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This week sees UKIP’s IW Parliamentary Candidate, Iain McKie, launch his campaign to abolish Business Rates.
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Iain McKie says that Andrew Turner will have a fight on his hands come the 2015 general election.
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UKIP EU Freedom Ale: "I will certainly be having some next time I'm on the Island", Nigel Farage tells OnTheWight.
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Iain McKie says it's too late for “the old parties" to listen to the voice of Euroscepticism and act upon it.
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Reflecting that the Island used to have 11 hospitals, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) Iain McKie pledges that Cottage hospitals will be re-established on the Island - if he's elected.
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This proposal, put forward by UKIP's prospective parliamentary candidate, could well be popular with voters on the Isle of Wight.
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The Island is not just the 31st most ‘UKIP-friendly Conservative seat’ in the UK, but 4th in the South East claims IW UKIP Chair.
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It might have been within the letter of the rules, but opposition parties question whether Andrew Turner declaring his five-bedroomed home in Newport as his second home was ethical or moral.
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Nigel Farage is saying that Andrew Turner should call a by-election, if enough Islanders don't think Andrew's £100k+ expenses claim was legitimate.
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OnTheWight has been chatting to the Head of Political Odds at Ladbrokes about the election in May - Not only did he call it 'one of the most interesting contests in the country' but he's given us the low down on the odds. Have they got it right?
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Iain McKie says he gives his "word as a gentleman" that if he's elected as MP he'll "fight tooth and nail for the preservation of the free bus pass for pensioners”.
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The council have already said they will be asking Atkins, a respected design, engineering and project management consultancy, to review the PFI contract.
