Encouraging Migrants to Speak English Isn’t Racist
Julian Conway, writes for Independence Home that encouraging migrants to speak English isn’t racist, it’s essential! On last night’s edition of Question Time, it is evident that the BBC really threw the kitchen sink at UKIP when David Dimbleby asked Nigel Farage about immigration. David...
UKIP Ahead of Labour
A Populus poll for the Times, the first for several days, reveals the standing of the parties in the European Elections. The Conservatives are down 4 points, polling 30%. UKIP come in a sound second place on 19% of the vote, up 13, validating earlier opinion polls. Labour is hammered by 9 points and...
Biased Interview
Dermot Murnaghan carries out perhaps the most biased and wholly ignorant interview ever. Nigel managed do to a great job at batting of his attacks.
4 ways for UKIP’s MEPs to be more effective in the next parliamentery term.
To mark the polling day of the European Elections being in just seven days now, IndependenceHome has decided to compile 4 pieces of advice it would like our MEPs - newly elected and re-elected alike – to take into consideration. While UKIP’s 12 (then 11, then10, now 9) MEPs have been somewhat...
Hannan better have a plan.
Daniel Hannan, a Conservative MEP, is representing the Tory Party tonight in a special European Elections edition of Question Time. He’ll be taking on, among others, UKIP Leader Nigel Farage. Hannan is co-author of The Plan, a very good book that sets out an agenda of localism. It also calls for...
Predict09 reckons UKIP will win 6 seats next week.
Crammed full of reputable politicial scientists, Predict09 looks to give accurate forecasts of the kind of result we can expect from the European Elections in not just the UK, but in every EU member state. Their UK forecasts, at least, look as if they could be totally blown out of the water. Predict09.eu...
If Mote and Wise are all they’ve got, UKIP really is the anti-sleaze ticket.
During the latest expenses furore, those attacking UKIP have had very little choice in how to attack the party. The criticism has almost exclusively been aimed at the party’s dealings with former UKIP MEPs Robert Kilroy-Silk, Ashley Mote and Tom Wise. Kilroy-Silk tried a leadership coup and was...
Party Donations
The latest figures on donations to political parties in Q1 2009 have been published by the Electoral Commission. They make for interesting reading. Party Cash Non Cash Total  Amount (£)  No  Amount (£)  No  Amount (£)  No Conservative Party 3,656,322 206 626,594 39 4,282,916 245 Labour...
MEP League Table
Open Europe has published a pretty comprehensive analysis of every MEP sitting in the European Parliament. They have produced a league table, ranking MEPs according to a point score comprised of various idfferent elements including attendance recrod, voting on transparency and openness, etc. The resulting...
BNP Rebuttal. LOL
It isn’t for nothing that the BNP come across as paranoid racists. Here is an article on their website supposedly attacking UKIP but it just ends up making themselves look stupid! The UKIP party has been humiliated in public once again by Rustie Lee, another of its foreign-born “British” Euro...
Expenses Statement
It has just been brought to my attention that Godfrey Bloom MEP issued a statement on his website on May 20th regarding his expense arrangements. In the interests of accuracy in the current climate here it is reproduced in full… In the light of the appalling revelations on expenses for MPs it...
Lord Stoddart Backs UKIP
Lord Stoddart of Swindon, independent Labour peer and former Labour MP for Swindon (and all round damn fine eurosceptic!), has thrown his support behind UKIP for the elections on 4th June. Lord Stoddart of Swindon, the Independent Labour Peer and former Labour MP for Swindon, who usually spurns European...
Greens Take On BNP
The Green party has produced an excellent video that is well worth a watch, explaining how the voting system in the European Parliament elections on June 4th works. Regardless of whether you agree or not with their message, it is perhaps the best video I have seen that easily demonstrates how voting...
Lib-Dems Want Answers
Ed Davey of the Lib-Dems has written a strong letter (how British!) to Nigel Farage, Leader of UKIP. The Lib-Dem website says… Edward Davey is writing to UKIP Leader Nigel Farage challenging him to publish his MEPs’ expense claims and to account for their shameful record of voting for perks...
Tory Racism?
The Tories are not-so-closet-racists mostly! David Cameron, making great effort to smear UKIP with the statement that UKIP are a bunch of “fruitcakes, loonies, and closet racists mostly”, and refusing to withdraw his comments, might like to take a look at his own glass house before throwing...
Cameron Adopts UKIP Policy…Again!
David Cameron is so worried about the threat posed by UKIP is resorting to drastic measures. Having realised that he has no policies on which to campaign, he has decided the easiest thing is simply to flick through the UKIP manifesto and pinch a few ideas! David Cameron has promised his party would...
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