UKIP

[Elixir]

Car crash stuff from this utter joke of a party this morning.

They don't want 16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in an EU referendum because they're apparently brainwashed in schools and they also only want British-born people to be allowed a vote.

[AberdeenBud]

People who vote UKIP.

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

Coburn just tweeted this.

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What do we do with the £70Bn trade gap if we can't access the EU common market? We will be producing too much which will lead to deflation, increased unemployment and wage cuts.

[DA Baracus]

Are they just trolling now?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/why-are-there-fewer-kids-playing-football-in-the-street-because-of-immigration-says-ukip-10149901.html?cmpid=facebook-post

[I'm Brian]

Are they just trolling now?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/why-are-there-fewer-kids-playing-football-in-the-street-because-of-immigration-says-ukip-10149901.html?cmpid=facebook-post

I may be just guessing here, but I have a sneaky suspicion that Mr Patrick O' Flynn's family at some point along the line may have been immigrants themselves

[Crùbag]

I may be just guessing here, but I have a sneaky suspicion that Mr Patrick O' Flynn's family at some point along the line may have been immigrants themselves

Fancy that! Unlike the pure Engerlish name 'Farage'.

[Antiochas III]

Car crash stuff from this utter joke of a party this morning.

They don't want 16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in an EU referendum because they're apparently brainwashed in schools and they also only want British-born people to be allowed a vote.

So they don't want Farage's wife to have a vote. Harsh Edited April 2, 2015 by Antiochas III

[Crùbag]

Piece in Vice on the failure of the far-right in Scotland. Correctly calls our problem through west though with the Sevconians and their predecessors.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-far-right-in-scotland-pegida-ukip-liam-turbett

It's likely also the case that for others, Scottish nationalism is a more valid expression of their discontent with society than the solutions offered by the BNP, Pegida or even UKIP. With its civic rather than ethnic outlook, and broadly social democratic discourse, it's never really provided fertile ground for xenophobia to develop, with anti-English sentiment largely consigned to its extreme fringes. On top of that, the predominantly English identity and imagery attached to the British far-right – all St George's Crosses, bulldogs and Churchill memes – has not given them mass appeal in a country where most people identify solely as Scottish.

[doulikefish]

[I'm Brian]

Latest South Thanet polling

http://www.comres.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/South_Thanet_Constituency-Poll_Tables_March2015.pdf

Nige better hope his AIDS health tourist stance is a vote winner for him. So much for the UKIP threat. He should be walking this constituency if his own press is to be believed.

[AberdeenBud]

Latest South Thanet polling

http://www.comres.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/South_Thanet_Constituency-Poll_Tables_March2015.pdf

Nige better hope his AIDS health tourist stance is a vote winner for him. So much for the UKIP threat. He should be walking this constituency if his own press is to be believed.

After wee Dougie getting punted that's No.2 on my wishlist.

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I'm starting to get the impression UKIP have ran out of steam. would be shocked if they have anything more than 3 MPs

[FuzzyAffro]

They were always going to expose themselves as idiots in the scrutiny of a GE campaign. UKIP always have been an irrelevance and will be gone in a few years. Think Tea Party in the USA.

[Thumper]

I'm paying little attention to what England does this GE, excepting that the Tories get a workable majority, but I'll be out in the street dancing if Farage fails, especially if he subsequently resigns. That and Bradford West.

[Pete's Frontier]

They were always going to expose themselves as idiots in the scrutiny of a GE campaign. UKIP always have been an irrelevance and will be gone in a few years. Think Tea Party in the USA.

Fiscal responsibility has to be at the heart of whoever is elected. You can argue about eu and continued mass immigration, as UKIP valiantly do, but budgets are going to have to be trimmed. Anything else is beyond idiocy.

[git-intae-thum]

Fiscal responsibility has to be at the heart of whoever is elected. You can argue about eu and continued mass immigration, as UKIP valiantly do, but budgets are going to have to be trimmed. Anything else is beyond idiocy.

Sigh....yet another economically illiterate buffoon who thinks he is espousing the values of the right wing because "budgets are going to have to be trimmed."

This a simpleton attitude (fed for consumption to the likes of the Daily Mail/ Telegraph reader) to the way the macro economic system works in a mixed economy. Keynesian theory, the established doctrine, for over 80 years is clear on govts requirement to spend at times of crisis.

Here are the basics for UKippers and other dullard "its all em foriegners fault" types.

If the consumers in a nation state are impoverished (which austerity will increasingly cause) then very quickly without consumer spend power, the whole economy starts to suffer. By cutting back and trimming budgets this effectively means jobs and incomes go. This then creates poverty, leading to demand for goods and services dropping. This has a multiplying effect. Subsequently then and most worrying it occassions a fall in tax revenue (both business and personal), and the impoverishing the nation state.

This is all obviously barring the 0.1% super wealthy (Nigels mates) who do not pay tax or use any public services. Indeed they may become wealthier due to the increasing cheap labour supply and the private sector taking up essential roles govt has abandoned, giving them an oligarch type role over citizens.

Then again this would mean Nigel achieving his election promise of stopping health tourists. There would no longer be an NHS for them to use.

[Mr Bairn]

I'm starting to get the impression UKIP have ran out of steam. would be shocked if they have anything more than 3 MPs

Peaked too early. They'll keeo the two seats they have and Farage will get Thanet. That's it.

[Pete's Frontier]

50% polled say no free treatment for health tourists. DM readers are so damn on the money.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3026939/Half-Britons-Farage-HIV-Poll-finds-50-agree-immigrants-not-immediately-receive-free-treatment-arrive-UK.html

[Elixir]

Watching UKIP fail miserably will be absolutely hilarious, all while the SNP utterly romp home.

[Gaz]

Peaked too early. They'll keeo the two seats they have and Farage will get Thanet. That's it.

He might not even get Thanet. He's polling 1% behind the Conservatives there, or at least he was yesterday.