The anti-immigration party seems to have extended, or further narrowed, its policies to local turf when MEPs pushed for Birmingham and Black Country to remain separate authorities.
Mr Carver, UKIP’s Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in Stourbridge, and Mr Etheridge, fulfilling the same role in Dudley North, are organising a “Hands off Birmingham, Hands off the Black Country” protest to oppose the plans of the Dudley Council to merge the two neighbouring domains.
Carver commented that “this EU-led regionalisation push is a huge threat to the identities of both Birmingham and the Black Country and I urge people to attend this protest and in turn send out a message to those who want to see the establishment of this colossal combined authority.”
The demonstration is to be held at the Council House at 5.15pm on December 1 to precede the district talks. Etheridge emphasised “we don’t want to see the centralisation of power.”
However UKIP had previously stated they were against Scottish independence on the grounds that the Scottish people were being sold a "false prospectus.”
