Voting Ukip is a state of mind, according to Nigel Farage. At his first major speech of 2015, and the campaign, in Canvey Island, Essex, Farage set out his stall for the election with the slogan ‘Believe in Britain’ — following on from his article in today’s Telegraph. He hit out at the ‘endlessly negative’ and ‘boring’ campaigns from the other political parties and promised to do things differently — especially now that he believes Labour and the Conservatives live in ‘fear’ of Ukip.
There were few details in the speech of what Ukip’s manifesto will contain, just general themes: Ukip are the only party ‘redefining capitalism’ against the ‘corporatism’ of big government and big business (ignoring the fact that Ed Miliband has already tried something similar). Farage went on to claim that Ukip are becoming the true opposition party across the country ‘from Birmingham to Hadrian’s Wall’ in areas the Tories have long abandoned to Labour.
Ukip’s campaign launch at the Movie Starr in Canvey Island, Essex.
On today’s big news story of Miliband vs Fink, Farage said that he wasn’t too concerned about tax avoidance because most people ‘do it for their children’ and promised to scrap inheritance tax.
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