Funny how UKIP policies crumble to dust – like a staked vampire – when exposed to the bright light of publicity.
Latest – and most curious – is the sudden disappearance online of their Victorian views on UK employment rights. By the way, UKIP blame these rights on the European Union rather than giving the British people any credit for having some innate and hard-won sense of justice. I wonder why…
According to the official website of Mr Amjad Bashir, UKIP’s official Small & Medium Business Spokesman, little people (that is, people like you and me) shouldn’t have any employment rights because employment rights ‘stifle expansion’. It seems that UKIP would like workers to be back in the workline on the docks, waiting to see if a days work might be available to them.
On his website Mr Bashir criticised the EU as being responsible for the following “policies which make it impossible to employ”:
1) Maternity leave.
2) Paternity leave.
3) Holiday entitlement.
4) Working time directive.
5) Minimum Wage
6) Flexible working directive.
7) Unfair dismissal (tribunals).
There is too much government. Only massive cuts in taxation and regulation can grow the economy. Government is the problem, not the solution. As a businessman I have seen so many roads blocked to expansion because of the rules and regulations.
That is, until last week, when someone found this gem and it was fairly widely publicised online.
Suddenly UKIP and Mr Bashir realise it is not cool to be upfront with what the UKIP really thinks about UK employment law and his website changes. In the last few days the inflammatory material has mysteriously vanished like the aforementioned staked vampire, in a puff of mephitic dust.
But – UKIP, Mr Bashir -it is difficult to make things disappear on the internet however much you like to rewrite your inconvenient beliefs. Your illiberal policies can still be found on the worldwide web archive , dated no longer ago than 29 April 2014 (last week!) (click here to read Mr Bashir’s archived blog) . We know what you wrote and what you thought then. We know what UKIP thought. So what has changed in this last week?
DON’T YOU WANT US TO KNOW WHAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE UNTIL AFTER WE HAVE VOTED?
Folks, please don’t vote UKIP on 22 May. People like Mr Bashir and the rest of his political party really really don’t have working people’s best interests at heart!
