Farage's EUKIP does not do details

That is the title of an excellent piece in today's DT, click on link to read.

There is now a full range of UKIP policies but most are incomplete and as Alllister Heath points out merely uncosted aspirations. As UKIP support rises these pseudo policies will come under increasing scrutiny contradictions and holes will be exposed until they fall over.

As the Autonomous Mind blog, click here to read, points out the title should read Farage does not do details. "After all, Farage alone calls the shots and the party dances to whatever tune he chooses to play on any given day." as the AM blog puts it, "Unless and until Farage gets serious about withdrawal, does detail and understands the mechanics and states the strategy to enable the UK to leave the EU, while maintaining our access to the single market – and crucially ensuring we can trade with those other countries around the world with whom trade agreements only cover EU member states – the ‘No’ campaign will lose any referendum."

Exactly.  An in/out EU Referendum tomorrow would deliver a resounding vote to stay in the EU on current terms. It needs a lot of hard graft by UKIP now starting with getting some serious business people to put the withdrawal case to rebut the Branson pickle self interest propaganda.

Fear, uncertainty and doubt will be the weapons of these self serving businessmen some of whom are tax exiles.  EUKIP should be mounting a campaign right now to rebut this despicable money driven campaign. Will they? Diificult while they continue to be based in Brussels and financially controlled by the EU.

The Relentless Charm of Nigel Farage

This is the title of a very interesting piece in Prospect click on  to link read. It was written based on Farage's performance in the South Shields by election. It rightly empasises Farage's strengths, his ability to converse meaningfully with ordinary people something other political party leaders lack. The Frank Field quote sums it up, Farage operates in the gap between the political elite and the ordinary people. Its a big and growing gap which Farage exploits very well and is a major reason for UKIP's recent strong electoral showing.

It rightly points out Farage is best on two issues, immigration  and the invisible EU referendum. Following the implosion of the BNP the former issue belongs to Farage. The latter enables Farage to exploit the huge democratic deficit in the UK with LibLabCon contortions to avoid giving the British people a vote on leaving the EU. On other issues particularly economics Farage is much weaker. I saw Wolfe, UKIP's City of London spokesman on the Daily Politics yesterday and I thought he did OK. Unfortunately UKIP's Tim Congdon, a good technical monetary economist, is a poor communicator when talking to Joe Public.

UKIP's problem is it is the Nigel Farage party. The Prospect piece makes the point that the boozing and the fags will be taking its toll on Farage to say nothing of the injuries he sustained in the air crash. If he goes for whatever reason UKIP will crumble. He has had more than his fair share of luck but eventually it will run out and he has not developed the party organisation bequeathed to him by Roger Knapman..

Businesmen speak only for themselves and their profits and bonuses.

Or as Guido Fawkes puts it, 'the dubious judgement of the Europhile crowd'. Click on link
to read it as he wrote it but I reproduce some of it below.

Guido has done a little digging into the background of the signatories to the letter to the Indy claiming we would lose £90 bn a year if we left the EU. I think they got the sign the wrong way round that is what we would gain by leaving the EU and what Sorrel, Branston Pickle and Roland Rat would lose. Here is the list with Guido's comments:

• Roland Rudd – corporate lobbyist for multinational firms and campaigner for Britain’s membership of the single currency which he still believes in.
• Richard Branson – non domciled, campaigned for Britain to join the Euro and wants a single European army.
• Martin Sorrell – Chief executive of advertising agency WPP – Roland Rudd’s boss who owns Rudd’s Finsbury PR.
• Dame Helen Alexander – former chief executive of the Economist.
• Lord Kerr – Foreign Office and UKREP career as a diplomat who helped draft the EU constitution.
• Sir Andrew Cahn – career civil servant and worked for Lord Kinnock at the EU Commission, who infamously with his wife Glenys received more than £10 million in pay, allowances and pension entitlements during their time working at the European Union in Brussels.
• Sir Nigel Sheinwald – non exec director of Shell, who brokered the ‘deal in the desert’ between Tony Blair and former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
• Sir Roger Carr – Chairman of Centrica who criticises business for their “greed” while hiking energy costs. Outgoing President of the Euro-loving CBI.

The usual suspects and men of dubious judgement. They might as well have got Huhne to sign it…

Guido has a thing about Huhne and he wrote an earlier piece based on a Jeff Randall/Peter Oborne clip called the Guily Men. I reproduce it below:

Jeff Randall mentions in passing some more Guilty Menthat Peter Oborne missed in his fast-selling pamphlet for the CPS, namely the authors of an earlier pamphlet published in 2002 “Why Britain Should Join The Euro” written by Richard Layard (LSE), Willem Buiter (ex-BoE MPC and eurocrat), Chris Huhne, Will Hutton, Peter Kenen (the Princeton University academic famous ironically for his work on optimum currency areas ) and Adair Turner. In this nonsense filled pamphlet for Britain in Europe they asserted:

“Opponents of the euro have forecast disasters which have in fact never happened and which always looked most unlikely… Euro-sceptics constantly underestimated the competence of Europeans and their ability to organise things properly.”

