As far as the marital rape issue is concerned, you really should have read the article before posting this comment. You have just made yourself look extremely – and I mean extremely – silly.
While you might have some shiny new weblinks to support your point of view, I’m afraid your claim that the evidence in the meme is from the 2010 manifesto, assumptions (whatever that means) and outdated old data won’t wash. I checked this information myself and all but one of the claims was accurate.
The claim that I could not substantiate was the claim that UKIP would cut education funds to build aircraft carriers. I have made that clear in the past.
Your last paragraph is an attempt to tell us that UKIP doesn’t have any policies, because it doesn’t have a manifesto out yet. Do you seriously expect us to believe that kind of stupidity? All political parties have policies all the time, not just in time for elections.
Until UKIP’s manifesto is out – since that party has taken down as many references to current policies as it can find – we must rely on what we know – and we have checked.
I for one will look forward to seeing a huge number of policy reversals in UKIPs general election manifesto. I imagine September will be a fun month, full of picking these things out and exposing them for what they are.
Do you know yet if the manifesto will be the kind of colourful eight-page children’s book that we got for the European Parliament elections?

Oh you’re such a wit. I’m not Welsh – I just live here – and Yr Obdt Srvt is an abbreviation of ‘Your Obedient Servant’.

I approved this comment so the rest of you could boggle at it, as I did.

I wasn’t aware of the SWP scandal but looked it up on Wikipedia. You mean this, I take it:

“A Disputes Committee document was discussed at the party conference in January 2013 about allegations of sexual assault and rape made by a much younger female member against ‘Comrade Delta’, a senior party official who by then was no longer in his former post. Allegations about Delta’s behaviour had been an issue for several years within the group,[86] the first complaint against him being made in 2010. ‘Delta’ has never been questioned by the police about the allegations made against him.[5]

“A transcript was leaked to the Socialist Unity website shortly after the January conference, and the party’s perceived failure to adequately resolve the issue resulted in strong internal criticism.[87] One member of the disputes committee[88] had asserted that the party had “no faith in the bourgeois court system to deliver justice.”[87] Journalist Laurie Penny noted that the allegations were investigated and dismissed by friends of the accused, and that the alleged victim and her friends have been harassed by other party members,[89] while journalist John Palmer, a one-time IS member, pointed to problems with the policy of ‘democratic centralism’ as it had been adopted by Tony Cliff,[90] though Alex Callinicos defended the party’s version of Leninism, and referred to the ‘Delta’ issue as “a difficult disciplinary case”i n the February issue of the party’s monthly Socialist Review magazine.[91]

“In an official statement, the party’s Central Committee, via Charlie Kimber, stated that the issue was an internal matter, insisting that “we strongly condemn” the release of the conference transcript and that “this case is closed”.[92] Richard Seymour, on his Lenin’s Tomb blog, criticised the party’s leadership.[86] Along with another writer and (then) SWP member China Miéville and others, Seymour was involved with the internal opposition’s blog, International Socialism, established in January 2013.[93] According to Alex Callinicos: “the internal opposition are accountable to no one for these actions. They offer an unappetising lesson in what happens when power is exercised without responsibility.”[91]The Guardian reported that a woman who complained about rape in the SWP claimed she was asked a number of offensive questions about her sexual past and drinking habits. Another article in The Guardian suggested that instead of actually dealing with the rape allegation, the SWP preferred to talk about its internal organisation, thereby protecting its leadership.[94]

“A report by Shiv Malik and Nick Cohen published by The Guardian the following March revealed that further allegations of rape have been made internally against ‘Delta’ and another senior party member.[95]

“A special conference was held on 10 March,[95] in which Seymour and Miéville’s faction was defeated, and the central committee insisted the report about the complaint against ‘Delta’, “that no rape had occurred”, be accepted.[96] Seymour, who later accused “the leadership” of “rigged debates and gerrymandered votes”,[97] announced his resignation,[98] while the newly established International Socialist Network gained more than 100 now former SWP members.[97]

“Julie Sherry, a member of the Central Committee responding to allegations of the party’s sexism, has written: “We believe women cannot be free until capitalism is destroyed by a revolution led by women and men together.”[99] Sherry replaced a member of the Central Committee who disapproved of the handling of the case while her father was a member of the disputes committee who found the allegation of misconduct against ‘Delta’ “not proven”.[97] Journalist Owen Jones speculated in January that “the era of the SWP and its kind is over.”[100]

“Subsequent to the publicity surrounding the SWP’s response to this rape allegation, a number of critics on the left called those in leadership positions “rape apologists” – for instance, these allegations were publicly aired and were the basis of a walkout in protest against SWP candidates at the National Union of Students (NUS) meeting in April 2013.[101] The Socialist Workers’ Student Society has been active at many universities, but the SWSS suffered a serious decline in membership as the ‘Comrade Delta’ scandal unfolded.[102]

“‘Comrade Delta’ himself was reported to have resigned from the SWP in July 2013.[3] According to Alex Calliniocos in June 2014, around 700 members of the SWP have resigned from the group.”

The obvious question that arises is, why hasn’t the alleged victim made a complaint to the police, so that they could investigate the case? You’re right that it is clearly inadequate for the party to whitewash the situation with its own inquiry – and clearly there were opportunities for corruption, as evidenced in the article. Note the wider reaction – a huge drop in party membership. This is what happens – and rightly so – when political parties try to cover up their misdemeanours. UKIP should take note.