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(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)
In an extraordinary interview with the business publication London Loves Business, the man in charge of UKIP’s economic policy – their shadow chancellor Godfrey Bloom – has admitted that if the party were to win the next election most people in the UK will pay more tax.
Official UKIP policy is to introduce a flat rate of income tax at 31% – although in the interview Bloom says he would prefer a flat rate of 25%.
However, most people in the UK pay the basic income tax rate of 20% – which would mean a massive tax increase of 5%-11% for the people on the lowest incomes under the UKIP proposals.
And obviously a flat rate of tax without the highest brackets would also mean a massive cut in tax for the richest people in the country.
In the interview, Bloom also rather bizarrely says that if the UKIP were put in charge of the UK economy, he ‘hopes’ thousands of people will lose their jobs.
Here’s the exact quote, from the horse’s mouth as it were:
They are public sector jobs, so they are taking money out of the economy and wealth creation. I hope hundreds, thousands of jobs will be lost.
Now I don’t pretend to be any kind of expert on electoral strategy but I would have thought that telling the electorate you ‘hope’ many of them will lose their jobs and pay much more tax if you win an election wouldn’t be much of a vote winner.
The UKIP, however, clearly seem to think otherwise.
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You can read the full interview here:
Meet Godfrey Bloom, the Osborne of UKIP: “I hope thousands of public sector jobs will be lost”
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i wonder if to strengthen the police force they will recruit EDL members as police officers…what a combination G4S EDL police officers…
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G4S EDL sounds like a postcode – what a lottery!
UKIP – left overs from a bygone age of tory quisi-imperialism, scum by another name!
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G4S EDL armed with guns too….that will cut down crime…….also quite a lot of people too..
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i collect examples of idiocy..i just found this one..it was on youtube about hacking group anonymous..
“My opinions on Anonymous have completely changed. giving out EDL leaders personal infomation for standing for what they believe just like you guys. i have lost ALL respect from “anonymous” and these brain washing videos. at least the EDL are taking to the streets in thousands as a result of one of our troops death in the middle of our capital. correct me if im wrong, but at the moment anonymous is just a bunch of hackers claiming war over keyboards. goodbye”
byeeee you twat…..
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UKIPs flat rate tax proposals include National insurance and so don’t represent a tax increase for virtually anyone assuming the personal allowance was set at a reasonable level. I thought this was well known so am surprised Tom has made such a basic mistake. Still it doesn’t matter as they will never be in power.
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I think I’ll get me a lobotomy, then I can be a politician too. Honestly, these people are worse than candidates on The Apprentice.
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Godfrey Bloom is the ultimate swivel-eyed loon. It was he who congratulated the French for blowing up the Greenpeace ship ‘Rainbow Warrior’, an action which killed one of the crew leaving a young girl without a father. He also suggested that environmentalists were committing mass murder because energy prices were making old people freeze to death (never mind profiteering and price-fixing by the energy companies). The man is utterly bonkers. Has he considered that when thousands of public sector workers lose their jobs there will be no-one left to check passports or patrol borders against all those nasty foreign people, and no police or prison officers to deal with them when they arrive?
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@david brigg im having another weird moment as i was talking about rainbow warrior greepaece only today and about the frernch security and in fact all countries false flag security shit..oh well coincidence time again
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They have to increase taxes to make the books balance, since another UKIP policy is a massive increase in expenditure on the Armed Forces as soon as they get back from Afghanistan. There’s no secret – this is not 1930s Germany – it’s all in the manifesto.
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Isn’t it funny how the looney left immediately start to bang on about the EDL whenever their cosy little rainbow coloured world seems under threat by those nasty UKIP supporters?
It’s like watching a hedgehog instinctively curling up into a ball on a main road when a great big juggernaut is hurtling toward it.
The provisional wing of the NUS invariably switch to default mode which involves putting their fingers in their ears and shouting ‘Fascist Nazi Scum’ repeatedly whenever they encounter those who will never agree with them, be they EDL, BNP, UKIP, Tories,or Climate Change Deniers.
The scare tactic truth twisting about UKIP is unlikely to harm their growing support amongst the great unwashed because according to the clean fingernail brigade, anyone who is not a lefty is illiterate, thick and thuggish so they would be unlikely to understand the big words that only lefties know so the debate, or more correctly the stifling of debate, would be over the ordinary mortals head.
Whether the current levels of adult illiteracy much talked about by the left is due to Labours failed education policies coupled with university tuition fees first introduced by Labours David Blunkett in 1998 I wouldn’t like to say, but it’s all a bit too much of a coincidence for my liking.
These ordinary working men and women who fall into the looney left’s category of racist nazi scum are undoubtedly as thick as two short planks with scarcely a brain cell between them, but unfortunately for the looney lefties the aforementioned racist nazi scum are allowed to vote, surprising though that may seem.
The looney left are going to have to try even harder to suppress negativity surrounding unrestricted mass immigration to this country, they will have to be even more vigilant if they hope to continue to try to shift the blame for Islamist terrorist atrocities that will be commited reportedly as a direct result of Britains involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan (I wonder who initiated our armed involvement?………..) and they had better hope that the thicko’s fall for the same old lies next time.
