Mike Nattrass has represented the people of the West
Midlands since being elected in 2004.
Born a Yorkshireman with Black Country roots on his mother's
side, he has resided in the West Midlands Region for over 39 years. He is a
fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a former
senior partner of Nattrass Giles which he established in
1980.
Latest Media Interviews and Speeches
Thursday, March 29 2012.
Mike Nattrass MEP in the EU Parliament in Brussels speaking about concerns on EU citizenship.
A patriotic pensioner from Walsall came under the spotlight in Brussels when his letter to MEP Mike Nattrass, calling for advice on how to renounce EU citizenship, was read out in the European Parliament.
Eighty-three-year-old Alan Sheath, who lives in Portland Road, Aldridge with his 83-year-old wife Dorothy, says he is determined to fight Brussels bureaucrats all the way and has enlisted the help of Mr Nattrass to seek ways in which to reject imposed EU citizenship and defend his “birthright” of being a UK citizen.
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The Politics show - Our Economy
Mike Nattrass MEP talks about the effect Eu regulation is having on local businesses
Monday, 19 March 2012
Roads - pay as you go?
The Coalition Government are proposing to put private
companies in charge of maintaining our roads using funding from
the private sector.
Mike Nattrass MEP and Mark Garnier MP discuss the issue.
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
For the love of cod do not do this - SAY NO
Speech given by Mike Nattrass MEP at the European Parliament
Strasbourg on the Icelandic application to join the EU.
Mike's message to Iceland is: If you join you will loose your
fish, your freedom and your currency.
For
full transcript click here.
Wednesday, 22 February 2012.
Mike Nattrass on the Politics Programme Part 1.
Mike Nattrass, West Midlands UKIP MEP on the Politics Programme, Revelation TV (Satellite Channel), 22:2:12. Part 1. Edited highlights from the programme chaired by Rev George Hargreaves with guests: Mike Nattrass, Mark Taylor, and Pastor Fred Plumb. A live debate. This section is edited but concentrates on mainly EU related issues: Greek debt, national sovereignty interference and the Euro. Thankyou Revelation TV for ensuring viewers hear about how EU membership affects the UK.
Click here for Mike Nattrass on the Politics Programme Part 2
Saturday, 4 February 2012.
Mike Nattrass suggests the M6 Toll should be nationalised.
It would appear that there is a direct correlation between the
increase in M6 Toll charges and a reduction in the number of
drivers using the Toll road.
With toll charges due to rise again, more traffic will be pushed
on to the M6.
Mike suggests that the Toll road should now be brought back into public ownership.
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Top Totty banned from the Strangers' bar.
Mike Nattrass MEP and Yvonne Roberts talk to Danny Kelly about moves by the House of Commons to throw out Stafford Brewer, Slaters fine beer 'Top Totty' after shadow equalities minister Kate Green said she was "disturbed" to hear it was on sale in The Strangers' Bar.
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Plans to widen the M6 are just a 'sticking plaster'
Mike Nattrass MEP talks to Phil Upton about the proposals to widen the M6.
The Highways Agency are planning to spend around £130 million between Junction 5 Castle Bromwich and Junction 8 the M5 to use a managed traffic system which campaigners say will just be a sticking plaster.
Wednesday, 21 December 2011.
Mike Nattrass MEP talks to Andrew Easton at BBC Hereford and Worcester Radio
Mike Nattrass MEP talks to Andrew Easton about comments made by The Church of England's Europe spokesman in the House of Lords.
The Bishop of Guildford, the Rt Reverend Christopher Hill, who chairs the House of Bishop's Europe Panel has criticised David Cameron's EU veto, warning against the isolation of Britain from the rest of Europe. He has also condemned the British government's policy toward the European Union (EU) describing it as “disastrous.”
Fri, 16 Dec 2011.
Europe - Where are we going
Tony Fisher BBC radio Hereford and worcester talks to Mike
Nattrass MEP, Malcolm Harbour MEP, Emma Reynolds MP and Phil
Bennion (LibDem) about whether David Cameron's refusal to
sign up to an EU deal designed to save the Euro will cost us jobs
and less power on the international stage.
23 mins
Thursday, 10 December 2011.
Mike Nattrass MEP talks to Adrian Goldberg at BBC Radio WM
Mike Nattrass MEP comments on the view put forward by Richard Murphy from Tax Research UK that David Cameron's veto now makes the City of London a tax haven which threatens democracy, undermines economies and will result in job losses
Wednesday, 9 November 2011.
Mike Nattrass MEP talks to Andrew Easton at BBC Hereford and Worcester Radio
West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass has launched a stinging attack on a European court ruling that could hit British beekeeping.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that all jars of honey may have to be relabelled to say they contain pollen and this judgment means producers will have to show the pollen is not genetically modified. See full story
Wednesday, 2 November 2011.
