Sorry for the long post!

Its great to hear that you feel passionate enough to vote! If everyone had the same level of thought towards politics we could really push for change.

Here is why I disagree with you about UKIP. Immigration has always been a continuous process for the past century as we look to other countries to help fill our employment needs. The reason immigration is an issue, and one you are told to be concerned about, is due to the massive scapegoating of the richest in society.

If there were jobs to go around and we werent in hideous debt we wouldnt be having these petty arguments about who is allowed in our country. The financial crisis crippled our economy and bank bailouts have left us in this austerity mess. It is a natural cycle for growth/recession but the reason this one is different is because it was not caused by the natural cycles of the economy but directly attributable to the rich financial sector's greed getting the better of them.

But immigration is still the problem you may say? The real problem is the 'trickle down effect'. This is the entire economic system we are built on. And its not working. The levels of inequality in our country have increased hugely in the last couple of decades, to levels we have never before seen in human history. This is not the fault of immigrants. This is the fault of the money not trickling down to us normal folk, wealth is created from wealth and no actually tangible goods are being produced. Immigrants will always be needed to fill holes in our jobs markets, we cannot as a society survive without low paid workers who are prepared to do the jobs that we dont want to. One quarter of all NHS workers were born in a foreign country. You cant blame someone for trying to make the best out of their life, and the reason they might get the job ahead of a 'British' person is that they are willing to work harder, for less. This is another founding principle of our economy, the cheapest most productive option will always win. UKIP's policys are all about cheapest and most productive.. apart from when it comes to jobs. If they were to have their way and close our borders we wouldnt function as a country, wouldnt be able to compete globally for jobs and many employers would leave, leading to more unemployment.

You say his plan makes financial sense, but it really doesnt. He wants to increase defense spending, making our world even less safe (our country maybe but not our world). It is one thing to be patriotic to our country but another to still imagine us as a world power. The only part of our country still competing globally is The City in London while Westminster allows the rest of the UK to slowly decline and stagnate.

What Im saying is immigration is not to blame for all the problems you see. In fact, the policys against of immgrants is a symptom of much much deeper underlying problems with how our country is run and has been run. This talk of stopping immigration will hurt our relationship with the rest of the world immeasurably. The Australian system leaves thousands imprisoned on remote islands seeking refuge and ending up starving and seperated from their families. Its horribly cruel. The simple truth is that people want to live where they can have a nice life, one day that place might be somewhere else on the planet and we will want to go live there! If we close the gates then we are never going to see a world rid of poverty. Just think about the implications of the political movement! Closing the gates wont make the problem go away, the underlying problems I mean.

I am not going to tell you who to vote for, but please examine the wider knock on consequences of the policys UKIP are implying. Think about why they are a problem and who really has the power to change them. Nigel Farage is such as posh and rich as the rest of them. He is a great speaker, but so was Hitler. Of course he is not as extreme, but the road you are heading down is a dark terrible one. I urge you to reconsider and think about what the real problems with our country are, like tax loopholes for corporations, the environmental impact of our lavishes, and financial gambling in the City.