Cameron bottles leaders' debates

David Cameron is trying to bottle out of appearing on leaders' debates with Nigel Farage before next year's elections.

Cameron is using the excuse that it's not fair that the leader of the third largest party in the UK that won this year's EU elections and has elected representatives in all four home nations and at every level of government should get a place in the debates when the leader of the Green Party doesn't.

Whether the leader of the Green Party should get a place in the debates or not is debatable. They're challenging the Lib Dems for fourth place but that's more of a reflection on the Lib Dems than the Greens.

Cameron is pretending he's standing up for principals but really he's just scared to share a stage with Nigel Farage. We've had Bottler Brown, now we've got Decanter Dave.

Remember when David Cameron accused Gordon Brown of being a bottler in 2009?

Whatever Scotland decides, it's time for an English Parliament

The Scots will vote in their first ever independence referendum tomorrow and it's statistically neck and neck. Most polls have a 3% margin of error and there's less than a 3% gap in two of the five polls conducted in the last 30 days and a whopping 7% in favour of independence in one.

	Yes	No	Don't Know
Survation	42%	48%	10%
TNS-BRMB	38%	39%	23%
YouGov	45%	50%	6%
ICM	49%	42%	9%
Panelbase	46%	47%	7%

The referendum really could go either way but whatever the result the next piece of business that needs taking care of is how England is governed. This is something that should have been taken care of in 1997 when the Scots and Welsh voted for their devolved governments but that didn't suit the regionalisation agenda so the union has been left seriously unbalanced for more than a decade.

Gordon Brown on Monday demanded guarantees that Scotland would have a say in how England (or "the regions" as he calls England) is run if they vote no tomorrow, that England's wealth would continue to be redistributed to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and that the Barnett Formula which subsidises Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will remain in place forever. David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg all agreed to those demands yesterday.

David Cameron is facing a revolt by his own MPs after agreeing to Gordon Brown's demands and promising more powers for Scotland with nothing for England. Some Tory MPs have promised a "bloodbath" if he tries to get the extra powers through the British parliament and several Tory MPs have said they want to ban MPs elected in Scotland from voting on things only affecting England. This means an English Parliament would have to be created because anything that costs money affects the amount of money available for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland get, thus giving their MPs a vote on it.

Social media and the comments sections on newspaper websites and blogs are awash with outrage at the promises being made to Scotland and demands for an English Parliament. UKIP has long had a policy of redressing the balance with an English Parliament of sorts, first with the daft English votes on English laws idea that could never work and lately for a devolved English Parliament. Nigel Farage has said many times that UKIP would create a devolved English Parliament and Paul Nuttall wrote a policy paper on how it would work. It has always been sidelined at the last minute by whichever Big Britisher has been in charge of policy but now is the time to dust off Paul Nuttall's policy on an English Parliament and show the people of England that we really are the peoples' party, listening to what they want and promising to act on it.

Gold or €uro - where would you put your money?

With all the talk about the imminent collapse of the €uro, there's one important piece of €uro-trivia that the media seems to have forgotten.

When the great saviour of the human race, Gordon Brown, sold all our gold reserves having announced it in advance and depressing the gold price to a fraction of its real value, he ploughed the proceeds into €uro!

So not only did he lose the taxpayer £7bn with the gold sell-off, he then invested the money in a failing currency that was doomed from inception.  Way to go Gordo!

Devious Dave's dishonest record

A heated discussion with two Tory activists on Twitter has prompted me to take a look at Cast Iron Dave's record on keeping promises.

He promised a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution - a "cast iron guarantee" - and broke the promise.  Instead he's promised to "renegotiate" the UK's relationship with the European Empire - an empty promise as it requires the unanimous agreement of every member state which, as anyone with even the most basic understanding of how the European Empire works knows, is never going to happen.

