UKIP Wales Senedd Manifesto 2021 2021 Senedd Election
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Page 1 CONTENTS
Page Topic
1 Introduction
2 Devolution
6 Immigration
8 Health & Social Care
14 Education
18 Transport & Economic Development
20 Environment, Energy & Rural Affairs
25 The Family
27 Veterans’ Issues
29 Culture & Communities
31 Contact Details
www.ukip.wales INTRODUCTION Neil Hamilton MS Leader, UKIP Wales
Today, devolution is a one-way revenue amounting to only 25% process. Despite Government with the funding gap being filled of Wales Acts in 1998, 2006, by the English taxpayer. 2014 and 2017, the train keeps on moving in only one direction The time has come to stop - towards independence. The this runaway train to the Welsh Government always disintegration of the UK and demands more power – just institutionalised poverty and like the Euro-federalists of decline for Wales. the European Commission. The Welsh Government now Only UKIP has a full manifesto wants the devolution of justice of policies to put Wales back on and to remove limits on Welsh the UK political map, reverse Government borrowing. institutional economic decline, transfer power in health and Fearful of failing to win an education from Cardiff Bay outright majority in these and directly to the people who elections, First Minister use these vital services, to Drakeford has been cosying up to support strict controls on mass “Only UKIP has Plaid Cymru to get their support immigration and end bogus for continuing the permanent asylum-seeking, and defend a full manifesto Labour Government either as full British history and culture from coalition partners or through a leftist, anti-British attacks. of policies to re- ‘confidence and supply’ deal. Recently, he announced that the WALES FOREVER, invigorate and UK is ‘over’ and a federal future BRITAIN TOGETHER beckons. How this would work is revive Wales anyone’s guess, as (i) England has CYMRU AM BYTH, 85% of the UK population and (ii) PRYDAIN YN UN after decades of government spending in Wales is nearly 40% of national income neglect” but the Welsh tax base produces
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Page 1 TRANSPORT DEVOLUTION& ECONOMIC “We are the only party with a plan for Wales to prosper DEVELOPMENTpost-devolution. UKIP would deliver a referendum to Scrap the Senedd immediately.” “The current Welsh Labour Health Minister has suggested that it will take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19. For UKIP, Welsh Labour’s lack of ambition and dampening of expectations is unacceptable.” DEVOLUTION Devolution promised the people of Wales so much, but after 21 years of the Senedd it is clear that it has been a good deal for politicians, but a bad deal for Wales. By nearly all measures, devolution has failed.
Devolution has Not did the reverse and legislated Brown’s Labour Governments from Delivered More Democracy to devolve all powers unless 1997-2010. The Barnett Formula, specifically reserved. which significantly under-estimates For 22 years Wales has been effectively Wales’s needs in public spending, a One Party State, with a permanent The referendum also ‘guaranteed’ remained unchanged since 1978, Labour Government, propped up as voters that tax-raising powers would as Wales needs increased relative to necessary by Plaid Cymru and the Lib- not be devolved without a further the rest of the UK. Dems. referendum — a position that was enshrined in law. The ballot paper Wales needs more muscle at In 2016, Labour won nearly 48% of specifically stated: Westminster – which will only the Assembly seats on just 34% of happen if the ‘old gang’ legacy the vote. Labour was able to form “The Assembly cannot make parties are rejected. a Government only by a backroom laws on...tax...whatever the deal with Kirsty Williams (the result of this vote.” Devolution has Taken Wales only Lib-Dem AM). Kirsty joined Backwards the Labour Government within Yet, the Senedd passed a law days of her Brecon & Radnorshire giving power to raise income tax as Since the Welsh Assembly/Senedd was constituency rejecting the Labour much as it wants. It did this without created, Wales has gone backwards Party by 92% to 8%. requiring a further vote by the compared with the rest of the UK. people, whom they then redefined Wales has moved down, below In 2016, Wales voted to leave the to include potential devolution Northern Ireland, in the UK league European Union. First Ministers supporters, 16-year-olds and tables of prosperity. Carwyn Jones and Mark Drakeford foreign nationals resident in Wales. promised to respect the result. This The terms of the 2011 referendum Wales remains very poor. Incomes was a barefaced lie and they spent have been disrespected. are a dismal 75% of the UK over 4 years trying to block Brexit. average. West Wales and the 53% of the Welsh people voted to One major consequence Valleys are amongst the poorest leave the EU. 100% of Labour, Plaid of devolution is the further places in Western Europe. In the and Lib-Dem AMs defied this vote marginalisation of Wales at 1950s Wales’s GDP was twice and did their damnedest to keep Westminster. Thanks to devolution, as big as Ireland’s. By 2020, the us in then EU. They rejected the we will see our representation economy of the Irish Republic was decisive will of the people in the reduced from 40 MPs to 32. No four times the size of Wales. UK’s largest democratic exercise Conservative Government at and tried every trick in the book Westminster is going to give more More than 20% of Welsh people live to try and reverse it. Thankfully, money to a permanent Labour in poverty, according to the Public they failed. But their contempt for Government in Wales, which Policy Institute for Wales. the referendum result proved that constantly criticises and undermines devolution is a sham. UK Government policy even in The Welsh Government boasted non-devolved areas. It is a case of that, by 2018, it would abolish The pro-devolution Establishment ‘out of sight, out of mind.’ Unlike fuel poverty (spending more called for the 2011 Welsh Northern Ireland’s DUP, which got than 10% of income on heating). referendum which devolved more an extra £1 billion for sustaining Today, 1 in 4 still have to choose powers to Cardiff to be respected. Theresa May’s government for between heating and eating. But they haven’t respected it 2 years, Labour got nothing by Rather than do something about themselves. The referendum thumbing their nose at the UK it, Welsh Government changed called for law-making powers to Government over Brexit. the definitions to hide these be devolved in 20 specific areas. embarrassing numbers. The Welsh Government and Plaid Nor were things much different under Tony Blair and Gordon
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Page 3 The Senedd has Not Brought that devolution itself has failed. In vaccination. Politics Closer to the People practice, things are even worse than • Was disadvantaged by the that. apparent administrative For most, especially in North Wales, lethargy of our devolved NHS. Cardiff Bay is as remote as Westminster. North Wales’s Betsi Cadwaladr • We also lose out because Before the Covid pandemic, 50% of Health Board has been one of the powers to define priority groups people still didn’t know that the NHS is worst in the entire UK. It was in for vaccination are devolved. devolved to Cardiff. Special Measures for over 5 years, The Welsh Government before being removed for political decides how to distribute a The Welsh Government pays reasons in the run-up to this year’s population share of vaccine lip service to democracy and elections. It was put under direct but we are getting the vaccine consultation but ignores public ministerial control in 2015, after the into people’s arms less quickly. opinion if it goes against their Tawel Fan dementia ward scandal. If the UK Government were ‘woke’ obsessions. The so-called An inquiry reported patients in charge in Wales as well ‘smacking ban’ (removing parents’ forcefully restrained using furniture, as in England, with the same right of reasonable discipline of assaults by staff, people left lying in vaccine categories, we would children) had little public support their own urine and others allowed benefit not just from their faster and was overwhelmingly rejected by to wander naked and unsupervised roll-out, but a greater-than- consultees. But Welsh Government around the ward. population