Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.

Ukip policies are common-sense policies.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient.