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UKIP doesn’t have a grassroots and has to fight to keep the loonies out. Wavering Tories should be careful
By Damian Thompson Politics Last updated: April 20th, 2012
From Saturday’s Daily Telegraph
The United Kingdom Independence Party is so obsessed with race, immigration and Islam that it might as well merge with the BNP. That’s the opinion of a professor at the London School of Economics.
No surprise there, you’re probably thinking. The LSE, like the rest of London University, is crawling with Left-wing dons who suck up to radical Muslims. Of course they hate Ukip, which this week edged into third place in the opinion polls.
But hang on a moment. The LSE professor I’m quoting actually founded Ukip. Alan Sked is an expert on the 19th-century Habsburg empire; in 1991 he set up a new party, then called the Anti-Federalist League, as a Eurosceptic alternative to the muddled Tories. It fielded candidates in the 1992 general election and as a result may have cost Chris Patten his seat, a historic achievement by any standards.
To cut a long story short, Sked fell out with Ukip after the 1997 election, saying that he’d created a Right-wing monster. He’s stuck to that line ever since. The stuff about Ukip merging with the BNP (“which it increasingly resembles”) comes from a letter to The Times in 2010.
I’m not quoting it because I agree with Sked. Founders of parties who have left after a blazing row are not always the most objective of commentators. We’re in People’s Front of Judea territory here – and that’s my point. This weekend, many Tories will be mulling over the polls and wondering if they should change allegiance. They should think twice.
Ukip hasn’t managed to free itself from the sectarian subculture that afflicts all small parties and religious groups. And there’s no evidence that it will ever do so.
Yes, it’s fun for professional Lib Dem haters to see Ukip pulling ahead of the Conservatives’ ghastly coalition partners, but don’t kid yourself: the combination of lack of grassroots and lack of proportional representation will prove as deadly as ever come the general election.
Breakaway groups that move away from the centre of gravity have a weakness in their DNA: they attract fanatics. Ukip is well aware of this. It hasn’t become “the BNP in blazers” – but only thanks to constant vigilance. Ukip has the same problem that breakaway Catholic traditionalists do: keeping racists away is hard work.
And what about all the conspiracy theorists who target conveniently naive gatherings of enthusiasts? Last week I was rung by an American complaining that the only British interest shown in a book raising doubts about Barack Obama’s birth certificate had come from Ukip.
Ah, say my Ukip-supporting friends, but you could never accuse the quirky and engaging Nigel Farage of extremist views. Perhaps not: even so, the YouTube clip of him haranguing Herman Van Rompuy in the European Parliament is a display of debating-society rudeness, not remotely in the same class as Dan Hannan’s evisceration of Gordon Brown.
Farage looked as if he was showing off for the benefit of his membership. But, to reiterate, he doesn’t have any grassroots. He has people who were part of the Tory grassroots; now they’ve left, bringing with them precious few rank-and-file Conservatives but lots of righteous anger.
Righteous and useless. David Cameron would like nothing better than to see proper Eurosceptics such as the magnificent Lord Tebbit leave his party for Ukip. Which is, of course, precisely why they shouldn’t. After all, it wasn’t the Tory grassroots who infiltrated the party of Margaret Thatcher: it was the former head of public relations for Carlton TV and his curious assortment of friends. So stay.
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