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TITHEING (OR, ABSENCE OF) BY UKIP LONDON ASSEMBLY MEMBERS …

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Hi,

as ever Ukip members at all levels are fighting like ferrets in a sack – their leaderless situation after years of self serving leaders is just another one of the more obvious fractures that are destroying the party with no sign of anyone of any competence and political skill likely to step forward and put a stop to the squabbling.

Added to this so many senior party members are under investigation by OLAF and asd far afield as the FBI, CIA, and US NSA with quite obvious links to Russia and Russian funding it is hardly surprising!

There is even talk that Banks, Stroloff, Farage, Batten and possibly others are in danger of indictment!

Here is concrete evidence for you of how widespread this utter incompetence is and although I don’t find Ukip has sufficient worth or future to invest more time in the matter investigating this document sent to me has the absolute ring of truth to it as justy more of the same:

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL PRIVILEGED – DO NOT DISTRIBUTE FURTHER

GUIDANCE SOUGHT FROM: UKIP NEC including UKIP GENERAL SECRETARY, UKIP PARTY SECRETARY (LEGAL TEAM)

DRAFT REPORT ON LONDON TITHEING (OR, ABSENCE OF) BY UKIP LONDON ASSEMBLY MEMBERS

BACKGROUND

This report is produced because I, the Regional Chairman, am fed up of being criticised by people connected to one or other London Assembly members for my playing some role in, or being responsible for, their not attending, since May 2016, Regional committee meetings, to which I’ve always invited them. This also relates to the issue of tithing by London Assembly members.

They have not made any financial contribution to the Region or, I am advised, any significant contribution to central Party funds; if there were any significant financial contributions directly to branches, I’ve not been able to find any. This report principally relates to suggestions that, prior to being elected, AMs had promised to contribute.

At the minuted Regional meeting of May 9, 2016, several days after the AMs had been elected, NEC delegate Elizabeth Jones asked an extra-agenda question about whether the AMs would tithe or otherwise contribute money. I ended this discussion once an impasse was reached. Many of us then overheard a side conversation from the floor, where two members of the Croydon branch were agreeing that a prior commitment to tithe had been made by one or both AMs.

Several minutes later, Elizabeth revisited this, and several others chimed in. An AM took offence an began to remonstrat with her in raised tones; both left in a huff. I gently scolded the NEC member for what could be seen as incivility. At a talk after the end of the meeting, it appeared to me that a third party, the then Chairman of the Croydon branch, also thought this had happened, but was more concerned that the NEC member had been too brusque.

I had no prior intention of looking further into what was a year-old matter when the (new to the job, and apparently interpreting his role very differently from how the Regional Secretary and I saw it) Regional Vice Chairman began claiming in writing that it was largely my fault. Had he not done so, I would not have initiated these enquiries.

To quote from several of his picturesque emails addressed to myself:

“The division is disastrous and a gaping self-inflicted wound on UKIP in London … The matter is more complex than that and certainly is not solely the result of ‘unsympathetic handling from an attendee’ as your email implies. … Regarding the disastrous divisions at senior level within UKIP in London, I think it would be helpful if you acknowledged, first to yourself and then to Peter and David, your own major contribution to this unfortunate state of affairs. A little humility an realistic acknowledgement of your mistakes might open the door to reconciliation between you.

He kept calling for meetings to discuss this, though there was a snap General Election to fight. I thought this bizarre. For the avoidance of doubt – my duties include competently chairing meetings; my skill-set does not include reading people’s minds as to what they are about to do or say, but have not yet done or said. And, given the additional information, it appears as if the NEC attendee, Elizabeth, may have been justified in bringing up the matter again.

Then, the person who set all this off, the Regional Vice Chairman, resigned, citing a potential conflict of interest as he is closely involved in getting one of the AMs concerned elected as Party Leader. His resignation was accepted.

In conjunction with the Regional Secretary, I have investigated the matter; I do not find I made anything to support the Vice Chairman’s allegations against me. There is nothing further I can do – I defer to youi to look into it, and also into whether there was any prior commitment to tithe. There is some evidence there was.

The then Vice Chairman’s emails also showed knowledge of an apparently unconstitutional body operating in London in parallel with the legitimate one (the “LRC”), and fund-raising within UKIP – one which the Secretary, R.O. and I are obliged to fully investigate. The Vice Chairman claimed to have been offered a senior position in that body (“LCC”).

WHAT I HAVE SINCE DONE TO ASCERTAIN THE TRUTH

In summer 2017, have attempted to contact all attendees at the unminuted UKIP branch meeting in Croydon on October 28, 2015 (i.e., 3+ months before I was elected Regional Chairman). The position of the AM attendees is selfevident – they deny there was any commitment to tithe.

Three attendees claim a pledge or pledges were made. Written evidence from them is below.

None of the other non-AM attendees (CW, DH, MS, PK), when telephoned by me, were able to shed any further light on this. All said they couldn’t confirm tithing pledges were made, but couldn’t confirm they weren’t. One of the four (PK) is hard of hearing; the other three say they remember almost nothing of what was said. The former branch Chairman (CW), whom I thought on May 9 2016 recalled the 2015 event, in 2017 said he no longer could be sure.

So, of the seven identified attendees beside the AMs, three assert that a pledge or pledges were made, and the other four don’t recall either way. Knowing the attendees and the relations (strained in several cases) between them, I find it hard to believe there is collusion. However, I cannot guarantee there hasn’t been any. Arguably, one of the three witnesses may have an axe to grind.

Important Caveat: I cannot attest to the veracity or accuracy of anything other than what was directly witnessed by me.

None of what allegedly happened in Croydon was witnessed by me. The emails quoted below were really from their apparent senders (Kathleen Garner 02086 816135; Peter Staveley 07973168742; Suzanne Evans 07973149104).

Freddy Vachha, UKIP Regional Chairman – London

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EVIDENCE FROM WITNESSES

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From: K Garner <kgarnerukip@hotmail.co.uk>

To: “Freddy (UKIP)” <myword_is_mybond@hotmail.com>

Subject: Fw: Croydon Meeting- extension 2 date

Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 19:17:39 +0000

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From: K Garner <kgarnerukip@hotmail.co.uk>

Sent: 08 May 2017 21:00

To: Andy Beadle

Subject: Re: Croydon Meeting- extension 2 date

Subject: Croydon Meeting

Up-date:

Not long after the selection process for the GLA elections in 2016 had finished, the three top candidates, Peter Whittle, David Kurten and Suzanne Evans, were invited to speak to the Croydon UKIP branch. The meeting was held on Wednesday, the 28th October, 2015, at The Orchard public house in Cherry Orchard Road, Addiscombe, East Croydon.

The issue of the candidates’ paying a tithe to the party arose. David Kurten stated that he would pay 10% to the party in London. I queried this, pointing out that it would involve his paying £5,000. He agreed to the amount, adding that it would in fact probably be more than that.

I recall that Peter Whittle did not make any comment about his planned contribution.

I am not sure what Suzanne Evans said but in a later e-mail in response to one from me she said that as a councillor she had paid a regular monthly tithe and would have done the same again.

At the May 9th [2016] LRC meeting held at the Old Butler’s Head, Elizabeth Jones reminded the committee that Labour members pay a tithe to their party and, with further reference to the lost mayoral deposit, pursued this issue with reference to Peter Whittle and David Kurten. Both GLA members, who were present, made it clear that they disliked the raising of this matter and refused to discuss it.

I mentioned what had been said at the Croydon meeting to Peter Staveley who was sitting to the right of my neighbour.

He agreed that these comments had been made.

Elizabeth Jones then brought up the issue again but the chairman informed her that the matter had been dealt with.

Peter Whittle left the room abruptly. David Kurten followed Peter Whittle a few minutes later.

Regards,

Kathleen Garner

Croydon UKIP

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From: K Garner <kgarnerukip@hotmail.co.uk>

To: My Word Is My Bond <myword_is_mybond@hotmail.com>, Peter Staveley <Peter@PeterStaveley.co.uk>

Subject: Re: London 9/5/2015; Croydon 28/10/2015; LRC 9/5/2016.

Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 14:42:57 +0000

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I do recall that it was 10% because after David made this offer I immediately pointed out to him that this would constitute £5,000 and he not only agreed, he said it would in fact be slightly more.

This is what makes me so certain that he did make this offer in this way.

I had not thought about it since that event until the fatal LRC meeting when I was taken aback by David’s response.

Regards,

Kathleen

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From: Peter Staveley <Peter@PeterStaveley.co.uk>

Sent: 11 May 2017 06:54

To: My Word Is My Bond

Subject: RE: Attn: Peter Staveley.

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Freddy

I too have a recollection that David offered a tithe. I am not so certain that any figure was mentioned. Unfortunately, as in any witness statement, my memory has been clouded by later comments so I am less comfortable that 10% was mentioned. However, that could well have been because 10% seemed very reasonable and absolutely normal.

Certainly had I been in David’s position I would have made the same commitment (and stuck to it).

Peter

From: myword_is_mybond@hotmail.com

Sent: 11 May 2017

To: Peter Staveley <Peter@PeterStaveley.co.uk>

Subject: Attn: Peter Staveley.

Now things have quietened down as GE2017 nominations go in, or don’t, I’m briefly addressing several deeply unpleasant accusations made against me, in writing, after I won re-election at the LRC AGM (…) The essence of them is that I bear some responsibility, or even guilt, for allowing the question of tithes to be raised by Elizabeth Jones at the LRC last May 9, or by not shutting it/her down quickly enough when she re-raised them.

The bare facts of what happened were minuted and are not in dispute.

While what Elizabeth had stated a year ago evidently made several uncomfortable, and may even been in poor taste,

she was IMO neither rude nor offensive. Breaking into a comfort zone is less significant than breaking an electoral promise. Elizabeth, as an NEC member, had the right to attend LRC meetings, and, as I confirmed with both the then General Secretary (and UKIP Legal chief) and later with his successor, such attendance carries with it the right to address the meeting, though not to disrupt it.

At that May 9, 2016 LRC meeting, an exchange between Kathleen Garner and yourself, wholly unanticipated by me, was overheard by me. I didn’t miss a word of it. I have precious few talents; the ability to accurately follow simultaneous conversations, and a good sense of hearing, are two of them.

I had noticed you nodding in agreement at what Kathleen told you she had recollected (which was an abbreviated version of what appears in bold below). You recalled it too.

