At UKIP we should strive to live up to the hopes and aspirations of those that have been let down by the other parties. Whilst we are new in Basingstoke we are dedicated to putting in place a securer future for our youth, protecting the vulnerable and releasing the entrepreneurial talent within the town.
At all times though we endeavour to abide by our core principles of giving the people a real input into decision-making and making real 'localism' a fundamental tenement of all we do.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/316732/Ukip-pins-election-hopes-on-disenchanted-voters
Welcome to the UKIP Basingstoke blog.
Sunday 29 April 2012
'Tory leadership has failed to do its duty'
This is a severe indictment of the Tories in Basingstoke and shows what for years their opponents have been saying. The Tory council have misrepresented, been underhanded and bordering on conniving. Over the Manydown issue - they have been shown to have politicised the issue of town development and gone against the best interests of the people of Basingstoke as a whole.
At UKIP we believe that those responsible should be made to step down and that there should be a public meeting to discuss the future policy of development in the town.
http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/9677246._Tory_leadership_has_failed_to_do_its_duty_/
At UKIP we believe that those responsible should be made to step down and that there should be a public meeting to discuss the future policy of development in the town.
http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/9677246._Tory_leadership_has_failed_to_do_its_duty_/
Leader boosts election push
UKIP Basingstoke would like to extend their thanks to Nigel Farage for a lively and entertaining evening. More importantly though we would like to thank those who attended the meeting and the people of Basingstoke for their support since our formation - we are most grateful.
Below is the Basingstoke Gazette article on the meeting:
http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/local/9677241.Leader_boosts_election_push/
Below is the Basingstoke Gazette article on the meeting:
http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/local/9677241.Leader_boosts_election_push/
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Tory Council Failure
http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/9653482.Major_legal_decision_goes_against_borough_on_Manydown/#commentsList
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Tories are having a 'systematic nervous breakdown' over issues not only of policy but collectively as a party. This has been a dreadful waste of public funds and was a means of gathering votes in the Winklebury and Oakley areas. It is political expediency at its worst. Cllr Golding and Cllr Reid should both resign over this, but will they do the decent thing?
I doubt it but they have both been totally compromised over this farce.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Tories are having a 'systematic nervous breakdown' over issues not only of policy but collectively as a party. This has been a dreadful waste of public funds and was a means of gathering votes in the Winklebury and Oakley areas. It is political expediency at its worst. Cllr Golding and Cllr Reid should both resign over this, but will they do the decent thing?
I doubt it but they have both been totally compromised over this farce.
Sunday 15 April 2012
Interesting Times
Whilst it is unlikely that the Tory Party will implode any time soon, at UKIP we are making enough ground to be a realistic prospect for sitting MP's. Once we gain MP's the flood gates will open, look at the SNP in Scotland. We need to stay on and be confident in our message:
http://playpolitical.typepad.com/other_uk_parties/2012/04/watch-nigel_farage-if-ukip-continues-to-grow-in-the-opinion-polls-tory-mps-will-join-.html
http://playpolitical.typepad.com/other_uk_parties/2012/04/watch-nigel_farage-if-ukip-continues-to-grow-in-the-opinion-polls-tory-mps-will-join-.html
The troubled Tory tribe
The Tories really should stop blaming UKIP for their ills and look closer to home - at least Nadine Dorries seems to be trying some form of analysis here. At UKIP we WILL expose the governments faults and not allow them to get away with bleeding the country dry for the EU.
Nadine Dorries MP: UKIP have a set of right wing policies which look "astoundingly Conservative"
Before I begin, it isn’t me. I’m not talking to UKIP.
As we all head back to London for the start of a new Parliamentary session, the welcoming committee is a depressing one for Cameron, and with good reason. There are MPs who are indeed talking to UKIP, and they appear to be from the ‘younger generation’ of MPs, which will worry Cameron considerably. I think I have a clear idea of who one is and he certainly isn’t a usual suspect.
