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UKIP Articles

No need for new policy on immigration

If comment pieces were votes, we would have defeated the United Kingdom Independence party already and would no longer have to worry about having been 600 votes away from a disastrous by-election defeat last week. But they are not. None of the ‘easy’ responses to Ukip...

For fox sake

Last night I received an email from the Labour party. It was about foxhunting. The issue of the day yesterday. My only regret was that the email hadn't gone out earlier – it would surely have been an issue that would have boosted our vote in Heywood and Middleton...

Politics is a team sport

This Saturday the three seat challenge team has ditched its plans and is heading down to Medway to help Naushabah Khan fight Mark Reckless, who ditched the Tories for the United Kingdom Independence party. We have always kept Lab3seats – think the three peaks, but a...

The dangers of dog-whistle democracy

From Matthew Parris’ call on the Conservative party to ‘let go of Clacton’ to John McTernan’s plea to for Labour to avoid doomed saloon politics, recent debates about class in Britain paint a picture of a society starkly divided. On the one side are the financially...