UKIP

Students gathered on Thursday evening at the Keighton Auditorium for The Big Debate, organised by URN and The Politics Society. All of Nottingham South’s general elections candidates debated questions sent in from students as well as points from the floor. The candidates were: Lillian Greenwood MP for Labour and...

Some anti-immigration parties might be in for a shock this week when they discover that UK citizens are claiming more unemployment benefits in some European countries, than those countries’ citizens are claiming in the UK. It exposes the harsh truth that Britain can be a bit of an immigration...

Today, the world is witnessing the greatest refugee crisis since WW2. War, persecution and poverty are rife, causing people to flee from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Migrants sacrifice everything to make arduous journeys in the hope of seeking refuge in a “civilised” Europe. They might have paid...

UKIP often attracts negative media coverage, and, equally often, this is for sound reasons. With the ex-Radio 1 DJ Mike Read eventually apologising over his calypso song, which was sung in a fake Caribbean accent and mocked ‘illegal immigrants in every town’, the issue of UKIPs bigotry does not...

Douglas Carswell MP, riding high on securing 60% of the vote in the recent Clacton-on-Sea by-election, has boldly claimed that UKIP has ‘nothing that we cannot achieve’. Echoing the sentiments of the famous medieval heretic John Wycliffe, ‘Government of the people, by the people, for the people’, Carswell clearly...

The Conservatives have recently announced plans to scrap the Human Rights Act, and could leave the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) in an attempt to give Parliament and British courts more powers over our human rights. This move would ostensibly also stop British laws from being overruled by...

It’s the buildup to the 2015 general election and Big Questions are beginning to fly around. For me, one which particularly needs answering is this – why on earth has Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP, been given a place to speak at the televised leaders debates before next...