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UKIP’s glass is half full...
Date published: 06 January 2011
Election 2011
UKIP leader Nigel Farage got behind the bar while meeting local licensees during a tour of Oldham’s pubs.
As part of his visit to the borough Mr Farage stopped off at the Royal Oak in Union Street to speak to landlady Lynda Sweeney about issues affecting the trade such as the smoking ban and cheap alcohol in supermarkets.
Speaking about the by-election, Mr Farage said UKIP and its candidate Paul Nuttall, UKIP MEP for the North West, believed in controlled immigration, and being patriotic without being extremist.
He said UKIP was increasing in popularity among voters who were disillusioned with the main three political parties, and believed it was set to take votes from the British National Party (BNP) and the Lib-Dems.
He said: “I’m not saying we can win the by-election but we’re going to do very well, we are strongly the fourth party.” Mr Farage said although the BNP did well in elections following the 2001 Oldham riots, they were imploding as a party.
He said: “So many people who voted for the BNP voted for them holding their noses.
“We are taking significant votes off the BNP in this by-election and we can help send them into destruction. The Lib-Dems were a protest against the establishment but now they are the establishment and they’ve broken promises such as tuition fees. UKIP is the alternative vote.”
Nick Griffin MEP, leader of the BNP, joined party candidate Derek Adams in Oldham on Tuesday for a day of action.
Comments
From the smile still on the landlady's face it's obvious that Farage has yet to tell her that that he's 'not opposed to immigration' and believes that Britain needs ' a minimum of work permits ( for new immigrants) annually'
Farage isn't just pulling a pint , he's trying to pull the wool!.
I meant to point out above that Farage has said that he wants to dish out 200,000 work permits annually to immigrants. This is the reality of UKIP's 'controlled immigration'. They don't put this on their election leaflets. I wonder why!
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Dear all at Delph,
As a holiday visitor to the Bell in at Delph a time or two last year, one of the things I liked was the friendliness of the people in Delph and the surrounding villages.
Now to see the absolutely disgraceful manner at which a legal candidate of a legal party was refused his democratic rights fills me with foreboding for the future of this country.
WHY on God's earth, and yes as a Christian I do believe this is God's earth, can this suppression of freedom be happening in t
By Levicticus @ 10/01/2011 17:32:13