Just so you know.

The Conservatives smears about UKIP.

As honest as their MPs!
The Conservative party has published a leaflet about UKIP failing to defend British interests — here UKIP sets the record straight with the truth!
1. The Conservatives say: UKIP Let down their supporters. They returned 12 MEPs in 2004, but completely wasted their opportunity. Their MEPs have been characterized by in-fighting and scandal; as a result, one third of their MEPs have left or been expelled
The Truth: Unlike the Conservative Party, where people have proved that they do not deserve the trust of voters, they have been expelled from the UKIP group.
2. The Conservatives say: UKIP Badly let down British fishermen when they failed to ppose a plan put forward by Spanish and French MEPs to scrap the Shetland Box, a protected fishing zone for British vessels .
The Truth: The Conservatives voted with Labour, Lib Dems and Scots Nats to allow British vessels to catch 40% of the quota in the Shetland Box. UKIP believes that British vessels should have the right to catch 100% of the quota in the Shetland Box. The Conservatives voted to give Spanish & French vessels 60% of the quota.
3. The Conservatives say: UKIP have failed to crack down on EU fraud and corrupttion — one MEP has been sent to prison for benefit fraud and another is under investigation by the police over fraud allegations.
The Truth: Ashley Mote was elected but never took his seat as a UKIP MEP: he was expelled from UKIP as soon as the party discovered that he had failed to declare that he had been charged with fraud before the election. Tom Wise was suspended from the UKIP group as soon as the party was aware that allegations of fraud against him and a Conservative candidate he employed as a researcher were under way. UKIP will always take action against those who break faith with voters. In contrast, the Conservatives have 3 MEPs, including their group leader, under investigation for misuse of expenses, and have been forced to fire another.
4. The Conservatives say: UKIP have failed on their promises—they said they opposed new countries joining the EU from Central Europe because it would lead to a ‘flood of migrants’ that would be ‘bad for Britain’. But their former leader Roger Knapman MEP has revealed to be employing Polish builders to renovate his home.

The Truth: UKIP have consistently voted against the expansion of the EU and the right of unlimited immigration to the UK that that brings. The Conservatives have consistently supported expansion, and eagerly want Turkey to join, giving another 100 million people the right to live and work in the UK. Cheap comments about specialists working on a private home some border on xenophobia.
5. The Conservatives say: UKIP have failed to oppose barmy EU regulations— including a directive to monitor whether employees were exposed to too much sun.
The Truth: If the Conservatives hadn’t taken Britain into Europe, or had opposed the Single European Act, there wouldn’t be barmy regulations to oppose. Occasionally UKIP do miss pieces of legislation, but as the European Parliament has only a consultative role on most EU legislation, it doesn’t matter whether it passes or rejects it: if the Commission wants the legislation, it can pass it even if the parliament disagrees.6. The Conservatives say: UKIP let down small firms when they failed to support plans to cut EU red tape.

The Truth—The Conservatives hav e promised in every manifesto since 1983 to reduce EU red tape and take powers back from Brussels. In the intervening 25 years, of which they were in government for 14, not a single power has been repatriated. In the year to April 2009, the European Commission introduced 2754 new laws, the vast majority of which the Conservatives supported.
7. The Conservatives say: UKIP have failed to convince their own supporters—Robert Kilroy-Silk joined UKIP in 2004, but left a year later, describing the party as ‘a joke’ that he was ‘ashamed’ to belong to.
The Truth—Yes, Robert Kilroy-Silk left UKIP to sit as an independent, but he didn’t consider the party a ‘joke’ when he desperately sought the leadership. He left because he did not win.
8. The Conservatives say: UKIP have failed to promote British businesses — for example, they have voted against an initiative to ‘name and shame’ countries that fail to apply the common rules of the EU’s internal market and against calls to open up global markets with a new world trade deal
The Truth—UKIP believes that Britain should have a global outlook, not just a European one. EU trade negotiations actively damage Britain’s interests because we are tied into all the pointless and expensive legislation that goes with membership of the European Union.
9. The Conservatives say: UKIP’s leadership have failed—the former chairman of UKIP in Wales has said: “the moral integrity of a number of people at the top left much to be desired.”
The Truth—Former Welsh chairman and leadership contender Richard Suchorzewski joined UKIP after the 2004 elections, having formerly been a Conservative candidate. He has now returned to the Conservatives. After losing the leadership election to MEP Nigel Farage, he was offered a senior post, but declined, preferring to resign instead after having been a UKIP member for less than 18 months. He maintained close links to the Conservatives during his UKIP membership, which may explain his comments.
10. The Conservatives say: UKIP have failed to stick to their guns—UKIP leader Nigel Farage surprised many in a debate in the European Parliament with Tony Blair when he said “If you can reform the European Union, Mr Blair, then I may even change my mind and think it is worth staying”
The Truth—Tony Blair, during the British presidency of the European Union, passed over 3,000 pieces of EU legislation into British law. He is a supporter of the euro and a Federal Europe, like many Conservative MEPs and MPs. Mr Farage was, of course being sarcastic, and the use of a truncated, out of context quote is simply typical of the Conservatives leaflet—it is fundamentally dishonest