UKIP: Words of Wisdom

Forget all this nonsense about UKIP surging in popularity. We've heared it all before. Year after year we are told by Farage and his useful idiots that UKIP is about to make it into the major league. And every year ends in failure and defeat. We were told that UKIP would win seats in Westminster. They didn't. We were told that they were going to win seats in the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament elections. They didn't. We were told that Farage would win in Buckingham. He didn't. We were told UKIP would see members elected as police chiefs. They weren't. We were told that UKIP would win the Corby by-election. They didn't. And the same goes for Rotherham.

Here are some words of wisdom from The Telegraph regarding this false dawn:

Ukip aren't surfing a wave: they're standing in a rockpool, watching the tide go out Ukip aren't surfing a wave. 

By Dan Hodges
 

Don Farage squares up to the EU windmills

Sorry, but it isn’t going to happen. In 1983 the SDP were going to break the mould of British politics; they didn’t. In 1989 the Greens were going to transform the British political landscape; they couldn’t. And in 2015 the great Ukip breakthrough will disintegrate upon the unyielding wall of electoral reality.

This morning the Tweed Army are on a roll. They are surging in Rotherham on the back of the fostering scandal. As this paper reports today, no fewer than eight Tory MPs are said to be in discussion with Sir Stewart Wheeler about possible defection. And opinion poll after opinion poll shows Ukip snapping furiously at the heels of the flatlining Liberal Democrats.

It’s a false dawn. However noble their cause, or steely their resolve, Nigel Farage and his irregulars are marching towards defeat.

Ukip are not a political force, but a political curiosity. In years to come many a pub quiz trophy will be won by those who can correctly answer the question: “What was the name of the guy who ran the anti-EU party? Begins with an N."

In life there are rules. What goes up will come down. The Earth rotates around the Sun, not vice versa. And come election time, minor British political parties get squeezed out of existence.

It may not be fair. It may not be healthy. But them’s the facts. And unfortunately, they are immutable.

Of course, come June 2014, when next year's European votes are counted, there’s going to be a whole lot of muting going on. Ukip will be in the process of recording their greatest ever election triumph. The Tories will have been beaten into a humiliating third place. Eurosceptic MPs will be fanning out across the airways demanding action and the summary execution of Ken Clarke.

And then nothing will happen. A year later Ukip will run, they will fight and they will lose. There will be no Ukip MPs. Their impact on sitting Tory MPs will have been negligible. They will have 3 or at a stretch 4 per cent of the vote to show for their efforts.

How can my cold, Leftist eyes penetrate the political crystal ball so clearly? Well, for one thing, I’m not a Ukip supporter, so I’m unencumbered by the hope and expectation attending several of those currently predicting a national outbreak of Farage Mania.

The truth, if you care to look for it, is out there. Firstly, there is the electoral system. Ukip cannot make a breakthrough in 2015 because the system they will be fighting under has been specifically designed to prevent them from making that breakthrough. It was not built to further the political ambitions of free spirits such as Citizen Farage. It was created to crush them underfoot; and so it will.

Then there is the second big problem facing Nigel Farage’s party: he hasn’t got one. In relative terms, Ukip have no money, no infrastructure and no activists. They have no organisational expertise, no strategy expertise and no policy expertise. Yes, they punch above their weight in the media, but that’s because much of the media is instinctively sympathetic to their agenda, not because of any presentational acumen. Not so long ago Ukip’s idea of a communications strategy was to wind up Robert Kilroy-Silk and let him go.

Then there is a third obstacle. Ukip are a single-issue organisation, campaigning on an issue most voters couldn’t care less about. According to Mori’s latest issue tracker, only 5 per cent of voters regard Europe as one of the most important issues facing the country. At the time of the 1997 election that figure stood at 43 per cent. Ukip aren’t surfing a wave, they’re paddling in a rock pool watching the tide go out.

People can spend the next couple of years preparing with mounting excitement for Ukip’s moment. But come the next election, the fix will be in. That tiny percentage of voters who rate Europe as the defining issue will have a clear choice. The EurowaryEurophile – if not fully obsessive – Prime Minister Miliband. Nigel Farage – no debate, no money, no activists, no infrastructure, no hope of a seat, never mind power – won’t get a look-in.

That’s the problem with being a lone warrior. It’s lonely.

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UKIP's former leader on UKIP extremism

 

Welcome to Nigel's UKIP farce!