Understanding in a trice the significance of what had just passed between Kathleen and you, I instantly looked across at the Croydon branch Chairman. His expression conveyed to me that he too had heard the exchange.

Evidently, the exchange was also heard by Elizabeth Jones, who then immediately revisited what I’d closed down 10 minutes or so earlier. Very shortly thereafter, chaos ensued.

At the end of that fateful LRC meeting I – very briefly – spoke with the Croydon branch Chairman. His focus was his unhappiness at the manner in which Elizabeth had approached the matter, and not whether what Kathleen had recalled had really happened… I thought that significant and [perhaps] corroborative.

Last week, our having suffered this year-old incident being dredged up, one of my LRC colleagues asked for the subject of that exchange to be set out by Kathleen in writing.

This is what she has kindly provided, based on her contemporaneous notes from 2015:

“Not long after the selection process for the GLA elections in 2016 had finished, the three top candidates, Peter Whittle, David Kurten and Suzanne Evans, were invited to speak to the Croydon UKIP branch. The meeting was held on Wednesday, the 28th October, 2015, at The Orchard public house, [112] Cherry Orchard Road, Addiscombe, East Croydon [CR0 6BA].

The issue of the candidates’ paying a tithe to the party arose. David Kurten stated that he would pay 10% to the party in London. I queried this, pointing out that it would involve his paying £5,000. He agreed to the amount, adding that it would in fact probably be more than that.

I recall that Peter Whittle did not make any comment about his planned contribution.”

Kathleen also stated this came up again in email with Suzanne Evans, who commented on her own record of contributing moneys.

Peter, does the italicised material broadly agree with your recollection of those events in Croydon in October 2015? If no, where do you disagree with Kathleen? Please add anything of relevance. I was, of course, not there. (…) Thanks.

Best, Freddy

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From: Suzanne Evans <suzanne@suzanne-evans.co.uk>

Message-ID: <44DD3B4F-18C9-4057-AF0C-13EC67F51B6C@suzanne-evans.co.uk>

Subject: Re: Suzanne. Tithes, tears, tantrums and truth?

Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 20:05:23 +0100

To: My Word Is My Bond <myword_is_mybond@hotmail.com>

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Dear Freddy,

I was at the Croydon meeting, as I was then still number three on the London list. I recall quite clearly that we all – myself, Peter Whittle and David Kurten – pledged to pay a tithe. I pointed out that I had done so as a Councillor. I cannot explicitly recall DK saying he would pay 10% but yes, we all did offer to pay something from our AM salaries if elected.

Best wishes,

Suzanne Evans

UKIP Deputy Chair (Policy)

UKIP Health Spokesperson

@suzanneevans1

http://www.facebook.com/SuzanneEvansUKIP

On 13 May 2017, at 17:24, My Word Is My Bond <myword_is_mybond@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Suzanne,

Please read what is below, as well as the attached Agenda (see 3.a-f, especially “f”) and Minutes (see the “Non-Agenda item” that appears below “5d”) for the LRC meeting held on May 9, 2016. (..) What would be helpful is for you to clarify what did, or did not, happen at a meeting of the Croydon UKIP branch you attended on Wednesday, 28th October, 2015, at The Orchard public house, 112 Cherry Orchard Road, Addiscombe, East Croydon CR0 6BA, in the matter of tithing. I was not there. (…) Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.

Best, Freddy

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From: K Garner <kgarnerukip@hotmail.co.uk>

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Subject: Hustings [on Tuesday 18 July 2017]

Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 01:42:58 +0000

To: “Freddy (UKIP)” <myword_is_mybond@hotmail.com>

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Very useful event, thanks.

I bumped into David Kurten as he was leaving. I reminded him of his promise to pay a tenth when he was in Croydon.

He denied it. I said he did and he appeared to claim that I was lying. By their deeds shall ye know them.

Kathleen

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Speak Out About #Racism And Corruption In #Ukip, Get Suspended …

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Speak Out About #Racism And Corruption In #Ukip, Get Suspended …

Jay Beecher

Ukip claims to be strong in the Midlands, and one of their few successes is Peterborough, driven in the main by Jay Beecher, deputy chairman of the local branch, who co-ordinated the local Vote Leave campaign during the recent EU Referendum.

Beecher has now been suspended and has fired off a damning statement (see update at foot of post) which confirms pretty much everything we’ve ever said about Ukip.

Beecher in effect made two ‘faux-pas’. The minor one was being Campaign Manager for Lisa Duffy in the recent Ukip Leadership Election. Diane James will never forget.

But the major ‘no-no’ was to speak out, publicly about the racism, cronyism, hypocrisy and corruption. We always though Ukip claimed to stand for ‘Free Speech’ Clearly not, when it doesn’t suit them.


A few days ago he tweeted:

And Ukip’s response to this? Much like the response to when Suzanne Evans did the same 6 months ago : Immediate suspension.

Mr Beecher told the Peterborough Telegraph:

“I’ve been suspended for standing up to and speaking out against elements of racism, cronyism, corruption and hypocrisy which I became privy to during the leadership race. All these things are destroying UKIP.”

“I’m very disappointed with the route I’m having to take, but I’m proud to be making a stand. We shouldn’t ever shy away from challenging someone’s immoral or racist behaviour simply because we might share the same political beliefs or swear allegiance to the same party.”

“Since my suspension I’ve had members from all over the UK – chairmen, grassroots, and even members of the NEC and the Welsh assembly – contact me to offer their support.”

“Our party looks to be turning in a rather questionable direction. Our grassroots, our elected officials and the people they represent are being sorely let down. It’s time we made a stand.”

In reply, an un-named UKIP spokesman said: “Mr Beecher has been suspended after repeatedly making deliberate and demonstratively false allegations against other members of the party, and doing so to various media outlets. He is a talented young man and it is a shame that he uses his time to attack people in his party rather than to build up support as we move forward to the Cambridgeshire County Council elections next year.”

So Ukip have determined that these allegations are, apparently ‘demonstratively false‘. That’s quick – within 24 hours – yet it takes them 6 to 9 months to investigate whether a racist tweet is against their policies.

However, Ukip’s denials are all in vain: Beecher’s allegations are mostly true from what we can see.

Evans – Reinstated

Ironically this happens on the very day that Suzanne Evans is reinstated to Ukip after her suspension, for speaking out against the selection of ‘the most homophobic man in politics’ Allan Craig as a #Ukip Candidate in London.

Seems to us these actions should get Beecher promoted, not suspended.

But this is how Ukip works. All dissent is hammered while simultaneously wailing about Free Speech. For any suspension for racism, homophobia, islamophobia, etc, the whole process can take months. Beechers ejection seems to have been overnight.

Such was the system under Farage : Diane James is clearly continuing that legacy.


Update:

Almost the moment this post went live, Beecher made a full statement, in a long, rather rambling post he laid out a damning indictment against the party, and a complete confirmation, from an insider, of almost all of the issues we and others have raised.

“As campaign manager for one of the leading candidates, I’ve been able to get a good insight into how our party operates. As a result, from what I’ve learnt, I’m resolved that, in its current format, UKIP is in a state of crisis.”

“A few at the top, through ego, and through personal interest, have launched a fierce regime to control our great party.” 

“Anyone who has dared to point out the immoral actions of anyone associated with the top tier cronyism in our party has been slandered and demonized by an egotistical clique. Party loyalty has been rebranded as disloyalty. We have also fallen victim to a controlling donor, to corruption, and in some cases, have even allowed acts of racism to go unpunished. This MUST stop.”

(Beecher says ‘some cases’. We would say ‘many’ and have documented them on this site and on our Social Media feeds.) 

“When Suzanne Evans is suspended for speaking out against homophobia, yet Jamie Ross McKenzie – the chairman of our Youth Wing, gets away scot-free after being cautioned by police for verbally and racially abusing a black doorman, or after using white supremacist terms on social media and encouraging appalling levels of racism and trolling, you know we have a serious problem.”

“I filed an official complaint, calling for the discipline or expulsion of certain members who had made racist or derogatory comments; the chairman of YI included. Yet to date, this complaint has been ignored. And that is because Jamie Ross McKenzie – who gave the closing speech at our Bournemouth Conference, worked for a particular candidate in the leadership race.”

“Diane, however, as Ian told me, didn’t want the job at all. She lives predominantly in France, and her employment as an MEP supports this rather agreeable lifestyle.”

“But it was already decided for her that she would stand. Farage convinced her. And Arron Banks (who uses our party as his play thing) convinced her not to attend any hustings for fear that she wouldn’t fare well against stronger candidates.”

(We were always critical about Diane James refusing to attend hustings. We now know why.) 

“In direct contradiction of rule N4 of our party’s rulebook, Diane James was given unfair advantage in the contest by being able to use the Leave.EU database to send out her campaign material to millions of people.”

“Meanwhile, it appears clear that the outcome of the race had been determined long before the off.”

“One of Diane’s assenters, the wife of Ian McKie, in fact, is NOT a member of UKIP. This has been confirmed by head office, and means that Diane’s paperwork wasn’t in order, did not meet the strict criteria set out from the beginning, and as such, just like Steven Woolfe, Diane James should NOT have been able to stand, and subsequently should NOT be out new leader.”

(We checked on this. Beecher is correct, McKie’s wife is not a member. Thus, Diane James has no legitimacy as Party Leader.) 

“Our rules are there for a reason. Bending them for personal interest only goes to show that, through corruption, mismanagement, and the exploitation of incompetence, a handful of people are trying to turn our party into one that is like all the others.”

“We cannot allow a small handful of self-serving politicians or plain and simple negligence, or a power-hungry donor, destroy what so many passionate and decent people have achieved.”

“I will continue to fight against the poisonous elements trying to destroy UKIP from within, and will continue to expose the many cases of cronyism, hypocrisy, corruption, and indeed racism, until it can no longer be swept under the carpet.”

“I urge you to fully investigate this leadership election and to reconsider the legitimacy of Diane James’s candidacy and subsequent leadership.”

This is one of the most damning indictments of Ukip we’ve ever seen. It will be interesting to see how Ukip, and Diane James, spin this, her first crisis.

