UKIP
Dave Black (Chairman - Derby)

At last a breath of fresh air is sweeping across our city from the south. After years in the doldrums as a forgotten corner of the city, a Leviathan awakes. For three successive elections in the face of racist slurs and the concrete block, speed-cushion fiasco, the people of Boulton Ward are spearheading a movement to restore commonsense and balance to the way our city is run. No-one ever said it was going to be easy, but someone had to take the initiative. Now the rest of the city can rally to the cause.

There's light in the tunnel and the dreadful days of this discredited, divisive, shameful act of grand larceny, called New Labour, is exposed for all to see. In a statement that must rank alongside the Gettysburg Address, as the second longest suicide note in history, Derby Labour Group rejects an opportunity to take the city forward. Alternatively, if you ever had the vaguest inkling that those strange bedfellows of the Lib-Dem/Tory alliance could be our salvation, forget it.

They are merely demonstrating a cling-on- to-power-at-any-price mentality - the kind of thing that has dogged progress of our city for a generation, as they follow pathetically in the footsteps of those who went before. Fear no more, for beyond the new horizon lies a rising star. A new Independent Democratic Movement that puts our city, its people and our country first, in a crusade to protect our fundamental rights, our unwritten constitution (that requires no tidying up) and, most of all, our distinctive British way of life. It is a way of life that we have resisted all attempts to overcome for a thousand years.

Councillor Frank Leeming, member of the South Derbyshire Branch of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), has come out with a profound statement: "UKIP is not a party you can trust, it's rotten to the core." I bet everyone who voted for him and his party are sorry that he did not extol this view prior to the recent city council elections. Derek Bale