I have come across very little in the West Country papers
referring to the policies Jenny Knight and Mike Blundell are advocating as they
step up to the plate for the English Democrats in the South West Region in the
EU Parliamentary Election – an election that this country would not be
participating in had the British Political Establishment honoured the result of
the 2016 EU Referendum.
However, I did find this from the North Devon Gazette:
English Democrats
The English Democrats firmly
believe in leaving the EU and 'putting England first' - including campaigning
for the creation of an English Parliament.
It is putting up two
candidates for the South West - Jenny Knight and Mike Blundell.
First candidate on the
ballot, Mrs Knight, said: "I am from a Devon military family from Great
Torrington and went to school in Bideford, North Devon but now live in
Somerset. I am a local historian having written guide books on Bath.
"I am standing for the
English Democrats Party whose manifesto includes leaving the EU and Putting
England First. We also campaign for England to have her own Parliament to
equalise that of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
"I am also supporting
those women born in the 1950's who suffered financial hardship when the state
pension age was raised for women from age 60 to 66, with little or no notice
and implemented through the 1995 and 2011 Pensions Acts. Thousands of women in
the South West were affected, losing in general up to £45,000 each.
"If elected I will
campaign with Pension Reformers United for all those women across the South
West who, quite rightly, feel they have suffered an injustice at the hands of
successive Governments and deserve recompense."
Second candidate, Mike
Blundell, said : "The European Union is an inward looking, authoritarian
and inefficient institution. The sooner we are out of it the better.
"I am a family man,
living and working in Bristol for more than 30 years. In that time I have
experienced the decline in the quality of our public services.
"We should be spending
our taxes on improving our hospitals and schools and not being forced by the
European Union to have them spent funding subsidies for tobacco, wine and
sugar. We can add to this slipper farmers, receipt free MEP expenses and the
endless travel between Brussels and Strasbourg.
"The EU is outdated, it
is the past. Time to say goodbye."
Good
for them for standing. In present
circumstances, they will have done well if they receive more than 10,000 votes.
Here
is a link to the whole article:
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