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The Ukip Ferrets squabbling over leadership bring little but shame on the Party

Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 17/08/2016

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Nigel Farage’s Former Aide Tells Suzanne Evans To ‘Shut Up’, While Leadership Candidate Trolled In Secret Facebook Group

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“These vile attacks on her are clearly just a childish attempt by some of her competitors who see her as the main contender. We’re busy fighting for a bright future for Ukip, so we’ll do what we’ve always done: rise above them” 

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What is it about the folk who have floated to the top of the septic tank that is Ukip? They fight like ferrets in a sack yet are all too willing to turn up in public slagging each other off in their nightwear!

Do you think any of them look like they have the vaguest similarity in look or style to anything that looks like a credible leader!

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Some Thoughts On UKip’s Inevitable Coup!

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 Some Thoughts On UKip’s Inevitable Coup leave one to speculate whether Nigel Farage will prempt his overthrow by setting up a new party called ‘Grass Roots’ or similar funded and chaired by Aaron Banks – leaving UKip to go bankrupt under Nuttal, Hamilton, O’Flynn & Evans or return to his former life but with Aaron’s money & a substantial EU pension to featherbed his ineptitude, as proven by his last efforts in the city?

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It was always going to happen. As UKIP leader Nigel Farage becomes increasingly irrelevant in the Brexit debate, his successor in waiting appears to be kicking at the stable door.

Deputy leader Paul Nuttall, who likes to portray himself as a working class Liverpudlian who has risen through the political ranks, appears to be about to make his move. A former staff member in the European Parliament, he is far better educated than Farage, has more real-life work experience, and enjoys great popularity amongst the UKIP rank and file.

Nuttall is reported to be backed by disgraced former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton. An amusing aspect of this somewhat Quioxtic tale is that it was Farage who appeared to fall over himself to bring Hamilton, and his flamboyant wife Christine into UKIP in the first place: Farage had possibly hoped that Hamilton would bring some money to the UKIP table.

Subsequently, the relationship between the two men has not been good. Farage is alleged to have used his influence to block Hamilton’s rise in the party, and has reportedly stated that Hamilton “may be too old to be a frontline politician.”

However,the most interesting facet of all is the fact that the news of Hamilton’s support for Nuttall’s post-Brexit leadership challenge has been leaked (not very delicately) by UKIP’s own press office. This suggests that the coming coup may enjoy deeper support than the Faragistas had expected. The UKIP press office has traditionally been Farage’s power base, and has been staffed according to his wishes, and generally by those with whom he enjoys close relationships.

As for the Brexit vote, at the time of writing it is impossible to say what will happen. But whatever, it would appear that Nigel Farage will exit stage left, and possibly return to the world of market trading from whence he came.

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Nigel Farage’s Ukip Cult, Leave EU, Vote Leave & Grassroots Out Are Polls Apart

Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 27/02/2016

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Nigel Farage’s Ukip Cult, Leave EU, Vote Leave & Grassroots Out Are Polls Apart & beyond the cranno rectally retentive bubble in which he functions the world at large appreciate Nigel Farage can not win but can loose this Referendum for Britain

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Ukip’s Suzanne Evans: ‘It’s Best Not To Mention Nigel Farage’ During Anti-EU Campaigning

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Oft-sacked Ukipper Suzanne Evans today praised a book which claims “it’s best not to mention” Nigel Farage when out campaigning to leave the European Union.

Ms Evans told a fringe event at the party’s Spring conference in Llandudno, North Wales, that the Ukip leader was as mistrusted over the EU issue as former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Referencing a book called “How Not To Talk About Europe” produced by think-tank British Future, the former party Deputy Chairman – who was sacked from the role earlier this week – stressed she was merely sharing “fact-based research” with those present.

 

Ms Evans offered to send audience members an electronic copy of the book, as well as selling copies at the event organised by Vote Leave – a rival group to the Farage-backed Grassroots Out organisation.

Both are vying for designation as the official Leave group ahead of the June 23 EU referendum.

Sitting on a platform with Ukip’s sole MP Douglas Carswell, she said: “[The book’s] poll found that the two least trusted voices on Europe are Tony Blair, which isn’t surprising, and also Nigel Farage.

“You might not like it, and I don’t like it either, but that is what the book says. They suggest you don’t put Ukip branding on campaign materials.”

Ms Evans added: “They say really even if you love Nigel Farage and you love Ukip, it’s best not mention it unless somebody else mentions it instead.”

Ms Evans went on to quote conclusions from the book which suggested campaigning solely on immigration in the EU referendum would not deliver victory for the Leave side.

The prominence that the issue of immigration should have in the Leave campaign is one of the main differences between Vote Leave – backed by Mr Carswell and Ms Evans – and Grassroots Out – supported by Mr Farage.

Ms Evans said there was a “purple ceiling” of around 15 to 20 per cent of the public who could be convinced to leave the EU purely over immigration concerns.

She said: “Outside of our particular bubble, what are the arguments that sway people? These are the people that we need to get hold of, it’s no good just preaching to the converted, how do we get on board those people who are yet to be convinced?

She added: “This book suggests that those people who are concerned about immigration have already mind their mind up, they are going to vote to leave.”

Ms Evans also cited claims in the book that the presence of the Ukip logo on campaign tools could turn people off from the Eurosceptic cause.

She said: “Ukip campaigners were handing out these bags as it was a great idea, but even people that wanted to leave the EU wouldn’t take the bags as they had Ukip on it.

“Now you might think that’s daft, but would you take a bag that had a Tory logo on it?”

Ms Evans was anointed by Mr Farage to succeed him as Ukip leader when he stood down following his failure to win a seat at last year’s General Election.

However, Mr Farage withdrew his resignation three days later, before Ms Evans could be officially installed as his successor.

She was subsequently stripped of her policy development role, and overlooked as Ukip’s candidate for Mayor of London ahead of the election in May.

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Raheem Kassan Critiques Nigel Farage’s Ukip Cult Whilst On A Roll!

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Time and time again Nigel Farage’s chosen allies eventually see through the facade and walk away or are forced out only to become his implaccable enemies having had their trust betrayed by this little man – The list is long CLICK HERE and HERE but here is the latest example:

Raheem Kassam: Ukip full of ‘rag-tag, unprofessional, embarrassing people’

Former closest adviser to Nigel Farage says Ukip leader’s election campaign was let down by party being ‘in a mess because there’s no discipline’

Raheem Kassam said the flat he shared with Nigel Farage during the election campagin ‘looked like a Damien Hirst exhibition’ because it was so unkempt.
Raheem Kassam said the flat he shared with Nigel Farage during the election campagin ‘looked like a Damien Hirst exhibition’ because it was so unkempt. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

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Nigel Farage’s election campaign was hampered by a party which is in a mess and full of “rag-tag, unprofessional, embarrassing people”, according his closest adviser in the election campaign.
Ukip insider Raheem Kassam: ‘We had to lock HQ doors because some people were too embarrassing to be seen’

Raheem Kassam, who left Ukip during a bout of bitter infighting after the election, warned that the party was in a “mess because there’s no discipline” and came near to being completely broke after throwing everything at the general election campaign. Ukip is now in the process of moving from its Mayfair office and downsizing to a much smaller location in Westminster.

The Farage adviser said he looked back on many people within Ukip as “a bunch of rag-tag, unprofessional, embarrassing people who let Nigel down at every juncture.”

He told the Guardian: “Someone needs to go in there with a big stick. It needs root-and-branch reform. The constitution is outdated, the national executive is outdated. The funding streams are all wrong. The website is all wrong. It needs a massive, massive overhaul.”

Kassam said he believed Farage would like to lead the campaign for those who want to take Britain out of the EU and that his former boss would be the best person to do so. The 28-year-old spent eight months in Farage’s inner circle as his senior adviser.

Kassam left the party after the general election when some of his critics in Ukip branded him a “poisonous” influence on Farage, dragging the party too far to the right. He disputed this and claimed his detractors were upset by his closeness to Farage during the campaign and were trying to stop the Ukip leader playing too big a role in the EU referendum.

He recalled his time working at Farage’s side, which included going for steam-room trips together in an effort to stop the Ukip leader sweating on television. The leader and his key advisers regularly consumed what Ukippers call PFLs (“proper fucking lunches”) and shared with him a flat in Ramsgate, Kent that “looked like a Damien Hirst exhibition” because it was so unkempt.
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In his remarks, Kassam also:

• Predicted Douglas Carswell, the party’s only MP, would only last another six months in Ukip, as he is not accepting any public funds and is therefore no longer useful.

• Described Ukip’s headquarters as “like a fucking playground”, where he and another aide would show journalists around and “have to lock certain doors because the people behind those doors were too embarrassing to be seen”.

• Spoke of his feelings of regret at having gone to work for Ukip in the first place, which he says led to him being made the “fall guy” in the post-election feud between Farage’s camp and figures such as Carswell, Patrick O’Flynn and Suzanne Evans who wanted the party to more towards the centre.

• Branded one party activist who he declined to name as a “definite racist” and “disgraceful”, although he said that he encountered far less prejudice in Ukip than when he had in the Conservative party.

Kassam, who now works for rightwing website Breitbart, has recently signed up Farage as a columnist and said he is still in regular contact with his former boss.

A Ukip spokesman said: “Raheem Kassam has not worked for Ukip since the election and for much of the intervening period has been out of the country. As such, given the changes that have happened since that time, he is more than a little out of touch with the reality.

“Mr Farage has made clear time and time again that he sees himself as ‘a’, not ‘the’, leader of the out campaign, and is calling for a broad, inclusive campaign which is cross-party, and no party.

“On the question of party finances, of course the party’s coffers are a little bare: we have just fought an election campaign; this is the same for all parties. Many members of staff were working on ‘election contracts’, including Mr Kassam, and were not expected to, nor expected themselves to, continue working for the party after the election. This in turn means that our we no longer need the same size office. So much is normal.

“Mr Kassam is not privy to the financial situation of the party now, nor was he before. As to the other comments, he is entitled to his own views, of course, but they are not views shared by the party.”

Last week, Farage appeared to imply that he would like to lead the “out” campaign durign the EU referendum, In an interview with the Daily Telegraph newspaper, he said: “We are going to take the lead, we are going to get cracking. But we will at all times invite others to come along and share the platform with us …

“The no campaign needs to get itself moving. All this nonsense from very snobby Tories that we should not dominate the campaign and I should go on holiday for six months – forget it!

“We are going to be at the forefront of this – we will open our arms and be all embracing and welcome everybody.”

