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They've got a relatively new policy page on their website, so I'll pick a few out, post them and then let you make their mind up. It seems, although only slightly, they may have shifted further Left in order to align themselves with the rest of the political theatre.

I've put the ones I, personally, find to be bad in bold while the good is in italics.

Taxation:
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– UKIP will increase personal allowance to the level of full-time minimum wage earnings (approx Β£13,500 by next election).

– Inheritance tax will be abolished.

– We will introduce a 35p income tax rate between Β£42,285 and Β£55,000, whereupon the 40p rate becomes payable.

– UKIP will set up a Treasury Commission to design a turnover tax to ensure big businesses pay a minimum floor rate of tax as a proportion of their UK turnover.

Government Spending:
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– UKIP will leave the EU and save at least Β£8bn pa in net contributions. 

– UKIP will cut the foreign aid budget by Β£9bn pa, prioritising disaster relief and schemes which provide water and inoculation against preventable diseases.

– UKIP will scrap the HS2 project which is uneconomical and unjustified.

– UKIP will abolish the Department of Energy and Climate Change and scrap green subsidies.

– UKIP will abolish the Department for Culture Media and Sport.

– UKIP will reduce Barnett Formula spending and give devolved parliaments and assemblies further tax powers to compensate.

Education:
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– UKIP will introduce an option for students to take an Apprenticeship Qualification  instead of four non-core GCSEs which can be  continued at A-Level. Students can take up apprenticeships in jobs with certified professionals qualified to grade the progress of the student.

– Subject to academic performance UKIP will remove tuition fees for students taking approved degrees in science, medicine, technology, engineering, maths on the condition that they live, work and pay tax in the UK for five years after the completion of their degrees. 

– UKIP will scrap the target of 50% of school leavers going to university.

– Students from the EU will pay the same student fee rates as International students.

– Existing schools will be allowed to apply to become grammar schools and select according to ability and aptitude. Selection ages will be flexible and determined by the school in consultation with the local authority. 

– Schools will be investigated by OFSTED on the presentation of a petition to the Department for Education signed by 25% of parents or governors.

Military:
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– UKIP will guarantee those who have served in the Armed Forces for a minimum of 12 years a job in the police force, prison service or border force.

– UKIP will change the points system for social housing to give priority to ex-service men and women and those returning from active service.

– A Veterans Department will bring together all veterans services to ensure servicemen and women get the after-service care they deserve.

– Veterans are to receive a Veterans’ Service Card to ensure they are fast tracked for mental health care and services, if needed.

– All entitlements will be extended to servicemen recruited from overseas.

– UKIP supports a National Service Medal for all those who have served in the armed forces.

The National Health Service:
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– We will stop further use of PFI in the NHS and encourage local authorities to buy out their PFI contracts early where this is affordable.

– We will ensure that GPs’ surgeries are open at least one evening per week, where there is demand for it.

– UKIP opposes plans to charge patients for visiting their GP.

–We will ensure that visitors to the UK, and migrants until they have paid NI for five years, have NHS-approved private health insurance as a condition of entry to the UK, saving the NHS Β£2bn pa. UKIP will commit to spending Β£200m of the Β£2bn saving to end hospital car parking charges in England.

– There will be a duty on all health service staff to report low standards of care. 

Immigration:
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– UKIP will leave the EU, and take back control of our borders. Work permits will be permitted to fill skills gaps in the UK jobs market.

– We will extend to EU citizens the existing points-based system for time-limited work permits. Those coming to work in the UK must have a job to go to, must speak English, must have accommodation agreed prior to their arrival, and must have NHS-approved health insurance.

– Migrants will only be eligible for benefits (in work or out of work)  when they have been paying tax and NI for five years and will only be eligible for permanent residence after ten years.

– UKIP will return to the principles of the UN Convention of Refugees which serves to protect the most vulnerable. 

Climate Change:
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– UKIP will repeal the Climate Change Act 2008 which costs the economy Β£18bn a year.

– UKIP supports a diverse energy market including coal, nuclear, shale gas, geo-thermal, tidal, solar, conventional gas and oil.

– We will scrap the Large Combustion Plant Directive and encourage the re-development of British power stations, as well as industrial units providing on-site power generation.

– UKIP supports the development of shale gas with proper safeguards for the local environment. Community Improvement Levy money from the development of shale gas fields will be earmarked for lower council taxes or community projects within the local authority being developed.

– There will be no new subsidies for wind farms and solar arrays.

– UKIP will abolish green taxes and charges in order to reduce fuel bills.

Agriculture and Livestock:
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– By leaving the EU, the UK will leave the Common Agricultural Policy.  Outside the EU UKIP will institute a British Single Farm Payment for farms. 

