| | What is the United Kingdom Independence Party? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | UKIP was able to exploit hostility amongst a significant section of the population towards the European Union as an undemocratic gravy train for faceless bureaucrats, and to present itself as the only party prepared to defy the tripartite consensus that has been established around the vexed question of Britains relationship with Europe. |
 | | UKIPs recent success is the product of the general rightward shift of the establishment parties and their corresponding loss of any significant social base within broader layers of the population, coupled with increasing tensions between Europe and America over the Iraq war and its aftermath. |
 | | UKIP was founded at the London School of Economics in 1993 by Dr Alan Sked, formerly a member of the Anti-Federalist League and the Brugge Group, which regarded the decision of Thatchers successor, John Major, to sign up to the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 as a betrayal of her legacy. |
| www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jun2004/ukip-j23.shtml (1969 words) |