The only good thing about it is Fuller's "London Pride"; but I can get that here.
Oh my friend how badly served you are. It's a well known fact that London Pride does not 'travel well', so if they are serving this to you in Slaverville, reject it out of hand. It's not until you drink it in London that you will realise what good beer is, and what good beer London Pride is. Mind you Youngs now travels in from Bedford, rather than being brewed in Wandsworth, and it is a better pint for it, especially Youngs 'ordinary'. What an upside down world we are living in.
Now to the UKIP PPB. I recognise that you do not like UKIP, and indeed that some of their facts/evidence is a little stretched, but on the points made how many of them were factually wrong and let's list them and people can say/argue over which of them is wrong
Only 3% of Turkey is in Europe.
75 million population due to grow to 84 million
That the size of the population will entitle Turkey to the largest number of seats in an enlarged EU Parliament
That Turkey - under present structure and rules - would be entitled to large parts of the EU Structure Fund and Agriculture subsidies
That the UK will pay more into EU than Turkey could take out
The AVERAGE wages comparison - and of course we both realise that there a large number of people in UK and Turkey who don't earn even this amount.
It is a criminal offence in Turkey to say bad things about their political leaders
Turkey has a terrible record of locking up journalists and constraining press freedom (and not just today)
That Turkish women are ten times more likely to be a victim of violence/abuse than european women
One honour killing a week in Istanbul alone
1/4 of women are married before they are 18
That Christians made up 20% of the population in 1900 today it is less than 0.2%, as discrimination against non Sunni muslims still continues today
Continuing trend for state schools becoming religious schools, number of pupils in these types of schools has risen under AKP from 63,000 to just short of a million.
That there was an attack in Istanbul in which a number German tourists were killed and it was carried out by someone coming from Syria?
And finally they make the point that we will not be consulted as to whether Turkey will join or not.
So how many of the above points are wrong? You see I do not like UKIP, or more particularly the little englander mentality they represent, but they keep making solid political and economic points that the UK politicians, and the European political elite, either choose to ignore or will not answer. They need to address these and other issues if they are going to win the UK Referendum by putting forward solid political point themselves on Turkey or on any other large number of EU related issues.
Now who was it who said that government should be a servant of the people, not it's master.