Tuesday 31 March 2015

Excellent UKIP election poster

Image result for ukip

These are points that need hammering home. Pity about the Farage pic, it detracts from the clarity of the message. The back up points on the UKIP web site are also good.

  • 60% of people believe we should hold an immediate referendum on whether or not the UK should be a member of the European Union
  • 72% of people believe we should introduce a new system of control for immigration using an equivalent of the Australian points-based system
  • 81% of people believe we should commit an additional £3billion of annual spending on the NHS in England and Wales 
  • 70% of people believe we should cut the amount spent by the Government on overseas aid
  • 74% of people believe we should ensure people on the national minimum wage do not have to pay income tax
The BBC are living in the 1960s and  doing their best to pretend this is a LIbLabCon contest and are trying to airbrush UKIP out of the campaign. We must not let this happen. The SNP will obviously have a far bigger influence than the imploding LibDems but UKIP has a free run in England. Let us see if Farage can hit an open goal or is he just another England cricketing failure.

Monday 30 March 2015

UKIP disappears from dead tree media

The sleaze I wrote of last week endemic in Farage's UKIP cult makes it so easy for editors to airbrush out any good bits of UKIP and headline in 20 point the Atkinson etc gaffes of which there are many to choose from but the best ones all come from Farage. This was all perfectly predictable but the Farage professionalising first did not apply to Farage and secondly seemed to consist of promoting dodgy ex-Tories to key party positions. Of the newcomers only O'Flynn and Wolfe have added to UKIP the rest are clearly there to get on the gravy train like Nigel. His oft repeated claim he was making more money in the City is incapable of independent verification. He seems to have been involved for a short time with a tiny commodity trader. That's not where the big bucks are.

UKIP's poll ratings are now on the slide and by May 7th I expect them to be the same as the LibDems. Farage cannot win Thannet which will be his seventh failure to get to Westminster. At best UKIP will get 3 seats, Carswell, Reckless and A N Other, at worse only Carswell.

Friday 27 March 2015

Farage's UKIP tops sleaze tracker poll

This is the latest result from You Gov, the respected polling company

Read all about it at  https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/03/27/ukip-sleaze-tracker/

but remember you read it here first! UKIP is an honest decent party at branch level  but once you get higher to the NEC, MEP slates, Brussels UKIP employees etc I know from personal experience its a cult mired in sleaze.

The YouGov  chart below says it all



Note UKIP at 63 are second only to Bankers at 69 in the sleaze stakes. Political parties like a fish rot and smell from the head. The alltime high for a political party is also 69 for Labour following the 2006 Cash for Honours scandal.

Sleaze killed the Tories electorally  in 1997 when  Neil Hamilton, now UKIP NEC lost the ultra safe Tory seat of Tatton to an independent, Martin Bell, wearing a symbolic white suit. Hatton sans Hamilton is now the safe seat of, Gideon call me George, Osborne. According to the Guardian Mr Hamilton has not learned his lesson and they ran a story last year about him attempting to charge VAT on election expenses click on link to read the full details,

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/10/neil-hamilton-withdraws-basildon-south-ukip-expenses-claim-controversy

It was enough to finish off Hamiton's candidacy ambitions but of course the damage had been done. I doubt any other political party would have countenanced Mr Hamilton as a parliamentary candidate and he like Godders he was Cricked as well..

The damage Farage's chosen candidates are doing to UKIP can be seen in the chart below





So UKIP now stands at 12% and following. We may not have to suffer N Farage MP after all. Pity, he would have done well in "The Thick Of It"

Wednesday 25 March 2015

Corporates seek to subvert our electoral system

I pick up my wife's Telegraph today and read that the chairman of Standard Life, one Gerry Grimstone speaking in London to his fellow fat cats said, "an exit from the EU would be disastrous for London and the UK". This is the same Sir Grimstone who during the Scottish referendum threatened to move the Standard head office from Edinburgh to London if the Scots had the temerity to vote for independence. Sir Grimstone speaks only for himself and his bonus. He does not speak for the ordinary people of these islands. He is simply trying to intimidate his workers into voting the way that will benefit his already very large profits.

