Would you believe me if I told you that an estimated 90% of UKIP is ex-Conservative? It must be of that order; I’ve only met a few socialists.

The Lindsey oil refinery story, for us, was the final wake-up call; a clarion to the British public that says “Well, we did warn about this and it’s still not too late to change the situation!” Time will tell whether we will hear the “pitter-patter” of feet rushing toward us, but as long as they don’t go to the BNP…! Agreed?

William Hague is a sharply perceptive and thoroughly entertaining Commons performer, with fairly realistic views on the party’s minefield-issue of the E.U. But with the re-appointment of Ken Clarke, your party’s strongly pro-E.U. agenda has been revealed. We, however, are forecasted to ‘clean up’ on June 4th.

We predict more unrest as the realisation of our loss of sovereignty dawns. It’s been happening for years, just not reported.

Dear esteemed ringmeister.

If the voters havent “fully woken up” they are at least starting to smell the sulphurous EUSSR stench of betrayal and tyrrany coming to a regional government near you.

When the contracts are let for :

Runway extensions… Spain
Severn Barrier…certainly not Bob the builder
Anglian Wash Barrier … as above
Nuclear stations … hardly English Gas
Power grid … Eon from france possibly
Broadband England … Deutsche Post
Aircraft carriers …
etc etc

the seething discontent in England will require the activation of the Constitutional Powers Act.

And that saddens me .

Next week we’ll examine ‘what can be done to solve these problems’.

If that leak wasn’t an intelligence job (and bearing in mind the mooted ‘police investigation’/'prosecution’ has gone totally silent I think we can assume that *something* comical went on!) then they are so grotesquely incompetent as to be completely unable to stage a takeover of a country with a population of 60 million. And if it was an intelligence job then its safe to assume that if times get rough and the gloves come off they’ll be propping up the M25 Expansion Project of 2015.

So while they may at worst get an MP or 2 or, better yet, a Euro MP (think about it – if the UK returns a handful of labour and Tory MEPs and the rest as UKIP & BNP, the Europeons may ask *us to leave!) so what? Have that strain of idiocy represented but stop worrying about it! Facists are never going to take over the UK as people here are, at heart, too obstinate, too stubborn and too contrarian to go quietly along that road and if you can’t go quietly, you cant go at all…

In my heart though I disagree with you. I believe in the free market as a means to make us all better off. If this decision by Total had been made at a time of economic prosperity, it would not have made page 30 of The Sun. We are in grave danger of following the lead of President Obama and slipping into a protectionist frame of mind. This will lead us into a deeper and longer recession.

All of the points you have raised over William Hague’s performance are valid, however, William was being true to his beliefs. It may cost us votes, but we still need more people like him.

“LFAT, on this I agree with you. If the contract was put out to tender and the cheapest was chosen, it follows that the workforce was also cheaper”.

Not necessarily. In fact I have yet to see evidence – ie a statement – to confirm that there is any undercutting of British workers’ wages.

WW2 cost the UK £20,500,000,000 (20.5bn, 1940s rates).

So, at a brutal level, is £7bn a year worth it, in saving *trillions* of pounds of our own expenditure and tens of millions of lives at home and on the continent?

*agrees*

The overarching laws..? Not so much…

“how on Earth did so many people think 120% mortgages could work?”

Because everyone else was doing it?

There is no question that in pure financial terms we put in more than we get out (by around £7 billion a year, if memory serves me correctly). In return for that I’d expect something pretty bloody spectacular and I really don’t think that is the case. This incident at the Lindsey oil refinery and the accompanying strikes is merely the voters waking up to what they’ve been signed up to.