Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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The thing is for the Out side to stand any chance of winning a referendum, UKIP must die. It is an election we can win, so long as we can get the message across that you can be in the single market without having the political baggage of the political EU.
we can shoot the "government by fax" meme stone dead by pointing out that the regulations are made globally, and the UK could re take its seat at the top tables. the EU only states how the regulations will be packaged and rolled out.
of course remaining in the single market is vital to winning this referendum, and that is UKIPs downfall, membership of the Single market means the 4 freedoms.
When UKIP tied everything they had to immigration, in the hope of mopping up the BNP voters, it really did place a ceiling over itself, and its a position from which they cant recover. All they can do now is damage the "out" campaign, and they can damage it simply by association.