UK Independence Party

The United Kingdom Independence Party ( short name: UKIP ) is a Eurosceptic and populist, sometimes also referred to as a radical liberal British party whose main goal is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Party Leader of UKIP 's Nigel Farage ( MEP ) of the Office of Malcolm Pearson took over in November 2010, after he had previously submitted himself to this one year only. The party is organized into 12 regional branches.

In the European elections in June 2004 UKIP scored 16.8% of the vote and 12 seats in the European Parliament. After the exclusion of Ashley Mote MEP ( NI) from the party the 11 remaining UKIP Members of the Eurosceptic Independence and Democracy Group (Ind / DEM) joined.

Later, the driving force of the European election campaign, the famous TV talk show host Robert Kilroy- Silk, who had been in the 1980s for the Labour Party in the House of Commons, the UKIP group in the European Parliament left. In the general election on 5 May 2005, he joined with his new party at Veritas ( truth ). These lower house elections, the UK Independence Party reached only approximately 2.3 % of the vote and was able to record a victory in itself in any of the 646 constituencies.

In the European elections in the United Kingdom 2009 UKIP was the second strongest party with 16.5%. The 13 elected members of the European Parliament sit in the newly formed Europe of freedom and democracy, with the exception of Trevor Colman. MEPs Nikki Sinclaire ("We Demand a referendum " Party ), Mike Nattrass, Godfrey Bloom, Marta Andreasen, and David Campbell Bannerman ( Conservative ) left during the term of party and faction. The site chosen for the Conservative Roger Helmer kicked it over to UKIP and the EVS.

At the general election in 2010 UKIP increased its vote share to 3.1 %, but again no seat in the House.

In regional elections in May 2013 in England and Wales UKIP achieved considerable share of the vote and was 147 (6.2% ) of the total in 2362 to select standing (not selected in all municipalities ) win council seats in England, representing a gain of 5.9 percentage points corresponded.

UKIP has three members in the House of Lords: David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke, Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch and David Stevens, Baron Stevens of Ludgate.

Policy program

In addition to the withdrawal from the European Union, which is to save up to 120 billion British pounds, the party is committed to various other destinations, including:

  • The introduction of mandatory referendums ( referenda )
  • A reform of the British suffrage, in which the UKIP the ' Alternative Vote Plus' method is preferred
  • Introduction of an English regional Parliament and of Georg tags as English holiday,
  • A flat tax of 31% above a threshold of 11,500 pounds a year,
  • Restrictions on foreign direct investment,
  • The establishment of a free trade area in the Commonwealth of Nations,
  • An extension of the British military budget by 40% and the British Army by 25 %,
  • A uniform minimum pension,
  • A simplification of the British welfare state, and its restriction to people who live in the UK for at least five years,
  • Investment in nuclear energy and clean coal power plants, rejection of wind farms,
  • Dismantling of any state financing of climate change,
  • An expansion of the British transport infrastructure and the introduction of a toll for foreign lorries,
  • A stop of the " uncontrolled immigration to the UK,"
  • Drastic tightening of the Crimes (Abolition of the Human Rights Act 1998, which implements the European Convention on Human Rights in the UK; doubling the number of prison cells, no right to vote for prisoners )
  • Prohibition of the burqa and niqab in public buildings,
  • Rejection of multiculturalism and promote a unified British culture, " abolition of political correctness"
  • Introduction of a commission to deal with the controversy surrounding global warming,
  • Prohibition of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth to British schools.

Europe party EAF

In the fall of 2010, the UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom founded with members of the Austrian Freedom Party and other parties of six countries, the European Alliance for Freedom (EAF ). The EAF was recognized in February 2011 by the European Parliament as a political party at European level. The establishment of the EAF was within the party disputed, since thereby be "wasted" means the EU According to critics.

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