As Tim, noted in his Guardian column on Friday, the leadership of the party has made one strategic mistake after another, and the patience of many MPs has worn thin.
A major fissure appeared in the collective loyalty of MPs during the weekend following the budget when for the first time, they began to feel a verbal backlash in their respective constituencies. Whether it was as a result of granny tax, pasty tax, or child benefit cliff edges, suddenly being a new Conservative MP didn’t feel as great as it had for the last couple of years.
It is a difficult moment when people stop patting you on the back and telling you how well you did to get elected and start doubting the policies of the government you represent.
It is even harder for the most loyal of MPs who articulate absolute adherence to Cameron on the outside, whilst fully aware that there has been one major mistake after another - and now they have to justify it to their local associations and the very people who helped put them into Parliament.
This scenario creates an inner personal conflict which boils into a steaming resentment, which will eventually erupt.
As we all head back to London for the start of a new Parliamentary session, the welcoming committee is a depressing one for Cameron, and with good reason. There are MPs who are indeed talking to UKIP, and they appear to be from the ‘younger generation’ of MPs, which will worry Cameron considerably. I think I have a clear idea of who one is and he certainly isn’t a usual suspect.
As Tim, noted in his Guardian column on Friday, the leadership of the party has made one strategic mistake after another, and the patience of many MPs has worn thin.
A major fissure appeared in the collective loyalty of MPs during the weekend following the budget when for the first time, they began to feel a verbal backlash in their respective constituencies. Whether it was as a result of granny tax, pasty tax, or child benefit cliff edges, suddenly being a new Conservative MP didn’t feel as great as it had for the last couple of years.
It is a difficult moment when people stop patting you on the back and telling you how well you did to get elected and start doubting the policies of the government you represent.
It is even harder for the most loyal of MPs who articulate absolute adherence to Cameron on the outside, whilst fully aware that there has been one major mistake after another - and now they have to justify it to their local associations and the very people who helped put them into Parliament.
This scenario creates an inner personal conflict which boils into a steaming resentment, which will eventually erupt.
The errors began before the election (we should have
spotted the signs) when Cameron agreed to the leadership debates and then ran
the election campaign on a Big Society platform which hadn’t even been
poll-tested. Both of those bad judgments possibly robbed us of the majority we
desperately needed and, more importantly, the country deserved.
The next major error was to agree to govern in coalition with the Liberal
Democrats.
The right decision would undoubtedly have been to govern with a minority government until October 2010.
Given the economic mess we were in and the size of the deficit in May 2010, the conditions were begging for that decision to be made.
Nothing would have been easier than to go back to the country in October 2010 and explain the true mess the party had inherited. Nothing would have been more justified than telling the electorate the country needed a stronger government, with a larger public mandate in order to take the necessary decisions to repair the damage left by Labour.
Cameron could have explained to the electorate that a majority government was a ‘must have’ for the sake of the country and they would have listened.
The fact that an incoming Government never truly gets to see the books until it takes possession of Number 11, along with the note from Liam Byrne announcing that all the money had been spent, would have been enough to convince the electorate that this was no time for protest votes. No time for minority parties who can only command a nine percent share of the vote. No time for sitting at home on hands and procrastinating. In October 2010, every citizen would have been very much aware of their own responsibility in electing a strong government. I believe the British people are at their best when facing adversity and would have risen to this challenge and elected a majority Conservative government.
Market volatility couldn’t have been any worse for us than in May 2010. An indication that there would be another election in the autumn which would almost certainly have refined voting intentions towards one of the two main parties may possibly even have contributed to stabilising the markets over the summer period, until the second election was called.
But, thanks to a bad decision, we will never know.
