Why your EU Parliamentary vote should NOT automatically reflect your UK Parliamentary Vote.

Remember David Cameron saying he wanted to FREEZE the EU budget?

Remember the UK Parliament voted to ask him to get a CUT in the EU budget?

Remember David Cameron claiming he had won his EU budget negotiations and got the first ever CUT in the EU budget? (Lets forget for now that this 'cut' actually meant the UK paying MORE).

Well that was then ...

Now the EU parliament have voted on the proposed cut - and rejected it.

Why am I blogging on this little bit of news?

Because Labour MP's voted for the cut at Westminster before Cameron went to the negotiations - but Labour MEPs have just voted AGAINST THE CUT in Brussels...

So called 'Labour' MEPs have not loyal to the UK Labour party - they are not under the control of the UK Labour party and do not work in the UK's interests.

Even those who vote Labour in UK elections should think VERY CAREFULLY before voting Labour in the EU elections... Labour MEP's have 'gone native' and are dedicated to the EU's interests, not the UK's.

Former Nazi elected as Labour councillor

A former Nazi and Hitler fan has been elected as a Labour councillor in Milton Keynes.

Margaret Burke and her ex-husband ran a militant Nazi group in Milton Keynes in the 80s.  When her marriage broke up she left the Nazi group and decided to become an animal rights terrorist for the Animal Liberation Front which ended up landing her in prison.

Burke says she has repented and was brainwashed all those years ago.  That may well be the case but next time UKIP is wrongly accused of being full of racists or xenophobic you can bet Ms Burke will be thrown right back at them.

In UKIP we ban Nazis from joining the party, in Labour they get them elected.

Eastleigh - what's next?

Thurrock reports ~

An interesting week it was, on the one hand and little reported fact is London mayoral candidate for 2012 Lawrence Webb is fighting the Gooshays by-election (21st March) in Havering, Essex -  our friends and neighbors.

We - Ukip Thurrock turned out, provided support by way of leafleting and from the responses received today at the doorstep it's looking good ;) but and its a big 'BUT'. Must we be complacent? and NO is the answer I suggest for whilst the current UKIP surge is gaining momentum we surely must prepare for the dips? 

No, I am not going negative, merely I suggest it  is something to be considered by each and every reader, for whilst the surge toward interest in UKIP is attracting much support we cannot succumb to any and such denial that 'there may be trouble ahead". The road is long and maybe difficult.

A pragmatic position.

On the other had this week we received a touching 'post it' note attached to the back of a (chq) donation. "To UKIP, thanks for booklet and letter. This £5 is a one off payment , I cannot do more or help with things as I'm in my 80's and not very mobile. good luck".


Anyone with a heart can but not align with and be heartened upon receiving such a message, it strikes at the very discord within our so called elected representatives and how they are disconnected from the electorate. Is it any wonder voters are disenfranchised with the political system within our country, a nation in crisis and a sea shift change in our midst.

Unsurprisingly as you read this my support goes to those that feel they have no voice, an unheard community that desire real change and are sick to the back teeth of the current regime.

Vote UKIP.

Polling suggests UKIP will hold balance of power after election

UKIP is outpolling the Lib Dems by more than 2 to 1 and more importantly, would hold the balance of power if the polling turned into actual vote share in the next general election.

In Survation's latest poll for the Guardian, Labour are still out in front on a slightly diminished 39% with the Tories in second place on a record low of 27%.  UKIP are third with a projected 17% of the vote with the Lib Dems trailing in 4th place with just 8%.

It means that for the first time the only way the Tories could form a government would be with UKIP's help.  I'm not suggesting that UKIP should form an electoral pact with the Tories - I would never support such a move unless UKIP was the majority partner - but supporting a minority Tory government on a policy by policy basis would put UKIP in an extremely powerful position.

Joining UKIP feels like regaining control of your life

A testimonial from a UKIP member written a year after joining:

Joining UKIP feels like regaining control of your life, your country, your purpose and your destiny ....having previously lost all of those things to liberal wasters who were clueless, gormless and spineless.

So many other like minded souls are joining UKIP from everywhere you look. More by the minute. Before I joined, I wondered what on earth had happened to this country and I was seriously thinking of leaving. Not any more. I love it here and don't want to leave. New lease of life. Thank you Mr Farage.

Derbyshire Councillor defects to UKIP

Cllr Juliette Stevens, a county councillor in Derbyshire, has defected from the Tories to UKIP.

More details will be released by the branch soon.

UKIP wins Congleton by-election

UKIP's Louise van de Bours last night comfortably won a Congleton by-election.

