Press Release: Campaign for a Referendum goes to Cannock

NIKKI SINCLAIRE GIVES CANNOCK THE CHANCE TO “HAVE THEIR SAY” ABOUT EU

Issue Date: 30th July 2012

Independent West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire will be sending her Have Your Say Battle Bus to Cannock on FRIDAY 3^RD AUGUST from 10am – 3pm. Nikki’s highly successful campaign has been featured across the national press as she delivered 120,000 signatures to Downing Street and secured a debate in Parliament on 24^th October 2011. The Campaign for a Referendum on our continued membership of the European Union is carrying on collecting signatures across the region, as well as giving out information and advice about MEP’s and European Matters.

Nikki wants a referendum so everybody has a chance to register their say on whether we should be a part of the European Union, and the West Midlands has contributed over half of the 120,000 signature total. Nikki is bringing her new petition forms along to the event, so the members of the public have their chance to have their names added to the new petition form. The new petition form aims to become a bill in Parliament.

Anyone under the age of 54 has never had the chance to speak about this issue, which Nikki believes is a breach of our democratic principles. The last time the UK held a referendum on the Common Market, as it was known then, was in 1975 – and even this was retrospective. Despite the fact that this campaign could leave Ms Sinclaire without a job, Nikki is passionate that people be given a voice in deciding whether it is right that:

·        The UK contributes £48 million per day to the EU

·        75% of UK laws are decided by the EU yet the UK only has 72 MEPs in the Parliament out of a total of 736 MEPs

·        Each day we buy £5 million more from EU countries than they buy from us.

Commenting on her “Have Your Say” campaign, Nikki Sinclaire said, “European Law is rarely conducive or indeed relevant to British industry or infrastructure. The EU takes almost £50 million a day of our money for the privilege of belonging - money better spent in this country, where we need it most - on our hospitals, on our schools and in supporting our pensioners. When will the political elite realise that Britain cannot afford to remain in this Parliament?”

Like many towns and cities across the UK, Cannock faces mounting cuts to public services. Nikki finds it a disgrace that even as the British public tightens its belt, the EU approves budget hikes and other measures which will impact on the British pocket.

Nikki’s team of advisers will be with her mobile surgery in Cannocks Market Place from 10am – 3pm to collect signatures for the campaign, hand out literature and to give out information and advice about Nikki and the European Union.

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The team travel to Ludlow

A great day out for the team today in Ludlow - just look at the views they had on the trip! Its amazing all the different types of places in the West Midlands.

Views aside, it was a great day for catching people in the busy Ludlow market square to collect signatures - they feel very strongly that the UK needs a referendum.

The team will be in Cannock next Friday.

Press Release: Have Your Say team to be in Ludlow on Friday (27th July 2012)

We've awoken to a rare site in Birmingham today - blue skies and sunshine. The team are out in Ludlow on Friday and are hoping that the weather can hold up. More information below.

 

 

 

 

NIKKI SINCLAIRE GIVES LUDLOW THE CHANCE TO “HAVE THEIR SAY” ABOUT EU

Issue Date: 23^rd July 2012

Independent West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire will be sending her Have Your Say Battle Bus to Ludlow on July 27th from 10am – 3pm. Nikki’s highly successful campaign has been featured across the national press as she delivered 120,000 signatures to Downing Street and secured a debate in Parliament on 24^th October 2011. The Campaign for a Referendum on our continued membership of the European Union is carrying on collecting signatures across the region, as well as giving out information and advice about MEP’s and European Matters.

Nikki wants a referendum so everybody has a chance to register their say on whether we should be a part of the European Union, and the West Midlands has contributed over half of the 120,000 signature total. Nikki is bringing her new petition forms along to the event, so the members of the public have their chance to have their names added to the new petition form. The new petition form aims to become a bill in Parliament.

