Has UKip Morphed Into A rather Toxic Nationalist & Racist Rabble, as a result of the collapse of the BNP & its fight for seats on the EU gravy train – A rabble that would sell British values down the river in return for a place at the EU troughs?
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sadly Dan Hodge’s article below, though classic ‘Click Bait’ and from aits own desperate desire to see the evils of New Labour in control, has more than a shred of truth to it.
I believe those supporting New UKip, which now he brands as ‘Tea Kip’. but for which I coined the name EUkip some years ago – should stand in front of their mirrors and look themselves in the eye and ask if the destruction of Britain is what they really stand for in their desperate scrabble for a place on the gravy train
There is little chance of UKip getting MPs elected next year and even less chance of their having any significant place at Westminster – despite their clamouring for EUKip peers regardless of their abject failure in domestic elections with Zero MPs and very few Councillors elected in their 21 years!
There is however the bitter cry of ‘destroy the Tories’ and ‘we won’t negotiate while Cameron is Tory leader’ in fact anything to destabilise Westminster to gain a toe hold – Far from winning them seats such views lose them votes which ensures that they will fail to gain seats but WILL destabilise the election sufficiently to ensure THE ONLY PARTY able, albe it grudgingly as a result of Nikki Sinclaire’s petition and resultant House of Commons debate, grant these United Kingdoms an In/Out referndum on membership of the odious EU.
Not only is EUkip seemingly willing to risk a continuance of the muddled politics of a Tory Lib.Dim. coalition with a weakened Tory party that can no longer deliver a referendum but in coalition with the treacherous and inept Lib.Dims. alternately the unholy alliance for the sake of power of Labour and Lib.Dem. – worse still they may even be responsible for the destruction of Britain, in their greed, by permitting another period of corrupt and incompetent rule by Labour, as if people are too stupid to realise the damage done by the evil and criminal treachery of Blair & Brown’s self serving and economically illiterate persuit of power and wealth.
Indeed Dan Hodges has some sound points, though to be sure he has a very dubious and distateful motivation in his support for Labour!
How the Tea Kippers hijacked Ukip and turned it into a toxic brand
What does Nigel do next? I suspect it’s a question the leader of the People’s Army has been asking himself a fair bit in the days following Ukip’s surrender to the forces of the establishment at Newark.
Of course he may not have been asking himself any questions. Nigel Farage may have bought into the line that Newark was a triumph. Another of those Ukip by-election defeats that presages victory tomorrow.
In which case it really is all over. We can shut the book on Ukip, and its leader.
But for the sake of argument let’s assume Farage woke up on Saturday morning and said to himself: “Hang on, that wasn’t supposed to have happened. I’m meant to leading a popular revolution here and the government of the day just gave me a good hiding in a parliamentary by-election. Something’s not right.” What then?
The first thing Nigel Farage needs to recognise is the party he’s leading isn’t the party he thinks he’s leading. Two years ago Ukip were easily defined. They were, to borrow a phrase from Nick Clegg, “the party of Out”. Labour and the Lib Dems were Europhiles. The Tory party were Euroagnostic. Ukip, in contrast, were the only genuine Eurosceptics.
Yes, they came across as a bit eccentric. A little obsessed, as single-issue parties tend to do. But they were essentially harmless. They had a charismatic leader. And they were tapping into a suspicion about the grand European project that was shared by a significant section of the electorate on both the Left and Right of the political spectrum.
Slowly but surely, however, Ukip has been the subject of a political takeover. The Kippers have given way to Britain’s equivalent of the Tea Party, the Tea Kippers.
The Tea Kippers don’t view Ukip as a single-issue party. Or a political party at all. They see Ukip first as a movement. Then an uprising. And finally a vehicle for unleashing a political civil war on a Britain they despise and no longer understand.
Like the entryism of Trotskyists into Labour in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the rise of the Tea Kippers was the product of many factors. The compromises forced on the Tory and Liberal Democrat parties by coalition. The failure of Labour to establish itself as an effective opposition. The collapse of the BNP. The lingering sense of disillusionment with the political class in the wake of the expense scandal and the 2008 crash.
And like most successful entryists, the Tea Kippers had no recognised leaders as such. But their ideology was neatly expressed by James Delingpole in last week’s Spectator. “What Ukip needs is a moment equivalent to the one in the mid-1970s when, shortly after becoming Tory party leader, Margaret Thatcher slapped down Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty on the table and declared ‘This is what we believe.’ What Ukip needs is an ‘-ism’.”
Well until recently Ukip had an “-ism”. It was called “Euroscepticism”. But in a desperate attempt to “broaden its appeal” and “tap into the public mood” it’s managed to get itself a new “-ism”. Racism.
Several weeks ago I wrote about how Nigel Farage’s attempt to seize the issue of immigration, and exploit it had backfired. The European elections were his opportunity to plant his party firmly in the political mainstream, I said. Instead, he was toxifying the Ukip brand.
And so it proved. In Newark we saw the first ever mobilisation of the anti-Ukip vote. One Tory MP told me, “What I heard on the doorstep was “I voted Ukip in the Euro elections, but I’m not going to help them elect their first MP”. There is a stigma attached to Ukip that wasn’t there at that start of the year.
The Tea Kippers don’t really care. It merely helps them convince themselves of their radical purity. But Nigel Farage should care.
If Ukip’s leader wants to reclaim his party he needs to do three things. The first is that he has to publically and unequivocally acknowledge that his European election campaign was wrong. Not that he was tired, or he had the odd off day. He needs to admit it was a strategic – never mind moral – mistake to push on immigration so aggressively that it tipped over into naked prejudice.
The second thing he needs to do is stop buying into the hype. Ukip are not a revolutionary movement set to shatter the mold of British politics. They have several MEPs, a handful of councilors and no MPs. They are likely to have no MPs after the next election. Farage has to start to manage expectations, in particular amongst the army of Cyber Tea Kippers who in the excitement of the last month have lost their final tenuous grip on reason.
