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Poll Shows 58% Farmers Will Vote Leave

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Poll Shows 58% Farmers Will Vote Leave

 

Commenting on the publication of a poll in Farmers Weekly showing a clear majority of farmers will Vote Leave, Farming Minister George Eustice MP said:

“It is no surprise that farmers want to leave the EU. Virtually every problem they bring to me is a direct consequence of dysfunctional EU rules and regulations. The NFU’s own recent study showed that, if we left the EU, there would be a firming in farm gate prices and a recovery in farm incomes. If we stopped sending £350 million a week to the EU, we would save more than enough money to fund a national agriculture policy. We would regain control and have the power to deliver the change that farming craves.”

By 58% to 32%, farmers believe that their business will be better off or the same if the UK left the EU.

Sixty two percent of farmers are confident that the UK government would be able to negotiate preferential trade deals with EU member states and other countries if the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU.

The NFU leadership does not represent farmers, just as it failed to represent them during their failed campaign to join the single currency.

In June 2001, a poll suggested that farmers were against joining the euro by 2:1. Nonetheless, the NFU maintained that its stance that ‘there are economic advantages for the industry in entering the euro’.

In 2002, the NFU President, Ben Gill, said: ‘The argument for the euro is overpowering’. He was wrong.

Vote Leave on June 23

City Leaders Voice their Support for Vote Leave

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City Leaders Voice their Support for Vote Leave

In a letter signed by more than a hundred signatories, including Peter Cruddas, Michael Geoghegan, Luke Johnson, Peter Hargreaves, Moorad Choudhry and Paul Marshall, the group argues that the City would prosper outside the EU, strengthen its lead as the world’s largest international financial centre, and continue to make a major contribution to the UK economy and employment, without the threat the EU poses to our financial services industry.

 

The letter reads:

 

Dear Sir,

 

We write – in our personal capacities – as individuals active in the City of London and UK financial services who share a strong personal commitment to the world’s most vibrant financial centre, and a material interest in its future success. We firmly believe that it can thrive and grow outside the European Union.

 

As we contemplate the upcoming referendum on UK membership of the EU, we remember that the EU had honourable origins – to heal the wounds of post war Europe, to enable free trade to return the Continent to prosperity. In 1975 there were persuasive reasons for the United Kingdom to join the European Economic Community, and we believe membership was for many years a positive for the UK and the City.

 

However, we do not believe that the same case can be made for continued membership in 2016.

 

The EU is now shackled to the Euro, a project doing damage to the social and economic fabric of member countries, including high youth unemployment. Many of us worry that the Eurozone’s problems may prove insurmountable.

 

Meanwhile there is scant evidence that the EU will foster or support the kind of innovation which is essential if Europeans are to compete with the rest of the world. Specifically, we worry that the EU’s approach to regulation now poses a genuine threat to our financial services industry and to the competitiveness of the City of London.

 

Assuming good political leadership and an effective regulatory environment, we believe that the City is most likely to strengthen its lead as the world’s largest international financial centre, and continue to make a major contribution to the UK economy and employment, outside the EU but with continued access to its capital markets.

 

We will therefore be supporting the Vote Leave campaign and encouraging others to join us.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Dominic Burke, Group Chief Executive, Jardine Lloyd Thompson PLC

Moorad Choudhry, former Chief Executive, Habib Bank AG Zurich, London

Peter Cruddas, Chief Executive, CMC Markets PLC

Michael Geoghegan, Group CEO HSBC Holdings PLC

Peter Hargreaves, Hargreaves Lansdown PLC

Robert Hiscox, Life President, Hiscox Group

Luke Johnson, Risk Capital Partners LLP

Paul Marshall, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Marshall Wace LLP

Jon Moulton, Founder and Managing Partner, Better Capital LLP

Crispin Odey, Founding Partner, Odey Asset Management LLP

Kevin Pakenham, Co-founder, Pakenham Partners Ltd

Sir Brian Williamson, Former Chairman, LIFFE

Brian Winterflood, Winterflood Securities

 

The letter has been signed by a 110 signatories.

