A choice for the 'Kippers

Last Updated: 12th May 2013

EUROPE is not the hottest talking-point in the pub. Ed Miliband is right about that, if nothing else.

But it does matter to a swelling army of voters who might decide the next election.

According to analysis commissioned by The Sun, if they vote UKIP in 2015 as they did in the council elections, Nigel Farage’s party will take eight Tory seats and Labour will win power.

And we know what that will mean — because yesterday Ed Miliband set out his stall.

He still has no policies that we can detect. Instead the Labour leader delivered a toe-curling barrage of empty soundbites that sounded like a spoof.

The only thing he was sure of was what he DOESN’T want to do: let the British people decide our future in or out of the EU.

Ed is determined to stay in and doesn’t trust voters not to disagree. Clegg feels the same.

Which is why the Coalition has no plans to hold a referendum before the election or enshrine in law David Cameron’s promise to hold one afterwards.

The Tory MP Nadine Dorries, writing on this page, is a natural ally of UKIP’s Farage. Both say what’s on their mind.

Her argument for some joint Tory-UKIP election candidates is solid.

But, ultimately, committed ’Kippers won’t mark their cross for a Tory without a guaranteed referendum.

Despite the apparent absurdity of ministers — the PM even — voting to amend their own Queen’s Speech, they SHOULD back a legally binding pledge.

And let UKIP voters decide in 2015 if they’d rather have that, or Ed.

5-star waste

TOO much aid is spent feather-bedding foreign officials’ lives instead of feeding the starving.

This is not money Britain has — we’re borrowing it.

It is scandalous that the Foreign Office paid for Somalia’s President and 19 flunkies to fly here in luxury and stay at London’s five-star Dorchester hotel.

It’s even more outrageous it won’t tell us the exact cost.

Unlike with some richer nations that benefit from the Government’s generosity with our money, we can at least see the point of helping dirt-poor Somalia and reducing the terror threat.

That’s no excuse for this sort of extravagance.

BB seedy

FOR decades the BBC turned a blind eye to the revolting antics of Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall.

And police are still probing claims that paedophiles working on EastEnders abused fans in the 1980s.

So it is highly disturbing that as recently as 2011 the soap employed, seemingly without any checks, a man who had just been convicted of a child-sex offence.

The first the corporation knew of it was when pupils at the school that fired him spotted him on TV and tipped them off.

The BBC is desperate to rid itself of the taint of its many sexual scandals.

It just took another step back.

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