24-10-14, 05:16 PM
(24-10-14, 11:54 AM)ChristoT link Wrote: I personally stick my flag firmly on UKIP's side, even if only for the economic common sense.
If you think UKIP have any economic common sense then you *really* need to take another look at their policies! (Well, whatever their policies are, if Nige hasn't decided he doesn't like them and has changed them for some others...)
They're just the Tories Mark II, but even more Right Wing:
Would UKIP's policies on immigration, tax and education work?
Quote:The Conservatives’ income tax cuts would give three times as much to those in the top 10 per cent as those in the middle, while lower income groups would hardly gain anything. Ukip’s would be similar, only more so. As for inheritance tax, it is only paid on 1 in 20 estates. People who live in Clacton or Heywood or places like it would gain little or nothing from its abolition, just as they have little or nothing to fear from the “mansion tax”. And where would the money from this come from? Ultimately, much would have to come from the disability benefits and state pensions on which many of the residents of Clacton rely.
As for education, they want to bring back selection and "the net effect of grammar schools is to disadvantage poor children and help the rich"
I have no particular love for the Greens, but here's some good arguments for Why 73% of UKIP supporters should actually vote Green