share, because we bull-dozed it through anyway. have a higher proportion of The last 5 years have seen many older people. Mid Wales’s majestic landscapes other scandals of incompetence, and seascapes are being wrecked waste and neglect A Referendum is Long by forests of windmills in the Welsh Overdue Government’s pointless virtue- Half a million people in Wales are signalling on global warming, currently on an NHS waiting list. When Wales voted against devolution despite Wales producing a minute That’s 20% of the adult population. in 1979, it was asked to vote again in fraction of 1% of the world’s CO2. In North Wales, the typical wait for 1997. Despite voting for it then by the Local opposition is ignored, as at an orthopaedic operation is 2 years. narrowest possible margin in a very low Hendy (near Llandrindod Wells). poll, we are now told that devolution is Planning consent was rejected Before the pandemic: the ‘settled view’ of the Welsh people by local opinion, Powys County and no chance has ever been given to Council and even the independent • Waiting times had trebled for reconsider the decision. Inspector appointed by the Minister, those waiting more than 36 who imposed her pre-ordained weeks for treatment. UKIP agrees that such a referendum will, making a farce of the planning • The 95% target for patients should be no more than a once- process. spending a maximum of 4 hours in-a-generation event – although in A&E had never been met. we had to wait for two generations Little Democratic Mandate • Cancer waiting times targets before forcing the Brexit referendum had been missed for a decade. on the unwilling political elites. • The target of patients waiting Devolution has failed to win mass a maximum of 26 weeks for acceptance – voter turnout in After 24 years it is quite legitimate treatment hadn’t been met for Assembly elections never reached to ask the Welsh people: “What do 10 years. 50% you think of it so far?” • Mental health services were struggling with a backlog of Wales would Benefit from A Disaster for the inquiries. Wales had the third Welsh NHS highest rate out of English and Scrapping the Senedd Welsh regions for female suicide Devolution has been a disaster for and the fourth highest rate for Scrapping the Senedd would save the Welsh NHS. 5 of the 7 Health male suicide. us £65 million a year to start Boards have been or remain in Special with. Not to mention the huge Measures or Targeted Intervention – During the pandemic: infrastructure of jobs-for-the- run directly from Cardiff by the Health boyos created by Welsh Labour Minister. • The devolved NHS in Wales which hangs like an entangling net failed to deliver mass testing, over the Welsh economy. Useless quangos, Commissions, ‘Third The NHS accounts for half the entire before finally seeking help from Sector’ hangers-on and the rest of Welsh Government budget. If NHS the UK Government. the taxpayer-funded support for Wales fails, that is tantamount to saying • It is now behind in mass
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Page 4 the Leftist Establishment which control. education can be imposed in the reinforces Wales culture of face of the strongest parental dependency and decline. UKIP wants the NHS to be opposition, as at Llangennech. democratised so priorities reflect Westminster is perfectly capable of local needs and wishes. Health UKIP believes that education also making legislation specific to Wales, Boards should be elected and NHS needs to be put in the hands of as it did for Scotland for over 100 executives should be answerable local people, with ‘free schools’ years before the Scottish Parliament. to them, their ‘customers’ and their developed, as in England. Schools The Welsh Grand Committee of ‘paymasters’. The current system need to be de-politicised. Parents all Wales’s MPs could have an has resulted in catastrophes and should be given the democratic enhanced role in the governance of cover-ups. Elected Health Boards levers to ensure that they decide Wales. That model allowed Wales would give a real voice to patients what sort of schooling their specific Education Acts and the and their families. It would also children get, not politicians with development of Welsh language make officials publicly accountable their own agenda whether it be policy. It led to the disestablishment for their decisions and stewardship. ‘woke’ obsessions like ‘racism’ or of the Anglican Church in Wales as linguistic authoritarianism. School long ago as 1920. It also allowed Scrapping the Senedd and giving boards should be elected, with a different approach to Sunday power to local people would also Head Teachers and others publicly closing from 1881 to 1996. make it clear who is responsible answerable to those whom schools for the decisions affecting our most serve. Scrap the Senedd - What vulnerable people. Happens Next? It needs to be said in the strongest Removing the artificial bureaucratic terms and in the loudest voice: middle-man in Cardiff will bring children belong to their parents, not Scrapping the Senedd is a positive government closer to the people. the State. move, not a reversion to what was there It’s no surprise that the worst- before. UKIP’s vision is to give power performing Health Board is the to the people and not revert to the one furthest from Cardiff, in North arrogant out-of-control politician-driven Wales. system at Westminster that was there before. Democratising the NHS, which spends half the Welsh 75% of the Welsh budget goes Government’s budget would be on the NHS and Education. Our a massive advance in grass-roots policy wants people to have more democracy and release the palsied powers in these areas, not less. grip of the Cardiff-Bay-cosy-club NHS Wales has largely been run politicians. from Cardiff with decisions imposed by the Minister or appointed Health Boards. The people who use the Education: A New Model NHS get no say in how their local NHS is run even though it is entirely At the moment, Labour’s national funded by their taxes. If wrong Education policy is imposed from “Real devolution is not the Cardiff by a Minister whose own choices are made, no-one is held to current sham where politicians account, however great the disaster. constituency rejected Labour by 92% to 8%. Anyone opposing her ‘woke’ at Westminster devolve power There was limited participation of agenda (e.g. prioritising ‘Black history’ to other politicians in Cardiff over Welsh history or making sex patients via Community Health Bay or County Halls. Real Councils (CHCs) in each NHS education compulsory in primary area. But even that has now schools against parents’ wishes) democracy means transferring been abolished by a centralising gets short shrift. Brecon & Radnor’s power to the people directly - Welsh Labour Government which bossyboots Senedd Member doesn’t making people, not politicians, always thinks it knows what’s best think she knows best; she knows she for people they see and treat as does. Anyone objecting is ignored or the real decision-makers.” ignorant peasants - the voters. insulted as backward and ignorant. They abolished the local CHCs and replaced them with one CHC for Local schools administration and Neil Hamilton Leader, UKIP Wales. the whole of Wales, appointed by policy is controlled politically by UKIP Candidate for South Wales East the Minister in Cardiff. This is the County Councils and parents are & Islwyn North Korean model of democratic ignored. Hence, Welsh-medium
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Page 5 TRANSPORT IMMIGRATION& ECONOMIC “Mass-uncontrolled migration has put an unprecedented strain on school places, housing and healthcare. Competition for jobs has DEVELOPMENTsuppressed wages, leaving many struggling to earn decent wages in some of Wales’s poorest communities.” “The current Welsh Labour Health Minister has suggested that it will take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19. For UKIP, Welsh Labour’s lack of ambition and dampening of expectations is unacceptable.” IMMIGRATION UKIP believes in firm and fair immigration control. Migrants coming to Britain must have desired skills, pre-arranged employment and financial security, enter legally and should not displace British citizens from employment. Wales and the UK should always remain welcoming places for those who want to integrate and contribute to British society provided that they have entered and remain in the UK legally.
