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UKIP candidate, Winston McKenzie, denounces same sex couples adopting.

27 Tuesday Nov 2012

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After the appalling decision in Rotherham to take the child from a couple because they were members of the UKIP party, Winston McKenzie (UKIP Candidate for the by election in Croydon North on Thursday) has entered the debate. Just at the point where lots of people had sympathy for UKIP, Winston comes along and confirms that they are predudicial party by denouncing same sex couple adopting as an equilavent to child abuse.

Whilst critics of UKIP claimed the party is racist, they can certainly add homophobic to the list. 

 

Local Elections % turnout suggests a rejection of party politics.

06 Sunday May 2012

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Apart from Professor Pongo the penguin getting more votes than the Lib Dem in an Edinburgh ward, apart from Labour getting massive gains and the rejection of the Tories, to me the most prevalent sign from the elections was a 30% turnout.

Less than a third of the country could be bothered to vote, which has been put down to apathy but there doesn’t appear to be any discussion that people are rejecting the usual candidates put in front of them; Cons are ruining the country, Lib Dems are finished and Labour was destroyed by Blair and Brown. There is no longer a single party that represents a the average working person.

Politics has become a more and more a career for a certain section of society, who regurgitate specific phrases given to them by the head of the party but don’t necessarily know the area that they are pretending to represent. Any work undertaken by them is purely of self interest in helping get promoted within the political spectrum.

Good Luck to Leanne Wood and Plaid Cymru!

11 Wednesday Apr 2012

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Wales is a great country, and I really enjoyed living in Aberysthwyth although only for one year. Aberystwyth, is the heart of Plaid Cymru, or so I was told so I have always had a slight interest in the progression of the Welsh Party. Why should Wales be run essentially from London?

With George Galloway winning in a “safe” Labour seat in Bradford recentley, it is going to be interesting to see what the local elections in Wales will bring forth. On 3 May 2012, Wales will have a perfect opportunity to show what they think of the major parties and hopefully put in Plaid Cymru councils in 21 out of the 22 councils. Ffred Jones, the party’s campaign manager, is quoted as:

Local councils have more power than we think to make a difference to our lives. To make Wales stronger economically councils have to pull their weight and use their powers to change lives for the better: to create work, stimulate business, encourage investment, prioritise education and take care of the environment. As a nation, we can build resilience to future threats by building up a network of Plaid councils run for the people and not the political parties, creating local economies that put people first.

The smaller the components of the country become, the easier it is to give the means of production back to the people, to make the area work for the people.