The Sir Grimstones of this world are the reason that in  1872 parliament passed the Ballot Act requiring parliamentary and local government elections use a secret ballot aas the Chartsts had demanded 40 years earlier. You may read about it in Wikepedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballot_Act_1872

It was of great importance in Ireland where tenant farmers faced eviction if they voted against their usually English landlord. It is the core of Trollope's Palliser novels where Phineas Finn showed great courage in supporting the Act and was rewarded by marrying the rich and lovely Madame Max Gessler, a Viennese Jewess.

We face the same problem today except Sir Grimstone is more subtle. His views are worth no more than any one elses. The English are always very deferential to Sirs and Lords. The Scots are not.

Consider Norway, I quote from Wikipedia

referendum on whether Norway should join the European Community was held on 25 September 1972. After a long period of heated debate, the "No" side won with 53.5 per cent of the vote. Prime Minister Trygve Bratteli resigned as a result of the defeat. This was Norway's second attempt at becoming member, after having been rejected by France in 1962 and again temporarily in 1967, but the first attempt with a referendum on a set of fully negotiated accession terms.
1994 referendum on entry into what had become the European Union also resulted in the rejection of membership.
In both referendums the majority of the Norwegian political, business and media campaigned for a join the EU vote with the usual FUD campaign the Sir Grimstones love. On both occasions the Norwegian people rejected their arguments and voted to stay out. Result, Norway is now along with Switzerland the richest country in Europe. If you want to see what the EU has done to the UK fishing industry view John Humphries BBC documentary which went out this week on the destruction of Lowestoft once one of the biiggest fishing ports in Europe. Humphries as a fully paid up member of the BBC elite did not of course explain the connection of Lowestoft's demise to his beloved EU

Tuesday 24 March 2015

Which UKIP MEP will Farage's UKIP cult lose next?

I opined not long after UKIP's great electoral triumph that we would not have long to wait before UKIP's crumbly MEPs like the ten green bottles started to fall. In only 10 months we have had two casualities, Bashir & Atkinson. Who will be next to fall off the wall?

Our great leader's real forte is losing his troops before the battle has even started. His study of WW I has obviously taught him this losing military tactic. Farage is like the Bourbons, he forgets nothing and he learns nothing but hey who cares whilst the EU Euros roll into Nigel's bank account.

Who will Atkinson appeal to?

I as an elected member was kicked off the NEC at Farage's behest for "disruptive" comments ie asking pertinent and embarassing  questions of  Farage at the NEC. Farage of course got someone else to do his dirty work, in this case the UKIP traitor Bannerman who having been rewarded with a UKIP MEP slot has now rejoined the Tories. Denny who supported my expulsion from the NEC was mortified when Bannerman went back to the Tories. Politically Denny was politically extremely naive as are many members of UKIP who believe what ex-Tories, Farage, Atkinson, Evans etc say. They should scrutinise their actions not listen to their fine words to discover where their real loyalties lie. Poor Mr Denny! I bear him no ill will. Unlike Nigel's Tory recruits he believed in our cause. I exempt Carswell and Reckless from my criticism. They have risked everything in joining UKIP. They believe in our cause and I wish them well in May.

UKIP has now been taken over by third rate  ex-Tories. This is what Farage meant by 'professionalising'. I weep for the many honest decent UKIP members who have been sidelined. kicked out etc to make way for this Tory scum - Farage's word of choice it seems.

I lodged an appeal against my removal from the NEC to then find out that the appeal would be heard by the same people who made the original decision! When UKIP talks of their independent appeals process that's what they mean. Atkinson will find this out when she lodges her appeal that she has  said she will make.. She will just have to console herself with her one million Euros from the EU and I am sure in the fullness of time will like Bannerman scuttle off back to the Tories. Not a bad reward for a woman who has only been in UKIP for a few years. UKIP's latest crop of ex-Tories put in to be MEP candidates after a few months membership.

