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UKIP MEPs vote against tackling tax evasion
Interesting vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday about tackling tax fraud, tax evasion and tax havens. The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour (582-35), with all the Lib Dem MEPs in the 582. And in amongst the 35? All the UKIP MEPs. (For the full background to the vote, see the committee report here.) [...]
More on the alleged forged UKIP nomination paper in Norfolk
A newly-elected UKIP councillor, at the centre of an investigation into a forged electoral nomination paper, has said he has not "done anything wrong".
Another week, another round of nasty comments by UKIP councillors and officials
From the Sunday Mirror: Ukip’s Chris Pain, leader of the opposition at Lincs Council and the party’s East Midlands regional chairman, wrote: “Have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in ‘illegal immigrants’, and add just a few more letters, it spells, ‘Go home you free-loading, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, baby-making, non-English-speaking ********* and take those [...]
Joint tickets: how the Cooperative Party has ended up helping Nigel Farage
UKIP’s Nigel Farage is having fun in the media speculating about joint UKIP-Tory or UKIP-Labour candidates at the next general election. I suspect that, as with touted defections, the more publicity there is the less likely it is to happen – as when serious behind the scenes talks are happening, publicity is not wanted. It’s [...]
How the Liberal Democrats should respond to UKIP
Some of UKIP’s support comes from places the Liberal Democrat should leave well alone – especially those yearning for a 1950s-style society of white men at work, white women at home and gays in the closet.
UKIP voters most likely to demand fictitious legislation be repealled
YouGov has repeated an illuminating piece of research carried out in the US, asking people if they think a fictitious piece of legislation (the Public Affairs Act of 1975) should be repealed and also seeing how people’s views vary if the repeal is associated with different parties. Overall, the British public come out ok: Some [...]
Another week, another good by-election result for the Lib Dems
Last week’s clutch of by-elections saw an exceptionally good set of results for the Liberal Democrats, especially in areas which are Lib Dem / Conservative contests and which are very relevant to the party’s seat numbers at the next general election. This week saw one more by-election in just such an area – Harrogate – [...]
UKIP MEPs repay £37,000 after breaking expenses rules
The Guardian reports: MEPs from the United Kingdom Independence party, whose organisation has railed against the European Union’s “gravy train”, have been found to have misused taxpayer-funded allowances following a crackdown byEurope’s anti-fraud watchdog. Two of the party’s senior members have repaid more than £37,000 meant for office staff after diverting it to party workers based [...]
A UKIP ‘surge’ is no cause for Lib Dem concern
Liberal Democrats, and before them Social Democrats and Liberals too, are well used to a surge in poll figures seeing them overtake another party and so generate a flurry of excited predictions about the future of British politics. Yet more often that they would wish, such surges have often subsequently largely or completely receded. So [...]
