UK Independence Party

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UK Independence Party

UK Independence Party

Leader Nigel Farage MEP

Deputy Leader Paul Nuttall MEP

Founded 3 September 1993

Headquarters Lexdrum House, Newton Abbot, Devon

Youth wing Young Independence

Membership (2014) 38,000+

Ideology EuroscepticismRight-wing populism[1]Civic nationalism[2]

Political position Right-wing

International affiliation None

European affiliation None

European Parliament group Europe of Freedom and Democracy

Colours Purple Yellow

House of Commons

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House of Lords

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European Parliament

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Northern Ireland Assembly

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Local government (UK)

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Police and Crime Commissioner

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London Assembly

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Welsh Assembly

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Scottish Parliament

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Website

www.ukip.org [3]

Politics of the United KingdomPolitical parties

Elections


The UK Independence Party (UKIP, sometimes spelled Ukip /jukp/) is a Eurosceptic right-wing populistpolitical party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1993. The party describes itself in its constitution as a"democratic, libertarian party" and, as of May 2014, is reported to have a membership of over 38,000.In May 2014, UKIP became the first party in over a century other than Labour or the Conservatives to come first in aUnited Kingdom wide election, with its performance in the 2014 European elections giving it 24 of the UK's 73 seatsin the European Parliament. Although UKIP has never won a seat in the House of Commons, it has three members inthe House of Lords and holds one seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly.[4] The party's performance in the 2013local elections, when it came fourth in the number of council seats won and third in nationwide vote share, wascalled the "biggest surge for a fourth party" in British politics since the Second World War.The party's leader is Nigel Farage, who was re-elected to the post on 5 November 2010, having previously beenleader from 2006 to 2009. Farage is a founding member of the party, which emerged as the Anti-Federalist League in1991, and has been a UKIP MEP since 1999.[5]

History

Founding and early yearsUKIP was founded in 1993 by Alan Sked and other members of the cross-party Anti-Federalist League, a politicalparty set up in November 1991 with the aim of fielding candidates opposed to the Maastricht Treaty. The nascentparty's primary objective was withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. It attracted a fewmembers of the Eurosceptic wing of the Conservative Party, which was split on the European question after thepound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992 and the struggle over ratification of theMaastricht Treaty. UKIP candidates stood in the 1997 general election, but were overshadowed by JamesGoldsmith's Referendum Party.After the election, Sked resigned from the leadership and left the party because, he said, it contained members who"are racist and have been infected by the far-right" and was "doomed to remain on the political fringes". However,Goldsmith died soon after the election and the Referendum Party was dissolved, with a resulting influx of new UKIPsupporters. The leadership election was won by the millionaire businessman Michael Holmes, and in the 1999elections to the European Parliament UKIP gained three seats and 7% of the vote. In that election, Nigel Farage(South East England), Jeffrey Titford (East of England), and Michael Holmes (South West England) were elected.Over the following months there was a power struggle between Holmes and the party's National ExecutiveCommittee (NEC). This was partly due to Holmes making a speech perceived as calling for greater powers for theEuropean Parliament against the European Commission. Ordinary party members forced the resignation of bothHolmes and the entire NEC, and Jeffrey Titford was subsequently elected leader. After Holmes resigned from theparty itself in March 2000, there was a legal battle when he tried to continue as an independent MEP until heresigned from the European Parliament in December 2002. Holmes was then replaced by Graham Booth, the secondcandidate on the UKIP list in South West England.UKIP put up candidates in more than 420 seats in the 2001 general election, attaining 1.5% of the vote and failing towin any representation at Westminster. It also failed to break through in the elections to the Scottish Parliament orthe Welsh Assembly, despite those elections being held under proportional representation. In 2002, Titford stooddown as party leader, but continued to sit as a UKIP MEP. He was replaced as leader by Roger Knapman. In 2004UKIP reorganised itself nationally as a private company limited by guarantee, with the legal name of UnitedKingdom Independence Party Limited, though branches remained as unincorporated associations.


2004 European elections and 2005 general election

Nigel Farage

In the 2004 European elections UKIP came third with 12 MEPs being elected. Inthe London Assembly elections the same year, UKIP won two London Assemblyseats.

In late 2004, the mainstream UK press speculated on if or when the UKIP MEP,former Labour Party MP and chat-show host Robert Kilroy-Silk would takecontrol of the party. These comments were heightened by Kilroy-Silk's speech atthe UKIP party conference in Bristol on 2 October 2004, in which he called forthe Conservative Party to be "killed off" following the by-election in Hartlepool,where UKIP finished third (with 10.2%) above the Conservatives in fourth(9.7%).

