UKIP: Talkin' sense until the bitter end

UKIP's summary of their policies relevant to small businesses appeared today. Worth a read, see which bits you like and you don't.*

Meanwhile, a UKIP candidate is in trouble with the BBC for describing Afghans as backward. Well, whoopie-do, that's hardly a minority view, is it? Anyways, UKIP's policy on Afghanistan is withdrawal and I guess them there Afghans would rather suffer mild insults than be carpet bombed. As to 'bombing Iran', maybe those words were ill chosen, but if the Israelis were to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Osirak with fireworks (only a bit further East, obviously), why wouldn't we be cheering them on?

Meanwhile, UKIP's candidate in Medway has said that brothels should be legalised, but, showing that he'd thought this through, "under the condition they were only located in commercial, rather than residential, areas." I'd come to much the same conclusion myself: there's a trade off between a safe journey home for the women who work there (so a taxi rank and/or bus stop nearby would be important, and a built up area is good) as well as anonymity for the paying customers (so siting them in a residential area is a non-starter - the phrase "I'm just popping across the road/to the shops" would take on a whole new meaning).

* Put it this way, I had no input into Section 9.4. Shutting down BERR (or whatever the DTI is called this week) completely, with an annual saving to the taxpayer of over £20 billion might be a simpler solution.