There is no specification of an independent appeals process in the UKIP constitution. Nigel would find it 'disruptive'. There have been people who have joined the party who have never been tainted by the Tories or indeed any other political party, O'Flynn for one and me back in 2009. I joined because I believed in the cause. The ex-Tories join to further their 'political careers'. They believe in nothing except their own bank balance

Sunday 22 March 2015

Vote SNP and save British democracy

Nicola Sturgeon  has indicated the SNP will only support a minority Labour government on a vote by vote basis. Great! This will go a fair way to returning our democracy.

Issues will then be treated individually on their merits and not as party policy. Jim Murphy realises this and what it means for his political future. He is leader of Scottish Labour but wants to be relected to Westminster but the game has changed. The two party system even propped up by the sordd LibDems is bust forever. No longer will people vote on a manifesto which can be torn up after the election and or cherry picked by a government implementing only what suits it and forgetting about the other promises in its manifesto. Thank God the days of handing a blank cheque to Labour or Tory are over.

No  other country runs an adverserial public school system of yah boo politics. They are normal we are abnormal Its another case of Johnny Foreigner doing things better than us like they do at football etc.

The US president's power is subject to severe checks and balances. UK PMs are the uncrowned king of the UK with no check on their power given the party whip system but take that away as the SNP will if they hold the balance of power and the MiliCam's power crumbles and power reverts much more to the people.

English knuckleheads should be grateful to Nicola and Alex. They will get their country back for them,.

Friday 20 March 2015

Janice Atkinson looks like Marta Andreasen revisited by Farage.

It says in the Bible as a dog returns to its vomit so a fool returns to his folly. Marta Andreasen was pushed by Farage into no 2 on the SE MEP list in 2009. I spoke at UKIP's NEC against her ever going on a UKIP MEP slate as she breached 6 of UKIP's and the Electoral Commissions candidate requirements. She was waved on by old failed Tory Gill, a man not known for his perception. She turned against Farage around 2013 and joined the Tories in time to lose as Tory MEP candidate in 2014. She was Farage's top pick for 2009.

Roll on 5 years and the folly repeats itself with old Tory Atkinson, Nigel's top pick in the SE region for UKIPs 2014 MEP slate. Here is a brief history of La Atkinson from Wikepedia.

"Janice Ann Atkinson (born 31 August 1962) is a Member of the European Parliament for the South East Englandregion for the UK Independence Party. She was elected in 2014, second on the list for the region behind Nigel Farage.

Political career[edit]

Atkinson is a former member of the Conservative party and ran a marketing business for two decades prior to becoming an MEP. As Janice Small, she was a press officer for the Conservatives in the south-east during the 2005 general election. In the 2010 general election, she was Tory PPC for Batley and Spen, finishing second, 4,406 votes behind Labour incumbent Mike Wood.[2] She was also director of Conservative Action for Electoral Reform.[3]
Atkinson joined UKIP in 2011, citing David Cameron's failure to produce a referendum on European Unionmembership.[4]
She was selected as the UKIP candidate for Folkestone and Hythe for the 2015 general election.[1]

Controversy[edit]

During the 2014 campaign it emerged that despite Atkinson's claims - and status as a champion of state selective education - her alma mater Blackheath Bluecoat School is not and has never been a grammar school.[5]
It was also reported that, before she joined UKIP, Atkinson was dropped from the 2011 alternative vote campaign following a meeting with undecided Conservativesin which she mentioned "her support for elements of" the British National Party's platform.[6] A few days later Atkinson swore at anti-racism campaigners. The incident followed her call for 'abusive' anti-UKIP protestors to be arrested by the police. A photo capturing the moment was widely reported and went viral on social media.[7] Atkinson, who has described towns in Kent as 'no-go areas' as a result of Eastern European immigration, has defended her position, claiming she marched as part of the Anti-Nazi League in her youth.[8]
In August 2014 she issued an apology after being recorded by a BBC news crew referring to a British Thai constituent and UKIP supporter as "a ting-tong from somewhere" a term used in Thailand about insane people. The woman and her husband threatened to withdraw from UKIP membership but changed their mind after a personal apology from UKIP leader Nigel Farage.[9][10] Interviewed on camera later at their home, the woman and her husband said that Atkinson hadn't apologized to them & was quite belligerent. Whilst speaking of Atkinson Farage said "99% of UKIP member's aren't like that and don't hold those views."[9]
In December 2014 it was revealed that Atkinson, whose annual salary as an MEP was around £79,000 per year, owed more than £2,000 in unpaid child support.[11]Her ex-husband claimed this had "caused major hardship for her son and for her family".[11] Atkinson was singled out for particular criticism as she had previously attacked "feckless families" who have more children than they can afford.[12][13]
In March 2015 she was suspended from the party following "allegations of a serious financial nature."[1]"

Much of that information on Atkinson was in the public domain but nobody it seems in 
UKIP's NEC bothered to check. Nigel does not encourage that sort of due diligence.

Most worrying is her reported support of elements of the BNP's platform. I have seen innocent people who had never had any contact with the BNP or supported the BNP in any way  vilified and kicked out of UKIP. Why this woman was put on the 2014 UKIP MEP slate and then selected as a PPC for a very winnable seat in the coming 7th May, 2015 general election?

By selecting candidates like Atkinson UKIP is pissing away the best chance we will ever have of leaving the EU

Monday 16 March 2015

Farage: I'l resign if I don't win seat

This is today's front page headline in the Daily Telegraph. It is exactly as I have predicted. When he does not win Thanet he can use that as his excuse to leave UK domestic politics which is hard work, closely scrutinised and poorly paid leaving Nigel to head up his lucrative European party in Brussels which involves little work, zero presss scrutiny, lots of money and much grandstanding. Truly the EU has been good to Nigel and he will be suitably rewarded for his sterling service to the EU.

Meanwhile back in blighty the poor unpaid UKIP foot soldiers will be left to soldier on in their mud soaked trenches assaulted by the left wing media until none are left standing and while the king over the water gorges himself with EU Euros.

Consider the undermining effect this silly statement has on UKIP candidates who are trying their hardest to become MPs. Nigel has just given enough ammo to the Tories to sink a battleship let alone cockleshell UKIP!. When has a party leader published an autobiography immediately before a general election? Never! Biographies are published after elections and if a minister after leaving office. So why has Farage published his biography at this time?

There are two reasons. First there were cheques on offer from the publishers and the DT. Books and serial rights generate cash. There may also have been talk about his 'worth' being at its peak right now so cash in to maximise the revenue. Second it damages UKIP's electoral prospects and conversely boosts the Tories prospects. If Dave wins and Nigel loses Thanet I expect NF's elevation to the red leather to quickly follow.

The nightmare scenario for Farage is that he wins Thanet and therefore has to resign as an MEP. I am confident Nigel will ensure this does not happen.

PS If you want to see and hear a very cogent anti EU argument click below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0Qugb0PPg

Daniel Hannan is the real deal. Well educated, he could lead us out of Europe. Farage will only lead you to the nearest pub.

Sunday 15 March 2015

The NHS war of Farage's testicle

At school I remember in history having to learn the War of Jenkin's ear circa 1740. This British sailor Jenkins ear was allegedly cut off by the Spanish but was subsequently exhibited to the Brish Parliament as the causus belli of the war. Roll on 275 years and we hear in the Guardian no less of Farage's lemon sized cancerous testicle. I quote from the Guardian

"Nigel Farage has claimed that the “incompetence and negligence of the NHS” almost killed him in his 20s after a tumour caused his left testicle to swell to the size of a lemon.
In an extract from an autobiography published in the Telegraph on Saturday, the Ukip leader recalled how he was “fobbed off by one NHS doctor to the next” for two months after they failed to spot his testicular cancer when he was 21.
After being told he was covered by his employer’s private health insurance he sought a second opinion. A private GP referred him to a Harley Street surgeon, who told Farage he had a tumour and would need to have a testicle removed.
“What testicular cancer taught me is that the NHS will probably let you down if you need screening, fast diagnosis and an operation at a time that suits you,”
Its dangerous to base health policy on one anecdotal tale. Farage should know this. As a counter example I can point to a girl who was operated on in the Harley Strasser and her appendix expensively removed. There was nothing wrong with the girl's appendix. She had typhoid as our local NHS established.
If Farage is elected I look forward to the diseased Farage testicle in a specimen jar being passed round the House of Commons for all to see this dire example of NHS diagnostic failure that demands immediate health policy reforms.


