EU elections comming up. UKIP anyone?

[R1Geezer]

Normally I'm a Tory however I'm going to lend my vote to UKIP in June as I hope they can get in and wreck the gravy express. All the Furore about the UK MP's snouts in trough, kin amatuers, get a load of the EU, corruption on a biblical scale!

[craft1948]

Yes Geezer I usually vote Tory but in this instance will be voting UKIP.....

[Jan1957]

I normally vote Labour but after reading their literature and looking into it more I will also be voting UKIP.

[Postdog]

Me too. Nothing to do with corruption, but because my job has been directly eroded as a result of EU intervention (the directive that there has to be competition) and I was Labour, but not after the way Brown has treated the gurkhas and his U turn on privatising royal mail.

[LazyGun]

If you plan to vote UKIP as a protest vote against europe, then i guess thats fine.
If you plan to vote UKIP as a protest vote against corruption however, then it would be a futile and worthless gesture.. UKIP are no better than any other party in that regard.UKIP are the party that had one MEP ( Tom Wise, and his researcher) who was charged by the police for false accounting for his expenses. This from an article in the Times re UKIP from 2007 would suggest they are in exactly the same situation as every other party regarding their allowances and expenses.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics /article1434608.ece

[BertiWooster]

I was watching BBC breakfast this morning ( or was it yesterday ) - it's interesting to note that people that were questioned on how they intended to vote , in nearly all cases said that they simply wouldn't be voting at all .

The results of the elections could be interesting

[Lonnie]

It'd be a shame if people don't vote, its their right, but not voting, generally, is a vote for a party eg, the BNP.

I believe it should be law to vote.

[jno]

no half measures for me, I shall vote for the BNP.

[olddutch]

A big vote for UKIP or BNP in June elections might bring us back to having a more effective influence on politicians from the big 3 parties - just maybe !

[Gromit]

The Labour Party and Gordon Brown will be very pleased you are all going to vote UKIP. Voters tend to switch from Tory to UKIP than Labour. The Labour Party is expecting to do very badly. By not voting Tory will result in Labour not having as bad a night as they expect. By effectively not give the Government the good hiding it deserves, will mean Brown gets to keep his job.

I have never voted Labour before, but will do so this time because the BNP could get a seat if I do not.

[R1Geezer]

Bad luck Gromit, I've heard many from both main party's are going or UKIP, there's a labour one in this very thread.

Lazygun: I mentioned corruption, I was really talking about the bigger picture of EU wide institutionalised corrution. Of course UKIP MEP's would have their snouts in the trough with all the others, it's just that UKIP is there for a more importand purpose, ie to get the UK out of the EU and that gets my vote.

[jno]

ah yes, vote for honest UKIP MEPs

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics /article1434608.ece

[Gromit]

geezer,

admittedly this is from 2004, but all the evidence is that UKIP gains most from dissatisfied Tory voters.

The data shows that 45% of Ukip's voters voted Tory in the 2001 general election, 20% were former Labour voters and 11% had supported the Liberal Democrats.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/jun/15 /uk.eu

You could do more damage to the Conservative party than Labour. Labour are expecting to do very badly, but if the Tories don't get the landslide they are expecting, brown will be very happy.

[sprayer]

It seems to me that the whole lot of them are either crooks, scroungers, spongers or downright criminals, the lot of them are rotten to the core !!! the trouble is that if you don't vote you just get stuck with the same thing, so what's the answer ? maybe members of the public should get together and take out private prosecutions for theft and embezzlement against a few of the bigger names after all it's OUR money they have been thieving..

[tiggerblue10]

Thicky alert................can anyone tell me why the UK pays �40m per day to be a member of the EU? I'm assuming the other EU members pay the same.

[Rollo]

Somebody has to fund the Brussels gravy train!

[tiggerblue10]

Ah yes, sorry I was forgetting.

[jno]

tiggerblue, if you're wondering what the point of the EU is - it was set up to stop Europe being devastated by war, which hapened twice last century. It is working.

[tiggerblue10]

So there is good and bad points to it.

[R1Geezer]

You'd be wrong Tigger at the last count there where about half a dozen net contributors, the rest are all taking. Just go to somewhere like Bulgaria and look at the "paid for by the, lets shaft the suckers" fund!