More Wishful Thinking From Mr Farage !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29368838

How are UKIP going to lower income tax, without any MP's in Westminster ?

[Retrochic]

You presume too much sir! ;-) Wait until next year you may be pleasantly (unpleasantly) surprised. Radical changes in Foreign Aid, extracting UK from the E.U., no income tax payable up to the minimum wage, and plenty of people putting themselves forward as potential MP's. Ed Millibands' unpopularity and frankly greasy persona will attract some fickle voters to UKIP. Small steps this time around but wait until 2020. BTW I'm tying this from Doncaster at the UKIP conference and things are going very well.

[naomi24]

In the run up to the General Election, all parties, whether they have a hope of their candidates being elected or not, will soon be telling us what they’re offering. What’s the problem?

[Jomlett]

Your link provides you answer, Mikey. This conference is to formulate a general(local?) election policy but "A senior party figure told me they hope to add up to another eight MPs come the general election.

The "real horizon" though, they added, "is 2020".

[Retrochic]

Jomlett I am certain 8 MP's for the General Election is easily do-able especially with a couple of 'defectors' from Labour on the cards.

[mikey4444]

Retro....I won't be surprised if UKIP win the next Election in May 2015, unpleasantly or not....I will be absolutely amazed ! I will make a bet with you Retro...I will eat my Barbour waxed hat, with HP sauce, if UKIP wins next May...do we have a deal ?

[ChillDoubt]

As Farage just said on Sky News, this is the most unstable British politics has been in 100 years and I wouldn't start counting any chickens yet mikey.
One thing is for sure, his keynote speech will be a barnstormer after that dire performance from Red Ed last week and matters will get pretty stoked up.
Odd you didn't comment on his actual proposals though.
Any naysayer would have to admit they look good, no tax on minimum wage and a cut in the foreign aid budget.
Like it or not, he's certainly appealing to the current concerns of the common man.

[Zacs-Master]

A repeat of my post on the other thread on this subject:
The devil is in the detail. Until I knew precisely how they were going to fund this, I would be sceptical. I would also like to know the details of all their other policies which seem wooly at best. If you do a little digging you will see that UKIPs tax policy changes with the wind, so don't be surprised if you vote for them, that you don't get what you 'pay' for ( not that they have a cat in Hells chance of being in power anytime soon).

[Old_Geezer]

All parties need to say where they stand on things and what they would like to do. None of them are obliged to enact the manifesto should they be in power; claiming things have changed and they must prioritise something else you didn't want. That's the problem with so called representative "democracy".

You'd be fair to criticise them if they didn't state their beliefs.

[ChillDoubt]

mikey,
I'll bet you next month's wages that Miliband will not be in power come next May and indeed may not even be invited to form a coalition.

[naomi24]

//Like it or not, he's certainly appealing to the current concerns of the common man. //

He is indeed.

[Zacs-Master]

And another repeat:
That's one of the problems with democracy N, putting the power in the hands of the uneducated masses who can only see the carrot and not the field it's growing in.

[Retrochic]

mikey4444 you comment was 'without any MP's in Westminster' . I would have to be carried off in a straight jacket to presume UKIP will win the next election (and you know it lol!) but they WILL achieve a presence in the House of Commons, I'm sure of that.

[Retrochic]

Zacs get on a train boat or plane and come to Doncaster (its not that bad actually) and see for yourself.

[Svejk]

where does retro mention winning the election in may?

[Old_Geezer]

Who could resist an 'at eating offer when there is no obligation to do owt in the event they don't get in :-)

[Retrochic]

Zacs said ''That's one of the problems with democracy N, putting the power in the hands of the uneducated masses''
I'm sure this was the battle cry of Libs and Tories in 1906 at the birth of the Labour party

[Svejk]

spoilt zac's trap. ;D

[Zacs-Master]

Exactly, retro, look where that got us Unions, the country on its knees, power cuts and a three day working week. Fantastic. Oh, and then Labour thought '***, this isn't working, let's be more like the cons' and so the era of having 'no one to vote for, cos they're all the same' began.

[Zacs-Master]

Don't think so Svejk.

[naomi24]

Zacs, he’s saying what a good proportion of the “uneducated masses” want to hear. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if they take a sizeable bite of the carrot. As for the field it’s growing in, is it any less barren than the one Labour is rotting in?