Rebels with gags.

I'm going to start off this blog with a piece of news that both saddended and disgusted me.

At this year's UKIP Conference the Bruges Group had a presence and heavily pushed an upcoming fringe event to take part during the Conservative Party's Conference. The event was to be entitled 'Will a Conservative government deliver on Europe?' and was set to feature superb Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer, along with UKIP's Leader Nigel Farage and Tory MEP's Dan Hannan and Roger Helmer. I was planning to attend.

Helmer and Hannan both have my respect. They do seem to say what they believe, which is a rarity nowadays. However, it seems even their rebellious nature is being compressed as they were barred from appearing at this event from the bigwigs at Tory HQ.

Why? Well the answer seems obvious. Farage would have exploited their position (staunchly anti-EU figures in a rabidly pro-EU Party) while at the same time underlining to those Tory delegates present just why their Party's stance was so brutually dishonest and cowardly.

Perhaps Daniel and Roger would have prepared compelling cases as to why they believe the Conservative Party is one still worth being a part of, should one exist. But the fact is, we will now never know, and those higher-up in the Party obviously had no belief in them going up against UKIP's crown jewel. This whole debacle has once again succeeded in only underlining the level of deliberate censorship going on in Britain when it comes to the issue of the European Union. It may be easy for David Cameron to present himself as tough on the EU in a room full of loving partisan supporters, but his Party's stance on the EU is flaky at best and he knows it.

UKIP's job now is to ensure that Cameron's allies cannot simply bury and outshout the true voice of eurosceptic/eurorealist opposition in the run up to next year's European Elections. If that does happen, the British people will have been conned by a future Prime Minister who refuses to even promise a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty if it is ratified by the time he comes to office.