Interviewed by Channel 4 television, Kilroy-Silk did not deny having ambitionsto lead the party, but stressed that Roger Knapman would lead it into the nextgeneral election.Wikipedia:Citation needed However, the next day, on Breakfastwith Frost, he criticised Knapman's leadership.[6] After further disagreement withthe leadership, Kilroy-Silk resigned the UKIP whip in the European Parliament on 27 October 2004.[7] Initially, heremained a member, while seeking a bid for the party leadership. However, this was not successful and he resignedcompletely from UKIP on 20 January 2005, calling it a "joke".[8] Two weeks later, he founded his own party,Veritas, taking a number of UKIP members, including both of the London Assembly members, with him.[9]

In the 2005 general election, UKIP fielded 495 candidates and gained 618,000 votes, or 2.3% of the total votes castin the election, and did not win a seat in the House of Commons. This result placed it fourth in terms of votes castnationally.[10] Its best performance was in Boston & Skegness, where Richard Horsnell came third with 9.6% of thevote.Following the 2005 general election, Kilroy-Silk subsequently resigned from Veritas after its performance in theelection, the party having received only 40,607 votes. In April 2006 David Cameron, during a phone-in on London'sLBC radio station, described UKIP members as being "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, mostly."[11] Farageasked for an apology. but Cameron did not back down.[12] On 12 September 2006, Farage was elected leader ofUKIP with 45% of the vote, 20% ahead of his nearest rival.

2009 European electionsMain article: European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom)On 28 March 2009, the Conservative Party's biggest-ever donor, Stuart Wheeler, donated 100,000 to UKIP aftercriticising David Cameron's stance towards the Lisbon treaty and the European Union. He said, "If they kick me outI will understand. I will be very sorry about it, but it won't alter my stance." The following day, 29 March, he wasexpelled from the Conservative Party.The 2009 European elections resulted in UKIP coming second with 16.5% of the vote and 13 MEPs, an increase ofone MEP and 0.3% in the share of the vote compared to the 2004 European Elections.


Leadership election, 2009Main article: United Kingdom Independence Party leadership election, 2009In September 2009, Nigel Farage announced that he would be resigning as leader of the party in order to stand forParliament against the Speaker, John Bercow. The leadership election was contested by five candidates - MalcolmPearson, Gerard Batten, Nikki Sinclaire, Mike Nattrass and Alan Wood - and was won by Malcolm Pearson with justunder half of the 9900 votes cast

2010 general electionMain article: United Kingdom Independence Party election results

A UKIP campaign bus

UKIP fielded 572 candidates in the 2010 general election;. LordPearson asked some prospective candidates to stand down in favour ofEurosceptic Conservative and Labour MPs. However, some refused todo so.Wikipedia:Citation needed This did not stop Lord Pearson fromcampaigning on behalf of the Conservative candidates stating that hewas "putting country before party". These decisions drew somecriticism from within the party from the likes of Michael Heaver ofYoung Independence.Wikipedia:Citation needed

On the morning of polling day, Farage was injured when a passenger ina light aircraft which crashed near Brackley, Northamptonshire.

In the election the party polled 3.1% of the vote (919,471 votes), an increase of 0.9% on the 2005 general election,but took no seats. This made it the party with the largest percentage of the popular vote to win no seats in theelection.In Buckingham, the seat of the Speaker John Bercow, Farage obtained 17% of the vote, despite receiving some levelof support from Lord Tebbit, a senior Conservatives figure. Farage came third behind Bercow and John Stevens, theBuckinghamshire Campaign For Democracy candidate,[13] a Europhile and former Conservative MEP.[14] UKIP wasalso third in three other constituencies: North Cornwall, North Devon and Torridge and West Devon. Farage's resultwas the best of all UKIP candidates that the party put forward in the 2010 general election.

Leadership election, 2010Main article: United Kingdom Independence Party leadership election, 2010Lord Pearson resigned as leader in August 2010. The subsequent leadership election was contested between NigelFarage, Tim Congdon, David Bannerman and Winston McKenzie and won by Farage with more than 60% of thevote. During his acceptance speech, Farage spoke out against the leadership of the Conservative Party, andConservative policy on Europe. Lord Pearson, the previous leader, welcomed Farage's re-election, and said "TheUKIP crown returns to its rightful owner."