He promised to stop MPs elected in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from voting on English laws so they can't hide behind the fact that what they're doing doesn't affect their own constituents.  "For English-only legislation, we would have a sort of English grand committee" he said almost exactly a year ago to the day.  Now he says he will stop them from amending English laws but not from voting on them.  Another broken promise from Cast Iron Dave.

He told the Conservative Party Spring Conference this week that it was "Time for Change" but how can he promise change when the European Empire makes all the important decisions?  Tinkering round the edges doesn't constitute the kind of change he's promising.  Another broken promise from Devious Dave.

Cast Iron Dave is a dishonest man.  He has dumped the traditional Tory ideals of euroscepticism, libertarianism, personal responsibility and rolling back the state and instead adopted the Labour ideals of eurofederalism, authoritarianism and the nanny state.  All that's different is the colour of their ties.

Whether Gordon Brown or Devious Dave win the election makes no real difference to the vast majority of us.  The European Empire will continue to run the country while the Prime Minister exercises the role of a regional administrator, making local laws as long as they don't contradict the directives issued by their imperial masters.

Don't waste your vote on the LibLabCon in the general election, vote for the only party that can make a difference by withdrawing from the European Empire and restoring sovereignty to Westminster.

Gordon's Gift to UKIP

MPs have voted to hold a referendum on changing the voting system in general elections to the Alternative Vote system although it is very unlikely that it will happen before the general election this year.

Gordon Brown has opposed electoral reform for the last decade but has suddenly decided that now is the right time to overhaul the voting system.  Why?  It's simple ...

El Gordo knows that there will be tens, if not hundreds of thousands of traditional Labour voters casting protest votes in the next election.  Their only hope of clinging on to any sort of power is through the Alternative Vote system where rebellious voters can cast their protest vote and still vote Labour as second choice.

UKIP was criticised in some quarters for asking voters to lend them their vote during last year's EU elections because some people thought it might make the party look weak but Labour aren't even asking for people to lend them their vote, they're asking them for their second choice!  Desperate doesn't even begin to describe it.

There is an advantage of the the Alternative Vote system, though.  For some reason, most people still vote for the LibLabCon even though they've let us all down over and over again because they still, for some bizarre reason, want one of the LibLabCon to win.  But as we've seen in EU elections, if they don't think the result matters, voters will vote for someone different and if they think they can vote for UKIP and whichever faction of the LibLabCon they normally vote for then we could see a significant number of UKIP wins based on second preference votes.  It worked for the English Democrats in Doncaster, imagine what the fourth biggest party in the UK could do with a voting system that wasn't inherently biased against anyone who doesn't belong to the LibLabCon coalition.

If he can rush this bill through Parliament and get the referendum before the election this year, Brown's desperate attempt to cling on to power could be the biggest gift UKIP has had since ... well, since humiliating Labour and the Lib Dims in the EU elections last year!

UKIP's Godfrey Bloom on Alex Jones Show Jan 2010

UKIP's Godfrey bloom talks to Alex Jones about  global government, the EU's corpus juris, common law, global warming, QUANGOs, Common Purpose, bankers, swine flu and Gordon Brown - amongst other things.

Bloom described Gordon Brown as "a dysfunctional individual", to which Jones added "there's something wrong with that man", "he's some kind of freak"!

Alex says of UKIP, "these guys have really got it right". Well, there's an endorsement!

Wow!



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Support for UKIP surges by 12 points:

As announced on the BBC News at 10 by the BBCs Political Editor Nick Robinson. UKIP is now on 19% in the lastest Euro Elections voting intention poll. The results show UKIPs support has surged by 12 points in just one week and are now neck and neck with Labour. UKIPs campaign hasnt even really started yet. Look out for some suprises next week !

For months, even up until recently, UKIP’s chances have been talked down by the media outlets. “Collapsed”, “destroyed”, finished”. These are some of the terms which have been used to describe the party’s chances in June. Finally, the media will have to start taking us seriously in this election.

