Supreme Court rules in favour of UKIP

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of UKIP in its appeal against the Electoral Commission's order to repay £350k donated by Alan Bown in 2006.

Alan Bown is English, he was born here and continues to live in England.  Between December 2004 and February 2006 he was mysteriously removed from the electoral register and during that time he donated almost £350k to the party.

The Electoral Commission - little more than a sockpuppet for the LibLabCon - demanded the forfeiture of the full amount and UKIP appealed.

Westminster Magistrate's Court found in UKIP's favour and ruled that only £14,481 which the party accepted after being made aware that Bown wasn't on the electoral register should be repaid.  The Electoral Commission appealed the decision in the High Court which ruled in favour of their political paymasters and ordered a full forfeiture.

Today's ruling by seven Lords has restored the original ruling by Westminster Magistrate's Court and UKIP will only have to repay £14,481.

Iceland starts EU ascension talks

The European Empire has opened ascension talks with Iceland with a view to fast-tracking their application for EU membership.

A year ago, almost to the day, the Icelandic Parliament voted 33-28 to apply for vassalage of the European Empire.  Since then, opinion polls have consistently shown that around 70% of  Icelanders are opposed to EU membership.

There are some major barriers to Iceland's membership of the EU, even setting aside the massive public opposition to it.  Iceland's economy relies on fishing and tourism, both of which will be decimated by the European Empire.  Iceland also still allows commercial whaling which the EU government has banned and of course there is the compensation that the UK and Dutch governments want for bailing out the Icelandic bank, Icesave, which the Icelandic government can't pay because a referendum rejected it.

Let's hope the Icelandic government take's Nigel Farage's advice: don't do it!

ConDem's hand control of police to EU

The vichy ConDem government has predictably failed to keep its promise not to hand over any more powers to the European Empire by agreeing to the first power grab that comes along.

The European Empire has decided that what is really needed to promote free trade and to bring "peace, stability and prosperity to Europe" is for foreign police forces to have the right to instruct our police forces to investigate crimes and hand over evidence for alleged offences committed in a foreign country that may not even be offences here.

This new order - the European Investigation Order - coupled with the European Arrest Warrant is a recipe for disaster and a criminal breach of our constitution rights.  Under the European Investigation Order, police forces in another EU member state can instruct our police to investigate a UK citizen for breaking a foreign law, require them to hand over the evidence of their "crime" and then using the European Arrest Warrant, have them extradited without charge and tried under a foreign legal system.

Cast Iron Dave gave a cast iron promise not to hand over more powers to the European Empire and at the first opportunity his schizoprenic coalition government has turned the police into a common resource of the EU.

EU fines UK £150m for not advertising ERDF

The EU government has fined the UK over £150m for not putting the EU's logo on things that the EU Regional Development Fund has partly funded using UK taxes.

Confused?

It's quite simple.  The EU gives money to cultural and infrastructure projects all round Europe and in return the EU ring of stars logo has to be displayed prominently at the site of whatever the money has paid for and on letters, leaflets and posters to do with it to advertise the generosity of the ERDF.

Which is all well and good if it's someone else's money you're spending but the paltry amount of money the EU Regional Development Agency gives to the UK is far less than the obscene amount of money we hand over to the unaccountable, corrupt European Empire.  In exchange for the EU giving us back some of our own money we are supposed to put up plaques and signs with the EU logo to show them how grateful we are and when we don't, they take more of our money in fines.

These plaques and signs are a blight.  The most inappropriate one I've seen is at Blists Hill Victorian Town on the side of some restored Victorian machinery.  Incidentally, the new post office they built at Blists Hill has modern rubber flooring rather than authentic wooden flooring because of EU regulations but that's a different matter.

It's about time these advertisements were removed from the sides of roads and tourist attractions, they're a blight on the landscape and a seemingly permanent reminder of our subjection by the European Empire.

Don't mention the Waloons

Nigel Farage is back on fine form after his blatant publicity stunt ...

It's funny but some of the things Nigel said are really quite familiar.

Why ask if you're going to ignore the answer?

