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  The UK Independence Party - UKIP
The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced "you-kip") is a Eurosceptic political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union.
The central aim of the party was to seek the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
One of UKIP's political goals is to break the pro-EU consensus among the three established parties, and prevent the introduction of the euro and the adoption of a European constitution.
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 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 Britain’s relationship with Europe.
UKIP’s 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 Thatcher’s 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)

  
 British politics : Politics of the United Kingdom
In the 20th century the Labour Party was established, leading to the demise of the Whigs as the liberal force in British Politics.
After performing poorly in the elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924, the Liberal Party was superseded by the Labour Party as the party of the left, and inheritor of the spirit of the Whig movement.
The Labour Party elected staunch left-winger Michael Foot as their leader after their 1979 election defeat, and he responded to Margaret Thatcher's government by moving the party further to the left, a move which split the party and was widely believed to have made Labour unelectable for a decade.
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 Independent Schools United Kingdom - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Independent Schools, United Kingdom, schools in the United Kingdom that are neither controlled nor financed by local or central government.
Most public education in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Commonwealth countries is organized into two phases: primary and secondary.
United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), right-of-centre British political party, with the aim of withdrawing the United Kingdom from membership...
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 The Ultimate United Kingdom Independence Party Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced "you-kip") is a right-wing political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union.
One of UKIP's political goals is to break the pro-European consensus among the three established parties, and prevent the introduction of the euro and the adoption of a European constitution.
The BNP has infiltrated UKIP in the past, notably in the cases of Mark Deavin, a UKIP national executive committee member who was exposed as a BNP agent in 1997 [14] and John Brayshaw in 2004 [15].
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/UKIP   (2120 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | VOTE2001 | PARTIES | United Kingdom Independence Party
The party is opposed to the union because it says it is undemocratic - laws are passed by politicians which no one in Britain has voted for - and expensive.
Party founder Alan Sked quit before the 1999 elections after arguing the party should refuse seats in the "gravy train" of the Strasbourg Parliament.
Conservative-held marginals are not considered "fertile territory" as the UKIP expects a recovery in the Conservative vote.
news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/parties/newsid_1179000/1179163.stm   (736 words)

  
 United Kingdom Independence Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced /'ju.kɪp/) is a Eurosceptic British political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union and preservation of the pound sterling.
UKIP opposes the adoption of a Devolved English parliament, preferring to argue that the Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies can simply be abolished to return the United Kingdom to one Country with one Parliament.
The BNP has infiltrated UKIP in the past, notably in the cases of Mark Deavin, a UKIP head office researcher (hired by the party founder Alan Sked) who was exposed as a BNP agent in 1997 [19] and John Brayshaw in 2004 [20].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom_Independence_Party   (3188 words)

  
 UK Independence Party, North West - Home
The UK Independence Party is the fourth largest political party in the UK and is completely committed to withdrawing Britain from the European Union.
UKIP MEPs have written to the European Commission after the UK Government was reminded of its legal requirement to set a date to convert to metric measures in line with the rest of Europe.
Members of the UK Independence Party protested against the NWRA for a second time on Friday 18th November to point out the meeting was invalid.
www.ukipnw.org   (248 words)

  
 United Kingdom Independence Party
The UK Independence Party is committed to withdrawing Britain from the European Union.
UKIP believes that this is not only bad for Britain's economy and prosperity, but it is an alien system of government that will ultimately prove to be totally unacceptable to the British people.
UKIP would replace Britain's membership of the European Union with the kind of agreements on free trade and co-operation that we thought we had signed up to when we first joined what was then called the European Community.
www.mockelections.co.uk /sections/Scotland/students/UKIP.asp   (118 words)

  
 United Kingdom Independence Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
UKIP does in general support continuing military cooperation with the USA through NATO http://www.ukip.org/index.php?menu=manifesto&page=manifestodefence but said in 2002 that it could only support a US invasion of Iraq if there was a clear United Nations mandate for such action.
The UKIP is against the planned introduction of identity cards, believing them to be ineffective as a way of combatting fraud and terrorism, and an infringement of individual liberty http://www.ukip.org/abc_news/gen12.php?t=1&id=1158.
The BNP has infiltrated UKIP in the past, notably in the cases of Mark Deavin, a UKIP national executive committee member who was exposed as a BNP agent in 1997 http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stories/nickgriffin.htm and John Brayshaw in 2004 http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/york/archive/2004/02/06/york_news_local20ZM.html.
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 UKIP Bournemouth West United Kingdom Independence Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
UKIP's brand new tax policy was recently launched in Bournemouth, (click graphic for bigger picture), and as promised here it is in PDF format.
The 'smaller' parties are gaining at the expense of the establishment.
UKIP are standing by with the lifeboats for those who wish to leave the sinking ships.
www.westbournemouthukip.com   (2023 words)

  
 The UK Independence Party - United Kingdom Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television - Find Articles
The party's name was chosen to be self-explanatory: standing for independence and a withdrawal from the European Union and the reversal of the country's decline.
The UKIP was at pains to emphasise that it was not a single-issue party.
Unfortunately for the UKIP, which lacked the financial resources of the Referendum Party and the news-value of the major parties, their only real chance of capturing the attention of a large audience during the election campaign was through its one Party Election Broadcast (PEB).
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 UKIP, they pick: the meaning of a conservative party's recent strong showing National Review - Find Articles
And UKIP had been caricatured by its opponents as a kind of Ealing-comedy political party--all squires, vicars, tarts, and assorted eccentrics fighting the election as a jolly good lark.
In 2001, the United Kingdom Independence Party won only 1.5 per cent of the national vote--and 2.5 per cent on average of the votes in the seats they contested in the Tory heartland.
Party strategists argued that those voters who were concerned about such issues had "nowhere else to go." To emphasize them too strongly would risk driving away moderate voters by making the Tory party seem extreme, eccentric, wild-eyed, loony--take your choice.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_13_56/ai_n13651086   (863 words)

  
 www.englishindependenceparty.com
The EIP was the first political party in the current era to recognise that if we English are to preserve our identity in a world of easy international travel where national boundaries have been weakened, we must start by restoring the identity of England.
To do this we must recognise that the United Kingdom is a state and not a nation, and that Britishness is no longer a strong enough identity for us.
We therefore advocate the division of the United Kingdom into a family of nations within the British Isles, which should include the Republic of Ireland.
www.englishindependenceparty.com   (178 words)

