Ukip breaks election promise on deficit reduction

In its 2015 general election manifesto Ukip promised to support Conservative plans to clear the deficit by 2018 as outlined in the March Budget. 

It promised that Ukip MPs would "hold the next Chancellor's feet to the fire" as they had drastically missed their deficit target in the last parliament. 

Ukip 2015 general election manifesto

Fast forward to July and George Osborne breaks his election promise by delaying plans to clear the deficit by 12 months to 2019. 

And Douglas Carswell, Ukip's only MP, cheerfully votes for the Finance Bill without proposing any amendments. Hardly holding Osborne's "feet to the fire", is it?