Given the surge in support for small parties at the forthcoming election, I have been looking at the policy agendas of UKIP and the Green Party.

While I recognise widespread frustration with the political system, I don't think the small parties should escape the kind of scrutiny that the main parties receive.

With this in mind, I have penned a couple of recent blog-posts, on UKIP here and Green Party policy here, to make people more aware of what they stand for on the substance.