Britain Facing £93 Million Bill from EU Meddling Over HGV Levy

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Britain Facing £93 Million Bill from EU Meddling Over HGV Levy

 

Responding to the European Commission’s action against the UK over the heavy goods vehicle (HGV) road user levy, Vote Leave Chief Executive Matthew Elliott said:

 

“It’s outrageous that a policy designed by our elected Government to create a level playing field for hauliers is under threat from unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. Much like our borders and our economy, a decision over this issue will not be made by the people we elect, but by EU judges. The bill families face from the latest EU meddling is on top of the £350 million we already hand to Brussels every week. If we want to take back control of our economy, our democracy and our roads, we must Vote Leave on 23 June.”

 

The Commission has today formally threatened to take legal action against the UK over the HGV levy, claiming it is incompatible with the ‘single market’.

In a ‘reasoned opinion’ delivered to the UK, ‘the Commission has today set out its concern that the HGV levy discriminates against non-UK hauliers’. The UK will have two months to respond before the Commission formally launches infraction proceedings against the UK .

The Commission claims that it is acting to ‘protect the EU’s Single Market‘. If infraction proceedings are launched, the European Court is likely to declare the UK’s legislation to be incompatible with EU law.

 

The Government has championed the HGV levy, which was introduced in April 2015.

According to the Department for Transport, ‘Government has introduced a road user levy for heavy goods vehicles (HGV) of 12 tonnes or more. The aim of the levy is to ensure these vehicles make a contribution to the wear and tear of the road network’.

On the introduction of the levy, the then Roads Minister Stephen Hammond (who is supporting the remain campaign) said: ‘Every year there are around 1.5 million trips to the UK by foreign registered lorries but none of them pays to use our roads, leaving UK businesses and taxpayers to foot the bill. In contrast, when UK hauliers travel abroad then in most cases they have to pay to use the roads. This new act will help the UK logistics industry remain competitive by making sure that operators from abroad are paying towards the cost of building and maintaining the UK’s roads as well as creating a level playing field for domestic operators’.

 

If the European Court agrees with the Commission, the UK could be left facing a £93 million bill with interest, more than the cost of a brand new hospital.

The European Court has long held that member states are ‘required in principle to repay charges levied in breach of EU law’. A member state is obliged to ‘to repay with interest amounts of tax levied in breach of EU law‘.

In its first year of operation, the HGV levy raised £46.5 million from foreign-registered vehicles.

Assuming it raised a similar sum in 2015-2016 as it did in 2015-2015, the UK could be forced to pay back £93 million with interest.

This is enough to pay for 14,991 state pensions or child benefit for 86,399 children. It is more than the new West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, which opened in October 2015 (cost: £90 million).

There is No Logic to Staying in the European Union

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There is No Logic to Staying in the European Union

There is no point in sending £350 million per week to Brussels without recompense. This amounts to £19.1 Billion per year sent to the EU. This money could be better spent on the UK’s immediate needs like the NHS, schools, transport, housing, welfare, universities, science, technology.

EU regulations cost UK businesses £33.3 billion per year.

EU restrictions in trade stop businesses trading in other lucrative global markets.

EU renewable energy directives cost the UK £4.6billion, climate and energy directives cost £3.4billion and investment fund regulations cost £1.5billion.

The TTIP trade bill is being adopted by the EU, and if the UK remains in the EU it will effectively privatise the NHS killing it off once and for all.

The open border EU Schengen zone is a direct danger to the UK and lets in millions to Europe every year. Included in the migration are thousands of terrorists and criminals, who cannot be deported because of EU regulations.

Consumer prices in the UK are inflated by over 18% because of the EU.

Energy prices are artificially inflated by the EU for UK consumers.

There is little or no democracy in the EU, as the president, Jean Claude Juncker has even admitted publicly on 1 February 2015: “Il ne peut y avoir de choix démocratique contre les traités européens…” or in English “There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties.”

Greece is set to implode again and is demanding a further 4 billion euros, on top of the 360 billion euros it already owes. The IMF has serious reservations to further debt for such a profligate nation. Who pays for Greece? EU taxpayers is the cold hard answer. A Wikileaks report reveals that Greece will be forced to default one month after the UK referendum.

Chancellor George Osborne admitted that the government would let in 3 million more migrants after the EU referendum.

Moody’s the well respected ratings agency has admitted that after Brexit global trade would open up and existing trade deals would be intact. There would be minimal shock much to the chagrin of the scaremongering Remain camp.