  
 Airstrip One by Emmanuel Goldstein
UKIP was also helped by the fact that European elections are taken very lightly by the British public, and that the Proportional Representation system used there means a vote need not be wasted.
UKIP has now fallen into the same trap that the Tories and Labour fell into long ago, the survival and growth of the party are more important than any eventual goals.
UKIP then delegated Nigel Farage, the highly intelligent commodity broker who is General Secretary of UKIP, to negotiate with Lord Pearson on the terms for withdrawal.
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 Johann Hari - Archive
UKIP is now set to come third in the European elections - yet they have been almost entirely unscrutinised by the British press, waved away as a band of harmless single-issue amateurs.
UKIP boasts that it now requires all candidates to declare they are not racists.
Many of the symptoms of far right politics are on display among UKIP and its friends: a paranoid hatred of metropolitan political classes, a belief in dark conspiracies operating in the shadows, and the characterisation of anybody who disagrees with their extreme position as "treacherous" and "disloyal".
www.johannhari.com /archive/article.php?id=396   (1366 words)

  
 VOTE.COM | Column | U.K.'S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The ranks of the once-tiny party were swelled by those who are getting increasingly disgusted with the anti-democratic, socialist and appeasement-oriented bureaucrats who run the European Union.
The Conservative Party, which one would expect to be the bastion of British independence, refuses to countenance U.K. withdrawal from the EU and, as a result, has lost all bargaining power with the Brussels bureaucrats.
The socialists and anti-democratic bureaucrats who predominate in the EU dare not squelch British independence directly, so they are seeking to coat it over with a binding Europe-wide nation committed to largely French and German policies of appeasement, high taxes and government regulation.
www.vote.com /magazine/columns/dickmorris/column60250169.phtml   (581 words)

  
 UK Independence Party Official website (UKIP)
Nigel Farage MEP unveils his vision for the future of UKIP -highlights from the Party Leader's speech at Telford....
Breaking News from the UKIP Conference in Telford.
Party Leader Nigel Farage MEP announces his new team...
www.ukip.org   (329 words)

  
 British party moves to ‘get country back’ -DAWN - International; 16 April 2005
Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labour party is on track to win a third term and fringe parties are expected to poll only a small share of the vote.
UKIP seized on the recent conviction of a failed Algerian asylum seeker for planning an Al Qaeda poison attack on Britain to argue that London had lost control of its borders.
Party leaders also pounced on the collapse of carmaker MG Rover, which finally went under on Friday, to back up its point that Britain’s economy was at risk from membership of the EU.
www.dawn.com /2005/04/16/int8.htm   (293 words)

  
 UKIP - Uncyclopedia
The United Kingdom Independance Party, (abbreviated UKIP) is a British political party formed in 1993 by the popular talk show host Jerry Springer.
The party is based on the vision of "A United Kingdom of all colours outside the EU".
The only famous leader of the party was a man called Robert Kilroy-Silk.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/UKIP   (358 words)

  
 UKIP Uncovered
Now that the man who many in UKIP considered the arch-conspirator has finally stepped from the shadows to become the real, not just the public face of the party his ability to compromise, form a talented team and put aside past differences is essential for the nation.
Previously the party has been somewhat ambiguous in statements on trade, often citing they wish the EU to be solely involved in trade as originally intended.
When he left, the party’s profile sank as quickly as it has risen and at the last general election its voting share returned to a derisory 2.2%.
ukipuncovered.blogspot.com   (2641 words)

  
 If you care about the Tory Party, vote UKIP | Samizdata.net
Alan Sked is mid-sulk (Heath style) because the party he was a founder member of (NOT the founder as he claims) did not agree with his views and did not wish him as their leader.
I find it pathetic when any party tries to con the public into voting for them by telling them that a vote for party B is really helping Party A. Every person should look at every party and vote for the one that sounds closest to their own particular views.
I will be voting for the UKIP as they are the only party who want out of the EU as do I and they also hit a lot of right notes with their shrinking of government and freedom values.
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 June - 2004 In The United Kingdom
June 13 - Results of the European Parliament Election, 2004 are announced.
United Kingdom Independence Party are the main gainers, increasing from 3 to 12 MEPs.
June 24 - England national football team are knocked out of Euro 2004 by Portugal national football team, on penalties.
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 UK Independence Party (Stafford)
Following the stunning success of UKIP in the 2004 European Election, the site will not be being updated until the next big fight on our hands.
The UK Independence Party was founded in 1993 to seek Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
We are now the fourth political party - in 1999, we won three seats in the European Parliament, a platform we use to reveal the truth about the EU.
www.staffordukip.com   (324 words)

  
 UKIP United Kingdom Independence Party South Twickenham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
UKIP is the only party that will leave the EU The other 24 EU members control our borders and our way of life
All the other parties will take us into the EU which is why I left the Tories
UKIP - The United Kingdom Independence Party Parliamentary candidate for Twickenham Constituency
www.ukip-twickenham.org.uk   (171 words)

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