English Democrats' candidate

Haltemprice & Howden By-election The English Democrats are pleased to announce that Joanne Robinson has been nominated for the forthcoming by-election in Haltemprice and Howden, under the slogan "Putting England First!".

Joanne was born on 2nd February 1957 in Hull. She has been married since 1977 to the same man! She has 6 ‘O’ Levels. She has a HNC in Canine Behaviour and Training at Bishop Burton in 2004. After a variety of jobs, including as a Civil Servant, Joanne went into book-keeping specialising in petrol stations and was a sole proprietor from 1992 to 1998 at the Forth Service Station on Spring Bank. Since then Joanne has worked as a legal cashier, service station manager and for the last 3 years part-time Office Manager for an Event Management Company.

Politically Joanne had been a Conservative voter but she became active in the Referendum Party. Joanne was the UKIP Parliamentary candidate in the General Election in 2001, when she got 945 votes. In 2003 Joanne was a UKIP local candidate but she became increasingly disappointed by UKIP’s leadership failure to capitalize on their momentum. Joanne now thinks that UKIP is “dead but not yet buried”, and that it is also insufficiently concerned about England, so she joined the English Democrats.

Joanne stood for the English Democrats in 2007 in Tranby Ward in the local elections within this constituency and got 544 votes (18.82%) easily beating Labour and close to the Conservatives. Also this year, although there were no local elections within the constituency, the English Democrats stood in 4 adjoining wards, in Hull, and beat the Conservative candidates 3 out of 4 times.

Joanne says: “The English Democrats are offering a fresh start and reject the cliché ridden and spin politics of the past. We offer the politics of a common national identity and common values. Our politics are riddled with spin and political correctness, a vote for the English Democrats is a vote for honest and plain speaking”.

Joanne says: “There should be an immediate referendum on the EU Lisbon Treaty. It is wholly wrong for Labour to try to impose this Treaty on us, contrary to their own specific manifesto commitment that there should be a referendum. The people of the Republic of Ireland have said NO – WE WANT OUR SAY”.

Joanne says: “There should be free residential care for the elderly, as is available in Scotland. It is wrong that pensioners’ homes in England are being seized to pay for this”.

Joanne says: “We also demand access to all NHS drugs – not a “postcode lottery”, which means that English patients cannot receive some expensive drugs which are freely available in Scotland.”

Joanne says: “There should be an end to the unjustified subsidies to other parts of the UK – We want a fair system for all.”

Joanne says: “England can no longer sustain uncontrolled mass immigration. It should be stopped. It places an unacceptable strain on all our services. All previous governments have allowed this situation to get out of control”.

Joanne says: “The Government should seek to protect society and not the criminals”.

Joanne says: “There should be an English Parliament, with an English Prime Minister and Government with at least the same powers as the Scottish ones”.

Joanne also says: “The voters of Haltemprice and Howden have the chance to send a clear message to the government and the rest of the stale political Establishment that the people of England are no longer prepared to be treated as second class citizens within the UK. Let us put England’s interests first”

Robin Tilbrook, Chairman of the English Democrats, said: “I am delighted to welcome Joanne’s nomination. It is a clear sign of the speed with which the English Democrats are growing. Even Labour’s Derek Wyatt MP a few days ago said, at Westminster, (on the 18th June) “..I am convinced that standing still is not an option. The present arrangements are producing growing resentment all over the United Kingdom, particularly in England..”.

Robin Tilbrook also said that: “A vote for Joanne and the English Democrats is a positive vote for the people of Haltemprice and Howden. It is a vote for ENGLAND and for an English Parliament, First Minister and Government for England”.
From: English Democrats