It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend- William Blake

UKIP Manual #754- How to annoy the Tories

It's not very often that a silver plate comes along with the chance to gain a substantial amount of voters, but on that very rare occasion, UKIP seems to have taken them all. It's safe to say that none of the big 3 parties capitalized on their last party conferences before the General Election. David Cameron "resenting the poor", Miliband forgetting the deficit and Clegg getting egg on his face by not supporting expanding runways at airports, which all show the world, how not to gain voters. The tide then can only go one way... UKIP.... Unfortunately.

With the gain of two former Conservative MP's, it is clear to see that they have capitilaized well with the complacency of the Tories, but one key element of their speech bugged me from the word go, "choose change". Change is a broad and vague term, and is exactly what UKIP have been "supposedly" wanting for years, and now this seems like the ideal time to take it, whilst the big 3 are still recovering. But there is only 1 thing UKIP have had a strong ideology and policy about, immigration. As far as I can see, the rest of their policies are just reactionary and not exactly realistic. 

Good joke Nigel- All your policies our based on leaving
the EU

For example, how would UKIP save tax payers money? Leave the EU, and save £55 million a day (in their 2014 manifesto). Sorry?  Do UKIP understand economic policy? Their answer to everything is to leave the EU! It's like a child reaction to losing it's candy, "but I want to!" And I may not be a mathematician, but that sounds like a Utopian dream, and even if it were true how much of that money would get filtered back into society? And what about the long term? That £55 million may not be a one off payment, but with a population of around 64 million, what major difference is it going to make?

But back to the recent by-elections, and again, "vote UKIP, get UKIP". Sure, you can do that, but either way, you're still not a big threat. Yes, the Conservatives were keen to outly that UKIP were getting stronger and emphasised how the traitorship of their MP's was "disgraceful" but the hole UKIP dug themselves in the build up to this, is too deep. The claims of racism and lack of political depth (it's all based on leaving the EU! And we'll have a referendum on that if we stay with the Conservatives anyway) before the EU Parliamentary Election gave UKIP a lot of bad publicity, and its swayed people (like me) to believe that UKIP don't have any sense of direction and can be ideologically racist. 

Jordan Ifield (I'm clearly anti-UKIP)