FelicityforCoastal

£652,000 Black Hole?

2008-07-30T22:29:00.000-07:00

Thursday 31st July 2008

Boston Standard headline '£652,000 BLACK HOLE'
So BBC has a shortfall...what about the £3,252,000 (2005/6) shortfall in uncollected council/business rates!
Must be an elephant sitting in the room that no-one can see.
Hey, come to think of it...what happened to the £43,400,000 BBC got for the sale of its housing stock in 1999?

Post Office Card Account update

2008-07-29T07:42:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 29th July 2008

Congratulations to the recent 79 MP's who have added their signatures to Early Day Motion 1506 to save the Post Office Card Account.
Sadly Mark Simmonds MP was not amongst them, just some photo-opportunity spread in the Boston Standard when stung by my letter on the subject.
251 have signed so-far, how about it Mark, for your constituents please?

ELECTION RESULT

2008-07-24T16:05:00.000-07:00

Thursday 24th July 2008

Raymond Singleton-McGuire (CON) 344 - 30.8%
Dr.David Durrant (BBI) 306 - 27.4%
Ossy Snell (LIB/DEM) 213 - 19.1%
David Owens (BNP) 119 - 10.6%
Felicity Ransome (UKIP) 88 - 7.8%
Pam Imlah (LAB) 44 - 3.9%

Well done to Raymond for winning, commiserations to all of us that didn't.
Thank you to the '88', please keep the faith.
I'll be back in May 2009, hope to see some of you again, it's been great fun, let's keep the 'party' in politics!
Kind regards
Felicity

Polling day post

2008-07-23T22:12:00.000-07:00

I would like to thank Dr. David Durrant, Pam Imlah, David Owens, Raymond Singleton- McQuire and Ossy Snell for all fighting a clean campaign focused on the local issues and their respective party policies.

I now respectfully ask that the voters of all persuasions in Coastal turn out to demonstrate their faith in our democratic system.
Please, whoever you support, go and vote, do not let apathy destroy the freedoms won at such a cost by our forebears.
Felicity

Eve of poll cards

2008-07-23T05:03:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 23rd July 2008

Just off to deliver a few 'eve of poll' cards and here's wishing all candidates the very best of luck for tomorrow.

Local Elections May 2007

2008-07-22T09:48:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 22nd July 2008

Coastal Ward (2 seats)
Boston Borough Council Elections 2007: Coastal Ward

Boston Bypass Independents
Neil McGregor (E)
681
30.5
N/A
Conservative
Peter Bedford (E)
557
25.0
N/A
Boston Bypass Independents
Harry Windsor
515
23.1
N/A
Independent
Kathryn Dawson
354
15.9
N/A
UK Independence
Felicity Ransome
123
5.5
N/A
Turnout
1,249
41.8
N/A
Boston Bypass Independents gain from Independent

Where were Labour/Lib/Dems and BNP then?

Boston By-passed?

2008-07-19T23:48:00.000-07:00

Sunday 20th July 2008

You hear a lot about a by-pass for Boston and how everyone in public office is clamouring to get one so I may as well add in my fourpence worth.

The Government has washed its hands of the affair and tell us its up to Lincolnshire County Council.

Boston has seven out of seventy seven councillors on LCC, so not much hope there.

LCC cannot fund such a project, it is already £200 million in debt(we pay the interest on this through our Council Tax) and rising.

It had to go cap in hand to the Regional Assembly in Melton Mowbray who only gave Lincolnshire funding for two major road projects, same as it gave the vast county of Rutland, so not much hope there either.

Boston Borough Council, stuffed full of by-pass councillors has NO/ZERO authority to obtain the cash, so even less hope there.

OK what do we do?

We must keep campaigning on this issue but let's be realistic, it will take a very long hard slog over many, many years to get what we deserve and that is why I and local UKIP candidates, as in May last year, will not promise something we cannot deliver within our term of office.

Sadly in the meantime Boston is dying as local people go to Spalding or Skegness to shop as it is so much quicker and despite the horrendous rise in fuel costs still viable economically.

"The party now expects a new road..probably in six or seven years" Cllr Sheila Newell Boston Bypass Independent, May 2007

"..There never was a promise that a by-pass is coming, that's out of our hands" Cllr. Richard Austin, Leader of Boston Bypass Independents, May 2007

"Try turning the traffic lights off at both ends of John Adams Way" Jodie Sutton, UKIP candidate, Five Villages Ward, May 2007

Chris Pain

2008-07-18T01:19:00.000-07:00

Friday 18th July 2008

"I was so pleased to see three UKIP Councillors take office after the Local Government elections in May last year.
They now help represent the people of Fishtoft, Kirton and Wyberton at Parish Council level, it is time for our first Borough Councillor and in Felicity Ransome we have young, fresh ideas mixed with a dose of common sense and an appreciation of how let down local people like herself are feeling right now.
I have known her for several years and endorse her fully as the best candidate to help Coastal Ward in these difficult times".