From the Huffington Post:

David Cameron has been under fire for dismissing the UK Independence Party (Ukip) as a party of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists", in a now-notorious radio interview in 2006.

However, he may have won support from an unusual quarter - the founder and former leader of Ukip, Professor Alan Sked, says the party he launched in 1993 has become "extraordinarily right-wing" and is now devoted to "creating a fuss, via Islam and immigrants. They've got nothing to say on mainstream issues."

"Its extraordinary," Sked told the HuffPost UK, "that at the last general election, with the country facing the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, [Ukip's] flagship policy was to ban the burqa."

"They're not an intellectually serious party. Their views on immigrants and on [banning] the burqa are morally dodgy."

Sked, who led the party between 1993 and 1997, before quitting and resigning his membership, said it was a Ukip peer who invited Dutch politician Geert Wilders to the UK to screen his anti-Islam film Fitna in October 2009. In recent years, several Ukip politicians and candidates have been caught out making both anti-Islam and anti-Muslim remarks: former party leader Lord Pearson claimed Muslims were "breeding ten times faster than us"; one Ukip parliamentary candidate denounced "Muslim nutters who want to kill us and put us under medieval Sharia law" and another described Islam as "morally flawed and degenerate" and endorsed Wilders' view of Islam as a "retarded ideology".

Professor Sked, a specialist in international history at the London School of Economics, told the HuffPost UK that he "understands" - though disagrees with - the "rationale" behind the recent decision by social workers in Rotherham to remove three ethnic minority children from the home of two foster parents, on the grounds that they were members of Ukip.

Asked if Ukip is a xenophobic party, he replied: "It seems to be anti-Islam and anti-immigrant. If that adds up to xenophobic, then yes."

Sked was careful not to label all Ukip voters or members as xenophobes or Islamophobes: "There are thousands of broad-minded people in the country who want to get out of the European Union and [Ukip] seems to the only party they can vote for."

A Ukip spokesman rejected Professor Sked's claims and told the HuffPost UK: "We have no views on 'immigrants'. We have views on mass immigration but not on immigrants themselves. Alan is a decent chap and an academic but has had nothing to do with UKIP for 15 years. He knows not of what he speaks and retains a long-term bitterness towards the party."

The spokesman added that the party's policy on the burqa "had been dropped and not yet rewritten".

The former Ukip leader's comments, however, were bolstered by academic Robert Ford, of Manchester University, who has conducted extensive research into the views and backgrounds of the party's voters.

Ford told the Huffington Post: "Our research - which includes the most comprehensive analysis of the attitudes of Ukipsupporters ever conducted - shows that Ukip supporters... are more likely than supporters of any other party except the BNP to hold hostile attitudes about immigrants and ethnic minorities. UKIP supporters are more likely to agree that the government should repatriate immigrants, and allow employers to favour white job applicants.

Ukip supporters are also more likely to agree that Islam poses a serious threat to Western civilization, that local councils have favoured immigrant applicants for council housing and to believe that immigrants commit most crime."

It is clear, added Ford, that "Ukip appeals to British voters with negative views about immigrants, Muslims and ethnic minorities".

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UKIP's far-right links exposed in video!

GLW on UKIP's election disaster

In Corby the result was a risible 14% getting nowhere near being elected despite all the money spent and the idiotic over egging of expectations.

Just how did UKIP think they would get a candidate elected when foisting on the electorate who only vote UKIP as a dustbin for their protest votes and a few willing to hold their noses as they vote to Leave-The-EU.

Just how were they likely to gain votes with an EU lobbyist lately from another party who quite clearly is a political prostitute seeking a way onto the gravy train by raising her profile to be an acceptable Farage placement on the MEP candidate list in 18 months time.

Farage’s placements to be announced at the last minute to ensure democratic choice of members can’t creep in!

Similarly we note Godfrey Blooms wife’s sometime business partner Jane Collins peddling that historic picture of herself (a stunt best known in UKIP as having been used by Janet Girsman and copied by Marion Mason – Derek Clark also uses a similar stunt by using a picture in which he is awake!)

UKIP’s results in the PCC farce were even worse!

The turnout was the people speaking louder than ever since WWII with 84% totally rejecting the concept of PCCs – Politicians said PCCs would be the voice of the people and what a shock when they heard that voice!

UKIP did particularly badly with not a single candidate rising above the voter rejection in an election where there was every hope they might do well but they failed to field a single solitary credible candidate.