The third thing he has to do is return Ukip to its roots. Ukip is a success when it sticks to what it knows best. And what it knows best is how to construct a case against Brussels.
It was noticeable in the debates with Nick Clegg that Farage was at his most comfortable and most persuasive when forensically dissecting the failures of the EU. It was when he started ranging into immigration, gay marriage, women’s representation in the workplace etc, that he lost his way.
And that’s because it’s not his way. It’s the Tea Kippers’ way.
Nigel Farage will not take the Westminster ramparts. Newark proved that, as did Ukip’s poorer than expected showing in the local and European elections.
But in three years’ time there will be a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. David Cameron will campaign for Britain to stay in. Nick Clegg will campaign for Britain to stay in. Chuka Umunna, or whoever is Labour leader at the time, will campaign for Britain to stay in.
And the “Out” campaign will be looking for a figurehead. Someone who can articulate the anti-European case in a way that resonates with a public increasingly inclined to stick with the Junker they know.
That referendum represents Nigel Farage’s opportunity. But only if he is leader of Ukip, not leader of the Tea Kippers.
Whoever leads the campaign for Britain to leave the EU has to be able to unite the disparate Eurosceptic tribes. Two years ago Nigel Farage could have brought together both Left and Right in common cause. If the referendum was held tomorrow, they wouldn’t touch him with a bargepole. And the anti-Farage vote alone would hand the Europhiles victory on a plate.
That’s the question Nigel Farage has to address. Is Ukip his party? Or is it the Tea Kippers’ party? He hasn’t got long to come up with an answer.
The Inept Self Proclaimed PR Agent Annabelle Fuller, with her track record of dishonesty, corruption and implausible fantasies Causes Further Damage for Nigel Farage’s party UKIP – This time as the celebrate their EU election results.
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it does seem very clear that Kirsten Farage not only does not believe the denials of her husband nor those of Annabelle Fuller, widely believed to be his sometime mistress as several have attested, but nor does she believe her own claims in an interview with the Telegraph!
One is inclined to wonder what part of the £30K salary she was receiving from the public purse played in her change of position, for her effective non job – I say non job in that to get elected Nigel Farage PROMISED on Meridian TV that neither he nor any UKIP official would employ family members and when he reneged on his promise he did not tell his own NEC, fellow MEPs, members or even his supposedly trusted Constituency office staff!
It seems it might be more than coincidence that now that Kirsten is no longer eligible as staff and has lost her £30K pa she may now feel able to speak out! Was it a salary or just hush money the tax payer forked out for?
Nigel Farage’s wife and alleged lover Annabelle Fuller in bust-up
Kirsten Farage is said to have screamed at Anabelle: “I will have security drag you out by your hair if you don’t leave”
Getty, Steve Bainbridge
Nigel Farage and Annabelle Fuller
UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s wife was involved in an astonishing public bust-up with the woman accused of being his secret mistress.
In extraordinary scenes at a UKIP election party, furious Kirsten Farage is said to have screamed at Annabelle Fuller: “I will have security drag you out by your hair if you don’t leave”.
The row erupted this week at a hotel where UKIP politicians and officials had gathered to celebrate the party’s success in the Euro elections.
Miss Fuller – a former UKIP spin doctor – was left in tears. Farage was later seen apologising to her at a nearby pub.
A party insider said: “Nigel was really embarrassed by the incident. For once in his life he was totally speechless.”
A source who was at the party said: ” Kirsten was absolutely furious that Annabelle had been invited to such a big night for Nigel and the party. There is clearly no love lost between these two women. It took the edge off what had been a great few days for him and the party.
“For the rest of the night it was all anyone was talking about.”
The drama happened on Monday night at the InterContinental Westminster in Central London.
humiliated A pal said: “Annabelle want to congratulate people she had worked with over the years and was chatting away when two security guards came over and asked her to leave.
“They pointed across at Kirsten who was stood in the same room. Annabelle politely told the security that Mr Farage had invited her. All of a sudden Kirsten came across saying that she would be dragged out by her hair by security if she didn’t leave immediately.”
A source added: “Annabelle did not want to cause a scene so left the party after Kirsten stormed up to her. But she was utterly humiliated by what happened.
“She was in floods of tears and had to be consoled by friends.”
Farage did not see the bust-up because he was in another part of the venue giving interviews.
Ms Fuller, 32 – who has said the rumours about her affair were engineered by people “determined to bring the UKIP leader down” – left the hotel and went to the nearby Old Star Pub. Farage later arrived to apologise for the incident.
Last month Ms Fuller broke her silence about the rumours saying: “The claims about Nigel and I are utter nonsense.
“I was used as a weapon to attack Nigel by people with a vendetta against him. It is his children and his wife Kirsten I feel most sorry for.”
Ms Fuller was last night unavailable for comment. UKIP did not respond to calls and emails
I guess another well known political mistress’s words spring to mind, when the prostitute Mandy Rice Davis iconically said:
“Well he would say that wouldn’t he”.
Nigel Farage has a documented track record of sexual incontinence (some may remember CLICK HERE), just as Annabelle Fuller has a track rwecord of dishonesty and corruption.
This is not the first time Kirsten Farage has had a witnessed row with her husband’s alleged mistress and many will recall the shouting match when she understandably accused Fuller of being a ‘whore’ when she arrived, unannounced at Farage’s hotel room late at night, unaware Kirsten had arrived at the conference!
Mandy Rice Davis’ words come to mind once again when considering her spirited, if somewhat implausible, denial of her husband’s extra marital affairs in her recent interview by The Telegraph.
>Guest Post: Ukip & Their Advocacy Of NHS Privatisation of various Areas and aspects even discussion of private health insurance as a management style.
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when a subject has been widely covered by others I incline, due largely to indollence, in part due to lack of time I increasingly use the facility of Guest Posting articles to keep readers informed.
When Guest Posting I always try to provide a link to the original article on its original site on the internet, for those who may wish to dig deeper into the views of the original author/poster.
