Thinking UKIP? Think again

As you may know some polls are suggesting that The United Kingdom Independence Party are set to gain in the European Elections on Thursday, with added "protest" support from the "expenses scandal" that has rocked British Politics to the core recently.

But I really don't understand why.

Maybe people can't remember that Nigel Farage MEP the leader of UKIP pictured above, claimed £2million pounds in expenses, that being top of his £64,000 salary. Or that 2 of the 12 MEPs that UKIP won in 2004 where charged with fraud - and another member fell out with the party. Or even that 5 of the ten least efficient UK MEPs belong to UKIP. And to top it all of the Party has been involved in hundreds of controversies in their short history. Or that Nigel Farage was infamously the only MEP to refused to applauded Prince Charles' talk in the EU Parliament on fighting climate change. Even the Euro-sceptic "think tank" Open Europe has called UKIP the worst UK party in Parliament - with the Greens coming out the best.

Now surely that's even worse than MPs claiming for Duck Houses and Church Donations. So why are people planning on voting for them?

The only decency they have is their opposition to the anti-democratic nature of the EU. But please, don't be fooled; the Greens, the Lib Dems, the new Libertas, heck even the Conservatives have campaigned for more EU democracy.

And so with that the Green Party have published a brilliant new report, titled Thinking of voting for UKIP? Think again, that exposes UKIP. Here's just a few priceless highlights, and really I recommend you read the full report, it's only a few pages long;

...Pollution knows no boundaries. Yet UKIP oppose, for instance, the banning of harmful pesticides and weed-killers...

..UKIP repeatedly claims that the EU costs Britain £41 million a day. But they never mention that we get £18 million a day of that back...

...they (UKIP) persist in peddling the idea that there is still no solid scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions from humankind’s activities are leading to dangerous levels of global warming...

... UKIP MEPs go on claiming attendance allowances for attending a body they regard as a sham. Simultaneously, UKIP have opposed closer scrutiny of MEP expenses and refuse to reveal their own...

Report here [PDF]

Simply we don't want a bunch of fraudulent, Climate change deniers representing us in a Parliament they so militantly oppose.

So, with some polls predicting UKIP beating Labour into second place on Thursday we need to ask ourselfs; Are UKIP better than the current politicians? Do they offer any answers? Have they made any progress? Are they a party for the future? Simply the answer to all these questions in no.

But if you so militantly believe the EU is not reformable and the only solution is for the UK to leave, then please, don't waste your vote on UKIP - vote for NO2EU instead.

And if you do believe in reform, progress, democracy, Human rights, and securing a future on this earth - then join me and

Vote Green.