The headlines claiming EU support is at it's highest ever, are utter tosh!

You will have seen over the last few days, several newspapers and lots of Europhiles jumping around claiming that whilst UKIP support is surging, support for remaining in the EU is at an all time high. This of course, as you might expect, is utter tosh.

As we can see from the attached image, support for a federalist EU with closer political ties has actually increased by 1% since May, from 13% to 14%, but support for staying as we are, has dropped considerably back to 2012 levels of 29% from 32% back in May.

Now the next item on the graph, is where the journos and Europhiles are trying to claim victory. Support for "Britain returning to be a part of the European Economic Community, WITHOUT political links" has increased from 30% to 34% since May. So, the journos and Europhiles would have you believe this shows an increase in support for the EU, but does it? Considering first and foremost, no one and I do mean no one is offering that as an option, it seems a bit of a silly question to ask, but secondly, when you look at the question a little deeper, what it's saying is that 34% of people want to trade with the EU, they believe in co-operation with the EU, but they do not want political ties with the EU.

Now let's have a look at one of UKIPs and Nigel Farages most commonly said phrases shall we. "We want to trade with Europe, co-operate with Europe and be friends with Europe, but we don't want to be ruled by Europe. Sounds an awful lot like that third question doesn't it? The one with 34% support.

In short, this is just an attempt by the Mainstream media and most likely with involvement from the Tories and Labour, to make it LOOK as though support for the EU has increased, when in fact it hasn't, what has actually happened, is more and more people have switched on to the idea that UKIP has been suggesting for quite some time. Let's get out of political union, but trade, co-operate and be friends with our neighbours.

The upshot of the results of this poll are simple, 51% of people do not want even the current level of political ties that we have with the EU and a staggering 80% of people do not want any further political union, i.e. a United States of Europe. When you look at the figures that way, they paint a very different picture to what's being bandied around in the press, don't you think?