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UKIP advocates being part of NAFTA (North Atlantic Free Trade Area) rather than involvement with the EU. What that really means is a closer association with America rather than with our European friends. The BNP/NF fool themselves if they believe there is an "independent" alternative. UKIP, likewise.
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So far as I know, UKIP does not advocate Britain joining NAFTA.
The only policy reference I could find on the UKIP website says:
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Outside the EU, we can build strong trading relationships with the rest of the world, including Commonwealth countries and the North American Free Trade Area. It is ironic that the European Commission could negotiate with - or even join - NAFTA. Britain cannot make such decisions because Tory and Labour governments have signed our sovereignty away.
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Note that this para makes a point about EU control over the making of trading treaties with other countries and organisations. It says that outside the EU, UKIP's policy would be to build a strong trading relationship with NAFTA. That doesn't imply that we would
join NAFTA.
I notice that the Green Party have recently started issuing press releases claiming that UKIP would take Britain INTO phpbb_NAFTA, but they don't give any evidence of this either, and it seems to be simply untrue.
By the way, I expect Albion is right about the NF/BNP being 'Old Labour' in an economic sense. I'm sure I've heard before that they favour state control of industry, a planned economy etc. Incidentally, this was also a feature of Nazi economic policy (I'm not calling you a Nazi, Albion - just pointing out a policy similarity). UKIP on the other hand is liberal on the economy as well as on race, though it is somewhere near the Tories on actual immigration and asylum policy.