UKIP to come 3rd in Barnsley?

That's what a poll is suggesting. UKIP appear to be on around 9%, with the LibDems on just 6%.

As Guido has pointed out, that would be a devastating result for Nick Clegg and would I am sure surprise the establishment once again.

With the Tories on 13% in the same poll, could UKIP do what I've been told by many on the campaign trial would not be impossible and come 2nd? Well, I think I'll keep my feet on the ground for now, but next week's UKIP Conference in Scarborough could have a rather celebratory feel to it if this poll is accurate.

UKIP in Barnsley: No votes for prisoners.

Punchy and topical, I like it.

The AV referendum is really a vote on First Past The Post.

I've decided that I will definitely be voting "yes" in the referendum on changing Britain's electoral system to the Alternative Vote. In truth my mind was made up long ago.

I'm no great fan of AV. It is preferential rather than proportional. But those who are pro-Proportional Representation simply must vote yes. How can you argue for AV+, the system that UKIP officially endorsed in its manifesto, if its less radical little brother AV gets defeated at the polls?

Those who argue against AV seem largely to be defendants on FPTP. This is the system that deprived UKIP of any representation whatsoever in the House of Commons despite the fact that the Party got nearly a million votes. It's outdated, shoddy and undemocratic. Maybe that's why the anti-AV camp seems to not be trying to promote why FPTP is worth keeping but how much AV will cost to implement; less than what we hand over to the European Union in cash in five days. Surely a price worth paying.

This is the first and could be the last chance to vote for some type of change to the voting system. Those who want to hedge bets on reform being made still if the "no" camp wins are taking a huge gamble. There is no doubt in my mind that if the "no" vote wins and we retain FPTP, the referendum will be used by many politicians to justify how the public are obviously happy with the present system. Those who want reform will have had their opportunity and blown it. I see absolutely no evidence of any pro-Proportional Representation groups endorsing a no vote. That says it all.

This referendum is an opportunity to steadily move away from First Past The Post and towards Proportional Representation. Anyone who votes "no" who does not want to stick with FPTP forever is shooting themselves in the foot.

Senior Liberal Democrat wants pan-European MEPs.

As if there was further evidence needed that European federalist and former Vice President of the LibDems Andrew Duffy is totally out of touch with public opinion, he has now proposed that 25 MEPs at the next European Elections are elected as representing their European Parliamentary groupings for an EU wide "ward".

I'm not surprised. Luckily, Duff's unwanted plans can be vetoed by those member state governments who don't want to expose just how barmy those driving the EU integration process are.

As economic disaster has hit the EU, as people struggle to work and live, the likes of Andrew Duffy are unrelenting in their desire for a European superstate. They will not stop until the public have their say and we leave the EU.

The Guardian think taxpayers should pay for immigrants to learn English.

It is incredible to me that a country in such billions and trillions of debt such as the UK still has corners of the press who rally against any and all proposed cuts to the government budget. Personally, I think that government and politicians squander most of the money that they have. Smaller government makes for more efficient government, of that I have no doubt.

But just how can those in The Guardian go berserk because free English courses are going to be cut for immigrants? Their case study is a Muslim woman named Shalina Parveen who apparently came to England 10 years ago from Bangladesh. But she is still learning English. Of course, this is a natural product of the disgraceful multiculturalism project which has led to ghettos and enclaves whereby learning English is not required to live, work or survive in parts of England. As a friend who is highly knowledgeable about France told me: "if you lived in France for ten years you'd have learnt French by living there, duh". It is sad that the same is no longer true for those who choose to come and live in the UK.

We are in massive debt. Taxpayer's should not be paying those who come to England to learn English. Nor should we be spending time and money training the Police to learn Polish when their job is protect the public. If the people they are dealing with can't speak English, what are they doing here? I cannot imagine moving to Eastern Europe or Asia and expecting the Police to have brushed up on their English for my benefit because I had no grasp of their language. Nor would I expect their citizens to pay for me to learn it.

There is of course absolutely nothing wrong with having Polish or Bangladeshi people in our country. But they should be required to learn English before they come so that they can play a productive part in our society. If they can't be bothered then that says a lot about their intentions and commitment to playing a full part in British life.

Cameron's favourite think tank calls for UK to cut ties with ECHR.

Now this could be interesting. David Cameron, having just spoken out against multiculturalism, now has his favourite think tank making the case for Britain to cut ties with the European Court of Human Rights.

The case is quite simple: what is the point of having a UK judicial system with its own Supreme Court that must bow down to a foreign court in Strasbourg comprising of judges from countries like Albania and Azerbaijan? What type of democracy are we living in when a nation's Prime Minister expresses that he feels "physically sick" about a policy that he feels obliged to put in place?

The public don't support prison votes, those who supported giving paedophiles and murderers the vote wouldn't have been elected in our democracy. If the democratically elected UK government is forced to give such people the vote or pay compensation if they don't, we are in a very bad way indeed. Lets leave the ECHR and decide our own laws via our own democratic system.. Oh and leave the EU while we're at it and decide our own laws on everything else, too.

Will Cameron act? I won't hold my breath.