From the 2010 general election to the end of 2012UKIP contested two by-elections in early 2011, with candidate Jane Collins coming second in Barnsley Central with12.2% of the vote and Paul Nuttall finishing fourth in Oldham East and Saddleworth with 5.8% of the vote. Faragewelcomed Collins's success and said that UKIP should now aim to replace the Liberal Democrats as the third largestparty, saying "The Lib Dems are no longer the voice of opposition in British politics we are. Between now and thenext general election our aim is to replace them as the third party in British politics."UKIP fielded 1,217 candidates for the 2011 local council elections, a major increase over its previous campaigns,Wikipedia:Citation needed but not enough to qualify for a party election broadcast on television. UKIP


said that the party was well-organised in the South East, South West and Eastern regions, but there were still placesacross the country where there were no UKIP candidates standing at all.Across the country, many UKIP candidates came second or third. UKIP in Newcastle-under-Lyme gained a total offive seats on Newcastle Borough Council in 2007 and 2008 and three seats on Staffordshire County Council in 2009.Although UKIP did not poll well, it made gains across many parts of England, as well as taking control of Ramseytown council with nine UKIP councillors out of 17. Whilst UKIP made gains and losses, the party fell short ofFarage's predictions of major gains. The UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen called for Farage's resignation as leader of theparty.In October 2012, David McNarry, a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly who had been elected as an UlsterUnionist, joined UKIP after being expelled from the Ulster Unionist, becoming UKIPs second representative inNorthern Ireland alongside Henry Reilly, a councillor in Newry and Mourne.On 29 November 2012, UKIP finished in second place in the 2012 Rotherham by-election, with 4,648 votes (21.7%of the votes cast). This was the highest percentage share recorded by UKIP in any parliamentary election (although ithad polled a greater number of votes in the 2012 Corby by-election and also in Buckingham in the 2010 generalelection, where its candidate was Nigel Farage).[15] Its candidate, Jane Collins, had previously been the only UKIPcandidate to come second in any UK parliamentary election, at Barnsley Central in 2011. UKIP also came second in2012 in the Middlesbrough by-election and third in the Croydon North by-election, which were held on the same dayas Rotherham.During 2012 and early 2013, UKIP's popularity in opinion polls increased, with many polls indicating that it hadovertaken the Liberal Democrats for third place.[16]

2013 to present

Results of the European Parliament election,2014 by European Parliamentary constituency.

In the Eastleigh by-election on 28 February 2013, the party's candidateDiane James polled the highest percentage (27.8%) and number ofvotes (11,571) ever for a UKIP parliamentary candidate. UKIP camesecond, 4.26% (1,771 votes) behind the Liberal Democrats whoretained the seat. The Conservatives were pushed into third place witha quarter of the vote and the Labour Party into fourth place with lessthan 10% of the vote.

In the run-up to the 2013 local elections, UKIP continued to do well inopinion polls and put up a record number of candidates for the party,despite a number of controversies over individual candidates in theweeks before the elections with the BBC reporting that UKIP wasinvestigating "six candidates over links to the BNP and other far rightgroups or alleged racist and homophobic comments, following storiesin national and local newspapers." Since 2008 UKIP has bannedformer BNP members from joining UKIP. Several candidates weresuspended from the party for racist views. UKIP accused the Conservative Party's Central Office of trawling throughcandidates' online presences to "smear" the party, but acknowledged that it did not have the time or money to vet allof its candidates.

In the 2013 county council elections across England, the party achieved its best ever local government result, pollingan average of


Results of the European Parliament election,2014 in England. Districts were UKIP receivedthe largest number of votes are shown in purple.

23% in the wards where it stood, and returning 147 elected councillors.It made significant gains in Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Kent, taking 15,16 and 17 seats respectively. It was described as the best result for aparty outside the big three in British politics since the Second WorldWar. A Guardian/ICM poll in the week after these elections placedUKIP third in national polls, with nationwide support of 18%.However, analysis suggests that in one consideredscenarioWikipedia:Please clarify this level of support would not beenough to win any seats at the next general election, and UKIP "facean uphill struggle to secure more than a handful of MPs". By 11 June2013 UKIP had dropped 6 points in the Guardian/ICM poll, to join theLiberal Democrats on 12%. However by 16 June Comres had UKIPsupport at 19% and Observer/Opinium at 20%.[17]

Though winning councillors and gaining impressive vote shares inby-elections in England, UKIP has not been able to make any similaradvance in Scotland, a trend that was confirmed in the AberdeenDonside by-election on 20 June 2013, when the UKIP candidate came5th, losing his deposit with 4.8% of the vote.[18]

During the party's conference in 2013 the whip was suspended from Godfrey Bloom, after he was reported to havemade sexist comments.[19]

According to Farage, on 24 January 2014, the UKIP general election manifesto in 2010 was "drivel" and "nonsense".He said he had never read it (despite having written the foreword and having helped to launch it). He said that themanifesto was written by UKIP's then policy chief, David Campbell Bannerman, and that "the idiot that wrote it hasnow left us and joined the Conservatives". The party is working on new policies which will be unveiled by the end of2014, he said.[20]

Farage pledged in January 2014 that he would end the selection of so-called 'Walter Mitty' candidates who bring theparty into disrepute.[21] This was interpreted as a rejection of comments made by David Silvester, a formerConservative Party councillor and a (now former) UKIP councillor in Henley-on Thames,[22] who had madecomments blaming recent floods in Britain on prime minister David Cameron because he had been responsible forthe introduction of same-sex marriage.[23]

In March 2014, Ofcom awarded UKIP "major party status" for the 2014 European Elections, but only in England andWales and not on a permanent basis.[24] This will give UKIP the same number of party election broadcasts as thethree larger parties as well as having its views given "due weight" in broadcast news on ITV and Channel 5. A BBCsource indicated that it will also do this.In local elections in 2014, UKIP won 163 seats, an increase of 128, but did not take control of any council.

