UKIP's Batten and Campbell Bannerman publicly denounce successive British Governments for treason

So that the record is clear, the blogger is attempting to be completely neutral on the UKIP leadership race. This blog wants to encourage UKIP members to listen to all of the candidates and to choose wisely. Your country depends on it.

One of the two people involved in this positive story is a leadership contender - we will try to ensure that we give equal coverage to other contenders during the campaign, too.

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Anyway, we're just back from a UKIP branch meeting - open to the wider public - in which both David Campbell Bannerman and Gerard Batten addressed issues relating to civil liberties and the European Arrest Warrant and European Investigation Order.

The headline news, which we want to start by sharing, is that both Gerard Batten and David Campbell Bannerman made reference to our treason laws and - in different styles of delivery - both made the case for treason against a long chain of politicians.

Gerard Batten's speech was very much the same as his conference speech. He spoke of how the "United States of Europe" was well on the way to establishing a "European Union Police State".

His criticisms included the passing of Qualified Majority Voting under Thatcher's Government and warned that "Britain will be reduced to a region of an integrated European Union" - a process, he stated, which is almost complete.

On European immigration, Batten denounced the fact that: "We've now got slavery [in Britain] for the first time in 200 years" - noting that we have no right to deal with problems connected to some aspects of European immigration.

Much of his talk was geared around the difference between the systems of English law and the law models of Europe.

On the European Arrest Warrant, he asserted that "extradition has been reduced to the export of human carcasses" - the carcasses in question being that of we, the British people.

And another important soundbite? Try: "the institutions are being built for this police state."

David Campbell Bannerman meanwhile accused Edward Heath - quite openly - of being a liar on the issue of national sovereignty.

He focused on the building of a "nation state called Europe".

He lamented the fact that our financial services sector is "under sustained attack" from jealous European nations and claimed that Hedge Fund Managers were now "beginning to think along our [UKIP] lines".

One of the most interesting and WELCOME parts of the night as far as this blogger is concerned came about after questions from a small group of local, young, non-UKIP associated college students.

A large round of applause went up for Gerard Batten when he answered one of their questions by saying that our youngsters should be educated about Habeas Corpus, Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights - and nobody applauded louder than this blogger.

And David Campbell Bannerman also started discussing with the audience what 'treason' is and how collaborating with a foreign power was a treasonous act.

The national constitution and the treason laws? See - UKIP does speak our language...