BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE

Day one of the UKIP Conference got off to a fantastic start with an address on how to win elections from the UKIP Mayor of Ramsey Lisa Duffy.

The photo below shows some of those who took seats on their own local authorities during the last local elections and Cllr Peter Reeve explained how UKIP support is growing and getting stronger. That can practically and realistically be built on to get the Party's first seats in Westminster by the time the next general election comes around.



Targeted seats and better training for PPC's are just two of the measures outlined to ensure that seats will be won in Westminster for the first time in the new party of the people's history.

Delegates were also told how poll results show that more young people are attracted to UKIP than the Liblabcon and one 18 year old member of Young Independence Sanya Jeet Thandi explained why she decided to join and become politically active.

"Mahatma Ghandi once said :"Be the change you want to see" and that is why I am here," she said.

"UKIP is appealing to the wider public. I believe the policies are the best out there. UKIP must focus less on the EU because that stance is well known and people out there need to know what else the Party can offer their communities at both local and national level."

Sanya-Jeet spoke with passion and intellect about many issues that older politicians in the main stream have failed to get to grips with . She hit a chord with me, for example, when she said that we are failing to win the war on drugs. The audience cheered and clapped when she said that if elected to Govt, UKIP would seek a Royal Commission to find a rational and realistic approach to the problem.

"The current policies on drugs are just not working and something needs to change," she said.

On Immigration she said that UKIP is too often seen as anti-immigrant but it is in fact pro-controlled immigration and this needed to be more widely known although the message was beginning to get out as more and more people wake up to what UKIP can offer - something very different, based in common sense, and what people want rather than what they are being told to do.



Neil Hamilton went down better with delegates than I expected and he was in fact a very good speaker and his comic touch warmed the audience over to his side. He said he had been a member of UKIP for some years now but only recently "came out" to show his change of political support from the old Tories.

He said Cameroid's false promises and his metal fatigued "Cast Iron Policy" on the EU referendum was like "all fur and no knickers."

He said the Conservatives don't exist in any recognisable form anymore and he was proud to become a UKIP member but the party should not become a Tory alternative and should seek to attract the disaffected from other members of the LibLabCon.



Nigel Farage was his usual passionate self and his members are in awe of him. He spoke about the desire to keep The Union of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland together but the reality must be accepted that "the genie is now out of the bottle with devolution and there is no putting it back."

He said UKIP would now work for a fairer deal for the English and must look at fighting for an English Parliament because too many English people are angry at being made to feel like the poor relation and being made to feel ashamed and embarassed at being English.

"The politicians reel in horror at the idea of pride in being English - and the idea of the cross of St George being flown proudly."

He spoke of all the broken promises by Cameron including the bonfire of the Quangos which never happened.

"If we say we will cut back quangos - we WILL cut back quangos," he said.

Farage also hit the nail on the head when he spoke about Labour's lost support which will never come back, Tories that are not Conservative anymore, and the Lib Dems who gambled their principles to share power.

"There is nothing "liberal" about them," he said. "UKIP is the only party that offers something different - real and proper Libertarianism."

Farage has told me himself that the smoking issue and other lifestyle bullying policies are issues he feels very strongly about and he said at conference that people wanted a Govt who would not tell them what to do.

He echoed what Sanja Jeet said earlier when she spoke of how she was fed up with LibLabCon politicians putting themselves first and not the people they are supposed to serve and represent.

"I want to grow up in a Britain of common sense," she said and many agreed judging by the sound of applause.

Another new UKIP member Alex Singleton, formerly of the Telegraph, later spoke about how buckets of cash are wasted on EU silliness, exclusive diversity jollies, and a host of other projects that appear to come from the depths of insanity while the poor in the third world get poorer.

He said he had recently been commissioned by the Mail to write a blog exclusively on UKIP and the word in the main stream news media was getting out as many realise that when writing about Cameroid sales fall but when writing about UKIP or the desire to be free of the EUSSR they rise and internet comments pour in.

The first day of conference ended with members from Young Independence and other speakers outlining the Party's policies on all sorts of domestic and international issues from membership of the EU to grammar school education, and long term care for the elderly to the abolition of National Insurance, and securing Britain's defence to securing decent and proper housing for those who need it.

* I have to say that the one UKIP policy I am entirely against is the mad plan to bring back the death penalty. There is a fringe issue due to start shortly so I'd better be off to debate why I think that the leaps and bounds taken by the party will force it several steps backwards if it hangs the spectre of execution by the state up for public support.

I honestly believe that most tolerant, freedom loving people don't want to return to this barbarity but they DO want to be sure that justice is done and lifelong sentences until death are imposed for murder with no time off for good behaviour.

ANOTHER RATIONAL VIEW

Is there something in the water? Health professional Dr Helen Evans, director of Nurses for Reform, has come out and said what we smokers have said for years and one can only hope this time someone listens.

Her piece :A bridge too far: why banning tobacco displays means the Coalition is sleep walking into a sea of illicit tobacco, criminality and more smokers

In her words :

Stigmatised, marginalised and treated with no sense of proportionality, British smokers are being reduced to the perilous and irrational status that a number of minorities suffered in Germany around 1934 and 5. Today, 23% of Britain’s are being made to feel guilty for who and what they are and everyone else is being encouraged to ‘un-normalise’ them.

Simultaneously pitied, hated and left out in the cold smokers are the new minority that I believe all health workers should now be protective of. For when a terror starts to strike, it is not good enough to blindly stand by and obey politicians’ orders. While I choose not to be a smoker, I recognise it is time for good people to stand up on the side of common sense, proportionality and basic tolerance. Being a British libertarian who has always hated racism, homophobia and cruelty, I have a keen sense of when things are going too far and when in the name of the public or collective good, persecution is being unacceptably legitimized.

Another great read today comes from Simon Clark over at Politics.co.uk about how Nanny Lansley's stance of blindly supporting the crooks in the anti-smoking industry are losing the NuConservatives core and activist support.

He also mentions other signatories to a letter in the Telegraph who call for an end to "Denormalisation."

Perhaps something happened after that awful tragedy in Japan to turn the tide o hate against us here. Perhaps such events put into perspective what is truly dangerous to hundreds of thousands of people and what is not.

As for Lansley and the NuCons - I have one question. What final solution do you have in mind once you force smokers down to 18.5% in five years and thereafter? I will remain among the smoker minority so what future plans do you have to make the last years of my life hell? I think we smokers and the wider public have a right to know now.

RIP CS - FROM FACEBOOK

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, life isn't always fair, and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place.

Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children

He declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer Panadol, sun lotion or a sticky plaster to a student; but, could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar can sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realise that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by three stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, Someone Else is to Blame, and I'm A Victim.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realised he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

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