UKIP's Freddy Vachha lists five reasons why the people of Chingford and Woodford Green should vote for him on May 7

Here the UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green, Freddy Vachha, explains why you should vote for him. 

1. All Chingford and Woodford Green problems are a reflection of a deep national crisis caused by 18 years of misrule by LibLabCon. As a scientist, I know that to solve a problem. One must first analyse its causes; only UKIP did this. The combination of uncontrolled mass immigration and a generous benefits system that pays out almost immediately, irrespective of contribution, is fatal – that's common-sense.

While in the EU, we are legally stopped from fixing anything. The Conservatives past broken promises demonstrate that no referendum, and certainly no fair one, will be held by them in 2017 - or ever. As your MP I would put an end to this by ensuring we left the EU immediately.

2 Walthamstow's skyline is filled with giant construction cranes. England is more densely populated than India and China. London is planning for another 1.5 million people by 2020 - Waltham Forest's share will be 45,000. No amount of nimbyism by other candidates changes the fact that, without decisive steps that only UKIP will take, this same fate awaits Chingford and Woodford Green.

The Corporation of London is under increasing pressure to relax rules and allow building on prime sites like Chingford Plain and encroachment upon our forest. As your MP I will never permit this.

3 I'm a serial entrepreneur, as are many of my local friends, and we are only too aware of increased difficulties in the current, pervasive anti- small business atmosphere. At hustings, we hear other parties' candidates bemoan the greed of huge corporations - ironic as their own parties' policies prevent us stamping out cross-border dodging of UK corporation tax and VAT. Until we leave the EU, we can do nothing about Luxembourg companies that pay nothing here. Leaving the EU will, according to economist Professor Tim Congdon, save the UK £450 million overall. As an accountant, I will work to secure Chingford and Woodford Green's pro-rated share of this (£700,000/day).

4 I have lived in Chingford and Woodford Green for 30 years, and what is going wrong here is utterly obvious. Enormous pressure on school places, on our precious free NHS (thanks to health tourism, an International health service) with huge queues in A&E, GPs struggling to cope and the Whipps Cross scandal.  

On housing, jobs, wages, libraries, police stations (our Chingford one is overstretched as its neighbours have shut and crime spirals), also congestion, traffic, overcrowding - our local services are beyond breaking point. UKIP and I pledge to plough another £3 billion a year into the NHS and pay off the gargantuan public debt.

5. One candidate is, based on research by The Bruges Group of his voting record (not his misleading speeches), among the most Europhile MPs in Parliament. The present political class, of which I am no part, made the mess, and as your MP I will clear it up. LibLabCon make outlandish promises they cannot possibly fund and rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. Vote for me as I am not them.