Anyone under the age of 54 has never had the chance to speak about this issue, which Nikki believes is a breach of our democratic principles. The last time the UK held a referendum on the Common Market, as it was known then, was in 1975 – and even this was retrospective. Despite the fact that this campaign could leave Ms Sinclaire without a job, Nikki is passionate that people be given a voice in deciding whether it is right that:

·         The UK contributes £48 million per day to the EU

·         75% of UK laws are decided by the EU yet the UK only has 72 MEPs in the Parliament out of a total of 736 MEPs

·         Each day we buy £5 million more from EU countries than they buy from us.

Commenting on her “Have Your Say” campaign, Nikki Sinclaire said, “European Law is rarely conducive or indeed relevant to British industry or infrastructure. The EU takes almost £50 million a day of our money for the privilege of belonging - money better spent in this country, where we need it most - on our hospitals, on our schools and in supporting our pensioners. When will the political elite realise that Britain cannot afford to remain in this Parliament?”

Like many towns and cities across the UK, Ludlow faces mounting cuts to public services. Nikki finds it a disgrace that even as the British public tightens its belt, the EU approves budget hikes and other measures which will impact on the British pocket.

Nikki’s team of advisers will be with her mobile surgery in Ludlow’s Market Square from 10am – 3pm to collect signatures for the campaign, hand out literature and to give out information and advice about Nikki and the European Union.

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Campaign for a Referendum goes to Stourbridge

PRESS RELEASE

NIKKI SINCLAIRE GIVES STOURBRIDGE THE CHANCE TO “HAVE THEIR SAY” ABOUT EU

Issue Date: 17^th July 2012

Independent West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire will be sending her Have Your Say Battle Bus to Stourbridge on July 20th from 10am – 3pm. Nikki’s highly successful campaign has been featured across the national press as she delivered 120,000 signatures to Downing Street and secured a debate in Parliament on 24^th October 2011. The Campaign for a Referendum on our continued membership of the European Union is carrying on collecting signatures across the region, as well as giving out information and advice about MEP’s and European Matters.

Nikki wants a referendum so everybody has a chance to register their say on whether we should be a part of the European Union, and the West Midlands has contributed over half of the 120,000 signature total. Nikki is bringing her new petition forms along to the event, so the members of the public have their chance to have their names added to the new petition form. The new petition form aims to become a bill in Parliament.

Anyone under the age of 54 has never had the chance to speak about this issue, which Nikki believes is a breach of our democratic principles. The last time the UK held a referendum on the Common Market, as it was known then, was in 1975 – and even this was retrospective. Despite the fact that this campaign could leave Ms Sinclaire without a job, Nikki is passionate that people be given a voice in deciding whether it is right that:

·        The UK contributes £48 million per day to the EU

·        75% of UK laws are decided by the EU yet the UK only has 72 MEPs in the Parliament out of a total of 736 MEPs

·        Each day we buy £5 million more from EU countries than they buy from us.

Commenting on her “Have Your Say” campaign, Nikki Sinclaire said, “European Law is rarely conducive or indeed relevant to British industry or infrastructure. The EU takes almost £50 million a day of our money for the privilege of belonging - money better spent in this country, where we need it most - on our hospitals, on our schools and in supporting our pensioners. When will the political elite realise that Britain cannot afford to remain in this Parliament?”

Like many towns and cities across the UK, Stourbridge faces mounting cuts to public services. Nikki finds it a disgrace that even as the British public tightens its belt, the EU approves budget hikes and other measures which will impact on the British pocket.

Nikki’s team of advisers will be with her mobile surgery in Stourbridge (Town Centre) from 10am – 3pm to collect signatures for the campaign, hand out literature and to give out information and advice about Nikki and the European Union.

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A day out in Wolverhampton

Once again, the mobile surgery faced a day of rain. Despite the weather, we had a fantastic day collecting signatures. Wolverhampton is a great area for us, and people were very happy to stop and sign.