– UKIP will let the British parliament vote on GM foods.

– UKIP will leave the Common Fisheries Policy and reinstate British territorial waters.

– Foreign trawlers would have to apply for and purchase fishing permits to fish British waters when fish stocks have returned to sustainable levels.

– Food must be labelled to include the country of origin, method of production, method of slaughter, hormones and any genetic additives.

– UKIP will abolish the export of live animals for slaughter

Welfare:
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– UKIP opposes the bedroom tax because it operates unfairly, penalising those who are unable to find alternative accommodation and taking insufficient account of the needs of families and the disabled.

– Child benefit is only to be paid to children permanently resident in the UK and future child benefit to be limited to the first two children only. 

– UKIP will ensure there is an initial presumption of 50/50 shared parenting in child custody matters and grandparents will be given visitation rights.

Transport:
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– UKIP opposes tolls on public roads and will let existing contracts for running toll roads expire.

– UKIP will require foreign vehicles to purchase a Britdisc, before entry to the UK, in order to contribute to the upkeep of UK roads and any lost fuel duty.

– UKIP will ensure that speed cameras are used as a deterrent and not as a revenue raiser for local authorities.

Housing and Planning:
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– UKIP will protect the Green Belt.

– Planning rules in the NPPF will be changed to make it easier to build on brownfield sites instead of greenfield sites.  Central government is to list the nationally available brownfield sites for development and issue low-interest bonds to enable decontamination.

– Houses on brownfield sites will be exempt from Stamp Duty on first sale and VAT relaxed for redevelopment of brownfield sites.

– Planning Permission for large-scale developments can be overturned by a referendum triggered by the signatures of 5% of the District or Borough electors collected within three months.

Law and Order:
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– UKIP will withdraw from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights. 

– UKIP will reverse the government’s opt-in to EU law and justice measures, including the European Arrest Warrant and European Investigation Order. We will replace the EAW with appropriate bi-lateral agreements.

– UKIP will not give prisoners the vote.

– UKIP believes that full sentences should be served and this should be taken into account when criminals are convicted and sentenced in court. Parole should be available for good behaviour on a case-by-case basis, not systematically.

– We will repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a new British Bill of Rights. The interests of law-abiding citizens & victims will always take precedence over those of criminals.


Culture:
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– UKIP recognises and values an overarching, unifying British culture, which is open and inclusive to anyone who wishes to identify with Britain and British values, regardless of their ethnic or religious background.

– Official documents will be published in English and, where appropriate Welsh and Scots Gaelic.

– UKIP will ensure that the law is rigorously enforced in relation  to β€˜cultural’ practices which are illegal in Britain, such as forced marriages, FGM and so-called β€˜honour killings’

– UKIP will amend the smoking ban to give pubs and clubs the choice to open smoking rooms properly ventilated and separated from non-smoking areas.   

– UKIP opposes β€˜plain paper packaging’ for tobacco products and minimum pricing of alcohol.




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Still waiting for the new manifesto to come out but what you posted gives me hope we might finally get a competent government.


 
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I would like you to spread the truth about BNP and Britain First next.


 
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You will find out who you are not a thousand times, before you ever discover who you are. I hope you find peace in yourself and learn to love instead of hate.
Their policies sound great but will they implement them??
No party ever does.


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Their policies sound great but will they implement them??
No party ever does.

Well labour generally gets all its policies through one way or another. Now the fact they are objectively shit is another issue.
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Minus a few issues, they sound quite similar to our Libertarian party.


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Do they support gun ownership?


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Do they support gun ownership?
Not particularly.

They've expressed an interest in repealing the handgun ban, but it's really a non-issue.


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Do they support gun ownership?
AFAIK that's not really a big issue in British politics.


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They've expressed an interest in repealing the handgun ban, but it's really a non-issue.
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Do they support gun ownership?
Not particularly.

They've expressed an interest in repealing the handgun ban, but it's really a non-issue.

Oh lawd pls no.

pls no

no

no.

Turning Bongistan into the USA? Nooooo thank you.


 
 
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Do they support gun ownership?
AFAIK that's not really a big issue in British politics.

Yeah it's not, I would think (and hope) that most people are supportive of the current bans/restrictions on firearms in the UK. All we have to do is watch the news once a month to seem some lunatic shooting up a school/hospital/army base/mall in Clapistan ._.


 
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Do they support gun ownership?
AFAIK that's not really a big issue in British politics.

Yeah it's not, I would think (and hope) that most people are supportive of the current bans/restrictions on firearms in the UK. All we have to do is watch the news once a month to seem some lunatic shooting up a school/hospital/army base/mall in Clapistan ._.
This post is extra funny because "clap" is also slang for the sound a gun makes when you shoot. Hood slang, of course.

Lols