With a General Election likely in May of this year, support for UKIP has never been stronger. A close second to the conservatives in last year's elections shocked the political establishment and sent a clear message from the UK public about their concerns over our assimilation into a European super-state.

The main parties have all delivered a resounding NO to the people in regard to the question of a referendum on European Union. David Cameron's back track on the promise of a referendum only goes to show how committed the conservatives are to further European integration!

The UK as a Federal state of Europe is not inevitable !

We need Your voice, Your help and Your Vote

By Lord Pearson of Rannoch, UK Independence party leader

At midnight on Monday Britain ceased to be a sovereign nation in full charge of its own destiny.That is when the fully ratified Lisbon Treaty came into effect, giving Brussels the ability to accrue new powers over our lives whenever it feels like it.

This betrayal of 1,000 years of British history was planned and implemented by a Labour regime that promised voters a referendum in order to keep the issue of Europe out of the last general election but cynically withdrew the offer once that election was won.

But the entire professional political class of this country is culpable. The Liberal Democrats also supported a referendum but would not vote for it in Parliament. Then they moved the goalposts, backing a referendum on “in or out” of the EU. Now they have withdrawn that offer too because they fear the answer they would get. The Conservatives may have opposed Lisbon in Parliament but once it had been ratified their “cast-iron” promise of a referendum was withdrawn as well.

A stunned electorate finally learned what David Cameron meant when he had told them he would not let matters rest if Lisbon was ratified under Labour. He meant that he would let matters rest because keeping in with the European elite mattered more to him than defending British sovereignty. No wonder so many voters have come to regard these parties as much of a muchness. The “Lib Lab Con” is not a bad collective description.

That is why I am today asking the readers of the Daily Express to support a different political approach. A week ago I had the honour of being elected leader of UKIP. My task is to build on the groundbreaking results of June when what is essentially an amateur, grassroots army of volunteers was able to beat the Government in a national election.