Things got a bit awkward last night when Hamilton opened up his answer to the GropeGate affair by stating he was probably the only one of the panellists to have been charged with rape. The guy is a grade one pillock.

Farage summed it up nicely by saying that if the Tories hadn't split the UKIP vote, UKIP would have won!

Thought she was poor to be honest. She should have livened it up a bit by nutting that Tory cow next to her, what a sanctimonious piece of work she was.

Completely unelectable - the demand for government to tell you how to live your life is low also do we really want all the higher personal taxes we would pay to be spent on inefficient public services and increased benefits?

I don't think they are as nutty as you think they are.

The leader keeping himself out of the firing line and focusing on the MEP votes is a smart move.

I can honestly see them being the biggest MEP's party and in doing so costing Cameron his job and possibly forcing a referendum faster than they want in the fear of UKIP in the general.



I think we can all see how a referendum would end up so UKIP win anyway.

Indeed.



And the problem is, any such party needs to be ist/populist enough to gain votes from a broader spectrum of political opinion than would occur with having, say, an out and out, old-fashioned socialist party. You only need to see that UKIP is splitting the Tory vote to realise the problems of having a party that appeals to what could be described as a more extreme version of the most mainstream.

I cannot pretend, unlike yourself, to talk on behalf of "we", but personally, I'd prefer a society where the poor, the low-paid and the vulnerable are not demonised, and where people who screw up and blight or ruin the lives of many more are not rewarded.

Firstly, under the system I suggested, it would probably be quite hard for any party except the central ones to be electable and even they might need coalition partners quite regularly. That might enable both right and left to have some kind of proportionate voice rather than being marginalised in their current parties.

I am not suggesting Labour publish their manifesto now but as you mention above go on the attack and rebut the inaccurate spin. They need to stop apologising as well. There seems to be a view that to win back the electorates trust they have to keep apologising and admit to various mistakes. This makes them seem weak IMO and gives the impression the "It's all Labour's fault" stuck record on the economy the ConDem's spout at every opportunity is actually true.



They also need to not shy away from explaining how making sure people and companies pay their taxes and why restricting the bonus culture won't drive people away from the UK. Instead they still seem rather stuck as to how to appear business friendly while at the same time dealing with these obvious issues.

So you want to go back to the days when Parliamentarians were not paid?

I think most people would like to live in this sort of caring, Utopian like society, but, unfortunately, it will never happen, because human nature dictates that there will always be people who don't play the game fairly and choose instead to cheat any system that is set up to help the vulnerable.



Has with many things in life, the minority always spoil it for the majority.

I'm sorry, but I just don't see it. I remember concerns being raised before the last general election that the BNP were making ground and might actually win a seat in parliament. I think I read on Twitter the other day that UKIP are just the BNP for people who shop at M+S, which seems a fair assessment to me.