I also tend to add brief comment – when thwe comment becomes more than brief it clearly ceases to be just a Guest Post!
In the instance of the post below: suffice to say that with my fairly extensive personal experience and research regarding the NHS CLICK HERE I must say that there are styles of private insurance that I believe might well be a benefit to all were they to become compulsory for treatment in that area.
eg. I do NOT believe that the NHS has any duty to perform general life style adjustments, be that breast enhancement, tattoo removal and other forms of cosmetic surgery. Nor do I believe that the NHS has any duty to prolongue life by rigerous intervention beyond a certain (to be discussed and defined) period as with life support systems beyond a certain period when serious brain damage is the probable outcome.
There are of course many exceptions and areas that require debate on a far wider scale before decisions are made as with invitro fertilisation (IVF) when orphanages are over crowded with adoptable children and our population is already too high for the resources available etc. etc.
Let us not forget that it was the foolish actions of Aneurin Bevan who sabotaged the Beveridge Plan (a Liberal Peer) that was the foundation document of the NHS which was brought into being by cross party agreement prior to the election of the Labour Government after the war! Bevan sadly altered the agreed terms and politicised the organisation making it more of a life style programme than had been envisaged when the Tories and the Liberals had agreed to form the NHS.
But more of this elsewhere, in the mean time consider the views and facts provided by the author of the Guest Post below:
Paul Nuttall’s disappearing NHS comments
In the build up to the 2014 European elections I wrote a short article analysing the UKIP position on the NHS because I thought it would be a good idea to seek some clarity on the issue given that UKIP were going into the election with an absolute joke of a 12 page manifesto which made no statement at all on their health policy. I dug out some particularly interesting comments from the UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall on his website, which I quoted. I also provided links to the pages on his website so that people could check these statements out for themselves. Here are the quotes from UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall that I selected.“I would like to congratulate the coalition government for bringing a whiff of privatisation into the beleaguered National Health Service”
“I would argue that the very existence of the NHS stifles competition”
“the NHS … is not fit for purpose in the 21st Century”
Within a few days of my article going up, the posts where these comments were made disappeared from the Internet. This is not the first time that I’ve directed the public to take a look at something a politician has said on their website, only for the page in question to do a disappearing act. A previous example occurred when I pointed out how Lib-Dem energy minister Simon Davey had made a very rapid conversion from anti-nuclear to pro-nuclear once he got a job as energy minister in the Coalition government. The page on his website where he said “a new generation of nuclear power stations will cost taxpayers and customers tens of billions of pounds” disappeared within hours of me pointing it out to the public.It is wrong to assume bad faith in these kinds of scenario – after all, a politician who deleted pages on their websites in order to hide what they’ve been saying from the public, would be doing nothing but demonstrating the fact that they don’t actually understand how the Internet works. Not only would they be assuming that bloggers like me are so naive that we wouldn’t screen grab what they’ve said (in case they decide to delete the page) which is something that any good blogger should do as a matter of course, they’d also be betraying the fact that they don’t know anything about Internet archiving services like The Wayback Machine. Here are the two blog posts that some people might suspect that Paul Nuttall and UKIP don’t want you to see, as recorded by the Internet Archive:
The content of the first of these links is particularly bad. Not only does the deputy leader of UKIP openly congratulate the coalition government for their highly controversial backdoor privatisation of the NHS (which was overwhelmingly opposed by the public and medical professionals alike), he also used pejorative language to smear the NHS and made up an absolutely corking lie about NHS staff ratios too. Aside from openly congratulating the Coalition government (the one that UKIP like to posture as an alternative to) for doing something that the vast majority of the public would object to if the mainstream media hadn’t deliberately obscured the reality from them, Paul Nuttall then joins in with the ongoing right-wing smear campaign against the NHS by deriding it as “inefficient” and “second rate“. As recently as 2011 – before the Tory NHS cuts really kicked in – the NHS was rated as one of the most efficient health services in the world, saving more lives per pound of investment over the last 25 years than any health service apart from Ireland’s. The fact that the private sector dominated US medical system came out as the most expensive and one of the most hopelessly inefficient systems blasts an irreparable hole in Paul Nuttall’s unmistakably pro-privatisation agenda.Probably the worst bit in Paul Nuttall’s disappearing NHS statement is where he resorted to outright lies to criticise the NHS by saying “for every nurse there is a manager“. This claim of a 1:1 nurse to manager ratio in the NHS is simply not true. The latest key statistics from the NHS show that there were 371,777 qualified nurses and 36,360 managers. That means that the real nurse to manager ratio for the NHS is significantly higher than 10:1. In my view it is totally unacceptable for senior politicians to go around spreading outright lies like this. Some people might point to the fact that Paul Nuttall’s outrageous views on the NHS have disappeared like this as an indicator that he can’t be trusted. However I think it’s probably better off to not assume bad faith on Paul Nuttall’s part. If we imagine that he is experiencing genuine “technical difficulties” with his website (rather than deliberately trying to hide something he’d rather the public didn’t know about, as some might suspect) then the best course of action should be clear: We should try to help Paul Nuttall out, by making sure the public aren’t denied the opportunity to know his views due to the “technical difficulties” he must be experiencing with his website. I’ve made this infographic detailing Paul Nuttall’s disappearing NHS views. Please feel free to help him out by sharing it around.
Annabelle Fuller Shows Contempt for Her Bosses AGAIN you will be aware DCB: David Bannerman was Chairman of UKIP, an MEP & Deputy Leader, Invented UKIP Manifesto etc. AF was building her reputation as untrustworthy & dishonest a parasite feeding off UKIP at Farage’s behest!!
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On holiday in Morrocco posting confidential UKIP material to the web to further her own ambitions reliant on the corrupt support of Nigel Farage!
