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24 April 2009 Letters to the Editor Daily Telegraph London	Sir,                       "Taxes to rise by £45 billion a year" to pay for Labour's excesses (Business section 24th April).   Do not despair.  The cost of continued British membership of the EU is about £40 billion a year (£120 billion according to the Taxpayers Alliance).  Since we appear to derive little or no economic benefit from being in the EU, it seems to me to be an easy decision to make:  simply walk away from the EU, restore our independence, and the problem is solved.   Michael Phillips, UKIP chairman Milton Keynes branch.
July 15 2008 MK Citizen	Mark Lancaster MP (Con) claims to "not understand why, when Milton Keynes is expanding, we are decreasing our Post Office network", and that he promises to fight to save them, (MK Citizen report 10 July 2008).   Phyllis Starkey MP (Lab) claims to be "very disappointed" by Post Office closures in her constituency, and wants to combat them.   Both of these politicians know perfectly well, or ought to, that EU directive 97/67/EC "Privatisation of Postal Services", followed up by EU directive 2002/39/EC calling for a "step-by-step approach to further market-opening" and "the full accomplishment of the internal market for postal services by 2009", gives the Post Office no option but to cut its own throat.   The once profitable and universally liked Royal Mail and its network of Post Offices has been deliberately fractured to allow rival postal companies (mainly Dutch TNT and German Deutsche Post DHL)  to cherry pick the money-making areas, leaving the loss-making to the Royal Mail.   Labour, Lib Dem, and Conservative parties are all committed to Britain remaining in the EU and thus being subject to rule by a foreign power (Brussels).   So either Mark Lancaster and Phyllis Starkey are ignorant of the betrayal of this country by their own parties, or they are outright hypocrites.   There will be a European Parliament election next year at which the British electorate is very likely to seek bitter revenge on those three parties.   Michael Phillips,   UKIP chairman Milton Keynes branch.
25 August 2008 MK Citizen	I note that the Milton Keynes councillor, David Hopkins (Con), is still peddling the outrageous Europhile falsehood "that membership of the EU has brought us peace and prosperity over the last several decades" (MK Citizen 21 Aug).    Actually, the EU has had nothing whatsoever to do with either of these.   It is NATO, and NATO alone, that kept the Soviet Union at bay for 50 years.  There was no other threat to peace on the horizon.  And we may still be thankful for NATO's existence with a new aggressive Russia on the march.  The EU will, as before, be utterly powerless and useless should any conflict arise.  The prosperity we have came automatically in the wake of the NATO peace;  the EU actually hindered that prosperity especially with its Common Agricultural Policy,  which has resulted in Britain now being unable to feed herself.   Also, to say that the EU has existed for decades is another falsehood.  The EU only came into being in 1992 when it was created by the Maastricht Treaty;  prior to that the Common Market was merely a trading agreement.   Michael Phillips,  UKIP chairman (Milton Keynes branch).
MK News Apr 16 2008 The Citizen April 10 2008	Local Party Leader Mike Phillips said all local services in Milton Keynes suffer from underfunding. "The Labour government habituallly short-changes councils like Milton Keynes by not sharing out the vast amount it raises in taxation," he said. "Instead it prefers playing lady bountiful with foreign aid, and swanking around in the EU dishing out our cash to all and sundry. This money should be spent on our own people." Pensioners were denied decent services, so the government could "splash out overseas". It was no wonder that Labour and the Lib Dems were "terrified" of honouring election pledges on the EU referendum. He said people should vote for the UK Independence Party if they wanted to send Labour and the Lib Dems "a message".
October 29 2007 MK News	The letter approving of wind turbines by R. Barfoot (24 Oct) is thoughtful and clearly comes from a person who is concerned about the environment. However, does he not wonder why, if there is all this free energy to be had from windpower, the world is not already blanketted by windtowers?  The capitalists of this world would surely not let such a golden opportunity slip past them. The answer to this conundrum is that, alas, more energy is required to construct and build them than can be trickled out of them over their life span.  The things only last 20 to 25 years (power companies own figures) due to wear out of moving parts and metal fatigue (just think of your own car; how long does that last?). I repeat, incredible as it sounds at first reading, the energy required to mine the metal ore, transportation of the ore, refinement of the ore, engineering of the metals, erection of the heavy machinery, etc is greater than can ever be recouped from the turbines.   And on top of this, there is the energy required in the mining, manufacture, transportation and working of the colossal amount of concrete foundation needed for each tower.  Food for thought?   Michael Phillips, UKIP chairman Milton Keynes branch.