It is simply not logical to stay in a failing EU which will surely implode sooner than later. All the statistics and figures align themselves towards a comprehensive Brexit. The people are fed up, the civil servants are fed up, some in the government are fed up, the economists are fed up, and ultimately the EU is fed up and is accelerating its own demise.

We will Vote Leave on June 23 and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

You Have No Regard For Your Family’s Safety if Vote to Remain in EU

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The evidence is clear, there is little or no security in an EU with open borders, and yet there are some people who defy logic and still wish to remain in a European Union which endangers the UK’s security.

The EU’s Schengen zone is the reason why there are thousands of Jihadi cells waiting to strike in Paris-style attacks and there will be more to come.

When the most senior Western official warns of the serious dangers of remaining in the EU, even if you are a staunch europhile you have to sit up and listen.

James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, has warned the free movement of citizens around the EU was “in conflict” with the need to protect security.

He said there is evidence of fanatics from Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil) in Britain, Germany and Italy secretly plotting outrages like those witnessed in France and Belgium.

Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove also recently reinforced warnings about the grave dangers to the UK’s security by remaining in the EU, and stipulated quite correctly that ‘quitting the EU would improve Britain’s security’.

Even the EU’s own Frontex agency has acknowledged the serious flaws in EU security that endanger its citizens.

The Head of Europol, Rob Wainwright, has revealed that over 5,000 Jihadis have returned from war zones in the Middle East and swept across the EU. Many of these battle hardened operatives can move around the EU unhindered by checks, and are poised to attack at any time.

Just as in the Paris and Brussels attacks, these elements would most probably attack soft civilian targets, easy to access and prepare for, these groups are highly trained individuals with no compassion.

There is therefore no logic whatsoever in voting to remain in the EU for the UK with regards to security. If you value your own life, and that of your family, your children, your fellow countrymen you will not put yours and their life at risk by voting to remain on June 23.

Voting to leave is the only way the UK can really secure its borders, to stop this deluge and dangerous security risk coming into our borders every day.

If you vote to remain in the EU, you do NOT value your own life, and you do not value the lives of your children or your family, your friends and your countrymen.

Published PAC Report Reveals Extent EU Financial Penalties Hit UK

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Published PAC Report Reveals Extent EU Financial Penalties Hit UK

 

Responding to the publication of the report of the Public Accounts Committee on Financial management of the European Union budget in 2014, which was ordered to be printed by the House of Commons this year, Chief Executive of Vote Leave, Matthew Elliot said:

 

“We hand £350 million pounds to Brussels every week. Some of that money does get sent back to the UK but it is not necessarily spent on our priorities and it is laden with strict rules and conditions. Even worse, the EU often fines us if we don’t do exactly what Brussels says. The only way to get out of this racket is to Vote Leave on 23 June.”

 

The EU is fraught with red tape, fines and ridiculous diktats that serve little or no purpose whatsoever.

The National Audit Office (NAO) revealed that EU disallowances cost Britain £642 million between 2005 and 2015.

Out of funds received from the Commission 2.7% were disallowances, and the UK is subject to disallowances to a greater extent than twenty-one other member states, including France, Italy, Poland, Spain and Germany.

Forecasts by the NAO reveal that by 2021, £370 million will have to be paid to the Commission. A ridiculous sum that can only be halted by leaving the European Union.

The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, is becoming more complex despite claims of reform, thus exposing the UK to a greater risk of fines in the years ahead. The UK’s attempts at simplifying CAP have been ignored by the EU, and many member states have no way of implementing half of the new regulations.

Not only are many of the regulations unworkable within a system that is overburdened by red-tape and unnecessary over complication, the UK pays twice as much into CAP as it gets out. What the UK does receive comes with the risk of fines. In 2015 the UK received £2.9 billion in CAP funding from the EU, whilst paying £5.5 billion to CAP, which is 12.57% of overall CAP EU wide expenditure. What is the point of paying in a vast amount to CAP  and getting nothing much back, which is fined anyway?

In addition, other member states receive far more funding than the UK does. In 2014, France benefited the most, receiving 15.7% of payments, followed by Spain with 11.7%, Germany with 11.3%, Italy with 10.0% and Poland with 9.1%. The UK received just 7.2%.

The skewed profligate red tape burdened EU is its own worst enemy, and logic states that leaving is the only answer to the dire EU mess. Let us use this wasted EU money on ourselves instead. Vote Leave on June 23.