The results of the election were:

Party	Vote
UKIP	769
Con	587
Ind	263
Ind	125

Cllr van de Bours contested a by-election in Congleton last year and came third, just 90 votes behind the winning Tory and 9 behind the second placed Labour candidate.  Perseverance and hard work has clearly paid off.

Guardian tries to smear UKIP

Tax dodging left wing rag, the Guardian, has made a pitifully lame attempt to smear UKIP.  True to its left wing roots the paper is haemorrhaging money and is only managing to keep its head above water through its capitalist off shore tax avoidance investment vehicles.

Every political party has its fringe, but not many have members whose policy priorities include death to all squirrels, the end of the NHS and a return to the gold standard.

The Labour Party candidate in Eastleigh wants Margaret Thatcher to be assassinated and wished we had lost the Falklands War.

The United Kingdom Independence party is a different case. As Nigel Farage, the party leader, enjoyed his popularity bounce following Ukip's second place at the Eastleigh byelection – flying to Canada to meet global rightwing heavyweights including the former Australian prime minister John Howard and the US Tea Party guru Ron Paul – officials were scrambling to contain the party's most extreme elements, including xenophobia and racism.

I've never met a UKIP member (or non-member for that matter) who has an irrational fear of foreigners.  I don't doubt there are racists in the party, just like there are in every other party.  The LibLabCon parties have presided over a system of institutional racism against the English for decades with medical apartheid, refusal to allow democratic representation, etc.

On one members' message board about migrants from Romania and Bulgaria, Ukip member Raymond Adams said this week: "Nothing less than ethnic cleansing is taking place. The Lib-Lab-Con EU puppets are dutifully diluting the English in particular to eradicate any nasty Nationalism. Then the next generation can be loyal and dutiful EU clones. EUtopia will have arrived!"

There seems to be a suggestion that this is incorrect but they don't explain why.

John Patrick added: "If there really are some 4 million Romanians and Bulgarians arriving within the year, I just hope our police are ready. We will have to build more prisons and increase the benefit payments."

Even if these desperately poor Romanians and Bulgarians were no less likely to commit crime than the people already living here (bear in mind that the Mafia and other serious organised crime syndicates are a real problem in both countries) then some of those 4m people will end up in prison.  As for benefits - most Romanians and Bulgarians that come here will be penniless by our standards and they will be entitled to benefits when they move here.

The remarks have been defended by the party chairman, Steve Crowther, but others have been removed. On threads where two members had reportedly linked homosexuality to paedophilia, Jonathan Arnott, the party's general secretary, complained: "I've locked a number of gay marriage/adoption/etc threads which seem to have turned to both sides using it as an excuse to have a go at each other. Some of the personal abuse – on both sides – is some of the worst we've had on this forum."

Criticism for removing unacceptable comments?

On Tuesday, Farage was the star turn at a "raucous" meeting of 100 party backers at the Ukip Patrons Club for donors giving more than £1,000. The gathering, the first since the byelection success, took place at the East India Club in St James's Square where party loyalists dined on "the roast beef of old England" washed down with claret. But beyond London clubland, senior officials have warned "wackier" elements to rein in their excesses or leave, and with party sources saying Farage has flown to Monaco, Zurich and the Channel Islands recently to meet potential backers, message control is firmly on the agenda.

"Message control" has been on the agenda for a long time.

"Its time to start falling in line," said one party official. "We have to be ready for more scrutiny and responsibility."

This is bad because?

Activist John Patrick said on a members' forum: "We must now ensure, even more, that we are squeaky clean, and remain that way, if we don't want the shell-shocked Tories to catch us out. No stings, and watch out for the secret recorders [and] cameras."

But we have nothing to fear as this hatchet job by the Guardian demonstrates ...

The party machine is to move into more professional accommodation from its cramped floor of the Conservative party's old HQ in Smith Square, Westminster, and will take space behind Claridges hotel in the same Mayfair building as Max Clifford's PR offices. Rents in the building are among the most expensive in London at more than £65 per square foot.

Still not as valuable as the Guardian's offices which of course are owned by a tax dodging offshore company based in a tax haven in the Cayman Islands.

The party declined to say who was paying for the space.

And they don't need to.

There are plenty of awkward associations in his party for Farage to negotiate from his new base. In January, the Dewsbury, West Yorkshire branch of the far-right English Defence League declared its support for Ukip and one member, John Emms, complained on Ukip's official web forum that the British National party was "subject to persecution by the Political Correction Liberal Left thugs".

A member of the EDL said he was supporting UKIP, not the other way round.  When the far left UAF and militant trade unionists declare their support for Labour the Guardian doesn't bat an eyelid.