Wednesday 11 March 2015

Where does our Foreign Aid go?

Foreign Aid is a vanity project for the UK political elite and a gravy train for corrupt foreign governments ie all of them. It enables our pathetic politicians to strut on the world stage boasting of how much they are helping the poor of Africa etc whilst providing our elite with all expenses paid foreign holidays, sorry fact finding missions, in the depth of our cold winters As with all political claims the oposite is the truth. Aid does not help the poor and needy because it never gets to them. Worse it creates a dependency culture in their politicians which saves them having to think about economic reform.  I would recommend shutting the Dept for Overseas Development down lock stock and barrel and ship out to each country enough copies of the book Self Help by Samuel Smiles to give one copy to each member of their corrupt governments. Smiles published this book in 1859 at his own expense and by his death in 1904 it had sold 250,000 copies,

Click below to read Wikipedia entry on Smiles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smiles

It would do more for helping the poor better themselves than all the development economists laid end to end which I believe frequently happens. I quote from Wikipedia to give a flavour of Smiles philosophy.

"Labour is toilsome and its gains are slow. Some people determine to live by the labour of others, and from the moment they arrive at that decision, become the enemies of society. It is not often that distress drives men to crime. In nine cases out of ten, it is choice not necessity. Moral cowardice is exhibited as much in public as in private life. Snobbism is not confined to toadying of the rich, but is quite as often displayed in the toadying of the poor... Now that the "masses" exercise political power, there is a growing tendency to fawn upon them, flatter them, speak nothing but smooth words to them. They are credited with virtues they themselves know they do not possess. To win their favour sympathy is often pretended for views, the carrying out of which is known to be hopeless. The popular agitator must please whom he addresses, and it is always highly gratifying to our self-love to be told that someone else is to blame for what we suffer. So it rarely occurs to these orators to suggest that those whom they address are themselves to blame for what they suffer, or that they misuse the means of happiness which are within their reach ... The capitalist is merely a man who does not spend all that is earned by work.[9]"

Perhaps the following will remind you of the no one's fault guff we endure today from our elite.

"When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides. Nobody adulterates our food. Nobody poisons us with bad drink. Nobody supplies us with foul water. Nobody spreads fever in blind alleys and unswept lanes. Nobody leaves towns undrained. Nobody fills gaols, penitentiaries, and convict stations. Nobody makes poachers, thieves, and drunkards. Nobody has a theory too—a dreadful theory. It is embodied in two words—Laissez faire—Let alone. When people are poisoned by plaster of Paris mixed with flour, "Let alone" is the remedy. When Cocculus indicus is used instead of hops, and men die prematurely, it is easy to say, "Nobody did it." Let those who can, find out when they are cheated: Caveat emptor. When people live in foul dwellings, let them alone. Let wretchedness do its work; do not interfere with death.[8]

As has oft been said its trade not aid that poor countries need and which of course the EU opposes to protect its own farmers.

The way out for these countries is education, education, education plus a rigorously enforced birth control programme. The two countries that have follwed these policies over the last 25 years, India & China are now the economic powerhouses of the world with even a fully fledged space programme which we of course cannot afford.

We are Mrs Jellaby a minor Dickens character in Bleak House a "telescopic philanthropist" obsessed with an obscure African tribe but having little regard to the notion of charity beginning at home. We have Bob Geldof today in this role but Mrs J swore less.

The answer to my initial  question, "Where does our aid go?" can be seen in the capital of every poor African country, full of Mercedes Benz motor cars and no bread. Our aid supports the German car industry and has created a new tribe in Africa, the WaBenzi..  




