Since being saved from destruction last February, UKIP’s fortunes have been rising: membership is rising markedly, substantial donations are coming in, and we have gone from 1%-2% in the polls to around 7%-8%. And once again UKIP threatens the political status quo.
Our political and ideological opponents have not failed to notice. The ‘UKIP is dead’ narrative has had to be updated. The new narrative being pushed by the mainstream media is that, under my leadership UKIP is being taken to the ‘far-right’ or the ‘hard-right’.
What these terms actually mean is not explained. As far as one can gather, this is anyone who is not in line with the accepted politically-correct culturally-Marxist consensus. That is hardly what most people would understand by ‘far-right’.
The name calling is of course just used to shut down comment and debate on subjects that are not supposed to be mentioned or debated. So, what do I and UKIP actually stand for?
I have been involved in active politics for the last 26 years. My motivations are the same as everyone in UKIP. They are as follows:
- I want to live in a Britain that is a sovereign, independent, democratic nation.
- I don’t want to live in a Britain where our laws are made somewhere else. Which is why, as part of UKIP, I have campaigned for Britain to leave the European Union.
- I want to live under laws made by our own democratically elected Parliament, led by a government elected by the British people and answerable to the British people through the ballot box.
- I want to live in a Britain governed under our own statute and Common Law – not in a Britain governed by Rules, Regulations and Directives from a foreign power.
- I want to live in a Britain that has restored its traditional liberties and freedoms. For example, the freedom from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment – liberties now set aside under such EU legal instruments as the European Arrest Warrant.
- I would like to live in a Britain that restores the best of our legal and political traditions and uses them protect our own people; while moving forward to embrace global trade, friendship and co-operation with all the nations of the World, where it is in our national interest.
- I want to live in a Britain where we have free speech and can talk about ideas, ideologies and practices – without fear of infringing so-called ‘hate-speech’ laws and a visit from the thought-police.
Apparently if you want these things it now makes you ‘far-right’ or ‘hard-right’ – as least as designated by some of our political opponents and the mainstream media.
And of course, if you dare to speak out about the Dark Age ideology rapidly gaining ground in Britain then you will certainly be called uncomplimentary names.
The many thousands of people who have joined and worked for UKIP in the past 25 years, and the many thousands who will join the coming months and years, all believe in the things above. The fact that we are being called names means we are making progress. Let’s make sure we keep it up – our country needs us.
Gerard Batten has been an outspoken proponent of free speech in UKIP and the nation’s politics. If you would like to read further on recent matters surrounding this topic, UKIP Daily would recommend:
Press Release: UKIP stands against a tsunami of social media silencing – click here to read.
SOCIAL MEDIA CRACKDOWN: Sargon SLAMS “Malicious” Infowars – click here to read.
…For all the above, and I hope for the two plus million who voted (leave) for the first time.
UKIP must be their voice.
Gerard, All very nice, and. correct. Nothing to complain about there. BUT. UKIP is dead, dead from the ankles up. 2 Years, nothing has happened. About BREXIT. nothing has been done. No laws , no changes to anything. We are not leaving. 29 th March 2019, nothing will change. On 29.03.2019 nothing will actually happen…. After March 29th nothing will happen. NOTHING.!.. ZILCH .!….F. ALL.!..!… ZERO.!…. *** There should be signs of getting ready. What do we think .? Oh yes they’re relocating 500 border clerical assisrants 1st class. Industry has very little to do , but the Civil Services… Read more »
TG,
Do you whinge professionally ? Prior to Gerard Batten taking the leadership the party was in turmoil, cosmotosed and bolton the final straw,I went to the EGM meeting in Birmingham and
voted for giving bolton the hard word.
When Gerard took the leadership the party once again started to take shape into a fighting unit once more.
He is doing a good job in reinstating the party in front line politics and more
positivity with less negativity would not go amiss.
