So his openning remarks is to essentially say 'the system we currently use for immigration which is points based for anyone outside the EU' and that we'll use the same system of benefits that already exist.

■Banning foreign criminals entering or remaining in Britain
>> Already the law.

■No tax on the minimum wage up to £13,000
>> Interesting but the conseravtives seem to be pursuing something more or less like this as are Labour

■Raising the threshold for paying 40% tax to £55,000 and introduce a new 30% intermediate rate on earnings between £45,300 and £55,000
>> This makes sense to me, but effectively won't make a huge difference in revenue gain.

■Scrapping HS2 rail scheme
>> Will cost a fortune given how far progressed this already is, and that contracts are already in place - Another embarresment for the UK like aircraft carriers without aircraft.

■Scrapping inheritance tax
>> ie removing a tax thats unpopular with the wealthy of the UK.

■Building a 500-bed military hospital
>> Not sure why this is a manifesto requirement - what is more important is changing the NHS to accept medical cases referred from the Military for further treatment, and funding accordingly.

■Bringing in power to sack your MP
>> Absurdly unworkable.

■Ending the transport of live animals for slaughter and CCTV on slaughterhouses
>> Not sure how you transport animals to a slaughter house if they're not live (and massively undermines the chain of quality assurance on meat production for market).

■Increase the transferable tax allowance for married couples to £1,500
>> Why married couples - Changes to allowances should be to all people.

■Ensure big corporations pay their fair share of tax
>> Hahahahhaaha no chance

■Remove VAT from listed building repairs and sanitary products
>> The later, should have been done decades ago, the former is just weirdly specific to about 5% of the population (who just happen to have homes that are listed).

■End immigration for unskilled jobs for a five-year period
>> And who is going to do the work? In theory this is a great idea, the problem is filling the vaccancy as the surplus of unskilled work tends to be in high employment areas. You need to relocate the unemployed to those areas, which is very expensive.

Which considering the 'tax cuts' UKIP are talking about isn't really viable.

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■Banning foreign criminals entering or remaining in Britain
>> Already the law.

Even from the EU? No one seems to be able to share the records anyway.

■Scrapping inheritance tax
>> ie removing a tax thats unpopular with the wealthy of the UK.

You're only saying that on the basis of the threshold being above the average house price. That sort of communist ethos isn't very good for the country.

■Ensure big corporations pay their fair share of tax
>> Hahahahhaaha no chance
Doable to an extent but not without forcing operations out of the UK, much like many of Labour's taxes would do.

■Remove VAT from listed building repairs and sanitary products
>> The later, should have been done decades ago, the former is just weirdly specific to about 5% of the population (who just happen to have homes that are listed).

Agree as long as razors are in the same bracket. Not that I care, but the recent feminist campaign which made the comparison and erroneously claimed that razors were exempt (untrue despite being them classified as an essential item) annoyed me.

■End immigration for unskilled jobs for a five-year period
>> And who is going to do the work? In theory this is a great idea, the problem is filling the vaccancy as the surplus of unskilled work tends to be in high employment areas. You need to relocate the unemployed to those areas, which is very expensive.

Councils are already sending people across the country to areas with more housing. I presume they just pay the new council. Surely a net saving for London boroughs.

To answer your question Jamie I guess any of our own 2 million plus long term unemployed could do this work. All the time we have even one single person in this country who could and wants to work and yet is unemployed and claiming benefits then we should not be letting any additional unskilled workers enter for work. If I or anyone else ran our own businesses like this or the last government did then we would be bust, it’s that simple. When you say "who would do this work?" well these jobs managed to be filled easily enough 10 years ago.
What do you honestly think will happen if we continually keep an open door immigration policy? Our population will go to 70 then 80 million then 90 million within most of our lifetimes. Much of our green belt land will be built over to try (and fail) to keep pace with the housing stock required and wages will carry on stagnating as employers realise that there is a constant readily available pool of cheap labour at their disposal. At the moment this country is bursting at the seams with huge strains on all our services, however we are just about plodding on through, what do you honestly think will happen to this country if the rate of population change that has taken place within the past five years carry’s on over the next 15?
Last year the annual the net migration was three hundred thousand people. That’s three hundred thousand people more entering the country than leaving it which truly is a staggering amount. Imagine three Crawley’s having to be built every year just to keep pace with demand for housing and infrastructure (one Crawley is bad enough!).
You can knock UKIP all you like but I don’t see any other party even admitting to these problems let alone trying to tackle them.
Rant over. Goodnight and God bless.

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Tom.... you forgot to add that the 300,000 immigrants will have children so this figure doubles every 5 years.

Think nearer to a 90 Million UK population in a much shorter timeframe.

Expand please. (I don't mean your waistline )

What I'm sure everyone would agree with is that a 6 week build up is far too long.