The time has come for true Conservatives to come home to UKIP.

It must be hard being a Eurosceptic Tory. There you are telling the public on the streets that you'll renegotiate this, repatriate that, solve the economy and limit immigration. Meanwhile your Party Leader back in Westminster plays politics, making the odd Eurosceptic murmur but in actual fact handing more powers to Brussels and hailing a £400m+ annual increase in the UK's contribution to the EU's coffers as an amazing achievement.

Worst of all though, David Cameron has finally had to come out and show the world what type of Prime Minister he is. One who supports foreign interventions in civil wars that have nothing to do with the hard-up British taxpayers who of course foot the bill, while denying the British people a say over their own country's future.

Like an out of touch dictator, Cameron isn't simply arguing that majority opinion is wrong and that Britain staying in the EU is vital. He is saying that the public should not get any say in the matter whatsoever.

This is a far cry from the Prime Minister that Tory candidates, members and voters up and down the country were backing to win in 2010. A man so afraid that the UK may withdraw from the EU if a referendum were to be had, and that his potential grandstanding as some sort of European leader may be damaged, that he seeks to shut down any debate or dissent.

It is important to remember that Cameron is not simply opposing an In/Out referendum, but one which would also include the supposed Conservative policy of renegotiation. Here is a man scared to death, reacting with a three line whip that will alienate many of his Party's MPs.

But it is what those MPs and indeed MEPs watching from Brussels do that must set them apart. A number of Conservative Party members have already defected to UKIP this week. They have the advantage of not relying on a Parliamentary salary. Yet it seems rich for Tory MPs with genuine anti-EU feeling who support EU withdrawal to simply sulk and whinge from the sidelines. Things have gone too far.

Cameron and the inner circle at the top of the Conservative Party are pro-EU, anti-referendum. They have achieved nothing with regards to EU renegotiation and pathetically use their alliance with the Liberal Democrats as a feeble excuse. One gets the impression that David Cameron isn't using Nick Clegg as a human shield, more like a human teddy bear.

It is time that those genuinely principled Tory MPs who are going against a three line whip on Monday go further. They must truly put country before anything else and help UKIP become the radical alternative that  the British public are crying out for by defecting and giving an outright anti-EU voice in the House of Commons. Arguing for a more hardline EU policy within the Conservative Party has tried and failed just as surely as any policy of EU renegotiation has. They are both arguments which must be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Will Roger Helmer join UKIP?

The public far and wide on Twitter and elsewhere have long advised Conservative MEP Roger Helmer that he would be far happier in UKIP. He's long been incredibly sound on the issue of the EU, ignoring the pathetic Tory line of reform and going his own way. Beginning his career as an MEP as an EU reformist, it didn't take him long to realise that Britain would be better off out.

Politicians who go against the grain deserve respect. Helmer is clearly a man of strong will and a backbone, two qualities most politicians lack nowadays. Now he is standing down as a Tory MEP, another last remnant of true Tory Euroscepticism is being ripped away. Daniel Hannan now stands alone as the sole Conservative MEP who believes in EU withdrawal.

Will he join UKIP? Personally I think its inevitable. Mr. Helmer probably viewed defecting while sitting in the European Parliament as not right. But I suspect he recognises that now he disagrees with "nine-tenths" of what the Tory Party comes out with, he knows that he has far more in common with Nigel Farage than David Cameron.

Could UKIP become Britain's third Party?

Whilst the media don't seem to be interested in UKIP's strong polling lately, the truth is that it has been consistent for months now.

Once upon a time it would be big news for UKIP to be level-pegging with the LibDems in one region. UKIP, when I joined it in early 2007, frequently saw 1% - 2% national polling figures. Not any more.

Tonight's YouGov poll has UKIP just 2% behind the Liberal Democrats nationally, on 6%. This includes UKIP having more support among working class voters than Nick Clegg's Party by 2 percentage points.

In addition the Party is level with the LibDems in the joint Midlands/Wales polling region,  as well as level on 6% in London. Could UKIP beat the LibDems in the London Mayoral elections next year and lay down a statement of intent for the reshaping of British politics at the next General Election? Don't forget, the 2014 European Elections are likely to be a year before the next General Election. What a launchpad that could prove to be.

Dave's Dam is Cracking

Tough in opposition, weak in government. David Cameron's game of playing up defence, law and order and Eurosceptic credentials in order to get into government only to then turn his back on such tough stances using the Liberal Democrats as human shields isn't going to work.

