Worle GP is UKIP election candidate

10 March 2010

Dr Steven Pearse-Danker

THE United Kingdom Independence Party in Weston has chosen its candidate for the General Election.

Worle GP Dr Steven Pearse-Danker will stand for the euro-sceptics at the national poll, which is expected to take place in May.

Dr Danker, who works at the Worle Health Centre, in High Street, said: "Central and local government have ridden roughshod over your democratic rights whilst you have been made to pick up the bill by way of higher taxes to pay for MPs' expenses, to bail out the banks and military adventures abroad in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"At the same time, vital services such as schools, hospitals and state pensions continue to be neglected."

Dr Pearse-Danker joins Mike Bell, of the Liberal Democrats, Labour Party candidate David Bradley, and British National Party hopeful Penryn Parsons on the ballot papers.

The quartet are hoping to depose the town's Conservative MP John Penrose, who won the seat from the Lib Dems with a majority of 2,079 in 2005.