1 - Increasing defence spending whilst cutting public services.
Please don't get me wrong on this - my youngest stepbrother is in the Armed Forces, so I'm in no way anti-military. I just cannot see for the life of me how it is that a party can think that, when there are people sat on the streets who can't afford housing or food, it's a good idea to buy a load of aircraft carriers, just so that more unnecessary wars can be started and more lives can be lost. This is not the nineteenth century. Britain does not have an empire to win/protect/oppress, or any need for such a colossal and disproportionate increase in defence spending, whilst cutting education.
2 - MEPs who turn up to the European Parliament just 43% of the time.
Surely this one explains itself. If anybody in the real world had such a ridiculously low attendance rate to their job, they'd be sacked without a doubt. So why do we think it's acceptable for these politicians? Nigel Farage, for example, collects an annual EU salary of over £80,000 and, to date, has claimed more than £2 million in expenses. Wondering where our EU payments are going? Look no further than Mr Farage and his cohorts.
3 - Sexism.
I could make so many points on this that it would be a post in itself - some of UKIP's oh-so-brilliant ideas to date include scrapping paid maternity leave (because pushing a human being out of your vagina isn't at all difficult, and to Mr Farage's mind, women who want a family are "worth far less"), relaxing the law on rape to give more lenient sentences to men who rape their wives (because, according to a top party donor, wives have a duty to have sex with their husbands at any given moment), and MEPs who refused to back the EU resolution for equal pay for both genders. Can you imagine if any of the three "main" Government parties had policies like this, or candidates and donors with these extremist, sexist, discriminatory views? Why is that acceptable for UKIP?
4 - Climate Change.
UKIP intend to scrap all action on climate change - according to them, it just isn't happening! Let me phrase it to you like this - would you rather see some wind turbines on a hill or a sodding great power plant? Which is more harmful to the air you inhale? But according to UKIP members, the recent UK floods were caused solely by the backing of equal marriage by the government, not the jet stream changing course because of humankind's mindless consumption of energy.
5 - Made Up Statistics.
29 million Bulgarians and Romanians coming to the UK would be an excellent example, I feel. Five months into 2014, these people are yet to arrive, but apparently, they're coming for us - whatever that means.
6 - Scaremongering.
"Whose job are they after?". Well, I fully agree that immigrants could very easily take jobs in Britain if they're suitably qualified and willing to do the work - and no, this isn't business being "anti-Britain". This is business wanting the best employees for the job. If they were really worried about immigrants "driving down wages", they could campaign to have the minimum wage increased and enforced. If they were really worried, they'd have policies to ensure that British people could win these jobs, by having the best training and education - although UKIP would rather like to cut education spending and buy some lovely new war toys for Mr Farage to play with.
7 - Islam.
The so-called "Islamification" of Britain is, according to UKIP, a great problem. They want to ban the burkha - but they think that the opposite; the objectification of women every single day in publications such as The Sun, The Star and Loaded, is acceptable. Many Muslim women CHOOSE to wear a hijab or burkha - they're free to do so, in this free country. But women are pressured into getting their tits out for a newspaper or magazine, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is acceptable, apparently. If UKIP were truly as libertarian as they claim, they wouldn't want to ban women from dressing a certain way. And perhaps women wouldn't feel that they had to if they didn't live in a country where women are pressured into getting their tits out and displaying them for the pleasure of menfolk.
8 - Homophobia.
UKIP don't support equal marriage, even if churches are not forced into performing the ceremonies. Their candidate for the Newark by-election said that homosexuality was "abnormal and undesirable". As mentioned earlier, a member also blamed flooding on the legalisation of equal marriage. This would not be acceptable if it was in the Labour, Conservative or Liberal Democrat party - and they aren't acceptable in a modern society, whatsoever.
9 - Cutting NHS Spending.
The simple fact of the NHS today is that we don't have enough healthcare professionals. That's why you have to wait so long to see your GP, or a specialist, or to have surgery. But UKIP appear convinced that it's possible for the NHS to improve with less money - meaning less nurses, doctors and surgeons, so longer waiting times and worse standards of care. The problems in hospitals of late are due, in part, to how pushed workers are - hit targets, fill in paperwork, look after an unrealistic amount of patients. That's why the NHS is failing. And voting UKIP can only make it worse.
10 - Elitism.
More grammar schools - that's one of UKIP's main education policies. Now, I go to a grammar school, but I studied at state comprehensives up until Sixth Form, and I can honestly say that my experience of the grammar school system is that it's elitist, completely anti-working class, and utterly stuck in the 1950s. Why is it that we think it's a good idea to entirely write off 11 year old children, based on their performance in ONE exam (which students with rich parents can be tutored to pass), and tell those who fail that they're never going to amount to much, because they didn't perform well enough on that one day when they were ten or eleven years old? It's ridiculous. And, may I ask, what does the privately educated Nigel Farage know about the real world of state education?
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