Does Nigel Farage really have no idea what was in Ukip’s 2010 election manifesto? Yesterday, he claimed on the Daily Politics he had never seen or heard of many of the policies the party stood for. But if you take a look at the video above, Farage was one the main speakers when the manifesto was launched in April 2010.
The low-grade staging is again a sign of how far Ukip have come in the last three years, but their message hasn’t changed much. Farage claims:
‘The choice the public has is not about a change of government but a change of management’
Always the outsider, and who offers the solution? Ukip of course:
‘It’s time for some straight talk about who governs Britain.
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