An action which led to the resignation of the party Chairman John Wittacker who was unwilling to lie any more to support Nigel Farage’s demands to protect his doxy!As an employee of UKIP on a very generous income, way beyond her worth other than to Farage Annabelle Fuller has a habit of corrupt interference in UKIP for her future criminal activities eneter her name in the search box at the head of the right sidebar!Make of this what you will:
Clearly Nigel Farage & his party UKIP Is increasingly seen Not A Pretty Choice But Less Vile As A Protest Vote than the other alternatives & clearly no one voted for their policies but as a protest and they barely mentioned Leave-The-EU willingly scrabbling in the gutter for the lowest common denominator FUD & overt, if denied, racism of their stated campaign!
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as the mask slips, as this blog has warned for several years, based upon the most obvious of truisms:
‘The higher up the tree the monkey climbs the more you see its Rse’
As UKIP’s profile climbs under the absolute control of Nigel Farage clearly ever more people will do their own investigating rather than accept the cheery pap Nigel paid the sadly late Mark Daniels (Mark Fitzgeorge-Parker) to write to promote him and paint the flattering picture of himself he desperately needed.
It is my position that the better Farage’s party does in the EU elections the more apparent it will become that they have no one of any substance backed up by the most useless of staff where all too many are grossly over paid and predominantly foreign typified by such as Camilla Zarchyta who I understand is paid £90K a year half by the odious Gerard Batten and half by John Bufton (one wonders who will support Batten in his infatuation now as Bufton has stood down as a UKIP MEP having largely fallen out with Farage’s racist assocites behaviour and his undemocratic bullying dictatorial style).
The few British staff, including various of Nigel Farage’s past and maybe present sexual partners are deeply underwhellming as shown by the fact that they have moved from being a party with a clear Leave-The-EU message to the racist controversy they have presented to plunge into the gutter of populism.
It is increasingly clear tonight (this morning!) that UKIP has greatly increased its appeal as the dustbin for their protest vote and it is not a pretty sight. Sadly UKIP’s apparent success as a protest vote has almost totally defused any Leave-The-EU message they may once have pretended to.
But let us see – there are 4,216 Local Government seats in 161 Councils up for election tomorrow (later today) we will find out just how few of these UKIP have been elected to before we follow the rhetoric of how well they have done, when in fact it is clear this is protest against and very little to do with UKIP’s supposed core policy of Leave-The-EU.
Nigel Farage: The many faces of the Ukip leader by the people who know him best
We look at the many different facets of one of British politics’ most contentious faces
His appetite for stirring up a controversy knows no bounds; his impressive ability to deliver the most contentious, often offensive, sound bites is endless. But where did it all go wrong for the scholarly Dulwich College school boy?
We look back on his life and examine his many personas, from father to flatmate, husband to (alleged) womaniser – according to the people who know him best in a vain attempt to find out.
As a schoolboy…
Farage received mixed reviews while at school at Dulwich College. He was scholarly and sporty with a penchant for rugby and cricket, and he was a member of the politics society. His final school report says that the fee-paying college “would be a poorer place without this boy’s personality”. But not all his teachers viewed him fondly.
Chloe Deakin, Farage’s English teacher, begged the college’s then head teacher not to appoint him as a prefect because of his “neo-fascist” tendencies. She also recalled how he once marched through a quiet Sussex village late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp, organised by the college.
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect.” Farage going about his duties at the New European Parliament Building in Strasbourg France in July 1999.
As a flatmate…
“His lifestyle is appalling,” said his friend, MEP Godfrey Bloom, who is now his ex-flatmate.
“He’d be the first to admit it. He drinks too much red wine and he smokes too much.
“Unless I can persuade him to slow down – and nobody else has succeeded – he won’t have a future. He’ll fall off his perch.”
As a husband…
Bloom later revealed that Farage has a “weakness for women”. An unlikely ladies man if the rumours are true, the UKIP leader has never dismissed the label.
He has been married twice and met his wife, Grainnes Hayes, after he was run over by a car in Orpington. He sustained severe injuries and was hospitalised, and Hayes acted as his nurse. They went on to have two children together.
They divorced in 1997, a year after Farage met his current wife, Kirsten Mehr, while on a business trip to Frankfurt.
“My marriage, which had been on ice and torpid with its claws bound for so long we had both forgotten it was alive at all, finally expired,” he dramatically wrote in his memoir.
He remarried again in 1999 and his first memories of his wife, who then worked as an interpreter for a German bank, are flowery to the say the least.
“She was a stunning government bond broker whose brisk efficiency at first sight belied her ethereal appearance,” he wrote.
“She could have stepped into a pre-Raphaelite painting no questions asked. A promotional shot, in which Farage bears an uncanny resemblance to The Simpsons’ Mr Burns “
As a boss who hires his own wife…
Mehr was born in Hamburg, and gave up her city job to take on the unenviable task of becoming his secretary. She writes all his emails, because he dislikes using a computer. However, his foreign wife hasn’t taken a British person’s job (a bugbear of Farage’s), because, as he perhaps accurately points out, “no one else would want that job”.
She is a proud of her German roots and likes to provoke her husband during England v Germany football games by draping her country’s flag over their garden fence in Kent.
“It winds Nigel up quite a bit,” she said.
“I take the mickey when we win. And because that is usually what happens, Nigel doesn’t get much chance to come back at me. The best he can manage is that silly old song, “Two World Wars And One World Cup.””
She maintains a low-profile and sits quietly in the audience during Ukip conferences. She works from home, having previously described her husband’s Mayfair offices as a “freak show”. Boris Johnson once described her as “the brains behind Ukip”. Annabelle Fuller with Farage at a Ukip meeting in Windsor
As an (alleged) womaniser…
However, their marriage has been blighted by rumours of his infidelity.
In 2005, reports emerged of him having a seven-times-a-night tryst with a Latvian woman, rumours which he denied, but for which he was nevertheless allegedly applauded by members of UKIP with a can of 7UP. Farage recalled meeting the woman in his memoir.
“I met her in a pub and accepted her invitation home for a drink,” he wrote.
“She was sleek and seductive and I will not splutter that after the first bottle I would necessarily have behaved like Sir Galahad.”
Farage seldom discusses his family in public. What we do know is that he has four children – two with his former wife, Samuel and Thomas, and two with his current wife, Victoria and Isabelle.