Labour MP: “Corbyn’s Pro-EU Stance Pushing Millions to UKIP”

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In his first major intervention in the EU referendum campaign, Field argues that Jeremy Corbyn’s position on the EU risks further undermining the already strained relationship between the party leadership and traditional Labour voters.

“This will be the second longest suicide note in Labour’s history – the longest being Michael Foot’s 1983 manifesto. It is a suicide note because Jeremy’s new pro-EU stance will drive another huge tranche of Labour voters over to UKIP as the only way they have of gaining a clear representation of their views on Europe.’

“The last thing Jeremy needs to do is to undermine further the traditional Labour vote, much of which wishes to leave the European Union. For the Party leader more actively to campaign for the Remain campaign will push even more Labour voters into the arms of UKIP.”

Speaking days after Theresa May’s admission that EU membership makes it harder to control immigration, the Labour MP remarked:

“The level of immigration is already a major issue for traditional Labour supporters, and never more so for those in lower paid jobs.’

“Our open door policy, which began under Tony Blair, has pushed down wages at the bottom of the labour market. It has increased the queues for health services and even more so for homes. And it prevents ever more parents from gaining a school of their choice for their children.’

Criticising the Labour party’s refusal to engage with the issues that really concern its members, he said:

“The European referendum holds out an untold danger if another swathe of Labour voters depart to UKIP – who they see registering more effectively their own sense of national well being and destiny. Whatever the referendum result, June 23rd holds huge danger for Labour remaining the contender for power.”

Escape From Europe 2030

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Escape From Europe 2030

 

There are still pockets of resistance fighters across the continent but every day more and more are discovered, flushed out and liquidated.

Internal body implants became mandatory in 2023, and replaced mobile phones as a means of tracking your every move, your every thought and your every word. Internal body implantation biometric devices are also used for every transaction, tracked and monitored. There is no more cash, and anyone found using other forms of currency are punished severely. The EU can also turn off your digital currency at any time to punish a person for any indiscretion against EU law.

Dissent is punished with imprisonment in a re-education camp, as prescribed by EU diktats, all must obey fully to the state now being led solely by Germany.

In 2020, the EU’s capital was moved from Brussels to Hamburg, to reinforce the EU’s Germanic supremacy.

Termination

Education begins in the womb, as EU edicts are programmed into foetuses before birth. Microchip brain implant technology introduced in 2028. Without the required programming, a birth licence is not granted, and the baby and mother are both terminated.

Undesirables are rounded up every day, those who have broken the law in any way, those who resist and those who have harboured thoughts deemed subversive by the authorities. The ones who can be reprogrammed to love the EU are spared, but those who still resist are taken to special chambers where their bodies are liquefied, and then fed into the water and food nourishment system to be consumed by the masses as a form of protein.

Britain lost their bid for freedom in 2016. Since then the former country’s population has risen to 180 million people by forced EU repatriation and migration. There were many riots, and it came close to civil war but mandatory implants soon quashed all resistance as well as harsh punitive measures by the EU authorities overseeing the transition.

The many absorbed nations under the EU are all now bound by one singular EU army, which is compulsory to join. The Russian threat is cited as the reason for full compulsory conscription and skirmishes in the Ukraine sector resulted in Russia moving into Finland in 2021. Sweden reported Russian Federation troops entering their borders in 2023.

To escape this EU totalitarian Soviet Islamo-Fascistic nightmare is now a missed opportunity for many. In 2024 thousands were able to flee through Sicily into Libya and then onto Africa, but many were cut down before they could escape the EU.

Permanent Austerity

In the British sector, there have been many riots, quelled by the militarised EU police, the influx of millions into the EU over the years, has left wages at rock bottom, the EU wide welfare system established in 2019 resulted in benefit cuts of over 75% because of the mass of welfare recipients. Hospitals also received huge cuts in funds, and even though nanotechnological medicine was introduced in 2025, this was only available to the elite and EU politburo.

The EU introduced a directive in 2026 banning all private property and land ownership, this law created a backlash from many who were then detained and terminated. Some estimate that over 400,000 EU citizens were culled in one month.