The team will be in Stourbridge next Friday

Press Release: Nikki Sinclaire gives the people of Wolverhampton the chance to have their say on the EU

 

 

NIKKI SINCLAIRE GIVES WOLVERHAMPTON THE CHANCE TO “HAVE THEIR SAY” ABOUT EU

Issue Date: 10^th July 2012

Independent West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire will be sending her Have Your Say Battle Bus to Wolverhampton on July 13th from 10am – 3pm. Nikki’s highly successful campaign has been featured across the national press as she delivered 120,000 signatures to Downing Street and secured a debate in Parliament on 24^th October 2011. The Campaign for a Referendum on our continued membership of the European Union is carrying on collecting signatures across the region, as well as giving out information and advice about MEP’s and European Matters.

Nikki wants a referendum so everybody has a chance to register their say on whether we should be a part of the European Union, and the West Midlands has contributed over half of the 120,000 signature total. Nikki is bringing her new petition forms along to the event, so the members of the public have their chance to have their names added to the new petition form. The new petition form aims to become a bill in Parliament.

Anyone under the age of 54 has never had the chance to speak about this issue, which Nikki believes is a breach of our democratic principles. The last time the UK held a referendum on the Common Market, as it was known then, was in 1975 – and even this was retrospective. Despite the fact that this campaign could leave Ms Sinclaire without a job, Nikki is passionate that people be given a voice in deciding whether it is right that:

·        The UK contributes £48 million per day to the EU

·        75% of UK laws are decided by the EU yet the UK only has 72 MEPs in the Parliament out of a total of 736 MEPs

·        Each day we buy £5 million more from EU countries than they buy from us.

Commenting on her “Have Your Say” campaign, Nikki Sinclaire said, “European Law is rarely conducive or indeed relevant to British industry or infrastructure. The EU takes almost £50 million a day of our money for the privilege of belonging - money better spent in this country, where we need it most - on our hospitals, on our schools and in supporting our pensioners. When will the political elite realise that Britain cannot afford to remain in this Parliament?”

Like many towns and cities across the UK, Wolverhampton faces mounting cuts to public services. Nikki finds it a disgrace that even as the British public tightens its belt, the EU approves budget rises and other measures which will impact on the British pocket.

Nikki’s team of advisers will be with her mobile surgery in Wolverhampton (Queens Square) from 10am – 3pm to collect signatures for the campaign, hand out literature and to give out information and advice about Nikki and the European Union.

Nuneaton has chance to have its say on EU membership

 

 

NIKKI SINCLAIRE GIVES NUNEATON THE CHANCE TO “HAVE THEIR SAY” ABOUT EU

Issue Date: 26^th June 2012

Independent West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire will be sending her Have Your Say Battle Bus to Nuneaton on 29^th June from 10am – 3pm. Nikki’s highly successful campaign has been featured across the national press as she delivered 120,000 signatures to Downing Street and secured a debate in Parliament on 24^th October 2011. The Campaign for a Referendum on our continued membership of the European Union is carrying on collecting signatures across the region, as well as giving out information and advice about MEP’s and European Matters.

Nikki wants a referendum so everybody has a chance to register their say on whether we should be a part of the European Union, and the West Midlands has contributed over half of the 120,000 signature total. Nikki is bringing her new petition forms along to the event, so the members of the public have their chance to have their names added to the new petition form. The new petition form aims to become a bill in Parliament.

Anyone under the age of 54 has never had the chance to speak about this issue, which Nikki believes is a breach of our democratic principles. The last time the UK held a referendum on the Common Market, as it was known then, was in 1975 – and even this was retrospective. Despite the fact that this campaign could leave Ms Sinclaire without a job, Nikki is passionate that people be given a voice in deciding whether it is right that:

·         The UK contributes £48 million per day to the EU

·         75% of UK laws are decided by the EU yet the UK only has 72 MEPs in the Parliament out of a total of 736 MEPs

·         Each day we buy £5 million more from EU countries than they buy from us.

Commenting on her “Have Your Say” campaign, Nikki Sinclaire said, “European Law is rarely conducive or indeed relevant to British industry or infrastructure. The EU takes almost £50 million a day of our money for the privilege of belonging - money better spent in this country, where we need it most - on our hospitals, on our schools and in supporting our pensioners. When will the political elite realise that Britain cannot afford to remain in this Parliament?”

