Tim Worstall

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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Here. It’s possible that you might recognise the writing style…..

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Even the TUC is now coming onboard. There are various ways to help ordinary people through targeted tax cuts. The key way would be to cut income tax by reducing rates at the bottom or by raising allowances so that the low paid and middle earners receive a greater part of their pay tax free. [...]

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But my Dear Mr. E: why would anyone want to spin this entirely welcome news? The more exposure to sensible political ideas that Polly and her ilk get the better, surely? As in: We will take 4.5 million people out of tax with a simple Flat Tax (with National Insurance) starting at £10,000. And: …taking [...]

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OK, I’m going to need to use a nifty little piece of software in this new job as a press officer. But first of course I need to find that nifty piece of software. I used to use Telemagic two decades ago (yes, really!) and that would certainly do what I want to do. However, [...]

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So the results are in in the UKIP London MEP selection stakes. Your genial host came in sixth out of 11.  Depending upon whether Marta Andreasen stands in London or the SE, whether Ralph Atkinson does better in E Midlands than London, your self same genial host will therefore be anything from sixth to fourth [...]

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Thanks Mark for pointing out in the comments to my last but one post the similarity between Nigel Farage and Dmitry Medvedev. Right, right, so how do we take advantage of this fact? We send Nigel over to the Kremlin, Nigel drugs, binds and gags Dmitry and hides him in a cupboard. Nigel then sends [...]

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Helps that he’s one of ours, too.

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