Chris Pain is a local businessman, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Boston and Skegness and Chairman of UKIP Boston and Skegness Constituency Association.

Immigration

2008-07-15T14:26:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 15th July 2008

OK I know this is a long bit but it is important so if you want the facts on 'foreigners' bear with me and read on:

1. There are four types of immigrant: Legal(EU migrant workers), Asylum Seekers
who become Refugees when granted permission to stay and Illegal Immigrants.

2. Asylum Seekers/Illegals are a minute proportion of migrants but the Government shouts loud about 'cracking down' on them at regular intervals.

3. Over 90% of the immigrants in Lincolnshire are Legal(EU migrant workers).

4. The Government does not know how many migrants are in the UK, it does not care and it has passed the buck to local councils to pay for them(me and you).

5. Our MP, Mark Simmonds, during the last General Election whilst speaking in Skegness said " We need these people". No we don't, who does he think did the work before Legal (EU migrant workers) and himself first appeared here? His Tory landowning friends need them for cheap labour and more profits!

6. Locals who have worked for years on the land and in the packhouses have had their jobs
undercut from beneath them. The services they should have as a right, health care, social services and housing have been so overwhelmed by immigrants that locals are left feeling like second class citizens, pushed to the back of the queue and as taxpayers realise they are being taken for a ride.

7. Who voted against allowing all the East Europeans free entry into the UK...only UKIP MEP's, the rest all voted in favour..... they played a LIB/LAB/CON trick on you!

8. And me?....if elected I won't vote in favour of spending your council tax on those that come here for economic reasons, it simply is not fair.

Posters

2008-07-15T14:15:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 15th July 2008

Got some posters up in Leverton to-day, not as many as the Conservative or BBI candidates but I did put my picture on them unlike those two and of course do I look better!(only joshing with you other candidates).
Thanks to Russel I have a bigger poster than all of them on the A52.

Car Tax

2008-07-10T15:17:00.000-07:00

Friday 11th July 2008

So when did legislation in the UK become retrospective?
(Flash) Gordon Brown says that all large engined vehicles registered after 2001 will pay higher road tax.
You buy a large car when your family is at its biggest and WHAM it's suddenly a crime to drive it anymore.
Couple that with the proliferation of (greedspeed)cameras and you realise that it's all about raising money.
But of course when did you see (Flash) Gordon ever drive (no license) or fill a car up?
Must be nice living on Pluto.
PS Thanks to Thurlby Motors for fixing my car on Wednesday, a local firm doing a great job.

Post Office Card Account

2008-07-10T01:20:00.000-07:00

Thursday 10th July 2008

Nice to see Mark Simmonds MP stung into action after my letter in the Standard asking him if he would sign the Early Day Motion 1506 supporting the POCA (page 21 Boston Standard).
A bit of photo-opportunity campaigning outside Stickney Post Office is fine but.............
you have only signed one EDM since 2001, unlike most MP's and looking at motion 1506, I still can't see your name amongst the 21 Tories that have signed it!

Well Mark, will you sign it or not...a straight yes or no please?

Well here we are 19 days on..another 79 MP's have signed this motion but sadly our Mark is not one of the 251 that have done so.

My five issues

2008-07-08T06:22:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 8th July 2008

You can vote on my five campaign issues at http://votewise.co.uk/index.php?pg=show&c=1113&eid=32UBFU-0&this=1113

Issue 1.
Force Boston councillors to listen to you by holding referendums on important issues.

Issue 2.
Fight to limit housebuilding to meet local needs only.

Issue 3.
Slash council expenditure by cutting out waste, bureaucracy, meaningless targets and politically correct non-jobs.

Issue 4.
Sell of the PRSA(DABSI) and fire the traffic/image/community cohesion consultants and use common sense instead.

Issue 5.
I WILL NOT TAKE A PENNY IN ALLOWANCES/EXPENSES!

Fuel for thought

2008-07-07T11:20:00.000-07:00

Monday 7th July 2008

It cost my father £79.92 to fill his battered Scorpio up with diesel yesterday, that was at the cheapest place in Boston as well!
What inkling has this Labour Government got of what it is like to keep mobile in a rural area as Ministers stand outside Parliament telling us they are investing in public transport..who needs a car in London...who can live easily without one in villages like Freiston, Benington, Butterwick or Leverton?