Hi,
I am just wondering if UKIP get in if they will abolish the DCPC; not that they will be elected.
There is zero chance of ukip getting into a position of any power in this country. They are a one trick pony at best, preying on the fears of the ill informed. They may do well in the European elections but, given the way they vote, I wouldn’t bank on them getting any seats in parliament any time soon.
Recently their MEPs have voted against safer trucks on the road as well as voting against tighter regulation of ivory movements.
They don’t give a toss about us anymore than any other party does.
Andyroo:
They don’t give a toss about us anymore than any other party does.
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If UKIP where to get elected, they’d be in the pocket of the major corporations like the present Goverment and the one before and before that and so on. So any that benefits the average person will be crumbs from the top table and only allowed because those with the real power allow it, either because it helps them or to keep us lowly citizens in line.
And as Norway have DCPC training and both Norway and Switzerland are requiring their drivers to have a DQC, not being in the EU is no guarantee of some regulation free utopia for truck drivers.
Qualifications are fine, provided they are meaningful.
I’m sure that point has been well made on here about a hundred times before though.
Andyroo:
Qualifications are fine, provided they are meaningful.
…& fully paid for by the employer…
Slackbladder:
Recently their MEPs have voted against safer trucks on the road
Do you have a link for this?
Pimpdaddy:
Andyroo:
Qualifications are fine, provided they are meaningful.…& fully paid for by the employer…
What if you don’t have one, will they pay for it? 
truckerjim:
Hi,I am just wondering if UKIP get in if they will abolish the DCPC; not that they will be elected.
Yeh. Just replace the DCPC with “having to hold a current UK driving license obtained by passing a test over here”.
It’s absurd that we all have to periodically “be taught our own jobs again” when someone can come over here from abroad, and not even have to pass an exam in English before being given full “grandfather rights” to drive on our roads, often without any import duties and taxation of the shoddy vehicles they bring in with them. 
Is there a local ward currently not represented by UKIP where I can stand? 
Slackbladder ukip and meps? Thought they didn’t want anything to do with Europe? 
Slackbladder:
There is zero chance of ukip getting into a position of any power in this country. They are a one trick pony at best, preying on the fears of the ill informed.
Thank goodness for that! I was beginning to feel like the only person on here who could see that.
This may amuse you … thedailymash.co.uk/politics/ … 4042485951
Rhythm Thief:
Slackbladder:
There is zero chance of ukip getting into a position of any power in this country. They are a one trick pony at best, preying on the fears of the ill informed.
Thank goodness for that! I was beginning to feel like the only person on here who could see that.
No your not the only one,although UDIK should have rich pickings
on here judging by some of the posts.
Meanwhile in other news.
Millions of working turkeys voted for their very own Christmas, yet again, tribally just like they have done all their lives, unable to see outside their own box, unable to think for themselves, and, amazingly to their great shock, yet again, they get slaughtered every single time without fail.
UKIP arn’t to blame for the country being swamped in people, with all the problems that entails, nor for the state of the nation, the three cheeks of the same arse party have led what was once fully independent trading islands into the toilet, they didn’t do it alone, millions of turkeys gave them their blessing every five years to do their worse.
Lunacy reigns here, people keep electing the same traitors, and expect them to behave differently to all the times they voted for them before.
Get out there next year and do as your told, you know it makes sense, trust me and my cast iron guarantee, look how well the economy is doing and all my newspaper editor chums and their paid lackeys endorse me and the other two cheeks, my chancellor sports his Y Fronts outside his tights, we’re all in this together you know.
Anyone looked at the national debt figures recently, still rising, heads in sand lads.
We as a country couldn’t possibly go it alone, me and my mates who have never done a days proper work in our lives know this, we learned the hard way at the Bullingdon club you know, being forced to swig all that Krug was diabolical torture, far worse than ■■■■■■■ at Eton.
Don’t listen to that swivel eyed loon Farage, that cad actually worked for a living, he could almost be working class and that will never do, there’s only one left in parliament now who’s real working class, the honourable Dennis Skinner, and when he’s gone there won’t be any more because they don’t turn the hymnsheet page when we tell them to, only drones from now on.
Here is a brief account of what they get up to over there in our name. Interesting last paragraph for those thinking of voting for them. Careful what you wish for.
More MEPs from the UK than any other country voted on Tuesday against adopting new rules on lorry design partly aimed at making them safer for cyclists and pedestrians, road.cc can reveal. Among the 12 were UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage and his counterpart at the British National Party (BNP), Nick Griffin.
The new regulations, which were adopted overwhelmingly by the European Parliament which voted 606 to 54 to adopt them, with 12 abstentions, have been welcomed by cycling organisations and road safety campaigners alike, as we reported yesterday.
Half of the UK MEPs voting against the amendments to an existing directive regarding the length and weight of lorries belong to UKIP, which according to the latest polls is set to beat the Conservative Party into third place in next month’s European elections.
The party is likely to significantly improve on its 2009 result, when it secured 16.6 per cent of the vote, giving it 13 MEPs in Strasbourg, although six have since resigned, most recently Godfrey Bloom in September last year.
According to the independent website VoteWatch Europe, joining Farage in voting against adopting the revised rules on Tuesday were five of the six other remaining UKIP MEPs, John Agnew, Gerard Batten, Derek Clark, William Earl of Dartmouth and Roger Helmer.
Former UKIP MEPs now sitting as independents who also voted “no” were Trevor Colman, Mike Nattrass and Nikki Sinclaire. Diane Dodds, from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, also opposed it, as did the BNP’s Griffin.
The Conservative Marina Yannakoudakis voted against the amendment but subsequently entered an official note to say that she had actually intended to abstain.
