Sydenham Town Forum

No Shoreditch High Street was placed in Zone 1 at the insistence of the DfT, i.e. if the station was put into Zone 2 then the DfT would not provide the funding to allow the line to be constructed. TfL did not wish it to be in Zone 1, they were happy with Zone 2.

The DfT say that 'it improved the ...

Just to be clear Shoreditch High Street Station is in Zone 1 regardless as to whether you pass through or alight or board there.

I you undertake a journey, such as New Cross Gate to Dalston Junction then:

If you have PAYG Oyster you will be charged as if you travelled through Zone 1.

I you have a ...

Peter:

Why doesn't UKIP make more of its local (SE England) MEP, the awkward accountant, Marta Andreasen - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Andreasen ? I want political parties to explain what is really going on, and boring though it may be, accountancy helps.

Tim

Your message is amazingly ...

Tim

I would say that we do use Marta Andreasen and her knowledge very well. For example there are videos and other information produced by her on the UKIP website. The problem is that the media not only find the EU boring but do their best to ignore any issues regarding the EU that do not suit ...

Sorry, can I ask this again:

Can you clarify where this figure of '75% of all our laws come from the EU' originates?

Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan thinks it's 84%.
Ukip thinks it's 74%.
Jean Le Penn thinks it's 80%.
David Cameron think's it's 'nearly half'
The British Chamber of Commerce states ...

You are talking in terms of immediate cash spent and received, but how about the benefits of EU membership that aren't immediately measurable - such as the benefits of being members of a large 'union' that has power to negotiate with huge multinational companies (some of which have bigger ...

What? How can we trade twice as much with EU as they do with us? This is physically impossible! This is like saying 'I spend more time with you than you spend with me' !!!

OK I will put it more simply.

UK people and UK businesses spend twice as much money on goods and services located in other ...

I am told this is not true. Apparently it is not possible to sack individual commissioners but it is possible to have a vote of no confidence and sack the whole lot. Unless things have changed lately.

And anyway, each commissioner is put forward by each country so surely they've in effect been ...

Juwlz

On the UKIP website it says we could save up to £120 bn a year by leaving the EU, so where do you get your 7.5bn figure from? Quite a big difference between the two. Sounds like UKIP don't know how much we'd save either.

I also asked my economist friend about countries like Norway that ...

Regarding referenda. UKIP is proposing a referendum system similar to that is used in Switzerland. Obviously both the petitioners and the voters would need to be on the Electoral Register. We would not use the Number 10 type petition system whereby anyone can sign several times using various aliases ...

Thank you for that. As they say 'other UKIP candidates are available'. Nationally there are around 550 of us. I see you come from Hackney, there is a candidate in Hackney South and Shoreditch.

There are essentially 7 reasons why people are against UKIP, they:

1) Are 'tribal voters', i.e. they have ...

Yes, because we are a net contributor to CAP we would initially be able to pay farmers the amount they would have obtained from CAP. However, over time we would like to reduce both subsidies and the Single Farm Payment. They will not be eliminated but we feel that as the World food markets develop ...

I wish to echo JRobinson's comments. Please vote (even if not for UKIP :wink: )

I do not think that the first passed the post system really works, it means that a very low percentage of people decide who forms the Government which cannot be democratic.

Added to that the expenses row and the ...

Referenda can be called by the electorate on any subject (given a 5% petition).

The day to day management of the Country will have to be dealt with by the Civil Service and the politicans. However, it is important that major policy items are decided by the electorate rather than on the wishes of a ...

The UK is a large net contributor to the CAP to the tune of several billions of pounds per annum. In other words, the UK pays not only for the cost of the CAP in the UK, but for part of the cost in other member states. Indeed, it is this inequity which provides the essential justification for the UK ...

The UK Polling Report used the 2005 votes in each Ward and using the methodogly shown recalculared what the voting would have been. I would be interested to know why you feel that the Press Association is more accurate since I do not know what method they used.

Interestingly UK Polling Report gives slightly different percentages.

Labour: 18105 (46.4%)
Conservative: 9341 (23.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 9261 (23.7%)
Other: 2307 (5.9%)
Majority: 8764 (22.5%)

The page with the calculation method is at http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/guide/seat-profiles ...

Lord Pearson (Leader of UKIP) is appearing on Straight Talk with Andrew Neil on the BBC News Channel.

It can be seen live at the following times:

Saturday 10th April 2010 @ 22:30hrs
Sunday 11th April 2010 @ 01:30hrs and 23:30hrs
Tuesday 13th April 2010 @ 03:30hrs

It was broadcast earlier ...

Emma

We would change VAT into a local sales tax, half the money raised from it would go to the local council, to spend on improvements to the area.

For tourism that means that improvements could be made to the area, to make it more attractive to potential tourists.

Pubs and clubs could opt to ...

Sorry, perhaps I didn't explain it properly.

We would still be able to make decisions without the need for a referendum, but if someone wanted to have a binding referendum on any issue (say smacking children) they could attempt to get 5% of the electorate to back the request for a referendum, then ...