UKIP's road to Westminster starts here, not in Brussels
On May 22nd, voters in England will elect some 4,000 local government officials. If UKIP does not give these elections due priority it may limit the party’s potential success in the 2015 General Election
- 4 March 2014
Even a fading Farage can deny Cameron victory
UKIP may have peaked but the Eurosceptic party is still likely to take enough Tory votes to catapult Ed Miliband into Downing Street
- 2 March 2014
Would you mind having a Polish neighbour?
Polish immigration has been a bonanza for the UK. Of course, there must be proper controls over immigration in general. But any thoughts about demonising the Polish are both wrong and irrational, says Friends of Poland in UKIP
- 7 February 2014
The car smoking ban: A cure worse than the disease
The Left has always seen the independent family as a ‘bourgeois’ obstacle to total state control. That is what the car smoking ban is all about - political interference in private family life
- 4 February 2014
UK economy set to boom in time for 2015 election
From a purely party political view, surging growth is good news for the Conservatives, neutral-positive for the Liberal-Democrats, bad news for Labour, and ambiguous news for UKIP
- 28 January 2014
UKIP's stance on welfare a better fit with the public mood
If the Tories really believe that every cut to welfare will be welcomed, no matter how savage, they have misread the British people. UKIP’s competition-based, compassionate politics is a better fit with the public mood
- 23 January 2014
UKIP purge is normal for a surging "new" party
UKIP leader Nigel Farage is right to get rid of his nutters. But all parties have them. The fact that UKIP's nut cases are attracting so much attention merely serves to underline how important the party has become
- 19 January 2014
SKY below the belt with Farage over Enoch Powell
The British media has got to drop the politically correct attacks on UKIP and play fair. UKIP leader Nigel Farage was hit below the belt by Sky News in a silly attempt to link him with Enoch Powell. Despite the tittering from his opponents, Farage wasn't thrown at all
- 6 January 2014
UKIP welcomes refugees in need
The fact of even a single British person turning their backs on genuine refugees fleeing for their lives, as in the Syrian case, is shocking and to be lamented. That's what UKIP believes. In common with many mature democracies, we just oppose mass waves of unregulated immigration for Britain
- 30 December 2013
Leftists love Santa because they always want something without paying for it, as this poll suggests
Would Father Christmas disproportionately vote for big-state, high-tax parties because the economy in Lapland is tanking and he needs some state subsidy to keep on his elves and reindeer? This poll is telling...sort of
- 26 December 2013
Influential former Czech President calls for EU exit, says EU doomed anyway
As scepticism grows across the European Union and debate thickens in Britain, former Czech President Vaclav Klaus says the EU is in any case doomed, like empires of the past, including communism
- 8 October 2013
Just how unimpressed is UKIP on Tory EU referendum?
UKIP really gives no quarter to David Cameron on the EU. This UKIP MEP candidate really socks it to the Tories, in case you hadn't got it!
- 7 October 2013
Kick Ken Clarke out before his EU fanaticism does even more damage
Ken Clarke has long played the Tories' affable fool. His latest nonsense on the EU should have him kicked out of the party, let alone the government. He's a gift to UKIP, at just the right time, right?
- 1 October 2013
Why shackle UKIP to a corpse?
UKIP is no longer the Tory party in exile, says Nigel Jones, a UKIP MEP candidate for South-East England
- 30 September 2013
Tory-UKIP pact? We're very different parties
The increasing hysteria of the Conservatives in the face of the UKIP threat is quite something, says this UKIP councillor. But we are two separate parties with our own philosophies, values and manifestos
- 30 September 2013
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