These Guilty Men are not the types to apologise. It is remarkable that Will Hutton, Chris Huhne and Adair Turner are now prominent tub-thumpers for carbon based global warming. Demonstrating, once again, their characteristic quality of  judgement.

I knew Buiter at the BoE. He was a decent bloke for a Dutchman but is it not interesting the Europhile names are all guys who have made zillions from the EU and its associated client groups? Money talks as they say and when it gets to the Europhiles it gallops faster than an Alan Wood nag.

These Europhiles do not give a jot about ordinary British workers or our way of life. The EU however is a great way to maintain their lifestyle, position and prestige and that is what is really important.

Farage advertises for ex-Tory mad, swivel eyed loons

This morning, after my dear wife had perused our DT it was passed to me and inside I found a full page ad from UKIP's Fuerher. It reminded me of what is written on the Statue of Liberty, 'Give to me, your poor, your swivel eyed loons yearning to be free and I will make them poorer still'

Its not as if UKIP does not already have its full complement of swivel eyed ex-Tory loons! The ad must have cost a fair bit so I presume moneybags Wheeler signed the cheque.

I liked Farage's line about a government, 'run by a bunch of college kids who have never had a proper job in their lives'. There are plenty of those in Labour and LibDems who fit that description so why restrict your market to just ex-Tories Nigel.

Following on the Fuerher's retreat from Edinburgh I was asked a couple of months ago by our resident Lord Pantsdown  how I felt about the SNP given I was in UKIP. I corrected him on the latter point saying I was no longer a UKIP member and was in fact on their blacklist subsequentl confirmed by Crowther. On the whole Scopt Nat thing I replied that for me the choice was simple. Did I want to be ruled by a bunch of Old Etonian wankers and their div 2 public school buddies who only went to Scotland to shoot a few stags or a bunch of Scottish bred, Scottish educated hard men like Alex and  George Galloway. No contest. Gimme the hard men every time. Let the metropolitan homosexuals marry each other and die out asap.

Its really the same question that UKIP should be putting. Do you want to be ruled by the Prussians and their Junkers or by your own people? Which group has the interests of  Britain at its heart?

The attempt to claim that we benefit by £90 bn is propagnda at its best. I would say the EU costs us £90bn per annum by its restrictive rules and regulations it imposes on us. Remember that the captains of industry are only interested in their share bonuses and company profits. Screwing down the workers wages is the easiest way to increase their obsecene rewards, often for failure. Remember these cronies of Tony were the same people predicting doom if we did not join the Euro in 1997.

The EU is the political project of the Euro elite and an economic disaster. Ask in the tavernas of Greece and Tapas bars of Spain to confirm the truth about the EU. (Asking ex-third div public schoolboys in the bordellos of Brussels will produce the wrong answer assuming you can find them sober.)

Good to see Roger Helmer, the ultimate UKIP ex old Tory on TV defending Farage after he was run out of Edinburgh in a police van. Just the image to increase the SNP vote.

Farage is God's gift to Alec Salmond

Farage is showing his stupidity on TV today by calling the Edinburgh student demonstrators fascist scum. They retalite by labeling UKIP as the BNP in nicer suits. Tough on NF in his pin stripe.

The SNP are now piling in to give him a deserved kicking. He has compounded his mistake further. Helmer did not help on C4 news tonight. He looks and souds like a typical old Tory which he is. There are more pandas in Edinburgh zoo than Tory MPs in Scotland.

The Scots detest London smart boys who wear Arthur Daley coats. Best stick to the home counties Mr Farage.

Farage needs police protection in Edinburgh

Obviously the claimed charisma does not work North of the border in my home city, motto Nemo Me Impune Lacessit. Click on link to read and watch BBC report.

Farage mobbed by angry crowd

Don't mess with the Scots NF is the message.

Somerset Tories target UKIP controlled Ramsey Council

Tomorrow we vote in our local Somerset  County election in the election which was held over following the sad death of UKIP candidate Audrey Spencer. I was asked to step in and out of respect for Audrey's memory I agreed to rejoin UKIP and stand. My application was rejected. No reasons were given to me or the Yeovil branch. That is the EUKIP way learned in the bars of Brussels. Thank goodness the  excellent Yeovil branch chairman Nigel Pearson managed to find another candidate and get her name on the ballot paper.

Yesterday I had a leaflet from the curiously named Marcus Fysh the Tory candidate. He has a special section on voting UKIP. His most telling point is,

"UKIP increased council tax by 28% at the only council they control. Somerset Tories have frozen council tax for the last four years"

Now I only know of one council UKIP controls, Ramsey. It has as its mayor Lisa Duffy, UKIP's Party Director. Her partner Peter Reeve, UKIP,  is also on the council so its very much a UKIP family business. The Tories are biting back and this is their first UKIP target. They have chosen well. Reeve and Duffy have lots off  political baggage, not up to Hamilton scale but more recent and closer to NF. We live in interesting times and tomorrow I will be able to vote for a UKIP candidate.