Clarification

Oooh, some of you lot get a bit hissy when the word “right” is banded around, don’t you? I used the term “far-right” in respect of the three parties which are not the Conservative Party. I suppose I could have used “further-right”. But for those of you, like Old Slaughter, twitching uncomfortably at UKIP being bracketed with the BNP, here are those policy details on which they agree, from their most recent manifestos and policy statements:

Leave the EU
Leave Schengen
Release UK businesses from “120,000” European laws.
Immediate freeze on immigration
Expel Islamic extremists
Kick out immigrant miscreants
Get rid of the Human Rights Act
Ban the burqa and niqab from public places
Zero tolerance on crime
Reform judicial system in favour of victims
Build more prisons
Make prison sentences longer
Withdraw from Afghanistan
Cut overseas aid
Boost defence spending
Pay the armed forces more
Keep our nuclear deterrent
Emphasis on three “Rs” in schools
Teach “Britishness” in schools
End doctrine of multiculturalism
Reform the welfare system
Raise pensions
Banish political correctness
Abandon the Common Fisheries Policy
Better deal for small farmers.
Lower taxes

But yes, other than that, they’re chalk and cheese.