News: National website revamp launches at last!

SponPlague · 19-08-2008, 05:23 PM

michaelwilcox · 19-08-2008, 05:41 PM

That's strange, it's the same for me.
DNS changes seem to take a while to propagate with my current ISP though, has the new site been placed on another new server?

Anthony Butcher · 19-08-2008, 05:47 PM

It's a much better website. The use of videos on the front page is a vast improvement (something that was raised two or three years ago). However, it is an outright declaration that UKIP is an EU pressure party and anyone still hoping for it to be anything else should probably give up that hope now, especially with the next ten months being about the EU elections and nothing else.

I don't recall seeing this list before:
http://www.ukip.org/content/ukip-pol...icies-in-brief

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Here is a summary of the broad range of policies proposed by UKIP for an independent Britain in which democracy really works.

UKIP will leave the political EU and trade globally and freely. We will re-embrace today’s fast-growing Commonwealth and we will encourage UK manufacturing so that we make things again.
We will freeze immigration for five years, speed up deportation of up to a million illegal immigrants by tripling the numbers engaged in deportations, and have ‘no home no visa’ work permits to ease the housing crisis.
We will have a grammar school in every town. We will restore standards of education and improve skills training. Student grants will replace student loans.
We will radically reform the working of the NHS with an Insurance Fund, whilst upholding the ‘free at the point of care’ principles. We will bring back matrons and have locally run, clean hospitals.
We will give people the vote on policing priorities, go back to proper beat policing and scrap the Human Rights Act. We will have sentences that mean what they say.
We will take 4.5 million people out of tax with a simple Flat Tax (with National Insurance) starting at £10,000. We will scrap Inheritance Tax, not just reform it and cut corporation taxes.
We will say No to green taxes and wind farms. To avert a major energy crisis, we will go for new nuclear power plants on the same existing site facilities and for clean coal. We will reduce pollution and encourage recycling.
We will make welfare simpler and fairer, introduce ‘workfare’ to get people back to work, and a new citizens pension and private pensions scheme insurance.
We will support our armed forces with more spending on equipment, military homes and medical care. We will save our threatened warships and add 25,000 more troops.
We will be fair to England, with an English Parliament of English MPs at Westminster. We will replace assembly members like MSPs with MPs. And we will promote referenda at local and national levels.
We will make customer satisfaction number one for rail firms – not cost cutting and will look seriously at reopening some rail lines that Beeching closed. We will make foreign lorries pay for British roads with a ‘Britdisc’ – and we will stop persecuting motorists.
Last, but never least, we will bring in fair prices and fair competition for our suffering farmers, and restore traditional British fishing and territorial waters.

Anthony Butcher · 19-08-2008, 05:51 PM

The RSS feed is currently broken which is a little annoying.

Michael Heaver · 19-08-2008, 06:00 PM

The old site is still coming up for me?

SponPlague · 19-08-2008, 06:16 PM

I believe website revamps should be given a few days for bedding in, proofing, browser checking etc., so will not be commenting in detail before Saturday...

Overall, though, I like it.

Bob FM · 19-08-2008, 06:19 PM

AB the list you put up has been on the site for months, we used it in the Locals.

Anthony Butcher · 19-08-2008, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob FM

AB the list you put up has been on the site for months, we used it in the Locals.

Oh, I thought that you had created that list yourself, and this one is dated today... so I presume that they have just re-entered the old information and haven't kept the dates intact. That could cause some confusion with news items.

Bob FM · 19-08-2008, 06:32 PM

I was able to access the site without any problems. I have to say that immediately I saw the site it raised a major concern for me which I have already taken up. Given my stance on honesty and integrity if the explanation I receive is not satisfactory, I will really be considering my position.

Bob FM · 19-08-2008, 06:35 PM

AB, I guess as it was policy statement rather than news, they thought the date wasn't important, or perhaps it didn't even enter their heads, who knows.

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michaelwilcox Junior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Bristol/South Glos Posts: 52 Party: UKIP	That's strange, it's the same for me. DNS changes seem to take a while to propagate with my current ISP though, has the new site been placed on another new server? __________________ Studying at Exeter University Should you also be a student there, please get in touch so we can see what we can do!

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19-08-2008, 06:00 PM	#5 (permalink)
Michael Heaver Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 394 Party: UKIP	The old site is still coming up for me?

19-08-2008, 06:16 PM	#6 (permalink)
SponPlague Uber Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Zurich Posts: 3,157	I believe website revamps should be given a few days for bedding in, proofing, browser checking etc., so will not be commenting in detail before Saturday... Overall, though, I like it.

19-08-2008, 06:19 PM	#7 (permalink)
Bob FM Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: South Marston Swindon Posts: 1,843	AB the list you put up has been on the site for months, we used it in the Locals.

19-08-2008, 06:32 PM	#9 (permalink)
Bob FM Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: South Marston Swindon Posts: 1,843	I was able to access the site without any problems. I have to say that immediately I saw the site it raised a major concern for me which I have already taken up. Given my stance on honesty and integrity if the explanation I receive is not satisfactory, I will really be considering my position.

19-08-2008, 06:35 PM	#10 (permalink)
Bob FM Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: South Marston Swindon Posts: 1,843	AB, I guess as it was policy statement rather than news, they thought the date wasn't important, or perhaps it didn't even enter their heads, who knows.