Roger Helmer MEP has been selected as UKIP’s candidate for the Newark by-election on June 5th. The former Conservative defected to UKIP in 2012 and is a strong opponent of wind farms. The 70 year old was selected to fight
Nearly a third of Conservative Party members want a pact with UKIP, according to a survey for the ConservativeHome website. This is the third month in a row where support for a pact has hovered around the 30 percent mark,
Writing in the Guardian today, academics Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin ask three key questions that UKIP should answer, and may well answer by the party’s performance in the May 22nd European and local elections in Britain. Ford and Goodwin,
Columnist Mickey Kaus argued Monday that the United States of America can have its own populist right organization like the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) that has swept politics across the pond in London. Kaus, whose Kausfiles blog is featured on
The European Commission is pumping propaganda money into Britain, trying to interfere in the elections to the European Parliament. International Alert, an international “peace building” group set up in 1986 in response to ethnic conflict and genocide in Asia and
ST. IVES, England–In a packed community center in a village 10 miles outside of the ancient university town of Cambridge, grassroots populism was on full display last week, as Nigel Farage and his UKIP movement came to town on a
The first thing you need to know about the European Parliament is that almost everything its 766 MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) do is a waste of time. This is not satire. It’s a basic, objective fact. Apart from
Labour leader Ed Miliband has refused to debate UKIP leader Nigel Farage before the European elections after squirming around the challenge on this morning’s BBC Sunday Politics show. Farage, reflecting on Prime Minister David Cameron’s hint that he might engage
Today’s Sun reports that Tara Hewitt, a transsexual activist in Britain’s Conservative Party’s is a “proud” supporter of kinky sex. Hewitt describes herself as an “advocate of the BDSM (bondage, discipline and sadomasochism) community”, she also says she is into swinging
UKIP’s newest billboard poster depicts Britain’s major political party leaders gagged by European Union flags, with the strap line, “Nigel Farage will Britain its voice back”. The UKIP leader gave a speech on Friday night to a capacity crowd in
Prime Minister David Cameron is reported to have given the most clear sign yet that he is willing to debate UKIP leader Nigel Farage on the run-up to Britain’s General Election in May 2015. The Sunday Times reports (£) that
ST IVES, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, UK — An over-capacity crowd of around 650 people met UKIP leader Nigel Farage for the final town hall-style meeting of his pre-European Election tour of the United Kingdom. With UKIP swag plastered all over the Burgess
Last week it was revealed that Migration Matters trust, a UK-based, cross-party pressure group was actively campaigning against Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party. The group, led by Conservative Nadhim Zahawi, Labour’s Barbara Roache, and the Liberal Democrats’ Lord Dholakia last
UKIP leader Nigel Farage told a public meeting last night that people who describe his party as racist are “cretinous”. Speaking to an audience of about 900 in Derby, he also accused the European Union of wanting to “homogenise” Europe,
Nigel Farage had to flee a rally in Nottingham after he was hit by an egg. He got back into his car when he was hit in St Peter’s Square. The Nottingham Post reports the protester was cornered by men
An elderly UKIP supporter is fast-gaining online fame after being photographed sticking two fingers up to anti-UKIP protestors in Swansea. The unidentified lady was been wheeled into a UKIP rally in her wheelchair when she was berated by protestors claiming
UKIP is yet to select a candidate for the Newark by-election following the news that Tory Patrick Mercer would be standing down following a lobbying investigation. While Nigel Farage has ruled himself out, the party has a number of other
A former Labour cabinet minister has warned that voters in Southern England do not think Labour understands them. The Huffington Post reports that John Denham, said the party is “not on the agenda for most southern voters” and that his
A new survey by the 80-year-old polling firm TNS-BRMB has given Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party a whopping nine point lead over the Labour Party, whereas ComRes data from today gives the party an 11 point lead, putting it in
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that he will not contest the Newark by-election for a seat in the British Parliament following the resignation of Conservative Party MP Patrick Mercer. Mercer resigned yesterday after it emerged that he was willing
UKIP have accused the mainstream parties of a “dirty tricks” campaign following reports in Portsmouth News that Nigel Farage was banned from posing for photos outside Portsmouth Guildhall by the Liberal Democrat run council. The Council threw the UKIP leader
New evidence of a concerted ‘establishment’ attack against UKIP has come to light following the announcement of a ‘cross party’ campaign to brand Nigel Farage’s party ‘racist’. The Migration Matters Trust, an organisation which boasts leadership from the Conservative, Liberal
Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond, has revealed that he admires “certain aspects” of Vladimir Putin’s leadership. He also said it was “good thing” that confidence in the country had returned, according to the Daily Telegraph. The Scottish Nationalist suggested the
A new poll for the Sunday Times by YouGov shows the UK Independence Party “surging” into first place in the European Elections, with 31 percent of Brits now saying they will back Nigel Farage’s Eurosceptic party on May 22nd. The
UKIP is under fire but not declining in the polls on the run up to the European Elections, reports the Independent this weekend: “Despite revelations over the questionable views of his candidates and officials, an on-air grilling about the employment