BROWN’S ELECTION MELTDOWN

The Daily Express are predicting a election meltdown for Brown.

LABOUR is on course to come fourth in next month’s Euro elections, the party’s senior MPs fear. Canvassers campaigning for the ­European Parliament poll on June 4 are detecting a surge towards the UK Independence Party.

Some fear even traditional Labour voters are ready to back the anti-EU party as a protest vote. But the public anger against the mainstream parties is not translating into support for the extremist British National Party, Labour insiders claim.

One senior backbencher said: “We really could finish fourth in this ­election. That is how low Gordon Brown has brought us. The voters hate him and they want to punish Labour.” Another Labour backbencher said: “On the doorsteps, people are saying ‘Voting BNP is a step too far but UKIP are getting my vote’.”

London MEP Candidate Lawrence Webb joins Axe The Beer Tax protest at Westminster

March 8th saw Parliament Square full of 6ft pints and some very bemused Tamil protesters who are under the impression that Gordon Brown can do something about a civil war in Sri Lanka (clearly they have fallen for his leader of the world impression).

However Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling can do something about the crisis in the pub trade in this country and the 33% of the price of a pint which goes straight to HM Treasury. Instead of raising the price of beer & cider still further and stopping anyone going to the pub (now that they have persecuted smokers into staying away).

UKIP fully support the Axe The Beer Tax campaign and Nigel Farage will be speaking on this subject on Channel 4's Political Slot at 19.55pm on Thursday 9th April. Lawrence Webb, London Regional Organiser and one of London's MEP candidates, was down at Parliament Square to lend his voice to the protesters.

www.savethepub.co.uk

Gordon Brown meets the real opposition when he visits Strasbourg

Nigel Farage publicises a few home truths as Gordon Brown seaks in the European Parliament.

The Propaganda offensive starts ...

The BBC have just had Peter Mandelson on the Breakfast programme to talk about the strikes and the British government's plan is now clear.

Gordon Brown has already talked about how the strikers are irresponsible and said that they should go back to work and then talked about stuff that was of no relevance to the strikers' complaints. Now Mandelson has done the same.

They've both been talking about the "benefits" of the EU laws that are responsible for the strikers' complaints, the "benefits" being that we can go elsewhere on the continent to work. They've both said that the claims that UK workers are being banned from jobs are false - of course they are, that's not one of the complaints of the strikers. They've also said that claims that Italian workers brought in to work on the Lindsey refinery are working for less than minimum wage is false but it's not the the wage they're being paid that's the problem, it's the fact that they're here at all while local workers are being made redundant.

Alan Johnson, the English Health Secretary, went off message yesterday and suggested that ECJ rulings on EU employment law have been unhelpful. This prompted a spokesman for the British government to say that they might legally challenge the rulings, a futile activity that would waste millions of pounds of taxpayers money and take years if it ever happened which, of course, it won't.

The British government have called in ACAS to mediate which is another expensive and futile activity - membership of the EU is the cause of the problem and ACAS neither have the power to repeal the European Communities Act or force the British government to do so. The only thing the British government can do - and they will do this in the next day or two - is abuse anti-terrorism laws to break the strikers up just like they did with the protesting lorry drivers a few years ago.

Nick Clegg has taken the opportunity to defend his beloved EU, saying that there are more people from the UK living and working in the EU than EU citizens working in the UK like this has any relevance whatsoever to the current situation. Of course there are more people from the UK living in the EU than peopel form the EU living in the UK - the EU covers most of the continent whereas the UK is a couple of islands. Clegg said "If every EU country followed suit, we would have to cope with a massive influx of British people who work overseas". If anyone can untangle that sentence to figure out what point he's trying to make (how can "we" have an influx of people leaving the country?) please let me know.

The Tories have also got in on the act although not, as you would hope from Her Majesty's Loyal (stop sniggering) Opposition, by giving the British government a kicking and proposing their own solution. No, William Hague has said that the Tories strongly support the free movement of labour within the EU which, of course, means that the Tories strongly support the UK remaining in the EU.

The only people making any sense in all this are UKIP. Farage said "'British jobs for British workers' will only happen when Britain is run by and for Britons." That's rather uncannily like what I said on Friday - "UKIP is the only major party committed to leaving the EU and running our country by ourselves, for ourselves." I wonder if Nigel reads Bloggers4UKIP ...

Total exposes Brown's "British jobs" fraud

Total have exposed Gordon Brown's "British jobs for British people" pledge for what it is - a big fat lie.

Gordon Brown can't do a single thing to ensure that jobs in the UK are given to people from these isles because control of our borders was handed over to Federal Europe years ago.

Total has awarded a contract to an Italian company to put some new equipment into Lindsey Oil Refinery who are sending over 300 Italians to do the work instead of employing locals. Workers at the refinery walked out on strike 3 days ago and thousands of other workers in the energy industry have walked out in support of them.

The British government can do nothing to stop this except abuse anti-terrorism laws to break the pickets. They can't give Total or their Italian contractor a bung to employ locals because that would be illegal under EU law. They can't stop the Italian workers from coming over to work here because that would be illegal under EU law.

The LibLabCon are all committed to keeping the UK in the EU, we have to leave and UKIP is the only major party committed to leaving the EU and running our country by ourselves, for ourselves.

Update:

More on this story ...

British taxes for foreign workers - UKIP
British Jobs for British Workers? - More to life than shoes
These oil refinery strikes - Temporary UKIP Blog
Hundreds join refineries walkout - Steve Fowler

Bloom money.

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Odd where the Government gets their ideas from , isnt it?

The latest statement about personal tax allowances by Gordon Brown have a ring off familiarity about them,

Tax allowance 'may rise to £10,000'
Gordon Brown is considering raising the tax-free allowance to £10,000 as part of measures to help families struggling with the credit crunch, a close ally has claimed.

John McFall, chairman of the influential Commons Treasury committee, said he knows the move - which would effectively exempt millions of low-paid workers from income tax - is "in the Prime Minister's mind".

Currently workers do not pay any tax on the first £6,035 they earn.

But Labour MP Mr McFall called for that figure to be raised significantly.

"We should put money into the pocket of those with the lowest incomes.

"These are the people who most need our support," he told a newspaper.

"This would also be a fiscal stimulus since this group is most likely to spend rather than save."

Upping the limit would also benefit those earning more, because they too would only start paying basic rate tax at £10,000, he added.

Now where have I heard something very similar to that before? Oh I know, the UKIP tax policy,

Make all taxpayers better off (mostly by £1,100 per year) and take a further 4.5 million lower paid out of income tax altogether - by raising the tax-free personal allowance to £9,000

HT- EX

Shropshire Star: Basic rule of finance ignored by Mr Brown

The following letter was published in the Shropshire Star tonight by Malcolm Hurst, UKIP's PPC for Telford:

Basic rule of finance ignored by Mr Brown

The basic rule of finance is don't spend more than you earn. Second is don't borrow more than you can repay. In other words: live within your means.

Not so for the Labour government. It would appear that Gordon Brown has invented his own rules. For 11 years he has conned the population and parliament into living beyond their means. The inevitible result which most people saw coming was the crash.

And, would you believe it, he reckons that the only way to save the British economy is to keep on spending and borrowing.

He has all the answers. After all for 11 years he had been in control of it all. Incompetent stockbrokers or banks will be bailed out by the Brown government - with your money.

If you are a hardworking individual with financial difficulties, however, tough luck - you can go bankrupt.

And if you think you can handle your affairs sensibly, then don't worry he will keep on spending your money for you, building up further debt. It is called fancy names to confuse us: "government borrowing" or the "national debt". But have no doubt, you will pay for it. When will we get a sensible government?

Malcolm Hurst
UKIP Telford