I have to admit, it does recently feel like it …But there’s so much, so obviously, getting daily worse…GM is sincere, and extremely competant, and has put in place the first step of getting money….That’s an essential start . …I am merely attempting the next step of getting him moving on to his next steps….Building the magic…..And you don’t do that by not complaining…………………………. On the Brexit point. Please tell me of any positive step taken so far . Other than hot air, sound and fury from Westminster. Any stop on EU projects, any slowing down of EU grants, any… Read more »
I,ve often wondered how to spell whinge. I suppose I should looked up an Australian dictionary
Its great to hear Gerard talk about this, but I am afraid he avoids the key point, which is whether UKIP is a libertarian or populist party. By constitution, it is libertarian. Recently Gerard described it as populist, patriotic. We all know what Gerard stands for, but unfortunately he will step down in 6 months or so, so what he personally stands for is not the key point. We need to know – Libertarian or Populist!!!! The right wing of the Tory party or a party that stands on its own two feet? I believe this is at the root… Read more »
We’re limping because people like you keep tripping us up every time we rediscover positivity.
Because I have been through the cycle too many times. I believe you are new to this. All your time at street stalls and leafleting is wasted if the people who really control the party don’t want it to be successful as a party. Successful as an instrument to put pressure on tories, yes, but to actually inflict damage on tories? No. Although it seems Boris is now trying to drive a wedge through the tories to further his ambitions and this might change the whole landscape as half the party realises the tory party is no longer conservative in… Read more »
The elephant in the room. Time to become a populist patriotic party
Why not popular patriotic instead of parroting liberal journo weaselspeak.
Everyone wants to be popular.
actually that is how Gerard chose to describe UKIP, tweet of 18 June 11:50 “we are a patriotic populist party”
Independance.?
T, This “he will step down in six months” he actually told you that did he ? because the way then I heard it is if the party picks up once again he will consider standing in the leadership elections and in my book on his actions so far he has my vote without a doubt. As for being the right wing of the tory party, do you mean the current ersatz tory party, I don’t think so. What UKIP is current facing is the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled immigration / paedophilia umbrella coalition party if that is what the people… Read more »
I think we should give up on trying to influence the Tory party altogether, in my opinion they will never be anything but an insidious stumbling block to Britain’s salvation. . I don’t think Farage has learned this lesson; I think he really wants UKIP to fold and merge into the Tories. I think we need to make UKIP a rival party aiming to damage and hopefully destroy the Tories. I hope UKIP come up with policies pretty soon.
and don’t let ukip.org website backslide again.
Sorry to seem obtuse but I just don’t get it I’m afraid: why can’t a freestanding “populist patriotic” party also be libertarian, resistant to government micromanaging?
Consider the NHS. It is the embodiment of socialism, literally the government caring for you. It is a centrally planned, government run scheme. You have to fit into their production schedule, not the other way round. If they have time for you, you might get care, but only the care they allow you. It occupies a huge chunk of GDP (9-10%). If the government role in the economy is ever to be meaningfully reduced then it is the NHS that has to go. No libertarian could stand for an NHS system, individuals should take responsibility for themselves. This isn’t saying… Read more »
Many thanks. This answers a few questions.
There is no “far right” in the UK. Just people who want to walk the streets in safety and not have their daughters abducted and raped. Also not have to wait forever for NHS services. Get their child into the school they want. Nobody asked us if we wanted mass migration WE DON’t The purpose of mass migration is import votes for the labour party. Or if you’re a Tory to keep wages down through over supply of workers. And of course to keep the cost of housing high if you happen to have a “property portfolio”. The cheap labour… Read more »
To prove your point. MPs with buy-to-let property portfolios want as many tenants imported as possible.
https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/jan/14/mp-landlords-number-risen-quarter-last-parliament-housing-bill
There is an interesting post on FreeNations here regarding WTO rules:
http://freenations.net/brexit-no-need-to-pay-a-penny-for-eu-free-trade
UKIP should be taking up this message and using it to beat up the doom-mongers at every opportunity.
I have read elsewhere that upon leaving the EU and becoming a full WTO member again, the UK would be able to apply zero tariffs on goods imported from the EU for a period of up to ten years if it so desired, and the EU could technically do so likewise for UK exports.
So no need for a ‘hard border’ with Ireland then? And no queues of trucks at Dover! Theresa May is just looking for solutions to problems that don’t exist.
Probably because she’s being led by the nose “advised” by Oily Robbins and his fellow political senior civil servants.
Even a hard-core class warrior leftist would be called ‘far right’ if he/she ever criticised Islam. That’s how meaningless the old left-right paradigm has become.
Great article. Can we a leaflet produced highlighting the seven bullet points that you have here. I think this would go down very well at the doorstep and/or street stalls. UKIP have to go onto the offensive. No time like the present, I would suggest.
