Welcome to UKIP
UKIP was founded in 1993, and since its beginning, has campaigned to take Britain out of the European Union.
Read more here: https://www.ukip.org/about-UKIP
It was the efforts of UKIP that forced former Prime Minister David Cameron's hand into holding an In/Out Referendum on 23rd June 2016, and was instrumental in bringing about the largest democratic vote in British history.
UKIP is about more than Brexit though. We have policies on every area of governance, many of which have been "adopted" by the government.
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What We Stand For
A Statement of Principles:
Patriotism
National Democracy
Political Democracy
Economic Democracy
Liberalism & Traditionalism
UKIP’s History
UKIP was founded in September 1993. Its fundamental purpose was to campaign for Britain to leave the European Union and to restore Britain’s former status as an independent, democratic, sovereign nation. Despite the Referendum of 2016 that job is far from done.
UKIP was founded as a democratic party. We have always held true to those principles and we always will.
UKIP is a Patriotic Party
UKIP believes in the United Kingdom and its constituent parts of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We put the interests of the British people first, but we want trade, friendship and co-operation with all the nations of the world. Britain should not restrict itself to economic ties with the European Union. We have always been a global trading nation.
UKIP believes our government should put the interests of the British people first.
National Democracy
Abraham Lincoln’s definition of democracy is the most succinct ever formulated: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”. EU membership has increasingly seen, government of the people, by the EU, for the EU. We exchanged a democratic system of governance for an undemocratic one.
Democracy is only meaningful among a group of people that share a common national or historic identity and accept the same common language, legal system and values: two examples being the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the United States of America.
UKIP would ensure that the UK never again falls under EU power, or that of any other supranational legislative organisation, while of course cooperating with intergovernmental organisations such as NATO, the WTO and the UN.
UKIP believes that the UK should always retain control of its national self-determination, and that it should always be exercised in the interests of the British people.
Political Democracy
Many undemocratic countries had or have the vote, for example the old Soviet Union and today’s Communist China. The vote alone does not ensure democracy. The United Kingdom has a voting system (first-past-thepost) that only works in a two-party system. We now live in a multi-party system. FPTP has become a mechanism to keep Labour and the Tories in Parliament and local councils and to keep emerging parties out.
People’s votes have to mean something or they are worthless. UKIP believes in reform of the voting system to bring about a fairer proportional system. This would make Parliament and government more representative of the people and more answerable to the people.