The tendency of Cameron to roll to the left in every decision he takes is not done just to please the Liberal Democrats, although there is far too much of that. Cameron describes himself as a social liberal. The problem is that most of the sixty five million British voters aren’t. You would walk the streets of Essex or Yorkshire for a long time before you found a voter who described himself as such. The Liberal Democrats are an out and proud fully declared socially liberal party and only nine percent of the population voted for them, shouldn’t that tell us something? I will concede that the people in Cameron’s social circle may well be socially liberal. Social liberalism has always been an indulgence of the wealthy. The people who can afford to enjoy liberalism whilst protecting their own children from the societal influences of such by sending them to the most expensive schools. In addition to the majority of the British public being far from social liberals, they also aren’t stupid. They know that each family struggles financially whilst we send a billion of our hard earned cash to Europe each year.
They know that gay marriage is a side issue which many gay couples living outside of London or bohemian Brighton (sorry Graeme) have no interest in and as one gay couple articulated to me in my constituency, “we wish Cameron and others would just shut the **** up and leave us alone in our civil partnership”. This from a couple who happily contribute to their local community and resent their relationship becoming a focus point for discussion as they queue for fish and chips and get on with their lives. Not all gay couples live in the south of England.
And that is just about what everyone is doing, getting on with their busy lives and surviving to do too much about any of the disconnect they feel, however, suddenly a new dynamic has entered the political arena and penetrated the chatter bubble of everyone’s daily lives.
UKIP are gathering support and are now on an equal pegging with the Liberal Democrats polling on eleven percent. They are doing so because the British taxpayer no longer wants to bail out basket-case, southern European countries. Voters are very well aware of the fact that people living in the booming economies of the far East are having it much better than we are, and want to know why we aren’t looking East to trade instead of Europe.
In my village alone, two graduates are leaving to work in Dubai and Singapore this September, and my hairdresser is off to Abu Dhabi. I don’t live in London where this isn’t so uncommon. Suddenly, you can’t move before you hear of a young person fleeing the shores. Are we becoming the Eire of yesteryear? A group of twenty-five year olds told me this week ‘the UK, London, Europe, it’s all so tired, such a mess, the developing countries is where it’s happening’.
And, whilst all this is taking place, Cameron and Osborne make one bad judgment call after another. Instead of speaking the language of the young and emulating their observations and intentions, they talk of defending the Eurozone, supporting the ECHR, spinning the same old tired Euro deal. The most embarrassing recent error has to have been Cameron’s Easter speech in which he called for all Christians to fight back for the right to wear a cross and chain at work, at the same time that his Ministers wrote to the ECHR to argue that Christians had no right to wear a cross and chain and to not support the cases before the court.
Do the government really think the electorate don’t notice this crass incoherence and incompetence? The electorate always seem willing to forgive Labour for such mistakes, as though messing up is somehow expected. They are far less forgiving of a Conservative government, as though they expect far better.
Is it any wonder Conservative MPs are wondering what to do? Where to go?
It would take only two MPs to cross the floor to give UKIP the publicity and coverage it needs to harness public disquiet and dissatisfaction with Cameron and the other main parties.
Two MPs to uplift UKIP to the centre stage.
Two MPs to turbo-charge a party into the credible political arena of the House of Commons.
Two MPs to transform the electoral opportunities of UKIP at the next general election by publicising and highlighting a silo for a protest vote which is not the Liberal Democrats.
And if it happens, if two MPs do cross the floor, if UKIP rob us of seats and destroy our chances in the marginals, if we lose to Labour at the next General Election because UKIP take a substantial share of the vote, there are just two men to thank for a repetitive string of bad decisions which led us there.
UKIP are the new Liberal Democrats but with truth, chutzpah, the wind in their sails and a set of right wing policies which look astoundingly Conservative.
As we appear to have a Prime Minister and a Chancellor who describe themselves as ‘social liberals’ rather than Conservatives, we should all be very worried indeed.
The right decision would undoubtedly have been to govern with a minority government until October 2010.
Given the economic mess we were in and the size of the deficit in May 2010, the conditions were begging for that decision to be made.
