UKIP County Councillor Victoria Ayling has slammed comments in an internal email from ‘The New European’ which claimed Brexit could ‘close down’ Skegness.

In an accidentally published email from the Pro EU paper, staff promoted provoking anger in the very pro Brexit town taunting ‘there is an opportunity to stir up some controversy locally’.

Responding to the story, Mrs Ayling dismissed the claims as “nonsense from the losing side” and added “The EU was almost the death knell not only for Skegness but for the much of the coast of the UK thanks to its poaching of our fishing industry and the money it sapped from the UK treasury to send abroad.”

Following the former Archbishop of Canterbury’s article in the Daily Telegraph today, UKIP Deputy Leader Peter Whittle AM said:

“UKIP have been saying from the very beginning of the refugee crisis that there needs to be a prioritisation of Christian refugees from Syria, due to the nature of the extreme persecution they are facing at the hands of Islamic extremists.

“We are glad to see that the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, has echoed these concerns today and hope that the government will take action to ensure they receive the protection and help they so desperately need.”

UKIP Education Spokesman David Kurten AM said, “Despite her virtuous words of wanting to make sure that grammar schools cater to ‘ordinary families’, Education Secretary Justine Greening does not appear to have any coherent plan to ensure that this will happen.

“The best way to make sure that all ‘ordinary families’ have access to a grammar school is to roll them out over the whole country so that every town, city and borough has one and all children have the opportunity of a highly academic education if it suits them.

“There are only 164 grammar schools currently remaining in England. The government’s current plan is to deliver a few dozen new grammar schools through the free school system. This is not enough; the country needs hundreds more grammar schools distributed around the country and particularly in areas which don’t currently have one and where ‘ordinary families’ actually live.

UKIP Immigration Spokesman John Bickley said, “Despite the spin from Government, the Labour and Liberal Democrats that the current scale of immigration, particularly from the EU, is unreservedly good for the UK, the ONS has let the cat out of the bag by stating that 390,000 EU migrants are out of work and likely to be claiming benefits, including child benefit for children who don’t even live in the UK.

“How many non EU migrants are out of work claiming benefits? How many asylum seekers are claiming benefits? The total numbers are being hidden from the British public because there would be an outcry if the truth came out.

“British taxpayers are being taken for mugs, paying to subsidise migrants who haven’t paid into the pot but are enjoying generous benefits they wouldn’t receive in their home country. No wonder the UK is such a magnet for migrants.