2014 European electionsMain article: European Parliament election, 2014 (United Kingdom)UKIP received the greatest number of votes (27.49%) of any British party in the 2014 European Parliament electionand gained 11 extra MEPs for a total of 24. The party won seats in every region of Great Britain, including its first inScotland, which Farage called a "breakthrough". It was the first time in over a century that a party other than Labouror Conservatives won the most votes in a UK-wide election. Farage said the result would change British politicsfundamentally. "The political establishment will be terrified by this. They will all have to do a very large amount ofsoul searching and realize that the usual platitude 'We're listening' isn't enough," he said.


Regions

UKIP office in Tunbridge Wells

UKIP's organisation is divided into twelve regions. It also has a branchin Gibraltar.

UKIP Scotland

UKIP in Scotland was led by Lord (Christopher) Monckton ofBrenchley and chaired by Mike Scott-Hayward until late 2013, whenthe Scottish administration was dissolved and the Scottish section ofthe party "wiped out" following what has been described in the press asa "civil war" between the Scottish leadership and challengers favouredby Farage. The dispute concerned the selection of candidates for theEuropean Parliament election in 2014; seven of the nine shortlisted candidates resigned their candidacy immediatelybefore Scottish members were balloted to pick the final six, in protest at what they saw as an unfair ballotingprocess. The ballot was delayed but eventually went ahead with fresh candidates and on 25 February 2014 atGlasgow's Grand Central Hotel, UKIP Scotland announced its full list of candidates for the election.

Commentators have observed that "Ukip in Scotland has failed to replicate the party's success south of the Border".In the 2010 UK general election UKIP Scotland's candidate Robert Smith saved his deposit in the seat of Orkney andShetland, winning 6.3% of the vote. In 2013 UKIP candidates came fifth narrowly losing their deposit in theAberdeen Donside by-election and also fifth in the Dunfermline by-election. However, at the start of 2014 in theCowdenbeath by-election for the Scottish Parliament, UKIP came 4th, outpolling the Scottish Liberal Democrats forthe first time.When Nigel Farage visited Scotland during a by-election campaign in May 2013, protesters from the RadicalIndependence Campaign interrupted his press conference in the Canon's Gait pub on Edinburgh's Royal Mile andforced him to be taken away in an armoured police van. Protesters have similarly protested Farage's appearance on aQuestion Time episode hosted in Scotland.Citing its consistently low poll numbers in Scotland compared with England, UKIP has been dismissed as"irrelevant" in Scotland by First Minster Alex Salmond, among others. They claim that such a divergence may be asignificant factor in the independence referendum in September 2014. Various commentators argue that a strongresult for UKIP in England in the 2014 European parliamentary elections, coupled with a poor result in Scotland,may help push Scottish voters towards supporting independence.[25] During the elections, however, UKIP achievedmore than 10% of the vote in Scotland, winning its first Scottish MEP, David Coburn.

UKIP Northern IrelandUKIP's membership in Northern Ireland was 247 in June 2013. The party's first representative to be elected under theUKIP label in Northern Ireland, the Kilkeel councillor Henry Reilly, is the party's Northern Ireland chairman. AlanLove is its vice-chairman, Barbara Trotter is secretary and Alan Lewis is treasurer. UKIP has one Member of theNorthern Ireland Assembly, namely David McNarry, formerly chief whip for the Ulster Unionist Party, who joinedUKIP in 2012. The party is registered as unionist in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Paul Nuttall, MEP for NorthWest England and UKIP's deputy leader, has called for a UKIP-Traditional Unionist Voice electoral pact for the2014 European Parliament election. At the 2014 local elections the party gained two seats, increasing its number ofcouncillors to three.[26]


UKIP GibraltarUKIP Gibraltar operates as a branch of UKIP in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It held its first publicmeeting at the "Lord Nelson" on 25 April 2013.[27] UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that Gibraltar, along with allother British Overseas Territories, should have representatives in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom,similar to the privileges given to French overseas territories in France. Farage believes that all citizens for whom theBritish Parliament passes legislation, whether in the United Kingdom or its territories, deserve democraticrepresentation in that Parliament.[28]

