UKIP will cost jobs

Whilst I am pleased that Derek Childs, UKIP MEP for the East Midlands, remembers the export papers I offered him for my last shipment to the USA; it is a pity that he failed to look at them. I wonder if he also forgot about the small business woman in the audience who so eloquently told him how the EU's abolition of export paperwork had helped her small business grow thanks to the ease of exporting to what is now the largest trading bloc in the world. UKIP not only seeks to impose this costly and bureaucratic burden on every business in Britain, they would also place us outside the emerging EU/USA Free Trade Area area – isolating British businesses from the 2nd largest trading bloc in the world. It is time UKIP were honest, and came clean about the businesses that will close, and jobs that will be lost due to their isolationist policies. It is hardly surprising that the October 2013 survey carried our by the Engineering Employers Federation found that 85% of their respondents wanted to stay in the EU, a figure matched by the CBI September in which 78% voted to stay in. In fact not a single credible business group in Britain wants to leave the EU. It is a pity that the vocal minority who want to damage British interests by undermining our global trading links listened to British businesses.