Opinion: The Green Belt Is Just A Start

Published on: 1 Jun, 2016
Updated on: 4 Jun, 2016

John Armstrong Ukip

By John Armstrong

chairman of the Guildford Ukip party

More often than not The Dragon deals with local issues, but with the imposition of development targets over the heads of local representatives, it has become impossible to separate local issues from the bigger picture; both nationally and globally.

Globalisation is coming to a green field near you.

The housing developments, even onto the green belt, which we were promised was safe, are mere brush strokes upon a much larger canvass.

The EU for it’s part, is a test-bed for a much larger political project of global reach. If they can make the Euro work, and if they can make Schengen work, I suspect it will be rolled out globally, piece by piece.

The EU is keen to enlarge, and to bring in the severely impoverished new accession countries of : Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia and Turkey; (and there are more waiting in the wings) all of which will need a great deal of money.

Given that we are one of the very few net contributors to the EU budget, I wonder what that will mean for our annual contributions? I know we have been reassured by the prime minister, that it will take decades for Turkey to meet the entry criteria, but do you believe him?

After all, he does have form. David Cameron, in all of Europe, is the keenest advocate of Turkey’s accession. We have already seen bankrupt nations fast tracked, so why not Turkey?

Greece did not meet the criteria for the Euro – and yet… What then of the British veto? It is grossly misleading I think, to reassure voters with a veto, if you have no intention of using it.

They are so eager to bring this political project to fruition that they are willing to cast aside all caution.

It is not only our direct membership contribution that we have to consider when it comes to the overall cost of EU membership. There is the thorny issue of child benefit and tax credits paid to EU migrants who’s children remain in the home country.

In 2013 the figure was 50,000 children at a total cost of £55 million per annum, or £1 million a week. The prime minister was attempting to reduce child benefit to two children per family, but only to head off Euro-sceptics and Ukip. I don’t know what progress he has made.

Let us consider that we vote to remain. He will no longer have to bother and the EU will be able to have its way with us. In that scenario it is entirely possible, that with the accession countries, where the culture is to have larger families, firmly ensconced we will be paying more child benefits and tax credits into the enlarged EU than we do to our own people here in the UK.

Immigration and control of our borders are much in the news. The Dymchurch affair has highlighted our government’s lamentable negligence in this regard. I guess common sense would tell us that such a thing was possible, indeed probable.

It comes as a shock though to realise that not only did the locals know what was going on, (and for some time) so did the UK Border Force and, ergo, the government.

It begs the question why was it allowed to continue? One can only conclude that the government just do not care how many illegal immigrants are entering the country.

It would appear not so much that they have lost control of our border; but that the UK Border Force is just window dressing, much to the frustration of the personnel, and government have no intention of controlling our borders.

As far as the government is concerned, it would seem, that we are in Schengen in all but name. The migrants in Calais are only held there while Ukip is a threat.

If we vote to remain the Mayor of Calais will be very relieved indeed. Over to you Monsieur Cameron.

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