UKIP a serious alternative?

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I'm interested in people's views on the UKIP's policies and also the likely consequences of withdrawal from the European Union.

The policies are summarised as follows on their website:-

UKIP will leave the political EU and trade globally and freely. We will re-embrace today’s fast-growing Commonwealth and we will encourage UK manufacturing so that we make things again.

We will freeze immigration for five years, speed up deportation of up to a million illegal immigrants by tripling the numbers engaged in deportations, and have ‘no home no visa’ work permits to ease the housing crisis.

We will have a grammar school in every town. We will restore standards of education and improve skills training. Student grants will replace student loans.

We will radically reform the working of the NHS with an Insurance Fund, whilst upholding the ‘free at the point of care’ principles. We will bring back matrons and have locally run, clean hospitals.

We will give people the vote on policing priorities, go back to proper beat policing and scrap the Human Rights Act. We will have sentences that mean what they say.

We will take 4.5 million people out of tax with a simple Flat Tax (with National Insurance) starting at £10,000. We will scrap Inheritance Tax, not just reform it and cut corporation taxes.

We will say No to green taxes and wind farms. To avert a major energy crisis, we will go for new nuclear power plants on the same existing site facilities and for clean coal. We will reduce pollution and encourage recycling.

We will make welfare simpler and fairer, introduce ‘workfare’ to get people back to work, and a new citizens pension and private pensions scheme insurance.

We will support our armed forces with more spending on equipment, military homes and medical care. We will save our threatened warships and add 25,000 more troops.

We will be fair to England, with an English Parliament of English MPs at Westminster. We will replace assembly members like MSPs with MPs. And we will promote referenda at local and national levels.

We will make customer satisfaction number one for rail firms – not cost cutting and will look seriously at reopening some rail lines that Beeching closed. We will make foreign lorries pay for British roads with a ‘Britdisc’ – and we will stop persecuting motorists.

Last, but never least, we will bring in fair prices and fair competition for our suffering farmers, and restore traditional British fishing and territorial waters.
 
sounds good to me but doubt they would achieve much of it without the gold reserves some idiot sold off at a bad time
 
UKIP will leave the political EU and trade globally and freely.

I hope they get elected so that can epically backfire on them. And having read the rest, half of those policies would require the EU to fund without them having to tax our eyeballs off.

Also rule of thumb for your party of choice: if they have to say they aren't racist, they almost certainly are.
 
There's also this from Wikipedia:-

UKIP are against the planned introduction of identity cards. In December 2004, UKIP affiliated to the anti-ID card campaign, No2ID. Concern for civil liberties also led UKIP to oppose the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, which gives additional powers to the UK Home Secretary in broadly defined "emergency situations". UKIP's Jeffrey Titford MEP condemned the bill as "totalitarian".
 
Reminds me of the trashman can, aka Homer Simpsons way of spending tax payers money, some big promises their and some of the could be impossible to implement, 25,000 more troops? nobody wants to join the army.
 
The only thing I don't like is the bit about power, I'm a bit of a greeny I'm afraid.
 
Reminds me of the trashman can, aka Homer Simpsons way of spending tax payers money, some big promises their and some of the could be impossible to implement, 25,000 more troops? nobody wants to join the army.

no they would just put in better polices to stop people leaving the forces after their minimum time, that and a recruitment drive over time could give us 25,000 more troops.

Not as daft as other promises made by all the parties tbh
 
The only thing I don't like is the bit about power, I'm a bit of a greeny I'm afraid.

Ye that bit put me off too.

And also as stated, in principle it would be the ideal UK, in reality we will be the ones forking out for all of it some way or another. Hard to stick to those ideas tbh.
 
They seem to be promising lots of public spending but at the same time lots of tax cuts. Doesn't really add up I am afraid. But then it doesn't have to as they will never be in a position to implement their ideas.
 
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