Dr. Heald in 'EU Queue Doo-Doo'. - Letter to the Crewe & Nantwich Chronicle 19/2/15

Labour PPC Dr Adrian Heald stated in your letters page that the ‘EU’ queue at Passport Control in airports is usually faster - and held this up as a good reason for the UK to stay part of that corrupt and undemocratic organisation. If he paid a little more attention, he’d have noticed that the queue is actually labelled ‘EU, Switzerland and the European Economic Area’ (which includes Iceland and Norway). None of these countries are members of the EU, but trade freely within that block and enjoy unfettered access to Dr. Heald’s queue, as would the UK in the event of leaving the EU.

I suspect that Dr. Heald’s error was due not to poor eyesight, but to a desire to wilfully mislead the public over the implications of the UK leaving the EU. This comes as no surprise – we see this sort thing every day in from the pro-EU lobby, whether it be the orchestrated smear campaign against UKIP on the left-wing BBC and Channel4, or Dr. Heald’s other claim that UK Companies would suffer in the event of a ‘Brexit’.

Such misunderstanding should be expected from someone who has spent not one day of their career working in private industry. The truth is that 95% of UK firms – the small and medium companies which create the bulk of the employment in our country -  do no trade with the EU, but are still forced to comply with all its red tape and regulation at great cost.

For those larger companies that do export; will a Jaguar become less fast, a JCB less capable, or a Rolls-Royce Jet Engine less powerful to overseas buyers because the UK is not in the EU? Of course not. Companies and individuals buy things based on their value, not the political union of their country of manufacture.

Furthermore, free of the EU, the UK would be able to retake its seat at the WTO and establish Free Trade deals with the parts of the world where economies are actually growing, and not in a tailspin of debt and deflation like the beleaguered Eurozone to which we are currently chained. This would providing a boost to UK exporters, as the EU has no Free Trade Deal with the likes of China and India due to disputes over French Wine and German Solar Panels.

The public must not be taken in by the scare tactics and misinformation employed by the pro-EU lobby, but should seek to establish the facts for themselves.

Cllr. Stuart Hutton CEng MIET (UKIP).

Stu-conomics

I heard Ed Balls on the radio this morning going on-and-on about how cutting the size of the state will harm economic growth. Wrong again! I show the proof of how wrong he is on my website: www.stuarthutton.com as part of an article setting out my own personal economic stall. Here it is:

Small State
See the graphs below. The first shows the proportion of GDP made up of PUBLIC SPENDING - That's our taxes plus borrowing spent by the government. See how the figure drops from over 45% to less than 35% between 1980 and 1990? According to the Labour Party, cutting public spending holds back growth. So - you'd expect to see the corresponding graph of GDP (Gross Domestic Product - the traditional measure of national productive output) dipping or falling, right? Now see the second graph.

Surprise! The growth rate actually SPEEDS UP over the same period. Why? Firstly, Private Companies tend to do things more efficiently than the state, as they have a vested interest (through competition) to innovate and improve. Secondly, when the government spends less, it taxes less, meaning that you and I have more money in our pockets to spend in the productive part of economy. Finally, when the government gets its nose out of our business, companies are more free to grow and generate employment.

Supply Side Economics
Trying to stimulate demand, through subsidy or regulation, is short term, and expensive. It is a Fool's Errand. Supply Side Economics - stimulating innovation and production - by cutting taxes, removing regulation and improving the skill-base has been shown to be a sustainable source of growth.

Free Markets
Functioning Free Markets are the Economic Gravity that underpins the Capitalist System. Trying to manipulate markets is like trying to fight gravity - you will always loose, and people will get hurt. Markets will always reach their equilibrium. Manipulation must be stamped out wherever it occurs - whether it be Oil Price manipulation by OPEC, Gold Price manipulation by Central Banks, Government Bond Price manipulation by Finance Minsiters (including our George), or LIBOR manipulation by banks.

It was WRONG to ban Julien Blanc from the UK.

I am disappointed that the controversial  American ‘Dating Coach’ Julien Blanc has been banned from visiting the United Kingdom. Like many, I find his well-publicised  views  to be deeply sexist, racist and homophobic. Indeed, as a father to two daughters, I find much of what this man stands for to be odious and deplorable.

However, simply ‘banning’ those with whose opinions ‘we don’t agree’ is reactive, self-defeating and frankly un-British. By upholding the principle of Free Speech, allowing him to speak and taking him to task, we could have shown the world just what a horrid little man he is and how unacceptable his opinions are.

