Election leaflets - UKIP

Which came first the BNP or the UKIP design? They're both quite primary with UKIP going for a magenta and yellow design. "SAY NO" on the front with the O being made up of the EU star circle, yawn.

A picture of Churchill with an incorrect V finger salute palm forward also means screwing their layout by splitting their Say No list to one above his head and three by his arm. So "... to the UK paying £40 million a day.", "... to unlimited migration into the UK.", "... to EU control of our lives.", and "... to 'no say'.". All scary thoughts except that last one which I found a little esoteric say no to no say my head hurts.

Vote UKIP and call free on 0800... blah.

Inside "Help UKIP MEPs Say No" how many standing in the West Midlands um I don't know yet. Okay "Out of Work" "Over two million migrants have arrived in Britain since 1997. Today there are 2 million unemployed in out country" oo see what they did there; making you think that either all those migrants are unemployed or that if those migrants hadn't turned up we wouldn't have that many unemployed.

"Ripped Off" Apparently the EU costs Britain more than £40m a day; now is that Net or simply what we pay without taking into consideration what we get back?

"Over ruled!" Three-quarters of Britain's laws are imposed by Brussels? Actually they're not they have to be implemented via British law in Parliament; oh sure we'll get fined if they aren't, but they're not "imposed"

"Say No to No say" yes the confusing one "No one under the age of 52 has been given a say on EU membership" literally true except no one over the age of 52 has been given a say on "EU membership" either. The 1975 referendum was whether we should stay in the, now defunct, EEC. The EEC was an economic union, the EU is an economic and political union. Either UKIP don't know or understand this, or they're deliberately confusing the matter.

Right a page of text. UKIP like proportional representation, possibly because it's the only way they get voted in. They've voted against this that and the other. Kind of ironic to have to be in the organisation you want to leave.

Back page is a little confusing - headed with "your local candidates" we get one profile for Mike Nattrass, then a rephrased repeat of the front page No's then some quotes from people whom I assume are not our local candidates; which means we have one "local candidates"

[Update - Wow that's a bad layout the quotes from the other people are in fact the other candidates]

Basically like the BNP UKIP is a one-issue party; sure it means they can concentrate on that, but as we've discovered locally (having our own local one-issue party) it can mean they're a bit blinkered and that other important issues can bleed off to the side and be ignored.