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WALTHAMSTOW: UKIP announces candidate for parliamentary seat

2:52pm Monday 22nd March 2010 in


A MOTHER and English literature graduate has been confirmed as the United Kingdom Independence Party's (UKIP) prospective parliamentary candidate for Walthamstow.

Judith Benli, is hoping to win the seat for the deeply Eurosceptic party.

She said: "Three quarters of UK laws, increasing daily, come from Brussels.

"The EU now controls our trade, post office closures, VAT, fuel taxes, immigration, policing and farming.

"We now have an EU Foreign Minister an EU diplomatic service and 700,000 unelected bureaucrats.

"For this we pay £45 million a day, set to increase.

"UKIP is the only party to offer a referendum on the EU "In or Out". We alone want to get our country back and govern ourselves."

Mrs Benli is the sixth candidate to announce their standing for election in the seat, currently held by Labour.

Former Waltham Forest mayor Stella Creasy (Labour), businessman Farid Ahmed (Lib Dem), councillor Andrew Hemsted (Conservative), geography graduate Daniel Perrett (Green), and Nancy Taafe (socialist) are the other confirmed candidates.

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Comments(6)

Tom Thumb says...
3:00pm Mon 22 Mar 10

She doesn't stand a chance. The seat is a battle between Labour and the Lib Dems. All other votes will be irrelevant protest votes.
In any case UKIP are barking. The sooner we get in the euro zone better.

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March Hare says...
3:46pm Mon 22 Mar 10

UKIP if you want to; the laddie's not for kipping!

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peeg says...
5:13pm Mon 22 Mar 10

UKIP have some decent policies. I believe the EU to be more of a burden than a benefit to this country

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March Hare says...
5:37pm Mon 22 Mar 10

Isn't Benli a Turkish name? Not in favour of Turkey joining the EU then, obviously!

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Tom Thumb says...
7:11pm Mon 22 Mar 10

peeg wrote:
UKIP have some decent policies. I believe the EU to be more of a burden than a benefit to this country
The European Commission has refused to allow additional time for London to meet pollution targets, stating the capital “did not meet the minimum requirements” for a time extension.
The 2008 air quality Directive allows Member States time extensions to meet air quality standards for PM10 (until 11 June 2011) and NO2 and benzene (until 2015 at the latest). During the extension period, limit values continue to apply plus a margin of tolerance.
In 2008 Greater London was the only UK air quality zone not in compliance.
Thanks to the EU we will one day have clean air in London. Today a House of Commons committee led by Tim Yeo (not exactly a radical) said London's filthy air is killing 3-5000 people a year, with the main source particulates from motor vehicles.
UKIP would like us all to choke on exhaust fumes.
But then UKIP is for nutters who think the Conservative Party is dangerously liberal and left-wing.

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peeg says...
10:55pm Mon 22 Mar 10

Tom Thumb wrote:
peeg wrote:
UKIP have some decent policies. I believe the EU to be more of a burden than a benefit to this country
The European Commission has refused to allow additional time for London to meet pollution targets, stating the capital “did not meet the minimum requirements” for a time extension.
The 2008 air quality Directive allows Member States time extensions to meet air quality standards for PM10 (until 11 June 2011) and NO2 and benzene (until 2015 at the latest). During the extension period, limit values continue to apply plus a margin of tolerance.
In 2008 Greater London was the only UK air quality zone not in compliance.
Thanks to the EU we will one day have clean air in London. Today a House of Commons committee led by Tim Yeo (not exactly a radical) said London's filthy air is killing 3-5000 people a year, with the main source particulates from motor vehicles.
UKIP would like us all to choke on exhaust fumes.
But then UKIP is for nutters who think the Conservative Party is dangerously liberal and left-wing.
I will definitely NOT vote UKIP now

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