More Support from The Main Parties

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Independence Home has the scoop. Labour Peer Lord Stoddart is supporting UKIP in the European Elections. See the full story HERE

Sky Survey: How You'd Punish Main Parties

More than a third of people would cast a protest vote if an early election was called over the expenses scandal, says an exclusive Sky News poll.
The findings highlight the shattered reputation of British politics - with almost half of voters saying the sleazy revelations had damaged their trust in MPs.

Our e-panel survey of 3,000 people found a staggering 36.4% would vote in anger against the major parties if there was a snap General Election to clean up the Commons.

Some 23.8% said they would vote for a smaller party, and 12.6% would back an independent candidate to vent their fury at the main parties.

Only 39.8% said they would still vote for their favoured party regardless of the scandal.

With Parliament's reputation at its lowest ebb since Oliver Cromwell ordered its dissolution in 1653, according to our survey the British people's disgust with MPs would take a humiliating toll on the popularity of the main political parties - particularly Labour.

Only 11.5% would vote for Gordon Brown's embattled party - an incredible 8.2% less than the anti-EU UK Independence Party, which got nearly a fifth of the vote.

The Conservatives fared around the same as they did in a weekend poll for the Mail on Sunday - with 31%.

The British National Party were at 9.5%, the Lib Dems 8.5%, and the Green Party 7.6%.

Labour Level With UKIP In Euro Election Poll

The ongoing expenses scandal appears to be taking a humiliating toll on the popularity of the main political parties - particularly Labour.

It is now neck and neck with the anti-EU UK Independence Party according to a survey for the Mail on Sunday, with a projected vote share in next month's European elections of just 17% - down six points in a week.

The Conservatives also took the same hit, dropping six points to 30%, while the Liberal Democrats are on 15%.

The True Leader of Britain

Is there a Leader better at defending democracy and the interests of his country than Nigel Farage?

See Nigel speak at the last session of the EU Parliament before June 4th Here

UKIP In the National Media

In more campaign news, the regional campagin launches have already received a massive boost through widespread media coverage with the BBC reporting on every launch that has taken place so far. Here are some of the major broadcast appearances for UKIP that have been confirmed so far:

28th of April - Nigel Farage will be on Radio Liverpool 96.7 at 7.45am

29th of April - Nigel Farage is appearing on the John Gaunt Show on Wednesday at 11am.You can find it on your internet by going to thesun.co.uk/suntalk .Nigel will be talking about Why we have to vote UKIP on June 4th.

May 3 -Godfrey Bloom on BBC Politics Show Yorkshire

May 3 - Gordon Parkin on BBC North East

May 5 - John Whitaker on Radio Five Live from Strasbourg with other MEPs. From either 10-11am or 11-noon.

May 5 - From Strasbourg again Nigel Farage on BBC News 24 and on World TV, times tba

May 7 - UKIP Party Election Broadcast BBC 1 6.55pm , BBC 2 5.55pm , ITV 6.25pm

May 8- Nigel Farage will be appearing on BBC Breakfast time

May 10 - Nigel Farage on Andrew Marr Show

May 12 - UKIP Party Election Broadcast BBC 1 6.55pm , BBC 2 5.55pm , ITV 6.25pm ,Ch 5

May 15 - Nigel Farage on Any Questions from Chichester.

May 21 - Marta Andreason on Question Time from Salisbury.

May 21 - Gerard Batten MEP is debating with Declan Ganley on BBC2 TV Daily Politics

May 28 - Nigel Farage Question Time from London. BBC

May 29 - UKIP Party Election Broadcast BBC 1 6.55pm , BBC 2 5.55pm ,ITV 6.25pm

May 30 - David Campbell Bannerman on BBC East.

More national apperances to be confirmed soon.

Many of our MEPS and lead candidates also have regional tv appearances lined
up. Dates for the local election broadcast will not be announced until after nominations close on May 8.

New Low April Temperature

New Australian continent wide low temperature record set for
April 29th 2009

Minus 13 degrees - the coldest it’s been in April

See the full story HERE

Tories, unreliable as ever on the EU

Now, that's why I just can't trust David Cameron on the European Union. Yesterday he gave a speech meant to warn the British that an incoming Tory government would make so many cuts to spending that it would preside over 'an age of austerity.' This apparently was all meant to sound fierce and determined about cutting costs. Yet if the Tory leader wants to start cutting costs, the obvious first place to look is at the costs the EU imposes on Britain. You have to wonder why he is happy to talk about cutting middle-class tax credits and pensions and the rest, but hesitates to mention cutting EU costs.
How much does membership cost this country? In the Lords last month, Lord Pearson of Rannock quoted figures put together by the TaxPayers' Alliance from official statistics. The figures show that the cost per year to each UK citizen is £2,000 -- that is, £300m a day for the country as a whole, or £120,000m a year. Over at the Open Europe thinktank, researchers have calculated that EU regulation alone between 1998 and 2008 cost the British economy £148.2bn: 'Of the cumulative cost of regulations introduced over the past decade, £106.6bn, or nearly 72%, had its origin in EU regulation.'
I'll believe Cameron is serious about cutting costs when he promises to start untangling Britain from this utterly unnecessary burden of euro-costs.
Meanwhile, William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, inspires no more trust than does Cameron. Yesterday, while his leader was promising cuts, Hague was promising that a Conservative government would hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty -- but only if the treaty had not yet been ratified by all 27 member states.
What a weasel promise, and not least because Hague knows that the Irish and the others who have not yet completed the ratification of the treaty will be bludgeoned into saying 'Yes' months before the next election here.
What Hague is saying is that the freedom of the British people to vote on what is in fact a new Constitution must depend on what the Irish, and the Czechs, and even the German constitutional court, finally decide on Lisbon. If the Tories had any spine they would simply say the British will be allowed a vote to stay in the Lisbon Treaty, or withdraw from it, no matter what any other country decides.

Mary Ellen Synon, Mail Online