The BBC has been asking members of the public what laws they would repeal in a "Great Repeal Bill" following the launch of a new website fronted by Nick Clegg asking members of the public which laws they would do away with.

I imagine that most UKIP members - and, in fact, most members of the public - would put the European Communities Act at or near the top of the list.  So if leaving the EU comes out top of the wishes on this new website, we can expect the British government to start making arrangements to leave, right?  After all, Cleggy says "For the first time in a long time, government is listening and we'll put the best suggestions into practice" so it's reasonable to assume that Cleggy and Cast Iron Dave are going to listen to the electorate and when it's clear that voters think leaving the EU is the best suggestion, we can expect them to do the honourable thing, yes?

Presenter: You saw some of the ideas there and you know this is a very basic straw poll but it's probably resonating with quite a few people. Will you take any notice?

Cleggy: Well I don't think we can scrap football and I don't think we can sort of get rid of Europe but look we're turning things on its head. The traditional way of doing things is that government tells people what to do, that's the old way of doing things. We're saying tell us what you don't want us to do. We've already made a big start. We're already scrapping ID cards, we're gonna scrap rules, these vetting and barring rules that were stopping people from just helping their neighbours children, we're gonna stop the fingerprinting of children in schools without parental permission. We're doing a lot of these things already but we want to hear more from people and if you go online it'll be the biggest online crowd sourcing initiative by any government ever and it'll really I think get the ball rolling to get people involved and to make people feel they're in charge as well.

Presenter: So you get ideas in but what level of support does it take then for you to do something about it?  I mean if enough people said we want to get out of Europe on that site you'd have to do something about it wouldn't you?

Cleggy: No. Look, clearly as the lady said on the programme at the end of the day the government needs to decide. The key thing about this is that while ministers might be able to disagree with some of the suggestions, the suggestions will be out there.

Cleggy, like so many other politicians, seems to have forgotten that they are our servants, not the other way round.  They are elected to represent our interests and run the country how we want it run.  If most of us want out of the EU - and we do - then it is not for MPs to decide otherwise.

Six of one, half a kilo of the other

It looks like the European Empire is going to ban the sale of food by numbers after useless MEPs voted against an amendment to a pointless and badly worded directive that would have allowed the imperial outposts to choose which products to exclude from regulations that force retailers to sell by weight or volume.

Under the Directive, the British government will no longer be able to allow retailers to sell eggs by the dozen, bread rolls by the half dozen or even have "buy one, get one free" promotional offers.  Instead, you'll have to buy eggs and bread by the kilo and the BOGOF offer on bottles of Coke at your supermarket will have to be changed to BTLGTLF (Buy two litres, get two litres free) - hardly trips off the tongue does it?

Any sensible government would tell the European Empire to buy one and get one free but of course the europhile ConDem coalition has come out with its usual weak posturing which is already the norm for its dealings with their masters on the continent.

Caroline Spelman, the Minister for the Environment, says that the Directive appears to go against common sense.  Appears to go against common sense.  Appears?  It entirely defies logic!

Syed Kamall, one of the Tory fifth columnist MEPs, says "In Britain, millions of pounds could be wasted by shops and bakers having to change packaging just to comply with a directive which nobody here asked for or voted for".  Well that's easily sorted Syed, give us a vote on membership of the EU or even just the referendum we were promised on the Lisbon Treaty, it's being changed after all which gives the British government the right to put it back through the ratification process again.

Except "Cast Iron" Dave doesn't want to give us the referendum he promised does he?  He's told the European Empire that as long as they don't change anything in the Lisbon Treaty that affects the UK he won't put it back in for ratification.  The only opportunity he is ever going to have to give us the referendum he promised and he's wriggled out of it once again.

This sort of ridiculous meddling by the European Empire is never going to stop, it's only going to get worse as they try to cement their control over us.  The only way to stop stupid Directives like this one is to leave the EU but the ConDem coalition isn't going to give us that choice.

Farage will be "insufferable" if England beat Germany

Nigel Farage, the Europe-hating xenophobe, has told the Telegraph that he will be "insufferable" if England beat Germany today.

