can anyone tell me what UKIP's policys are?

Its far more than "just a protest vote" as Lib/Lab/Con want you to believe...

They have sound policies on a national/European and local scale.

They aren't "anti-immigration" they are pro-sensible immigration.

Check out the website if you want to find out, all you will get on here is people who either love them or hate them, so you won't get an unbiased view on them.

Well due to the fact UKIP are made up of Tory defectors who stood no hazard of getting in the cupboard. Its now not surprising they want to :- Scrap inheritance tax - who would advantage from that then? Deliver in NHS insurance - making a two tier system Grammar university in each town - satisfactory if that you may afford the confidential lessons deliver back matrons - it was these ex tories who obtained rid of them Scrap human rights - bang goes the max working week and the NMW reduce organization tax - very priceless you probably have a manufacturer The farmers - Ah well, they had to get a mention did not they. Buy overseas produce, its a long way less expensive, some distance higher and loads safer.

UKIP's polices are *massively* undercosted - there's no way they could hope to implement the promises they make because they haven't identified where they'll save the money to pay for them. They'd have to borrow so much money they'd make Gordon Brown's spending policies seem cautious & sensible, & they'd make Gideon Osborne seem like a compassionate genius by comparison.

And for what? Even if they could implement every single one of their policies there would be an inevitable, sharp rise in unemployment & it would coincide with a dismantling of the welfare state.

They'd change the law so that your employer would be able to force you to work whatever hours they wanted. 60 hour weeks sound good? How about a 70hr week? 80? 90?

UKIP don't appear to have any policies on how to replace the jobs that would be lost by leaving the EU, or by allowing employers to force workers to increase their hours (if one person does the hours of 2 people, you can lay one of them off).

With the massive increase in unemployment that would *inevitably* follow a UKIP win, there appears to be no mention at all of the welfare state (but there are promises of massive government spending & huge tax cuts elsewhere - how will they afford it?). I know there are those who use benefits as a lifestyle choice - but forcing people out of work & then watching them starve doesn't seem like the best solution to me.

On the same thing - what happens to the disabled? Again, no mention, but we're back to the cuts in the welfare state again.

On immigration - where are we going to find skilled workers where there are skills shortages if we have a total freeze on immigration? How quickly do they think they can train a whole range of doctors, dentists etc? How much would training those people cost?

I said they've undercosted, they'd spend far more than they'd bring in - yet we'd have a far lower quality of life even before having to pay the money back. Like the worst bits of both labour & tory - magnified.

They *do* have some good policies elsewhere. On animal welfare & agriculture for instance they're the best I've seen. Much of their fishing policy lacks coherence, but the bits that look workable are genuinely good policies. Even taking the incoherent, unworkable stuff into account - it still makes more sense than the EU's (insane) Common Fisheries Policy.

Anything that's perceived as popular and vote catching, just so long as they don't actually have to deliver on any of them.

If you listened to Nigel Farage's interview on the radio earlier today you will have heard him already back-tracking on some of his election promises, eg not closing public libraries. He is now explaining why because of financial pressures, his newly elected councillors won't neccesarily be fighting to deliver on this "promise". Promises already thrown away with the polls closed less than 24 hours ago.

It is that kind of cynicism that has gotten our politicians a bad name, and UKIP are proving themselves to be no different to some of the worst behaviour of the other political parties.

I see I have already attracted a td. Some UKIP diehard no doubt who is trying to defend the indefensible!?!

They only have one, to foolishly leave the EU so that they can put up trade barriers against us and obliterate half of our export market, leaving the UK to be an irrelevant, poverty stricken rainy island near Europe that's of no interest to anybody - for trade or for any other purpose. This is mostly because they're a bunch of short sighted racist xenophobes who can't see further than their little Britain Daily Mail attitude so fail to grasp what the long term consequences would be. They also fail to understand that because we have so many more elderly than working age people that we need more workers paying tax, otherwise we individually face massive tax bills to cover the pensions. Any other policies they have are because they're a bunch of far right fruitcakes.

Although if there were a general election today they'd do well, I expect that their support will begin to crumble long before the election actually happens because they have nothing other than xenophobia and blue rinse Tory attitudes to them, there isn't enough depth to this party to maintain the image of a potential suitable government between now and then. They've announced no policies on a wide variety of topics, this is because they haven't got any and because they're such a mixed bag that they'd find it hard to reach a consensus between them on other issues anyway. In the time between now and the election people will become aware of this and Ukip will fade from the limelight into ridiculousness, just as the BNP already have.

Also, don't forget that people take general elections much more seriously than local elections because they know that the chosen government have much more of an impact on them, and they demand to know what the candidates attitudes are on all topics so they need to have a consistent message in all areas if they're to look like a realistic prospect. In local elections fringe protest parties like this traditionally do very well if the government are unpopular but single issue parties usually fail badly during a general election because the population have a 'better the devil you know' attitude to new parties.

Leave the EU

Anti-immigration

Libertarianism

Pro-cuts

Anti-gay marriage

Climate change rejection

Right-wing populism

Rejecting immigrants the right to healthcare and benefits

Traditionalism

Conservatism

Tax cuts