UKIP IS NOW A CONTENDER

ELECTION IN MAY 2015!

Nigel Farage - Leader of UKIP

There is much talk about the forthcoming General Election in just five months' time and having heard so much from the main Parties, I decided to take a look at what UKIP has to offer, under the leadership of Nigel Farage, and was pleasantly surprised by the seriousness of their policies and their conviction that British tax-payers' money is best spent at Home instead of being squandered on EU luxuries.  I am now convinced of UKIP's ability to take on the greatest challenge faced by any British political party since WW2.

Take a look at the UKIP website for yourselves at:  http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people

See if you agree with my views, that this youngest Political Party will grow in stature, and will mature quickly to grab this big opportunity to show the Nation who they really are!  Fruitcakes or some sterner stuff with strength, endurance and great intelligence to take our country to prosperity.

There is a great need today to slim down government expenditure to repair the economy and to save Britain from paying £billions each week on interests alone for our insurmountable national debt, a debt created by Labour but doubled by the Conservative-Lib.Dem Coalition.  That leaves the only other Party - UKIP to take up the reins of government at next year's General Election.
What will a UKIP Government do for us?  Their answers are in their website:  Policies for People: To protect jobs and increase prosperity, which entails much more than the few I list below:

UKIP with their many sensible, down-to-earth candidates will never allow those austerity measures that make the rich richer, and the poor more dependent on Food Banks, nor would UKIP's sensible candidates let the upheaval of the bedroom tax cause so much heartache for re-locators.  Moving into a new home should always be a joyful event!

At the next General Election in May, we the people will be able to take part in the reparation, by voting for UKIP, the only Party sensible enough to turn the UK economy around - not by higher taxation but with due diligence to reviewing all legislation and the regulations from the EU (they issued 3,600 new laws since 2010) and remove those which hamper British prosperity and competitiveness.

To withdraw our membership from the EU will save us over £11 billion a year, and judging by the surprise £1.7 billion demanded from Britain for the recent imperceptible growth, it's any body's guess what price will be levied in the future!  On leaving the EU, UKIP would seek to re-occupy the UK's vacant seat at the World Trade Organisation to continue our 'most favoured nation' status in trade with the EU, under the WTO rules.

UKIP is totally focused on repairing this Nation's economy by abolishing the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the Department for Energy and Climate Change; scrap subsidies for wind farms and solar arrays, but support a diverse energy market including coal, nuclear, shale gas, geo-thermal, tidal, solar, conventional gas and oil; scrapping green taxes and the costly unjustifiable HS2 project; and cutting the foreign aid budget by £9 billion a year.

With these savings, UKIP will be able to increase the Personal Allowance to a full-time minimum wage earning (approximately £13,500 by next election) and be able to introduce an income tax rate of 35p on £42,285 to £55,000, thereafter 40p rate becomes payable.  The Inheritance Tax will be abolished and a Treasury Commission will be set up to design a Turnover Tax, so big businesses will pay a tax proportionate to their UK turnover.

Take a moment if you would, to read about UKIP's aspiration for the British people's prosperity at:
http://www.ukip.org/policies_for_people and you will find the youngest political Party in the UK, whose manifesto will be crammed with fresh ideas, appealing to most British tax-payers looking for a way out of today's "spend your kids' inheritance" culture. It's refreshing to find a party not afraid to cut government spending but also keen to keep all the basic British values.  UKIP will make a lean, mean, and cost-effective government, worth at least one term of office, to bring our economy back from the brink.

Numerous policies are embraced by UKIP to counter any proposed cuts and for leaving the EU: such as reinstating British territorial waters, and requiring foreign trawlers to apply for and purchase fishing permits to fish British waters;  students from the EU will pay the same fee rates as International students; and businesses will be able to discriminate in favour of young British workers.

On the home front, UKIP will protect our Green Belt; planning and building regulations for Brownfield sites will be simplified as also for vacant commercial property.  VAT on old property renovation will be relaxed, and for the redevelopment of Brownfield sites, their new homes' first sale will be exempt from stamp duty.

To prioritize Education and Skills, UKIP will introduce an option for students to take an Apprenticeship Qualification instead of the four non-core GCSEs which can, if wished, be continued at A-Level.  Subject to academic performance UKIP will remove tuition fees for students taking approved degrees in science, medicine, technology, engineering, or mathematics on condition that they live, work and pay tax in the UK for at least five years after the completion of their degrees.  UKIP will scrap the target of 50% of school leavers going to university.

UKIP is adamant that NHS will be free at the point of delivery and need, but visitors and migrants, until they have paid NI for five years, must have NHS-approved Private Health Insurance as a condition of entry to the UK, saving £2 billion a year, £200 million of which will be allocated to hospital car parking.  And hurrah! UKIP will maintain the pensioner BUS PASS!  I am 75 and I certainly need mine!

In honouring the Military Covenant, UKIP will guarantee those who have served in the Armed Forces for more than 12 years, a job in the Police or Border Force, or Prison Service.  They will receive a Veterans' Service Card for after-service or mental health care.

UKIP seemed to have considered every important topic from Transport, Childcare and Welfare, Border control, Immigration, Culture, Law and Order, Democracy and Constitution, and more; the policies for their manifesto even include such items as making crime for non-payment of BBC Licence Fee to come under civil offences; and the law will be rigorously enforced against illegal 'culture' practices such as FGM, forced marriages, and so-called 'honour killings'; but recognising that the unifying British culture is open to anyone of whatever ethnic or religious background that identify with Britain and British values.

With so much on offer, UKIP certainly deserves our support for the opportunity to carry out those well-thought out proposals.  I am willing to give the devil his due, so why not also to UKIP? After all, the three main Parties have had their chance to prove themselves in the last three decades, and with the debt spiralling out of control, desperate measures are now called for, such as those proposed by UKIP.  I am in favour of giving UKIP a chance to use their practical and common sense approach, and with a lot more middle management and workers joining the UKIP's aspiration to prosper, they have a better chance to succeed than re-electing the Tory back to power to continue paying vast sums to the EU as well as perpetuating the merry-go-round fiasco of re-organising the Health Service that had benefitted only the retiring consultants rather the sick and the elderly.


Nigel Farage, sitting beside Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt at Question Time on BBC1, calmly let Russell Brand heckle him as "the Dude at the end of the table - a pound shop Enoch Powell, and we've got to watch him!"  I am afraid Russell Brand's ranting made a spectacle of himself and showed us what a level-headed leader is Nigel Farage, whose composure will take UKIP right up to the top to lead this country to true prosperity by simply being British.