Just had a quick look at the UKIP website, and the closest thing they have to a "policies" section seems to be an "Issues" page which does, in fact, contain some quite concrete, and quite concrete-brained, proposals.
I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise how awful they are, given that every time UKIP is mentioned in local news, other than for its candidates turning out to be fraudsters or other petty criminals, it's for the sheer obnoxiousness of the shit they spout, from the comically maniacal "gays cause flooding" to the sub-Clarksonite "cyclists should pay road tax".
But nonetheless I was shocked by the sheer nastiness and insanity of some stuff which is on there in clear and forthright terms. Two examples:
"- • Immigrants must financially support themselves and their dependents for 5 years. This means private health insurance (except emergency medical care), private education and private housing - they should pay into the pot before they take out of it.
• Proof of private health insurance must be a precondition for immigrants and tourists to enter the UK."
WTF? Is there any other country in the world which refuses entry to tourists on the grounds that they don't have private health cover? Quite apart from the sheer nastiness of it, have they thought through the impact on the UK tourism industry? And is there any other country in the world which refuses access to its state education system to the children of expat workers doing inbound secondments?
These people are seriously fucking round the bend with their nasty nationalist siege mentality idiocy.
I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise how awful they are, given that every time UKIP is mentioned in local news, other than for its candidates turning out to be fraudsters or other petty criminals, it's for the sheer obnoxiousness of the shit they spout, from the comically maniacal "gays cause flooding" to the sub-Clarksonite "cyclists should pay road tax".
But nonetheless I was shocked by the sheer nastiness and insanity of some stuff which is on there in clear and forthright terms. Two examples:
"- • Immigrants must financially support themselves and their dependents for 5 years. This means private health insurance (except emergency medical care), private education and private housing - they should pay into the pot before they take out of it.
• Proof of private health insurance must be a precondition for immigrants and tourists to enter the UK."
WTF? Is there any other country in the world which refuses entry to tourists on the grounds that they don't have private health cover? Quite apart from the sheer nastiness of it, have they thought through the impact on the UK tourism industry? And is there any other country in the world which refuses access to its state education system to the children of expat workers doing inbound secondments?
These people are seriously fucking round the bend with their nasty nationalist siege mentality idiocy.
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