On The Stump in Brighouse - The fight against Cartimandua.

This is the first in a series of Political Speeches to be given by Paul Rogan in Calder Valley. As UKIP’s PPC, each of the speeches will focus on a different aspect of UKIP’s policy. It is expected that ‘doing the rounds’ of the various market towns and villages in the constituency and addressing a different aspect of policy each week will take up to a good 90 days of the campaign.

“Calder Valley is a diverse and unique Constituency. Embracing Todmorden and Brighouse from West to East, girthed from Rastrick to Hipperholme and Lightcliffe. Named after the river Calder which flows through Hebden Bridge, Luddendenfoot and down to Elland; our Constituency includes Greetland, Stainland and Ripponden and then the moors. Calder Valley is truly a magnificent part of Yorkshire.

Today, I am in Brighouse, named after the Celtic tribe of the Brigantes. Brigant means dwellers of the high lands. The Brigantes were the largest collection of Pennine Peoples or Tribe in pre-Roman Britain. Their loyalties shifted continually. Firstly they gave refuge to Caratacus, a fierce British resistance fighter against Roman Empire domination. Then, sadly they handed him over to the Authorities for execution; an action which caused a civil war between pro and anti factions. The pro Britain faction was led by the King; the Pro Roman by the Queen, Cartimandua, who might be called the first Pro–EU leader in Brighouse! In the 1^st Century AD she won and Roman domination was consolidated; let’s hope that 2,000 years later Nick Clegg’s Pro-EU vision doesn’t win the day.

But let’s move onto another of Brighouse’s well known traditions; that of being an independent and free thinking people. In the past the town has been represented at Westminster by Conservative, then by Labour for a number of years, and presently Conservative again. I appeal to voters in Brighouse and Rastrick today to shrug off the instinct to support an old fashioned allegiance or along party lines of one colour or another and to vote positively for the policies you actually want.

It is quite wrong to say, ‘if you vote UKIP you’ll get Milliband’. In today’s world, if you vote Milliband, it looks like you will get Alex Salmond. And we all know what he wants; a Broken Nation not a United Kingdom. Voters should vote for what they want.

If you want a referendum on the EU, vote UKIP. If you feel immigration is too high and must be addressed, vote UKIP. If you are not overly concerned about these two matters, UKIP is probably not the Party for you.

But please consider this too. UKIP is not just about wanting the People to decide on EU membership by a referendum which means having proper control again over our borders, our security and who should receive our benefits; it’s more, much more. 

It’s about taking power away from the Westminster elite and bringing democracy back to the man and woman in the street. The People’s Army is against cronyism, corruption and elitist politicians and that is another reason to support what UKIP is fighting for; a fairer and more democratic Britain.….. 

All we ask is a ‘small step’ from the individual by putting a small cross on a ballot paper for UKIP; this will help make the ‘giant leap’ for Great Britain which our Country needs. It is essential to bring some realism into our political system; the time is well overdue for this to happen. 

Believe and it could happen, vote UKIP and it will happen!!!”

Paul Rogan, 26^th Jan. 2015.

Promoted, published & printed by Paul Rogan on behalf of himself & Calderdale Branch UKIP, both at 363 Stainland Rd, Stainland, HX4 9HF.