Curiously, UKIP heads to next month’s local and European elections without a manifesto after Farage, speaking to London radio station LBC in January last year, denounced the one produced for the 2010 general election as “drivel.” He said a new manifesto would be drawn up after the European elections.
Juddian:
Meanwhile in other news.Millions of working turkeys voted for their very own Christmas, yet again, tribally just like they have done all their lives, unable to see outside their own box, unable to think for themselves, and, amazingly to their great shock, yet again, they get slaughtered every single time without fail.
UKIP arn’t to blame for the country being swamped in people, with all the problems that entails, nor for the state of the nation, the three cheeks of the same arse party have led what was once fully independent trading islands into the toilet, they didn’t do it alone, millions of turkeys gave them their blessing every five years to do their worse.
Lunacy reigns here, people keep electing the same traitors, and expect them to behave differently to all the times they voted for them before.
Get out there next year and do as your told, you know it makes sense, trust me and my cast iron guarantee, look how well the economy is doing and all my newspaper editor chums and their paid lackeys endorse me and the other two cheeks, my chancellor sports his Y Fronts outside his tights, we’re all in this together you know.
Anyone looked at the national debt figures recently, still rising, heads in sand lads.
We as a country couldn’t possibly go it alone, me and my mates who have never done a days proper work in our lives know this, we learned the hard way at the Bullingdon club you know, being forced to swig all that Krug was diabolical torture, far worse than ■■■■■■■ at Eton.
Don’t listen to that swivel eyed loon Farage, that cad actually worked for a living, he could almost be working class and that will never do, there’s only one left in parliament now who’s real working class, the honourable Dennis Skinner, and when he’s gone there won’t be any more because they don’t turn the hymnsheet page when we tell them to, only drones from now on.
+1
Glad I’m not the only one.
Well as a one trick pony they seem to be doing rather better than the mainstream parties would like. If anybody bothered to watch and listen to the Farage v Clegg debates recently then they would have seen some of the truth coming out. Clegg “the party of in” was shown to be the imbecile he really is.
Uncontrolled immigration has lowered wages, put pressure on housing, schools, NHS and only benefited the large companies paying minimum wage with zero hours contracts.
If someone can post the benefits of our EU membership please do, I look forward to reading how we won’t be able to trade with eu from the outside and how we’ll all be worse off for it
turbot:
Well as a one trick pony they seem to be doing rather better than the mainstream parties would like. If anybody bothered to watch and listen to the Farage v Clegg debates recently then they would have seen some of the truth coming out. Clegg “the party of in” was shown to be the imbecile he really is.
Uncontrolled immigration has lowered wages, put pressure on housing, schools, NHS and only benefited the large companies paying minimum wage with zero hours contracts.
If someone can post the benefits of our EU membership please do, I look forward to reading how we won’t be able to trade with eu from the outside and how we’ll all be worse off for it
I watched both debates. Cleggy lost them both and it was clear to see why, he wouldn’t give an honest answer. Sidestepping nearly every question.
I will certainly be voting UKIP, regardless of whatever smear campaign’s the main parties try to make UKIP look bad.
It seems that UKIP have the right ideas, they seem to care about this country, and is the only party who is telling the truth about whats happening with the mass exodus of the EU. This country is a lot worse off since the EU opened the flood gates, we have fewer border controls and no one seems to know how many are coming in, yet because of the mass unemployment across europe, we now have migrants from countries within the eu that are arriving here, Spain, Portugal, Greece for example, and though i am not against a complete stoppage of migrants, i believe that there should be some controls on handing out our generous benefits, healthcare, housing benefit to name just two. I am finding it very difficult to get a doctors appointment let alone a hospital one, and i am in fact having a huge delay in renewing my licence because the hospitals are swamped by immigrants using our services for free, whereas our own people have paid for a service we are not getting. Its ok for Dave he gets private healthcare, as does most of our politicians, but us mortals who are the backbone of the working classes, just have to sit and wait for a service that is almost on its knees ( a government official has asked for an increase in NI to counteract the £30 billion black hole )
The only person who is talking about huge changes to Immigration, the health care for immigrants, and all of the other things that they get for free, is Nigel Farage of UKIP, so my vote will be on him increasing his popularity. I would of course vote for any politician who offers to make my life a lot easier, and make it more difficult for immigrants/migrants to receive our benefits without having ever paid one penny in, and that includes Scotland who receive huge sums of cash from the government, and yet can afford to give their citizens, Free University courses, Free prescriptions and god knows what else, so i hope they vote for independence, and get them off of our backs.
I dont have to tell you about the foreigners who come here to have their kids, for free in our hospitals, 1 women travelled from Africa, and had 4, then applied for asylum, we give away far too much of our hard earned cash, and that too includes the aid budget which has just been raised yet again, and to one country who is running a space program, so like i say, Nige has promised to abolish the freeloaders, and do something about the immigrants who ARE taking our jobs which the present government fails to adhere to, and the last government just opened the doors and walked away.
I must agree that UKIP at present will never be able to take control iof the helm, but they will at least give the others a good run for their money, and get more seats in the european parliament where they may make a difference, and perhaps get them to sign off the accounts, something they are never able to do since the eu was formed.
Slackbladder:
There is zero chance of ukip getting into a position of any power in this country. They are a one trick pony at best, preying on the fears of the ill informed. They may do well in the European elections but, given the way they vote, I wouldn’t bank on them getting any seats in parliament any time soon.
Recently their MEPs have voted against safer trucks on the road as well as voting against tighter regulation of ivory movements.
Who will you be voting for then, slackbladder?