UKIP Uncovered
What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Sunday, October 23, 2005 

Wise? He wasn't!

Read the latest in the shaming of UKIP's MEPs from today's Sunday Telegraph by clicking here.

posted by Martin |7:03 PM


Sunday, October 09, 2005 

Chairman resigns! Twice!!

A fairly typical UKIP e-mail exchange, as so often quoted on this blog, today makes the pages of the Sunday Telegraph, as may be read in full by clicking here.

posted by Martin |7:53 AM


Saturday, October 01, 2005 

A challenge on policy for the UKIP

Rather than blaming the lack of an economic slump on the Tory misfortunes as Michael Howard is quoted as doing in today's Daily Telegraph, a small group of Conservative MPs (with a contribution from the straight thinking MEP Roger Helmer) have instead prepared a series of policy options which seek to remedy some of the major problems confronting Britain. These may be read in PDF format by clicking on the title of the pamphlet: Being Conservative: A cornerstone of policies to revive Britain

Further details of the Cornerstone Group may be found from this link to their homepage.

A summary of some of the policy suggestions taken from that blog is as follows:

Specific policy ideas in the pamphlet include:

> Flat tax based on a single rate of 22 per cent, a personal allowance of £10,000 and an overall tax cut of £40 billion, which would take millions of low-paid workers and pensioners out of tax altogether.
> Reducing the size and reach of the state.
> Proclaiming the supremacy of Parliament and renegotiating British membership of the EU.
> Repeal of the Human Rights Act and withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights
> Returning agriculture, fishing and the environment to national control.
> Education vouchers to give parents and pupils a real choice of schools and to lever up standards through competition.
> Restructuring the NHS so that hospitals are no longer owned and run by the state.
> Tax breaks for marriage to strengthen the traditional two-parent family and to remove perverse financial incentives for family breakdown.
> Directly elected sheriffs with the power to appoint and dismiss chief constables
> Measures to curb the growing tendency of senior judges to seek to make the law rather than just apply it.
> A new Tory emphasis on green issues.

posted by Martin |9:05 AM
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