Why is the EU economy stagnant? And will a new radical right Tory government help?

Farage totally shares the radical right 'extreme austerity' agenda of his colleagues in the right of the Tory Party, so a Tory/Ukip alliance or whatever would be no different and possibly even worse.

UKIP can't decide whether they are left or right because they want to steal voters from both of the main parties. They want to slash taxes even more the Conservatives yet they want free hospital parking, greater defence spending and a load of random bits of spending they picked by throwing darts at a board.

UKIP's obsession with the military is pathetic, they're opposed to all of the progressive interventions/neo-liberal crusades yet they are so convinced we need more military spending. For what exactly?

Farage and his party are total panderers, they know that their demographic want to hear them talking tough about 'more military', so they advocate more military spending, but at the same time, many of the armchair generals who 'want Britain to be tough' don't actually like the site of injured soldiers and the dead coming back from warzones, so Farage opposes any actual involvements.

Pathetic stuff, as you say.

UKIP's obsession with the military is pathetic, they're opposed to all of the progressive interventions/neo-liberal crusades yet they are so convinced we need more military spending. For what exactly?

I cannot take a party at all seriously when one of their main policies is to waste money, for the exclusive purpose of appeasing people. At least a peaceful capitalist party might downsize the military and use the money saved to lower taxes or a left-wing party might save money and use that to help the poor, the elderly and the disabled. They might as well build a giant solid gold phallus in the centre of London and enscribe the words ''WE THA BEST''

Maybe they understand:
"Si vis pacem, para bellum"
if you want peace you prepare for war.

Maybe not though - maybe latin is too complex for them. Maybe they understand:

"Speak softly and carry a big stick"

Or perhaps they understand geography -
The UK is an island & therefore we rely on imports/exports from all over the globe. Therefore having a navy & air force effective enough to ensure trading routes & the UK's waters are secure is rather important.

I'm hardly a UKIP fan but it is annoying how successive governments, both Labour & Conservative are happy to cut the armed forces while expecting more capability. (Blair/Brown with Afghan/Iraq, Cameron with Libya etc) Maybe we can spend more on defence while being non-interventionist rather than spending less on defence but still expecting the armed forces to take on multiple wars?

Maybe they understand:
"Si vis pacem, para bellum"
if you want peace you prepare for war.

Maybe not though - maybe latin is too complex for them. Maybe they understand:

"Speak softly and carry a big stick"

Or perhaps they understand geography -
The UK is an island & therefore we rely on imports/exports from all over the globe. Therefore having a navy & air force effective enough to ensure trading routes & the UK's waters are secure is rather important.

I'm hardly a UKIP fan but it is annoying how successive governments, both Labour & Conservative are happy to cut the armed forces while expecting more capability. (Blair/Brown with Afghan/Iraq, Cameron with Libya etc) Maybe we can spend more on defence while being non-interventionist rather than spending less on defence but still expecting the armed forces to take on multiple wars?

UKIP?
We need a more Nationalist Party!

Maybe they could be socialists too

The result will be equally inevitable - the UK will slump downwards as their new ideological experiment takes hold. Tory minister after Tory minister will urge us to hold out, that "there will be pain to start with but things will improve".

In 5-10 years, we will probably be indistinguishable from Portugal or Greece.

If that's so much of an issue, then remaining in the EU and creating a pan-European military which can respond to such problems rapidly and effectively is the most cost effective solution. As well as collaborating with our NATO allies of course.

This country is very safe from outside invasion, we have a nuclear deterrent and we're perfectly capable of securing our borders, this isn't the 18th century, we're not going to go to war with our European neighbours any time soon. The most effective means of ensuring our safety is not a tonne of soldiers, but highly trained well funded police constabularies and our elite intelligence agencies

I highly doubt an EU military would respond to an attack on the Falklands & why should it.

I highly doubt an EU military would respond to an attack on the Falklands & why should it? If the Moroccans invaded Ceuta, the Spanish autonomous city, would the UK people/government want to get involved?

No we're better off having control of our armed forces; I do doubt we'd be able to act unilaterally in any large scale conflict so having allies in NATO is certainly necessary. However, the UK needs the full ability to act against a hostile power should Parliament elect to do so.
It is highly we'll find ourselves up against another European power but the world isn't a particularly rational place. From what I remember, France was German's biggest trading partner prior to 1939. Russia & Germany had economic agreements up until 1941. Very few individuals expected the USSR to collapse in 1990/91. Nor was 9/11 predicted.