As I get older I am becoming more and more interested in Politics but one thing I really care about is being informed. So, in the spirit of staying informed I decided to telephone UKIP last year and ask about some of the policies that I care about.
I started off with Wind Farms which I know they stand against - they had a very reasonable response, they don't believe that selling our land to german companies to bring fuel to other countries is the way forward and they believed in other means of renewable energy.
When she was telling me all this she made the mistake of mentioning their policy on gay marriage. It was negative. I was so incensed that I hung up the phone immediately. On closer inspection, what they're actually against is forcing priests and vicars who don't believe in gay marriage to perform the ceremonies in their churches and therein lies the problem with UKIP.
They're far too hard and fast about everything - instead of, we believe in gay marriage but it should be the church leaders choice whether they marry them or not, its WE ARE AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE.
The world isn't black and white and this is once again being reflected in their European Manifesto.
'Under EU rules, anyone in the EU can
come to the UK and live, claim welfare
and government services they have
not contributed to.'
I'll admit that this doesn't seem right - but surely that's our fault for having the most giving and easy to claim benefits system in Europe? What goes for us must go for the rest of the EU too but what stops thousands of us migrating to France is that we wouldn't get the same treatment. That's not because of the EU, that's because of our idiotic government from before the coalition who were so desperate to get the world to love them and were willing to pay them to do it. It's also the fault of the coalition who have repeatedly said that they're going to sort out our benefits system but haven't.
My personal belief is that if we're going to be in Europe, we should be in it. Listen to what our peers in other countries are saying, stop half arsing it. We're either in or we're not.
The damage that will be done to this country over the next 100 years if we pull out of the EU will be huge, we'll watch as the rest of Europe grows without us.
But if we keep trying to hold on to some form of independence (in all the wrong places) we're never going to reap the benefits either.
It's about time someone came on to the television and told us the goddamn truth. I'm fed up of trying to wade through the propoganda.
If anyone's interested, here is UKIPs European manifesto.
http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/5308a93901925b5b09000002/attachments/original/1398869254/EuroManifestoLaunch.pdf?1398869254
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