Do you consider UKIP good or bad?

The people who say UKIP is the politics of fear are being misleading (and it may well be unintentional). All political parties pull at the heartstrings.. for example those parties who say we would have no human rights if we left the EU, or we would become a nation of xenophobic isolationists. Whereas it simply means our laws would be made by a British parliament and implemented by British courts.

Why they're bad: Just look at their manifesto! They are racist and they are taking advantage of it whilst the country is in the pan. I don't think UKIP will ever be as successful as the Nazi Party in elections, but there's a correlation between the two that when unemployment is high, they do well.

Yeah support for extremist parties always increases in times of economic hardship. People see that the main parties aren't doing anything for them and so they look elsewhere. It also helps that UKIP, like the Nazi party, use scapegoats. They seem to think that all of the country's problems will be solved by stopping immigration.

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That's like saying they voted against the EU ban on ivory because they want ivory, even though this country already bans ivory. They want our own human rights bill and not one which favours those who don't respect human rights, like criminals.

I don't see any difference in a French or British or German or European court defending or implementing human rights.

So what do people do when the government starts screwing them over? With the ECHR we all have somewhere to turn if our own government won't act. It's all well and good saying that you don't like it when you aren't currently having to use it.

I'll reserve judgement for the time being. The economic argument that trading with low wage economies reduces domestic wages is a one sided look at a two sided coin. The other side being it also drastically reduces domestic general prices, but you forgot to mention that bit because either, in my opinion:

1) You didn't know
2) It didn't benefit your point of view
3) You don't agree

Most of the roads are half finished, loads of the infrastructure is half finished, there is resentment against them among farmers for taking their land and using it as their own. So much of it just gets abandoned halfway through and very little of it trickles down into the economy.

I can only speak for Kenya, Zimbabwe and Madagascar but that is the way it is there.

He said 29 million people from Romania and Bulgaria had the right to come to the UK, and many are planning to. He came under fire because in total there's 28.6 million in those two countries. So he rounded up 0.4 million.

What his words were, the party is against forcing religious institutions to marry persons if it goes against their religious ethical code, but would support it if that was not made the case.

It's the oldest liberal principle not to allow one persons right over the expense of another persons. In this case, religious rights over the right of homosexuals to marry.

Because trade agreements are negotiated by foreigners on our behalf, they're rarely beneficial to our economics position and industries. We're quite different from a lot of countries in Europe.

There is no reason why the UK can't negotiate trade agreements itself, there really isn't any superior bargaining chip to letting the EU countries negotiate trade for you.

I agree, we are a globalised society and should remain so. But does that extend to wanting a centralised world state, forgetting ideas such as 'national sovereignty' and having little say over our own affairs?

It's already happened, as we already have massive strain on our public services because of immigration.

Kenya and Madagascar not so much, but in Zimbabwe there's a lot going on. For example the Hydro-Electric Dams are old but the Chinese are updating and extending them, and I was told the train network is going to be brought up to date via the Chinese. Zimbabwe has a lot of old stuff that needs repairing/replacing. I'm personally very optimistic for the future of Africa if technological progress is something to be optimistic about.

I'm quite neutral towards UKIP (although I'm personally pro-EU). I just find it completely bizarre how popular they seem to be - Nigel Farage contradicts himself all the time, I don't know how he has quite so much support.

Kenya and Madagascar not so much, but in Zimbabwe there's a lot going on. For example the Hydro-Electric Dams are old but the Chinese are updating and extending them, and I was told the train network is going to be brought up to date via the Chinese. Zimbabwe has a lot of old stuff that needs repairing/replacing. I'm personally very optimistic for the future of Africa if technological progress is something to be optimistic about.

their policies will degrade Britain to a nationalist state which will corrupt the minds of the uneducated and ignorant.