Perhaps if it turned out the British taxpayer was to help keep Greece (and any others) afloat financially, then there could be a silver lining?

If it helped push us towards a tipping point where we no longer found it acceptable to be slowly, but surely steamrolling ourselves in to eternal political and economic union with the EU, perhaps it would be good for us in the long-term? Of course, people would have to pay such an immediate price that it would be painful, in order to realise this.

Given the immense cost of the European project – financially and politically – it would be a small price to pay for us to wake up and appreciate the value of our freedom and independence.

“Dear Member/Supporter,
UKIP’s Nigel Farage MEP will appear on the BBC’s Daily Politics Show at midday tomorrow (Friday 12th February). The programme will be looking at Nigel Farage’s plan to unseat John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons.
At previous General Elections, the media has downplayed the chances of UKIP winning any seats at all. With the media now taking Nigel Farage’s campaign seriously in Buckingham, it becomes harder for our opponents to dismiss a UKIP vote as a ‘wasted vote’.
UKIP now have our best-ever opportunity to make the breakthrough at Westminster – so why not tune in at midday to see Nigel Farage?
Yours,
Jonathan Arnott (UKIP General Secretary)”

UKIP was founded to ask the great Europe Question it is the only party prepared to talk about the huge elephant in the room.
The real question must be who will blink first? Do they need us more than them?

Perhaps not, but the single currency and erto the whole Euro project is starting to come under immense strain.

Greece is a knats piss away from a default, Spain and Portugal are not far behind and Ireland not far behind them.
I am not sure about the Eastern Euro states suck as Latvia and Lith but they also must be struggling badly.

Are the single currency powerhouses France and Germany going to guarantee a bailout for each of those states?

As yet I am not quite sure how the British taxpayer stands on this and/or our government will guarantee to stand behind the failures. They best bloody not…….

Interesting situation developing if I was a betting man I might be tempted to have a few quid on a nation or two pulling out of the Euro in the next year or so……

If that happens then the great Federal Euro dream must be dead in the water.

As for UKIP offering a referendum, they could offer each person a million quid but it doesn’t mean they have to actually do it.

And since the Lisbon treaty is ratified, I don’t see how they could just pull out of it unless they pulled out of Europe altogether. Would Mr Farage and all the UKIP staff that are being funded on EU expenses be happy with that? Probably not.

The Tories were crystal clear about the referendum. They said they would do it provided the treaty was not ratified. Since it is, there’s no point in holding a referendum unless it’s a referendum on pulling out of Europe completely.

None of the mainstream parties are worth voting for and UKIP does offer a realistic protest vote option.

Liebor have failed the Country miserably in the last few years and the Tories have let us down badly over the Lisbon Treaty referendum, no not let us down betrayed us.

UKIP offer a referendum why cannot call me Dave? He could sow this election up with that one promise so Tory lovers why doesn’t he?

Most if not all of the LD comments and prospective policy are after the event.

Say what you want about what Labour or the Conservative might or should have done in relation to the banks but it’s so easy to say once its all happened, and regardless it was Labour that failed to take action and not the Conservatives!

On income tax its easy to take it out of context. Any party can drop income tax and ram it up elsewhere, and I don’t think it’s fair to say that all things equal the Liberals would drop income tax.