The message UKIP is sending to Brighton and Hove

We are all born free as children of the universe. Or, if you are religious, we are all God's children.

We each deserve the freedom to be ourselves and to be treated with respect and consideration, equal before the law.

And we each share the power between us to choose who shall govern us and how we expect to be governed.

Nobody has the right to take that democratic power away from us and give it away to a foreign power, such as the European Union.The EU is taking away our power to govern ourselves and anti-democratically imposing its will on us every day.

We have no democratic control or influence over the EU, with less than 10% of the vote in the EU parliament and as only one against 27 other countries.

On November 1, the EU began the process of taking away our remaining power to say No to the EU - as planned in the Lisbon Treaty, signed by Labour's Gordon Brown.

The process will continue until 2017, when we will have to obey what's called "qualified majority" voting. Which means other countries can gang up on us and bully us into doing what they want and force us to do what we are told.

Why would they do that? We are one of the few countries paying in, as a net contributor over a £1 billion a month; most are takers. They want our money to help themselves.

As one mother asked me: 'Are our politicians stupid? Letting in more than four million extra people without building an extra house or planning for more hospital beds, school places. Or, is it that they just don't care?'

We need people to speak up for us who care about each of us, who realise government is chosen by us all, to serve us all. We need to be heard, respected, treated with consideration, by people who see us - all colours, all origins - as one big family.

We, the innocent people, expect to be treated as part of our national family. We love our country and we expect our country to love us back.

We don't care about Left and Right, and all the theoretical "isms". They don't serve us. All Westminster parties have let us down. They cannot be trusted.

We need a voice of the people. UKIP is that voice. We need government for the people, of the people, by the people - where the leadership loves and respects and listens to the people.

UKIP cares about you. Our free NHS, free education, free speech, defence of our freedom from foreign powers, freedom from want or poverty.

UKIP cares about your freedom to choose governments and change them. UKIP believes in us all and our country - and our Commonwealth friends around the world.

We must escape the clutches of the negative EU and rejoin the free world - prosperous and proud again.

Nigel Carter is chair of Brighton and Hove UKIP; he is UKIP's parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion.