The Establishment Went All Out To Crush UKIP. In Doing So, It Has Surely Destroyed Itself.

Those of us who were always vehemently against the lunacy of a Tory-UKIP pact, or for that matter any other form of pact, can rest easy, for the next ten years at least. The way the entire establishment, and the Tory party in particular, has sought to smear UKIP once again as racists, xenophobes, homophobes and all-around-the-houses-aphobes during the past few weeks has put a nuclear blast-proof shield wall in the way of such a prospect. The vast majority of UKIP members would rather eat their own intestines than enter a pact with the Tories, and probably anyone else for that matter.

When I started writing this blog entry I was tempted to write an entry in the sarcastic 'Agent Cameron' style, so central is this arrogant, bungling fool as a recruiting sergeant to the UKIP cause. It's not as though I am short of material: this week it was revealed that Tory central office entered into a pact with the Guardian - the Guardian, for goodness sake - to feed it anti-UKIP stories as long as the paper didn't reveal the source. It is difficult to know whom of the two will be most embarrassed by this, but Cameron has surely surpassed our wildest expectations by demoralising both Tories and the Liberal Left in the same gesture.

But this is not a time for humour. It is a time for deep and genuine anger at the way not only UKIP but the entire democratic process has been traduced and rubbished by the vicious smears and distortions we had had to endure. You don't have to be even remotely sympathetic to UKIP to be truly revolted to see what our forefathers fought and died for cheapened by a shallow, rent-seeking Political Class which is clearly at the same time both arrogant and terrified.

It is, very slowly, dawning on some  commentators and pundits that something rather big is happening, but they live in denial over how big this could truly get: writing in the Telegraph, Tim Stanley at least acknowledged how utterly loathed the Metropolitan elite is outside of it's London bubble-world, and that UKIP was at the centre of the backlash against it's insufferably smug, arrogant assumptions. However, he then went on to ruin his piece by smirking at UKIP's hankering for another Britain before complacently adding that of course people would fall back into line at the next General Election.

Well, Tim is right on one score, we do hanker for another Britain: one where democracy isn't cheapened and the people aren't treated like annoying peasants by a Political and Media Class wholly divorced from the real world. When questioned about the morality of their concerted smear campaign, they have bleated that "UKIP can expect the same levels of scrutiny as anyone else if it wants to play in the big leagues." But we have not received the same level of scrutiny, we have received a witch-hunt. UKIP's policies have not been scrutinised in any meaningful way by the media as the public has a right to expect. Instead, admittedly distasteful comments by very minor figures in the party, some of them dating back several years, have been dredged up and paraded as evidence of UKIP's institutionalised evil. Meanwhile, 17 members of the LibLabCon parties were arrested on serious charges. What did we hear of this from the mainstream media? ALMOST NOTHING.

As many have noted, none of us have seen anything quite like the past few weeks. The entire political and media classes have shown a united and very ugly face against a single political upstart party that it saw as a threat. Those who thought the expression "LibLabCon" was a hysterical overreaction to the status quo have been given pause for thought. Those who thought naively that the advent of the internet had forced the mainstream media to serve it's readers rather than the needs of rich proprietors have been proved spectacularly wrong. Those who thought we continue to live in a democracy must now accept, however grudgingly, that this is a tenuous assumption at best.

Not just UKIP supporters but the entire British public must be deeply uneasy about the sickness revealed at the heart of our national life. In exposing it's true face to the public, the establishment has surely now destroyed itself.

Vote UKIP. Get Freedom.

2014 MEP lists announced

The regional lists have been announced today and they are topped by the strongest candidates we could have hoped for.  If UKIP wins the EU elections next year as expected we will see some fantastic MEPs working for our withdrawal from the EU.

What is nice to see is the number of women who have made the lists this time round and without a quota in sight.  The LibLabCon parties have to force their members to choose women candidates through all-female shortlists while we choose them based on merit.  With two lists topped by women and another three in second place we should see at least two or three female UKIP MEPs.

Eastern
Patrick O'Flynn	22,610
Stuart Agnew	21,441
Tim Aker	6,841
Michael Heaver	6,054
Andrew Smith	3,475
Mick McGough	2,517
Andy Monk	2,374

East Midlands
Roger Helmer	19,590
Margot Parker	9,340
Jonathan Bullock	3,245
Nigel Wickens	2,242
Barry Mahoney	2,229

London
Gerard Batten	26,093
Paul Oakley	8,627
Elizabeth Jones	4,667
Lawrence Webb	4,275
Alastair McFarlane	2,869
Andrew McNeilis	2,736
Anthony Brown	1,750
Peter Whittle	1,278

North East
Jonathan Arnott	9,683
Richard Elvin	4,025
John Tennant	2,530

North West
Paul Nuttall	53,313
Louise Bours	6,981
Steven Woolfe	6,372
Shneur Odze	5,247
Michael McManus	4,909
Lee Slaughter	2,322
Simon Noble	2,099
Peter Harper	1,587