Wednesday 4 March 2015

Australian immigration rules are strictly enforced and supported by their leaders

Today Farage made a big speech on immigration clling for us to adopt Australian immigration rules in the UK. I agree we should but its not just Oz rules we need its their political leaders honesty and support of robust enforcement of their very sensible rules. let us start by listening to Farage,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTjYzV6HIBw

Now read Julia Gillard's speech on Muslim immigrants in Oz

https://www.facebook.com/notes/monpyi-thar/prime-minister-julia-gillardaustralias-speech-on-immigrants/10151057541786441

Gillard is herself an immigrant from Wales who created quite a stir when she marrried her hairdresser.

Here is an alternative report on her views

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1613786

Note how she explicitly mentiond the perfect right of Oz security to monitor the activities of these immigrants when they are perceived as a threat to the Oz way of life.

Another Oz PM, John Howard, has similar views trenchantly expressed below,

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/australia.asp

I visited Australia  5 years ago when Gillard made that speech. Oz is in many ways similar to the UK I grew up in during the 1950s. Their border controls are very tight, in and out, and rigorously enforced. They welcome immigrants who are prepared to sign up to the Australian way of life. They invite Muslims who want to  live under Sharia Law to go back where they came from with the phrase, "We did not ask you to come and you are always free to leave to go to your Islamic paradise". In many Muslim countries a woman needs the written permisssion of her husband to leave the country!

The latest Oz PM Rudd makes it clear its Muslim Terrorists they are targetting. This has met with the usual Muslim response of a witchunt but the Aussies are not as soft as we are and they are  not giving any credance to these Terrorist apologists as our C4 does incessently.

So Mr Farage changing the rules is fine but its enforcing the rules thats difficult. Let us hear what Farage has to say on that..

Tuesday 3 March 2015

Whose side is Farage on? What has happened with Diane James?

Its a funny way to run a campaign. First Farage declares on national TV that he does not have what it takes to be PM. That's great ammo for the Tories. Why vote for a party UKIP whose leader confesses he is not up to being PM? If he really believes that he should step aside and let those who can, like Carswell, lead the party. Farage is promoting the UKIP loony fruit cake image which the media  laps  up. He does not want UKIP to be a serious political party. That creates unremunerated hard work for Farage.He wants the celebrity but not the hard graft of politics. Celebrity without work or responsbility is his credo.

Then there is the strange case of the missing manifesto with Suzanne Evans traduced on national TV by Farage for getting it wrong. This is the treatment meted out to all UKIP spokesmen when Farage cannot explain UKIP policy. Farage would be out of his depth in a car park puddle.

And what is going on with Diane James who almost won in Eastleigh just over a year ago? She surely should have been selected as UKIP PPC for Eastleigh. But no, she was "selected" for North West Hampshire, Andover to you and me George Young's old seat, one of the safest Tory seats in the country with a Tory majority over 19,000. Perhaps Mrs James was pushed into this unwinnable seat and rightly has decided to jump. Her decision to resign as UKIP PPC for family reasons smacks of excuse rather than reason. I do not blame her. UKIP will be the loser but that is the last of Farage's concerns.

What on earth was going on with Farage's denial on National TV that he had health problems? That simply adds more grist to the Tory mill and moves Nigel up to top of the list for a seat on red leather post 7th May.

Things cannot go on like this Carswell, Reckless or O'Flynn must step in as leader. Farage's loyalty and interest lie with his lucrative, EU funded  pan European party and TV appearances. Some day the UKIP faithful may realise this. They currently have a leader who admits he is not up to being PM and has possible health problems otherwise why did he bring up the subject of his health?

Its not a campaign its a shambles.

Sunday 1 March 2015

BBC Question Time fiddles

Note how at the recent Finchley QT the voluble excitable Zionists all seemed to be seated together.

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The guy in the blue/green shirt looks a bit like Hugo Rifkind, son of soon to be exMP  Malcolm Rifkind.

Am I correct?