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I suspect it's the usual story - so many factions and vested interests to keep happy that any plans go by the wayside.

I can see the Lib Dems being wined and dined desperately by both parties - lets put it that way. I also think the Tories will, unofficially, do a deal with UKIP re withdrawing from certain seats to ensure Labour does not get in. Whoever wins has a job to make people believe that any political party has any scruples, any morals, any idea of what the working people of the country have gone through in the last 6 or 7 years.

Cameron will promise anything to be able to get over the line in May and try and win another term. I'll be surprised if he even tries to deliver on any of them. The Tories are rightly terrified that UKIP will split the right wing vote and deliver a majority to Labour, so they'll abandon any semblence of having their own policies and try to win the closet Little Englanders.

I know that it has lots of racist elements within it. But a country cannot be racist, although it's citizens can be.

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They said the same about the BNP

I don't need to 'come to terms' with facts Andy. But 120ish seats out of a possible 3200 is hardly a revolution is it? It's less than 5% of seats mate. (and you really need to stop putting yourself forward as the voice of others. They can speak for themselves, as I do)

I don't hate anyone or anything. I pity UKIP and anyone who feels such a far right libertarian party offer anything to working people. And I've said nothing about them previously except questioning their alarmist tendencies. But that's all they've got and why they are nothing but this years BNP - soon to slither back under the rock they crawled out from

Reds under the bed huh? Nice to know it's your dogmatic ideology and disdain of opinions different to yours that drives you. Me, I have my own opinions that aren't shaped by hatred or envy but by personal experience, facts and evidence. The pool of people who are willing and able to uproot to another country is limited. I'm sure you could look up what these percentages are if you wanted to back up your opinions with evidence.

Its not intended as an argument 'for' anything - I'm just stating what is already in place. Just as with the Polish a few years back, there comes a point where work runs out in the UK and many migrants return to their home country, or stop coming in significant numbers. In my local community there are negligible numbers of migrants - there's a long established Bangladeshi community and a smattering of other nationalities, yet UKIP hammered the Tories into third place. Migrants go where there is work, and that means in the UK that larger cities and centres for agriculture take the strain. The showing of UKIP in London clearly demonstrates that anyone with a brain or an education rejects their xenophobia. Maybe bigger investment in the infrastructure of agricultural areas is needed to allay fears and take the strain off.

I thought we all lived in the same world? The free movement of goods, money, and people is a two way street. Lots of Brits have moved or invested in countries around the EU and wider world. The agreements we signed allow a reciprocal arrangement. Whether you or I like this arrangement is immaterial as it's in place and it isn't going anywhere soon.

A certain govt minister has overseen a couple of hundred million of wasted on the Universal Credit. Is he being held to account? The rules should be the same for all - hold everyone to account equally by all means.

There are some shocking incidents and these should be dealt with accordingly , but bath water and baby spring to mind

Every institution can be improved in some way.

But this rate is needed to support an ageing and work shy indigenous population

Since when is something like learning improved by allowing non qualified people to teach? Would you go to an unqualified dentist for treatment? Would you send your kids there?

Is is that a question or a supposition? Any evidence that you have to support this statement is greatly appreciated...

It's factually correct in the same way that it was factually correct that we would be overrun with migrants from these countries come January 1st - ie not correct at all.

With proper planning and investment, yes. But the government is attempting to run down and outsource the NHS, privatise schooling and turn it into a profit making arm of business, and in the most recent development privatise child protection services so that large multi nationals can make a profit from taking kids into care, or leaving them at home and at risk. It suits the purposes of the government to run services down so they can then 'prove' that wholesale reform is needed. No Tories will rely on the NHS or state schools so they don't give a monkeys.

from the increase in tax revenue of course

They know exactly what they were doing. Given that the UK working population is only 30 million, this is scaremongering of the very worst kind.

So your niece works in a bookies but she has access to the personal finance details of all her customers? Something smells decidedly dodgy...

Where are the extra 7 million from? Population is 63 million

Oh dear, poor Nigel being shown off the hypocritical xenophobe that he is. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10836159/Nigel-Farage-in-car-crash-interview-as-he-faces-Ukip-racism-claims.html Please can the 'he tells it like it is' brigade note - it's ok for him to marry an immigrant who speaks a different language, and have children who speak English as a second language, because he's a white middle aged man who us part of the establishment. It's just you mugs who have to do as he says, not him and his like

Compelling the the jobless to take minimum wage jobs will mean even higher welfare payments in tax credits to prop up the large and profitable companies in the UK who will not pay a living wage. Your generalising of everyone 'Oop North' being union loving Labour supporters and everyone in the south being dynamic engines of entrepreneurship is also pretty wide of the mark.