Tim Worstall

A spokesman for British Influence, which is campaigning against UKIP policies on Europe said: ’This sort of holocaust denial from a UKIP candidate is further evidence of the toxic mix of anti-semitism and cuckoo conspiracy theories that run rife in UKIP and she should be expelled from the party and not simply suspended. ’The fact [...]

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A recent audit of Ukip’s support showed its supporters were more likely to be working class than those of any Westminster party. No, this isn’t saying that the majority of UKIP supporters are working class. Rather, that the proportion of working class supporters (I assume they mean members but I’m not sure) is higher than [...]

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However, the Conservatives only took 25 per cent of the vote, while the Lib Dems managed to get 32 per cent and Ukip got 28 per cent. Labour came fourth with just 10 per cent of the vote – sparking major questions over Ed Miliband’s claim to appeal to southern voters. Yes, it’s a byelection. [...]

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The independent gay MEP Nikki Sinclaire, who was expelled from Ukip for refusing to sit with Northern League colleagues in the European parliament, told the Observer that Ukip was still “without a doubt homophobic”. Yes Nikki, we all worked very hard to get you elected. Which we managed. How very, very, homophobic of us. From [...]

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In the eurozone, there is no “we” capable of exercising control. The absence of a “demos”, of a legitimate political community able to act collectively, explains why the richest, most educated region on the planet is paralysed – to the undisguised amazement of the rest of the world. The walls of the prison in which [...]

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Silly piece in The Observer to which I respond. and was the brainchild of the kind of European intergovernmental initiative that drives Ukip nuts. The first mobile phones were analogue devices, and the market was bedevilled by incompatible technologies and protocols – rather like the early market in fixed-line telephony in the United States before [...]

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This is amusing: What about Ukip votes in marginal seats? On this, I defer to the best political scientist in Britain, Professor Tim Bale of Sussex University, who wrote recently on The Spectator’s Coffee House blog that “the impact is vastly exaggerated. At best we’re talking about no more than a handful of seats — [...]

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The UKIP leadership results are as follows: Nigel Farage – 6085 Tim Congdon – 2037 David Campbell Bannerman – 1404 Winston McKenzie – 530 We’ve 530 members who voted for Winston? Nice bloke n’all, but Eeeek!

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UKIP wins donation case. The basis of the Supreme Court’s judegment (on a 4-3 basis) is that Parliament intended to stop foreign donations. However, what they actually did was enact that donations from those not on the elctoral roll were verboeten and subject to forfeiture. The Supreme Court divined a difference between what Parliament meant [...]

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Ooooh, yes. From you know who. The truth about Cameron and Brown. Brown. Cameron.

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Yes, Timmy likes this. I never really did think they would go with “hang them all”.

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The editors and presenters on Radio 4′s Today programme have been told they must interview representatives of the BNP, Ukip, the Green party, SNP and Plaid Cymru on the same show, the morning after the debates. Sources said this will leave almost no room for serious discussion of how the mainstream leaders performed. One source [...]

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Let’s be serious about this, sensible: what is so awful about asking the people of a country how they wish to be ruled and by whom? Nigel Farage in The Telegraph. José Barroso, president of the European Commission, has told us that the reason for the European Union is to stop Germany invading France. Again. [...]

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It has to be said: Nigel Farage will step down as leader of the UK Independence Party today to concentrate on the European Parliament and his general election battle against the Commons Speaker John Bercow. Probably a good idea too.

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So, we got any telecoms genii (geniuses?) reading here? We’d like to get an ISDN line set up so that we don’t have to keep going to radio studios to do five minute spots. As I understand it, there’s more to it than just getting an ISDN line. We also need some piece of gadgetry [...]

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MacShane: In Berlin recently, David Cameron promised a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty were he to become prime minister and the Treaty were not to be ratified. That would mean that the first period of any Tory government unleashing, as its main contribution to international politics, a festival of xenophobic hate against Europe. The Tories, [...]

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Dan Hannan’s plan. Excellent, very good indeed. Of course, he’s in the wrong political party to bring all this about…..much of this is already in the policies of one that he doesn’t, but perhaps ought to, belong to.

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Officials said the image of a bull represented the Greek myth in which Zeus turns himself into a bull and abducts Europa, a beautiful princess. Campaigners said it was bizarre that there not more outward symbols of Britishness on the card, given that it will be used as a proof of residence. Lorraine Mulally, spokesman [...]

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The Sun is running a competition for which EU rule we should dump. A clear and obvious suggestion is here. OK, OK, so the European Communities Act 1972 isn’t an EU regulation but it’s still the one we want to dump. Spread the word! Get people writing in!

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