Go back to your constituencies and prepare for...

Just quoting this so there's a slim chance I might notice it again in five years time and be able to laugh in UKIP's faces about it. (If they still exist then, of course):

A rising groundswell of anti-Brussels opinion will force Britain to leave the European Union within five years, the West Midlands' first United Kingdom Independence Party MEP has predicted.

Still, always fun to watch their slender grasp on reality:

UKIP claims that only ten per cent of UK trade is with EU partners. It wants Britain to leave Europe but to sign a trading agreement with the EU.

Mr Nattrass, who claimed 70 per cent of UK law was decided by the EU, said: "It is ridiculous that we should be tied by all these regulations when most of our products are going to the home market and other parts of the country.

"We should be looking at the Far East and China and India because that's where tomorrow's trade will come from." ...

A Department of Trade and Industry spokesman said that in 2003 the UK trade to the expanded EU was worth £109 billion or 58.5 per cent of Britain's total trade. For the period January to June this year the figure was £53 billion or 58.7 per cent of the total.