26/05/2014 Look East - East


26/05/2014

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Thank you. That is all from us for this evening. It is

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In the European Elections, it was another good night

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In the East, they got more votes than any other

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Of the seven MEPs, UKIP now has three, up from two.

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The Conservatives are still on three.

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The Liberal Democrats lost their only seat.

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This confirms that UKIP is now a major player

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In the last Euro elections, they came second, with 19% of the vote.

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Last night they were first, with 34%.

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When I joined the party 15 years ago, winning here

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There will be two new faces representing the East in Brussels.

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Patrick O'Flynn of UKIP is a former political journalist.

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He is colleague, Tim Aker, used to work for the Taxpayers Alliance.

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For the Conservatives, a sense of relief as they defied expectations

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and held onto all three of their seats, their share of the vote

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The people of the East of England have spoken.

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They have as majority said, we need a new relationship with Europe.

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That is exactly what I've been saying.

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I have been saying Europe needs to change.

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Our relationship with it need to change.

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The big loser, Andrew Duff of the Liberal Democrats.

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After 15 years in Brussels, no longer an MEP.

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I think the country is experiencing a wave of nationalism which,

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as you know, I don't like, I can't explain it, and I can't justify it.

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While Labour failed to win a second seat, the surge from UKIP

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They have had one good night tonight, that they're celebrating,

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and people voting for them will be pleased about that, but for five

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years, our region will be less well represented, the work will be harder

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for me as a Labour MEP to represent this

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region. In the East Midlands, which covers Northamptonshire, both UKIP

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In the South East, which covers Milton Keynes,

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there were four wins for UKIP, three for the Tories and one each for

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The other parties still believe this is just

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a protest vote that will go away at next year's General Election,

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Our newest Euro MP is Patrick O'Flynn from UKIP.

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When I spoke to him late this afternoon,

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I asked him if UKIP had done well ` which party had performed badly?

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I think we took votes off all our rivals.

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I would say, though, that of the two biggest parties, the Tory

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vote probably held up a bit better than expected and the Labour vote

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Your main plank is that you are against being in Europe

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What can you do, though, from the European Parliament?

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Our number one priority is to bring back British sovereignty by getting

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Nonetheless, while we're there, we need to be vigilant about Brussels'

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power grabs and try to block them and make sure they do not happen.

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We want to be there for the important votes.

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And still less, go native, which would be the worst fate of all.

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Mr Farage was talking about where you might put people up

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for the General Election next year and he has highlighted

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Great Yarmouth and parts of Cambridge.

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Well, if you look at the council results, if you look

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at the breakdown of who actually won the vote for the European elections

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in those areas, those are clearly very good areas for us.

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They are areas where we have local government base.

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They are areas where the UKIP brand is well known and well liked.

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There are extra areas in the East, too.

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The South Essex corridor, looking at looking at Thurrock, looking at

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And why do you think UKIP has so much support?

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I think people in the eastern counties...

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They have always approached politics from a common`sense perceptive

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so there's not too much of the metropolitan sensibility going on.

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I think they're very much aware of open`door immigration

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compressing wages and perhaps making job opportunities

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more difficult for young people as they move into adulthood.

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I think particularly in the south of the region, there is heightened

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concern about pressure on greenbelt and greenfield land due to

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development in part necessitated by enormous levels of immigration.

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So what has been the reaction to the results?

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In Essex, UKIP made big gains in both

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Our reporter Gareth George has been finding out what people think

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The bank holiday bargain hunters were out early

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in Essex this morning, and many weren't

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I voted UKIP this time. You would normally vote Conservative.

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Yes. Because I felt they could do more.

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It has been Labour for ten years, then I went on to Conservative,

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Will you be voting for UKIP in the General Election as well?

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To be honest, I wasn't really surprised. I didn't vote UKIP.

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Were you tempted to vote UKIP? A little bit, yes.

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There are lots people who aren't happy about what is going on

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Are you worried they are getting so many votes?

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I think you have to be very careful and see what all

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the parties are going to be doing over the next year.

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Because unless we've got a few facts, you can't make

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Essex is sometimes seen as a political barometer

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for the whole country, and at least for the moment, UKIP seems

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Are political correspondent is here. What does this tell us about our

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region? We are a Eurosceptic region. It also tells us UKIP is a

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major political player now in this region, mainly I think because of

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fears about immigration, but there are also a lot of people who have

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just had enough with the main parties and in some parts of our

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region, Northamptonshire, Cambridge, Essex, the main battle is

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between UKIP and the Tories. UKIP have driven out the Lib Dems and are

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now squeezing out Labour. How bad is it for Labour? They do not know what

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to make of it. They had a mixed picture in the local elections on

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Thursday. A lot of their increased vote in last night came from Liberal

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Democrat voters but I am hearing stories that a lot of Labour voters

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stayed at home this week and did not vote. That is worrying for Labour if

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it is true. Thank you. The drugs company Pfizer has

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officially pulled out of an attempted takeover of

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Astra`Zeneca, which employs hundreds of people in Cambridge.

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There had been fears that if the takeover had gone ahead, it could

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have threatened plans already in place to move the company

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headquarters to Cambridge. A fire in the centre of Fakenham has

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been described as the worst of The former Aldiss department store

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was destroyed, It looks like something

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from the Blitz, now no more than twisted

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metal, smouldering bricks and There are pockets

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of fire is still under the debris. We want to make sure none

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of them spread, certainly not into any of the

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buildings we have managed to save. Yesterday morning 100

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firefighters tackled the blaze. For the moment,

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Norfolk Fire and Rescue do not know One reason why no one was killed or

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injured. The weather.

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The radar picture shows rain heading our way from the continent. Tonight

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the rain could be heavy at times and possibly thundery, too. Temperatures

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should not drop down to double figures for most of us. `` out of

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double figures for most of us. Torrential downpours at times

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tomorrow. With the cloud and rain, it will feel on the cool side. As we

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head into the evening, some further heavy downpours just about anywhere

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possible, so the Met Office have issued a yellow warning from

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midnight tonight until midnight tomorrow for the heavy rain. Perhaps

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even 40 millimetres expected in sunspots. That would be over an inch

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and a half. So definitely the chance of some localised flooding. Possibly

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some heavy rain on Wednesday. Hopefully lighter rain if we get any

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on Thursday. And then a brighter day on Friday, probably just one or two

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showers. The late bulletin is at 10:30pm.

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Good evening. Good evening. If I were to conduct a

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straw poll about the weather events today, I suspect we would get a

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split decision. There were significant differences around, we

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have sunshine and some warmth, but also this cloud and rain coming up

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through the Channel into the north of England. On top of that, some

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showers in the north-west, some of them thundery from Northern Ireland

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and Scotland, so a real eclectic mix. This will drift away over the

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next few hours, we will keep the cloud overnight, and we will see

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more significant rain pushing in off the north sea. There is a level of

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uncertainty just where this rain will

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