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Leaked List Update
Sorry for the late post this evening, I've been trying to see a copy of the so-called leaked list so I judge its authenticity for myself. I will say what I said when the first list was leaked in November 2008, if anyone is concerned about whether they appear on the list please get in touch and I will check for you. The current leaked list gives some details the previous one didn't but then it also has a lot of other information, mainly addresses, missing. As for its content of 'members' names, yes, some names are genuine, some are old lapsed members, some are people that had just enquired in the run up to the Euro elections and some appear to have been made up. Even with this odd concoction of names the number of so-called 'members' in Northamptonshire is at least 50% below the actual number. In other words, over 50% of members in the county are not listed. If anyone does have the misfortune of receiving any crank calls report them to the police.

Northampton North UKIP Candidate
Jim MacArthur has been announced as the UKIP candidate for Northampton North seat at the next general election. He will stand against Sally Keeble, the Labour MP who has represented the constituency since she was elected in 1997, Michael Ellis (Con) and Andrew Simpson (LD). Mr MacArthur, 66, lives in High Street, Flore, and teaches Aikido at Derngate Gym twice a week. One wonders why he didn't put up for the constituency where he lives, Daventry.

More Jobs To Go
Another 170 jobs are to go from Wellingborough. Siemens Enterprise Communications Ltd will be leaving the town to transfer to its work to Milton Keynes early next year. Workers at Siemens, one of the few Blue chip employers in the town, in Turnells Mill Road, on the town's Denington Industrial Estate, were told last week that a consultation process would begin about the planned changes being made by the end of February next year. Last week, 160 people at logistics firm Ceva, in Wellingborough, were told they could be out of a job by the end of December. Meanwhile in Corby, more than 300 employees at the Corus plant, now owned by Indian firm Tata, have opted to hold a vote on whether to strike over the firm's announcement that it will not pay bonuses for their last three months' work. The Community Union says the steel company is in violation of more than 30 years of procedure, custom and practice. Workers in India have been given bonuses of up to 18.5 per cent and an additional payment in arrears of 8.33 per cent.