Mike Nattrass MEP talks to Adrian Goldberg at BBC WM
Mike Nattrass MEP talks to Adrian Goldberg about the Greek Crisis and proposed bail-out
Sunday, 23 October 2011.
Mike Nattrass MEP on the Politics Show
Mike Nattrass MEP, Emma Reynolds MP and Malcolm Harbour MEP discuss the height of HGV's, the EU referendum and fish & chips.
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Monday, 24 October 2011.
Mike Nattrass MEP talks to Phil Upton at BBC WM
Mike discusses the in-out EU referendum with Emma Reynolds MP
Monday, 3 October 2011.
Mike Nattrass MEP talks Joanne Malin at BBC WM
Mike discusses the continuing Euro crisis with Emma Reynolds MP
Monday, 27 April 2011.
Mike Nattrass MEP talks to the BBC's Patrick Burns
Mike outlines the party's policies for this year's council elections and explains how EU legislation is affecting local issues.
Monday, 28 February 2011.
STOP HS2
Mike Nattrass MEP talks about why he is against HS2 (a proposed new high speed railway to run between London and Birmingham in the UK). Mike believes that more commuting into London is not required, and that HS2 will only promote that. Instead, Mike outlines that the UK Government should be stimulating growth in other parts of the UK (eg. Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton) in other ways.
Wednesday, 1 December 2010.
Mike Nattrass comments that the EU is incapable of overseeing the single market.
States have been given ten years to comply with the legislation but some large egg producers have still not met the requirements. For those that have, it has been at tremendous cost. If the EU now extends the deadline, producers that haven't complied will have an unfair advantage which could result in the closure of those that have.
Wednesday, 1 December 2010.
MEPs call for fairness on new egg rules
Mike Nattrass and Nikki Sinclaire are using a "written
declaration" to call on the European Parliament to impose
tough sanctions on member states who choose to ignore new rules
outlawing the sale of eggs from non-enriched cages.
This is the first time a UKIP MEP has used this official form of
attack.
Mike comments - This will lead UK egg producers to go out of
business ... because they HAVE complied with the EU regs!!
More on this story in the Farmers Guardian
Monday, 27 September 2010.
Mike Nattrass talks to BBC WM about 'rip off' EU
Mike talks to Ed Doolan at BBC WM about his job as a MEP, returning Sovereignty to the UK and the poor financial return we get from the EU.
Monday, September 20 2010.
Mike Nattrass interview on Roma explusions by France - BBC Radio Shropshire
West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass discusses whether the French can, as a member of the European Union, expel the Roma
Thursday, 12 August 2010.
Mike talks to Ed Doolan at BBC WM about the EU imposition of a £150,000,000 fine.
The EU has instructed the British Government to collect around
£150 million in fines because of failures to prominently
display the EU flag or logo where European funding is
involved.
Local organisations and businesses have also been fined including
the YMCA and Advantage West Midlands.
Mike discusses all of this as well as the lack of interest in
Europe,
why we don't get fined when we don't fly our national
flag and why we can't fly the European flag upside down.
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Labour MEP calls for EU Rail Privatisation.
Mike Nattrass, MEP, European Parliament, Strasbourg - March
2010.
Debate: Implementation of the first railway package
Directives.
'UK Independence' from the cd 'The Road Out of Europe'
In 1998 Keith, my brother in law sang this track and composed
the music - the words were mine.
Keith was killed on his motorbike in May 2002 and is
missed.
Mike Nattrass July 5 2010
Latest news
Sutton Coldfield minister under fire from local MEP over aid
Tuesday, May 1 2012
A Government Minister, who supports Turkey’s bid to join
the EU, has come under fire from a fellow Sutton Coldfield
politician who has called for urgent action to be taken following
news that more than £500m of British taxpayers’ money
is being spent by the EU on aid to relatively rich
countries.
Local MEP Mike Nattrass has hit out at International Development
Secretary Andrew Mitchell for continuing to support
Turkey’s accession to the EU.
Read more...
Farmers face multi-million pound bill for the sake of a millimetre
Thursday, April 19 2012
Sixty-eight-year-old Richard Beddall, who is a pig farmer
based in Newcastle-under-Lyme, and UKIP MEP Mike Nattrass have
attacked a new EU directive which will require pig producers to
reduce the gap in slatted floors by a single millimetre (from
19mm to 18mm).
The rules, which are due to come into force in January, will cost
British farmers around £28 million as they will be forced
to make expensive alterations to their pig sheds to comply with
the regulations.
