10 reasons (and more) why UKIP want to go back to 1984

UKIP want the UK to be like it was in 1984.  As a reminder for those old enough that they should remember (UKIP probably suffering from dementia if they can't), and those young enough not to have been around, here are 10 highlights from 1984.

• Miners Strikes March - November with associated rioting, police clashes etc.
• Ulster Volunteer Force shoots senior Sinn Fein members
• Riots in the streets of Wolverhampton
• WPC Yvonne Fletcher shot by Libyan diplomat, during Libyan embassy siege.
• UK agreed to give Hong Kong back to China
• Provisional IRA attempted to assassinate Tory ministers at Party Conference
• Church of England agrees to ordain women (the slippery slope, eh?)
• British Telecom privatised
• Unemployment reaches all-time high of 3.3 mln
• Youth unemployment reaches all-time high of 1.3mln.

And, as a matter of interest here are a few others:

• EEC budget negotiation breaks down over UK rebate (ah, that why UKIP want to go back)
• Magazine Tit-bits closed (bedtime reading for Ukippers?)
• Lightening strikes York Minster
• Earthquake in North Wales
• Immigrant Zola Budd given UK Citizenship (would she have got any points on the UKIP / Australian scale for running around fast without shoes on?)
• Austin Rover launched a lot of new models,  Well at least we still had a motor industry that was not owned by foreigners! 

Presumably also UKIP would like real earnings to be significantly lower than they are today, and most of all, they would not have to try to understand the internet.

Finally, Orwell's distopian future 1984 begins here.