I have a feeling that the lefty loonies are in for a bit of a disappointment………….
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cant help it if EDL complain about muslim hidden faces when they are wearing balaclavas…you gotta laugh….
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btw ”loony lefty’ is so eighties old hat especially when the SUN was banging on about ‘loony lefty” when they knew about savile and wrote…….nothing…..
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i find the word stiffing debate a bit tired as well.
how is expressing a negative opinion of ukip stiffiling debate.
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@nuggy cant remember when i last got stiffed……
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perhaps they will get the troops to invade poland next..been done before..
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Their flat rate tax includes NI and so isn’t a tax increase. Their manifesto commitments re increased spending on defence etc are just a joke, obviously drawn up on a back of an envelope and what you would expect from a party not expecting to be in government ie promise loads of things to get votes, knowing you won’t have to deliver, like the LDs did with student fees/loans.
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I seem to have touched a nerve or two here so I must be doing something right 🙂
The EDL are nothing to do with me, I don’t care whether they wear masks or not or what the looney left think of them if I’m honest.
I’m simply commenting on the looney left’s tendency to try to associate UKIP with the EDL or BNP whenever they comment in the media or online in the forlorn hope that the great unwashed will once again fall for the scare tactics next time around.
This blog site has some classic examples even though many of those using it are anti right wing, it’s as though the looney left have to keep reassuring themselves by chanting the same old mantra at each other.
I never realised that there were fads and fashions when it comes to ripping the piss out of the looney left either. The lefties were out of touch with reality idealistic prats back in the 1980s and they’re out of touch with reality idealistic prats now as far as I’m concerned.
I’ll draw a veil (or niquab if you prefer) over the mis-spelling of the word ‘stifling’ in your various replies and put it down to over excitement rather than the illiteracy that the looney left are so fond of harping on about.
As I have mentioned before, the looney left have always been scared stiff of allowing any debate which would be likely to allow opinions which differ from their own to be aired, this is why whenever UKIP is mentioned in articles the looney left try to bring the EDL into their replies, and if the EDL is mentioned the BNP or UKIP or both are dragged in.
This was once an effective way in which to divert rational argument away from the core subject, be it the unsustainablitiy of uncontrolled mass immigration or the paradox whereby the looney left vehemently support Muslims at any cost to their credibility. All immigrants are regarded by the looney left as victims, when it’s glaringly obvious to even the meanest intelligence that women have no equal rights in Muslim society, homosexuals are likely to be harmed by Muslims and young Muslims are easily indoctrinated into fundamentalism because the Immans and elders in many mosques waste their time discussing endless minor points with regard to the Qu’ran instead of setting good examples for their young to follow.
Multiculturalism, dont you just love it?
The trouble is that the ‘racist nazi scum’ tactic is sort of 80s old hat and getting a bit tired now, and no one who has had enough of being ignored or howled down by one trick pony student types and their friends in the media will fall for it any more.
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as far as i can see nobody on this blog has used those tactics so i cant see what you point is.
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Sadly, this is a brilliant strategy. No-one believes a word politicians say, and everyone knows that once they get into power they do the opposite of what they promised. Farrage is a political genius..
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Aynuck
As long as we still have freedom of speech, I think we the electorate can voice our opinions on any political party, the fact that you refuse to accept criticism shows how dictatorial your party is.
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UKIP are a protest vote, it worked all parties are now looking at what would happen if say 50 UKIP MP’s where would they come from which party. ok we all know it will not happen, Labour fell for the BNP,, spending Millions with it’s keep the BNP out they were never in, now they will spend million on keeping UKIP out…
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where are all of these millions spent to keep ukip out going to come from other than the taxpayer as usual.
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“I’m simply commenting on the looney left’s tendency to try to associate UKIP with the EDL or BNP whenever they comment in the media or online in the forlorn hope that the great unwashed will once again fall for the scare tactics next time around.”
you mean in the similar fashion the current coalition have lumped together the poor, the disabled and the unemployed as scroungers and skivvers and appealed to the ignorant army of right wing wide eyed loons for support of their hateful and discriminatory agendas, policies and removal of human rights and dignity??????????
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for me there is only one debate to be had, and that is the restoration of human rights…ie free access to all VITALS of life!
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we don’t have freedom of speech – if you can remember as far back as Thatcher’s death – and see what the vile right wing press/ media did to anyone who dissented the ‘wonderwoman’ agenda
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you may also consider the case of Bercow v. LOrd******************** recentlyeveryone of twitter is now liable for libel
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What an utterly weak argument and pathetic web site this is – are you all left wing fascists on here or Liberal luvvies.? There are many countries in the world which have flat tax regimes and work perfectly well. There should be no such thing as social engineering and the ridiculous nanny state requires trashing. The whole current political concept is outdated and broken. Your web site is merely stating that it cannot stand change and perpetuates the current political model of an elector making a cross on a piece of paper and having no other say. A false democracy. Shame on you.