His eldest son, Samuel, is an Exeter graduate and joined him at a spring conference his father was speaking at in March 2013. Thomas Farage is a city trader and was last year given a police caution, having been arrested for being drunk and disorderly in the Square Mile in April. They’re both in their early twenties. His daughters are both under the age of 15.
He admits that his family life has been put under strain due to his job.
“People who tend to be very successful in some aspects of their lives fail in others,” he said in August last year.
“I have spent far too little time with my children and family.”
He said that he failed to give them the “sense of stability” that they would have had with two parents.
“In an ideal world children benefit from having some sense of stability with preferably two parents and not one,” he said.
“And that really, for more than the last decade, has not been the case with me.” Outside a polling station in Biggin Hill, Kent, during the European and local elections
As a colleague…
Farage didn’t go to university. Instead, he started his career as a commodities trader in the city, where he met friend Steven Spencer. He was apparently popular in his workplace.
“My first impression of Nigel is an unorthodox, happy, cheerful guy – outspoken and humorous,” says Spencer, speaking to Radio 4’s Profile.
“When I worked as a customer of Nigel’s I would wander into a smoke-filled room, with tobacco smoke about 4-ft from the floor, with a bunch of very happy traders [and] good chemistry around Nigel.
“There’d always be a very politically incorrect atmosphere that just relaxed everybody.”
However, not everyone has a glowing review of working with him. Nikki Sinclaire, who used to work for Ukip but resigned because of the alleged extreme right-wing reviews of some of its members, has less than favourable memories of her former boss.
In 2010, she won a sex discrimination case against her former colleagues, after she was expelled by Farage for refusing to sit with the party’s allies Liga Nord in the European Parliament.
Farage hopes that Ukip will “win” today’s elections, although he admits chances of the party winning the 2015 General Election were “entirely ridiculous, moonshine”. His focus is, rather, replicating the success of the Lib Dems under Paddy Ashdown.
“Who knows, we may get the balance of power if we get that right, and if we do there will be a referendum, whoever’s in government,” he said.
Whether his dreams become a reality remains to be seen, but, unfortunately for many, it looks as if there will be no stopping Ukip’s most famous and most determined leader to date, regardless of how much he is vilified, sworn at or egged.
The Overt Racism Seemingly Inciting Racial Hatred of Gerard Batten, in UKIP’s name, displays not only his personal extremism but also his ill educated ignorance which due to lack of education or work experience – having started out as a trained bookbinder and advanced to a shop based sales rep for BT.
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the Overt Racism, Seemingly Inciting Racial Hatred, of Gerard Batten, in UKIP’s name, displays not only his personal extremism but also his ill educated ignorance which due to lack of education or work experience – having started out as a trained bookbinder and advanced to a shop based sales rep for BT shows his fear of what to him is the unknown based on his superstition’s antipathy and ignorance not just of Islam but for those of Islam and their Middle East foundations.
Gerard Batten is untrustworthy and has little or no understanding of the basic tennets of British Justice and is all too willing to lie and pervert the course of justice for his personal gain. I understand his association with police officers and others allegedly corrupt and his corrupt abuse of the police and his status as an elected official are a matter brought to the attention of senior police, The Metropolitan Police, Sir Bernard Hogan Hunt, The Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Prime Minister Cameron.
I am perfectly happy to attest to Gerard Batten’s extremism and also his dishonesty, corruption and lack of understanding of duty and responsibility – you need only seek and read the many examples of this unpleasant little man’s behaviour on this blog and his vindictive and dishonest efforts to silence those who expose him.
That Gerard Batten makes a nonsense of the various denials that UKIP makes of their racism, extremist links, anti Islamism and xenophobic hatred – one should remember he has held the highest offices in the party and has stood as one of Nigel Farage’s longest standing colleagues.
Meet Gerard Batten, The UKIP MEP Scare-Mongering About Islam, Immigrants And Bilderberg
Posted: 21/05/2014 12:23 BST
He believes the European Union was conceived by Nazi Germany, suggests the Bilderberg Group is a “shadow world government”, and wants to ban the building of new mosques.
Meet Gerard Batten, senior Ukip MEP and top lieutenant to Nigel Farage.
In recent weeks, Farage has tried to dismiss the string of “unpleasant” and “appalling” remarks – to quote the Prime Minister – made by various Ukip candidates by stressing how minor they are within the party. Batten, thus, poses a particular problem for his party leader.
A founding member of Ukip in 1993, he has been the party’s chief whip in the European Parliament since 2009 after being appointed by Farage to the post. Batten was also Ukip’s mayoral candidate in London in 2008 and came second in the party’s leadership election in 2009.
Yet the London MEP, first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2009, has a wide range of controversial opinions, as colourful as the pink suits he is known to wear.
“Gerard is much more hardline than many of his colleagues in the party,” a party insider says. “He’s got very strong views, with many of them too strong for a lot of people.”
HuffPost UK spoke to a dozen sources, including current and former colleagues of Batten, both on and off the record, to find out more about the controversial top Ukipper.
The MEP also argued that some Muslim texts also required updating, particularly those bits he claimed say “kill Jews wherever you find them”. He said: “If they say they cannot revise their thinking on those issues, then who’s got the problem – us or them?”
Ex-Ukip MEP Nikki Sinclaire, who joined the party in the 1990s, calls her former colleague an “incredibly paranoid person”.
“Gerard talks about the gradual takeover by the Muslims of Great Britain and sharia law. He has been hell-bent on attacking Muslims.”
Sinclaire claims that Batten is “very good friends” with far-right European politicians like Dutch MP Geert Wilders and Belgium’s Vlaams Belang, adding: “I often see him in the parliament with those MEPs.”
Although, Farage and Ukip have rejected joining up with far-right parties led by the likes of Wilders (in Holland) and Marine Le Pen (in France) at a Europe-wide level, Batten nonetheless invited Wilders to the European Parliament in December 2008 to screen his controversial film ‘Fitna’ to MEPs, praising him as “a brave man trying to defend western civilisation”.
