He said the party, which campaigns for Britain's exit from the EU, had to shift its reputation for negativity and relentless "knocking".

"We have not been offering good positive alternatives and what I want us to do is to paint a vision of a 21st Century relationship between Britain and our European neighbours.''

In his keynote speech, Mr Farage said: "David Cameron could kill the Lisbon Treaty stone dead.

"All he has to do is say that there will be a referendum on the treaty after the next election"

"This would strengthen the arms of the Polish and Czech presidents in their refusals to ratify Lisbon and make any attempt at a second referendum in Ireland impossible."

"So if Cameron were as Eurosceptic as he claims, he would do this. He could stand up this afternoon and announce a retrospective referendum.

"So the question has to be, why doesn't he do this? Is he not as Eurosceptic as he claims?"

UKIP achieved a breakthrough at the most recent European elections, in 2004, when it gained 2.7 million votes, or 16% of the vote, pushing the Liberal Democrats into fourth place.

"We are the party that says we want to trade with Europe, we want to be friendly with Europe, but we insist that we should make our own laws in this country because the best people to govern Britain are the British people themselves.''

He also said the British position on enlargement into Ukraine and Georgia was lunacy and fraught with danger for the entire E.U.

He accepted David Cameron will be the next Prime Minister in saying "Let's not kid ourselves on this – he will be prime minister".

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I think his speech is the most honest in stating its position and I think it gives the most reasonable approach to Europe and for Britain.
I also think it is the least problematic in terms of foreign policy, our democratic deficiencies, the issue of sovereignty, and would satisfy the general feeling in Britain to be one with Europe but not governed by Europe.

I'll be voting UKIP in the next Euro Elections in 2009, and I'll be voting UKIP in the General Election unless David Cameron promises a referendum on Europe.

And the middle.

I favour abandoning the term completely and concentrating on selling workable, balanced and productive policies. Adding an ambiguous/meaningless description to a policy merely muddies the waters by encouraging debate about whether "social justice" is being achieved rather than about whether benefits are paid in the correct amount to the correct people, access to universities is available to all who merit a place and so on.

Reply: To me social justice means opportunity for all

1. One of the biggest threats to the economy is militant union action driving up wages. The TUC conference is near. Whilst the brothers (and sisters) themselves are unlikely to pay any heed whatsoever to common sense, it's just possible that their members may well see reason and be reluctant to follow lemming-like action making the chances of them losing their jobs more likely.

2. If, by some fluke, the economy drags itself out of this imprudent mess in time for the next election – Darling will no doubt claim that of course it was Labour's virtuoso management that saved us from a new Great Depression!

On the other hand he might be getting his retalliation, for being sacked, in first by effectively quoting the renowned philosopher Stan Laurel – "This is another fine mess you have got me into".

The past decade's constant attention to presentation rather than content has undoubtedly been the worst aspect of the Nu Lab regime. It has brought about a total cynicism in the minds of the electorate. That is the legacy of New Labour – an enslaved, impoverished, dejected, cynical and disbelieving nation.

What is needed now is realism, confidence, honour, competence and decency. New Labour has demonstrated at length that it simply cannot offer any of these. Time for it to be ejected from office, never to return.

Reply: Not so – and the leadership today is especially keen on tackling divided Britain