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Ukip insider Raheem Kassam: ‘We had to lock HQ doors because some people were too embarrassing to be seen’

He was Nigel Farage’s righthand man and election strategist, and even shared a flat with the Ukip leader. Forced out of the party, Kassam breaks his silence about the egos, the infighting and the hopeless manifesto

Kassam and Farage on the campaign trail on the eve of the election, 7 May. Photograph: Gareth Fuller
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Raheem Kassam was the right-hand man who rarely left Nigel Farage’s side during the election campaign. He was there for the drinking sessions, the ups-and-downs of Farage’s mood swings and even accompanied him on a series of steam-room trips in an attempt to stop the Ukip leader looking so sweaty on television. But less than a week after the election, Kassam was pressured out of his job in one of Ukip’s periodic bouts of infighting.

So what is his verdict on eight months at the heart of Farage’s empire? “I totally regret it. Every minute,” he says. “I don’t mean it was a horrible experience. But I’ve taken a big hit for nothing. The only good thing that’s come out of this are friendships … But have I got anything else apart from looking at much of Ukip and thinking you are just a bunch of ragtag, unprofessional, embarrassing people who let Nigel down at every juncture? No.”

The public feuding kicked off after Farage decided to “un-resign”, going back on his promise to step down after he failed to win his target seat of South Thanet. In the fallout, Kassam’s detractors accused him of being a divisive Iago-type figure, dripping rightwing poison into Farage’s ear that harmed the party’s chances of winning over moderate voters. According to his critics, it was Kassam’s “shock and awe” strategy that led Farage to warn against foreigners with HIV using the NHS and claim there were half a million Islamist extremists among the migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean.
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Raheem Kassam. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

But Kassam denies this was ever his game plan – his theory is that people were jealous that he got too close to the Ukip leader, to the exclusion of almost every other acolyte. By polling day, it was obvious to those following the Ukip campaign that the inner court of King Nigel had shrunk to Kassam, election strategist Chris Bruni-Lowe and his Kent press officer Sarah White.

“Egos got in the way at every point,” Kassam says. “Who do you think Nigel would call? It was always me. They absolutely hated that. But the truth of it was that we were always mopping up everyone’s messes.”

We meet at the Blue Boar, a regular haunt in Westminster, and the supremely confident Kassam seems unfazed. He has just returned from a holiday in the US, is back at his old job at the rightwing news site Breitbart and is ready to lift the lid on some bizarre and dysfunctional happenings that dogged Ukip’s campaign. Over a drink, he’s keen to outline what went wrong. The confusion over whether Farage should back a cap on immigrants? “It created an impression of chaos. There is no way to look at it and think: ‘These guys really know what they are talking about.’” The suspension of gaffe-prone Janice Atkinson as an MEP for allegedly trying to inflate her expenses? “Nigel wanted her out before that. She should have gone when she said ‘ting-tong’.”
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The feuding between Farage’s personal team and officials at party HQ? “It was like a playground in there … It got to the point where journalists would come into HQ and we’d have to lock certain doors because the people behind those doors were too embarrassing to be seen.” The manifesto? “It was a clusterfuck.” A particular party activist who remained in post despite a chequered history? “Disgraceful. The man is a racist, there is no doubt about it … I don’t throw around racism often, I have a high threshold for it because I’m so anti-PC, but he is a definite racist.”

Kassam says this was the only example of racism that he encountered during his time in the party and that he faced more prejudice when he was a member of the Conservative party. The most surreal moment? When Louise Bours, the health spokeswoman, decided to resign in the middle of one of Farage’s rallies in a row over NHS spending. “Afterwards, I had to lock everyone out of the room and tell Nigel. I can’t repeat what he said then.” She was later persuaded to stay and the episode never became public.

He blames three senior Ukip figures for engineering his exit from the party and trying to orchestrate a coup against Farage – Patrick O’Flynn, the former economics spokesman, Suzanne Evans, the deputy chairman, and Douglas Carswell, the party’s only MP. This is a charge they all deny, but O’Flynn was stripped of his frontbench role and Evans of her responsibility for policy in the aftermath of the row. Kassam reckons Carswell will survive just another six months in Ukip because he is no longer useful, given that the party has turned down almost £1m of public funding due to him as an MP. “Douglas is not worth anything, he has no clout. He means nothing to us now,” he says.

Farage hears of his defeat in South Thanet on 8 May, with fellow contestants Will Scobie and Al Murray. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images

On O’Flynn, he is equally scathing: “I’m sorry, but if you are Patrick O’Flynn and you have managed via your morning briefings to elicit a headline that says the EU is brainwashing our children through colouring books – OK, you tell me who is doing more damage to the party? And you know what the worst thing is? I went out to bat for those guys every time when they were in trouble.”

Kassam claims that even before the election he could see a “plot” coming and warned Farage to no avail. “I predicted everything that would happen – the Suzanne stuff, the Carswell stuff, the Patrick stuff – nobody listened to me,” he says. “It earned me a lot of credit with Nigel that I foresaw that.”

Not enough to keep him in the job, some might say, with the others still in the party. But Kassam claims he was not forced out of his role as Farage’s senior adviser, but instead chose to leave at the end of his contract in order to “bulletproof Nigel”.

His argument goes like this: the anti-Farage camp believed the Ukip leader was veering too far to the right and had become too toxic to lead an EU referendum campaign that was now going to happen under a Cameron majority government. As Kassam’s critics lined up, painting him as a malign Tea Party influence on Farage, he says he was confronted with the choice of trying to brave out the row or resigning temporarily before returning as part of the leader’s Brussels staff. As it happened, Kassam was on the way to see his old boss at Breitbart in the US at the time, and was offered his former job back on the spot. He downed a shot of vodka, and then made his way to the Sky News studio to start defending Farage and attacking O’Flynn, including accusing him of having “personal problems” live on air.

“In those situations it’s fight or flight. You can crumble or you can rise to the occasion. I was sitting there thinking: it’s fine. It’s just a job, I did my best. If I genuinely thought I’d let Nigel down in any way I would have been upset and distracted … But basically I’ve formed a one-man human shield around Nigel. Every time they go for him, who will the journalists come to for background and quotes? I’m his forcefield at the moment. He knows it to be true to this minute.”

Certainly, the whole episode has not dented Kassam’s loyalty to Farage, whom he describes as his “hero”. He claims they still speak regularly, most recently the day before – about the content of his speeches, social media and just general chat. Not coincidentally, Farage has also just signed up as Breitbart’s new star columnist. So why is he speaking out now, and would Farage be unhappy about what he has to say to the media? “Probably. But that’s my prerogative. “I think Nigel’s had a rough time, unfairly. And I’ve had a rough time, unfairly. That’s why.”

Douglas Carswell and Nigel Farage in happier times. Photograph: Matt Dunham

The 28-year-old son of Muslim immigrants who live in Uxbridge, Kassam might not seem the most likely choice to become friends with the leader of Ukip, but he has a history of working for rightwing websites and the Henry Jackson Society thinktank. He says he first bonded with Farage when they met in the US and went on to have what is known in the Ukip lexicon as a number of “PFLs” – proper fucking lunches, defined by the number of bottles of wine that are consumed. After he was hired – despite warnings in the media about his “wild self-importance” – Kassam believes he became invaluable to Farage because he was one of the few people to stand up to him.

During the last six weeks of the election campaign, Kassam was dispatched to the target constituency to take charge as it became clear the Tories were throwing in more resources. He immediately moved into Farage’s flat in Ramsgate, which became a place where there was a wine glass stuffed with cigarettes butts, an electricity meter that kept running out of credit and Farage’s bed was a mattress on the living room floor. “It looked like a Damien Hirst exhibition,” he says with pride.

On a typical day, Farage would be up at 6am, bright and perky for a breakfast of kippers at a nearby hotel. “Then we’d rendezvous at the office and decide what we want to do for the day, which would involve some walkabouts and a lot of knocking on doors. Then we’d maybe hit a pub for lunch. Then more walkabouts and more canvassing. Then another pint around 5 o’clock, go out and do more evening canvassing. Then around 9, we’d go to The Smugglers [pub] for dinner or we’d go to La Magnolia [an Italian] and have a nice civilised meal.”

However, the entire Ukip team had failed to spot that Farage’s health difficulties – which led media commentators to note that the Ukip leader was tired and snappy at points in the campaign – were affecting his mood. “None of us realised he had back problems,” he says. “That was his fault. We all saw the way he looked during the Believe in Britain speech. I thought: ‘We’d been for a steam three days running so you don’t look sweaty. But you’re still sweating and look really uncomfortable.’ I couldn’t understand it.”

Farage finally spoke out about his agonising pain a few weeks before polling day, and decided to scale back his schedule and concentrate his time mostly on winning South Thanet. In the end, he lost by around 2,000 votes, having been convinced right up until the day itself that he was about to enter parliament on his seventh attempt.

Nigel Farage faces the media after defeat. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

“We knew by 10 o’clock that we hadn’t done it,” Kassam says. “That morning, Nigel and I went to vote together, and we were both in good spirits. I was quietly confident, I knew it was so close … But suddenly between 12 and 4 there were queues in Broadstairs, and I thought: Oh no, these people are not voting for us … It got to around eight and the queues in Broadstairs hadn’t subsided and everywhere else had. I said that’s it. I had tears in my eyes and I was genuinely holding back tears for the next 48 hours. I don’t cry, but I was so sad, so deeply sad.”

While the results rolled in, Farage was asleep, while Kassam and Bruni-Lowe slept in 30-minute shifts to keep abreast of the news. In the morning, they accompanied Farage to the declaration, knowing that he had lost.
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Within an hour, Farage had resigned, and Kassam still insists that the Ukip leader was relieved to be going – despite famously unresigning just four days later. Kassam will also not hear any criticism of the South Thanet campaign itself, which he boldly declares to have been the “single best campaign ever, ever in British politics, bar maybe the Bradford spring”. If it were not for the SNP, he says, the party would have won around five more seats.

Kassam also takes umbrage at the claims that he was responsible for Farage repeatedly bringing up the issue of immigrants with HIV using NHS resources. O’Flynn was fully onside, he says, and was present in the spin room after Farage’s television debate, ready to brief the press on the issue. He also disputes the idea that this in any way deterred potential voters.

“I don’t think there was anyone who was thinking of voting for us who was put off by that,” he says. “Don’t forget Labour voters aren’t who you think they are. They aren’t sat in Hampstead sipping Chateau Neuf Du Pape.”

