EU hands UKIP a win at Rochester.

The UK's right wing UKIP,-UK independence Party, have been handed a massive gift in the form of the EU's demand that the country pays in an additional and unbudgeted £1.7 billion into its coffers for, along with a number of countries including laughably Italy and Greece, outperforming the EU norms.

To add fuel to the fire the biggest beneficiaries are France and Germany, the two core countries for whose peace and security (ie to keep them from each others' throats) and benefit the "European Project "was originally dreamed up.

 In comparaison the largest contributor, the UK, which has taken the pain of so called austerity (actually nothing of the kind and not enough) and  has the most liberalised and open trading policies in Europe along with the least regulated and most flexible labour policies, has taken the hit.

What a bonus for UKIP. The timing of the EU's demand is just right for Nigel Farage's party and their merry men down the pub.

It's just the right time for the EU heavies and armies of  Eurocrats too. It couldn't be better.

For Mr Junker and his fellow superstate federalists the prospect of a few right wing anti-EU MPs in the British parliament doesn't matter in the slightest.

The big prize which will bring one of those smiles to Brussels faces is that a Rochester win for UKIP will strengthen the party at a crucial moment. It will not just help them to win maybe eight seats in the May 2015 General Election but much more importantly it will help boost the UKIP votes in a large number of  the more conservative Conservative seats. Those are predominantly the ones with an older age profile and where dreams of golden ages that never were flourish and abound. The maths of all this could ensure that with the right of centre vote split even where it has a clear combined majority, enough seats will be lost to a lower polling Labour party to give the leaders of the left a clear overall majority.

For Brussels it's a dream result. It would mean the end of David Cameron, his referendum and the threat of the UK leaving their socialist dominated authoritarian and financially incontinent club. In his place would come a supine Ed Milliband- led left wing government willing to go along with the rest for the sake of not rocking any boats and being one of the commune. Labour would not even have to go into a coalition with the hand wringing illiberal LibDems .What could be better for the advance of the unreformed, undemocratic Franco/German bloc?

 In reality it's a nightmare for Britain.

From their own point of view, the EU machine could not have timed their demand for more cash better. 

Scotland,- just when you thought it was all settled.....it's business as usual in the SNP.

The confirmation of Nicola Sturgeon as the new leader of the Scottish National Party came as no surprise.

Nobody stood against her.

Nor should it be any surprise that her appointment brought an abrupt end to and southern,- ie English,- notion that the independence referendum had settled that little matter for "at least a generation".

As a democrat in the true EU, -for that is who Scotland seeks to bow to rather than the lot in England,-mould, Ms Sturgeon's theme is that having got the wrong answer on this occasion it's only a matter of time until the electorate is invited to vote again and this time get it right. Right that is for her party who only won in the heavily populated but geographically tiny Glasgow, western Clyde-Forth Valley and Dundee enclaves. 

This time she is up and running with the theme that if the wicked English don't  unconditionally deliver whatever she interprets as them, under the ad hoc default leadership of the Scottish giveaway maestro Gordon Brown, having promised in the chaotic runup to referendum day, there is a real prospect of a unilateral declaration of independence.

This wasn't a good start for Scotland or anyone else. She is saying that if a party (SNP) were to declare in its manifesto that independence is their objective, then win that election and then hold another referendum, that's it, the deed is done. Presumably she is talking about the Scottish parliament here. She fails to understand that this august body has no more power to declare independence from the United Kingdom than does the smallest Parish Council. It is simply not in the list of devolved powers. Apart from anything else the lady has some reading to do. If she's no time for that she could just ask a first year Scottish university law student for guidance on this constitutional point. 

Clearly Ms Sturgeon's offering to the people of Scotland is aggravation as before. She and her party don't love the English and never will but to obsessively persue the separatist goal is debilitating to both Scotland and the larger entity of which it is part. If  the SNP were to get on with the business of using the extensive powers the country already has to make it a glittering example of the socialist paradise it promises, the nationalists might have a better chance of persuading those who voted "No"that there might be something in "Yes" after all. Until then...................

Where are we this wet Monday afternoon?

Not in a very good place.

Ebola, ISIS, UKIP,-What's there not to fear? Hysteria surrounds the first and last of those. "We will check the travel history of arriving passengers" says some government spokesperson. Oh yes? Have they ever seen the Immigration queues at airports on a good day never mind a bad Sunday evening with hundreds of stags and hens lurching over the place and now shrieking "I've got ebola" to add to the fun. Even the organisers of the checks say they won't achieve anything except that "they will raise awareness of the symptoms". As many of these closely resemble influenza expect some fun. Sneeze or a train or bus and you will be out the window.

ISIS: This band of appalling sadisitic thugs who loathe all other people, especially women unless they come posthumously in the form of 72 virgins and who would disgrace the SS, continue to do well on the Turkish border at Kobane where the Turk army and massacre tourists are amassed to watch the final wipeout .They are close to Baghdad too.Thankyou Tone.

UKIP. OK, the big 2 parties have earned a kick in the rear for having no vision, no plan with which to enthuse voters and instead setting out their stalls in terms of who is going to chuck the most money into the clinically often excellent but otherwise bloated, over managed, inefficient, dysfunctional and too often non patient orientated NHS. They also continue to demonstrate a continuing lack of  real consciousness of anywhere north of Hampsted or Islington while their leaders are visibly incapable of normal human interaction outside their immediate circles. To register disapproval of all this it's fine to vote UKIP in the current round of by-elections.To ever believe that this negative, backward looking, anti many things and pro very little bunch could be the answer to anything is a huge mistake.

FORECAST FOR NEXT MAY.

Ebola forgotten. ISIS in Syria crushed by the Turks once they've done Turkey the favour of wiping out the Kurds who want their own state partly on a bit of Turkey. Labour/LibDem (if there are any left) or Tory/UKIP coalition unless UKIP have undermined more Tory than Labour majorities, so letting in Labour with an absolute majority, leaving Ed as our Dear Leader.

Talking of Dear Leaders, where is he of North Korea? In bed with bad ankles eating Swiss cheese or in the big Dictatorship,- otherwise known as Democratic Socialist Paradise,- In The Sky with his deceased uncle and others previously personally selected by him? That at least would be some belated justice.

LibDems freed from Glasgow,-or are they still there?

You have to feel sorry for attendees at the LibDem conference in Glasgow. Not only had they been incarcerated since Saturday,- a long time ago,- but on finally leaving they were faced with an awful dilemma.

Not the choice of which of their future coalition partners to be rudest to and about. Much worse than that.

Fresh from just having voted to hobble further growth of Britain's thriving aviation sector by rejecting any ideas of further runways, and being almost religiously opposed to emissions  of any kind (difficult on a lentil and beans diet) they had to get home without polluting the environment. Flying was obviously out. That left the trains. But some of those use planet choking diesel and the others electricity made from all sorts of things transported across the world to avoid it actually being Britain who chucks nasties out into the atmosphere.Coaches? Yes, OK for some but they do take a long time to reach the deep south. That left the most inefficient polluters of all,- cars.

We really don't know the answer. Nick and friends were seen heading north in a (standard class) train so maybe they returned to inside the M25 comfort zone the same way. The rest? If anyone sees forlorn figures standing by the exits of M74 and M6 service stations clutching bundles of conference goodies, do give them a cheery wave.Extra weight in the car means more pollution. Sorry folks.

Footnote: Among LibDems demands of a future coalition bedmate is that they should be allocated a couple of LibDem only ministries to do more or less what they want with. The ones they are said to want are Transport and Business. May all deities preserve us.