Instead, the media storm whipped up around this case will attract thousands of impressionable young men to Julien Blanc via the internet, where his vile opinions will not only go unchallenged, but will be applauded and amplified by misguided individuals on accompanying forum and spread via Social Media.

Consider the brave step taken by the BBC in 2009 to invite BNP Leader Nick Griffin onto the panel of the political debating show ‘Question Time’. When subjected to the scrutiny of the programme’s panel  and the fair-minded public audience, Mr Griffin’s prejudiced opinions and far-left* hyperbole fell to pieces. Indeed, the man himself visibly ‘fell to pieces’, marking the beginning of the very welcome and rapid decline of both his awful party and his own political career.

Julien Blanc was not banned from entering the United Kingdom because he had committed a crime – he was banned for expressing an opinion. An interesting comparison exists with those Extremist Preachers in our country, who espouse the subjugation of women and hatred and violence to all Britons on a daily basis. Should they not be deported under the same principle?

Unfortunately the Home Office ‘bowed to the mob’ and banned Julien Blanc, rather than upholding our British Values and allowing him to be ‘bought to book’ by the public. This is indicative of a dangerous rise in Left Wing Authoritarianism that seeks to silence debate of anything that does not fit its very narrow agenda. Free Speech is not only vital for bringing about change, it is also a weapon against evil and we must be unequivocal in its defence.

*Yes, the BNP is a LEFT-WING party; it favours nationalistion, protectionism,  statism and redistribuition. The painting of anything remotely politically undesirable by the media as being ‘Far Right’ is yet another manifestation of the Cultural Marxism that blights Free Speech in our country.

Stuart Hutton.

UKIP Crewe and Nantwich.

Freedom is hard won, but so easily lost.

The 100^th anniversary of the beginning of the Great War will lend an extra poignancy to Remembrance Sunday this year. I urge everybody in our town, young and old, to attend this very solemn and touching event, always observed so beautifully in Nantwich.

I never fail to be impressed and incredibly proud, of the young people representing our youth organisations and local schools who lay wreaths so respectfully. Whilst our thoughts are naturally with those who gave their lives in the past so that we might be free today, this aspect of the ceremony gives me cause think about our future with optimism and hope.

I am proud that it is our country, and our people that have done so much to advance the cause of Personal Freedom throughout the centuries, for ours is the land of Trial by Jury, Freedom of Speech, Democracy and Habeas Corpus, the country of Magna Carta and The Universal Franchise, that abolished slavery and fought Fascism and Communism.

Sometimes we take for granted the freedoms we enjoy today, but we must never forget the sacrifices of those in past and be vigilant to new threats to our liberty; Religious Extremism, Twisted Political Ideology or Cultural Intolerance. To question and confront those who would seek to take our freedom is the greatest tribute we can pay those who laid down their lives all those years ago.

Freedom is hard won, but so easily lost.

Labour Hypocrites

Letter to the Nantwich Guardian 6/10/14

I never cease to be amazed by the hypocrisy of the Labour Party. The last edition of your newspaper contained letters from the Labour Party PPC for Crewe and a Labour Borough Councillor bemoaning the high cost of housing and low levels of wages. Their failure to acknowledge the role of the Labour Party in causing these issues and the discredited solutions they offered are typical of Labour, who are more concerned with imposing their Political Ideology than the best interests of those they claim to represent.

Since Labour embraced EU Immigration Policy and opened our borders to 500 million people in 2004, net immigration has soared to around 250,000 per year (that we know about), making England the second most crowded country in Europe. Clearly, this puts incredible stress on our housing supply, thus increasing demand and prices.

This influx of predominantly low or unskilled labour has also caused ‘wage compression’. Excess supply will always cause prices to go down. I suggest that Labour Councillors and PPCs buy a basic A-Level Economics Book and look up ‘Supply and Demand’.

Their solutions? More borrowing – lumbering our children and grandchildren with even more debt. Much like Ed Milliband in his widely derided ‘Leader’s’ speech, they fail to mention the existing £1.5 trillion national debt run up by Gordon Brown’s deficit, gold sell-off, and the £120bn in PFI liabilities created by the man regarded by many economists as ‘The Worst Chancellor in History’.

The doctors, nurses, scientists and engineers we desperately need would be welcomed into our country under the points-based, Australian-style immigration policy proposed by UKIP. Building of affordable housing in our inner city areas by private developers should be encouraged by Development Zones, and controlled by locally accountable Planning Committees and Officers.

