Nigel Farage plane crash - Death threat pilot guilty

All smiles before the death threats came!

Bizarre is the only thing to say about this case. On election day last year, as Nigel Farage campaigned to rid Buckingham of the delights of Squeaker Bercow, the light aircraft carrying the UKIP ex-leader, as he was then, crashed causing Farage uncomfortable injuries. Justin Adams, the pilot has been found guilty by a jury at Oxford Crown Court of five counts of making threats to kill relating to Mr Farage and Civil Aviation Authority crash investigator Martin James. His beef apparently was that he had to remain silent and that Nigel Farage was able to speak and it was this that caused Adams' irrational fury. Adams felt that Nigel Farage profited from speaking out. Can't think how. He didn't win the seat and he suffered pain.

I'm sure Mr.Farage was concerned by the threats, but he must have pondered the thought that he actually went up in the air with a nutter. And all Mr.James was doing was his job. Bizarre!

Stuart Wheeler wheels out his Trust Party

So Stuart Wheeler is spreading his bets by hoping to be elected as Trust Party MP for Bexhill & Battle. Did he pick this seat because he wants a battle on his hands? Surely Greg Barker is not the best target to complain about politicians with a past. I would have thought he might have picked an opponent with a "bit of previous".

And why start a new party? He gave money to UKIP. He knows Nigel Farage is trying his level best to get rid of the Squeaker in Buckingham. This just divides the anti-sleaze brigade's forces. And if UKIP is now not to his fancy why not sidle up to the Jury Team boss, Sir Paul Judge? I get the impression that the minor parties like to think the forthcoming general election is a bit like the Grand National. A mad rush over the jumps and the possibility that the favourites will fall. It's wishful thinking.

I wish Stuart Wheeler well in his campaign. But that's as far as it goes. However, if he wins, then his own battle will enter the electoral history books.

UKIP and a burka ban

UKIP are peddling the idea of a ban on Muslim women wearing the burka. Nigel Farage is of the opinion that it is an affront to women and is un-British. I think he's wrong on both counts. I've never thought the women who wear these head-to-toe cloaks are in any way subjected to being second class citizens. Most seem to wear the garment with pride. My only suggestion is to make the eye-slit a bit bigger as some of the larger ladies get that peripheral vision problem.

As for being un-British, when was it ever "British" to suggest the correct clothing for a person to wear? Nigel Farage wears some fancy gear I've noticed, but that's his business.

However, he does have a point over the security issue. Unlike the Saudi system, where burka-clad women get photographed for driving licences (and in New Jersey!), Britain should insist on a full-face picture. Anything else is to make a ridiculous situation at airports even more ludicrous.

UKIP and the new leader

Lord Pearson of Rannoch has been elected the new leader of UK Independence Party. This is interesting for two points. First, he is the first leader of a political party to sit in the Lords since the Earl of Home become leader of the Conservative Party in 1963 (although that was for a very short period). Second, he is the first leader of a political party with elected politicians not to have been elected to any office himself.

So his election paves the way for Nigel Farage to try to oust Speaker Bercow at Buckingham. If Farage succeeds, will he want his job back?

Democracy in England - LibDems £2.4M Donation!

Here's a quango at work in the political arena. The Electoral Commission in fact. In a toss of coins they come down in favour of the Liberal Democrats retaining a dodgy loan of £2.4 million and get quite exercised over a UKIP donation of £363,697. The LibDems keep their cash because they could not be held to have realised that the money came from a convicted fraudster. UKIP on the other hand failed to realise that their donor was not on the electoral register at the time of the donation. Even though a district judge ruled that UKIP should only repay £14,481 after ruling the breach had been accidental, the Commission appealed to the High Court and won.

If they had dug a bit deeper with the LibDems one wonders what they might have found out. In any event it hardly seems evenhanded.

Bouncing Czech puts Cameron's current account in the red!

So the Czech's have signed, ratified and sealed the Lisbon Treaty. Democracy is the poorer, weasel wordsmiths are having a field day. David Cameron and the higher echelons of the Conservative Party are u-turning as I type. All manner of reasons as to why a referendum is now out of the question. Cast iron guarantees are being melting down tonight. EU alchemy is trying to make gold ingots out of this cast iron. Well, let them! They know no better.

My fear is that come the general election the two largest parties in Britain will be defending political records of scheming, subterfuge, u-turning, deception, and a wilful acceptance of the greed of mates and pals and the dismissal of those MPs of lesser worth and political value.

David Cameron's current account has suddenly gone into the red. UKIP must be sensing a real victory in that those who thought Cameron would deliver now find a man whose word is as worthless as the fictitious money transactions that the conniving banks were doing when they turned toxic sub-prime loans into the grandchild of the South Sea Bubble. Many Conservative supporters will drift away, others will run enthusiastically into the UKIP fold.

Politics needs a new start. No good lecturing the likes of Afghanistan's President Kazi, when the EU variety has far more corrosive arrangements for denying true democracy.

I sincerely hope David Cameron knows what has befallen him. Gordon Brown barged into Tony Blair's No 10 bunker to declare that he didn't believe a ****ing the then PM said. The people may well say the same next year about Cameron's referendum guarantee melting like a chocolate soldier in the desert.