Net Migration taxpayer £1.2 million in policing costs, for migrants once they have proved that Wales is ill-equipped to be worked in the UK for 10 In 2020, 715,000 people came to a “Nation of Sanctuary”. 1 in 4 people continuous years and have Britain – the highest on record. Net in Wales live in fuel poverty and UKIP fully integrated into society. migration stands at 313,000 - that’s a believes charity must start at home. city the size of Cardiff added to the UK population every year. UKIP pledges to:
Mass-uncontrolled migration has put an • Scrap Welsh Labour’s “Nation of unprecedented strain on school places, Sanctuary” for illegal migrants housing and healthcare. Competition and only award asylum to for jobs has suppressed wages, genuine refugees proven to be leaving many struggling to earn decent fleeing war torn countries who wages in some of Wales’s poorest have arrived in the UK and communities. Wales legally. • Refuse asylum to migrants who UKIP pledges to: have entered the UK illegally from a safe country like France, • Reduce net-migration to below Belgium or the Netherlands. 10,000 per year. • Repair the UK’s broken asylum • Limit the number of migrants system which costs the British who are awarded the right to taxpayer nearly £1 billion a permanently settle in the UK. year, by establishing an effective • Stop access to public housing or border force. benefits until new arrivals have • Invest in the UK border force, been a tax-paying resident in creating jobs for veterans who the UK for five years. have left the armed services. • Deport all foreign criminals Illegal Immigration from the UK. “UKIP believes that
Illegal migration has sky-rocketed Non-Citizen Voting Rights Wales is ill-equipped for under the Conservative Government Labour’s virtue signalling in Westminster. In 2020, more illegal In this Senedd Election, Labour and crossings were made than in 2018 and Plaid have awarded the right to vote for ‘Nation of Sanctuary’ 2019 combined. non-British citizens. UKIP believes in the policy which aims to house democratic principle of “no citizenship, Worse still, the Labour-led Welsh no vote”. The right to vote is a privilege illegal migrants in Wales. Government has designated Wales a and should be awarded to those who Charity starts at home - “Nation of Sanctuary” for all illegal have made a long-term commitment to migrants. The Senedd’s dangerous the United Kingdom. we must look after our virtue signalling has encouraged own people first.” more people to attempt the perilous UKIP pledges to: journey across the English Channel in Paul Campbell inadequate small boats and dinghies. • Reverse legislation that UKIP Candidate for awards non-British citizens the South Wales Central & Illegal migrant camps like Penally vote in Wales. Cardiff South & Penarth Barracks in Pembrokeshire, costing the • Make citizenship obtainable
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Page 7 HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE
“The current Welsh Labour Health Minister has suggested that it will take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19. For UKIP, Welsh Labour’s lack of ambition and dampening of expectations is unacceptable.” HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE Devolution has caused catastrophic failure in the health service in Wales. Patient outcomes, patient waiting times, ambulance waiting times are all worse. There has been long-running financial mismanagement and incompetence. COVID-19 has exacerbated many of these pre-existing problems. UKIP’s principles are to ensure that our NHS remains free at the point of delivery; puts patients and families at the heart of decision-making; is protected from any ‘health tourism’ by those who have not contributed; solves long term health problems and conditions in an efficient way; and is better prepared for future health challenges and virus epidemics, using British and Welsh expertise and equipment.
Immediate Priorities meet targets in the areas of planned and Emergency in Wales was the hospital treatment; A&E waiting times; highest on record in January 2020 UKIP pledges to: and ambulance waiting times. They at 6,882 patients, completely are still failing to meet targets in these missing the Welsh Government’s • Ensure without delay that areas in 2021. UKIP accepts that some then targets. families are reunited with loved of these performance metrics may have • Only 70% of patients have been ones in care homes, as a mental been skewed by COVID-19, partly seen within 4 hours of being in health and wellbeing priority, owing to radically increased use of A&E, 25% below the target. by proportionately assessing Personal Protective Equipment, new • The current target that 95% of the reduced risk this poses in protocols and challenges. However, patients should spend no longer light of an expected successful many performance targets were not than four hours in A&E, has never vaccine roll-out programme met by Welsh Labour well before been met since it was introduced in and an improved public health COVID-19. Our goal is to strike the 2010. outlook. right balance between safety and • Only 53.7% of emergency • Create an NHS recovery plan to effectiveness. responses to immediately life- get all treatments back on track threatening calls (Red Calls) arrived after disruption from lockdowns. Details of current under performance within eight minutes on figures • Ensure the Welsh NHS detects include: released in 2021, failing to meet cancer, or gives an ‘all-clear’, the 65% target. within 28 days of referral. • Over 73,500 more patients were • The 65% target for life-threatening • Pay Welsh NHS staff properly: on waiting lists for planned hospital calls for an ambulance arriving in no cap to be set on pay treatment in early 2021. 8 minutes has not been met for at increases; funds to be re- • The number of people waiting least five months in a row. directed from paying pointless more than nine months for planned • Ambulances spent more than bureaucrats and management hospital treatment in February 11,661 hours (an equivalent of consultants excessive sums. 2021 was eight times higher than 485 days) outside emergency • Continue to ensure that the full early 2020. departments waiting to transfer course of the vaccine rollout is • 231,722 people have waited more patients in late 2020. there for those members of the than 36 weeks for treatment to start public who choose to have it. (almost half of all patients waiting UKIP pledges to: • Oppose the introduction of for planned treatment). ‘Vaccine Passports’ in any form, • In February and March 2017, at • Support long-term investment in and will immediately halt any least 22% of patients waited 27 staff and resources for a better ‘reviews’ of such proposals. weeks or more for treatment. NHS, no pay-cap for frontline • Ensure free prescriptions in • The Welsh Government target of staff. Wales remain, UKIP’s ambition treating 95% of patients within • Ensure, where possible, services is to make this happen UK-wide. 26 weeks and having no-one are moved closer to people’s waiting to begin treatment within homes and communities, NHS Performance six months has clearly failed well e.g. support and in some before COVID-19 and in 2021. circumstances (re-)establish The Welsh Government has failed to • Those waiting 12 hours in Accident cottage hospitals.
