Two bid to win county seats for UKIP (From Western Telegraph)

Two bid to win county seats for UKIP

UK Independence Party Wales (UKIP) have chosen candidates for both parliamentary covering Pembrokeshire.

Retired farmer Josie MacDonald, who is a leading campaigner in Wales against GM crops, will contest the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire seat.

Preseli Pembrokeshire will be contested by James Carver, who runs his small family umbrella-making business, as well as working as a political assistant to one of the UKIP members of the European Parliament, elected following their breakthrough in last year's European elections.

In a statement, Jim Carver said: "The main parties are never keen to mention the fact that over 70% of our laws now come directly from the European Union. Our Parliament is gradually becoming just a rubber stamp mechanism to our political masters in Brussels.

The other parties remain committed to continued EU membership and, as such, are only able to dish out sound-bytes, to an increasingly sceptical public, when addressing the very real problems caused by our EU membership."