Policies

A UKIP marquee at the Croydon SummerFestival, 2007

Although UKIP's original raison d'tre was withdrawal from theEuropean Union, it was felt that the public perception of the party as asingle-issue party despite issuing full manifestos was damagingelectoral progress. Farage, on becoming leader, started a wide-rangingpolicy review, his stated aim being "the development of the party intobroadly standing for traditional conservative and libertarian values".[29]

Taxation and economy

UKIP proposes cuts in corporation taxes and the abolition ofinheritance taxes. The abolition of national insurance is advocated byUKIP, which it says will simplify the tax system. UKIP proposes "tensof billions" of cuts to taxation, along with a further 77bn of cuts to the public sector in order to reduce the deficit.The economic plans outlined by UKIP have been called into question by The Times, who have highlighted a 120billion black hole in their spending plans.

HealthAccording to the party website, UKIP proposes directing the majority of health care spending to elected CountyHealth Boards, making spending decisions directly accountable to the public locally;[30] as well as dramaticallycutting the Department of Health and bringing in professional procurement skills to reduce what UKIP says are thehuge amounts of money wasted in procurement and resource allocation. In addition, UKIP proposes introducing avoucher system that will enable people to receive treatment outside of the NHS, replace non-clinical managers withmatrons to run NHS hospitals and introduce free dental and eye checks.

European Union

A UKIP candidate campaigning in the run-up tothe 2010 general election

UKIP advocates leaving the European Union, resulting in stoppingpayments to the EU and withdrawal from EU treaties, whilemaintaining trading ties with other European countries. Nigel Faragesays Britain can get a "simple free trade agreement", and says thatBritain can negotiate its own free trade agreements around the worldwithout participation in EU trade agreements. For example, UKIPsuggests that Britain can create a Commonwealth Free Trade Area.

In its 2010 general election manifesto, UKIP stated that leaving the EUwould allow Britain to "regain three essential Freedoms" and stated a


belief in civic nationalism, which it says "is open and inclusive to anyone who wishes to identify with Britain,regardless of ethnic or religious background" while contrasting that with what it described as the "blood and soil"nationalism of extremist parties.

European Court of Human Rights of the Council of EuropeUKIP wants to repeal the Human Rights Act, and remove Britain from both the European Convention on Refugeesand the European Convention on Human Rights to "enable us to deport foreign criminal and terrorist suspects wheredesirable" while still "allow[ing] genuine asylum applications in accordance with our international obligations".

MonarchyUKIP fully supports the British Monarchy and its Constitutional role. In 2012, it opposed disestablishment of theChurch of England and said it would consider a transfer of part of the Crown Estates back to the Monarchy, inexchange for an end to annual State support.[31]

Immigration

UKIP hoarding in Exeter, 2009. Featuring SirWinston Churchill, it reads "Say no to unlimitedimmigration. Take back control of our borders"

UKIP's policies on immigration are currently under review afterreceiving criticism for not having "clear-cut" immigration policies. Theparty has previously outlined a number of measures designed to reduceimmigration into the UK which include a five-year "freeze" onimmigration for permanent settlement, the introduction of apoints-based work-permit system and initiating a drive to removeillegal immigrants. In addition, UKIP proposes to allow EU citizenswho have been domiciled in the UK for seven years to apply forcitizenship. Since EU immigrants are overwhelmingly white andnon-EU immigrants are overwhelmingly non-white, UKIPsimmigration policy would mean a higher proportion of immigrants toBritain are ethnic minorities. This opposition to freedom of movementis, according to UKIP, to end discrimination on the basis of EU citizenship in favour of a purely skill basedimmigration policy.

On 29 December 2013, Nigel Farage told the BBC that the UK should allow Syrian refugees to enter the UK, whilecontinuing to limit "economic migration". The next day he clarified his position, suggesting that Britain should allowrefuge to the persecuted Christian minority in Syria. His views were rejected by the government.[32]

Same-sex marriageIn November 2012, David Coburn of UKIP's National Executive Committee stated the party's policy on same-sexmarriage: the party supports civil partnerships but opposes legalisation allowing same-sex marriage because ofconcerns that a law change could mean that faith groups and places of worship would be forced to perform same-sexmarriages. In March 2014, an answer submitted to Pink News by the UKIP press office had Farage saying UKIPwould not overturn same-sex marriages if elected. Farage said that answer had not been approved by him, and was a"draft by a staff member that should never have been sent out".[33]


