- Should God or Judeo-Christian heritage be specifically mentioned in the Lisbon treaty? Please motivate your answer.
HIS ANSWER: In UKIP's view, the Lisbon Treaty is a wholly nefarious attempt to injure the sovereignty of electorates by elevating a politically unaccountable élite to an unassailable position of dominance and privilege. Consequently, the Lisbon Treaty should not exist.
However, if the Lisbon Treaty had been designed to restore the powers of electorates, re-convene transparent diplomacy between states and sweep away the corrupt bureaucracy of the EU, then it would have been entirely welcome and should indeed have included reference - to the spiritual aspirations and predominantly Christian heritage of the peoples of Europe - without which politics, economics and life itself are dangerously incomplete and doomed to failure.
- Do you consider anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism a problem in Europe today? What will your party do to combat anti-Semitism and to foster better relations between Europe and Israel?
HIS ANSWER: Yes. Internicene conflict - especially racial and ethnic tension - within the electorate, is increasing and weakening democracy, making it ever more vulnerable to undue influence and manipulation, by those in power. Current immigration-policy, for example, seems designed to exacerbate such conflict, in order - among several other ill-effects - to achieve this very result. The official identification of arbitrary classes of persons, and the gearing of the law towards dealing with such classes, rather than towards dealing with individuals on their merits, strikes an even more fundamental blow to the unity and mutual respect of electors, by defining and institutionalising social divisions along racial, ethnic,and other cultural, lines.
The UKIP is determined to reverse trends, in both of these areas, and many others, in order to encourage intelligent debate, belief in the value of majority-decision and the formation of a just and humane foreign policy.
- What do your consider to be Israels most important challenge now and in the future?
HIS ANSWER: Israel's most important challenge now is to accommodate, justly and peaceably, the population from which it draws its sovereignty. While large sections of this population remain aggrieved and disaffected (if I may be permitted a truism) the current malaise will persist. Fundamental to current grievances is the question of title to land and the recognition of rightful tenure. If this challenge is met courageously, then there will be a future, whose challenge will be to meet the aspirations of a re-formulated electorate.
- How will your party deal with the nuclear threat from Iran? Should the EU engage in dialogue with Hamas and/or Hizbollah?
HIS ANSWER: International relations should be conducted in a spirit of mutual respect between electorates, whose available weaponry should not be of primary concern in such relations. If people are happy with these relations, then their military capability is irrelevant. If they are not, then disaster is anyway inevitable.
The EU is an inherently, irreformably and dangerously un-democratic and anti-democratic organisation. It must not be allowed to establish the quasi-imperial, unaccountable and autocratic structure, which it is attempting to build, and should, therefore, not be accorded powers to negotiate, on anyone's behalf, with anyone else.
- How should the free trade agreement between Europe and Israel be developed?
HIS ANSWER: This agreement is not between Israel and Europe, but between Israel and the EU. My remarks, in answer to Q4, therefore apply.
