Party accounts were signed off at the recent AGM, held in Burton on Trent. This puts the Popular Alliance at least one step ahead of the sleazy main three political parties, who's accounts have recently been under the beady eye of the electoral commmision - AND all our donations were all accounted for.

Many more new members have joined up, along with 2 very experienced people who also joined the National Council.

Membership

Popular Alliance now offers a 2-tier membership. A Full Member pays the annual subs, has full voting rights at meetings and gets involved in promoting the party.

An Associated Member vows to support the Party's aims, does not pay the membership fee and does not have voting rights.

This move came about as we so often encounter good people who are members of other political parties, but are becoming disillusioned with their leadership, lack of progress, directionless polices etc. We welcome them to become an Associated PA Member and may take all the time they need to learn what we are all about. Membership enquiry contact may be found on this page of www.popularalliance.org

There are between 6,000 - 7,000 voters in our village, with a very high employment level.

We mostly all live in homes that are Rate / Community Charge Bands C – E, which mean we contribute a far higher amount per person to East Staffordshire Borough Council and Staffordshire County Council than many other wards in the area, particularly Burton upon Trent.

Yet, when it comes to Road Safety, Policing and Grants we always seem to be at the back of the queue.

In my opinion and the opinion of my parish, Stretton does not get value for money.

I pledge to challenge this situation and get the things done that we need in our village.

I will also,

Encourage the Council to be more open and accountable to its ratepayers.

Try to get more public debate on major developments and issues

Campaign to stop political correctness in all its forms.

Oppose the creation of “Silly Non Jobs “

Only support policies that offer good value, common sense as well as those which benefit Stretton.

Thank you for looking at our website, do try to vote on Thursday, 14th. February 2008 and please consider,

VOTING FOR ME.    BRIAN BUXTON. - POPULAR ALLIANCE

Presumably, this is the same reform agenda which a few years ago led to an overhaul of the correctional system, intended to merge prisons and probation to manage offenders from the moment they are charged until well after they are released.

It was called the National offender Management Services (Noms), and cost millions to set up and run. Figures show the cost of running the service is now almost £900m a year.

The probation workers' union, Napo, claims that the budget has risen by 556 per cent since 2005.

Over the three years of its life, Noms has cost the taxpayer more than £1.5bn.

Now, the Government has effectively scrapped it.

Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, has just announced that he is creating a new "directorate of corrections" to oversee the prison and probation systems.

Although Noms will continue in name, to avoid the Government being accused of abandoning it, the initial intentions behind it have all but disappeared.

It was meant to involve the appointment of a designated "offender manager" for every jailed offender. Now it is to be scaled back. A computer system, which was meant to link prisons with probation, will apply to prisons only.

This bureaucracy has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds and has delivered virtually nothing.

If these are the sort of reforms Mr Brown was urging his Cabinet colleagues to pursue, we would all be better off if they ignored him.

Popular Alliance Comment:

Sort of sums this government up really. All too happy to adopt liberal ideas that are doomed to failure. All to keen to put a spin on everything. And worst of all, all too happy to waste taxpayers money.

You can be tough on crime without costing the earth. Build more prisons and make them basic. No thrills, no high costs to run. Make prisoners serve their sentence.

Link to article HERE

Today we find a senior police officer also confirming what the Popular Alliance and the majority of the nation now knows, in that mass uncontrolled immigration has fuelled a massive crime wave which is out of control.

Police are struggling to cope with a wave of violent crime caused by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, one of Britain’s senior officers has warned.

Mike Fuller, Chief Constable of Kent, says his force is being stretched to the limit by the huge numbers flocking into the UK.

He blames these “migration surges” for a 35 per cent rise in violent crime in his county. His worries are voiced in a letter to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith which was leaked at the weekend.

He told the Home Secretary: “It is essential that I set out the impact that population growth is having in Kent and the pressure it is placing on finite resources.”

Mr Fuller said his force alone will need more than 550 extra bobbies on the beat if the population explosion in the county – in which 80 per cent of new arrivals are from abroad – continues.