Are UKIP voters barmey?

You couldn't make it up. Traditionally in the UK, polling station staff fold ballot papers before giving them to voters. UKIP's high command, ever vigilant for the problems their supporters face at election time, have demanded unfolded ballot papers. This is because some voters cannot conceive of the idea of unfolding them before putting a cross on their paper.

One man from York told the BBC he had been "absolutely shocked" that he could not find the party he wanted to vote for on the ballot paper and had to ask officials where it was. "They explained you have to unfold it again, right at the very bottom there was another very neat fold that you could not see, folded backwards," he said, implying that UKIP was under the last fold (but he could possibly check that!).

My question is "Should such a person be let into a polling station in the first place?"

You have to wonder! UKIP is saying, "We are getting literally hundreds of calls saying we can't find you on the ballot paper so we voted for somebody else." It's all a load of nonsense. Pull the other one. UKIP is just in it for a publicity stunt. Or a pre-emptive strike in case it all goes pearshaped!

More fool the BBC and the Electoral Commission for falling for their prattish behaviour.

UKIP MEPs as they are known!

This is worth looking at if you are considering voting for UKIP. Take a good dose of amnesia pills before voting if the facts don't put you off!

http://www.wekip.org/

UKIP this time round?

UKIP update on Spink issue

Taken from Google. UKIP deleted these. Trouble for them is that the internet keeps a memory - a very long memory!


Bob Spink MP - UK Independence Party
21 Nov 2008 ... UKIP MP Dr Bob Spink has asked to be redesignated in the House of Commons as Independent, but he he stresses that he remains "UKIP's MP". ...www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/847-bob-spink-mp - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

Bob Spink MP and UKIP - UK Independence Party
22 Apr 2008 ... On behalf of our party I welcome Dr Bob Spink, MP to UKIP. He is a very hard working MP and always appears near the top of e-politix list of ...www.ukip.org/content/nigel-farages-blog/591-bob-spink-mp-and-ukip - 12k - Cached - Similar pages


Why is he now a bete noir? Do they think he was tainted in the expenses row?

UKIP - Do I understand them?

I see on the UKIP website that they have denounced Bob Spink, MP for Castle Point, as not being one of theirs. They say - Bob Spink? He's not one of us - as if they are proud of it. However, it was not long ago they were happy to shove out leaflets saying that they were the fourth largest party with MEPs, Peers and One MP. That MP being Bob Spink. What sort of moronic party is this?

Bob Spink was sort of in UKIP I suppose! Nigel Farage got terribly excited when he "joined". He waffled, "I am delighted to welcome the hard-working and deeply principled Bob Spink as UKIP's first Member of Parliament. As Bob is a signatory to the 'Better Off Out' campaign, joining UKIP was a logical step." Farage is a real plonker at times. He takes against people quite easily. Bob Spink just got into one of their revolving doors.

I won't be voting for them. A lot of nonsense comes out of UKIP, mainly slagging each other off. If you do vote for them, don't be surprised if they turn out to be expenses cheats or party poopers. Last time they got twelve, including the ridiculous Kilroy-Silk. He soon went, then they got two more in the dodgy department. You'd be voting for bottles on a wall! Veritas, UK First, Popular Alliance, they're all ex-UKIP sorts. The only thing they have in common is wanting to be out of the European Union so they can join EFTA to come in at the back door!

We've been warned!

EUkipping the fudge factory!

UKIP's got £100,000 coming it's way care of Stuart Wheeler, who in turn has just been kicked out of the Conservative Party. In a way Wheeler has a good name for one who is caught between a rock and and a hard place. He's wheeling himself between the two, or he was.

I'd have more sympathy for him if he came clean about his intentions. He has a go at the Tories for fudging but seems less than enthusiastic all round for UKIP. He doesn't want out of the EU, just reform, although failure to reform would mean out. Not a ringing endorsement for UKIP, exactly. He told the BBC this -

"Their (UKIP's) position is far nearer to what I would like to happen than anybody else's. I do want the Conservatives, if they are in power, to try very hard to get the European Union to accept a much looser relationship and to put us back into a position more or less where we were when we first joined - a wonderful trading relationship but not much else. I think they should try to do that, but more than likely they will fail and then we would have to get out."

It's this deluded view that people like Wheeler have of the European Union. "A wonderful trading relationship but not much else". When was this ever on the table apart from being a figment of the Great Grocer's imagination when he fobbed off the Tory Party with this canard. Ted Heath's EU dissembling was on a par with Nye Bevan's treacherous spin in his suggestion that National Insurance had everything to do with a funded insurance policy.

Wheeler must be living in a fool's paradise if he thought that the "Common Market" was anything other than an economic and political entity.

I voted against this political empire in Wilson's referendum. Not because I'm anti-Europe as the so called pro-Europeans would have it, but because I read the Treaty of Rome and found it to be fundamentally against British interests. It is also fundamentally against the interests now of every other EU country, but they were not involved in that referendum.

