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Press Releases (2007) (2006) 2005

Title: New Licensing Laws: Danger to the public health

The controversy surrounding the new liquor licensing laws which the government plans for November now extends beyond that of concerns over public order to that of public health.......

Author: Therese Muchewicz, Party Secretary Issue Date: 1st September 2005
Title: Health Press Release

Events over recent days have highlighted the dangers associated with taking prescription drugs. The controversy over the NSAID Vioxx and the US High Court ruling last week in which Merck, the New - Jersey based pharmaceutical company, suffered its first loss as Carol Ernst, the widow of a Texas fitn......

Author: Therese Muchewicz, Party Secretary Issue Date: 22nd August 2005
Title: Veritas Foreign Affairs Press Release

This Country should be most concerned about the Nuclear program in Iran. After watching the program about Hiroshima and Nagasaki I am amazed that anyone would even contemplate adding to the problem.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 11th August 2005
Title: Oil price crisis

Fuel prices have hit record levels, and the world's insatiable demand for oil, coupled with finite supply, can only mean that prices will rise further.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 9th August 2005
Title: Waking up to the follies of Multiculturalism

The general election was held only 3 months ago and yet, the British media and even a leading Tory politician are suddenly parroting the Veritas manifesto.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 4th August 2005
Title: Veritas Foreign Affairs Press Release

We have had the G8 conference, the promises and the pledges, Blair and Bush with their halos on Gordon Brown’s promise to make poverty history. ......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 4th August 2005
Title: Veritas Environment Press Release

Households in South East must learn to live with less water (Environment Agency 02.03.05) ......

Author: Carl Faulkner Issue Date: 3rd August 2005
Title: Robert Kilroy-Silk announced today that he is resigning as the leader of Veritas

Robert Kilroy-Silk announced today that he is resigning as leader of Veritas with immediate effect. Mr Kilroy-Silk said: It was clear from the General Election result - and more recently that of the Cheadle by-election – that the electors are content with the old parties and that it would be v......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 29th July 2005
Title: Deputy Leader of Veritas resigns

Damian Hockney, Deputy Leader of Veritas and Leader of the Veritas-UKIP group at the London Assembly has announced that it was time for a new team to take over at Veritas.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 29th July 2005
Title: Veritas Calls for East Midlands assembly to be Scrapped

Veritas today called for the unelected East Midlands Regional Assembly to be scrapped, and accused its members of turning it into a private limited company, for sale to the highest bidder.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 25th July 2005
Title: Cheadle By-Election

Cheadle By-Election Veritas would like to thank all the people who helped our Candidate Les Leggett in Cheadle recently.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 15th July 2005
Title: Veritas Is Now the Only Real Anti-EU Party

Veritas is now the only real anti-EU Party and the only party that offers real choice over the question of Europe.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 24th June 2005
Title: Don't mess with the rebate - scrap the CAP

Without the CAP or membership of the EU Britain would not need to mess around rescuing the rebate. It may save us £3 billion a year but we would save a great deal more if we no longer had to pay money into the EU treasury, be forced to take part in joint enterprises that do not benefit us or shackle......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 16th June 2005
Title: Veritas-UKIP Call to Stop the Postal Vote Fiasco

The Veritas-UKIP group on the London Assembly today came out strongly against the issuing of postal ballots to anybody who asks for them.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 8th June 2005
Title: “Now Let the British Speak”

Veritas today joined with other eurosceptic groups to congratulate the good sense of the French and Dutch people in rejecting the EU Constitution, and called for a referendum on Britain’s relationship with Europe.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 2nd June 2005
Title: Veritas-UKIP Welcomes Growing Eurosceptic Unity

Veritas at the London Assembly today welcomed the growing trend of Eurosceptic campaigners putting aside their differences and working together.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 26th May 2005
Title: Olympics Figures Don’t Add Up

Veritas at the London Assembly today announced they have uncovered a ‘financial black hole’ in the Mayor’s Olympic budget. They claim that the London Development Agency’s budget figure for building an Olympic stadium on the land in the Lower Lea Valley raises serious questions.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 24th May 2005
Title: Ken’s ‘Soviet-Style’ Opinion Poll ‘Blatantly Biased’

Veritas at the London Assembly today called the Mayor’s latest Olympic poll biased, unfair and “reminiscent of Soviet propaganda.” The poll, carried out last month by ICM, mentions the city’s diversity and Nelson Mandela’s backing of London’s bid because of this, before asking whether the respondent......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 24th May 2005
Title: Ken’s Brussels Office is a Waste of Money

Veritas at the London Assembly have attacked the Mayor for not doing enough to protect London business from the effects of the EU’s Working Time Directive, which limits the hours employees can work.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 24th May 2005
Title: Veritas Welcomes Plans to Tackle Voting Fraud