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more...
EU’s hairdressers’ high heel ban plans attacked by MEP
Tuesday, April 17 2012
West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass says well-heeled meddling
Brussels’ bureaucrats should be cut down to size following
hair-raising news that the EU is proposing regulations that would
ban hairdressers from wearing high heels.
The EU plans would lead to hair stylists being told to wear
non-slip soles. Hairdressers would also be ordered to not wear
items such as wedding rings and some types of jewellery would be
deemed ‘unhygienic.’
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more...
Patriotic pensioner battles Brussels to remain a Brit
Friday, March 30 2012
A patriotic pensioner from Walsall came under the spotlight in
Brussels when his letter to MEP Mike Nattrass, calling for advice
on how to renounce EU citizenship, was read out in the European
Parliament.
“Dear Mr Nattrass. On 7th February 1992 Prime Minister John
Major signed the Maastricht Treaty. Unbeknown to myself, and the
vast majority of British subjects, every person in the UK
including Her Majesty the Queen, became a European citizen by
ratification.
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Tale of two cities (Strasbourg and Brussels)
Friday, March 23 2012
MEP Mike Nattrass has questioned two conflicting reports, each
by pro-European bodies, one staunchly defending and the other
totally rejecting the need for the EU’s Strasbourg
Parliament.
The EU has two immensely expensive Parliament buildings in two
distant outposts of the ever expanding EU Empire....
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more...
MP’s metric motion does not measure up
Wednesday, March 21 2012
A Birmingham MP who is opposed to “unnecessary
metrification of traditional British phrases” has weighed
in at length without checking his facts says West Midlands MEP
Mike Nattrass.
Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming has tabled a Commons motion
criticising broadcasters for using incorrect phrases such as
“a tonne of bricks”.
Read more...
Roads-pay as you go
Monday, March 19 2012
Government plans to introduce pay-as-you-go travel and lease
roads to the private sector have been attacked by West Midlands
MEP Mike Nattrass.
Mr Nattrass, who is a member of the EU’s Transport &
Tourism Committee, has hit out at the Government ahead of a
speech to be given by David Cameron in which the Prime Minister
is expected to call for a raft of measures including the creation
of further privately-run toll roads.
Read more...
Government u-turn over illegal battery eggs
Friday, March 9 2012
West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass has welcomed a Government
u-turn which could safeguard thousands of British jobs.
Earlier this week, the British Egg Industry Council (BEIC)
announced it had dropped legal action against the Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), following
confirmation from farming minister Jim Paice there should be no
illegal egg imports.
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more...
The REACh Directive – Reaching to close factories
Friday, March 2 2012
The EU's REACh Directive was backed by Women's
Institutes and those worried about chemicals affecting the human
body and environment. They could not have realised, however, the
potential for unemployment and closures this directive actually
has in the UK – says UKIP West Midlands MEP Mike
Nattrass.
Mike Nattrass, who is a member of the EU’s Transport
Committee, said: “When administered by enforcing the letter
of this law rather than the spirit of it, directives of this kind
can be devastating.
Read more...
Phantom EU Duty Free, Bradbourn and the one bag rule
Wednesday, February 29 2012
MEP Mike Nattrass states a campaign by a fellow West Midlands
MEP against the one-bag rule on low cost airlines will lead to
the creation of an unfair marketplace by favouring EU airport
retailers as there is no ‘Duty Free’ in airports for
EU citizens on internal EU flights.
Read more...
New EU pilot fatigue proposals could jeopardise air travel safety
Wednesday, February 22 2012
UKIP’s transport spokesman Mike Nattrass says new EU
proposals, which could legally allow pilots to land their
aircraft 22 hours after they woke for the day, could jeopardise
air travel safety.
Mike Nattrass, who represents the West Midlands region and is a
member of the EU’s Transport & Tourism Committee, fears
new European pilot fatigue proposals could compromise passenger
and air crew safety.
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more...
Calls to axe free oap bus travel come under fire
Tuesday, February 21 2012
Calls to axe vitally needed free bus travel for pensioners
have come under fire from a West Midlands MEP.
UKIP West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass has this week attacked
statements made by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) that free
OAP bus travel should be scrapped to save an estimated £1
billion a year.
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more...
Wind farm fight enters final phase
Monday, February 20 2012
A major campaign to stop six giant wind turbines and an access
road being built on unspoilt farmland in Staffordshire is
entering its final phase.
Following years of concerted campaigning by STAG (Stop Turbines
Action Group) and UKIP MEP Mike Nattrass, residents are to get
their last say on plans which would lead to the creation of an
eyesore wind farm in Brineton.
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more...
Does Kate Green recognise a Top Totty?
