I don't think it's silly to stand. The EU comes into a lot of things affecting London.

When FactCheck questioned UKIP over the points in its manifesto, the party told us that they were a vision of “what should be happening” in London.

While we accept that a manifesto is a declaration of aims or intent, we think the general public would expect it to be more than a pie-in-the-sky vision. After all, both Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone have been harangued by FactCheck for not backing up their election pledges, so why should UKIP’s Mr Webb be treated any differently?

The fact remains that of the UKIP aims we have looked into, three of them are impossible for the Mayor of London to enforce: the VAT changes, reversal of the smoking ban and the idea of a tourist tax.

We are all in trouble now, Emmett has a position of power...... Press & Communications Officer of the Young Independence (I wonder what adult is in charge of the playpen) ... Emmett Jenner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Independence

The former chair of Conservative Future has suggested that the unemployed should not be allowed to vote. Tom Bursnall, who recently defected from the Tories to UKIP on Windsor and Maidenhead Council, specifically targeted the unemployed people on his Pro Capitalist blog, asking:

“Should people on benefits be allowed to vote?”

And it gets worse — when “Batsh*t Bursnall” goes on to suggest that rich people should receive more votes than the poor:

“It would be terribly ‘unfair’ of you to give equal representation rights to the chap who contributes 50 times more than the next person. In the same way as if you own 60% of shares of a company, you’ll get 60% of the voting rights at the Annual General Meeting.”

We are all in trouble now, Emmett has a position of power...... Press & Communications Officer of the Young Independence (I wonder what adult is in charge of the playpen) ... Emmett Jenner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Independence

After Scrapbook exposed sick comments from a UKIP councillor on banning unemployed people from voting, the party’s most high-profile new recruit has rushed to his defence, claiming Cllr Tom Bursnall “has a point”, going on to say it is “dangerous” to let unemployed people vote.

Having defected from the Tories, 23 year-old Alexandra Swann was the star turn at UKIP’s recent conference in Skegness — with party leader Nigel Farage proudly declaring that “the Swann has migrated”.

But appearing to agree with Cllr Bursnall, who as the former chair of Conservative Future is also a defector from the Tories to UKIP, she continued:

“allowing people to vote on how other people’s money is spent — if they dont contribute — is dangerous”

With these views, Scrapbook was unsurprised to learn that Swann idolises anarcho-Libertarian philosophers and is completing a PhD in social Darwinism.

Jesus wept.



http://politicalscrapbook.net/2012/04/a ... ed-voting/