Veritas today welcomed the Electoral Commission report on postal voting, which makes 45 recommendations to stamp out voting fraud.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 20th May 2005
Title: Veritas Urge Blair, Campaign Against Us

Veritas today called for Tony Blair to spearhead the ‘Yes’ campaign in a referendum on the EU Constitution. The party believes the Prime Minister would be a liability to the pro-Constitution side.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 19th May 2005
Title: London's education is in shambles

Veritas today poured scorn on the Conservative proposal to have more school places for children in London.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 27th Apr 2005
Title: Tinkering at the edges will not help the NHS

Referring to the news that one in seven of nurses in the National Health Service intends to quit, dissatisfied with working conditions and new pension arrangements, Damian Hockney, Deputy Leader of Veritas said:......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 26th Apr 2005
Title: We do not need bonfires but accountability

Verheugen' s promises do not provide solutions......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 25 Apr 2005
Title: Ending the myth of multiculturalism

With the Metropolitan Police calling for a further million pounds to be spent on what he said was ‘unnecessary and divisive’ diversity training, VERITAS Leader, Robert Kilroy-Silk, called today for an end to the ‘pernicious and divisive’ nonsense of multiculturalism - and, amongst other things, the ......

Author: Robert Kilroy Silk, Party Founder Issue Date: 25th April 2005
Title: VERITAS 65 Candidates better than Labour in 1906’

We would have had 200-plus but for lack of money’- Damian Hockney VERITAS, the Party founded by Robert Kilroy-Silk on 2nd February this year, announced today that it will field a total 65 candidates in the General Election.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 20th Apr 2005
Title: ID cards and Sir Ian Blair's statement

Sir Ian Blair needs to find out what his commanders say. His statement in favour of ID cards as a useful weapons against terrorists, flatly contradicts the statement made by Commander Mick Messinger to the plenary session of the London Assembly last December.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 18th Apr 2005
Title: Why Give Germans Arms Contracts Whilst Closing Rover?

Veritas Party leader Robert Kilroy-Silk has demanded that the Prime Minister cancel a £1.1 billion contract to build and supporters a fleet of 5,000 military trucks and recovery vehicles for the British army, which has been given to a company in Germany. Mr Kilroy-Silk said: “The £150 million he has......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 17th April 2005
Title: BBC’s biased reporter ‘deliberately misled’ viewers

BBC’s biased reporter ‘deliberately misled’ viewers and listeners over Derby asylum-seekers: Kilroy-Silk “I despise the man” – BBC Reporter......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 17th Apr 2005
Title: This General Election should be a Referendum on Immigration and Asylum

Robert Kilroy-Silk - responding to the recent reports on the phenomenon of ‘white flight’ from Britain’s inner cities - called today for the coming General Election to be turned into a referendum by the British people on whether or not they want continued mass immigration into this country.......

Author: Robert Kilroy Silk, Party Founder Issue Date: 12th April 2005
Title: VERITAS demands public enquiry on Rover

Damian Hockney, VERITAS Deputy Leader, has said today that a full public enquiry into the Rover debacle is now necessary.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 11th April 2005
Title: Race is on for Harlow Seat

FOUR candidates have so far signalled their intention to contest the Harlow seat at the general election on Thursday, May 5.......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 11th Apr 2005
Title: Veritas Backs UKIP in Football Row

Veritas Deputy Leader Damian Hockney today offered full support to the UK Independence Party in their dispute with the Professional Footballers’ Association. Gordon Taylor, head of the PFA, had criticised Gillingham FC for accepting sponsorship from UKIP, making the outrageous and false assertion th......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 8th April 2005
Title: Veritas Slams Labour’s Schools

Veritas slammed the government today for its refusal to introduce the world’s most successful and simple system of teaching children to read – phonics – into English schools. Even the Labour-dominated Education and Skills Select Committee has admitted that levels of illiteracy among primary age chil......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 7th April 2005
Title: Life Must Mean Life

VERITAS Crime Spokesman, Mr Patrick Eston, a Midlands-based businessmen, said after the verdicts were announced in the case of the Birmingham machine gun killings: ‘Life must mean life’. The judge sentenced three of the murderers to life, with a recommendation that they serve 35 years. A fourth man ......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 7th April 2005
Title: Postal vote abuse is not British

Reacting to the news of extensive postal voting fraud by Labour Party officials in Birmingham, Robert Kilroy-Silk, Leader of VERITAS, has today called for a full reinstatement of the ‘old rules’ on postal voting - postal votes only for those too disabled or infirm to reach the ballot box, or those u......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 6th April 2005
Title: We will repeal the Human Rights Act, not just review it

Kilroy: “Unlike Michael Howard, I stayed on the Crays Hill Gypsy Site and spoke to the travellers. And we will repeal the Human Rights Act, not just review it”......

Author: Press Office Issue Date: 4th April 2005

 

 
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