Dear Gerard, You are quite right in what you say but there is one thing I have noted in the last couple of days. You have been shown having a meeting with all the new bloggers to have coordinated media coverage and at the same time on this same site there were reports from two areas having a very good reception from having UKIP stalls. At those stalls they said they were signing up 10/20 new members each,if there was a campaign on the media plus stalls across the country in a blitz,plus using all the Facebook branch sites I… Read more »
Right Wing….It is an easy argument to use by MSM to try to put people off of even considering UKIP as a mainstream party. Does it work?…. of course it does! For years talk about immigration was immediately called racism, the result is uncontrolled immigration. Margaret Thatcher was in the Monday Club (a right wing group) and she was really good for the country. The real problem is education, right means Hitler and 6,000,000 million killed in Holocaust. The left means equality and help for the workers, that is if you are prepared to forget chairman Mao who started killing… Read more »
The influential liberals that have hijacked the LibLabCon have done a good job of turning left leaning Fascism in to the right wing bogeyman.
Hitler was big government, power to the people, National Socialist.
He even supported state control so much his party nationalised German trade unions to improve production.
Those pictures of SS soldiers harassing Jewish businesses is similar to Labour and SNP stormtroopers boycotting Jewish businesses now.
Hitler belongs to the Left.
“Power to the people…” You use that as a form of criticism, yet it has been a slogan constantly used by Nigel Farage and UKIP in general in support of populism. Don’t all us UKIP supporters believe in ‘{Power to the people’ rather than big business and traitorous self-serving politicians? Would you be so dogmatic in your opposition to state control ito permit the utility companies to continue ripping-off the public? There’s an understandably large support for renationalising the core utility services, including public transport, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The pictures you refer to are not of SS… Read more »
@Cranky; ““Power to the people…” You use that as a form of criticism, yet it has been a slogan constantly used by Nigel Farage and UKIP in general in support of populism. Don’t all us UKIP supporters believe in ‘{Power to the people’ rather than big business and traitorous self-serving politicians?” Why wouldn’t us in UKIP support “Power to the People”? We are “the people”. 17.4 million people with political views in line with UKIP on some levels. I honestly didn’t realise the Nazi SA/SS mistake. I toff my cap to your superior knowledge of the Fash. Regarding Socialists disrupting… Read more »
He espouse the teachings of Marx and believed in the tenets of socialism. The only way that he and the Nazis (fascists) and the communists differed was that he and they believed that that Germany was the “Master Race” and superior to all others and would one day rule the world, and the communists ultimately believe in world government. Just different routes to, essentially, the same thing.
Fascism v Communism is National Socialism v International Socialism.
Left v Left.
Remember when they insult you, it tells you that your comments have hit home and that you are winning the argument. This point was made powerfully by the Jewish prophet Jesus Christ, a very politically astute man, who realised that when he criticised the greedy, hypocritical elite of his day and they then become enraged with him, he was winning the support of the average man. Keep speaking the truth and we’ll win increasing support.
As I’ve been saying for years, ask the Europhiles why they want to live under a dictatorship. OK, the EU is not yet a full-blown one man/one woman dictatorship but it is already a group dictatorship, the group being of course, the Commissioners. Personally, I don’t want my descendants to live under any kind of dictatorship when they can live under a democracy.
The truble is, Sonya, we don’t live in a democracy now. We live in an unrepresentative oligarchy, ruled by an establishment that “knows what’s best for us” and whom we defy at our peril. Brexit has revealed this in all its horror. At election time, we can discus only what the duopoly of parties and their symbiotic cronies in the media and deep state agree can be discussed. Even an absolute Brexit will not cure this. The demos has been taken out of the issue and the big question for the future is how so we restore our very damaged… Read more »
Indeed; Brexit is the first small step albeit an essential one to further progress. We have to convince the establishment that we will do whatever it takes to restore our democracy. They need to be living in fear.