Nothing would have been easier than to go back to the country in October 2010 and explain the true mess the party had inherited. Nothing would have been more justified than telling the electorate the country needed a stronger government, with a larger public mandate in order to take the necessary decisions to repair the damage left by Labour.
Cameron could have explained to the electorate that a majority government was a ‘must have’ for the sake of the country and they would have listened.
The fact that an incoming Government never truly gets to see the books until it takes possession of Number 11, along with the note from Liam Byrne announcing that all the money had been spent, would have been enough to convince the electorate that this was no time for protest votes. No time for minority parties who can only command a nine percent share of the vote. No time for sitting at home on hands and procrastinating. In October 2010, every citizen would have been very much aware of their own responsibility in electing a strong government. I believe the British people are at their best when facing adversity and would have risen to this challenge and elected a majority Conservative government.
Market volatility couldn’t have been any worse for us than in May 2010. An indication that there would be another election in the autumn which would almost certainly have refined voting intentions towards one of the two main parties may possibly even have contributed to stabilising the markets over the summer period, until the second election was called.
But, thanks to a bad decision, we will never know.
The tendency of Cameron to roll to the left in every decision he takes is not done just to please the Liberal Democrats, although there is far too much of that. Cameron describes himself as a social liberal. The problem is that most of the sixty five million British voters aren’t. You would walk the streets of Essex or Yorkshire for a long time before you found a voter who described himself as such. The Liberal Democrats are an out and proud fully declared socially liberal party and only nine percent of the population voted for them, shouldn’t that tell us something? I will concede that the people in Cameron’s social circle may well be socially liberal. Social liberalism has always been an indulgence of the wealthy. The people who can afford to enjoy liberalism whilst protecting their own children from the societal influences of such by sending them to the most expensive schools. In addition to the majority of the British public being far from social liberals, they also aren’t stupid. They know that each family struggles financially whilst we send a billion of our hard earned cash to Europe each year.
They know that gay marriage is a side issue which many gay couples living outside of London or bohemian Brighton (sorry Graeme) have no interest in and as one gay couple articulated to me in my constituency, “we wish Cameron and others would just shut the **** up and leave us alone in our civil partnership”. This from a couple who happily contribute to their local community and resent their relationship becoming a focus point for discussion as they queue for fish and chips and get on with their lives. Not all gay couples live in the south of England.
And that is just about what everyone is doing, getting on with their busy lives and surviving to do too much about any of the disconnect they feel, however, suddenly a new dynamic has entered the political arena and penetrated the chatter bubble of everyone’s daily lives.
UKIP are gathering support and are now on an equal pegging with the Liberal Democrats polling on eleven percent. They are doing so because the British taxpayer no longer wants to bail out basket-case, southern European countries. Voters are very well aware of the fact that people living in the booming economies of the far East are having it much better than we are, and want to know why we aren’t looking East to trade instead of Europe.
In my village alone, two graduates are leaving to work in Dubai and Singapore this September, and my hairdresser is off to Abu Dhabi. I don’t live in London where this isn’t so uncommon. Suddenly, you can’t move before you hear of a young person fleeing the shores. Are we becoming the Eire of yesteryear? A group of twenty-five year olds told me this week ‘the UK, London, Europe, it’s all so tired, such a mess, the developing countries is where it’s happening’.
And, whilst all this is taking place, Cameron and Osborne make one bad judgment call after another. Instead of speaking the language of the young and emulating their observations and intentions, they talk of defending the Eurozone, supporting the ECHR, spinning the same old tired Euro deal. The most embarrassing recent error has to have been Cameron’s Easter speech in which he called for all Christians to fight back for the right to wear a cross and chain at work, at the same time that his Ministers wrote to the ECHR to argue that Christians had no right to wear a cross and chain and to not support the cases before the court.
Do the government really think the electorate don’t notice this crass incoherence and incompetence? The electorate always seem willing to forgive Labour for such mistakes, as though messing up is somehow expected. They are far less forgiving of a Conservative government, as though they expect far better.
Is it any wonder Conservative MPs are wondering what to do? Where to go?
