Quotes About UKIP

My desperation for UKIP to do well meant that I really packed the diary and the day in a way that, frankly, wasn't very bright.

We have to look at levels of migration. We are in a world that is quite chaotic. Some people are really frightened about it. Some people are quite despairing. They don't believe our country is capable of providing a good quality of life. That feeds into why people voted Ukip and induces a culture of despair.

The fact that the Conservatives are losing voters to UKIP while struggling to attract those who voted for other parties in 2010 suggests they have still not successfully shown what a Conservative government is for. This needs to be done on a broad front in a way that encompasses the economy and public services.

The way to convince people not to vote for Ukip is to make a positive case for voting Conservative.

Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.

If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.

Ukip had undertaken a survey on why people wanted to leave the E.U. or not, and they also had membership data. So we were able to build personas out of that. That was work that would normally be paid for.

Ukip has policies including cutting taxes for the wealthy and putting them up for everyone else, charging people to see their GP, or taking away maternity rights.

UKIP's biggest fight is with the Conservative Party.

The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.

The people who get up earliest in the morning have the highest propensity to vote UKIP. I'm being absolutely serious about that.

People wanted to protest, and Ukip's a conduit for that.

I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.

Quite simply, without UKIP, there would not have been a referendum. I am convinced that the 'we want our country back, we want our borders back' message that we took across the country on an open-top double decker energised non-voters to back Brexit.

Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.

Politics has become so polarised. We're stuck between the Ukip-lite Tories and Jeremy Corbyn. How is that a choice?

UKIP talk a lot about immigration - but they don't have a serious plan for action.

UKIP believe that immigration can be an extremely positive thing. But it has to be controlled.

There is a debate in Ukip as to how strong we should be on the immigration issue. I personally think we should own it.

I can't take UKIP seriously. I should, I must, it's our duty to take them seriously, because they're coming out with some really heinous old crap about immigration.

UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.

UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party.