STRAIGHT TALKING
WE now know from the German authorities that one in three so-called “Syrians” are carrying fake documents and passports.
These fake Syrian passports are readily available on the Turkish black market and are being sold at £500 a pop.
I’m sure, like me, you find this frightening.
If you don’t, you should do, because in a few years the German government will start handing these people German passports, which means they can travel around Europe pretty much unchecked.
The reality is that we don’t know who these people really are. So this economic migrant crisis is a dream for ISIS.
The fact that we are allowing hundreds of thousands of people on to our continent unchecked is the real scandal, and it will only take a bomb or an atrocity in one of our cities for the majority of people to see this is the case.
It’s not a case of if but when, and where. “EVERY cloud has a silver lining,” they say.
Except on May 8, the day after the General Election – that certainly didn’t feel the case if you were a member of UKIP.
We had just received four million votes, which amounted to 12 per cent in the polls, and yet only won one seat.
We got more votes than the Lib Dems and the Scottish National Party put together, yet while they came in with more than 60 seats, we got that miserly one in Clacton.
I’d go as far as to call it the biggest electoral outrage in the history of British politics and if this doesn’t tell us that our electoral system is out of date and not fit for purpose then I don’t know what does.
But four months on, it’s clear there was a silver lining in the election result, and that has come in the form of a referendum on our membership of the European Union.
A referendum that would never have happened if it wasn’t for UKIP and the pressure we put on the Prime Minister in 2013 to promise one against his will.
This is the big one for UKIP – the one the party has been waiting for years.
UKIP was formed in 1993 to get us out of the EU and now, finally, the referendum will present that opportunity.
So while some of the political commentators who attended the UKIP conference last weekend wrote about a party that had become “irrelevant”, they couldn’t be further from the truth.
The referendum makes UKIP more relevant than it has ever