Later on, Kassam returns to the theme. “Life is not a Michael Jackson song, you can’t heal the world,” he says. “I’d like to see any political party try and stand on that principle.”

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Is A Vote For Ukip A Recipe For Catastrophy?

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minded that Ukip has pretensions to a role in Governance it is of course legitimate not only to question what policies they may espouse but in the light of CLICK HERE clearly there is a great deal to question!

Not least of the facts that need questioning is the fact that the individual parachuted in at the last minute, when

AKER, Tim 02Ukip MEP Tim Aker had proved incompetent to produce the manifesto and been unceremoniously tossed out, has no apparent background or signs of competence as a researcher nor any gravitas to take over such a key role.

It is clear that the best was you assess the abilities of

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another of Ukip’s MEPs Suzanne Evans, tasked with producing this complex and detailed key job in just a few weeks is to assess other work she has done.

Based upon the facts and the staggeringly inept performances she has made on TV and the lack of visible achievements it does harbour ill for Ukip. Clearly there is no one else of any gravitas or competence to carry out the task of producing Ukip’s manifesto.

The last manifesto Nigel Farage commended to Ukip and the electorate and for which he personally provided the foreword Ukip’s leader at the time of the election, Malcolm Lord Pearson, did not even bother to read and eventually Nigel Farage denounced it as drivel seeking to blame anyone but himself, despite his pivotal role!

So let us analyse Suzanne Evans’ visible efforts in the field of politics todate, as commended by Nigel Farage as being ‘Brilliant …’:

Why Vote UKIP? What UKIP stands for…

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The UKIP deputy leader Suzanne Evans has written a pamphlet as a part of the ‘Why Vote…’ series published by Biteback Publishing

I’ve read it, so you don’t have to. 

On the whole, the book is written with the self-confident feel of a doomed-to-fail A-level essay – the pupil given the assignment and launching forth into what she considers a magnum opus based solely on the York notes. Footnote numbers in the text lead simply to footnotes, and where references are given, they are incorrectly or incompletely listed, affording the reader little chance of consulting the source material. But the source material in most cases seems to be articles in the Daily and Sunday Express, and where these haven’t actually been written by senior UKIP figures, they have an obvious leaning in that direction to say the least.

The introduction

The first 10% of the book (Kindle edition), is given to outspoken defence of UKIP whilst attacking other parties (note use of the favourite line of UKIP defence – smear), interspersed with tired, jingoistic, post-imperialist nonsense.

It is hard to see a mention of any policy or fundamental ideology listed other than leaving the EU, one of the reasons being it’s “theoretically possible for 500 million” people to come to the UK.

Chapter 1 – leaving the EU

This is unsurprisingly the theme of the first chapter. UKIP watchers will not be surprised to learn that this drags out all the usual UKIP tropes that bear so little relation to what people in the real world call ‘facts’. The whole chapter is an attack – again, not one policy other than the title of the chapter – not even how this policy would be practically achieved.

Chapter 2 – immigration

UKIP has “the least racist immigration policy” being put forward by any party – which of itself, is a chilling way for a party to describe any policy.

Our ‘tiny’ island is being swamped with a population density of 680 per square mile (actual figure is 96 – this figure would make the population 166.5 million!). We need to build a house every 7 seconds (no reference given but this comes from right-wing lobby group Migration Watch not the ONS as stated) and so how long before our ‘green and pleasant land’ is concreted over?

As the text goes on, it becomes more rhetorical and frenzied in style. As in the first chapter, most of the text is given over to attack. One ‘fact’ is 16 ‘alleged illegal’ immigrants were fighting deportation at a cost of £1.5 million to the taxpayer. The source for this is ‘government figures released 16 April 2014’ – however the actual source for this story is the Daily Express of that date which is also not referenced – so the government documents cannot be traced – though from other sources, it seems that these ‘alleged illegal’ immigrants are in fact asylum seekers in detention whilst their cases are heard.

The author states the case that the current immigration policy is ‘arguably racist’ in that it discriminates in favour of ‘predominantly white’ and ‘Christian’ EU citizens. This is laughable nonsense – following this argument, UK-only desks at border control would also be racist.

Whilst stating that UKIP would operate a points system, fair for all, and wouldn’t pull up the drawbridge, it does specify in black and white the policy of denying all state assistance, health, benefits and education to all immigrants for five years. The author acknowledges that this would greatly reduce immigration. Of course the truth is that it would effectively end all immigration.

It goes on to state that whilst ‘overseas workers’ would be prevented from taking minimum-wage jobs, ‘those already living here could apply as usual’ (note that IS a direct quote).

Speaking ‘competent’ English would be a condition of entry too – but what level is considered ‘competent’ or how this would be assessed is not stated.

Chapter 3trade

This again follows a pattern of attack, attack, attack, (smear) attack. Though the theme is trade, hidden in the text is an attack on safety and worker’s rights legislation, and once again, the main fault for unemployment and low wages lies with the hordes of immigrants. It follows the ‘lump of labour’ fallacy as expected, and doesn’t mention the fact that the highest proportion of jobs advertised to the EU relate to the lack of the required qualifications in the UK labour market, or that indeed all these jobs are advertised within the UK and open to anyone (with the right qualifications).

Chapter 4 – Government waste and lowering taxes.

This goes on about tax in the way that you would expect from a neo-liberalist party. Tax is an inherent evil, so the state will be dismantled in order to reduce it. 

It does mention some policy, though confused and obviously, not costed. It confuses minimum wage with living wage, stating the lowest paid will be removed from income tax (as they are currently), whilst the top rate of tax will be reduced to 40% and start at £45k. Apparently earning this much ‘doesn’t make you wealthy’ – though you would be in the top 17%, earning almost double the average wage of £26,500 (that stat DOES come from the ONS).

There is the inevitable attack on green policies and wind power, claiming to quote stats from a report by Graham Sinden from the Environmental Change Institute – claiming, as somewhat curiously, that report is the only one not published online. The extract below however from another report by the same author, seems to completely contradict what was attributed to him:

Low wind speed conditions affecting 90% or more of the UK would occur in

around one hour every five years during winter;

The chance of wind turbines shutting down due to high wind speed

conditions is very rare – high winds affecting 40% or more of the UK would

occur in around one hour every 10 years. 

Though the chapter is about tax, here the policy of building more gas-fired power stations fuelled through fracking is laid out. The process is ‘safe’ (!) and would ‘invigorate rural communities’ – though what this would do to our ‘green and pleasant land’ isn’t mentioned here. It quotes the American case, and says that shale would be a source of wealth and drop domestic fuel costs. It doesn’t mention that to reach those levels in the UK would require in excess of 50,000 fracking wells throughout the countryside, from urban areas to green belt and national parks.

And again, those to blame for the welfare bill are… immigrants, with the source of this scholarly information being… The Daily Express. So whilst it talks about cutting the welfare bill (of which only 0.8% is spent on foreign-born migrants – and most of that will be on the asylum seekers and refugees that UKIP says it will look after), other than its policy of effectively ending immigration, it doesn’t say how this will be achieved.

Chapter 5 – Ethical Foreign Policy and Aid.

Basically, according to the author, the EU developing its own foreign policy is to blame for wars, pestilence and famine, from Afghanistan to the Ukraine. The LibLabCons have repeatedly made errors with interventionist policies. UKIP intends to maintain the UK’s ‘seats’ at NATO and the UN but will retain full control of the armed forces, only intervening if there is direct threat to the UK or ‘moral grounds’ for doing so – no mention how this would affect standing treaties.

The international aid budget would be slashed. There seems to be naïve lack of understanding as to how aid works hand-in-hand with trade and cultural exchange – for example not understanding why developing countries give aid to each other. It talks at some length about the UK giving aid to India – when in fact this has already been terminated by mutual agreement. 

It says that UKIP would not give aid to corrupt governments, and curiously not to governments that deny rights to LGBT people – the first and only mention.

Chapter 6 – investing in the NHS

As before the first part of the chapter is defence of UKIP and attacking the other parties, accusing them of responsibility for all the recent health scandals. Not forgetting the nasty EU with their Working Time Directive, meaning doctors can’t work more than 48 hours in a week. 

And let’s continue to scapegoat immigrants of course, not just the myth of the ‘health tourist’, but also ‘foreign-born mothers’ (so we don’t know whether this includes residents or citizens as well) responsible for one-in-four births. ‘Serious diseases have been re-introduced to Britain’ it declares (!).

So how would UKIP save the NHS?

  • ·         Abolish ‘non-jobs’ in admin (redundancies – how many?)
  • ·         Free eye and dental checks to cut long term costs
  • ·         Open GP surgeries one evening a week
  • ·         Put nurse training back to on-the-job in the hospital as there is no need for nurses to have academic training
  • ·         Free at the point of delivery to UK-born ‘residents’ (citizens? nationals?) and immigrants who have been here for five years
  • ·         Scrapping car park charges

Two things are concerning about this – the classification of UK-born residents – as if being born in the UK does not automatically determine citizenship and nationality. Also, throughout the text, free is always immediately qualified by at the point of delivery

As for the much publicised ideas of privatisation and procurement – no mention at all, other than to criticise the way it was done by Labour and the Tories.

Chapter 7 – Farmers and Fisheries

From this point forward we’ll skip over the EU did this, LibLabCon did this etc.

Some agreement here in the way the Common Fisheries Policy has been applied. The author doesn’t mention that one of the key reasons for the CFP is over-fishing and declining fish stocks, to the point where we could pass the point of no return on fish populations. The way industrial fishing is being done has not changed, so that rather than catching to quota (which on the face of it, may be impractical) the trawlers continue to trawl everything and then sort on deck, throwing dead and dying fish, not saleable due to quota, size or species, back into the sea to rot. 

UKIP would take our territorial waters back to 200 miles (what is now classified as the Exclusive Economic Zone by the UN, not as stated) and exclude all other fleets, effectively stopping the livelihood of every North Sea fisherman from every other European country. All quotas would cease, all fish to be landed. It mentions security resource – so imagine how many navy ships would need to be on constant patrol to secure just under 300,000 square km of sea?

Farming – UKIP would continue farming subsidies but cap this at £150k p.a. and no have no set-aside award. De-regulation will consider ‘risk’ and ‘hazard separately, basically setting aside all the current safety and environmental protection laws specifically mentioning: nitrate vulnerable zones, electronic sheep tagging, white asbestos (!) and anti-BSE measures. They will ban the export of live animals for slaughter and control the import of bush meat (already illegal) as this can spread disease like ebola (it can’t).