In an election where exposure would seem to have been the key one would have expected Godfrey Bloom to do better than being beaten into 4th. place as I would hazard a guess he has exposed himself more than most – even being banned from hotel chains for exposing himself to urinate in plant pots and arrested for exposing himself copulating with a black prostitute on the bonnet of a car on the public highway we are informed!

A few of us were attacked and ridiculed for our belief that Independent candidates were the future when we set up ‘Independent Leave-The-EU Alliance’ – though clearly we were ahead of our time and under funded our point is made.

In the PCC elections the score was, out of 41, Independents 12 UKIP ZERO.

The abject failure of leadership, risible lack of professionalism, odious corruption and endless pandering to cronies and squabbling with the racist and anti homosexual stance that has led to so much in fighting and back stabbing UKIP has totally let down its core electors and has very clearly failed as a concept.

20 years and they have achieved so very little with less than 30 elected seats of ANY note out of the 19,500 seats available by election!

UKIP keeps making complete fools of themselves with its blow hard clowns pronouncing how well they will do (we heard it in the last election, Barnsley, Corby, PCC, Buckingham elections etc. etc.)

UKIP even make the risible claim they ARE the 3rd. party in British politics when councillors & overseas seats included they have ZERO MPs and less than 30 total whilst even the increasingly unpopular and utterly odious LibDims have over 50 MPs – Whast planet do UKIP leadership live on or are they always drunk!

I know Farage especially employs fools to make him look competent and to praise him but surely he can not believe the drivel he has paid these low grade ingrates to feed him! Next he will have Praise Singers and Jesters (woops I forgot Annabelle Fuller, Mark Croucher, Gawain Towler, Gerard Batten, Derek Clark, Michael Heaver, Douglas Denny, Mick McGough etc. all queued up in their chicken costumes with their inflatable bulldozers and museum military toys, all willing to lie, defame, cheat and dissemble to enhance their rewards!)

Yes Farage as leader of the cult was quite good on Question Time having had 20 years practice as UKIP’s sole spokesman – though clearly he & his hirelings have failed to convince, even when they tell the truth, being slapped down with ease when pointing out that when the EU makes over 75% of our laws & has a bigger bureaucracy than China clearly they ARE responsible for the ills of this country and much else beyond our borders.

UKIP as a Farage cult have proved beyond all doubt the British public don’t trust them with their vote.

I remind you when even the Greens have an MP and the treacherous LibDims have some 50 UKIP has ZERO.

Do not forget in the PCC election UKIP ZERO Independents 12.

Do remember that out of 19,500 seats available by election UKIP after 20 years of utterly incompetent leadership and crass unprofessionalism has failed to get 30 seats of any meaning.

UKIP have become also rans competing with other non entities amongst which are Greens, LibDims, Robin Tilbrook, Plaid and the BNP!

The betrayal by UKIP has been near total! A fact I greatly regret as had they been competent, honest and professionalised they just might have been leading us out of the EU by now – sadly there is no hope of them having a place of any note when we Leave-The-EU with UKIP running along behind desperately trying to jump on the band wagon.

See: http://ukip-vs-eukip.com/

UKIP: Nigel's fascist friend in the EFD does it yet again!

From the British Democracy Forum - http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/ukip/116956-borghezio-rants-long-live-whites-europe-racist-rally.html - and written by Reg Anthony

On another thread (here: http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/ukip...ant-f-ing.html), I have reported Mario Borghezio’s extraordinary racist outburst on Italian radio in the aftermath of Obama’s re-election. This was preceded a few days earlier by his appearance on the platform of an extremist rally in the South of France, where the carte blanche given to him by Farage’s failure to act on the Breivik remarks was also played to maximum and horrifying effect.

Borghezio delivered a racist rant to the annual conference of “Bloc Identitaire”, a far-right and openly racist French outfit which, amongst other things, cynically distributes pork soup each winter on the streets of cities from Marseille to Antwerp (the latter with the help of their Flemish racist allies, Godfrey Bloom’s EAF colleagues the Vlaams Belang), thus cruelly and deliberately excluding Jews and Muslims from their act of “charity”.