The fundamental realignment in British politics over the last decade or so now means that right-wingers in the Conservative Party who feel the leadership has moved away from their beliefs now have a place to go. Politics in Britain no longer rotates around a rigid two or even three Party system. Though some scoff, UKIP's real resilience and growth lies within the fact that it is no longer obsessed only with the EU issue.

What does it mean? Well it means that former senior Tories such as Lord Hesketh now have a viable alternative to funnel their considerable experience and fundraising skills into. As his interview with Simon Heffer reveals, Hesketh joined UKIP because of its stance on defence, human rights, education and taxation in addition to UKIP's anti-EU stance.

That should terrify David Cameron and buoy UKIPers far and wide. If former Chief Whips and Treasurers of the Conservative Party think Nigel Farage's barmy army aren't as barmy as the media like to make out, then it is likely to turn other unhappy Conservative heads. Now wouldn't that be good for our country?

David Cameron's charade of centrist, non-conviction, make it up as you go along politics needs to be consigned to the dustbin. With people like Lord Hesketh deserting the Tory Party, UKIP's momentum could see it breakthrough in Westminster sooner rather than later.

David Cameron's true weakness has just been exposed.

If you're the Prime Minister and you circulate a speech to the press, you would have thought that everything within that speech you would strongly believe in and support. But that isn't the way Cameroons work.

Instead, they were forced into an embarrassing u-turn, dropping from David Cameron's line at the Conservative Conference about urging people to pay off their credit cards. 

This line would of course likely rile those who are finding it hard to make ends meet already due to the current economic situation, as well as being economically unsound. The Institute for Public Policy Research pointed out that if everyone did suddenly rush to pay off credit card debts, the economy would contract in a sudden and negative manner.

This is telling. Such out of touch and economically unsound advice made it into what was to be the final draft of a keynote speech that all of Cameron's army of advisers and speechwriters approved. It is extremely worrying that the man who is trying to present himself as the person who is fit to turnaround the British economy doesn't have the knowledge to not make such statements, or indeed the principle to stand by such beliefs if they are controversial and therefore challenged. A lack of ideological backbone is David Cameron's biggest weakness.

Another Tory excuse for not having an EU referendum.

That arch-Eurosceptic, our esteemed Foreign Secretary William Hague has mustered another argument for not having an EU referendum: it would apparently hurt the British economy.

What an absolute load of nonsense. Hague and his ilk are starting to resemble desperate men, looking for any and all reasons not to give the people an in-out referendum. The Government who know that if the people were given a say, we'd vote to leave the EU.

And why? Because contrary to what William Hague says, the EU is an economic disaster that costs Britain billions in bailouts and Tory-approved budget increases. We literally pay Brussels billions of pounds to destroy our democracy and heap masses of legislation on small businesses and the judiciary. The people aren't as stupid as to believe tall tales from the likes of Hague about the EU aiding prosperity. It is total nonsense.

Anyone who still thinks Hague, Cameron and the rest of the Tory leadership are truly interested in any notion of EU reform let alone radical change is deluding themselves.

The numbers don't lie when it comes to the EU.

Jon Gaunt's re-branded UK Out of the EU has commissioned a YouGov poll that David Cameron and many senior Tories won't be thanking him for publishing this week.

The numbers are yet another hammer blow to the pro-EU, anti-referendum Westminster cartel that Cameron leads along with Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband. Key figures include:

• 74% of Tory voters want an EU membership referendum. 
• 68% of Tory voters would back EU withdrawal in a referendum.
• 62% of the general public support an EU referendum.
• 51% of all voters would back EU withdrawal.
• 65% of British voters oppose any participation in Eurozone bailouts.

The numbers do not lie. The momentum is building and public opinion is reaching fever pitch on the issue of an EU referendum.

The fact that the British public are now clearly so anti-EU is a double-edged sword however. It is likely to scare Cameron, Clegg and Miliband to death. I suspect we would have far greater chance of being granted a referendum if the figures did not suggest such a cutting defeat for the pro-EU camp.

One thing in my mind is for certain: the odds for the pro-EU brigade on winning a referendum are only going to get longer. The longer the farce of no EU referendum for the British people goes on, the more Eurosceptic the public will become. The EU's lethal combination of swallowing billions of pounds of British taxpayers money and imposing obscene and undemocratic laws will guarantee its own increasing unpopularity.