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UK Independence Party

For Newbury & West Berkshire

The UK Independence Party is committed to withdrawing Britain from the European Union. As the debate on the Lisbon Treaty has now made clear, the EU agenda is complete political union, with all the main functions of national government taken over by the bureaucratic institutions of Brussels. UKIP believes that this is not only bad for Britain's economy and prosperity, but it is an alien system of government that will ultimately prove to be totally unacceptable to the British people.

UKIP would replace Britain's membership of the European Union with the kind of agreements on free trade and co-operation that we thought we had signed up to when we first joined what was then called the European Economic Community.

The UK Independence Party took 2.5 million votes at the European Elections, beating Labour and the Liberal Democrats nationally. We currently have 13 members of the European Parliament who use their positions exclusively to expose the true nature of the EU and to campaign for British withdrawal.

We would:

• Restore British sovereignty, which has been consistently reduced by successive Conservative and Labour governments

• Take control of our national borders. We can only do this if we leave the EU.

• Repatriate the many thousands of illegal immigrants who create a drain on our already over-burdened resources.

• Save £45 million per day currently paid to the EU. This money is your money and can be better spent to benefit our country.

• Develop British democracy by encouraging the electorate to vote on contentious issues through referenda.

• Reduce the oppressive EU regulations imposed on British businesses.

• Put an end to political correctness and replace it with free speech and common sense.

• Introduce a zero tolerance approach to assist in fighting crime, with effective practical deterrents. We will scrap the Human Rights Act too.

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