Is It Now Time For Ukip To Call It A Day?

[sp1814]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42767657

I don't think there's any point in the party existing, apart from giving us a laugh.

Without looking at their website, can anyone name five of their policies?

[Baldric]

18:05, the voice of experience ;o)

[EDDIE51]

As I said on the last UKIP thread. Is there any member of the party who has not had their turn as leader yet?
There are a few policies UKIP had that they would rather you forgot. They include painting all British trains Red White and Blue, making the London underground circle line into a real circle,one rate of income tax, scrapping maternity pay, enforcing formal dress to attend a theater and making beer even cheaper as it is 'Our national Drink'

[mikey4444]

Eddie....I think they disowned those loony-tune policies, although Farage fought an Election on them.

Here's some more !

"The Ukip leader has said it is party policy for hand guns to be legalised and licensed in the UK despite being banned in the UK for the last 18 years"

"Nigel Farage has suggested that people should speak English on trains in Britain as lots of foreigners speaking different languages can make people feel "awkward".

He also said that we wanted to "blow up wind farms"

[mikey4444]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11239826/Legalise-handguns-and-repatriate-migrants-Ukips-7-most-controversial-policies.html

[gulliver1]

18.06, have to agree with you , Mikey is very sensible on what he posts ,
very experienced, well spotted.

[EDDIE51]

^ thanks mikey I had forgotten 'Make the NHS adopt the USA system'. That is probably the worst of the lot.

[mikey4444]

Eddie......And yet people still voted for them, and if there was another Election next week, lots would still vote for them !

I can understand why people supported them at the beginning, although I can't condone it. But why would some people continue to give support to a Party that has zero chance of producing any MPs ?

Whats the point ?

[Jackdaw33]

A lot of those who vote UKIP are disillusioned Labour voters, who for folklore reasons cannot bring themselves to vote Tory.

[mikey4444]

Jack....There were some Labour defectors, but the majority of their candidates, plus their voters were disaffected Tories.

But UKIP will never be an alternative to voting Tory. Look at their policies....would you like to see handguns back for instance ?

[Jackdaw33]

Both you and I know that they have about as much chance of forming a government as does the Monster Raving Loony Party, so I wouldn't get too worked up about their policies as they will never be put into practice.

[youngmafbog]

Mickey loves a good froth at UKIP.

Odd since as you say they dont and never had a cat in hells chance of gaining power.

As TTT has said, they achieved their aim so time to go now.

[gulliver1]

"They have achieved their aim" what was that then, they aimed and have yet to hit their target. PMSL.

[New Judge]

“They [their policies] include…making the London underground circle line into a real circle”

The Circle Line is a real circle. Since December 2009 it also has a “spur” from and to Hammersmith. Trains run from Hammersmith, clockwise via Edgware Road, Baker Street, Kings Cross, Victoria and Notting Hill Gate to Edgware Road. There they reverse and run anti-clockwise back to Baker Street, Edgware Road and Hammersmith. A train completing a round trip from and back to Hammersmith passes through Edgware Road, goes round the circle and terminates there. It then reverses and passes through the same station again on its return.

[shoota]

'Bring back handguns'?
Sounds good to me.

[mikey4444]

lol Shoota !

[mikey4444]

The implosion continues unabated ::

"UKIP deputy leader Margot Parker resigns in protest to Henry Bolton"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42770361

No, I have never heard of Ms Parker either !

[Deskdiary]

Can't see much wrong with the following:

1. One rate of income tax.
2. Getting rid of wind farms.
3. Scrapping maternity pay.
4. Making beer cheaper.

[cassa333]

The trouble with UKIP was they had delusions of grandure.

What should have happened after the Brexit win was they should have kept a low(ish) profile and snap at the heals of the government so as to keep Brexit as Brexit.

As a political party with mileage they were not and are still not.

NIgel is right though there should be an organisation that snaps at the heals of power to make the case for a proper bRexit.

[EDDIE51]

Wind farms will go once we go fully over to Nuclear power as we
should have been 25 years ago. The UK was world leader in Nuclear power until the government back in the 1970s abandoned it due to the 'Nuclear No Thanks' campaine . 'No Thanks' made the utterly false claim that Nuclear power stations were a secret way to produce Nuclear bombs, and was in turn was a throwback to CND's 'Ban The Bomb' in the 1960s. Anyway it now means that not only does the UK not have any nuclear power engineers,we do not even have the facility to train any. We now are forced to rely on a Chinese /French conglomerate to produce our nuclear power stations,and fulfill our commitment to low Carbon footprint energy production.

[New Judge]

Make a note of this (as it doesn't happen too often!) but I am in complete and unreserved agreement with Eddie. The abandonment of our nuclear power capability, brought about as a result of pressure by an assortment of ill-informed agitators with little better to do with their time, is one of the great scandals of our time.