Hugh

Hope this helps

article by ex-researcher of UKIP
http://www.newstatesman.com/nssubsfi...N=200406140013

Independent
http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=396
"Similarly, UKIP's claim to reject xenophobia and seek friendly relations with our European neighbours does not seem to match the evidence. Their website links to a guide called "European Union myths and follies", which cites Winston Churchill, speaking in 1918. "Once the apparatus of power is in the hands of The Brotherhood, all opposition, all contrary opinion must be extinguished by death ... You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." Churchill was talking about the Bolsheviks (and supported the idea of European Union) - but what's a few gulags when you're panic-mongering?"

http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200...b8aca98ca5.htm
"Newly elected MEPs from the anti-EU UK Independence Party have arrived in Brussels to hold their first press conference in the European Parliament.
Speaking on behalf of the group, ahead of his second term as an MEP, Nigel Farage said he was seeking an “amicable divorce” from the rest of Europe.
“We are not anti-European” he stressed, “we want to be friends with them,” but he made it clear that full withdrawal from the EU was his party’s top priority."

Is this a kind of "tough love"?

ps as for the UKIP (if in fact you are a member/supporter of it, and not Vanitas), it's like the 1990's in the Tory party all over again.
http://www.ukiphome.com/comments.asp?sid=608
"ANTHONY BUTCHER: BACK OUR NEW LEADER OR RESIGN FROM THE NEC
It's time to put up or shut up Anthony. Are you with us or against us?
We cannot move forward with NEC members pursuing an agenda that does not support our new leader who was elected with a comfortable majority."

and lo and behold
http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/about14375.html
"Please accept this letter as a formal resignation of my position on the UKIP NEC and of my party membership.

I believe that any new party leader should be given 6-12 months of absolute support to run things his way and stamp his vision on a party, but I do not feel that I am in a position to offer Nigel that support.

As an NEC member it is my responsibility to ensure that truth, democracy, legitimacy and professionalism are adhered to by the party leadership, on behalf of the members who elected me. Unfortunately, I do not feel that my standards are in any way compatible with the new leadership’s and will only result in more friction. Since I cannot see a way to support the new leader and also retain the integrity of my position, I have chosen to resign. I am not willing to put up with four more years of unnecessary arguments, personal abuse, lies and having common sense ideas ignored. "

Anthony Butcher was the UKIP PPC for Woodspring in 2005
http://www.anthony-butcher.co.uk/

It's deja vu all over again.