WHERE DOES MY ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE GO?

I use my Attendance Allowance to support charity work, especially locally. Here is a list of charities which have benefited recently:-

Meningitis

Friends of War Memorials

Army Benevolent Fund

York Operatic Society

Rotary Club

Sue Ryder

Save The Children

Primary Club

HMS Severn Fishermen

Teenage Cancer Trust

TIA Greyhound

Thorganby Village Hall

Macmillan Cancer Relief

War Memorials Trust

Caring For Life

St Andrew's Hospice

Royal Hospital Chelsea Appeal Ltd

Sea Cadets

SPIRE

Scouts

HMS Victory

Blue Cross

Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen

Reserve Forces Ulysses Trust

Motor Neurone Disease Association

Samaritans

Home Start

Martin House

I also support IRB SOS Kit Aid by organising a collection of rugby kit, although they do not want money.

 

IMMIGRATION CHAOS

The British public want a fair immigration system which helps those in genuine fear of persecution. They want Immigration Officers who can recognise the need for asylum. A recent report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation showed that some of our failed asylum seekers are people who indeed should have asylum. For example the Iranian man who permitted the UK to repatriate him to Iran. A fortnight later his parents were invited to collect his body from a prison in Tehran. Still the immigration service wants to repatriate his brother! The open door provided by EU legislation that the UK parliament was not even permitted to discuss before it went on our ststute book, means that Eastern European immigrants now counted in millions, leave no room in the country for those genuinely seeking asylum and throwing themselves on the mercy of HM Government.

 

DON'T MAKE THE PUBLIC PAY FOR POLITICAL PARTIES

 The current rash of sleaze in the matter of Labour Party funding will almost certainly lead to a call for funding from taxes. Then even if you don't support Labour, Conservative or Lib-Dem policies you will have to pay for them. There must be more important things to do with taxes than pay off the Conservatives £18 Million deficit or Labour's £27 Million deficit - employ a few more nurses, for example. Already opinion polls show that the British people are disillusioned with the three largest parties, and support could plummet if we are forced to support them through taxation. Let those who support a parfty pay for it, not those who don't, and wouldn't even if they were millionaires.

 

New rules would make it harder for smaller parties such as UKIP and the Greens to raise funds, because only parties with at least two Westminster MPs could claim funding. so it will make it very difficult for new parties. No wonder the big three want this! If the same rules had applied in 1900 the Labour Party would never have existed.

 

UKIP lives within its means, and in spite of the best efforts of the Electoral Commission has no debts, relying on donations from its supporters.