Energy, environment and climate changeUKIP are sceptical of man-made climate change and oppose the creation of wind farms and investment in otherrenewable energy sources. In 2010, UKIP stated that they would seek to have a Royal Commission investigatewhether or not climate change is man-made, to scrap wind farm subsidies, ban the showing of the global warmingfilm An Inconvenient Truth in schools, and ban use of public money by local authorities on climate change-relatedefforts. UKIP's 2013 energy policy document states that global warming is part of a natural cycle: "the slightwarming in the last hundred years is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term natural climate cycles".On Any Questions, Nigel Farage described plans to increase the use of wind energy as "loopy" and said it would leadto Britain being covered "in ugly disgusting ghastly windmills" that would not satisfactorily provide for Britain'senergy needs.Then UKIP spokesman Christopher Monckton said that the intention of a proposed United Nations climate treatywas to "impose a communist world government", and stated that UKIP was the only option for those who disbelievein climate change as "all the major parties have decided to sign up to the eco-fascist agenda".

DefenceIn its 2010 manifesto UKIP proposed a 40 percent increase in defence spending and the purchase of three newaircraft carriers. In January 2014 party leader Farage said that all the party's policies were under review and he wouldnot commit to new ones until after the European elections in May. The party has also pledged to streamline theMinistry of Defence and to oppose foreign military intervention and military aid.

Party leaders

Leader Portrait Tenure Related notes

Alan Sked 19931997

Craig Mackinlay 1997 Acting leader

Michael Holmes, MEP 19972000 MEP from 19992004

Jeffrey Titford, MEP 20002002 MEP from 19992009

Roger Knapman, MEP 20022006 MEP from 20042009

Nigel Farage, MEP 20062009 MEP from 1999

Lord Pearson of Rannoch 20092010

Jeffrey Titford 2010 Acting leader


Nigel Farage, MEP 2010present

RepresentativesMain article: UK Independence Party representation and election results

House of CommonsUKIP has never had an MP elected to the House of Commons, although the party briefly had representation when DrBob Spink, the MP for Castle Point, defected from the Conservative Party to UKIP on 21 April 2008, before leavingUKIP in November 2008 following disagreements with the party on several issues.

House of LordsOn 24 June 1995, UKIP gained its first member of the House of Lords, Lord Grantley, who had joined the party in1993 from the Conservatives and had recently succeeded to his father's titles. However, with the coming House ofLords Act 1999, he decided not to stand for election as a continuing member, and so left the House in November1999. Earlier in 1999, UKIP had gained a second peer in the House of Lords, Richard Thomas Orlando Bridgeman,7th Earl of Bradford, but he too left the House in November 1999 because of the House of Lords Act. The LordPearson of Rannoch and Lord Willoughby de Broke both defected to UKIP on 7 January 2007, giving the party itsfirst representation in the House of Lords since the departure of Lord Grantley and the Earl of Bradford. The LordPearson of Rannoch went on to serve as party leader from November 2009 to September 2010. On 18 September2012, The Lord Stevens of Ludgate joined UKIP, having sat as an Independent Conservative since his expulsionfrom the Conservatives in 2004.

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Northern Ireland AssemblyOn 4 October 2012, UKIP, gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly in David McNarry, MLAfor Strangford, who had been sitting as an independent, following his expulsion from the Ulster Unionist Party.[34]

Welsh Assembly and Scottish ParliamentUKIP do not currently have any representatives in the other devolved nations of Scotland or Wales. UKIP fielded candidates at the Scottish Parliament election on 5 May 2011, when its platform included a commitment to keep the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, while replacing the separately-elected Members of the Scottish Parliament with the Members of the House of Commons elected in Scotland. The party also fielded candidates for the Welsh


Assembly.

European ParliamentIn 1999, three UKIP members were elected to the European Parliament. Together with Eurosceptics from othercountries, they formed a grouping called Europe of Democracies and Diversities (EDD).In 2004, 37 MEPs from the UK, Poland, Denmark and Sweden founded a new European Parliamentary group calledIndependence and Democracy (ID) from the old EDD group. However, following the European Parliament election,2009, when Eurosceptic parties from Denmark, Sweden and elsewhere lost all representation, the ID group wasdissolved.UKIP has since formed a new right-wing grouping called Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) comprisingnationalist, Eurosceptic, conservative and other political factions. This group is more right-wing than the olderIndependence and Democracy grouping.

Current members of the European Parliament

UKIP has 24 members in the European Parliament.

