UKIP set to admit to being single issue

[AgnesIO]

UKIP is to dedicate its conference to its campaign for Britain to leave the EU ahead of the in/out referendum, leader Nigel Farage has said.


Party members and activists are gathering in Doncaster, with Mr Farage to deliver a speech at noon.


He told the BBC the conference would not be about UKIP - as it is "not my priority" - but winning the referendum.


He added there would be a "surprise" coming together of all anti-EU groups in the country in a "show of unity".


UKIP, which is committed to Britain withdrawing from the European Union, had launched its own No campaign for the referendum, which the government has pledged to hold by 2018.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34352475

So it is strongly thought today that Nigel Farage will basically admit that UKIP really is only a one-issue party, something many of its critics have been suggesting for years. After the so called 'political earthquake' (didn't happen), UKIP's next move is to revert on its position of being a genuine force in British Politics and working on the only issue they actually give a damn about; the EU.

Thoughts?

[FlyingJesus]

Bit of an odd move to openly declare that he isn't interested in the party as a whole and is going to use it and its events to push just one issue. I guess when you've only got 1 MP and it's not you there's no need to worry about silly little things like having genuine policies until 2020 when he can just make up a load of figures again

[-:Undertaker:-]

Ukip is going to focus solely on the referendum at the moment as that is kinda what it was set up for bro. The next General Election is in 2020. I have said before I couldn't care less if the party disappears from the face of the Earth so long as it restores our national sovereignty/independence in the process.

The issue of who makes our laws triumphs over all other issues. It's so so so damn important. Country before party, something the Tories could learn!

[FlyingJesus]

Country before party sure, but it seems to be Farage before country here, first trying to use the electorate (which failed) and now trying to use the party that he's conned people into joining by making big political promises to just focus on one thing that he personally wants to bring about no matter the cost. We've already seen enough of his personal ambition rising above all else when he reneged on stepping down following his big defeat

[-:Undertaker:-]

Farage was apparently offered a safe seat years ago by your lovely Tory Party but he turned it down, rightly understanding that the way to change politics in this country is from the outside and not the inside. He's already forced your Conservatives to offer a referendum which they had to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing so and now he's fighting for something he got into politics for which is an issue he feels passionate about - after having a real job in the real world.

UNLIKE most of the Tory frontbench (who you voted for @FlyingJesus; ) who went into politics as a career choice and not to change anything.

and now trying to use the party that he's conned people into joining by making big political promises

He's not conned anyone. I doubt anyone has joined the United Kingdom Independence Pary only to be later surprised that it strongly wants EU withdrawal. :rolleyes:

[FlyingJesus]

I never suggested that anyone would think that, but he spent a long and loud campaign trying to convince people that that wasn't his only goal (a state of affairs you tried selling us so often yourself) only to turn around and effectively say "cheers for the money and numbers, I'm going to use that and the rest of the party resources on one heavily divisive issue. Never mind that I shouldn't even be here. Auf wiedersehen! Byeeeeee!"

[-:Undertaker:-]

Good that @UKIP return to key policy 'to ensure UK vote to Leave the EU' All who want to leave will work together including Labour voters.

— Kate Hoey (@CatharineHoey) September 25, 2015

I never suggested that anyone would think that, but he spent a long and loud campaign trying to convince people that that wasn't his only goal (a state of affairs you tried selling us so often yourself) only to turn around and effectively say "cheers for the money and numbers, I'm going to use that and the rest of the party resources on one heavily divisive issue. Never mind that I shouldn't even be here. Auf wiedersehen! Byeeeeee!"

Mate, the General Election is now over, it passed in May. It's done. Dead. Buried.

Now there's a referendum campaign to fight which is x100 more important than any London, Welsh, Scottish, NI or Local Elections. Pretty simple.

I'm going to use that and the rest of the party resources on one heavily divisive issue.

a) All party resources held before the GE2015 have been spent. The till is empty.
b) EU withdrawal is hardly a 'divisive' issue within the party itself.

[FlyingJesus]

Now there's a referendum campaign to fight which is x100 more important than any London, Welsh, Scottish, NI or Local Elections

...To a minority of voters

[-:Undertaker:-]

...To a minority of voters

Provide evidence for once, please.

Turnout for the referendum will be higher than any of those elections and is more important on a constitutional level given that important decisions that are taken nationally are affected/simply not allowed by the EU. The question of who governs Britain is more important than regional/local elections by any measure. An example would be that local elections generally only reach turnouts of 20% or lower whereas the Scottish referendum had a turnout of 80%+.

Unless of course you claim that when your bin is collected (an EU policy by the way) is more important than who we let into our country (also EU policy) ....?

[FlyingJesus]

The evidence is in UKIP's massive flop where they failed entirely to gain anything close to the membership and votes that they were expected to get even by the most sceptical of commentators. If everyone was as blinded by a single issue as you and ol' Nige they'd have all voted for him when they had the chance. As it actually happened, a minority of voters were in agreement with you.

btw hilarious that you ask for evidence of an obvious point and then right away leap into conjecture and fortune telling