Borghezio’s shocking speech has been widely reported in Italian, French, Swiss, Spanish and German media. Several begin with the observation that "“hundreds of far-right activists have cheered the Italian Northern League MEP, Mario Borghezio, for openly racist sentiments."
I have set out a selection of links at the end of this thread. From those various reports, I have collected the following shameful quotations:

• "Borghezio yelled at the podium: "Long live the whites of Europe, long live our identity, our ethnicity, our race!" "
• "Mr Borghezio enthused about "our blue sky, like the eyes of our women. Blue, in a people who want to stay white.” "
• "When the country of our flesh is invaded, we must beat up,” he said, inflaming the gallery."
• "We live in a cultural genocide that nobody dares denounce apart from us. We will remain masters in our own home!"
• "How can we accept letting our people die without a fight? Here we have a duty!"
• He expressed his regrets for the anti-semitic and collaborationist writer Robert Brasillach, who was shot at the end of the Second World War for sharing intelligence with the enemy. "To enthuse ourselves, we must be poets like Brasillach" he interjected, to shouts of "Mario, Mario, Mario ..."

This is the price of your EFD presidential position in Brussels, Nigel Farage. Hope you’re proud of yourself.

Links:

http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2012...europa/402469/

http://www.lematin.ch/monde/europe/p...story/28377135

http://www.lepoint.fr/politique/bloc...1524406_20.php

http://www.cadoinpiedi.it/2012/11/04...za_bianca.html

http://eleconomista.com.mx/internaci...ba-raza-blanca

http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2012/45/46543.html

http://lelab.europe1.fr/t/ils-ont-pa...entitaire-5707

UKIP: Farage squirms!

Having been attacked over his broken pledge to publish his accounts by Andrew Neill on the Politics Show, Farage looked like a drowning man thrown a lifeline when Neill mentioned Paul Nuttall's failure to publish his own accounts. "Paul Nuttall needs to get his house in order" declared a visibly relieved Fuhrer, delighted that he was out of the gunsight. Or so he thought.

Farage blustered, and fell over his words. He was clearly up against the ropes. 

Just as he tried to switch attention to Nuttall, so he will now seek to throw an MEP or two to the media wolves in order to save his own worthless hide. Who will it be? Batten? Nattrass? Clarke? Dartmouth? Maybe he will turn on his accountant, who after all was introduced to UKIP by Ashley Mote?

Watch the little s**t squirm now!

UKIP: Richard North on the failings of Farage

UKIP: missing targets

Richard North, 01/11/2012

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The Northern Echo has today an interview with one of my least-favourite persons, the egregious Nigel Farage – celebrating his recent visit to Newcastle upon Tyne in an article entitled: “Setting targets”.

Generally speaking, I actually tend to write less about Farage than I should – in deference to the many active UKIP members, who have their hearts in the right place, and who deserve better than the lacklustre Party leadership with which they are saddled. My basic premise here is that if you have nothing good to say, then say nothing at all.

However, I should not resist commenting on Farage’s plans (or lack of them) for the 2015 General Election, as revealed in the article. Says Farage to Northern Echo reporter Mark Tellentire, “The pace of change over the past two years has been so great, it is difficult for me to see exactly where we are going to be in 2015″.

So far, that is fair enough but, if Farage has been qoted correctly, he then goes on to say: “But if the Conservative and Labour leaderships decide they will ignore Ukip’s messages, then goodness knows what we can do”.

In commenting on this, one could easy become prey to accusation of taking it out of context, but the thrust of his what he says fits with the way Farage thinks and thus the way UKIP behaves. The point, thus, is that any proper political party would be addressing its “messages” to the voting public, for it is they whom they need if they are to get a sniff of power and the insides of ministerial limousines.

But young Mr Farage speaks of Ukip’s messages not to the people but, “to the Conservative and Labour leaderships”. There, we get a brief glimpse into the very soul of UKIP – it is not a political party. It started off its life as a pressure group, and that – under the leadership of Farage – is what it remains today.

Sadly though, the Conservative and Labour leadership will decide to ignore Ukip’s messages, and thence we get the highly revealing glimpse into Farage’s soul: when they do, as they have always done, he doesn’t know what to do.

Ten years ago when, every month, I used to sit across a desk from him, in our office in Strasbourg, he didn’t know what to do – other than stand for any and every passing election. Now despite his publicity describing him as “Britain’s most charismatic, plain-speaking politician”, he still doesn’t know what to do.

Coming to Newcastle, therefore, was not the right thing for Farage to do. He is not the first politician to have done so and foundered. But at least his predecessors had some ideas. He has none of any worth.

The only way he survives, of course, is because his political rivals are equally bereft. But the people of Newcastle – if they hold true to their political traditions – will be unimpressed. In olden days, he would have gone away empty-handed. That may still happen. The Northeast remains the only English region without a Ukip MEP.

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