Chapter 8 – Education

The chapter starts with building development. It will protect the green belt, build on brownfields, invest in roads, re-establish local bus routes and re-open branch lines. No idea where the money will come from or how this will be achieved. They will also guarantee free parking within town centres (imagine what that will do to congestion).

Policing: a no-nonsense zero-tolerance policy with police freed from paperwork (no mention how that will be done either). It will lengthen and enforce prison sentences, making space by deporting foreign convicts. It will remove us from the ECHR and deport criminals whether they have families in the UK or not. Again, no mention how this would be achieved or how the countries receiving the convicts and their families would react. 

They will build more prisons, have full education and rehabilitation programs within prison and rehabilitation centres after release. No mention again of how this will be paid for or realised. Compulsory education? Special needs and adult teachers to be trained – in some respects laudable, in others practically impossible and laughably naïve.

Education – grammar schools. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, they believe that grammar schools are the magic bullet and will bring back strict selection and the school system of fifty years ago. Those ‘not suited to the academic’ will be placed in vocational training and apprenticeships.

University tuition fees will be scrapped for those who meet the academic requirements and go on government approved courses to fill skill gaps. 

The focus here entirely is education to get a job and for the good of the state – not education as an end in itself. The result would be an extension of what is happening under the current system – only the privileged would be able to study what they want and the humanities and arts would eventually only be taught at a few universities. Everyone else would be fighting for the gov. approved and funded engineering and science courses. The university system would be quite deliberately destroyed through this policy.

Chapter 9 – Taking Pride in Britain

This chapter isn’t really a policy at all. It attacks multiculturalism, blaming it for everything from terrorism to FGM. UKIP is not ashamed but proud of Britain’s imperial history. Of course the PM should not apologise for the slave trade! The ‘sneering intelligentsia’ look down on the empire and have invented ideas of ‘post-colonial guilt’. The empire has benefited the world. It stands up for Christian values, and perhaps the denigration of these values by ‘left-wing atheists’ has caused ‘negative consequences’. There is a very heavy emphasis here on Christianity at the heart of British culture and law that came as a surprise.

Multiculturalism is determined and designed with the intention of ‘destroying’ the culture of the majority, condemning any idea of patriotism as ‘racism’. UKIP will stop funding for multiculturalist projects, stop multi-lingual formatting of government literature (except indigenous languages); teach pride of empire in schools.

Chapter 10 – UKIP in Government

UKIP follows the neo-liberalist idea of small government. It will close the following ministries: 

  • International Development 
  • Justice
  • Energy and Climate Change
  • Communities and Local Government
  • Culture Media and Sport
  • BIS

It would stop charities such as Child Poverty, War on Want, Oxfam, WWF for Nature and FoE from any political activity, reporting or lobbying. 

They would ‘clean-up’ Westminster, controlling SPADs, quangos and tsars.

Aside from the damage that the removal of these departments would do to everything from efforts to combat climate change to investment in the arts, the total restriction of the activities of charities can only be seen as a deliberate attack on any form of organised dissent or non-commercial influence on government policy.

So, still not much in the way of actual policy or how this will be achieved, but wading through the ranting attacks and scapegoating, some new and very frightening policy intentions. And as Farage says in his blurb on the cover, 

“This lively and authoritative guide sets the record straight about what UKIP really stands for…”

Unfortunately I can not give credit where it is due, for the work involved, as the author has witheld their details – however if you wish to see the original source of the article CLICK HERE

You will also find other informative and factual exposures of Ukip on the site.
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GP-PN: 100 Reasons Not To Vote For Ukip

Posted by Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W) on 09/02/2015

GP-PN: 100 Reasons Not To Vote For Ukip
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Guest Post – Peter North:
Fisks Ukip’s banal list of 100 policies, published as a forerunner to their Manifesto launch, subsequent to the apparent firing of Nigel Farage’s selected El Supremo Tim Aker MEP!

It gives 100 Reasons Not To Vote For Ukip in May

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Hi,when Ukip published their banal list of 100 items as a guide to their delayed Manifesto I had intended to fisk it but time overtook me and it seems pointless now, with less than 100 days to go to election day.

An even better excuse for not doing the job is that amongst other examples Peter has fisked each item more than adequately and in a manner with which I agree.

Thanks Peter ;-))

100 reasons to ignore Ukip

Back in May, and many times since, I have remarked that “Ukip has nothing of any great substance, and even though we are promised a manifesto, I expect it will be the same rag-bag of parish suggestions box entries picked out of a tombola with no unifying theme. And as if on cue, we get 100 reasons to vote Ukip in the absence of actual policies. Mystic North strikes again! I’m not going to rubbish all of them since some of these random scattergun statements are desirable outcomes or policy instruments, but without context, they mean nothing. Let’s have a look at them shall we?

1. Get Britain out of the European Union

On this we are agreed. But this isn’t a policy. This is an ambition. As we have discovered, it ain’t simple, it ain’t quick and it will need an alternative. There are no magic wands and if you think it’s a simple process, you simply don’t understand what the EU is. Here I remind readers that Ukip does not have a Brexit policy.   

2. Get control of immigration with an Australian-style, points-based immigration system

State bureaucrats second guessing the human resources needs of UK plc. What could possibly go wrong? Never mind that quota based systems can result in a net increase in immigration and that there is no evidence it could work for Britain since we are an entirely unique nation with entirely different geography. Ukip has failed to explain why their idea, plucked out of the air, would work, when successive administrations have failed in light of the complexities, costs and international treaty obligations. And in any case, we already have a points based system – and have since 2008. 

3. £3bn more, annually, into our NHS which desperately needs it

From where exactly? And who says the NHS actually needs it? Could it just be that the pressure could be taken off the NHS by fixing the GP system and adult social care? Maybe, we don’t know, because Ukip hasn’t done any thinking on this. This link is where a Ukip policy should be looking.

4. Scrap tuition fees for students studying Science, Tech, Engineering, Maths, or Medical degrees

Sounds good in principle. But who is going to pay? Are we looking at tax funded university or are we looking at tax breaks for industry to finance them? Is it tied in with a broader industrial strategy? If so, what would that look like? And what about the creative arts? Multimedia technology might sound like a non-degree, but the games industry is not one we can afford to ignore.   

5. Pay greater attention to elderly care across the country

Is this a policy or a sneeze?

6. Cutting £9bn from our foreign aid budget

And what then do we fund overseas projects with, some of which are essential to slowing and managing immigration. It has been clear throughout that Ukip doesn’t understand what aid is or what it is even for

7. Give the people the ability to “recall” their MPs, without parliamentary or MP approval

This is one of Dougie Carswell’s ideas which failed to pass while he was a Tory and given the state of voter engagement there is actually very little evidence this would be used often, if at all. It’s easy to fill a online petition with a few thousand signatures, but less easy to do it in a constituency. This really shows us just how shallow Ukip and Carswell are. We do have a big problem with our democratic deficit. It will require a range of integrated measures to tackle and this is just tinkering around the edges with bits of parliamentary procedure. Democratic reform ought to be a central pillar of a supposedly anti-establishment party – but it curiously is not. 

8. Stopping our endless, foreign wars

You mean the ones that recently ended? How about a democratic mechanism to stop us getting sucked into them? No?

9. Promoting a British identity, as opposed to failed multiculturalism

How? And what does this achieve? And what is a British identity? How are you defining it?

10. Allowing existing schools to become grammar schools

And what do we do with the schools that don’t?

11. Ending PFI privatisation of the NHS, proliferated by Labour and the Tories

Ok, so we’re ripping up contracts now. What do we replace it with? In some places, it works.

12. Ensuring our armed services are properly equipped for when we do need them

Every government and every party has said that. What matters is the detail. As we outline here, that’s not so easy. 

13. Establishing a Veteran’s Administration to look after those who looked after us

Like the well funded and competent SAAFA?

14. Encouraging inward investment with growth markets, not JUST the failing Eurozone

How? This is a sentiment, not a policy.

15. Overcoming the unfairness of MPs from devolved nations voting on English laws

How? Got a policy?

16. Cutting bureaucracy, red tape, and wasteful spending from government departments

Which bureaucracy, which red tape, what wasteful spending? Easy to say, harder to do.

17. Cutting the same bureaucracy that hinders small businesses and entrepreneurs

What like?
 
18. Supporting our farmers with a Single Farm Payment Scheme

How would that differ from the one which already exists and is presently in use?

19. Ending the burdensome “green levies” that have added £000s to our energy bills

My energy bill doesn’t exceed £1000. And some of those green levies go toward better insulation which means we don’t have to build a new power station. So which “green levies” are we talking about?

20. Scrapping the poorly planned HS2 project, saving up to £50bn

How is NOT spending money a saving?  As in, I’ve decided not to buy a £250,000 Rolls Royce, so I’ve “saved” £250,000 … ? But do what instead to ease pressure on existing transport infrastructure?

21. Opposing tolls on public roads – we’ve already paid for them

Oppose who? Presumably, you’d be in government, so who would you oppose? Who is suggesting road tolls? Why is a digital tolling scheme necessarily worse than the road tax scheme we presently have? Variable peak prices could reduce congestion.

22. Supporting bus passes for pensioners with the support of local authorities

This already happens. Presumably Ukip wants to expand that. How is that paid for?

23. Foreign vehicles to require Britdisc passes to contribute to our roads they use

Won’t that make imported goods more expensive?

24. Ending the use of speed cameras as revenue raisers – they should be a deterrent

They are. Most of them are now switched off because they cost too much to run and administrate. The rest of them serve as part of active traffic management systems. This might have been a popular policy in 1992, but this is not 1992.  

25. Protecting our green belt

What with? A home defence force? Or are we talking abut planning? If so, what is Ukip’s planning policy and how does it propose to solve the housing shortage and affordability gap? Y’need a policy!

26. A central list of brownfield sites for developers

Like the one that already exists? And why should it be central? I thought Ukip favoured localism?

27. Houses on brownfield sites to be Stamp Duty exempt on first sale

There’s usually a good reason why brownfield sites remain inactive. Often ground contamination from previous use. It will take a lot more than stamp duty exemption. It will require a complete overhaul of the environmental impact assessment laws.

28. VAT relaxed for redevelopment of brownfield sites

See above. – and new build is already VAT exempt. Not forgetting that VAT is an EU tax and so we would be perfectly at liberty to abolish VAT if we wanted to.

