What is it with this government? Haven’t they punished motorists enough? Of course they haven’t… Transport Minister Sadiq Khan announced this morning that Nottingham will become the first area in the country to introduce charges for parking spaces at your place of work. These schemes...

Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP, continues his GoddersVision series with these 3 videos on the appaling effects of the EU’s Landfill Directive…

UKIP Peer Lord Pearson of Rannoch has exposed the crisis in the public finances in a question in the House… City firms contributed £32.5bn to the tax coffers in the year to March 31, 2009, it emerged today – less than half the £67.8bn they brought in two years earlier. The amount generated...

Political Betting has a post up analysis UKIP’s election campaign strategy which is well worth a read. Mike Smithson also reports on teh latest ComRes poll which is out… In today’s ComRes poll for the Independent support for UKIP is at a healthy 5% taking more, incidentally, from 2005 Labour...

The BBC Have Your Say site has just started a topic asking whether people would watch a TV debate at the next election. Apparently Mandy is coming over all democratic… Lord Mandelson has said he is “open” to the idea of a televised debate between Gordon Brown and David Cameron during...

I have been having a discussion with various people on the issue of privatisation. It is a loaded word in British politics, and guaranteed to divide opinion. Those of us in the libertarian camp have fundamental support for private enterprise and voluntary exchange as a means of maximising liberty and...

A thought on House of Lords reform in light of this announcement… Labour MP Howard Stoate has said he will quit at the next election because new second jobs rules mean he will no longer be able to practise as a GP. He said he believed the change would “diminish” his work as an MP. Previous...

The news that two Independent Councillors in Wales have decided to join UKIP is fantastic news on the back of an unexpected victory for UKIP Wales which saw the popular John Bufton elected as an MEP. With Wales only having four MEPs in total, the level of exposure Bufton can now win for the party in...

Nigel Farage’s blog on the UKIP website is carrying his latest missive reflecting on the past couple of months. One bit jumped out at me… I had dinner with two Lithuanian MEPS, one the former President Rolandas Paskas, Now the EFD group is made up of 32 members from nine states, so a good...

Conservative Home is carrying a very interesting piece by a Conservative Councillor on the threat posed by UKIP. Is this an indication of the Tories finally waking up to the UKIP threat and the start of something more? What Happened In Ramsey? This is going to be the question which gets asked amongst...

Bloggers4UKIP is reporting that UKIP has gained 2 new councillors in Wales as the result of a defection. As of this morning we have two new Cllrs in Wales. As UKIP Wale’s representation and message grows, two popular Independent councillors on Merthyr County Borough council have decided that UKIP...

Michael and I have launched the new website for Paul Nuttall, UKIP chairman and MEP for the North West. Check out www.paulnuttallmep.com and let us know what you think. If anyone else would like a site building, as well as ongoing content management (setting up facebook, twitter, youtube, etc, and managing...

Just to let you know you can now get Independence Home in a mobile version for easy and faster viewing. Just navigate here as normal and your device should detect your browser and load the appropriate mobile version. I have tested it with my iPhone and it i sweeeet! (yes, Yasin, it works. How about your...

I have just watched the latest “Leaders of Europe” programme which I have embedded below. David Campbell-Bannerman, newly elected UKIP MEP for the Eastern Region, came across well I thought. Certainly in the first half of the programme he managed to emphasise the nuanced points within the...

Ed West has a good piece at his spot, entitled “Norwich North shows UKIP could be a real force (if they wanted to be)”… Despite the massive and disproportionate attention given by the press to the loony left Green party, the media’s favourites were easily beaten into fifth place. As...

UKIP’s exclusion from the BBC’s televised debate between the candidates in Norwich North was a disgrace. In June’s local elections in Norwich North, UKIP stood in four wards. UKIP came second in three of them and third in the other. We beat the Greens and LibDems everywhere we stood...