Rob's Blog

Unfortunately I am out of the country for two weeks, and since I had very little notice and the inefficient local government requires about a month’s notice before it can arrange anything like proxy or postal voting, I’ll be missing out on my chance to register my distaste for the European project.

The reason you should vote UKIP is simple. The EU is a corrupt bureaucracy that will eventually bring the UK’s economy down to the level of the rest of Europe if left unchecked. It represents yet more centralisation and regulation of our daily lives by ever more distant and unaccountable politicians. Voting UKIP is just a means of protest; I in no way agree with all their policies, especially their immigration policy which I strongly dislike. And UKIP are unlikely to win anything significant. But there is the hope that every UKIP vote will count towards changing the other parties’ stance on Europe – which has to be a good thing.

Too many people I speak to think that the EU has some role in keeping Europe peaceful and in enabling free trade and freedom of movement withing Europe, and therefore must in some way be a good thing. But it’s a combination of the memory of WWII and global communication that makes war in Europe all but impossible, and free trade and migration can equally be achieved via individual treaties between countries; thousands of expense claiming bureaucrats are not necessary for this. If anything, overcentralisation makes war and oppression more likely.

So do me a favour on Thursday – vote UKIP for me because I can’t.

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