Gerard Batten with Geert Wilders at a press conference in 2008
The 17-minute film, featuring shocking imagery of the attacks on New York in 2001 and Madrid in 2004 combined with quotes from the Quran, Islam’s holy book, was called ‘offensively anti-Islamic’ by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Wilders has called for a ban on the Quran and claims “there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam'”.
One party insider admits that Batten has very “strong” views about Islam, quipping: “It’s not like he wants to kill all Muslims.”
Simon Cressy, from the anti-racism group Hope Not Hate, describes Batten as “on the far right of Ukip”, adding: “He’s very senior. People like him prove the reality about Ukip when they insist they’re not racist and Islamophobic.
“He has got lots of links to various anti-Islamic group over the past few years, he has spoken at meetings where there has been various sorts of dodgy-anti islamic politicians.”
Batten has himself made contact with the English Defence League, admitting to meeting EDL funder Alan Lake in 2011 as he wanted to find out more about the “phenomenon”.
He explained: “Mr Lake gave me his assurances that the EDL were a non-racist, non-violent organisation and that is only concerned with combating the ideology of extremist and fundamentalist Islamism and had no prejudice against Muslims as such.”
For Muslim imam and activist Ajmal Masroor, Batten’s presence in the top tier of Ukip proves it is not “a political party that is fit to serve the 21st century multicultural and multi-faith Europe”. Masroor, a former Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, accuses the Ukip immigration spokesman of “espousing outright discrimination” and “spreading hate”.
Batten’s political opponents agree. “I find his past association with far-right extremism, no matter how much he tries to deny it now, totally reprehensible. It exposes the close relationship between Ukip on the hard-right and extremist parties,” says Labour MEP Richard Howitt, who calls Batten “boorish” and “slightly aggressive”.
The Tory MEP Sajjad Karim, who is a Muslim himself and vice-president of the European Parliament’s anti-racism group, compares Batten’s views on Muslims to the Nazi treatment of the Jews. “The vast majority of Britons find his views on Muslims repugnant and reminiscent of another era where a whole religious community was stigmatised and targeted in this very same way,” he told HuffPost UK.
However, a Ukip insider dismissed Howitt and Karim’s Howitt’s remarks as “hyperbolic nonsense”, adding: “Has Mr Karim never heard of Godwin’s law? Well, you lose.”
The source added that Batten “may come across as obsessive” because he is “single-minded”, but that he “very hard-working, utterly committed to the cause of Britain leaving the EU.”
‘IMMIGRATION? HE IS TO THE RIGHT OF UKIP’
It isn’t just Muslims who have been targeted by the Ukip immigration spokesman. Batten wrote a provocative paper for Ukip in 2010 titled “Immigration – Action Overdue!” which laid out his thoughts at length on the effect of immigrants on Britain.
He claimed that “the English will become a minority in their own land”, warning that most Brits “within a few decades” would be “immigrants, or the children and grandchildren of immigrants”.
While Farage squirms about what he meant when linking Romanians with criminality, Batten does not beat around the bush, writing: “Apparently Romanians are cornering the market in hole-in-the-wall-fraud.”
Batten also warns that many parts of Britain are now “more like enclaves of Pakistan, Bengal or India than English cities”, blaming the “phenomenon of ‘White flight'”.
Former Ukip deputy leader Mike Nattrass MEP, who was a member of the party until 2013, said Batten was “to the right of me and other people in the party” on immigration, but added: “He thinks and believes what he says. As an Englishman, he perfectly has the right to say what he thinks.”
Former party leader Dr Alan Sked, who founded Ukip in 1993 alongside Batten, said he was surprised by the latter’s hardline stance on immigration as the Ukip MEP’s wife is from the Philippines.
Sked, an international history professor at the London School of Economics, has previously caused controversy for suggesting he had heard Farage use racial slurs in his presence – but the former party leader has a much rosier verdict of Batten.
“He was always hard working and had a good sense of humour. I never heard him say anything extreme in my time.”
‘THE SHADOW WORLD GOVERNMENT’
Batten has gained particular renown for campaigning about the Bilderberg Group, which hosts an annual conference discussing international issues which is attended by world leaders and business chiefs. For conspiracy theorists, these secretive gatherings have long been used by unnamed ‘elites’ to further their nefarious, global agendas.
As protesters gathered outside 2013’s meeting at the Grove Hotel in Watford, Batten was on hand to give an interview to US radio shock jock and 9/11 ‘truther’ Alex Jones about the Bilderberg “conspiracy”.
Batten told Jones he had regularly been writing to politicians to ask them why they attended the conference and who paid for them, saying: “If you are really here to talk about things in the public interest, who do you think you can do it in secrecy? Why not in public?”
Asked if he thought it was a “conspiracy”, he responded: “What’s the definition of a conspiracy? It’s two or more people meeting in secret to achieve an end which may be illegal or legal. In the strictest use of the word, it is a conspiracy.
“The bigger conspiracy has been the fact that the media hasn’t spoken about this for 59 years and haven’t allowed it to go on without any reporting.”
He also said: “Look who owns the media, it is owned by powerful people and they go to powerful meetings like this.”
Batten’s focus on media ownership draws concern from Jewish groups for its undertones. Mark Gardner, from the Community Security Trust (CST), told HuffPost UK: “Gerard Batten stresses that he does not believe the more extreme conspiracy theories about the Bilderberg Group, but any notions of secret political and media power can risk echoing well-worn anti-Semitic ideas.”
Proving he is no stranger to conspiracy theories, Batten suggested to Jones that the European Union had been originally proposed by the Nazis, pointing to a plan by high-ranking Nazi official Dr Walter Funk in 1942 that sketched out “how are we going to run the economy after we have won the war”.
The Ukip chief whip also claimed that in 1975, when the UK was debating whether to stay in the European Union, the CIA funnelled money into the Yes campaign and the BBC “had meetings to ensure the Yes vote was delivered.”