29. Local referenda for large-scale development, if triggered by 5% of electorate

I am all in favour of more direct democracy, but this seems divorced from any context. It ought to be a part of a broader package of democratic reforms, but it’s just hanging there, apropos of nothing. Where’s the policy?

30. Introducing the ability for citizens to initiate national referenda

This is the closest Ukip gets to a big idea. But there needs to be safeguards against minority interest self-selection and mob rule. Referendums are not necessarily always an expression of public will. We will need to see details from Ukip. Which have not been forthcoming on this, or anything else.

31. Withdrawing from the European Court of Human Rights

And replace with what? Human rights are good. Fair trials and free speech and such.

32. Reversing the government’s opt-in to the European Arrest Warrant

What’s the point if Ukip wants to scrap the EAW?

33. Negotiating bi-lateral agreements to replace EAW

Easier said than done, I find.

34. No votes for prisoners

So we deprive them of liberty of as a punishment, but deprive them of a voice? I guess this is a matter of personal taste.

35. Full prison sentences should be served, parole on case-by-case basis

That is actually a logical inversion. What is the point of case-by-case parole if full prison sentences are to be served?

36. Replacing the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights

And what would be on that bill of rights? Who would write it?

37. Official documents to be published primarily in English

Like they are now? 

38. Cracking down on honour killings, female genital mutilation, and forced marriages

I wasn’t aware the police were going easy on honour killings. They tend to be quick off the mark on murder. Does Ukip have evidence to the contrary? If so, that’s a very serious allegation and ought to be a central campaign issue. As to forced marriages, that is largely something an aspect of immigration with Asians returning to their place of origin to get married. What is Ukip’s immigration policy, beyond vague aspirations that is? 

39. Reviewing the BBC license fee with a view to reducing it

To what? Why is Ukip different fro the Tories on this?

40. Taking non-payment of the license fee out of the criminal sphere

You mean make it a civil debt so people then end up with a CCJ and unable to borrow, and have bailiffs banging at their door instead? Doesn’t sound like progress to me. Have another think. 

41. Amend the smoking ban to promote choice for ventilated smoking rooms

Oh honestly, who cares anymore? Any pub that was going under because of the smoking ban has done already. Pubs are nicer without smoker. I say that as a smoker. It’s not a big deal. 

42. Opposing plain packs for cigarettes, which has had no impact where trialled

Well, it took to number 42 before we got to any hint of sense, but it’s hardly earth shattering.

43. Promoting the employment of young, British workers

How? That’s a vague ambition, not a policy.

44. Repealing the Agency Workers Directive

And replace it with what? This is an interesting one. One must first examine why the directive exists. It is a regulatory response to a long standing problem of rolling six month contracts, largely as a product of previous labour market interventions. AWD is merely another hammer-blow in a game of regulatory whack-a-mole. Ukip clearly doesn’t recognise this otherwise it would have offered a more substantial policy that gets to the root of the issue.

45. Encouraging councils to provide more free parking on High Streets

I’ll let Jackart in his inimitable style address this one. It’s a stupid policy by stupid people who aren’t interested in policy. And it will take more than that to revive the high street.Does Ukip have a policy on that?

46. Simplifying planning regulations for long-term empty commercial properties

Why not just devolve planning policy to councils? You’re all about localism, aren’t you?

47. Extending the right of appeal for micro businesses against Revenue and Customs

In what circumstances? Apropos of what?

48. Negotiating bespoke trade agreements with EU member states and worldwide

Erm, see the thing about the EU is we can’t negotiate with individual EU member states. The EU doesn’t work like that. That’s why eurosecptics want to leave it! That’s where it would help to have a Brexit policy! But Ukipists told us they didn’t need one! Doh! Here we have an anti-EU party that doesn’t EVEN know how the EU works. What are we paying Ukip MEPs for?

49. Reoccupying our seat at the World Trade Organisation

Well that’s kinda implied by way of leaving the EU. That’s why eurosceptics want to leave.What do we do when we get there?

50. Abolishing inheritance tax

Fine fair enough. But that’s £4bn you’ll have to cut when you just said you’ll spend 3bn extra on the NHS.

51. Introducing a 35p income tax rate between £42,285 and £55,000 – taking many public sector workers out of top rate of tax

Is this costed? That’s going to mean some major cuts. What are you cutting? The foreign aid budget can only be spent once over.

52. Setting up a Treasury Commission to make sure big corporations pay their way in taxes

Here is some pretty typical Ukip ignorance. Many of these corporations are not based in the UK. They use freedom of capital rules to evade taxes. This is an international problem that requires an international solution, not least as part of a Brexit policy. Ukip doesn’t have one.  

53. Abolishing the Dept of Energy and Climate Change and rolling retained functions into DEFRA

So we’d then have a mega-ministry that looks after power stations and cattle and rivers. Why? Where is the logic?

54. Introducing an Apprenticeship Qualification for students who don’t want to do non-core GCSEs

What does Ukip think core GCSEs are? And how will an apprentice fare without them?

55. Scrapping the arbitrary 50% target for university attendance

This is one of Tony Blair’s most damaging policies. That’s why the Tories got rid of it almost immediately. Which tells us this entire list of “policies” is a cut and paste from obsolete material. Did Ukip even read their 100 reasons before publishing them?

56. Students from the EU to pay the same as International Students

Who said they don’t? And isn’t itimplied that by leaving the EU, all students would be categorised as international students?

57. Introducing more power for parents: OFSTED to investigate schools on petition signed by 25% of parents or governors

Governors can already demand an inspection.Parents only need petition governors.

58. Guaranteeing a job in the police, prison, or border forces for anyone who has served 12 years in the Armed Forces

So if you’ve done 12 years in the logistic corps, you get to be a policeman? No thanks.

59. Priority social housing for ex-service men and women, and those returning from service

They already get a very generous resettlement grant and tuition fee subsidy.

60. Veterans to receives Veteran’s Card to ensure they’re supported in event of mental health care and more

In the event of mental health care? The biggest problem is veterans not seeking help. That is why they end up homeless.You need a comprehensive veteran care policy. Where is it?

61. All entitlements to be extended to servicemen and women recruited from overseas

Stupid and mega stupid.  The whole point of separate arrangements is to encourage serving officers to return to their nation of origin, with a service pension as a means of international development. There are clear developmental advantages to remittances, but a retired officer class is an export of an administrative class that can help build good governance – and is a means of exporting our values. This is precisely what the Gurkhas were for, and extending entitlements to all means we now have to allow them residence along their families as well. Not very sensible for a party that wants to control immigration.

62. Establishing a National Service Medal for all those who have served

So if you’ve done 12 years in the catering corps, you get a medal?This cheapens the very idea of medals. They are given out for distinguished service. What is the point of this policy?

63. Encouraging local authorities to buy out their PFI contracts where affordable

Paid for with what? You’re massively cutting income tax, remember?

64. Ensuring GP’s surgeries are open at least one evening per week where demand permits

That’s one of the few things I’m not inclined to argue with. But there are contractual problems that means the GP service requires a complete redesign. Where is Ukip’s policy? Why does Ukip assume it can succeed in reforming it? Ukips health spokesperson, Louise Bours, admits “Honestly, I have no experience in health whatsoever”.

65. Ensuring migrants have NHS-approved health insurance until they have paid into the system for 5 years

So the NHS will need a whole new bureaucracy to approve all international health insurance products and a recovery department to chase international debts. This presumably means more delays and checks at ports. I don’t think they’ve thought this through.

66. Ending hospital car parking charges

Will likely result in less parking availability. It usually does.

67. Replacing bureaucratic watchdogs with locally elected health boards for more transparency

Can anybody honestly say that elected police commissioners have improved policing? Given the turnout at the recent PCC election in South Yorkshire, it is clear there is little public support for what are essentially overpaid press officers. Elections do not automatically equate with greater accountability or democracy.

68. Stopping the sale of patient data to big business

So Ukip opposes the sale of data from which extrapolations can be made which could improve drugs and patient care. They neglect to say why. There is a need to safeguard privacy, but we don’t want to miss out on the possible benefits of big data insights. You can complain about the shoddy way the government set about it with automatic opt-ins but let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.

69. Ensuring a high standard of English speakers in the NHS

Who says they don’t, apart from bigoted Ukipists?

70. Amend working time rules to give trainee doctors, surgeons, and medics better environments

Amend to what? Got a policy?

71. Encouraging and protecting whistle-blowing to get to the bottom of poor performance

This is not an unfair thing to say, but poor service delivery is a recurrent theme in British news with the same systemic common defects. Our corporate scale councils and local services are losing touch, are unaccountable and out of control. It will take more than whistle blowers to fix it. You’d need a comprehensive policy based on a detailed and evidence driven analysis. Something Ukip lacks the talent and mental architecture for.

72. Ensuring migrants have jobs and accommodation before they can come to the UK

Not unreasonable. But how will this be enforced? And what will it cost to enforce it? Got a policy?

73. Migrants will only be eligible for residency after 10 years’ working here

Migrants or asylum seekers? If migrants, what is the rationale for keeping them in limbo? Either they qualify for citizenship or they don’t. Does Ukip even know the difference?

74. Reinstating the primary purpose rule, bringing an end to sham marriage migration

The primary purpose rule barred entry into the UK for thousands of people married to British citizens. It was dropped. The then Home Secretary, Jack Straw, said it was being ended because “it is arbitrary, unfair and ineffective and has penalised genuine cases, divided families and unnecessarily increased the administrative burden on the immigration system.” He was right then, and he’s right now.

75. No amnesty for illegal immigrants, or those gaining UK passports via fraud

Amnesties are generally a bad thing. They encourage people to try their luck and disappear into the woodwork until there is one. But we do need a policy to deal specifically with illegal immigrants. Thus far, Ukip doesn’t have one.

76. Protecting genuine refugees by returning to the UN Convention of Refugees principles

The UN Convention is the problem, creating asylum seekers who cannot be returned or ejected. I thought Ukip didn’t want that? We need either to renegotiate the Convention or withdraw from it. You’d need a detailed policy.

77. British companies to be prioritised to deliver foreign aid contracts

I’d rather companies delivering best value for money were prioritised. I want value for money and transparency.

78. Repealing the Climate Change Act 2008 which costs the economy £18n per year

No arguments there. But a cut of £18bn doesn’t pay for all Ukip’s ring-fences and extra spending.  

