Nigel Farage for PM

[I1L2T3]

You do realise that in 2009 he claimed over $2 million in expenses from the European Parliament. Admittedly he was debating with Denis McShane at the time whose expenses led to his downfall.

Nevertheless £2m makes our MPs look like models of spendthrifts!

 

He's not breaking any rules though is he?

 

He takes what he can and ploughs it back into his party. I guess he would rationalise it as a repatriation of British funds

[taxman]

Maybe instead of elections, policies etc there could just be leaders appointed on the basis of how many times they appear on Have I Got News For You.

[Agent Orange]

Maybe instead of elections, policies etc there could just be leaders appointed on the basis of how many times they appear on Have I Got News For You.

 

Ian Hislop for PM.

[Hairyloon]

He's not breaking any rules though is he?

 

He takes what he can and ploughs it back into his party. I guess he would rationalise it as a repatriation of British funds

If they have been spent on expenses, then they will not be available to plough back in.

[I1L2T3]

If they have been spent on expenses, then they will not be available to plough back in.

 

No, he's very clear about it. He used the money for the "best of causes" to promote UKIPs brand of euro scepticism

 

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I wonder who much crap legislation the coalition is going to put through while we're all distracted looking at UKIP for the next two years.

[El Cid]

Ian Hislop for PM.

 

He is way too clever, Paul Merton.

 

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I wonder who much crap legislation the coalition is going to put through while we're all distracted looking at UKIP for the next two years.

 

They could always bring forward the date for a 'in-out' referendum, where would that leave UKIP?

[rodnreeluk]

Does he even have one policy? mutter, mutter, dirty furriners doesn't really count as a policy does it?

UKIP's policies might need more detail adding but what Nigel Farage speaks is good, down-to-earth, common sense. I'd like to see him have the chance to use his common-sense thinking to solve this country's problems. There is sod all to pick between the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties. They just want to carry on in the same old mould and line their own pockets. They have become institutionalised and too used to living on £65,000 a year plus the same again in expenses. How can they relate to the normal working man? They live in a different world!

[Hairyloon]

UKIP's policies might need more detail adding but what Nigel Farage speaks is good, down-to-earth, common sense. I'd like to see him have the chance to use his common-sense thinking to solve this country's problems. There is sod all to pick between the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties. They just want to carry on in the same old mould and line their own pockets. They have become institutionalised and too used to living on £65,000 a year plus the same again in expenses. How can they relate to the normal working man? They live in a different world!

 

Vote "None of The Above". It is the only sensible choice.

[ECCOnoob]

UKIP's policies might need more detail adding but what Nigel Farage speaks is good, down-to-earth, common sense. I'd like to see him have the chance to use his common-sense thinking to solve this country's problems. There is sod all to pick between the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties. They just want to carry on in the same old mould and line their own pockets. They have become institutionalised and too used to living on £65,000 a year plus the same again in expenses. How can they relate to the normal working man? They live in a different world!

 

Oh and of course Mr Farage is a perfect replacement then. A real salt of the earth council house renting ex steelworker who knows all about the "real world"

 

This is of course the same Independant School educated, ex city stockbroker and ex city banker Mr Farage isnt it.

 

Yeah he really knows about the real world

 

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People need to get a grip. A few perfectly selected soundbites about the "I" word and every moron in the country fawns over UKIP like they are the new revolution or something.

 

CRAP

 

Farage is just the same as everyone else. Posh boy who wants to play leading the country. He has no more feeling about real life than any of the others. Ex city boy millionaire who now wants to show his "down to earth" nonsense.

 

If they ever got in they will just as bad. The Daily Mail brigade comes to life and gets power over the government.... jesus, its enough to make you sudder.

 

Forget the immigration glossy headline take a look at some of their REAL policies.

 

Support GM foods, reverse decision on hunting ban, reverse decision on gay weddings, cuts to university places, make universities private so they can do and charge what they want, cuts to the minimum wage rate for apprentices, cuts to NMW, reduction of working age benefits rates, cuts to student grants/loans, flat tax rate of 31%, changes to VAT, reductions to health and safety legislations and rights to Claimants, reductions to safety inspection powers and reducing fines/forced closures down to "serious" incidents only, reductions in food safety and lower standards for caterers and restaurants and a proposed "postcode lottery" on prescription charges with decision power being made at 'local level'.

 

That's what you are voting for. Wonder how many of the recent local voters actually read up on this before putting the X in the box or, maybe just maybe they fell for the eye catching shiny headlines.

[altus]

Because they are the two parties with the most chance of winning elections, so lots of people vote for the one that will beat the one they don't want to win.

 

The alternative is that everybody voted for the party that they actually align most of their views with, and for all parties contesting national representational positions to have a fully fleshed out set of policies, rather than standing on single issues.

 

We had a good chance to change the way things work, for the better, but it was ruined by a large proportion of people wanting to "stick it to the lib dems". And as long as we have that sort of voting behaviour, we're never going to get sensible representation.

 

UKIP got 24% of the votes in the local elections but only 6% of the seats. In a general election, even if they got the same proportion of the votes, they will get a much lower proportion of the seats in parliament, if any - their support is just too widely spread for them to do well under a first past the post system. That will either add to pressure for electoral reform as people see it's not just for the LibDems or, more likely, cause UKIP voters to scurry back to the parties they previously voted for.