Like many towns across the UK, Nuneaton faces mounting cuts to public services. Nikki finds it a disgrace that even as the British public tightens its belt, the EU approves budget rises and other measures which will impact on the British pocket.

Nikki’s team of advisers will be with her mobile surgery in Nuneaton Town Centre (Opposite Wilkinsons) from 10am – 3pm to collect signatures for the campaign, hand out literature and to give out information and advice about Nikki and the European Union.

To sign online, please go to www.HaveYourSay.eu

A weekend at the Three Counties Show

As some of you will be aware, both myself and my team ran a stall at the weekends Three Counties Show which was held at the Malvern Showground.

Despite a fair amount of terrible weather, many thousands of people attended the show and I was able to speak to a great many people about agricultural issues that affected them.

I was the only MEP with a stand at the event, in fact I was the only politician with a mobile surgery at the event. I did see some politicians on Friday with suspiciously clean shoes, but failed to see anyone else over the weekend.

The Three Counties show was a great chance to speak to many farmers from different sectors of farming life. Here I am talking to those who were manning the National Sheep Association stall.

The farmer in the above picture was adding pig oils to the sheeps wool to keep its moisture.

A selection of bulls head towards the barns following judging.

Discussing CAP reform in the NFU tent.

Solihull Has Their Say

The team were overwhelmed with the amount of support they had today in Solihull, with people queueing to sign the new petition. Many talked about their fears about how the UK will be damaged by the Eurozone crisis, and in particular referenced the severe problems Greece are having.

The team will be heading to Halesowen next Friday.

The beginning of Strasbourg

On my way to Strasbourg today. It will be a lengthy journey, made worse by the fact my first flight from Birmingham International was delayed, meaning that I'll now miss my connecting flight. A stressful start to the week. I have previously highlighted the problems in getting to Strasbourg, and the ridiculous costings of moving the European Parliament to Strasbourg for one week a month, the link to that post is here.

For those of you that are interested, the full agenda for this weeks session can be found on: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?family=AGENDA&reference=20120417&secondRef=SYN&language=en. I of course will report anything of note this week.

The Campaign team will be in Rugby tomorrow as was reported in the press release and they are hoping to collect plenty of signatures. Next Friday the team travel to Stafford.

The team will have a new batch of Campaign for a Referendum magazines with them, which will be hitting the doormats this week.

The new issue covers the continued work of the Campaign, an article with Tim Congdon CBE, a Thank You to James Goldsmith and the centre spread special timeline entitled "How we got into this mess"

As always, you can sign the petition online at www.HaveYourSay.eu

Have Your Say goes to Lichfield

Independent West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire will be sending her Have Your Say Battle Bus to Lichfield marketplace on the 12^th April 2012 from 10am – 3pm. Nikki’s highly successful campaign has been featured across the national press as she delivered 100,000 signatures to Downing Street on 8^th September 2011. The Campaign for a Referendum on our continued membership of the European Union is carrying on collecting signatures across the region, as well as giving out information and advice about MEP’s and European Matters.

Nikki wants a referendum so everybody has a chance to register their say on whether we should be a part of the European Union, and the West Midlands has contributed over half of the 100,000 signature total.

Anyone under the age of 54 has never had the chance to speak about this issue, which Nikki believes is a breach of our democratic principles. The last time the UK held a referendum on the Common Market, as it was known then, was in 1975 – and even this was retrospective. Despite the fact that this campaign could leave Ms Sinclaire without a job, Nikki is passionate that people be given a voice in deciding whether it is right that:

·         The UK contributes £48 million per day to the EU

·         75% of UK laws are decided by the EU yet the UK only has 72 MEPs in the Parliament out of a total of 736 MEPs

·         Each day we buy £5 million more from EU countries than they buy from us.