Constituency MEP(s)

East Midlands Roger Helmer, Margot Parker

East of England Patrick O'Flynn, Stuart Agnew, Tim Aker

London Gerard Batten

North East Jonathan Arnott

North West England Paul Nuttall, Louise Bours, Steven Woolfe

Scotland David Coburn

South East England Nigel Farage, Janice Atkinson, Diane James, Ray Finch

South West England William Dartmouth, Julia Reid

Wales Nathan Gill

West Midlands Jill Seymour, James Carver, Bill Etheridge

Yorkshire and the Humber Jane Collins, Amjad Bashir, Mike Hookem

Local governmentThe first UKIP local council election win occurred when one of their members was elected to South CambridgeshireDistrict Council in 2000. A number of Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Labour and Independent local councillors inall four constituent nations of the UK have defected to UKIP over subsequent years, with the most recent defectionsto date (May to July 2013) coming from former Conservative councillors in the London Boroughs of Merton,Richmond upon Thames and Havering, and from Labour in Northampton and North-East Lincolnshire. In the May2012 local elections, UKIP won a total of 7 seats in England out of 2,414 (no change on the previous year), 2 seats inWales out of 1,223 (up 1) and no seats in Scotland out of 1,220 (down 1). It failed to win any seats in the LondonAssembly, coming fifth overall with 4.5% of the vote. In November that year, it failed to win any contests in theEngland and Wales Police and Crime Commissioner elections. In May 2013, 33 English and one Welsh council heldlocal elections, with UKIP gaining 139 seats for a total of 147, with significant gains in Lincolnshire, Norfolk andKent.On 6 May 2011, the party won nine of the seventeen seats for Ramsey Town Council in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Before the election, the party had only one seat in the town council. On 12 May, UKIP councillor Lisa Duffy was elected as Mayor. The UKIP group leader for Huntingdonshire District Council said that the town


council under UKIP would "be standing up for volunteers and the third sector and will be making grants to them tohelp the big society develop." The Daily Mail said that UKIP "has made political history after taking control of itsfirst council in the UK".Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Precise language

Defections and removals

DefectionsFormer television host Robert Kilroy-Silk who was elected as a UKIP MEP for the East Midlands in 2004 quit UKIPin 2005 he said he was ashamed to have joined the party, which he labelled as a "joke". Kilroy-Silk also said "I'membarrassed with its allies in Europe,". At the time, the then UKIP leader Roger Knapman said he would "breakopen the champagne", adding: "It was nice knowing him, now 'goodbye'." Kilroy-Silk would later go on to formVeritasDavid Campbell Bannerman defected from UKIP to the Tories on 24 May 2011. 'He said he had been "impressed"by David Cameron's leadership while UKIP was beset by "internal fighting" and was not a "credible" political force.'On 12 October 2011, Roger Helmer announced that he would resign from the European Parliament at the end of theyear, citing "increasing disillusion with the attitudes of the Conservative Party" as the main reason, althoughadmitting that his "twelve-and-a-half years banging my head against the same brick wall in Brussels is perhaps longenough". It was announced on 2 March 2012 that he had defected from the Conservatives to the United KingdomIndependence Party.Marta Andreasen defected from UKIP to the Conservative Party in February 2013, describing leader Nigel Farage as"a Stalinist" who was "anti-women". Previously Andreasen has called for current UKIP leader Nigel Farage to resignover poor local election results in May 2011.

RemovalsIn March 2010, the UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire was expelled from UKIP after resigning from the EFD grouping,citing her displeasure at what she perceived to be racist and extremist parties that belong to the EFD Group. Sinclairealso cited the deterioration of her relationship with Farage, the co-leader of the EFD group. Sinclaire wassubsequently expelled from UKIP for refusing to be part of the EFD group. She later won a sex discrimination claimagainst her former colleagues, to which UKIP did not lodge a defence, and the ruling went against the party bydefault.Mike Nattrass failed a candidate assessment test in August 2013 and was deselected by the party for the 2014European election.[35] He took the party to court over the decision, but lost. In September 2013 Nattrass resignedfrom UKIP, becoming an Independent MEP in the process. Natrass described Farage's leadership of the party as"totalitarian", following his earlier deselection.[36] He was the fourth UKIP MEP elected in 2009 to leave the party.Godfrey Bloom whilst sitting as a UKIP MEP, and a senior party member made statements that have been describedas "sexist". A few weeks after being appointed to the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights andGender Equality on 20 July 2004, Bloom told an interviewer that, "no self-respecting small businessman with a brainin the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age." After inviting students from the University ofCambridge Women's Rugby Club to Brussels in 2004, Bloom was accused of sexual assault, making "sexist andmisogynistic remarks" and using offensive language during a dinner party. Bloom, who sponsored the club with3,000 a year, admitted making misogynist comments but denied sexual harassment. On 20 September 2013, UKIPwithdrew the party whip from Bloom after he assaulted journalist Michael Crick in the street, threatened a secondreporter, and at the party's conference jokingly referred to his female audience as sluts.[37] Bloom sits as anindependent MEP, but remains a member of UKIP.[38]