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Page 9 • Develop an integrated and Cancer Referral Times appropriate. long-term plan for training • Ring-fence mental health and developing the health and The number of patients referred funding at a higher level than is social care workforce Wales for cancer treatment in April 2020 currently the case. needs. dropped by more than 51% compared • Incentivise local authorities • Review, with an aim of reducing, to March 2020. On figures this year, to protect the mental health the number of self-standing on the urgent cancer pathway, 70.2% services they provide and to organisations within the Welsh of patients started definitive treatment reverse cuts in community NHS which receive tens of within the target time of 62 days. This is mental health services. millions of pounds every year, below the target of 95% and is a fall on • Support provision of evidence- despite a lack of evidence previous months. based psychological therapies, about their impact on patient e.g. CBT within 28 days of outcomes. UKIP pledges to: referral. • Provide social care for elderly • Introduce formal and people who find themselves • Ensure the Welsh NHS detects comprehensive data collection unnecessarily confined to cancer, or gives an ‘all-clear’, on the relative success of talking hospital. within 28 days of referral. therapies as compared to drug- • Enable better collaboration • Establish ’one stop’ cancer based treatment. between health boards and diagnosis and treatment • Improve psychological therapies social services to allow care regional centres to lead the for children and young people packages to be put back in fight against cancer and across Wales. place more quickly once people improve patient survival rates. • Invest in the assessment and are fit for discharge. • Assign a specialist cancer nurse treatment of ADHD, autism and • Be rigorous about collecting to everyone who is given a other neuro-developmental data. cancer diagnosis as their key conditions, including more • Promote wiser use of the Welsh worker in the acute stages of severe conditions where young NHS and encourage the public treatment. people develop psychosis. to use minor injuries units • Ensure every person with cancer • Promote Child and Adolescent where possible, given that there has a full needs assessment and Mental Health Services as an is a much swifter treatment and written care plan. avenue for the most severe discharge time. • Enable each person diagnosed cases. • Ensure that all those travelling with cancer to receive timely to the UK for work or pleasure and accurate information and Finance from abroad maintain adequate support. travel insurance arrangements Health boards amassed spending to reimburse the NHS for any Mental Health deficits of £600 million by the start of treatment received during their the COVID-19 crisis. £470 million of stay. Mental Health treatment should have taxpayers’ money was used to partially • Review the use of NHS facilities been on par with physical health care pay this off. If the boards were more for private practice. prior to COVID-19 but it was not. competently managed in the first place, • Be proactive in public health After COVID-19, there is even greater they would not have fallen into debt; campaigns to encourage people urgency to drastically improve mental that £470 million could have been to take responsibility for better health services and treatments, not least spent directly on the many treatments care of their health so that, in the case of NHS staff, care workers, which have drastically fallen behind where possible, we can prevent those providing palliative care and since COVID-19. ill-health occurring in the first those suffering from bereavement who place (education on nutrition were not able to say goodbye to loved One of the boards with the largest and healthy lifestyles should be ones. deficit, Betsi Cadwaladr in North Wales, a compulsory part of the school was controlled directly by the Welsh curriculum). UKIP pledges to: Government until recently. Pointless • Continue to ensure that bureaucrats we paid £5 million, hospital car parking is free and • Charge one elected member including the infamous ‘Marbella implemented UK-wide. of each local health board man’ £2,000 per-day-management • Actively consider the to champion mental health consultant. This is a damning reassessment of critical and provision. indictment of the Health Minister emergency care hospitals for • Direct patients diagnosed with a and, more generally, politician and people who live in central and debilitating long-term condition management-consultant abilities to rural Wales. or terminal illnesses to mental protect our NHS. health professionals when
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Page 10 UKIP pledges to: • Ensure that mental health UKIP pledges to: services are given parity with • Stop all Welsh Health Boards physical health services and • Train the required number of building up colossal financial that this is reflected in staffing doctors and nurses that we deficits by insisting upon and budget allocations, and need in Wales and the UK. governance parameters which investigate the causes of • Dramatically increase the do not allow the build-up of increased mental health issues number of training places for such large deficits. in order to tackle them at British doctors, nurses and • Remove big devolved source. paramedics. government and bureaucrats • Charge one elected member • Prioritise training our own NHS from complete financial control of each local health board workers, rather than relying on of the NHS, by involving directly to champion mental health recruiting medical staff from elected health boards more. provision. abroad or paying extortionate • Ensure that £2000-per-day • Better prepare for virus agency costs. Spain based management epidemics with protective • Ensure low-paid NHS staff, who consultants, and suchlike, do equipment provided by British use their private cars for work, not preside over the Welsh companies, using objective are reimbursed in full for their NHS again, by assigning decision making, and not mileage. reasonable and proportional favouring crony-contractors. • Encourage the recruitment of pay to managers from the start hospital doctors and GPs by via the elected health boards’ UKIP’s elected health boards will: waiving repayment of tuition mandates. fees while they work in the • Cut the top-heavy size of local NHS, and ensure that there are Power to the People: A Better health boards from 18-20 adequate student bursaries for Way of Managing the NHS people in many cases to no nursing and midwifery students. more than 11. • Ensure that students receiving The seven Local Health Boards in • Have six elected non-executives NHS bursaries for university Wales oversee hospitals and community constitute the majority of each courses work for a 3-year services, as well as GP and dentistry local health board and one of minimum term within an NHS funding. They are responsible for these would chair the board. setting following graduation. deciding which treatments and services • Have up to five full-time • Introduce the equivalent of are available and are also meant to executives who would constitute State Enrolled Nurses, and ensure that hospitals meet waiting time the remainder of each local encourage more trainee nurses targets. health board, potentially halving to enter the profession by this the number of senior managers method. UKIP will introduce locally elected getting six figure salaries. • Ensure that students receiving health boards, putting patients and • Have the six non-executive NHS bursaries for university families at the heart of decision- members elected by Single courses work for a 3-year making and to ensure that our NHS Transferable Vote at the same minimum term within an NHS never again becomes a Welsh-Labour time as council elections take setting following graduation. monetary black hole. place in Wales. • Invest savings from Dementia Care UKIP’s elected health boards will: management costs in patient care. Dementia is the leading cause of death • Further refine UKIP’s NHS initial among women over the age of 55 recovery plan for future years Recruitment of Medical and a significant cause amongst men. according to local needs. Professionals Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease were • Cap senior management and the leading cause of death in the UK advisor pay to be within a NHS staff on the frontline were in 2018. It can often be very difficult reasonable ratio to the pay of facing significant strain as a result of to get help even after diagnosis of the frontline staff. severe recruitment difficulties prior condition has taken place. • Create a staffing strategy that to COVID-19. Since COVID-19 that takes account of peaks and strain has further increased. It does UKIP pledges to: troughs in demand, future not make sense to cut our own training population and demographic programmes in the NHS to save money, • Improve carers’ access to changes, to ensure that then recruit health professionals from support by sharing information taxpayers are not forced into abroad, thus draining other countries of on benefit and social care paying ludicrous overtime bills highly skilled professionals. entitlements and support groups to maintain basic services. across all public services.
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Page 11 • Train health staff to identify, end of life care, particularly in Lockdowns support and involve carers of areas where Welsh is widely people with dementia as well as spoken, so that first-language UKIP opposed the use of national to enable quicker diagnosis. Welsh speakers with dementia lockdowns to combat the COVID-19 • Allow carers the right to or at end of life are able to epidemic which have caused a national access wards, to participate in communicate comfortably. mental health crisis and plunged our treatment decisions and to stay economy to the worst state it’s been in with those that they care for in Cross Border Health Services in 300 years. We have always believed hospital. & Devolution that there are better alternatives to the suspension of civil liberties. The Improved Use of the For those who live in Wales and are lockdown policy is directly responsible Pharmacy Profession registered with an English GP, or who for many avoidable deaths from live in England and are registered with untreated cancer and heart conditions. The pharmacy profession offers a Welsh GP, disparity of waiting times No country has ever got healthier by significant opportunities for patients to and unequal access to medication has making itself poorer and less free. access pharmaceutical care, without become a major source of contention. needing to join long NHS waiting UKIP pledges to: lists. We acknowledge that long-term UKIP will Scrap the Senedd, subject to a conditions, such as diabetes, affect referendum, and wants to implement its • End lockdown measures acute hospital care through emergency policies at UK-level in an elected health and restrictions immediately, admissions and readmissions. board managed integrated NHS, which particularly in light of the does not sharply distinguish between successful vaccine rollout. UKIP pledges to: the Wales-England border. • Oppose any notions of domestic vaccine passports. • Support the establishment In the meantime, UKIP pledges to: • Discourage the use of national of a pharmacy-led Chronic lockdowns for future pandemics, Medication Service to improve • Promote cooperation between instead looking into alternative health outcomes for patients, the Department of Health approaches such as the reduce pressures on GP and the Welsh Government to one proposed by The Great services and help people live establish a single performers Barrington Declaration: shield independently. list for GPs across England and the vulnerable - including • Integrate pharmacist expertise Wales. through the use of vaccinations into NHS Multidisciplinary • Support direct employment of - but do not chastise or imprison Teams. GPs by local health boards for those not deemed at risk. under-served areas. Commitment to End-Of-Life • Seek to equalise the availability Care of drugs for Welsh patients. • Support integral national health With an ageing population, a growing service provision along the number of people will need access to border and to exchange best palliative care. Patients with terminal practice. conditions other than cancer, such as those with dementia, heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, are currently much less likely to get the right care.
