Right Hon. Tony Blair, M.P. Prime Minister

Above all, The E.E.C. takes away Britain's freedom to follow the sort of economic policies we need - 1982

"We'll negotiate withdrawal from the EEC which has drained our natural resources and destroyed jobs".- Tony Blair's election manifestos for Beaconsfield and Sedgefield  - 1983.

On the day we remember the legend that St George slayed a dragon to protect England, some would argue that there is another dragon to be slayed - Europe. - 1997

I am a passionate pro-European. I always have been. - 2005

Mikhail Gorbachev

"The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe."

MISSION STATEMENT

The UK Independence Party is committed to withdrawing Britain from the European Union. As the debate on the new Constitution has now made clear, the EU agenda is complete political union with all the main functions of national government taken over by the bureaucratic institutions of Brussels.

UKIP believes that this is not only bad for Britain's economy and prosperity, but it is an alien system of government that will ultimately prove to be totally unacceptable to the British people. UKIP would replace Britain's membership of the European Union with the kind of agreements on free trade and co-operation that we thought we had signed up to when we first joined what was then called the European Community..

The UK Independence Party is the fourth largest political party in the UK. We currently have 10 members of the European Parliament who use their positions exclusively to expose the true nature of the EU and to campaign for British withdrawal. Our party has a full range of policies including a firm line on immigration. A policy of non-discrimination is enshrined in our constitution.