Batten described the alleged CIA involvement as an “instrument of American foreign policy at the time” and complained that “the No vote was totally outspent and outclassed” by US intelligence.
He told other reporters: “[Bilderberg] has been called a ‘shadow world government’, whether that’s true or not, I don’t know, but nobody else does either.”
Cressy, from Hope not Hate, says: “People see Gerard as being an anti-Bilderberg campaigner and this anti-establishment guy, when he’s not really. He’s like the embarrassing uncle you don’t want to talk about.”
Former colleagues, such as ex-Ukip deputy leader Nattrass, look at Batten’s obsession with Bilderberg with bemusement. “There’s always someone who turns up at hustings and goes on about Bilderberg – it’s like going after the freemasons.”
Ex-Ukip MEP Sinclaire recalls attending leadership hustings alongside Batten in 2009: “We did several hustings and he would talk about Bilderberg and all these kind of things – and you’d think, ‘Really?'”
A Ukip insider played down Batten’s interest in Bilderberg, saying: “Gerard has his own side-interests as everybody does in politics. They’re not Nigel’s but when it comes to the key issues, they’re as one.”
THE GREAT SURVIVOR
Having worked as a salesman at British Telecom for 28 years, Batten helped found Ukip and then rose up the ranks, eventually standing for the party leadership in 2009 and coming second to Lord Pearson.
Today, he is one of the most senior and high-profile members of Ukip – which has its downsides. Earlier this month, Batten reported that a brick was thrown through his living room window in the middle of the night.
His party leader was quick to offer his support and blamed the attack on “the media campaign against UK”.
Relations, however, are said to be pretty poor between the two men. A well-placed Ukip insider said the pair “are not socially close and never have been”, adding: “they’re not drinking buddies”.
HuffPost UK repeatedly contacted Farage and Batten for comment, but at the time of publishing, they have yet to respond.
Ex-Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom says Batten is not “clubbable”, but adds: “I’ve always found that what you see is what you get.” Bloom declines to endorse Batten’s more “out there” views on Islam and Muslims.
Sinclaire describes Batten as the “official controlled opposition” within Ukip to Farage, explaining: “Anyone who has ever questioned or stood up to Farage has basically been destroyed. Gerard Batten challenges Nigel and always survives. My belief is that he’s the one who Nigel puts up [with] and controls.
“I know him and Farage don’t get on. I question how he can survive in Ukip. They’re not good friends. My only conclusion is that he controls him.”
Gerard Batten and Nigel Farage
Nattrass says that Nigel “does not like” Batten and “has said some disgusting things about him before”.
“Nigel tried to sideline him in the 2009 European elections and stop him being top of the candidates’ list in London. Gerard is where he is because Nigel can control him. Anyone he can’t control, he shoves out of the party.”
Sked recalls Batten and Farage have been at odds for much longer, claiming that the London MEP even backed a vote to kick Farage out of Ukip back in 1997, but quit the party’s national executive when “threatened with having to share the subsequent legal bills.”
Batten left the party in 1998 in protest at Ukip’s decision to change its position on sending its MEPs to Brussels, after previously having adopted a position of refusing to attend the European Parliament once they were elected to it.
“Nigel was one of the prime movers of the change at the party policy,” a party insider recalls. “Gerard was dead set against the policy and wanting it to keep to its core values.”
Batten’s own core values are controversial, to say the least. His political opponents call him a supporter of the far right, and see him as an anti-Islam, anti-immigrant extremist. The fact that he is a believer in CIA and Nazi conspiracies don’t help his credibility, either.
Normally this blog takes little interest in the more sordid aspects of the low lifes of Ukip leadership but Nigel Farage’s Boast About The Number Of Women He Got Pregnant has resurfaced in some quarters!
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as he is a sociopath, in my opinion, with his blind belief if not blinded belief in just how clever and indespensible he is and his absolute lack of understanding of either integrity or ethics I was amused to be reminded of the example from so long ago that typifies his behaviour.
Such hubris and opinion of his own self worth, when he is clearly such an insecure personality that he lashes out at anyone who might be in a position to challenge him or rival him due to their having the leadership skills he so clearly lacks.
Nigel Farage is so very like Oswald Mosely, without the breeding, education or background, that it is quite surprising and interestingly the two men share many traits, including the fact that their political careers peaked at around 50,000 members but neither men were able to command a following in the House of Commons before their fall from grace and eventual departure in ignominy.
Let us not forget the wisdom of Enoch Powell when he said ‘All political careers end in failure’ and we are watching the end of Nigel Farage’s political life if the public have one Iota of sense – that he has destroyed his own future with his untrustworth behaviour, close association with lies, bullying and abuse of people and his public office which has done little to encourage any but the most dependent on him to raise a hand to help him and protect him from his precarious position and inevitable eventual fall, raising only a hand to toast his departure!
Nigel Farage Boasted About The Number Of Women He Got Pregnant
An old interview given by Nigel Farage has resurfaced in which the Ukip leader attacks the “lunacy” of maternity leave and boasted about the number of women he had got pregnant.
Asked if women should play football, Farage replied: “Here’s the bigger question. Do we think, chaps, when we’re there in the front line, when the balloon goes up, with fixed bayonets, when the whistle’s about to blow to go over the top, do we actually want to be there with women beside us? Do we? What an extraordinarily bizarre idea! I certainly don’t think so.
He added: “But maybe it’s because I’ve got so many women pregnant over the years that I have a different view. I find it very difficult to think that we could stand up and run over the top together, into the machine guns or whatever. Men and women are different – thank God!”
The interview, conducted with Belgian magazine Up Front in 2010, was uncovered on Wednesday by Political Scrapbook.
Farage was also reported to have agreed with comments made by then Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom about maternity leave. “Godfrey’s comment that ‘no employer with a brain in the right place would employ a young, single, free woman’ has been proved so right,” Farage said. “With this lunacy, that if you have children you get three months paid leave off work, or six months paid leave off work – he absolutely got it spot on.”
