UKIP Policies Debate

UKIP Policies Debate

According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election: 9.1 While our climate may currently be changing, this has happened in the past. Greenland was covered by forest that supported butterflies less than 1 million years ago. A mere 10,000 years [...]

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According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election: Despite all international disarmament efforts, more and more nations are acquiring nuclear weapons and associated missiles. Currently the nuclear powers are USA, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, with Iran and [...]

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According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election: UKIP would introduce ‘Direct Democracy’ whereby a fixed proportion of the electorate, depending on the nature of the constituency (and normally 5%), sign a petition demanding a referendum on any major issue [...]

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According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election: 5.1 UKIP believes that our resources will be better managed, and our environment more wisely protected and enhanced, when ownership and responsibility (individual, corporate and/or state) are clearly defined and controlled within [...]

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According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election: UKIP will work to: 1) Ensure that parents remain responsible for the upbringing and education of their children within or without formal schooling. 2) Fight against current and proposed policies and legislation [...]

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According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election: The Eurofighter (now designated ‘Typhoon’) – The very large purchase of Eurofighters was conceived for the Cold War, and continued for industrial reasons. However they have been bought and are good aeroplanes, [...]

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According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election: Substantially increase compensation for serious injuries for those injured serving their country . Restore Crown immunity for all armed forces, scrap the Human Rights Act and not hold individuals responsible for collective [...]

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According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election: EU membership and the Human Rights Act. UKIP believes that only through EU withdrawal and the repeal of the Human Rights Act, with its Continental model of States granting rights rather than [...]

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