Food shortages due to mass migration from Sub Saharan Africa and the Middle East into the EU over decades resulted in EU citizens being fed on a GM produced porridge substance with the only protein derived from liquefied human cadavers. The protein is sufficient to keep many alive, as there is no room for crop growth any more, or to hold livestock. The EU tries to keep the source of the protein fed to the masses quiet but in 2027 a leaked dossier results in more mass riots, only quelled by EU military forces.

By 2030, the EU’s population has risen to 4.6 billion people. There is no European utopia but instead a dystopian nightmare so horrible that many choose death willingly than exist in the EU. But, hey, at least the EU food supply is safe as millions who resist are dealt with appropriately.

Home Secretary Admits Five New Countries Joining the EU is Dangerous for UK

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Home Secretary Admits Five New Countries Joining the EU is Dangerous for UK

Theresa May argued that they were ‘countries with poor populations and serious problems with organised crime, corruption, and sometimes even terrorism. We have to ask ourselves, is it really right that the EU should just continue to expand, conferring upon all new member states all the rights of membership?’

Vote Leave’s Iain Duncan Smith agreed with the Home Secretary:

“The Home Secretary is right to warn of the dangers of countries like Albania and Turkey being allowed to join the European Union. If these countries are let into the EU’s open border system it will only increase the pressure on our NHS, schools and housing. It will also vastly increase the risk of crime and terrorism on British streets.

 

“After the Home Secretary’s powerful intervention, is the Prime Minister now going to make clear that the UK no longer supports their bid to join the EU? If he does not, will he make clear why he disagrees with his own Home Secretary?”

Following the Home Secretary’s comments today there are key questions the Prime Minister must answer.

  1. Will the Prime Minister commit today to veto EU expansion to Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey under all circumstances?
  2. Does the Prime Minister accept the Home Secretary’s comment that it is a bad idea to welcome countries that have ‘serious problems with organised crime, corruption, and sometimes even terrorism’?
  3. Does the Government accept that giving 88 million persons the right to enter the UK will place a major burden on the NHS?
  4. Does the forecast of an extra 3 million net migrants by 2030 take into account future EU accessions?

Michael Gove MP added a few words after the Home Secretary’s admission:

“The EU response to the migration crisis is a Five Nations free-for-all with an invitation to Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania and Turkey to join the Union. Because we cannot control our borders – and because our deal sadly does nothing to change this fact – public services like the NHS will face an unquantifiable strain as millions more become EU citizens and have the right to move to the UK. We cannot guarantee the same access people currently enjoy to healthcare and housing if these trends continue. There is a direct and serious threat to our public services, standard of living and ability to maintain social solidarity if we accept continued membership of the EU.“

Junior Doctors Would Not Be Striking if We Were Out of the EU

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Junior Doctors Would Not Be Striking if We Were Out of the EU

 

 

The Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling today commented on the junior doctors’ strike that will cause chaos in hospitals across the country.

 

“Getting to a proper seven day NHS could make a real difference to this country. It would be so much easier to pay for that change if we took back control of our £350 million a week contribution to the EU and spent it on our priorities. For example, the money at the heart of the current doctors dispute is just 5% of our overall annual contribution.

 

“We shouldn’t be spending billions on the EU that could make our NHS better and help deal with its current challenges.

 

“The Remain campaign also need to explain how they would provide enough money and doctors to cope with the 3 million migrants they want to see come to Britain in the next fifteen years if we stay in the EU.

 

“The NHS is already running to keep up with the demands placed on it by the huge influx of people into the country and by the ageing population.”

 

nhs corridor

 

Adding to the voice of reason was Vote Leave Chair Gisela Stuart MP, who said:

“On Jeremy Hunt’s watch the NHS has plummeted into financial crisis. This Government is hurting patients by starving the NHS of the funding that it needs.

 

“A small fraction of the money that the EU takes from us each year could be used to give junior doctors the pay settlement they are looking for and end these damaging strikes.

 

“If we Vote Leave and invest more in the NHS then we could end the current health crisis, nurse the NHS back to health and improve care for patients. We should spend our money on our priorities like the NHS.”

 

NHS

 

We send £350m to the EU each week – amounting to £19.1bn each year. This means that if we Vote Leave, we can afford to reintroduce automatic annual increases, as the increased cost amounts to only 5.1% of the annual EU contribution (the equivalent of just two and a half weeks’ worth of EU contribution).

Save our NHS by Voting Leave on June 23, you owe it yourself and your family’s health.

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