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As Ukip hoovers up increasing support, and a few MPs along the way, it is starting to face a certain level of scrutiny regarding its policies.
The party's lack of consistency on the NHS is a particularly sore subject, following the revelation around the time of last month's by-election of Nigel Farage's enthusiasm back in 2012 for an insurance-based system run by private companies. As his party is now openly attempting to pick up Labour voters, Farage's former thoughts on NHS funding are damaging. So much so that he had to hastily insist that he would keep the NHS free at the point of use, without handing control over to "faceless private-sector companies".
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/12/ukips-high-command-remains-confused-about-nhs
Loving the Trumpton UKIP parody on twitter and Facebook
You couldn't make up half the stuff they come out with!
The party's lack of consistency on the NHS is a particularly sore subject, following the revelation around the time of last month's by-election of Nigel Farage's enthusiasm back in 2012 for an insurance-based system run by private companies. As his party is now openly attempting to pick up Labour voters, Farage's former thoughts on NHS funding are damaging. So much so that he had to hastily insist that he would keep the NHS free at the point of use, without handing control over to "faceless private-sector companies".
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/12/ukips-high-command-remains-confused-about-nhs
Loving the Trumpton UKIP parody on twitter and Facebook
You couldn't make up half the stuff they come out with!