Hello Gerard, Thanks for the gee-up. With UKIP’s new online members having millions of subscribers and viewers can we offer free online membership as a stepping stone to becoming full member status. Offer free membership during interviews hosted by Leave.eu, PJW, Conservatuve Home, TR etc etc. Add a press release as a link for the msm and bloggers. All to get us out there again. This seems to be how all online outlets attract new consumers or in our case, new supporters. Building up the UKIP database will be at zero cost while increasing the ability of us to reach… Read more »
Bryan, There’s no doubt we need to grow the Party and I expect you’ll have given a great deal of thought to the suggestion you make. I seem to recall, however, that Labour had serious problems when they suddenly opened their membership for £3 a go, or something like that. Many who signed were already members of other parties and joined purely for mischievous reasons such as the right to vote in internal party matters and Labour had to mount a huge operation in an attempt to weed them out. You, n the other hand, seem to be excluding the… Read more »
Good morning Marie. Firstly, the words FREE MEMBERSHIP can also be Cultural Custodians or Team Brexit or something more relevant/snappy that I can’t think of yet. You’re part of a team or a movement and it costs zero. You could receive an invite to your nearest street stall to pick up your free pen, magazine, beer mats, literature and come and meet your local team, etc etc. “While you’re here, did you know that to join UKIP it’s only £20? but your £20? will really make the difference”. With regard to plastic Trotskys joining on mass. Corbyn sits in Opposition… Read more »
The PC attack on Boris is a perfect example of the “left”, MSM and so-called Tories attempt to shut down free speech. The Tories are not only split over the EU but also split along lines of traditional Conservative against soaking “wets”. Reformation of the Tory party will through their own stupidity not happen. UKIP will mop up those who are thoroughly fed-up with the lies and agenda that owes more to new Labour than the Tory party. Equally, Labour are in a similar situation: their call for the UK to stay in the SM, CU and demand for a… Read more »
Just to confirm that the lynch mob are wrong as usual;
Please put ‘ bank robbers wearing burkas ‘ in to your search engine and view images.
Guess what ???
As I don’t play on TwitFace I hope someone reads or passes this on to him.
It’s the perfect defence.
Posted on Twitter as suggested. Copy to Boris. Cheers
John, you will never convince 80 percent of Tory voters to vote UKIP because their fear of letting Labour in under FPTP is greater than their fedup-ness with the status quo. Likewise 80 percent of Labour voters.
Nice article Gerard. Today I was speaking to someone that last night had returned from a trip to the UK, one of the first things he said in conversation is this: “everybody in the UK is worried about falling property prices caused by Brexit.” This is nonsense and I told him so. The fact is though that there are some Black Swans circling in the world economy as they fall, whether it be one or many, it will be blamed on Brexit, this is just lying propaganda and deception and it shows just how low our government has sunk. I’ll… Read more »
Falling property prices? I bought my home just a year ago. An identical property is on the market right now at 35% more than I paid.
Yes depends where you are, this guy had spent some time in Ireland where there are problems, same in Canada and starting to appear in Australia.
What the prognosis is I’m not sure at the moment, but it sure as hell has nothing to do with Brexit.
Unless they are property developers, speculators or own buy-to-let portfolios, no one’s home will lose any amount not already factored in by decades of increases.
If your home is your home and not an asset, everyone will be fine.
In the North East (Scotland) house prices have *fallen* around twenty percent.
This is due to building of hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of large houses on green belt land. There are popping up like toadstools.
With the decline of industry and no likelihood of getting our fishing back, it begs the question :- what do the builders of four and five bedroom houses know that I don’t know?
Maybe they will be bought by government and filled with illegal immigrants.
Falling house prices? What’s not to like? Less stamp duty to pay (and hence less money for the government to squander), lower estate agent’s fees, smaller bank loans in form of mortgages, more opportunity for the young to buy.
High house prices only benefit a few – i.e. the government, estate agents, banks, buy-to-let (if selling) and those that have bought property purely as an investment.
As Bryan Tomlinson has pointed out below (or is it above?), if your home is your home and not an asset, everyone will be fine.
Lower house prices? Bring it on, I say
I’m honoured ?
Sorry mmcg dont go along with this. Maybe its my antiquity (83) i.e. home owner pre Maggie Thatcher although I did agree with her “trickle down” capitalism. Married 1966 First House Maisonette Bought £2200 Sold £2800. 2nd House £4400 Sold £10000 3rd House (inherited) Sold £74000 4th House (Wreck) £15600 Sold £74000 5th House (Wreck) £38000 Sold £210000 6th House (last & Kids inheritance) £15000 (rounded figures) My wife and I always wanted to “go it alone” and have always used and regarded our property as our capital, we were lucky with inheritance, but we also benefited from sometimes galloping… Read more »