In the 2015 election. Still think that Labour will get in mind.

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/lo ... -1-6584776

racist

A few oftheir knuckle draggers are kicking off on Faecesbook, asking people to name one racist policy they have.

Errr, ALL of them. EVIL.

Their 'policies' have been disowned by their leader - whether they are or aren't racist doesn't really matter. What does matter is that they'll happily let any old racist loon or foreigner hating Tory stand as a candidate and then pretend they didn't know he or she was like that. They are basically a care home for racist and xenophobic nutters with an ex-banker leader who manages to seem entertaining, honest and normal compared to Milliband and Cameron. He gets far too much credit for managing what isn't a very difficult trick.

The point is he is agreeing to voters who see the EU as pissing money up the wall when all people want is to trade with the EU and not be run by it.

He is a dangerous man as he it appealing to a lot of people.

You actually get people coming round canvassing for votes? I haven't had a single political party representative at my door in over 30 years!

Two sides of the same extremist coin. Not surprising movements like this thrive in tough times as they appeal to a Mail/Sun-reading mass who'll jump on any bandwagon to spout off their vile shite.

UKIP's maternity/ disability 'policies' would normally see them consigned to the loony bin.

The problem with UKIP is they're fast becoming the option for the "none of the above vote" and thats what will get them elected in a PR vote..

I hope so the only good they may do is split the mad tory vote down south in the parliamentary elections ..

where is the communist option?

Every day in the United Kingdom, anyone who has a passing interest in news and current affairs is subjected to the nonsensical, racist bullshit of the UK Independence Party. Why is this? Well, it appears that right-wing bellyaching jam-for-brain-idiots who used to vote for the current poisonous Tory brand have now realised that there's a more forthright party on the political landscape that specialises in spouting off the kind of unproven xenophobic garbage that the Conservatives have felt the need to restrain within their own toxic party.

But these bouncing bonkers bigots aren't wholly responsible for UKIP's baffling ascension. The news media's collective mouth is already obscured by a cumulus cloud of bubbling foam, hungry for headlines, sensationalism, scandal and anything else that means it doesn't actually have to talk about electoral issues. The Tories know this as much as anyone. As soon as one of their clueless Cabinet cohorts gets into trouble over financial irregularities or shagging, they push Boris the Distraction Clown into the circus ring with his floppy blonde mop and his whiff-whaff-whoff and his shiny red bum bum bus. He is the shiny keys used to keep the cameras diverted while they bury the corpses.

The news media act the same way during election time, forever eager to find an entertaining scoop to stop us from switching over from the main bulletin to The Great British Dainty La-Di-Da Twee Lavender Tea-Sewing Contest. And the mission to push Nigel Farage and his gaggle of spaffing turnips to the top of the news agenda has begun in earnest.

This is really annoying - not just because we have to deal with blinkered racist dogma every day now as if it were the 1970s again but also because the news media treats Ukip with artificial seriousness even though we all know they're just the fluffy comedy mascot; a man dressed as a bee with a football rattle who occasionally says 'stinky gypos' to get on the 10 o'clock news.

If we don't want to be drowned in a rip current of non-stories about this catastrophic bunch of irrational flumps from now till election day, we must do what we can to avoid them. If a loopy man with rosy cheeks stood on a village bench and ranted about banning some varieties of onion for being too mosque-shaped, he'd get two sentences in the parish newsletter. If he wore a yellow and purple rosette, he would be trending on Twitter and Nick Robinson would be lodged in his cat flap.

A Ukip member saying something controversial is not news. It would be news if they said something calm and measured. It would be news if they constructed just one sentence that didn't resemble a drunken scrawl on the toilet wall of a police station in 1974.

If we all turned the other way, news editors might think twice about covering, in-depth, the unveiling of some specious poster that says something about Bulgarians stealing our shoes and report on something worthwhile like the privatisation of the NHS or Susanna Reid's wardrobe.

In short, we must stop. We must stop talking about them. We must stop tweeting about them. We must stop blogging about them. And above all, we must stop writing chaotic and shouty articles about them 

Can't argue with that kev


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They'll get my vote.

you dont get a vote in Hartlepool.

The Tories are going to have a referendum on the EU if they get in apparently so UKIP are basically just getting votes to make sure this happens. I recon we will never have this as majority of people would vote to get out of it.

Whatever would Margaret say?

You forgot to add 'with thanks to the Huffington Post,' a publication that makes the Daily Mail look almost sane.

they don't target the real evil bastards - the rich

I want a party who does that

we used to have one but not any more