The real tragedy is that this Labour-induced triple-whammy of wage-compression, high cost of resources and high-demand on our Public Services hits those at the bottom of our society the hardest. Shame on Labour.

Cllr. Stuart Hutton CEng MIET.

UKIP Crewe and Nantwich.

Crewe's Miracle Merlin - Letter to the Crewe Chronicle.

Crewe's Miracle Merlin - Letter to the Crewe Chronicle.

It was with delight that I glimpsed two Avro Lancaster Bombers pass over Nantwich en-route to the Southport Air Show last Saturday, as part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. The thrill of hearing – and feeling - the hum of 8 Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines was a stark reminder of the important part that Crewe played in the defence of our country in its darkest hour, and in the defeat of fascism in Europe.

The performance and reliability of the Rolls-Royce Merlin Engine gave the RAF a key advantage over the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, thus preventing German Arial Supremacy and forcing Hitler to abandon his invasion plans. I sincerely hope that all school children in Crewe are taught about the 15,000 Merlin Engines built in their town and are proud of this important contribution to the freedoms we enjoy today.

The Rolls-Royce Merlin Engine and the wonderful aircraft it powered should also serve as reminder of the vital importance of science, technology and engineering to our freedom and prosperity.

British Technical Developments like Alan Turing’s ‘Colossus’ decoding machine, Watson-Watt’s Radar and Randall and Boot’s Cavity-Magnetron not only turned the tide of the war, but also shape many aspects of modern world we take for granted, like Satellite Navigation, Mobile Communications and the Computing Revolution.

I hope that our young people are inspired by the stories of these engineering marvels (as I was) and consider entering the Technical Professions our country needs so much. I am extremely encouraged by the news of the new University-Technical College planned for Crewe - but how about naming it after Crewe’s most famous V12 engine?

Stuart Hutton CEng MIET

UKIP Crewe and Nantwich.

Scathing Attack - Letter to the Crewe Chronicle 25/09/14

Thanks to Mick Roberts for his letter of 24/09/14, ‘Help for Masses, not just Rich Few’.

First he criticised the government for ‘privatising the NHS’. The NHS was effectively privatised under the last Labour government when it was sold down the river to ‘Private Finance Initiatives’, the debts for which now cripples our Health Service. Indeed, the debt burden of these arrangements is forcing 22 NHS Trusts across the country into huge deficit, necessitating bailouts from the taxpayer.

 

A recent report from the National Audit Office revealed that the repayments on these PFI deals made under Labour will total £8.6bn next year alone. Many of these loans extend for between 30 and 60 years. Perhaps even more scandalously, the report showed that the £121bn outstanding on these loans is for projects worth only £52bn to the taxpayer. We are literally paying twice, thanks to Labour’s ‘cooking the books’ and profligacy with our children's and grandchildren’s money.

 

I find it incredulous to hear Mr Roberts, and his party’s health spokesman, Andy Burnham MP (who signed over 220 PFI agreements as Health Minister) now criticise others for ‘privatisation by stealth’ of the NHS.

 

Mr Roberts also criticises the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement. He is right to do so. However, the enforced privatisation of the NHS should be the least of his worries about the TTIP. The ‘Investor-State Dispute Settlement’ clause gives big corporations carte blanche to sue democratically elected governments for policies which they believe their hinder their business, whether or not they are in the best interests of the electorate. It is an affront to democracy.

 

The TTIP agreement is being imposed on us by the EU, (as usual without any sort of consultation or vote in our parliament). Through his membership of the Labour Party, which is unequivocal in its support for the EU, Mr. Roberts embraces the TTIP and all its clauses without question.

 

He then goes on to bemoan low wages and the huge numbers of young people without work. Again, he is right to do so, albeit short-sighted in laying the blame. Rates for labour - or anything for that matter - are not set by the government; they are the subject of market forces – the ‘gravity’ of economics. 

The uncontrolled oversupply of (largely unskilled) labour from Europe as a result of Peter Mandelson’s ‘search parties’ has depressed wages and deprived our young of the service sector jobs which traditionally provide a first step on the employment ladder.

 

I bear Mr Roberts no ill, but I hope that in pointing out just some of the many ways in which Labour has betrayed British Working People, he and others will reconsider their misguided support for this disgraceful outfit.

Stuart Hutton CEng MIET

UKIP Crewe and Nantwich