Farage is pretty unique amongst Europe-hating xenohpobes in that he's married to a German. Who is a European. And foreign.

His wife Kirsten will be supporting Germany, he will be supporting England and his two daughters?  Their mother has apparently got them shouting "Come on Germany" to wind him up.

I can sympathise with Nigel's predicament - my two step sons are a quarter Scottish and they sometimes pretend to support Scotland to wind me up and have even managed to get their younger brother and sister to do it as well.  They don't mean it of course but they have a wicked sense of humour and love winding people up (wonder where they got that from).  One of them even put on a Celtic t-shirt the other day and refused to take it off until I told him he wasn't allowed to leave the house unless he did!

New EU Membership Referendum Petition

No-one in Britain under the age of 53 has ever had a chance to give their opinion on our country's position within the European Union (EU).

Currently, we have one foot in the EU, and one foot outside it. This is detrimental to our interests, and to the interests of the EU, both politically and economically, and we need to take a decision as to where our future as a nation lies. This decision must be taken by the people, and our politicians must abide by it. When that decision is made, then we will look to our politicians to show strong and decisive leadership, and to take our country on the course we choose.

We believe that the time to make our decision is NOW! Register your support now at

http://haveyoursay.eu/

The Target for this EU membership petition is 100,000

Frank Maloney

When not dedicating his time to UKIP, Frank is one of the UK’s most successful boxing promoters. Frank and his team are relied upon by media giant Sky Sports to setup exciting fights to televise and he has managed many of the world’s greatest ever boxers including former heavy weight champion Lennox Lewis.

Sadly, Frank’s campaign for the London constituency of Barking in the 2010 GE ended in disappointment, painting a very different picture from Frank’s reception on the street. I can testify that many Barking residents showed a genuine fondness for Frank and his desire for jobs, better housing and an end to unlimited immigration. Situated in London’s East End, Barking is one of the capital’s most deprived regions and is home to large migrant communities. Social cohesion is under severe threat and this is demonstrated by the fact that in the 6 years until the 2010 election there were 12 BNP members of the Barking and (neighbouring town) Dagenham council.

There were real fears the BNP would win the seat and this is something Frank, like any other conscious politician was desperate to prevent. Nigel Farage often talks of a group of people who vote BNP with their fingers holding their noses to avoid the stench- these people are not racist but they want action to stop large scale immigration. One can be sure that many of 1,300 people who voted for Frank were of this category and Frank should be congratulated for taking votes away from the BNP.

In the end, the seat was one by former Labour Minister Margret Hodge. Although loathed by many of her constituents, she won a record vote of 24,628 increasing her vote by 6.5%. Many political analysts have commented that, due to the prospect of the BNP winning the seat, migrants voted Labour in droves. Apparently Labour campaigners visited local religious and cultural centres alarming minorities to the fear of a BNP win. Despite an extensive campaign -(Frank personally paid for thousands of leaflets, newspapers and badges) -Frank’s noble pursuit was unfortunately doomed from the start.

Nevertheless, Frank is one of the Party’s greatest assets. Partly this is simply because you must ask what Party wouldn’t want to have on board a high-profile, highly successful businessman working in the exciting world of entertainment sports. But there is more to Frank than just this; he is no ordinary UKIP candidate.

Frank is attracted to UKIP because of its core belief that Britain must leave the EU and little else. Frank’s campaign was humanist and compassionate, he connected to voters on issues like jobs and called for government intervention in the jobs market. He would never have told one of the people he canvassed that our manifesto would slash government budgets, not because of the electoral unpopularity of such a remark but because Frank actually opposes the idea. Frank reminds us that despite a right-wing leadership, UKIP is actually a broad coalition of those who oppose the European Union from all sides of the political spectrum. We cannot be surprised the neoonservative (perhaps New Right) UKIP ideology puts off left-wing eurosceptics from voting UKIP.

