UKIP Bradford Spokesman Jason Smith announced Monday that
the UKIP Bradford & District are officially coming out in support of the
cities National Media Museum, UKIP Bradford want to see funding available for
the Museum to stay open and continue with free entry.
UKIP has been at the forefront campaigning to save other
Bradford landmarks; they were the only Bradford political party to support the
retention of the landmark former Odeon cinema and in 2007 called on Bradford
council to give local people binding referenda on the buildings future.
UKIP Bradford also announced that its slate of candidates
for the 2014 local elections will all stand on a ticket of protecting both the
Odeon building and the National Media Museum.
Spokesman Jason Smith said: “As the UK’s ‘City of Film’ it
is unthinkable that we could see the closure of our National Media Museum. This
fine museum is one of few remaining landmarks that exist to draw people in to
Bradford. All our candidates will campaign vigorously to highlight the plight
of the Museum and safeguard this important local attraction.
UKIP do not accept the government argument that we have no
money to fund our fine museums, why is it that our government claim we have no
money to protect our museums and local services yet they can find money to pay
£53 million per day to the EU and £23 million per day in foreign aid? It
is all a question of priorities and we believe their priorities are wrong.
As the nation’s fastest growing party, we ask all our
supporters to sign the Telegraph & Argus petition to highlight this issue
and bring pressure on the government to safeguard the future of our
museum. We have so far succeeded in protecting the Odeon and now we aim
to help Bradford people raise awareness to protect our media museum and ensure
it stays free to the public.”
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