The UK Independence Party has thrown its weight behind the Red Alert campaignThe UK Independence Party (UKIP) has become the first political party to pledge its support for MBM’s Red Alert campaign. UKIP leader Roger Knapman told us, “UKIP is entirely in support of MBM’s campaign to save red diesel. Recommended videos for you“We strongly believe that any taxation of the British people should be decided directly by our elected representatives in the UK Parliament,” said Knapman. It is totally unacceptable for taxation policy to be made anywhere else, particularly abroad by non-elected, non-British bureaucrats.”A UKIP MEP who has taken a particularly strong interest in red diesel is Gerard Batten (pictured). “If red diesel is lost there will be a decline in leisure boating.