LAST WORDS ON CONFERENCE

Ukip members Neil Hamilton, Jamie Corney, and Nick Smith

I really should congratulate our local branch Chairman Nick Smith who was awarded a gold medal at Conference for all his hard work over several years for the party.

Nick knew nothing about it and was shocked to be recognised in this way but it was well deserved due to the fact that he keeps the branch running, he makes sure all our paperwork is in order, and he runs himself ragged trying to get new recruits and sign up candidates to stand in all seats at elections.

His next biggest task is to find 77 people willing stand in the County Council elections and I'm sure he is determined enough to do it.

Even Nigel Farage mentioned Nick's work as a good example of how to run a branch when he gave his closing speech at Conference.

I did take a photo but it was crap (sorry Nick) but this one with Hamilton and UKIP 2010 Sleaford and North Hykeham Candidate Jamie Corney turned out well.

Nick cornered Hamilton and wanted to know why he joined the party - self interest or country? Hamilton, apparently, told him that he had been a secret member of UKIP since 2002 because he realised it was our best hope and his once beloved Tory Party no longer existed. He said he only had the best interests of the country at heart as he has been there and done that already.

Nick wasn't the only one to give Hamilton a hard time but, I'm told, the former Cash for Questions MP came across humble and contrite.

Elsewhere, former Telegraph journalist Alex Singleton has a new blog commissioned by the Daily Mail to write about UKIP.

One of his latest posts is to ask why the BBC, an alleged "impartial" and "independent of Govt" public service broadcaster did a hatchet job on UKIP, lied about the party wanting Farage to resign as leader, and highlighted old infighting that doesn't exist anymore. Never has UKIP been more united or more professional. Shame that the BBC ignored this to feature a biased article based on its own left wing prejudice.

Evidence of UKIP's support for smokers and choice was evident throughout conference including the sale of these lighters - one of which I just had to get.



UPDATE : Farage's closing speech which mentions Nick Smith

SLEAZE v CRIMINALITY IN GOVT

I'm gutted that I can't make this year's UKIP conference at Eastbourne.



Of course if it was true that I am indeed one of one of Big Tobacco's paid "stooges" then I'd be able to go because I'd have an income or a lot of money but at the time when tickets needed to be booked, and a lift was in the offing from my branch Chairman, there was not a sniff of any work in sight and I could not spend one penny on anything that was not essential.



I have come to admire and pin my hopes for a better economic and social future on UKIP. I'm happy to promote what the party stands for and put my head above the parapet to stand as a candidate when and where needed. However, my family must always come first and if money is tight then little jollies like weekend conferences are the first to be struck off the calendar.



Now, as the conference is almost upon us, and some work has started to dribble in, it's too late to change my mind and so I'll wait to hear how it all goes and maybe even buy the conference DVD after the event.



It certainly promises to be a good one as UKIP finally comes of age. The public is beginning to see it is the only alternative to the current state of affairs where people are too scared to speak their minds, our youth is lost and out of control, parents have no idea any more where the boundaries lie and what they should do if their kids cross, and too many are persecuted because they do not buy into the 21st Century healthist religion and repent for their bad lifestyles.



Many former main stream politicians are flooding over to UKIP as they see that Labour has lost its soul, the Conservatives have lost their heart, and the LibDems are plugged into the life support machine switched on by Tories that could fail at any time.



One such crossover is Neil Hamilton who we last saw leaving John Major's Govt in the Cash for Questions affair.



All that sleazy stuff of the former Conservative MPs now seems like a porn star's picnic compared with the utterly sinister and downright criminal workings of the last Govt which simply took the piss and stole cash payers' cash because it could.



I have come to believe that everything that is wrong with this country began when the EU decided that Europe should be a superstate and its citizens should be robbed, lied to, forced to accept alien cultures, and to abandon free thought, free action and free speech.



It is such a huge machine that it has become like the Monster Raving Loony Party making irrelevant and ridiculous laws because it must "do something" about "something" some self interest lobbyists or fake charity deems needs to be done.



Labour gave the UK's rights away to three unelected people and never asked us what we thought. Instead they called us racists because we questioned where this union would take us. The NuConservatives are so scared of not being like Labour that they dare not question whether being in this political union of one leader, one country, one nation is a good thing or not.



Back in 1973 when our parents and grandparents were privileged enough to be given a say, what they wanted was free trade with friends and neighbours to spice life up a bit. My mum wanted to be able to buy the ingredients for spaghetti bolognese at the new local supermarket instead of having to order them specially from the local delicatessen which no longer exists, incidentally.



No one was ever asked about political union. No one was ever asked about the loss of our own Govt's power to make laws. No one knew that one day we would be criminalsed for having a smoke and denormalised for eating a doughnut.



And if we were even allowed to complain about some of the oppression forced upon us then maybe we could grudgingly live with it.



My mind on the EU and UKIP was made up in 2009 when as voters and citizens of the EU we planned to attend the The First Anti-Prohibition Conference in the very Parliament in Brussels that was supposedly ours.



When it was cancelled two days before it was due to start after one phone call from an UNELECTED smoke free officer direct to her pal the EU President, and the whole thing had to be moved to a hotel across the road at the last minute, I knew then that the EU was a dictatorship and free will and free votes were just window dressing.



I am sure the UKIP conference which begins on Thursday September 8 will be a huge success and I wish the delegates all the best. I'm sorry I can't be there but I understand that the Spring Conference next year will be held at Skegness which is practically on my doorstep and so one that I can't fail to miss.

