Populist or not, Ukip will never get the chance.
The manifesto covers a wide range of policy areas, from the NHS and transport to fisheries and small businesses, with policies including:
- A limited points-based immigration system
- NHS health cards for British citizens to prevent ‘health tourism’ & free parking at hospitals
- An extra £2bn a year for adult social care & £500m a year for mental health
- Abolition of stamp duty and inheritance tax
- Introduction of new grammar schools
- Scrapping the overseas aid budget
- Scrapping guidelines on ‘subjective’ hate crimes
- Scrapping the climate change act, stopping subsidies for wind turbines and solar voltaic arrays and seeking to rejuvenate the UK’s coal industry
- Scrapping the BBC licence fee in favour of voluntary subscription
- Repealing hate speech guidelines, the Equality Act 2010 & shutting down the Equalities and Human Rights Commission
This, apparently, makes them “far right”. Yet mostly what I see here is merely rolling back the suffocating progressive agenda forced upon us by increasingly left-wing governments peddling identity politics. Indeed, all of it is perfectly reasonable – well, apart from health cards. We don’t need them any more than we needed identity cards. I’m also wondering just how much viable coal there is left to mine… That seems like playing to the crowds, much like the extra money for the NHS that everyone seems to think it needs. But the rest, yeah, why not?
I could add the following:
- Close the department for culture, media and sport
- Cease all third sector funding
Will never happen though.
“Scrapping the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport offers potential savings of £6 billion”
Page 17 of the manifesto. But scrolling through it quickly I see no mention of rescinding/amending the smoking ban!
Yeah, I’d add that along with defunding WHO and PHE as both have stepped way outside their remit.
@LR
All the UKIP manifesto points listed have my support as does @BD’s
UKIP are missing a massive chunk of support and votes, and they will until they drop Farage’s permanent banning of former BNP and EDL members from joining UKIP, starting with one Tommy Robinson, which effectively bans any group classed amusingly as far right when you couldn’t find more working class patriots in those groups anywhere.
Those former members and others in breakaways like For Britain arn’t going to give their unconditional votes to UKIP whilst Farage’s personal views still holds so much sway, you’d think he was still running the bloody ship, why should they if they are viewed as something disgusting one wiped from a shoe.
The funny thing is, whatever the stigma associated with those groups, they are rock solid dependable patriots, and before many more years have passed i fear there will come a time when those who currently despise them may find themselves wishing they were in the company of such.
I think it was precisely Farage’s stance on those groups that achieved so much success. I voted UKIP during the Blair years but would not have touched them with a barge pole if they had allowed in the knuckle draggers of society.
Funnily enough I don’t include TR in that comment…even he left the EDL when he realised it was being taken over by genuine racists.
Knuckle draggers vs coherent: who decides?
Yes, TR left EDL – good move, but msm inc DM ignores he left.
Let anyone join, expel if rules broken.
Tommy Robinson: A strong man broken by the evil state:
Pt1a: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoZKNSUT868
Pt1b: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbzOdXhBGxs
Digusting Gov’t behaviour, no wonder May enjoyed time with SA Gov’t and support land theft. Evil woman.
“I’m also wondering just how much viable coal there is left to mine”
There could be plenty but who realistically in this day and age is going to go deep underground to get it.
“Viable” is the key word. The UK has vast coal reserves, but their depth and complexity make them far more costly to recover than reserves in countries such as Australia and South Africa. There are plenty of UK miners still working in the coal mining industry, go down any Australian coal mine and you’ll hear a variety of UK accents.
No that list makes them economically illiterate losers, which we’ve always known they are. What makes them far right is the support they give to gaggle of far right in the EU Parliament, when they aren’t stealing expenses or having fist fights in the corridors.
The term economically illiterate losers applies to pretty much every party in parliament. Indeed, the Labour Party excelled at it, having pissed away millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money when in power to little avail. The Tories aren’t much better.
“could never happen” – thats what they said about the referendum, but by applying pressure to a divided party from the right, they managed to scare Cameron, not one of the sharpest tools in the box, to call it.
It looks to me to be a good manifesto, which will interest a lot of people and put pressure on marginal tories which over time willaffect the direction of travel.
The trouble with the Tories is that under CMD and now the execrable May is that nobody is talking about what should be a genuine tory manifesto, by their ridiculous policy of triangulation they have abandoned that ground (for no gain electorally as those that are brought up to hate tores will never vote for them come what May) and UKIP to their credit are occupying it.
Good thing, but don’t expect immediate results. Good timing in advance of next years euros perhaps, but then hopefully we won’t be voting in the euros?