The great liberal thinker Ludwig Von Mises wrote that "No politician is any longer interested in the question whether a measure is fit to produce the ends aimed at. What alone counts for him is whether the majority of the voters favor or reject it."
Cynical though it may be this is true. To appeal to a greater electorate, UKIP should not ignore calls to shift a little to the left. This does not mean abandoning our pledge to Europe: our left-wing supporters like Frank are just as Eurosceptic. To reach the widest electorate possible UKIP must become a catchall party. Blair made Labour catchall in the nineties with the "New Labour project". He shifted the party to the right for popularity but as soon as Labour got into power they abandoned their plans and we ended up with nationalised banks just when we thought they'd got rid of Clause 4.

As a party we must broaden our access to potential voters by shifting towards the left. Without doing so we have potentially much to lose including the support of people like Frank; yet if we do so we have much to gain.

EU insists on vetting UK budget before parliament

The EU President, Herman van Humpy-Pumpy, was in Downing Street yesterday to tell David Camoron what he is and isn't allowed to do with the budget.


Make yourself at home President van Rompuy, sir.Finance Ministers from other EU provinces have, according to the BBC, "moved closer to agreeing to allow other governments to study their annual budgets before they are seen by national parliaments". The UK government has apparently said no but the EUrocrats are saying that a compromise has been found which will be interesting to see because it is illegal to disclose the budget to the European Empire before it is presented to parliament.

Whether Camoron and Georgy Porgy cave in to the European Empire and break English law to satisfy the demands of their EU masters will be a good indication as to whether we can expect the ConDem government to honour their promise not to give any more power to the European Empire.  They have already broken their promise to repatriate powers from the European Empire so it doesn't look too promising, does it?

The euro will collapse within 5 years

Experts are predicting the collapse of the Euro in the next 5 years unless the French and German governments can convince voters that it's a good idea to bail out bankrupt member states and hand over more sovereignty to keep it afloat.

Worryingly, the same experts are warning that the financial difficulties could lead to an official federal EU, as opposed to the effective federal EU that we have now.

The UK economy is getting battered because of the impending failure of the Euro even though we aren't a member of that particular white elephant because we are still shouldering some of the cost of propping the currency up and the ill thought out financial regulations that the EU are cooking up at a frightening rate are being applied equally to us, not just the bankrupt Eurozone.

Lord Monckton appointed Deputy Leader

Lord Pearson has appointed Viscount Christopher Monckton as Joint Deputy Leader of UKIP, alongside David Campbell Bannerman.

Lord Monckton is an outspoken and respected climate change realist and a controversial public figure - exactly what is needed to attract publicity and show the voting public that UKIP is different to the tired old parties.

However, this appointment does raise some concerns for me personally.  Of the three top people in the party, two are Scots and two are Lords.

Whether we like it or not, UKIP is an English party.  In the general election this year, UKIP retained only one deposit in both Scotland and Wales.  A party led by Scots opposing devolution for England does not sit well with English voters and having two Lords in charge isn't going to do a lot for our ambition to attract voters from all parties rather than the Tories (we do attract members from other parties but it's still mainly the Tories).  And Lord Monckton isn't without his Scottish ties either - he's pictured on the UKIP website wearing his family tartan and he founded the Tory breakaway group, the Scottish Peoples Alliance (now the New Party).

I remain as committed to UKIP as I always have been but the Brit/Scot leadership is really not going to improve our chances of electoral success.

Thirsk and Malton Result

Toby Horton, UKIP's candidate for the Thirsk & Malton constituency, polled 6.6% in yesterday's election to come in in fourth place.

Toby almost doubled the Liberal Party's vote and was just shy of half the Labour Party's vote.

Although I'm sure he's disappointed not to have won, he should at least be reassured by the fact that he broke the 5% barrier to retain his deposit, beat the Liberal Party and achieved over a 100% swing for UKIP.

Thirsk & Malton

Good luck to Toby Horton who today finds out whether he will become UKIP's first MP.

The Thirsk and Malton election was postponed due to the sad death of the previous UKIP candidates, John Boakes and is being held today.

Toby used to be Conservative constituency association chairman for William Hague's constituency and once stood against Tony Blair in Sedgefield.

Best of luck Toby!