Some of Ukip's leading lights are feted by the hard right abroad. In February, in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut in which 20 children and six adults were shot dead, Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, the party's former deputy leader, appeared on a rightwing US chatshow describing post-Dunblane gun control in Britain as "kneejerk".

The post-Dunblane gun control laws were a kneejerk reaction which is why they were so badly thought out and written.  The Olympic pistol shooting team has to go abroad to practice their sport whilst of course criminals continue to trade in and use illegal pistols just like they did before everyone who legally owned a pistol was required to give theirs up.

He also maintained that the European Union was a dictatorship and described Australia's prime minister, Julia Gillard, as a communist.

The EU is a dictatorship and Julia Gillard is a communist.

Speaking about environmentalism, Monckton decried ICLEI, the international network of local government bodies dedicated to sustainable development, as "the new dictators" and "straightforward, outright in-your-face communism dressed up to appear like it is to do with the environment".

And he's wrong because?

Four defections in three days

UKIP has been lucky enough to gain three councillors this week - three from defections and one an independent joining us.

Independent parish councillor for Ercall Magna in Telford & Wrekin, John Sadler, became a UKIP councillor on Monday.  Cllr Sadler has been a councillor for over 30 years and was the first independent mayor of Telford & Wrekin.

The Tories have also lost two councillors to UKIP in Leicestershire after Cllrs David Sprason and Rob Fraser both defected yesterday.  Both councillors have been victims of the dictatorial leadership of Leicester Council's Conservative group, Nick Rushton, who arrogantly said that "we'll select someone to stand against him and keep the seat in Conservative hands after the election".

A former Tory councillor in Cumbria has also defected from the Tories to UKIP.  Bob Hardon has been a Tory for over 50 years, was a councillor for over 20 years and lost his seat in 2011 by just 2 votes.

UAF say that "UKIP must not be allowed to influence politics and immigration"

The far left thugs at Unite Against Fascism have used a conference to tell people that "UKIP must not be allowed to influence politics and immigration".

Diane Abbott, the racist Labour MP, told the conference that we wouldn't have an NHS without immigrants and that "if communities live separately now, we have to look at that institutional racism".

The suggestion that we need immigrant workers to prevent the NHS from collapsing is frankly ridiculous.  There are many highly skilled foreign-born doctors that we undoubtedly benefit from an UKIP's immigration policy still allows for such skilled workers to come to the UK but there is no reason why we would need to import people to work as minimum wage ancillary staff when there are so many unemployed people already living here.

As for the suggestion that "institutional racism" causes communities to live separately - it is the multiculturalism that Abbott and her party have aggressively promoted that is to blame.  Telling immigrants that they don't have to bother learning to speak English, adopting any element of our culture or way of life or making any effort whatsoever to fit in is what causes immigrant communities to become isolated.  This is just one of the many ways that  multiculturalism fails immigrants.

Red Ken Livingtson was also there spouting his usual left wing bile and playing the "Jew" card but the prize for the most offensive and factually inaccurate anti-UKIP slur goes to the UAF's "Europe Officer", former Labour MEP Glyn Ford.

UKIP are not a fascist party, but they are xenophobic, ultra -nationalistic, many of their members are racists, and they act, in my view as a recruiting ground for people who may later on veer even further to the right

At least he got one thing right: UKIP is not a fascist party.  But neither is UKIP a xenophobic or ultra-nationalist party.  No doubt some UKIP members are racists but certainly no more so than the LibLabCon parties and of course UKIP is the only party that bans former BNP members from joining.

It's been pointed out before but it's worth pointing out again: Nigel Farage is married to a German.  The leader of a xenophobic party is unlikely to be married to a German.  But more importantly, it's worth remembering that xenophobia is an irrational fear of foreigners and I don't know anyone who has an irrational fear of foreigners, either in UKIP or not.

It was inevitable that the extremist UAF would turn their attentions to UKIP eventually.  UAF has infiltrated pretty much every public body and political party - even David Cameron is a member of UAF.  They of course see UKIP as a threat to their extreme left wing politics and a challenge to their authority.  The last thing they want is a party in power that they can't control and that don't follow their far left agenda.

Italy heading for another unelected government

Things are hotting up in Italy again after president Giorgio Napolitano suggested a second unelected government, just a week after getting rid of Mario Monti's "technocrat" government.  The governor of the Bank of Italy has been suggested to run the country while the elected politicians try and form a democratic government.