Personally, I would like to see a Commonwealth of Europe which would be a trading bloc of loosely tied nation states. Pan-European issues, like climate change, could well be covered but the hours that we work and the whole detail of internal governance should be without the control of an external "commission". Stuart Wheeler won't get his looser relationship by supporting UKIP's unilateral stance. It will only come when a concerted effort across the whole EU is made to change the meddling of this monster.

The Taxpayers' Alliance has a YouTube presentation on the Common Agricultural Policy which costs us all £398 per year. They call it a fudge. That's being generous. It's more like something cooked up in one of those Hell's Kitchens that Gordon Ramsey visits. "I've eaten that *!@!"!!* for *******'s sake!"

UKIP in Henley

I've just had a message about the UKIP candidate in the Henley by-election on 26th June. His name is Chris Adams and he's got a very good website for his election campaign. One issue that will or should be high up on the list is the closure of rural post offices. As ever, it's the EU behind it for most of the way. Plus you've got to make up the shortfall when the boss of the Post Office is sunning himself in far flung regions having pocketed a £3 million bonus topped wage packet.


The Real Reason for closures. Listen to Mr.Adams. “It’s outrageous that the people here have not been told the real reason why their post office is closing. There are people here who simply can’t travel miles to another branch and nor should they have to. But the fact is that this decision was made last year by the government and the EU and the consultation process was simply a smokescreen”.

“The simple truth is that post offices are closing because Tories, Labour and Lib Dems voted in Brussels to strip the Royal Mail of hundreds of thousands of pounds, and people in this constituency should remember that when they come to vote.”

I hope the BBC gets the message too, so they can tell it as it is. As I say on my blog heading - I'm a staunch opponent of political spin and deception. Seems the Royal Mail has it by the mail sack!

EU laws hold Britain back

I saw this piece by Mike Nattrass MEP in one of my local papers, the Solihull Times. Under the heading "EU laws hold Britain back" it is in his regular column - 'Another crazy day in Brussels' with UKIP West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass. This is what he wrote -

If part 1 had you asking why I show venom towards the EU, understand that this parliament in 35 years has created more UK laws than Westminster has made since 1485 and the battle of Bosworth Field.

It holds Britain back from trading with the world, including Europe, and restricts innovation. I love Europe, its people and its diversity. EU harmonisation damages the individuality of its people.

Brussels 2004 confirmed a rewrite of history was being made. The president said "WW1 was a Civil War." I shouted into my microphone "No one told my two grandfathers they were in it." I yelled "What were the Americans, the Indians, the Australians..." and I was switched off. In disbelief we heard that there were "No Germans in WW2".... they were "Nazis!" That night I realised conscripted Germans were insulted, many were not Nazis.

February in Strasbourg confirmed referendum failure, I left the voting chamber still dressed in my yellow "Too chicken for a referendum" shirt.

After an interview with ITV they said "We had better get this away before it is confiscated". "What!" I said. They replied "Yes, they do not allow people to talk like that if they can stop it."

That day Shirin Wheeler of the BBC had been told that she "could not video UKIP in the chamber" as "you cannot video dissent". She replied: "Either we video it all or nothing. Which do you want?"

Good for Shirin and thank goodness for the Solihull Times.

That's the whole trouble with the EU for me. Spin and subterfuge. Deceit and deception. They claim to be of the side of the citizen, but all along they want it their way or no way. Democracy? Of a kind!

UKIP in Crewe and Nantwich

UKIP are getting more professional and they have just launched a by-election site for Mike Nattrass MEP who is the UKIP candidate in Crewe and Nantwich. They have a battle bus too, so this should add to the fun as well as the publicity!

Tory rebel Bob Spink becomes Ukip's first MP

The Daily Telegraph has announced that the UK Independence Party will announce today that Mr. Robert Spink, formerly of the Conservative Party will join the party. The BBC announces that he already has!

So UKIP gets its first MP. It would have been better for them, I suppose, if they had won the seat in an election, but gaining a seat by whatever means (foul ones excluded, of course!) is OK. UKIP can be pleased that they have an MP, two peers, and ten MEPs. Makes a baker's dozen!

When I posted before that Bob Spink might join UKIP I was told "You're welcome to him!". As I'm not a member of UKIP, I'm not bothered in that sense. However, it helps the cause of those against the centralising powers and interfering nature of the European Union. Personally I want to see the EU transformed into a Commonwealth of Europe. I want a big exit door constructed for the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers, and all the brown envelope brigade of Brussels to go through so that they get the sort of radar checking you find at airports!

In the meantime, UKIP gets Bob Spink! We'll have to see how effective he becomes as a UKIP member rather than a Conservative one.

UKIP London Mayoral election broadcast

In the credit where credit is due category, I think Gerard Batten's UKIP message for London is very good. However, best will in the world, I can't help him or any of the other contenders, unless I buy the Bob Mugabe Box of Ballot Fixing Tricks. I can only vote in Solihull.

But here is the video, so at least Londoners who haven't seen it can see it here.



And for the English Local Elections here is Nigel Farage MEP speaking directly about some of the ills afflicting local democracy!