UKIP pledges to:
• Ensure that everyone who needs palliative care has access to it. • Develop community services for those living with a terminal illness. • Conduct a bi-annual survey of bereaved people to give a fuller picture of end-of-life care. • Improve Welsh language provision for dementia and
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Page 12 Social Care
UKIP believes that social care should not put a person’s home and savings in jeopardy if they have paid tax and national insurance all of their life. We will ensure that this principle is applied in Wales.
UKIP also pledges to:
• Integrate the NHS and adult social care and place the combined service under the remit of elected local health boards. “I am passionate about • Undertake a thorough review of how to fund the increasing helping people with demand for social care and disabilities, however will consider supporting it via a Sovereign Wealth Fund, or with Health Boards in supporting it in other ways, such constant special measures, as by reviewing government spending of National Insurance unacceptable waiting revenues. times and outrageous sums • Support good quality, reliable and affordable care services, being given to bureaucrats including respite provisions, people find it increasingly to enable families to have a life alongside their caring difficult to get the help responsibilities. that they need. It is clear • Reduce the practice of arranging home care visits in that politicians have failed short time-windows. the Welsh NHS. It’s time • Develop centres of excellence for social work. to put our health service • Provide support to return to in the hands of us - the work when caring comes to an end. people.” Jeanie Barton Health Professional. UKIP Candidate for North Wales & Clwyd West
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Page 13 EDUCATION “Whilst UKIP does not believe that education should be devolved, we will do everything in our power to ensure that high quality, responsive and politically neutral education is provided for all learners in Wales.” EDUCATION As a direct result of devolution, Wales has remained consistently bottom of the PISA rankings in the UK on reading, maths, and science and continues to perform below the OECD average. In some instances, education in Wales has been used as a tool for political propaganda rather than learning. This must end.
School Funding their journey through education. studies. Over time, we would also seek to fund a broader Recent reports have found that out UKIP pledges to: range of languages such as of £2.5bn allocated for education Russian and Mandarin at in the Welsh Government’s budget, • Ensure that all primary schools secondary level. £450m was never seen by schools, in any given local authority • Support the introduction instead being kept by regional school have regular access to maths of mandatory ‘Citizenship’ improvement consortia or local and science specialists from lessons to teach students what authorities. UKIP believes that this is universities and other schools it means to be a citizen in unacceptable and funds would be who can visit, take some classes wider society and help them better spent on frontline services rather and provide support to tackle develop applicable real-life than quangos. current problematic standards skills such as an understanding of literacy and numeracy. of basic economics and political UKIP pledges to: • Increase the number of institutions, developing critical study hours dedicated to the skills to discern fact from • Dismantle the 4 schools development of literacy skills. propaganda and appreciating improvement consortia in Welsh and British culture. Wales and redirect their annual Curriculum • Give parents the right to £150m budget directly to exempt their children from schools, many of which are now It is crucially important that the Welsh language lessons in in deficit. curriculum in Welsh primary and the schools they attend at the • Order a transparent review secondary schools puts students on the age of fourteen. Nonetheless, into where the rest of the right course to obtain employment or every school should aspire to £450m is being spent and further education. UKIP believes that the provide Welsh lessons up to where appropriate cuts can be curriculum should be oriented around GCSE and promote bilingualism made to reduce bureaucracy these subjects and lessons, rather than between English and Welsh and redirect funds to frontline mandatory teaching of less useful as a springboard for learning schools. subjects. Some (such as the Welsh other languages, not as an • Restore data comparison Baccalaureate) have been implemented alternative. between England and Wales as a form of political propaganda. • End political correctness in which was stopped by the schools and introduce a specific Welsh Government in 2012 so UKIP pledges to: Act to prevent damaging that important comparisons on political propaganda being standards and funding can be • Scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate passed off as fact. Indoctrination made. which is more time consuming of young minds is wrong. What than equivalent qualifications, we must give them is the desire Primary Education not valuable for future careers, and capacity to think freely for not useful in applications for UK themselves. A child’s introduction to education is universities and only serves to vitally important, particularly now that negatively affect achievement in Sex Education many have missed out on over a year other more relevant studies. of education as a result of COVID-19. • Introduce the mandatory study Parents should have the overriding This is when the pattern for learning of French, German, Spanish, influence over their children’s is laid down and when literacy and or Italian in the first year of upbringing. However, the Senedd good social skills are established, so primary school and ensure has taken unprecedented steps to it is crucial that the primary education continuity between primary and interfere with how we raise our children system in Wales sets our children up for secondary school language by making lessons on relationships,
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Page 15 sex and religion mandatory for all the best possible career opportunities. UKIP supports the return to traditional primary and secondary schoolchildren examinations in 2021. We see no throughout Wales. UKIP believes that We aim to expand the thriving Welsh reason that exams - which are socially the sexualisation of children must stop higher education sector with an distanced by nature – cannot take place now. emphasis on teaching STEM subjects with the appropriate precautions. and quality of research, whilst UKIP pledges to: defunding degrees such as Gender Grammar Schools & Studies that only act as cash cows for • Allow parents to withdraw their universities and do nothing to improve Technical Colleges children from RSE classes. the employability of students. • End the teaching of sex UKIP wants Welsh pupils to be truly given the chance to become education in primary schools UKIP pledges to: altogether. Any form of sex the inventors, engineers, scientists education in primary schools and technicians that this country so • Remove tuition fees for UK desperately needs. We must develop is wholly inappropriate – kids domiciled undergraduates should be allowed to be kids. 21st century skills in manufacturing, taking degrees in Science, engineering and digital expertise. We • Ensure that all parents are Technology, Engineering, made fully aware of sex therefore believe that existing secondary Mathematics and Medicine schools should have the opportunity to education teaching materials (STEM) subjects in Wales on the before they are used. develop into vocational or grammar condition that graduates remain schools. • Repeal the recently passed in the UK and continue working Curriculum and Assessment in their relevant fields during UKIP pledges to: (Wales) Act. the loan repayment period. • End taxpayer funding of • Encourage the establishment of Further Education ‘social justice’ degrees with new grammar schools, which limited job prospects (such as are a proven path to social Further education offers a springboard Gender Studies) by making mobility for working class for people who wish to improve their them ineligible for financing children. skills in order to get back into the through Student Finance Wales. • Encourage the establishment workplace. This is a sector of education Universities will still be able to of ‘free schools’ to depoliticise that has been overlooked by successive provide these courses, however schooling in Wales. Welsh Governments. UKIP believes that students will need to find the further education sector needs to be alternative ways of funding their protected and expanded to offer more fees. Teachers’ Conditions quality courses and apprenticeships. • Retain the quality-related (QR) budget that underpins world Too many teachers are bogged down UKIP pledges to: leading research in Wales. in paperwork, working excessive hours • Support part-time provision and struggling to find an acceptable • Protect the future further of courses to widen access to work-life balance. education budget in real terms. higher education and to help • Promote a local approach for up-skill the Welsh workforce. UKIP pledges to: the integration of skills with • Decrease the amount of economic growth strategies, Exams during Coronavirus adapted to the particular needs paperwork teachers deal with, of each individual community such as unduly elaborate As a result of the coronavirus individual lesson plans, across Wales. pandemic, there have been dramatic • Recognise that people gain excessive data collection, overly changes in the way assessment of prescriptive internal assessment economically and socially useful qualifications will take place in Wales. skills through learning. and dialogue-based marking UKIP believes that the current proposal schemes. that grades will be determined by • Radically overhaul teacher Higher Education their school or college based on an training courses and refocus assessment of the learner’s work is the training of educators to use According to the Office for National wholly inappropriate. This method successful traditional teaching Statistics, 40% of Welsh graduates of grading is unfair, particularly methods that focus on facts and are in non-graduate jobs. UKIP will on students who have spent years excellence rather than post- encourage students to choose courses developing skills to excel in the modern, deconstructive and and careers that will help to fill the traditional exam component. This relativistic methods. current skills gap, both to benefit Wales, system may also put students at a the UK and to give our young people considerable disadvantage later in life.