TORIES ARE MAKING THE RIGHT NOISES

Tory leaders have charmed the electorate with refreshing speeches and I must admit that Ken Clarke's address to delegates was brilliant, and inexplicably gave me a nice warm and secure homely feeling.

I particularly loved the bit where he said that historically, Conservatives tend to come in after Labour have been in power for a while and then they have to clean up the financial mess left behind . This time it is only different in that the mess is worse than it's ever been.

I also thought George Osbourne spoke well and , more importantly, straight. I was ecstatic when shadow health ministerAndrew Lansley said that the wasteful health quangos would also go under the Tories, although sadly not fast enough for my liking.

I am however, hugely disappointed that the Tories have said nothing about amending the economically damaging and socially divisive blanket smoking ban but it would appear, at least, that things will not get worse with them at the helm.

Cameron still makes me cringe and in truth, back in 2005, I had hoped that Ken would win the leadership election. I think most older people would plump for Ken as PM but it seems that the younger generation has got a stranglehold over politicians who are falling over themselves to keep the under 40s content.

UKIP will still get my vote because it is the only party that has said it will treat smokers with respect and it will amend the smoking ban.

Personally, I don't think the Tories have much to lose if they make their policy on this issue clear. The general electorate are sick to death of NuLab in so many other ways that the smoking issue is, among the majority, a minor one. Few smokers, however, will support the Conservatives next year if they don't anounce their plans in advance of the election.

So far, they are making the right noises. That has to be welcomed. But they must shout loud and proud in defence of smokers before I, at least, change my mind about where my vote will go.

LIES, FALSEHOODS AND FEAR - THE NULAB CONFERENCE

I thought I might as well add my reactions to the NuLabour conference speeches and happenings for what they are worth from someone who was culturally a Labour supporter because my dad used to tell me that it was the party for the broken the beaten and the damned.

You can imagine my response, therefore, to Gordon Brown's suggested policy of locking up young pregnant mums because he believes them to be children having children. ... and I thought the days of the Magdalene Homes were long gone!

GB said that it was quite wrong for these young pregnant "children" to be given council homes and then left without support. Let me just address that myth. Pregnant teens these days DO NOT get council homes and I know because of having a pregnant teen myself three years ago. The council's view on homeless pregnant teens is quite simple - "live on the streets and we'll have your child off you thank you very much and give it to someone we think is more worthy of being a parent"

I'd also like to add that if I had a pregnant teen, and the jackboot gestapo NuLab jobsworths came to my house to get her and my grandchild, then they would get a lot more than they bargained for and I might just end up in court!

This is all knee-jerk reaction to the Baby P case. These sort of cases are very much in the minority. Most young, skint, unsupported, single mums on benefit do a damn good job but when do they ever get praise? One Baby P case and suddenly they are all potential child abusers. This issue really does need to be put in context.

I wasn't impressed by NuLab's roll of policies which Gordon thinks have improved this country. Most of them he reeled off made me cringe and most of them are the reason I have turned away from the party for good. There is nothing NuLab can do to get my vote back. I am too angry but at least now that the Sun has stabbed NuLab in the back, at least I can get some comfort in knowing that they now know how it feels.

Strange that there was no mention of their pet project to save the lives of miiiiiilllions of people - the blanket smoking ban. For half a second I wondered if it would be among the U Turns Gordon announced but then immediately thought "of course not". Those middle class bunch of twerps are just too sanctimonious and arrogant to even realise what a huge mistake that legislation is.

I did spot quite a lot of people walking about in the background during TV interviews with various politicians who could only be described as "obese" and I wondered why on earth they would support a party that if elected again would probably sign their death warrants if they don't slim down to a perfect 10 - for their own good, of course!

I was hugely disappointed to hear that the Old Labour stalwart Dennis Skinner has also lost his roots. He voted moderately for the blanket smoking ban but when he was approached at the NuLabour conference by the Amendthesmokingban campaigners, and told of the devastation the ban is causing the pub industry, his response was, apparently : "I don't go into pubs". I think this is a view many Nu and Old Lab people have. Now I see that "I'm alright, Jack" has always been their ideology.

Finally, the other issue that came out of conference chilled me to the bone. Was it the Balls person who said BNP teachers should be rooted out of schools, and presumably flogged, beaten, executed, and locked up for not preaching NuLab ideology instead?

Don't get me wrong. I DO NOT support the BNP in any way because of the racist aspect of their party membership, although I do understand where they are coming from in terms of the "indigenous" people of Britain often getting a raw deal. I believe in free speech as long as it doesn't slag people off for who they are or what culture they come from, and I despair that we can't all be united Britons no matter what colour or creed we are. Discrimination is encouraged by this Govt which is too self absorbed to know the true meaning of the word. Blanket Smoking Ban - need I say more?

I think NuLab's fear that our schools are overflowing with BNP activists is rather paranoid in any event. But what really concerns me is that I honestly, and probably naively, believed that we had a law in this country that protected people from losing their jobs because of their political beliefs. What if NuLab gets elected again? Will it make a new law preventing UKIP, or even Conservatives or LibDems from being teachers? The rise in support for the BNP may be a problem but I don't think outing alleged BNP teachers is the way to address it.

The only way to overcome this problem is for the three main parties to get their heads out of their arses and start listening to those white voters who feel abandoned, disenfranchised and discriminated against. Debating with the BNP and showing that party up for what it is will, in my opinion, be the better way of beating it and outing its racist ideology. Silencing the party, or making it's members and supporters feel victimised, will only give credence to the BNP's political stance and make its members martyrs. Better that its views are aired so that people can see exactly why they should not vote BNP now or in the future. If the three main parties play their cards right, there should be no need for the BNP in Britain.