Surrounding himself with Praise Singers Farage is blinded by the devotion he has bought!
Clearly UKIP are no longer fit for purpose as their caliber sinks yet further with the loss of ever5 more members of gravitas and ability where numbers are quoted as achievement when competence and quality are what might have won the day!
Always assuming that the aim is still to Leave-The-EU which is an ambition which becomes ever more obscure in UKIP’s present campaigning!
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reading around the blogosphere, which seems to give a far more in touch take on most aspects of the news, I was interested in the two postings shown beloe, which seemed to have a clear grasp on the political scene in Britain.
When you have read these you may also wish to track down the speech given by Andrew Marr in the EU parliament building one evening last week, wherein he explained the shift in policy and interest of The USA from Atlanticism to facing out across The Pacific and building new and stronger allies both in and on the rim of the Pacific.
Astonishingly much was made of the one sentence shoehorned into Obama’s recent ‘State of the Union’ speech dropping the crumb of comfort to old allies and outdated interests in EUrope with regard to more open borders for trade.
Does this make American policy increasingly Janus like – well clearly not as they have never denied their self interest and as America moves towards self sufficiency in oil with Mexico, US and Canada shortly to overtake the Middle East in oil production the relevance of their defence of the Straits of Hormuz and the gulf oil diminishes, as of course will its interest in propping up the rotting corpse of Zionism that has so befouled geo politics and the reputation of Judaism and the land of Palestine over modern recent history.
It is clear that America no longer sees Russia as the great enemy and it is clearly no rival in trade terms so why would America require EUrope as a buffer state any longer?
The world is moving and very clearly UKIP is little more than an irritating pimple in the gutter of EUropean politics, having lost sight of its ‘raison d’etre’ blinded by the personal ambitions and agendas of its unprofessional and self serving leadership clique and its claque of goffers & fools.
A decade of unfettered media hysteria – the demonisation of immigrants, Muslims and now benefit claimants, large families, the disabled, the sick, the poor – it has left the electorate blaming one another for the ills of society, for the consequences of this moral vacuum now permeating every mien, nook and cranny of our public and private lives. This administration’s modus operandi is that social reform is easiest ushered in under utter chaos, with fires to put out at every turn and where neighbour is turned against neighbour, the poor against the rich and religious orthodoxy against the LGBT lobby, in a twisted manipulation of the equalities brief.
It says much when the Rennard scandal and ensuing fiasco cannot further worsen the train wreck that the Lib Dems have become over the last two years. Broken promises, compromises on core values let alone policy and the fall of Huhne – a man who used to slam down papers onto the table as he went toe-to-toe against the PM in cabinet meetings – leaves the Lib Dems on the political equivalence of a palliative care pathway ahead of the next general election.
We are, as things stand, facing a period of phenomenal change – a social engineering which places our society on the edge of a precipice. Beneath us lie the ruins of civilisations which have chosen self interest and injustice over the public good, iniquity and concentration of wealth and power over enlightenment and true democracy. Anger and outrage at Tory lead policies and social reforms need to calm, it is an anger that can easily return to bite us. We need to cut through the rhetoric, be cool headed and clear not only about where the left stands but also the about rise of the right. The far right is on the rise, let there be no mistake about it. In Germany, 9% of the country expresses right-wing extremist attitudes and xenophobic prejudice is expressed by 25% of the population. In Greece, we see Golden Dawn, Italy’s Northern League, Le Pen’s Front National, Wilders’ Freedom Party, Hungary’s Jobbik, the list goes on. Increasingly, people are speaking out but little is being done to stem the tide as they fill the vacuum created by the implosion of the left and liberal democratic parties.
And yet there seems to be an ostrich-like denial that this is, or could ever be the case in the UK. Like reporters in Iraq, we have become so ’embedded’ with the far right here, that we cannot see the wood for the trees. UKIP is tied with a number of European far right parties through the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group.
Although UKIP walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, Farage has long denied ties with domestic far right movements. However, last year I was shown evidence of a secret meeting which took place between UKIP MEP Gerald Batten, the fundamentalist group Christian Concern for Our Nation, Islamophobic hate peddler Sam Solomon and via telephone, the leader of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson.
The meeting was entitled “Dismantling Multiculturalism” and amongst the policy discussions was the attack on core institutions of British Muslim communities – organisations such as the Muslim Council of Britain and Quilliam Foundation. Batten’s scrawl also says (under green highlighter) “3) No Islamic Banking” and listed under number four “no halal, no kosher”. On the last page of his “Charter of Understanding” intended for Muslims, Batten has prepared an “affirmation” for Muslims to sign and return by post.
Chilling.
There are significant questions for both UKIP and Farage. As the Lib Dem’s wither on the vine and Labour searches for its soul, UKIP continues to drag Tory policy (not unwillingly) to the right. Cameron continues to court their voters through policy tweaks and with Marta Andreasen defecting, we see little divide between the parties. As shown in Eastleigh, there is no effective protest option in the British political landscape outside of UKIP. At the Rotherham by election Farage remarked to Newsnight
“at the general election two and a half years ago, UKIP scored 3% of the vote… you’re looking at a very different party, a very confident party”.
The far right is here. In our midst. And we see it not. Or worse still, we care not. If the left can get their act together quickly, the Horn of Gabriel need not yet be sounded. In this instance, hope needn’t prolong the torment of man. Epictetus asked us to leave our sons well instructed rather than rich, since the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. It’s advice we would do well to follow.
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