79. Scrapping the Large Combustion Plant directive and redevelop UK power stations

We would do that by way of leaving the EU. It is an EU directive. This actually makes little difference since we have already closed, or have started to wind down LCPD affected plant which was due for renewal anyway. It’s ancient. Does Ukip even have an up to date energy policy? 

80. Supporting the development of UK Shale Gas with proper safeguards

Rather a bland statement. As it happens, shale isn’t the big deal anybody thought it was for the UK, not least with oil prices now collapsing. There is something new on the horizon that we have heard nothing about from Ukip.

81. No new taxpayer subsidy for wind farms

What about addressing the old ones?

82. Leaving the Common Agricultural Policy

This is actually a consequence of leaving the EU. CAP is part of the EU. And what do we do instead? The EU will continue to subsidise food producers, so to compete, we will have to subsidise ours. You have already said you would keep the Single Farm Payment, but what is the rest of the CAP replaced with? You’d need a Brexit policy. 

83. Allowing parliament to vote on GM foods

It can already do that. If it so chooses.

84. Reinstating British territorial waters

That is implied by leaving the EU. But what about management of those waters where British fleets have sold their quotas to foreign trawlers? You’d need a Brexit policy. And a fisheries management policy for that matter.

85. Food to be labelled with country of origin, method of production, method of slaughter and more

Like it does already? The problem is not labeling, but an epidemic of food fraud. You’d need international co-operation to deal with it, thus a comprehensive policy on trade.

86. Ban live animal exports for slaughter

Why? Is this just one of those feel-good populist policies?

87. Scrapping the Bedroom Tax

The “bedroom tax” is as much about reintegrating people from remote for industrial communities into the economy rather than warehousing them on benefits. It could use a little tweaking to make it fairer to the disabled, but it is a useful tool in the box to tack embedded and long term welfare dependency. It might be popular to say you’ll scrap it, but you also have to state what you would do instead. 

88. Child benefit only for children permanently resident in the UK

Not unreasonable.

89. Future child benefit to be limited to first two children only

I wouldn’t argue with that, but it would be just one measure in a full programme of welfare reform. That would require a policy. Where is it?

90. Ensuring an initial presumption of 50-50 parenting on child custody matters

The childrens’ welfare is paramount. The presumption is that the birth mother is best suited – and usually is. But this is why we have a family court system. That needs an overhaul. So where is Ukip’s policy?

91. Safeguarding visitation rights for grandparents

So the state is overriding parents judgement now?

92. Supporting a streamlined welfare system and a benefit cap

Like the Tories do already? What is Ukip’s welfare policy?

93. Enrolling unemployed benefits claimants into workfare or community schemes

Like the Tories do already? What would Ukip do differently?

94. Placing revenues from shale gas into a Sovereign Wealth Fund to ensure future growth and security

How much will this generate? There isn’t a big UK dash for shale gas. 

95. Emphasising the immediate need to utilise forgotten British infrastructure like Manston Airport

Why is there an immediate need if it has been forgotten? And it certainly doesn’t look like Manson has been forgotten if you Google it. What on earth does this even mean?

96. No cuts to frontline policing

That ship has already sailed. The police have already been cut, but numbers is not the problem. It’s policing policy. Does Ukip have a police policy?

97. Prioritising social housing for those whose parents and grandparents were born locally

So basically immigrants will be excluded from social housing?

98. Reaffirming British laws, rather than allowing dual-track legal systems for minorities in the UK

Will this mean abolishing Beth Din for Jews, or does this just apply to Muslims?

99. Promoting patriotism and the importance of British values in our schools

What are those British values? How will you promote them? Got a policy? 

100. Rebalancing Britain’s economy

To what? What does that even mean?

Conclusion:

Last time I gave Ukip a good fisking I concluded as thus:

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This is a party that has no great vision. What we see above is ill thought out guesswork by Ukip, a patchwork with no unifying thread of thought, gaping holes, no applied expertise, no detail, no philosophy and not even a systematic approach to policy making. It is wholly superficial stuff, tinkering with the status quo on the basis of populist sentiment, which is no way to govern a country.

No doubt the Ukipist reaction to this post will be to say that the other party manifestos are equally amateurish and stupid. This is probably true. Were I so inclined I could have a field day driving a horse and cart through a Labor manifesto – and as for the Lib Dems, such would be beyond reasonable analysis and beyond satire. But the crucial distinction is this: Ukip professes to be something different. It isn’t.

Party politics has degenerated into two bald men fighting over a comb, each chasing a marginal constituency of floating voters based on what carries over well in the media. So what if anything in the above makes Ukip distinctive apart from a vaguely defined ambition to leave the EU?

One thing that has plagued politics since 1997 is the steady stream of soundbite announcements dressed up as policy, keeping the churnalists and twitterers fed – and rather than pushing a vision, politics is all done on premise of “fly the flag and see who salutes”.  Enter Ukip doing exactly the same with no real agenda for change, no real idea of what they want – and not the first idea how to get it done.

You don’t have to be a policy analyst to see that no real thought has gone into Ukip’s policy making. This is back of fag packet stuff. We’re a matter of months from a general election and Ukip don’t know what they stand for – but expect us to believe they are an alternative. We can only assume that Ukip takes us for fools too. 

The only thing I would add is that we were since promised that Ukip would get its act together and wunderkind Tim Aker would deliver the goods. If this is all Ukip has to offer, a mere 100 days from the election, then it becomes clearer that Aker was sacked after all. And rightly so. And since Suzanne Evans is responsible for releasing this garbage as current campaign material, she should resign.

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Un-Professional Ukip Pays Off Un-Professional Staffer!

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UKIP Removes General Secretary Following Sexual Harrassment Allegations

Roger Bird

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UKIP has pushed out its General Secretary Roger Bird, following allegations of sexual harassment against him. Breitbart London sources have confirmed that Bird was exonerated by the investigation into his action but he was forced to sign an “amicable agreement” because “relations had broken down between party officials”.

Bird’s downfall began when Natasha Bolter was introduced to UKIP at the party conference in September. Following her arrival the two got close, but she accused him of sexual harassment after she was denied the candidacy South Basildon.

Initially Bolter’s allegations gained significant traction in the media but Bird fought back by publishing text messages which implied a much closer relationship than she had presented. Following the release of the text messages the media began looking into Bolter’s CV and uncovered a series of lies within it.

She had claimed to have studies Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford. However, the university confirmed they had no record of her ever studying there. Journalists were also unable to locate any friends or room mates from her time there. She was also unclear on her age, leading to suggestions that her whole CV may have been fiction.

Party insiders have suggested that Bird’s removal might have more to do with internal party politics than anything he may have done. Although he encouraged her application for South Basildon once she was an approved candidate, he had initially failed her on the assessment for the candidates list.

With Bird out of the way the party chairman is now likely to appoint Lisa Duffy, who is Chief of Staff to Patrick O’Flynn MEP. Although Duffy’s relationship with O’Flynn is known to be strained, she is a close ally of party chairman Steve Crowther and her appointment would boost his position within the party.

Breitbart London understands that whilst the agreement between UKIP and Bird does not mention a financial settlement, he will get a pay off. He is believed to have signed the agreement to quell further negative press coverage, which he believes will further damage his future career. Insiders claim he also remains loyal to Nigel Farage and is keen to put the situation behind UKIP ahead of the General Election.

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Ukip Sales Literature So Frequently Distorts

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the 7 best bits of Suzanne Evans’ book

 

With their historic victory in Clacton, and running Labour very close in Heywood, it’s been a massive week for Ukip. The self-styled “People’s Army” are finally marching on Westminster.

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UKIP Deputy Chairman Suzanne Evans has helpfully written a book “Why vote Ukip?” to explain what the party stands for.

Apparently the media have been very unhelpful in the way we’ve explained Ukip policies. Who, us? Really?

Anyway, here are our seven favourite bits of Suzanne’s book…

1. The bit where she consistently overstates the cost of the EU

In the opening section she says “we hand over astonishingly high membership fees to the EU of some £55 million every day. We get some of that back, but less than half, by anyone’s analysis.”

Factchecking organisation Full Fact looked at this figure earlier in the year.

When you factor in the rebate, and payments the UK receives for agriculture and other subsidies, the actual figure is £33m a day.

Now, you may well argue that is still too much – and you are very welcome to. But the net cost of the EU to the UK is NOT £55m a day.

Notably, the first time Suzanne uses the £55m figure she adds a footnote that mentions the rebate. Subsequently in the book she just continually refers to the £55m figure.

2. The bit where nobody can visit Britain as a tourist without proving they have medical insurance.

“100% guaranteed to cut down queues at the airport!

Proof of private health insurance would also be a condition for tourists entering the UK.”

3. The bit where she thinks the whole of Britain may be concreted over soon

“Demand for housing has never been higher; we need to build a new house every seven seconds to keep up with demand from our growing population, a crazy state of affairs that puts our countryside and precious green space at risk. How long before Britain is completely concreted over at this rate and ours is no longer a green and pleasant land?”

Currently only 7% of the UK is actually built-up, so we think it will take quite a long time.

If you build one house of the average size (84 square metres) every 7 seconds for the next 57 years, we reckon you could just about do it.

4. The bit where she describes James Delingpole as a journalist

 

5. The bit where she lists some Government departments Ukip would seek to abolish, including “the Ministry of Justice”

Newsflash: Re-merging the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office is not going to save billions of pounds.

6. The bit where meat imports are going to give us Ebola

“UKIP will also impose far stricter controls on the import of bush meat from wild animals hunted in Africa, Asia, and South America which is frequently brought into the UK and sold illegally in butchers and markets. Not only does the trade have serious implications for the extinction of species, it can also pose a health risk and lead to outbreaks of serious diseases – such as Ebola – and UKIP will not be bound by political correctness in tackling this dangerous trade.”

 

7. The bit where there is actually a chapter that imagines what it would be like if Ukip formed a majority Government.

 

It’s probably quite a way off. Even Suzanne Evans herself is only predicting that Ukip will win “at least 8 MPs” in 2015.

Should you read the book?

If you DO fancy reading it, you can buy the book for £6.99. All sarcasm aside, it is an interesting insight into the policies and mindset that are obviously resonating with voters at by-elections.

And if we were sitting in Tory or Labour offices scratching our heads about how to re-engage people who are thinking of voting Ukip, we’d DEFINITELY read it.

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