MAYOR OF BISHOP AUCKLAND, COUNCILLOR COLIN RACE, DEFECTS FROM LABOUR TO UKIP The Mayor of Bishop Auckland, Cllr Colin Race, has today decided to leave the Labour Party and join UKIP. The announcement was made in a town council meeting earlier this evening. Mr Race stated he has voted Labour “ever since he was old enough”, but now feels UKIP are the only party in British politics that supports hard working families. Cllr Race said “Year-on-year it has become increasingly clear that Labour are neglecting voters and taking us all for granted. The Labour Party that I once knew – the party that stuck up for the working families, is no more. We have a cosy consensus of politicians in Westminster who spend more time patting each other on the back, than representing the people who pay their wages at the end of the month. Here in the North East we have the highest rates of unemployment in the country, how are my kids meant to get a job when our political class support open door mass immigration from twenty-seven other EU member states?” UKIP’s North East MEP, Jonathan Arnott, added “I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the Mayor of Bishop Auckland, Cllr Colin Race, to UKIP’s peoples’ army. Labour party members across our region are simply realising that the incredibly wealthy individuals who sit at the top of the Labour party don’t, and make no attempt to, work for hard-working, law-abiding citizens across the country. Only UKIP are offering a sensible, credible alternative to the Labour party who have neglected the North East for years.”
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:00:32 +0000