South East
Nigel Farage	89.909
Janice Atkinson	23,304
Diane James	18,131
Ray Finch	13,344
Donna Edmunds	5,475
Patricia Culligan	5,192
Nigel Jones	4,225
Alan Evans	2,491
Simon Strutt	2,463
Barry Cooper	1,982

South West
William Dartmouth	16,796
Julia Reid	11,155
Gawain Towler	6.174
Tony McIntyre	4,391
Robert Smith	4,366
Keith Crawford	2,856

West Midlands
Jill Seymour	10.483
James Carver	4,763
Bill Etheridge	4,423
Phil Henrick	3,080
Michael Wrench	2,818
Michael Green	1,849
Lyndon Jones	1,717

Yorkshire & N Lincs
Jane Collins	10,264
Amjad Bashir	8,349
Mike Hookem	3,136
Gary Shores	2,500
Jason Smith	2,058
Anne Murgatroyd

Wales
Nathan Gill	1,254
James Cole	697
Caroline Jones	668
David Rowlands	639

Northern Ireland
Henry Reilly

MEP Candidate Shortlists

The final shortlists for next year's EU elections have been published complete with points scored from the assessment days.  Ballot papers will be sent to members shortly who will decide where the candidates will appear on the regional lists.  The higher up the list a candidate appears, the more likely they are to be elected.

England
Name	Points
Nigel Farage	97
Paul Nuttall	89
Janice Atkinson	88
Patrick O'Flynn	87
Stuart Agnew	86
Ray Finch	85
Jonathan Arnott	85
Roger Helmer	85
Paul Oakley	83
Gerard Batten	82
Godfrey Bloom	81
Margot Parker	81
Tim Aker	81
Andrew Smith	81
Michael McManus	80
Jill Seymour	80
Gawain Towler	80
Julia Reid	79
Louise Bours	79
Michael Heaver	78
Andrew McNeilis	78
Jane Collins	78
John Tennant	78
Phil Henrick	78
Jonathan Bullock	77
Diane James	76
Jason Smith	76
Bill Etheridge	76
Amjad Bashir	76
Anthony Brown	75
Elizabeth Jones	75
Shneur Odze	75
Tony McIntyre	75
James Carver	75
William Dartmouth	75
Lawrence Webb	74
Keith Crawford	74
Alastair McFarlane	74
Steven Woolfe	73
Michael Wrench	72
Michael Green	72
Peter Whittle	72
Robert Smith	72
Lee Slaughter	72
Nigel Jones	72
Mike Hookem	72
Peter Harper	71
Simon Strutt	71
Simon Noble	71
Andy Monk	71
Patricia Culligan	71
Alan Stevens	70
Mick McGough	70
Lyndon Jones	70
Donna Edmunds	70
Barry Mahoney	69
Barry Cooper	69
Nigel Wickens	68
Gary Shores	68
Richard Elvin	67

Scotland
Name	Points
David Coburn	75
Mike Scott-Hayward	75
Christopher Monckton	73
Otto Inglis	73
Paul Henke	70
Malcolm Macaskill	66
Ross Durance	63
Steven McKeane	62
Kevin Newton	56

Wales
Name	Points
Nathan Gill	83
James Cole	79
Gareth Dunn	76
David Rowlands	74
Caroline Jones	69
Martyn Ford	69
Brian Morris	63

Northern Ireland
Henry Reilly

Eastern
Patrick O'Flynn
Stuart Agnew
Tim Aker
Andrew Smith
Michael Heaver
Andy Monk
Mick McGough

East Midlands
Roger Helmer
Margot Parker
Jonathan Bullock
Barry Mahoney
Nigel Wickens

London
Paul Oakley
Gerard Batten
Andrew McNeilis
Anthony Brown
Elizabeth Jones
Lawrence Webb
Alastair McFarlane
Peter Whittle

North East
Jonathan Arnott
John Tennant
Richard Elvin

North West
Paul Nuttall
Michael McManus
Louise Bours
Shneur Odze
Steven Woolfe
Lee Slaughter
Peter Harper
Simon Noble

South East
Nigel Farage
Janice Atkinson
Ray Finch
Diane James
Nigel Jones
Simon Strutt
Patricia Culligan
Alan Stevens
Donna Edmunds
Barry Cooper

South West
Gawain Towler
Julia Reid
Tony McIntyre
William Dartmouth
Keith Crawford
Robert Smith

West Midlands
Jill Seymour
Phil Henrick
Bill Etheridge
James Carver
Michael Wrench
Michael Green
Lyndon Jones

Yorks & N Lincs
Godfrey Bloom
Jane Collins
Jason Smith
Amjad Bashir
Mike Hookem
Gary Shores