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Page 16 Home Schooling
UKIP supports the rights of parents who wish to educate their children at home and would encourage annual assessment of the home schooled child’s wellbeing by the local authority.
Special Needs Support
Many young people in Wales with learning disorders are disadvantaged by late recognition of their specific difficulties, with many waiting for years from referral to diagnosis. UKIP believes that early diagnosis followed closely by appropriate support results in a better experience for the child and fewer problems for the school. In our view, investment at an earlier stage can save money in the long term.
UKIP pledges to:
• Tackle the unacceptable waiting times for diagnostic assessment. • Support the implementation of an ‘autism curriculum’, which captures not only children’s learning requirements but also seeks to address social, emotional and communication needs. • Reverse the policy of closing schools for special needs children. • Introduce special educational needs modules in all teacher training courses. • Allow time for staff to be given access to expertise and to be trained and work jointly with speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, dyslexia assessors and mental health and social care professionals.
Dan Morgan UKIP Candidate for South Wales West & Swansea East
“As a father, I believe parents should always have the final say on what is taught to their children. UKIP has pledged to review the existing curriculum, halting overtly sexual lessons, scrapping sex education in primary schools and putting power back into the hands of parents to opt their children out of sex education classes before the age of 16.”
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Page 17 TRANSPORTTRANSPORT && ECONOMICECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT “The current Welsh Labour Health Minister has suggested that it will take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19. For“The UKIP, Welsh Welsh economy Labour’s has lack struggled of ambition for years and withdampening outdated of infrastructure andexpectations transport isnetworks. unacceptable.” Modernisation of our transport links are long overdue.” TRANSPORT & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UKIP will renovate outdated transport networks and build the M4 Relief Road which will attract more investment into Wales. We will create tens of thousands of new jobs for local people whose livelihoods have been wrecked by lockdowns through the designation of freeports and other tax-free zones across Wales.
M4 Relief Road services. The Beeching Cuts, as put • Oppose the devolution of Air forward in the 1960s, devastated Passenger Duty. The M4 through South Wales clearly railway services in Wales. We must needs relief and improvement, most prioritise the electrification of key routes urgently at the pinch approaching to bring Wales’s transport network into Economic Development the Brynglas tunnels and particularly the 21st century. considering the expected 38% rise in Following over a year of devastating traffic along the M4 over the next 30 UKIP pledges to: lockdowns, the Welsh economy is on years. its knees. Our once proud hospitality • Support the plans for the and tourism sector is in ruins. UKIP UKIP strongly opposed the Welsh electrification of the South is proposing a strong package of Government’s decision to axe the Wales mainline to Swansea economic stimuli to get the nation back vital relief road on unsubstantiated which were scrapped on the on its feet. environmental grounds, thereby wasting grounds of over-inflated costs. £150m already spent on the project. • Review the Beeching Cuts and, UKIP pledges to: We believe this is a missed opportunity where appropriate, reopen for economic development in Wales. train stations and railway lines • Save the Pub by cutting VAT to improve travelling across on alcohol served in licensed UKIP pledges to: Wales. We have recently seen premises from 20% to zero, this with the reopening of Bow which we are free to do as a • Support a regional referendum Street, however there are many result of leaving the EU. on the M4 relief road. more existing lines that could be • Freeze business rates at zero for • Support the building of the M4 reinstated. at least 12 months to help small relief road. The ‘black route’ businesses recover. proposal has already undergone Air Travel • Create a £100m recovery and thorough investigative work. refurbishment fund for the UKIP will also review the ‘blue We do not believe that government Welsh tourism industry. route’ proposal, and take into should own or operate airports, as • Support the designation of tax- account the future and overall this breeds inefficiency and stymies free zones and freeports which cost of the proposed project. competition. We opposed the Welsh will create tens of thousands of • End the years of gridlock on the Government’s decision to squander new jobs and revive our coastal M4 – the main thoroughfare £52m of Welsh taxpayers’ money communities. into Wales. on buying Cardiff airport and then • Call for an investigation on • Trust the rigorous independent providing them with a further £28m in where a new motorway from inquiry which concluded that loans after the airport posted losses of the Birmingham transport the project was a good use of £18.5m in 2019. hubs into Wales could be built. public funds, that environmental This new transport link would objections were overstated and UKIP pledges to: not only increase connectivity that it was in the public interest. between Wales and England but • Sell Cardiff Airport immediately provide many thousands of jobs. Railways to mitigate any further loss • Ensure more provision of bus to Welsh taxpayers so a new services in rural and isolated Wales has struggled for years with owner can operate it on a areas of Wales, particularly in outdated and inadequate railways proper commercial basis. Mid and North Wales.
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Page 19 TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENT,& ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTENERGY & RURAL“The current Welsh Labour Health AFFAIRS Minister has suggested that it will take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19. “FarmersFor UKIP, areWelsh the Labour’s custodians lack of of the ambition Welsh countryside and dampening and the of heart of Wales’sexpectations rural communities. is unacceptable.” As a direct consequence of urban-centric Labour Party policy, farming is one of the most over regulated industries in Wales.” ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY & RURAL AFFAIRS Farmers are the custodians of the Welsh countryside and the heart of Wales’s rural communities. They play an irreplaceable role in the rural economy and wider society; from rearing internationally acclaimed produce, like Welsh lamb, to the management of land and pollution control. As a direct consequence of urban-centric Labour Party policy, farming is one of the most over regulated industries in Wales.
