Martina Keens-Betts

Writer, Researcher, Broadcaster and Coach on Social Entrepreneurship and Social Issues

As an apolitical system and project-focused healthcare campaigner and writer, as well as an executive search professional, I find it inconceivable that the Bow Group could contemplate a Tory Party deal with Ukip

Janice Atkinson

Ukip member, former Tory MP candidate

As a former trade union member and a working-class Tory, I throw down a challenge to Labour to meet us. If you are a union member and official, get in touch, let's sit down over a pint and discuss how Labour has let you down and how Ukip's policies represent the working classes. I am easy to contact.

James Snell

Writer for Politiker UK and Contributing Editor for The Libertarian

Ukip have constructed one of most effective political marketing campaigns in recent British history, and at the heart of it is a great lie.

Harry Cooper

A Brussels-based Brit

I'm not ashamed to say it, I do share some of the Ukipper concerns. I think we should probably leave the EU, toughen up our borders a bit and accept that religious people have legitimate concerns when it comes to gay marriage. But that doesn't make me want to vote Ukip. Why?

Mike Judge

Head of Communications at The Christian Institute

There can no longer be any doubt, this Bill wrecks marriage. Labour's amendment, scrawled on a dog-eared scrap of paper and hastily tabled in the Commons at the eleventh hour. The Bill to wreck marriage has social liberals giddy with delight.

Paddy Duffy

Writer and broadcaster

This week has seen the repeated throwing of the metaphorical rattle out of the eclectic pram that is the vortex of UK politics. The typical whisperings of the Conservative grassroots became veritable shouts as the fierce debate on EU membership raged on.

Liam O'Hare

Socialist, Internationalist, and organiser in the Radical Independence Campaign (Edinburgh)

A new generation is emerging, arguing for Scottish independence on a radical, inclusive basis. Not only are we leaving the dogmas of Farage and Galloway behind but, with any luck, we could soon be leaving the corrupt British system behind too.

Harry Cooper

A Brussels-based Brit

Dead-set on proving to their constituents that Ukip are actually fluffy toys when it comes to Europe, Despite Cameron's commitment to a referendum in the next Parliament, Ukip would die. Excuse my Belgian-French, but this is crap.

Scott Dickson

Undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh, a frequent contributor to the Student newspaper, and has a weekly show on Freshair, the university's student radio station

As a political party in Scotland, UKIP are a nonentity. This is a fact that should have made Nigel Farage's recent visit to Edinburgh an event of minimal importance, rather than the fracas it turned into.

Nash Riggins

American journalism student and politics geek based in Scotland

I don't say this often, but it's high time that British politics take a page out of Hollywood's playbook: if you don't like something, make a brief - but scathing - offering of condemnation, and then never speak of it again.

Grant Feller

Writer, Editor, Media Consultant, Pretend Cowboy, www.gf-media.co.uk

I wonder whether the people who have created a monster ever come to regret it? It's a question as relevant to UKIP's Nigel Farage as it is to one of o...

Alexander Rankine

Oxford PPEist from Leeds, writes for Cherwell

Don't get me wrong. I like Donkeys; I just hate the Donkey Sanctuaries. In fact, what's really amazing is how long the liberal media have been pulling the wool over our eyes about how much damage they do.

John Bunzl

Businessman with a simple and powerful new vision for global governance

Why all the fuss about Europe when UKIP's rise isn't because of an over-bearing Europe, but because of globalisation? No one seems to have noticed that UKIP is not an isolated phenomenon. Right-wing, isolationist political parties are on the rise throughout Europe and elsewhere.

Bob Morgan

Former Met Police, Liberal Democrat Councillor and Campaigner, Community Development Officer

Ordinary immigrants coming into the UK did not invent numerous devious ways of lending and re-lending useless loans to get rich people even richer which we now know led to the banking collapse and the near ruining of our economy - but you would think they did the way people are piling in.

Harry Cooper

A Brussels-based Brit

I never thought I'd say this, but I think the rise of Ukip is overall a very positive development in British politics. Why? Because the British people see in Mr Farage a person who understands them. In Ukip they see a movement that stands apart from the fossils in Westminster. And for the first time since 1997 when Blair swept into power, there is a sense that things could be different...The problem is that the political parties that dominate British politics all end up saying roughly the same thing. There might be rhetorical differences, but ultimately they are singing from the same hymn sheet.

Kaushik Ray

Development finance lawyer, global urban nomad, GQ columnist and self-confessed Eurovision obsessive

There's something peculiar about the UK's relationship with Europe. It's like an arranged marriage - seems a good idea on paper (interests aligned, status consolidated, families united). But then you get to know them. And sometimes love doesn't grow like they all said it would.