Commenting on her “Have Your Say” campaign, Nikki Sinclaire said, “European Law is rarely conducive or indeed relevant to British industry or infrastructure. The EU takes almost £50 million a day of our money for the privilege of belonging - money better spent in this country, where we need it most - on our hospitals, on our schools and in supporting our pensioners. When will the political elite realise that Britain cannot afford to remain in this Parliament?”

Like many towns across the UK, Coventry faces mounting cuts to public services. Nikki finds it a disgrace that even as the British public tightens its belt, the EU approves budget rises and other measures which will impact on the British pocket.

Nikki’s team of advisers will be with her mobile surgery at Lichfield marketplace from 10am – 3pm to collect signatures for the campaign, hand out literature and to give out information and advice about Nikki and the European Union.

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Nikki’s team of advisors will be in Lichfield from 10am – 3pm. Nikki Sinclaire is unavailable to attend this event.  

The team will be heading to Rugby next Wednesday, details TBC

For further information, pictures or interviews, please contact Nicole Carroll at the Office of Nikki Sinclaire on 0121 359 5933 or 07974233902

Campaign for a Referendum goes to Coventry

No, they haven't been sent to Coventry....

Press Release:

NIKKI SINCLAIRE GIVES COVENTRY THE CHANCE TO “HAVE THEIR SAY” ABOUT EU

Issue Date: 4^th April 2012

Independent West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire will be sending her Have Your Say Battle Bus to Cross Point Tesco in Coventry on the 5th April 2012 from 10am – 3pm. Nikki’s highly successful campaign has been featured across the national press as she delivered 100,000 signatures to Downing Street on 8^th September 2011. The Campaign for a Referendum on our continued membership of the European Union is carrying on collecting signatures across the region, as well as giving out information and advice about MEP’s and European Matters.

 Nikki wants a referendum so everybody has a chance to register their say on whether we should be a part of the European Union, and the West Midlands has contributed over half of the 100,000 signature total.

 Anyone under the age of 54 has never had the chance to speak about this issue, which Nikki believes is a breach of our democratic principles. The last time the UK held a referendum on the Common Market, as it was known then, was in 1975 – and even this was retrospective. Despite the fact that this campaign could leave Ms Sinclaire without a job, Nikki is passionate that people be given a voice in deciding whether it is right that:

·         The UK contributes £48 million per day to the EU

·         75% of UK laws are decided by the EU yet the UK only has 72 MEPs in the Parliament out of a total of 736 MEPs

·         Each day we buy £5 million more from EU countries than they buy from us.

Commenting on her “Have Your Say” campaign, Nikki Sinclaire said, “European Law is rarely conducive or indeed relevant to British industry or infrastructure. The EU takes almost £50 million a day of our money for the privilege of belonging - money better spent in this country, where we need it most - on our hospitals, on our schools and in supporting our pensioners. When will the political elite realise that Britain cannot afford to remain in this Parliament?”

Like many towns across the UK, Coventry faces mounting cuts to public services. Nikki finds it a disgrace that even as the British public tightens its belt, the EU approves budget rises and other measures which will impact on the British pocket.

Nikki’s team of advisers will be with her mobile surgery outside Cross Point Tesco in Coventry from 10am – 3pm to collect signatures for the campaign, hand out literature and to give out information and advice about Nikki and the European Union.

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Have Your Say goes to Bromsgrove

A  few pictures from Bromsgrove earlier today. The team will be in Bromsgrove until 3pm today

The Have Your Say Bus in Worcester

Wow, what a busy day!

The team have been out in Worcester today to collect signatures for Campaign for a Referendum. I popped along to help  and to meet my employers - my constituents!

It has been a highly successful day for the team and they have collected hundreds of signatures, the overwhelming message that we have gotten from today is the fact that Worcester wants its say on this vital issue.

After making a flying visit to the Birmingham office this afternoon, I will be attending the Kidderminster vs Fleetwood town match tonight.  I am the matchball sponsor and will be taking along two constituents and long standing supporters of mine. Fleetwood are top of the table and I am hoping that Kidderminster can get the result they want tonight.