Agriculture financial support for economic, Zones, which are for vital social and cultural reasons to hatcheries and fish stocks. UKIP believes the agricultural industry support the rural economy. • Strive towards greater self- should be allowed to seize the Animal Welfare opportunities brought about by Brexit, sufficiency. On average, the free from burdensome and ineffective UK is only 65% self-sufficient in regulations passed down from the temperate agricultural products. Now Britain has left the EU, the UK can Senedd. UKIP will implement a “Buy regain total control of animal welfare Welsh Campaign”, targeted at issues. UKIP believes that best practices consumers to purchase locally must implemented during rearing and UKIP pledges to: sourced and reared produce. slaughtering to safeguard the welfare of • Abandon re-wilding schemes animals. • Overturn Welsh Labour’s and prevent farmland from decision to designate all of reverting to scrub. UKIP pledges to: Wales as a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) and implement Fishing • Ban non-stun slaughter in all a localised, evidenced-based slaughterhouses. approach to tackle nitrate Brexit should have liberated the British • Increase the maximum jail pollution in collaboration with fishing industry. UKIP stands with sentences for animal cruelty. farmers and stakeholders. Welsh and British fishermen against • Install CCTV in every • Launch a new and balanced the Conservative’s Brexit Deal betrayal slaughterhouse in Wales. Bovine TB Eradication which surrendered the fishing industry • Ensure the UK Government fully Programme. The Bovine TB to the EU for a second time. implements UKIP’s policy to ban pandemic has plagued the beef all live animal exports. and dairy sector for decades, UKIP pledges to: • Ensure all meat products are resulting in the slaughter accurately labelled to include of more than 10,000 cattle • Take full control of the UK’s the method of rearing and every year. UKIP’s Bovine TB entitled Exclusive Economic slaughter. eradication programme will Zone with exclusive access for promote effective biosecurity British boats within 12 miles of measures, review the stringent the coast. controls on cattle movements • End European Court rulings and directly address the that allow foreign ownership transmission of the disease from of British flagged vessels and wildlife to cattle by tackling ownership of UK quotas. the disease in the wildlife • Achieve total independence on population. future quotas and whether to • Uphold Basic Farm Payments allow foreign vessels access to for a minimum of five years. British waters. Subsidies must focus on re- • Land and process a minimum of equipping farmers and improve 70% of the UK’s catch in Britain. land management. Upland • Establish Marine Conservation farms will continue to receive Zones (MCZs) and No Take
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Page 21 Energy
Wales and the UK requires a balance of energy sources comprising nuclear, conventional and renewable. The Senedd’s and Westminster’s “green agenda” has punished the poorest in society by adding “green taxes” to energy prices in order to subsidise ineffective renewable energy sources.
UKIP pledges to:
• Scrap the Climate Change Act • Remove taxpayer funded (2008), which requires the UK to subsidies from unprofitable achieve annual decarbonisation wind and solar schemes, rates of more than 5% - a figure as soon as contractual no other country in the world arrangements expire. has ever or is ever likely to • Offer local referenda for attain. unpopular energy developments • Take the UK out of the Paris such as the Hendy and Bryn Climate Agreement (2016) Blaen wind farms. and any associated carbon • Explore the benefits of tidal trading schemes. Wales’s CO2 energy by calling on the emissions account for 0.1% of UK Government to review global CO2 emissions and the its decision to abandon the UK barely 1%. Swansea Bay tidal lagoon. • Invest in nuclear energy and establish small nuclear power plants to off-set the reliance on energy sourced from gas.
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Page 22 TRANSPORT & ECONOMICWELSH DEVELOPMENTLANGUAGE “UKIP is committed to preserving and promoting the Welsh “The currentlanguage Welsh as part Labour of our Health unique Minister British has cultural suggested heritage.” that it will take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19. For UKIP, Welsh Labour’s lack of ambition and dampening of expectations is unacceptable.” WELSH LANGUAGE More British taxpayer’s money has been spent per head of the population in Wales on the Welsh language by successive governments, both at Westminster and in Cardiff Bay, than on any other minority language in Europe. The preservation and promotion of the Welsh language is, however, dependent on the goodwill of the 80% plus of the people of Wales who do not speak Welsh. That’s why UKIP believes in fair play for both Welsh and non-Welsh speakers.
Our Policy on the Welsh schools they attend from the • Divert some of the millions of Language age of fourteen. Nonetheless, pounds saved by abolishing every school should aspire to the legal requirements of the UKIP believes that for Welsh to survive provide Welsh lessons up to Senedd and local authorities and prosper, it must become a ‘living GCSE. on forcibly imposing the Welsh language’ - where people have the • Oppose the policy of some language on people, into a facilities available to them in their Welsh Nationalist controlled concerted campaign to promote communities to learn the ‘Old British local authorities of removing voluntary Welsh learner classes Tongue’, if they wish to do so. long established English throughout Wales. language streams from UKIP pledges to: community schools since it discriminates against children • Remove the statutory from non Welsh speaking requirement under the backgrounds. Assembly’s Welsh Language Act • Initiate a radical review of of 2011 that local authorities taxpayer’s money being in Wales have to provide diverted by the Senedd to bilingual services thereby saving fund organisations such as the millions of pounds on totally Welsh Arts Council and Welsh unnecessary translation costs Books Council, as some of this “As a Welsh speaker, and helping to save the planet is squandered on subsidising by instantly halving the amount essentially Welsh Nationalist I have seen first-hand of paper used. propaganda organizations like the abject failure of • Scrap the discriminatory and the Nation Cymru website. unfair policy pursued by several the Senedd’s policies to local authorities in Wales of revive and sustain the employing only Welsh speakers. We need the best people for any Welsh language. UKIP is given job, regardless whether committed to promoting they are Welsh speakers or not. • Support the right of every home the Welsh language by owner to call their property by adopting a localised whatever name they wish – be it English or Welsh. approach, enabling it to • Abolish the very highly paid flourish in its heartlands, £95,000 a year taxpayer funded job of Welsh Language while offering all aspiring Commissioner, as pressurising learners the opportunity to local authorities, businesses and private individuals to comply take up Wales’s beautiful with Welsh language legislation language.” is only counter productive. • Support the right of parents Dr Felix Aubel to exempt their children from UKIP Candidate for North Wales & Welsh language lessons in the Alyn & Deeside
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Page 24 TRANSPORT &THE ECONOMIC FAMILY “UKIP believes that parents, not politicians, know DEVELOPMENTwhat’s best for their children.” “The current Welsh Labour Health Minister has suggested that it will take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19. For UKIP, Welsh Labour’s lack of ambition and dampening of expectations is unacceptable.” THE FAMILY UKIP believes that the family is the cornerstone of society and parents should have the final say on their children’s upbringing. Parents should be free to bring up their children how they chose and children should be free from a politicised education.
UKIP believes that parents, not politicians, should raise their children. The Government should provide support for disadvantaged children and struggling families but it does not have the right to dictate how parents raise their children. In recent years, the Senedd has overextended its powers directly into family life and threatens to dismantle traditional family values.