Election results

House of Commons

House of Commons of the United Kingdom

Election year # of total votes % of overall vote # of seats won

1997 105,722 0.3% 0

2001 390,563 1.5% 0

2005 603,298 2.2% 0

2010 919,546 3.1% 0

European Parliament

European Parliament

Election year # of total votes % of overall vote # of seats won Rank

1994 155,487 1% 0 8

1999 696,057 6.7% 3 4

2004 2,650,768 16.1% 12 3

2009 2,498,226 16.6% 13 2

2014 4,376,635 27.5% 24 1

Voter baseIn 2011, the British academics Matthew Goodwin, Robert Ford and David Cutts published a study that identifiedEuroscepticism as the main causal factor for voters supporting UKIP, with concern over immigration levels anddistrust of the political establishment also featuring as important motives. The average UKIP voter was 55 years old,which is older than for other parties. There was no correlation between social class and likelihood of voting UKIP,although UKIP voters tended to feel more financially insecure than the average voter. The skilled working class werefound to be slightly overrepresented amongst UKIP voters, and there was a higher likelihood that a UKIP voter hadgrown up in a Conservative-supporting household compared to the average voter.In the same year, a study by Richard Whitaker and Philip Lynch of the University of Leicester based on polling datafrom YouGov concluded that "the balance of attitudinal explanations of UKIP support makes its voters distinct fromthose voting for far right parties". The authors found that voter support for UKIP correlated with concerns about thevalue of immigration, hostility to immigrants and a lack of trust in the political system but the biggest explanatoryfactor for their support of UKIP was Euroscepticism. A further study by the same authors suggests that UKIP voters'core beliefs align very closely to those of the UKIP candidates; particularly so on issues surrounding Europeanintegration, which has resulted in Conservative voters switching to UKIP due to divisions within the Conservativesover this issue.In May 2013, Stephan Shakespeare, the CEO of YouGov, analysed the reasons for the strong support and performance of UKIP in the 2013 local elections. He observed that voter research showed UKIP had "very loyal" followers, with a high proportion of ex-Conservative voters, and that the primary reason for support was a sense by voters that UKIP "seemed to be on the same wavelength" as the population, was perceived as "genuine" and "simply different", and by tapping into the "anti-politics mood" became contrasted strongly with "the others [who] haven't


got a clue about the real world". He concluded that "you just don't get this [perception] with other party leaders, noteven from their supporters". Noting also that 23% of voters reported giving "serious consideration" to voting UKIP,and that non-UKIP voters were "only half as likely to mention immigration or Europe" as existing UKIP voters, healso concluded that these potential voters were "best won" by providing a "broad agenda".Lord Glasman, an adviser to Labour leader Ed Miliband, said that in his opinion Labour voters who defected toUKIP may never return because the party is failing to address concerns on welfare and immigration.[39]

MembershipUKIP's membership numbers increased from 2002 to the time of the 2004 European Parliament election, beforehovering around the 16,000 mark during the late 2000s.[40] By July 2013, the figure grew to 30,000[41] before endingthe year at 32,500.[42] In April 2014, the number was 36,000, by 7 May reached 37,000 and on 19 May, less than afortnight later and only three days before the 2014 European Parliament election, stood at over 38,000.

Parties created by former UKIP membersVeritasVeritas - Latin for "truth" - which has been described as a breakaway party from UKIP, was founded at a pressconference on 2 February 2005, during which Kilroy-Silk proclaimed "unlike the old parties, we shall be honest,open and straight", devoid of the other parties' "lies and spin". There were a number of defections from UKIP to theparty including the UKIP London Assembly member Damian Hockney, who became deputy leader. (DamianHockney and Peter Hulme-Cross had been elected to the London Assembly in June 2004 as UKIP representatives,then switched to Veritas).An Independence from EuropeAn Independence from Europe was set up by the former UKIP MEP Mike Nattrass on 11 November 2013. Nattrasshas said that the celebrity chef Rustie Lee, and a former Welsh minister are amongst his supporters. The party willstand in several constituencies at the 2014 European Parliament elections. An Independence from Europe, which isusing the tagline "UK Independence Now" has drawn complaints from UKIP due to the similarity of the name andthe party's description. Five former UKIP councillors on Lincolnshire County Council have also joined the party.[43]

We Demand a ReferendumWe Demand a Referendum is a British political party launched by the former UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire in June2012.New DealNew Deal, a party, which has been described as "a new left-of-centre antiEU party which hopes to challengeLabour" was founded in September 2013 by UKIP's founder Alan Sked.[44]

One LondonAfter the failure of Veritas, Damian Hockney and Peter Hulme formed One London on 1 September 2005. OneLondon was registered as a party in November 2005 and was de-registered in November 2008.British Freedom Party and Liberty GBFormer UKIP candidate Paul Weston founded the defunct British Freedom Party and later Liberty GB, having leftthe party mainly due to what he described as its failure to address issues around Islam in Britain.


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