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What an utterly weak argument and pathetic web site this is – are you all left wing fascists on here or Liberal luvvies.? There are many countries in the world which have flat tax regimes and work perfectly well. There should be no such thing as social engineering and the ridiculous nanny state requires trashing. The whole current political concept is outdated and broken. Your web site is merely stating that it cannot stand change and perpetuates the current political model of an elector making a cross on a piece of paper and having no other say. A false democracy. Shame on you.
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the root problem is having a fundamental means to support life of human being…and in this case the terror of having no means of support…human need is not fascist…
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@justin thyme you forgot the ‘benefit claimant terrorist ‘ new rhetoric of late..
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@justin thyme but she didnt have a golden lassoo that made people tell the truth..
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@taleah and taking the piss out of fascist thickos isnt allowed by you..thats almost er fascist..
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@taleah you just repeated yourself
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@ Guy Fawkes
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with the electorate or anyone else voicing their opinions on any political party and they are quite free to criticise them all with no complaint from me.
I don’t ‘refuse to accept criticism’, in fact some of it may be justified, but instead of being cowed into silence and submission whenever the same old insult laden clichés are trotted out I respond, and I enjoy holding up to ridicule the rhetoric and abuse that is routinely churned out by the Left in lieu of proper debate or sensible line of argument.
As for ‘my political party being dictatorial’ I don’t actually have a political party.
I’m just an ordinary working class ex HGV driver, I left school at 15 and for most of my life I voted Labour.
I felt somewhat betrayed by New Labour and Blair, not because I was financially worse off because I was not, but mainly because of our intervention in Iraq and now Afghanistan, with no clear aims and no exit strategy for either conflict.
I had higher hopes for Brown who seemed a bit more ‘socialist’ but he thought that people like me are bigots, and after reading various books since he was ousted it appears that he was never suited for leadership.
There has been growing concern amongst ordinary people like myself that the open door policies on immigration and asylum were beginning to impact negatively on us, especially on our sons and daughters who are really struggling to find full time permanent jobs and accommodation.
The fact that no debate or discussion on these hidden policies was ever allowed by any political party has been a contentious issue amongst the working classes, no matter what their ethnicity, for a considerable time.
The savage killing of Lee Rigby has thrown the issues surrounding migrants, multiculturalism and the growing threat from Islamists into sharp relief and although most people like me do not support the EDL or any right wing extremists, we have been interested to hear what Nigel Farage has been saying because we’ve been saying similar things for years but have been howled down as ‘racist’ by the left and by the liberal elitists who are unaffected by mass immigration.
I’m not here to defend UKIP’s policy proposals or UKIP as a political party.
If the best that the left can do however is to compare them and their supporters to EDL extremists, and try to make ordinary people feel like ‘racist nazi scum’ just for expressing concern over too many immigrants and the human rights of criminals being upheld over ours, then they thoroughly deserve to be attacked on the internet at every opportunity.
Their childish rantings have to be challenged and ripped to shreds until they begin to recognise that not everybody agrees with them and the old tried and tested ‘racist’ ‘nazi’ ‘fascist’ slurs no longer resonate.
The left should think of some persuasive arguments to support their point of view because their current stance is merely encouraging the more extreme elements to gain a foothold in peoples minds.
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”the left” i think i may have heard of them once, maybe it was the ”hard left” or the ‘soft left” or the ”medium to hard but slightly soft left.”.its like chocolates – soft on outside but with hard centre..which is where all political parties claim to be..
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monoculturalism is not the answer…we need a social housing revolution…that involves self build, eco villages, and perma-culture…best use of green, cheap, affordable, technologies…that can be exported around the world…we should start to make things again…..9%…that is the total volume of land built on in britain..9%..and even that can and should be made better use of than we do today….being green, is always cheaper, if it is not it is not green…(in resources terms)
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@donkey i’ve got green socks will that help?
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The lost revenue would have to made up elsewhere; probably with a combination of non-progressive taxes like VAT (the tax that hits the poor the hardest) and slashing public services to the bone. Make no mistake; UKIP hate the poor.
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But isn’t it funny that UKIP, the most mainstream and elitist of parties, are considered a protest vote? They’re a break-away faction of the conservative party headed by a public school boy who used to work in the City and whose main political philosophy is based around trying to fill the pockets of his City cronies even further. You can’t get more Establishment than that.
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Haribo Lector doesn’t seem to understand UKIP at all. They are against the mainstream views of the elitist mainstream parties dominated by Oxbridge graduates.
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The few have for centuries exploited and made vast fortunes at the expense of the majority of the population and still do. Many of the poorest in our society would just make more claims on the state to survive if they were taxed more. If the state failed to meet that need what would happen then? Would UKIP let people starve saying that it didn’t approve of the nanny state ? Or would UKIP want to see the food riots which lead to revolutions where desperate people take matters into their own hands.
I think a few UKIP heads might roll, .liberte egalite fraternite.
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