Tameside Citizen would like welcome the new UKIP contributor to this blog.

I agree with UKIP that the ‘big three’ political parties are all singing from the same hymn sheet, albeit at slightly different speeds, when it comes to the issue of Europe. Major signed the Maastricht Treaty, just as Brown signed the EU Constitution/Treaty. The British people have never been given the choice to vote on any of these treacherous treaties, just as they were never consulted about inviting millions of people from the third world to Britain to turn Britain into the ‘harmonious’ multi-cultural country we have now become.

I used to have total faith in parliamentary democracy, but now I am older, and a little wiser, I am also becoming more sceptical. I believe our faith in the system is used to fool us into accepting things that we are totally opposed to. A recent example was the outrageous attack on Iraq. If put directly to the people, most would have opposed the war, but just as with the hugely unpopular European treaties, we are not consulted and we are railroaded into a position where we wish not to be.