Britain is currently experiencing its biggest influx in history, with 520 new immigrants arriving every day.

And last night the Government’s immigration policy was branded a failure.

Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green said: “Evidence is mounting from all over the country that the Government’s failure on immigration policy is leading to unacceptable pressure on the police and other essential public services.

“If Jacqui Smith doesn’t listen to this warning she will be responsible for asking the police to perform an impossible task.”

Sir Andrew Green, of MigrationWatch UK, added: “These problems stem from a rapid increase in population resulting directly from uncontrolled immigration. We must get a grip of the numbers and soon.”

Mr Fuller said in his letter: “There’s a danger that if the future funding regime fails to respond to dynamic changes in migration, the extra demand this generates will impact negatively on performance.”

His fears are the latest in a long list of warnings about the effects of Labour’s open-door immigration policy on Britain’s services and communities.

A rise in crime is just one of 15 key problems caused by mass migration, according to the Local Government Association.

Mr Fuller, Britain’s most senior black police officer, said Government predictions have proved wholly unreliable and funding has failed to match the huge influx of new arrivals.

Tipped as a future Met Police commissioner, Mr Fuller says the population of Kent is set to rise by almost 20 per cent in the next 20 years to 1.9million.

He explained that it was particularly a problem in Kent as it is the first landing place for new arrivals from the Continent via the Channel ports and tunnel.

He warned the multi-million- pound cost of translation services alone is placing a strain on his limited resources.

Last September, the Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Police, Julie Spence, said her force was struggling to control the disorder resulting from mass immigration.

She said she needed more resources to deal with the influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe. Other forces across the country have complained they are facing the same problem.

Last November, the LGA warned mass migration was having a catastrophic effects on services and communities.

The survey of 100 local councils found that in some areas three-quarters of children are now born to foreign-born mothers while three in four pupils in some education authorities do not speak English as a first language.

In other towns, migrants are being housed illegally in garden sheds or caravans while others sleep on beaches.

Hospital emergency wards are under strain, translation costs are soaring and house prices are being forced up.

An estimated one million Eastern European have come to the UK since Labour opened our doors to the so-called A8 countries – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia – in 2004.

Last year, others followed from Romania and Bulgaria.

Hundreds of thousands continue to arrive from Commonwealth countries in Africa and Asia, such as India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Ghana.

Tens of thousands of others come from former colonies such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Experts predict the UK population will rise from 60.5million to 71million within 23 years.

The scale of the increase by 2031 is the equivalent of the population of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all moving to England.

A Home Office spokeswoman said: “Reducing crime, making communities safer and improving police efficiency are top priorities for this Government.

On a like-for-like basis, Government grant for the police will have increased by over 60 per cent or more than £3.7billion between 1997-98 and 2010-11.

“The police funding formula is used to make an assessment of the relative demands placed on each police authority in England and Wales and the population of each authority is a key driver.

“We have set up the Migration Impacts Forum to consider the impacts of migration and we will – together with colleagues from local government – consider any evidence provided by the police.”

Kent Police last night said there was no one available to comment on Mr Fuller’s letter.

Story from the Daily Express may be found HERE

Basically, you are a second rater who's only true value is to give the lying lame labour spongers who sit in Westminster (and soak up tax payers money in expenses and unjustified salaries) your vote to keep them in a life of luxury they have now become accustomed to.

If you are rich or important (and MPs like to think they are important, even if they don't do anything important any more due to the EU running the shop) then they have been told to file their tax returns by using the old forms and post them back.

They are not allowed to do it on-line and have been blocked from doing so as the rich and famous tax data is too important, but it does not matter if you are an ordinary common pauper living in the UK, your data can be put on-line to be lost, stolen by hackers and malicious dodgy scam merchants to use in stealing your identity.

It's breathtaking the contempt this government shows the hard working law abiding people of this country by having a second class service for the majority of taxpayers.

The Popular Alliance can only draw one conclusion from this report, and that is, government does not trust its own data security yet expects people to use it while they are safe from being ripped off.

I wonder if they will also exempt themselves from the ID card scheme (if it ever gets off the ground that is)

Please find the news item HERE