
These nations are in trouble. They will need support soon and other than Germany, who can provide it within the EU?
We are just round the corner from another crash and the sooner we recognise our best policy is to increase trade outside the EU, the less damage that crash will do us.
The great and the good are so keen to protect their personal interests that they have lost sight of the looming danger and of course a crash will hit we small people far harder than them anyway.
There was only one city that still seems to be flush with cash – Monte Carlo, where I spotted the Greens’ yacht Lionheart tied up. You can work out the reasons for that yourself.
Cameron and his chums know this and have run away from responsibility, so does the EU commission, they had expected more time to line their pockets in preparation.
May needs to remove her digit, we need to maintain the pressure for Brexit, so we can put as much distance between ourselves and the coming implosion as possible.
A trade deal with the EU is likely to be the least of our problems, because there may well be little trade to be done with a bankrupt Union.
Only one party has consistently recognised the inherent dangers of EU membership and campaigned for Brexit and that’s UKIP. As we change, post referendum and under a new leadership, from concentrating on this issue to a much broader platform, as defined in our 2015 manifesto and here in South Holland to mainly local ones, we will not cease to fight for the type of Brexit we voted for, with proper border controls and less reliance on trade with our near neighbours.
We are needed more than ever, to hold national and local government to account, there has to be a strong opposition, inside and outside Parliament.
The Labour party are incapable of providing one, we can, as we’ve just demonstrated.
Coun Paul Foyster
Chairman, UKIP South Holland & the Deepings