It would take only two MPs to cross the floor to give UKIP the publicity and coverage it needs to harness public disquiet and dissatisfaction with Cameron and the other main parties.
Two MPs to uplift UKIP to the centre stage.
Two MPs to turbo-charge a party into the credible political arena of the House of Commons.
Two MPs to transform the electoral opportunities of UKIP at the next general election by publicising and highlighting a silo for a protest vote which is not the Liberal Democrats.
And if it happens, if two MPs do cross the floor, if UKIP rob us of seats and destroy our chances in the marginals, if we lose to Labour at the next General Election because UKIP take a substantial share of the vote, there are just two men to thank for a repetitive string of bad decisions which led us there.
UKIP are the new Liberal Democrats but with truth, chutzpah, the wind in their sails and a set of right wing policies which look astoundingly Conservative.
As we appear to have a Prime Minister and a Chancellor who describe themselves as ‘social liberals’ rather than Conservatives, we should all be very worried indeed.
Sunday 8 April 2012
Two-day old news: The Lib Dems are completely doo-lally
Two-day old news: The Lib Dems are completely doo-lally
This post is from Roger Helmer MEP and shows that the Lib Dems have gone and are completely bonkers. They seem to have lost all sense of reality over the eurozone crisis
This post is from Roger Helmer MEP and shows that the Lib Dems have gone and are completely bonkers. They seem to have lost all sense of reality over the eurozone crisis
More Government FAILURE over the UK's border controls
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2126913/Theresa-Mays-crack-European-Court-Human-Rights-Not-chance-hell.html
It is bordering on incompetent and negligent how this government tries various initiatives but fails to realise they are doomed to fail from the outset due to the EU. It does not take a genius to know that the EU is overbearing and dictatorial. This government is complicit in its lack of democracy though, the voters of Britain should be allowed a referendum on the EU to decide for themselves whether we remain in the EU.
It is bordering on incompetent and negligent how this government tries various initiatives but fails to realise they are doomed to fail from the outset due to the EU. It does not take a genius to know that the EU is overbearing and dictatorial. This government is complicit in its lack of democracy though, the voters of Britain should be allowed a referendum on the EU to decide for themselves whether we remain in the EU.
Friday 6 April 2012
Thurrock - EU Referendum Ballot
http://m.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/05/eu-referendum-constituency-ballot?cat=politics&type=article
90% of respondents want a referendum on the EU - and yet, the Lib/Lab/Con europhile conspiracy denies the electorate their democratic right. UKIP will give the voters their rights back!
90% of respondents want a referendum on the EU - and yet, the Lib/Lab/Con europhile conspiracy denies the electorate their democratic right. UKIP will give the voters their rights back!
Sunday 1 April 2012
Conservatives are faking opposition to Scottish independence
http://news.stv.tv/politics/302147-conservatives-are-faking-their-opposition-to-independence-to-position-themselves-for-a-post-independence-deal/
More deceitful cynicism of this so-called government. UKIP have a duty to exploit this for the good of the union and its people. UKIP's major failing is not a lack of policies - or even good policies - but a failure to articulate to the masses how appallingly we have been governed by the Lib/Lab/Con triumverate. Only UKIP can change this - by speaking directly, honestly and frankly with the British people.
More deceitful cynicism of this so-called government. UKIP have a duty to exploit this for the good of the union and its people. UKIP's major failing is not a lack of policies - or even good policies - but a failure to articulate to the masses how appallingly we have been governed by the Lib/Lab/Con triumverate. Only UKIP can change this - by speaking directly, honestly and frankly with the British people.
True face of Cameron's Conservative Party
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2123029/It-took-Dave-just-days-REALLY-toxify-Tories.html
The Daily Mail expose the true face of Cameroon Conservatism. It proves the government are not liked or loved even by their own.
The Daily Mail expose the true face of Cameroon Conservatism. It proves the government are not liked or loved even by their own.
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