When was ukip formed

Get involved and help make Britain a free, fair, and independent nation. UKIP was founded in September Despite the Referendum of 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.

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. 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 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. 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. Which party or parties will they turn to? Who can represent them? UKIP was formed in as a single-issue party dedicated to getting Britain out of the EU and restoring its sovereignty.

While the party experienced some electoral success in the s and early s—particularly in European parliamentary elections—it was not until the election of Nigel Farage as leader in that the party became a significant force in British and European politics. Farage—a somewhat eccentric and capable, if not charismatic, man—moved the party beyond Euroscepticism and into a right-wing populist movement opposing mass immigration particularly from Muslim countries and free trade deals, and espousing mostly traditional values.

These were often working-class people who felt deeply disconnected from the Labour Party, which they felt disdained their patriotism and preferred to take the side of the recent immigrant over the long-established community. Some of these working-class voters began voting Conservative. UKIP, however, offered something different to standard right versus left politics. Combining left-wing opposition to free trade deals, which hurt working class people, and right-wing style language promoting British at times Christian values and opposition to mass immigration, UKIP was a more attractive prospect to some working-class voters than either of the major parties.

In September, he was elected leader with 45 per cent of the vote - 20 per cent ahead of his nearest rival. After exactly three years as leader, Mr Farage resigned to fight the Buckingham seat of Commons Speaker John Bercow at the election, subsequently coming third with 17 per cent of the vote.

During an election day stunt, his campaign plane flipped upside down and nosedived into a field. In August , he triumphed in another leadership election, with more than 60 per cent of the vote. At the European elections, Ukip scored a breathtaking success — becoming the first party in more than a century, other than Labour or the Conservatives, to win the most votes in a UK-wide poll, with It now boasted 24 MEPs. In the autumn, it finally gained representation at Westminster when first Douglas Carswell, and then Mark Reckless, defected from the Conservatives and won by-elections in Clacton and Rochester and Strood, respectively.

At the general election, Ukip won an extraordinary 13 per cent of the vote — beating the Liberal Democrats into fourth place — but was left with only one MP, Mr Carswell.