The most vocal political opponent to the idea seems to be Beppe Grillo, a comedian turned politician who has unexpectedly found himself heading up 163 elected representatives without a plan or any infrastructure behind his party.  He says they "will vote law by law" rather than support any government but he does say that if his party gets into power they will put the country into technical default and withdraw from the €urozone.

The Rise Of UKIP Isn’t Splitting “The Right”: It Is Emancipating It.

Our Dan loves a literary analogy or two. Or five. Or six. Having surely exhausted Shakespeare by now, he has plainly moved onto Homer: seeing himself as a latter-day Cassandra, prophesying certain doom if a UKIP-Tory pact is not brought about. Just like the despairing Trojan, he must know deep down that his warnings will go unheeded; that such a pact is impossible, at least with the current Tory leadership, but nonetheless he feels compelled to plead for one anyway. Post-Eastleigh, right on cue, up popped Dan yet again, urging the necessity of an idea resurrected more frequently than Christopher Lee’s Dracula used to be by Hammer films.

To be fair Dan is not alone. One of the predictable conclusions drawn from our stupendous performance in Eastleigh by commentators across the spectrum was that it showed that the political “Right” was now fatally split in a way similar to the Left was throughout the20th Century, after the eclipse of the Liberal Party by Labour in the years following the First World War.

Is it true? Well, to start with the terms “Left” and “Right” are fairly meaningless these days, having being distorted and misused out of all recognition from their original concepts of “change“ on the one hand and “order” on the other. This should come as no surprise in a post-modern world where language is used as a weapon of misinformation: where the Conservative Party is no longer conservative, the Labour Party no longer represents labour and the Liberal Democrats are not really liberal and very definitely not democratic (h/t Cranmer).

That said, let’s accept for the purposes of this discussion that the modern “Left” is broadly defined by the Metropolitan Liberal consensus, and the “Right” by the rest of us outside that privileged bubble. Even if we follow the very dubious reasoning that UKIP and – no laughing now - the Conservative Party are therefore on “The Right” and Labour and the LibDems on “The Left”, does the rise of UKIP really risk ushering in long-term Labour / Liberal hegemony?

For a start, well before David Cameron came along, the Conservative Party was in long-term serious decline. True to form in a party with a strong “Vicar of Bray” tradition, the Cameroons wrongly analysed this as being due to a lack of Metropolitan modernity in its social thinking. However, in practice the party had, and has, deep structural and ideological weaknesses. For a start, it is true that there is a rotten and cynical segment to the party that seeks only to conserve privilege and elite rule at almost any price. Clearly that particular stand of tradition is always going to alienate many voters, particularly from modest backgrounds. However, what has really done for the party is it’s relative myopia: good at the small picture but hopeless at the big one, over time the Conservative Party has found itself constantly outmanoeuvred, and it’s time in government largely spent reacting to the carnage wrought by successive Labour governments.

As a result, the party has got a partially undeserved but deeply rooted reputation for selfishness, harshness and cruelty. Far more than any other party, the Tories face a hard ceiling to their support, with a great many voters not prepared to vote Tory under any circumstances whatsoever, including very substantial numbers who would consider themselves conservative or at least anti-Metropolitan on many issues. (“Agent” Cameron’s special genius, of course, is to have extended that sense of revulsion to many of the party’s previously core supporters.) It is for this reason that a Tory-UKIP pact is of such limited value. Even if UKIP withdrew from the field entirely, the number of extra votes for the Tories would not get the party over the finishing line. Furthermore, if you want to see the likely effect that any kind of association with the Tories would have on UKIP, just look at the Liberal Democrats today.

In this context, we can see that what the rise of UKIP really represents is the emancipation of “right-wing” voters previously marooned by the old political order: so very many have felt compelled to cast their vote negatively for the party most likely to keep the hated Tories out, or increasingly have given up on voting at all.

The statistics from Eastleigh about the provenance of UKIP’s votes speak for themselves: a great many UKIP voters came from the Liberal Democrats or Labour, supporters, and perhaps most interesting of all, many came from people who hadn't voted in years.

Hence the great irony of Dan’s Cassandra-like wailing is that it comes at a time that UKIP’s disproportionate mining of disaffected Tory voters is demonstrably well on the wane. Instead it is perhaps now in the huge, disaffected mass of Labour supporters or amongst the politically completely alienated that the richest pickings are to be had.It follows that if UKIP eats into other parties support on an reasonably equal basis, it's rise will increase rather than decrease the chances of Eurosceptic policies being adopted.

In future, perhaps it is Labour that has most to fear from UKIP. Consequently, our rise is just as likely to destroy the prevailing Metropolitan consensus as it is to destroy the fortunes of the Conservative Party.

What a wonderful prospect.

By election results for Thursday

Eastleigh wasn't the only election UKIP had a candidate for on Thursday.  Here are the results of other elections:

Ashford BC, Beaver
Party	Votes	%	Change
Lab	296	35.8	-2.9
Con	158	19.1	-17.3
UKIP	155	18.8	+18.8
Ashford Independent	85	10.3	-14.5
Lib Dem	79	9.6	+9.6
Ind	34	4.1	+4.1
Green	19	2.3	+2.3
Majority 138
Turnout 19.4%
Lab hold.
Percentage change is since May 2011.

Wirral MBC, Pensby and Thingwall
Party	Votes	%	Change
Lab	1411	38.5	+5.7
Con	868	23.7	-4.7
Lib Dem	834	22.7	-2.4
UKIP	426	11.6	+2.4
Green	74	2.0	-2.4
English Democrats	53	1.4	+1.4
Majority 543
Turnout 35%
Lab gain from Con.
Percentage change is since May 2012.

Kingston Upon Thames LBC, Berrylands
Party	Votes	%	Change
Lib Dem	948	938.7	-4.7
Con	761	31.0	-5.0
Lab	455	18.6	+9.1
UKIP	175	7.1	+7.1
Green	112	4.6	-4.9
Christian People's Alliance	0	0.0	-1.7
Majority 187
Turnout 34.46%
LD hold.
Percentage change is since May 2010.

North Lanarkshire UA, Coatbridge West
Party	Votes	%	Change
Lab	2145	78.8	+4.0
SNP	452	16.6	-5.8
Con	71	2.6	-0.2
UKIP	34	1.2	+1.2
Lib Dem	19	0.7	+0.7
First preference votes only
Turnout 24.11%
Lab hold.
Percentage change is since May 2012

English Democrats slaying the UKIP dragon?

The English Democrats got 70 votes in Eastleigh, finishing behind the Beer, Baccy and Crumpet Party, the Monster Raving Loony Party (again) and the Elvis Loves Pets Party.  Any English patriots who are fed up of wasting their time with this useless lot should follow the example set by so many of their former colleagues and contact their local UKIP branch.  There is only one way an English Parliament is going to get on the agenda in Westminster and that's through UKIP MPs.

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Amazing UKIP result in Eastleigh

Some technology issues have prevented us commenting on the Eastleigh by-election until now but the excitement still hasn't worn off.

Diane James achieved a massive result in Eastleigh, securing UKIP's best ever by-election result and pushing the Tories into third place.

Candidate	Party	Vote	%	Change
Mike Thornton	Liberal Democrat	13,342	32.06%	-14.48%
Diane James	UKIP	11,571	27.80%	+24.20%
Maria Hutchings	Conservative	10,559	25.37%	-13.96%
John O'Farrell	Labour	4,088	9.82%	+0.22%
Danny Stupple	Independent	768	1.85%	+1.56%
Dr Iain Maclennan	National Health Action Party	392	0.94%	-
Ray Hall	Beer, Baccy and Crumpet Party	235	0.56%	-
Kevin Milburn	Christian Party	163	0.39%	-
Howling Laud Hope	Monster Raving Loony Party	136	0.33%	-
Jim Duggan	Peace Party	128	0.31%	-
David Bishop	Elvis Loves Pets	72	0.17%	-
Michael Walters	English Democrats	70	0.17%	-0.30%
Daz Procter	Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts	62	0.15%	-
Colin Bex	Wessex Regionalist	30	0.07%	-
Turnout: 52.7%

The UKIP vote in Eastleigh came from all sides with polling from former Tory donor, Lord Ashcroft, showing that 22% of Tory voters at the 2010 election voted UKIP, 19% of Lib Dem voters and 17% of Labour voters.  UKIP isn't the Tory protest party that the media and the left like to claim it is - we are the party of the left, the party of the right and the party of the centre.

It was great to hear Nigel Farage pointing out that it was vote splitting Tories that let the Lib Dems win.  We've been pointing out that Tories splitting the UKIP vote is letting Labour and the Lib Dems win elections and been ridiculed by Conservative Party activists who think that every vote for UKIP is a vote stolen from them.  The result in Eastleigh shows that a vote for the Tories is a vote for the Lib Dems or Labour.

Many, many congratulations to Diane James, to the Eastleigh branch and to all the volunteers who walked the streets of Eastleigh spreading our positive message that a vote for UKIP is a vote for change.  UKIP is going from strength to strength and a breakthrough at Westminster is surely inevitable very soon.