Sex Education Reasonable Chastisement - Depoliticise Education The “Smacking Ban” The Labour-led Welsh Government The curriculum should focus on what announced that lessons on Despite opposition from the majority matters – education. Increasingly, relationships, sex and religion were to of Welsh parents, as much as 75%, the classes for some of our youngest be made mandatory for all primary and Senedd removed the right for parents children have focused on deeply secondary schoolchildren throughout to reasonably chastise their children. political issues and have sought to Wales. Any form of sex education in The message from the Senedd was indoctrinate schoolchildren. In 2018, primary schools is wholly inappropriate “politicians, not parents, know what’s the Senedd consulted children as – children should be allowed to be best”. This unwanted policy is projected young as seven on their views on Brexit children. They should be taught mutual to cost the taxpayer nearly £8m to and, more recently, dedicated entire respect, learning to be considerate of implement. school days to campaigns promoted each other’s backgrounds, personal by extreme political organisations like circumstances and cultural differences; All cases of domestic abuse against ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Extinction but legislation from the Senedd is not children should carry the heaviest Rebellion’. the answer. custodial sentences. However, there is a stark difference between physical abuse UKIP pledges to: UKIP pledges to: and reasonable chastisement. • Provide children with an • Stop all sex education in UKIP pledges to: education focused on academia, primary schools. skills and physical education, • Give parents the power to • Repeal the “Smacking Ban”, free from the agenda of any remove their children from sex putting power back in the hands political group or organisation. and relationship classes up to of parents to raise their children the age of sixteen. A power that was taken away from them by free from political interference. the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act. • Keep parents fully informed of the curriculum by providing a detailed explanation of the content in sex education classes.
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Page 26 TRANSPORT &VETERANS’ ECONOMIC ISSUES DEVELOPMENT“Whenever HM Government calls on our brave armed forces to go into action on our behalf, they never let us down. UKIP will not let “The current Welsh Labour Health Minister has suggested that it will them down; we will honour the military covenant.” take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19. For UKIP, Welsh Labour’s lack of ambition and dampening of expectations is unacceptable.” VETERANS’ ISSUES In all the discussion on granting Wales greater responsibility for looking after the needs of the people, one group seems to be overlooked time and time again. Veterans in Wales suffer from difficulty in claiming support with many ending up homeless. The estimated figure for homeless Veterans is impossible to pin down, highlighting the scale of the issue and the consistent lack of care and attention this unacceptable situation receives. It is time that we give back to those who have risked their lives in service to this nation and recognise the sacrifices and commitments made.
Our Policies to Help health treatment and provision Veterans in Wales of services for Veterans. • Welcome the Overseas For their brave service, our Veterans Operations Bill to prevent deserve the best care possible from Veterans who served in our government. UKIP stands with our foreign wars being hounded armed forces and would ensure that through mischievous claims for they are treated with the dignity and compensation, or unfounded respect they deserve at the end of their allegations of criminal service. behaviour whilst they were in the service of the Crown – but UKIP pledges to: does not agree that time limits on applying for compensation • End the scourge of homeless for injury should apply to Veterans in Wales by 2025 by veterans. Such limitations do making available affordable not apply to civilian employment rent houses every year for and service personnel should Veterans and building halfway not face discrimination because house hostels for homeless of their service. veterans in Cardiff. • Lobby for an end to the • Exempt all service personnel grotesque show trials of on duty overseas, including Veterans who served in “UKIP is the party for members of the Border Force, Northern Ireland more than intelligence and security forty years ago, while IRA and veterans. We must end the services, from income tax in line other convicted terrorists have scourge of homelessness with practice in other nations been granted amnesty. and in civilian employment. • Lobby for the issuing of a amongst veterans. No • Guarantee one year’s University National Defence Medal to all serviceman or woman Tuition Fees, while these remain former National Servicemen in force, for each two years and women and all Veterans of should be served in the Regular or Reserve the Cold War. subjected to malicious forces to all successful university applicants either before the start prosecutions from their of a service career (subject to service. Armed service the completion of the required term of service) or at its personnel need our conclusion. support and the right • Ensure that proper provision is made for mental health care equipment, not for Veterans, especially those solicitors.” who have served on active operations. Health Care and Lt-Gen Jonathon Riley Local Authorities will be obliged Army General & UKIP Candidate for to provide fast-track mental Mid & West Wales
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Page 28 TRANSPORTCULTURE & COMMUNITIES& ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT“UKIP believes in individual liberty, in freedom of speech and choice. We will defend equality before the law for everybody, no “The currentmatter Welsh of Labour race, religion Health orMinister social hasbackground.” suggested that it will take five years to return services to where they were pre-COVID-19. For UKIP, Welsh Labour’s lack of ambition and dampening of expectations is unacceptable.” CULTURE & COMMUNITIES In the last 12 months, the shared British values of the home nations have come under attack. Extreme political groups, like Black Lives Matter, mask their true intentions with social justice. But in reality, they are self-professed Marxists, who want to smash capitalism and defund the police. Others, like Extinction Rebellion and Antifa, deploy aggressive tactics aimed to intimidate and silence opposition.
The majority of patriotic working people, who have pride in Britain’s past and what we have achieved, are being browbeaten into silence by far left political groups who have found allies in Plaid Cymru and Welsh Labour. Inspired by Black Lives Matter’s violent attacks on Britain’s war memorials, private property and police officers, many patriotic men and women have been subjected to the worst abuse, especially on social media, in a blatant attempt to limit free speech.
When Senedd politicians took the knee in “solidarity” with Black Lives Matter, UKIP remained standing. Politicians, propped up by the Media Establishment, now side with those who seek to erase Wales’s past and eradicate British values. They pursue an anti-British agenda, grounded in a victim-based hierarchy of society, placing virtue in people’s physical identity rather than the measure of their character or ability.
UKIP believes in individual liberty, in freedom of speech and choice. We will defend equality before the law for everybody, no matter of race, religion or social background. Britain is at its best when free thought and expression is allowed to flourish and all in society have equality of opportunity - not of outcome.
Freedom works and it must be preserved for future generations to enjoy.
UKIP pledges to: audit of statues and street “UKIP is the only party names, designed to erase the • Defend free speech and fight memories of Welsh and British brave enough to stand back against cancel culture. heroes. up for our freedom to • Defund the BBC, which has • Lift the blanket smoking ban in pedalled the political left’s Welsh pubs, giving landlords the speak our minds in the “woke” agenda. freedom to provide contained face of hard left Marxists. • Stand up for patriotic working and ventilated smoking rooms if people who have been lectured they wish. We must make a stand on their so-called “privilege”, to protect Wales’s proud despite many coming from some of Wales’s poorest history and not allow the communities. ‘woke brigade’ to police • Safeguard individual liberties by opposing future lockdowns and our thoughts.” defending the right to peaceful protest. • Oppose any notions of domestic Cllr Paul Dowson vaccine passports which are Pembrokeshire County Councillor. an affront to civil liberties and UKIP candidate for Carmarthen West freedom of choice. & South Pembrokeshire and • Scrap the Welsh Government’s Mid & West Wales
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