Thursday, February 2 2012
Mike Nattrass, the UKIP MEP for Stafford, has denounced moves
by the House of Commons to throw out Stafford Brewer, Slaters
fine beer 'Top Totty ' from the famous Strangers Bar in
the House of Commons.
Top Totty, first arrived at the strangers bar in 2007 as a guest
beer, and was sold out within 3 days. It has been a finalist in
the National Beer Awards and is a fine brew, said Mr
Nattrass."Ms Green obviously wouldn't know this given
that she boasts that she hasn't set foot in the
Stranger's Bar in a year and a half since she was elected. In
may ways that tells us everything we need to know".
Read more...
MEP demands action over M6 Toll fiasco
Tuesday, January 31 2012
West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass has called for the M6 Toll to
be nationalised following an announcement that charges to use the
road are to rise again from March 1.
The UKIP MEP, who is a member of the EU’s Transport &
Tourism Committee, has called on the Government to buy back the
M6 Toll and put it back into public ownership following news that
charges to use the under-utilised 27-mile long route are to be
hiked despite new figures showing the number of vehicles using
the road had fallen by more than 10 per cent.
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Santer appointed to SPIV
Wednesday, January 25 2012
West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass says the EU wants to give the
keys to the burglar following an announcement that former ex-EU
Commission boss Jacques Santer is to head up SPIV (Special
Purpose Investment Vehicle).
The former Luxembourg Prime Minister has been appointed to lead
SPIV, set up to bolster the Eurozone’s bailout fund,
despite the mass resignation of the Santer Commission (along with
Mr Santer himself) in 1999.
Read more...
New Euro logo branded ‘frivolous waste’ of taxpayers’ money
Tuesday, January 10 2012
West Midlands’ MEP Mike Nattrass says the European Union
should be rebranded “Expensive and Undemocratic (EU)”
following news that more than £100,000 has been blown on
designing a new logo for the European Commission.
The UKIP MEP says the new European Commission logo is a
‘frivolous waste of taxpayers’ money’ when
Britain is in recession and when other EU member states, such as
Greece, are in financial crisis.
Read more...
EU Regulations Affecting :-
- Animal Welfare
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Blood Festivals
British taxpayers are subsidising Spain's sadistic 'blood fiestas' which cruelly kill thousands of bulls every year.
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Chicken Cages
Almost a dozen European Union member states could continue producing eggs from battery hens despite an EU ban on their sale which is due to come into affect from January 1 2012.
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- County Councils
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Incineration / Waste Disposal
Another incinerator is being considered by the Government at Hartlebury following the County Council's fight against local protests, but are the facts really understood? asks Mike Nattrass the local UKIP MEP.
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Windfarms
Campaigners fighting controversial proposals to erect six 126-metre wind masts in Brineton are jubilant following South Staffordshire Council's decision to refuse the scheme.
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- Criminal Law
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European Arrest Warrant
UKIP West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass says the ongoing nightmare endured by Edmond Arapi shows the European Arrest Warrant system is flawed and should be suspended pending a thorough enquiry.
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- Finance
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EU budget
MEP Mike Nattrass has called for the EU gravy train to be derailed following embarrassing revelations that the European Union wrongly spent billions of pounds from its budget last year.
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- Transport
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High Speed Rail
West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass states the Government has made a multi-billion pound blunder after giving the go-ahead for a high speed rail line between Birmingham and London.
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Lorries
West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass fears struggling British hauliers could be driven out of business by EU green tolls.
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Local Issues
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Gravestones
Church leaders at a place of worship in Birmingham say they are ‘content’ to allow parking to continue on top of historic gravestones, much to the dismay of West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass.
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Planning
A concerted campaign has been launched to preserve a green belt site bordering a popular nature conservation area in the Black Country.
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Slaughterhouse
Permanent planning permissions have been granted to a meat processing plant and nearby sheep holding facility in Birmingham despite massive local opposition from residents and businesses.
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Motorways
The M6 Toll, which was designed to be a relief road, has been an abject failure. Figures show fewer and fewer vehicles are using this road but despite this trend MEL, which posted £49 million losses last summer, will be hitting motorists with increased toll charges from March.
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Armed Forces Issues
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Bomber Command
UKIP MEP Mike Nattrass, whose father served as an RAF World War Two Lancaster pilot, is calling on the nation to support a major campaign for the bravery of Bomber Command to be honoured.
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Gurkas
West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass has this week called on the coalition Government to secure the future of the Stafford-based Gurkha 248 Signal Squadron.
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Navy
“The nation that gave birth to Drake, Cook, and Nelson, might know a thing or two about the sea,” says Mike Nattrass MEP.
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