UKIP support slumps in latest European election poll

The United Kingdom Independence Party has seen its support in a poll for the European elections slump by five percent. UKIP who many of their activists and many media commentators have been suggesting that the party could win the European elections in 2014. The latest YouGov poll shows that UKIP are down five points and in fourth place. 

Question: Which party would you vote for?

Labour Party 38% n/c
Conservative Party 30% +3
Liberal Democrat Party 13% +1
United Kingdom Independence Party 12% -5
Green Party 3% +1
Scottish National Party/Plaid Cymru 3% n/c
British National Party 1% +1
Respect 0% n/c
Other 0% -1

Question: Which party do you trust to look after Britain's interests in Europe?

Labour Party 23%
Conservative Party 20%
United Kingdom Independence Party 15%
Liberal Democrat Party 7%
None of them 21%
Don't Know 13%

Question: Which leader would you most trust to negotiate with the EU on Britain's behalf?

David Cameron (Con) 26%
Ed Miliband (Lab) 18%
Nigel Farage (UKIP) 15%
Nick Clegg (LD) 5%
None of them 25%
Don't Know 14%

The poll also shows that support for a referendum on Britain's relationship with the EU in the next few years stands at 58% opposition to it is 23%. Also 59% of the people think that David Cameron is right to try and negotiate a new British relationship with the EU - 21% think he is wrong. And on a how would people vote in a referendum on Britain's EU membership 40% would vote to stay in the EU, 34% would vote to leave the EU, 5% would not vote and 20% don't know how they'd vote.

Ken can't be trusted on transport

During a mayoral debate on LBC Radio this morning. The congestion charge came up early on. Where Mr Livingstone claimed he wouldn't introduce a £25 congestion charge. But only last year Mr Livingstone he would introduce a £25 congestion charge. Quoted here Mr Livingstone said "Oh yes the £25 charge for gas guzzlers we’ll be straight back for that because we now know that at least 4000 people die a year prematurely because of our poor air quality"

Staying with the congestion charge he stated that he wouldn't extend the Western Extension Zone but he promised the Labour party he would. ‘I will reintroduce the Western Extension of the congestion charge’. So was Mr Livingstone lying to his party faithful or Londoners as both statements can't be true?

He was busy on the congestion charge as he claimed there would be no increases at all, does that sound familiar as he said it in 2003 too. He at the time said the Congestion Charge would not be increased for ten years. However, just two years later in 2005 he increased it by 60 per cent, from £5 to £8 in 2005. The problem for Ken is also his pact with Jenny Jones the Green Party candidate. He has said "if I am elected, Jenny Jones will be a key part in my administration".

So Mr Livingstone promises he wont put up the congestion charge but someone who will be a "key part" of his administration does. In fact she wants "pay as you go for drivers" which the Green party claim would raise £1bn a year. This new scheme however wouldn't be looked at for three years up until then Jenny Jones wants to see a new congestion charge of £15 for smaller cars and £40 for larger family cars.

As we all know Ken Livingstone is offering a "fare deal" where he wants to cut fares by 7% and to do this he claimed today will cost £269m over four years. Now it didn't to take to much to prove this to be untrue as Mr Livingstone's own fare deal document shows they guestimate the cost for the first year alone at £269m.

He also claims that his fare deal can be paid for by a surplus in Transport for London. The only problem is that Ken keeps changing the amount of that surplus first of all he claimed it was £729m then December 5th 2011 he said the surplus was £206m. On February 2nd 2012 he said the surplus was £338m. In March he said the surplus was £727m and this morning on LBC he said the surplus was £830m.

Interestingly he said while mayor "surpluses are used to fund investment...and anyone who wants to cut fares must say what will be cut to fund it". Channel4's Fact Check confirm that Mr Livingstone would have to cut the transport investment programme by £1.12bn. at a time when London transport needs investment.

Whether the TFL surplus, the congestion charge, the western extention. Ken makes it up as it goes along. Public transport is to important an issue for Ken to make false promises about it.He's broken his promises in the past and Boris Johnson has sorted many of the issuea that he inherited out. London's public transport system is working - don't let Ken wreck it again.