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UKIP highlights EU impact at public meeting
6:13pm Tuesday 20th May 2008
Comments (15)THE UK Independence Party held its second public meeting at Nantwich Football Stadium last night.
Nigel Farage MEP party leader and the candidate Mike Nattrass MEP spoke to an enthusiastic audience of 80 local people.
Mr Farage pointed to the impact on the community of EU rules which the UK must obey, unlimited immigration from the other 26 EU states, closure of post offices and even a tax on rubbish which we must obey.
Mike Nattrass MEP, who had spent most of the day on the UKIP classic double decker campaign bus, said: "It is time to get our country back and govern it for our own people."
"The other three Westminster parties have the same single policy 'Let the EU Rule' -voting for them is like moving deckchairs on the Titanic, no change, more of the same, no point at all."
Mike pointed to the defence of the UK in two world wars and said: "It did not matter what party they were from, no one asked, they stood their ground and defended their country.
"UKIP are from all parties and will defend our right to run our country for the benefit of the British people."
"This campaign will show that the others are more interested in giving it all away to Europe and being governed from Brussels."
During the meeting, it was pointed out that the cost to the UK in contributions and costs on business exceeded £50 billion and that 75% of our law was made in the EU.
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Al, Crewe says...
9:41pm Tue 20 May 08
Talking to them most appeared to be UKIP members who had travelled down to make up the numbers!
Sarah, Crewe says...
9:51pm Tue 20 May 08
Not a Crewe resident, Nowhere near Crew says...
11:16pm Tue 20 May 08
PATHETIC
John Waters, birmingham says...
11:57pm Tue 20 May 08
Not a Crewe resident wrote:may i just say the above comment is aload of rubbish , to prove it i can post the link to the so called supporters website ,http://www.democrac
A UKIP supporters forum has posted a link to this article on their website and told its members to flood this news story with messages from 'Crewe' residents saying there was 80+ people at the meeting! PATHETIC
yforum.co.uk/ukip-ge
neral-issues/50066-u
kip-highlights-eu-im
pact-public-meeting.
html if you click on it you can see nothing has been asked it was simply posted on there so the ukip members who didnt attend could read what happened. the poster ''not a crewe resident'' is probaly a bnp troll who has been writing stuff like this at www.crewe.tv
Peter Smith, Crewe says...
12:09am Wed 21 May 08
Sally, says...
1:16am Wed 21 May 08
John, says...
8:48am Wed 21 May 08
I think the figure in the story was 180 but the newspaper missed off the number one.
I am also local to Crewe and the UKIP activists probably numbered 5 or 6 so at least 190 of the audience was local Crewe people.
Paul Jones, says...
10:16am Wed 21 May 08
I calculate perhaps 250-300 people in total. There would have been many more but scores of people had to be turned away at the door as it was standing room only.
Also everybody there was local.
Robert, Wiltshire says...
12:32pm Wed 21 May 08
Mark, says...
12:46pm Wed 21 May 08
Outside there must have been several hundred, perhaps as many as five hundred people who listened to the meeting over loud speakers outside.
This must have been the biggest public meeting Crewe has seen in decades.
Tony, says...
1:10pm Wed 21 May 08
I'm repliably told there were nearly 800,000 people watching around the world; including, curiously, nearly 70% of the population of Andorra.
Dave the bearded one, says...
4:13pm Wed 21 May 08
No wonder UKIP and their MEPs have so much trouble with their accounts and expenses!
Dave the bearded one, says...
4:14pm Wed 21 May 08
No wonder UKIP and their MEPs have so much trouble with their accounts and expenses!
Hobart, says...
1:54pm Thu 22 May 08
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Sarah - Jane, Crewe says...
9:33pm Tue 20 May 08