Bloom was kicked out of Ukip by Farage last year when he was recorded telling a room full of women that they were “sluts” and then proceeded to hit a reporter over the head with a book before running away in a taxi.
The Ukip leader has made controversial comments about the role of women in the workplace since that interview took place. In January he claimed there was not “any discrimination against women at all” in the City of London.
Farage has admitted that his party does not do as well among women and men, but said women were “slowly but surely” taking over Ukip. “Nobody has done more in Ukip to promote women than I have,” he said in February.”When you get the results from European elections you’ll be astonished to see as many women as men in the top slots in Ukip, things have changed.”
Laure Ferrari picked up in a Restaurant in Strasbourg by Nigel Farage & Godfrey Bloom & despite no experience put on the UKIP / EFD / EU payroll as UKIP delegation Head of PR!
Now standing, after training by UKIP as an extreme right wing French candidate!
Yet UKIP makes a big fuss about the risk of Romanians taking British jobs – just look at their staff list of foreigners!
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Profile: Laure Ferrari, the protegee of Nigel Farage
21/05/2014 – 07:59
Laure Ferrari [debout-la-france.fr]
Laure Ferrari, EU election candidate for the far-right party Arise the Republic (Debout la République), entered politics after an unexpected encounter with Nigel Farage, the firebrand eurosceptic Britton. She is profiled in the third part of a series looking at the French election candidates, by EurActiv France.
Laure Ferrari decided to enter politics after an unexpected encounter with two famous Eurosceptic MEPs, Britain’s Godfrey Bloom (independent) and Nigel Farage (UKIP).
“At the time in 2007, I was working in a restaurant in Strasbourg. I met these two MEPs and we started talking about politics,” she told EurActiv France.
“The two Brits have no hierarchy and neither of them comes from a political background,” she explained.
There was a clear political affinity between the charismatic UKIP leader and the young woman, and what started as a by-chance meeting quickly turned into collaboration. Laure Ferrari started working with Nigel Farage in the European Parliament, where she was head of public relations for the British delegation to the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group, EFD, which is co-chaired by Farage.
“Everyone says that I am Nigel Farage’s parliamentary assistant, but this is not true! I was head of public relations,” Ferrari claimed.
Stroke of luck
Laure Ferrari never thought she would have the chance to spend seven years in the European Parliament or run for the 2014 EU elections for the French far-right party, Arise the Republic. “Before 2005, I hadn’t a clue about politics,” she said. “For me, it was carried out by old men who sat around talking.”
Her total disinterest transformed during the 2005 French referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. “I said to myself: the EU is going behind the backs of European citizens here. I was always a bit of a rebel,” she said.
“What I find repelling about the European Union is that it imposes a vision that does not correspond to that of the European citizens!” she continued.
Laure Ferrari, from the northwestern French town of Épinal, studied English at the University of Strasbourg, and then spent two years doing a master’s degree in communications.
After her studies, she opened a cloths shop in Strasbourg called ‘Urban Flavor’. This surprising decision is explained by a longing to be independent. “I couldn’t see myself working for someone else. Therefore I set out on my own and got a bank loan to buy the business,” she said.
Ferrari ran the shop for two years. She soon realised that independence comes at a price. “I launched the business during the economic crisis and realised that working in this sector turned out to be…. quite lonely! “Financial difficulties pushed her to work as a waitress in order to “round off the end of the month.”
Ferrari has no family background that compelled her to join a Eurosceptic party. “I would say my dad was a gaullist and my mother… cannot be categorised, although she always considered herself a bit to the left”, said the young woman, whose family own a commercial road haulage company.
Close Franco-UK ties
Laure Ferrari discovered Arise the Republic whilst working at the European Parliament. “In 2011, I met Nicolas-Dupont Aignan, who I did not know at all! I was instantly won over by his personality and political programme,” said Ferrari.
Hereafter, she organised meetings between both Eurosceptic party leaders. “The ball started rolling. Now, they are like two peas in a pod!” she said. Since then, meetings and cooperation between the two political figures have grown.
“I have also tried to reach out to the German Eurosceptic party, Alternative für Deutschland(AfD). However, relations with them will not be possible until after the elections.”
Uneasy label: ‘extreme’
Despite her negative views of the EU, Laure Ferrari refuses to be classified as far-right or be compared to the National Front, France’s most popular far-right party. This frequent comparison makes her feel uneasy. “We must not forget that there are plenty of left-wing parties that classify themselves as eurosceptic,” she emphasised.
“When I was younger, I took part in protests against the National Front when Marie Le Pen made to it the second round of the French presidential elections in 2002,” she said. “Some of their ideas, like those regarding the death penalty and immigration, disgust me.”
However, their campaign ideas bear striking resemblance. “Even on Europe, the National Front bases many of their ideas on us, not the other way around,” claimed the want-to-be MEP.
Ferrari does not believe in abolishing the EU. Although Arise the Republic advocates an EU exit, the European Council is a positive component of the Union. Exiting the single currency and bringing back the French Franc also features in their political programme, but the Euro would remain as an “international currency”.
Clearly UKIP Couldn’t Organise A Carnival In Croydon so why do people think they have a serious role inpolitics where they can’t deliver either – 21 years and still no Exit & Survival Plan!
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as ever UKIP’s desperate efforts to pretend to inclusivity leaves them with Winston McKenzie as a ticking time bomb who as so often happens with UKIP under Nigel Farage’s inept attempts at leadership has yet again ‘blown’!
Just as in almost every election UKIP participates in issues overtake policies and as ever this time the overt racism of Farage’s chosen campaign where we note that the only publicity UKIP has received in the election run up has either been that which they purchased or bad publicity, which to be fair has indeed drawn support but sadly, as can be seen in these photos, amongst the elderly and those who previously supported the BNP and other xenophobes.
You will note how the UKIP racist issue has totally subsumed any reasoned rational promotion of policy to Leave_The_EU. This is hardly surprising in the ligyht of their inept and ill considered damaging campaign that gained so much bad publicity to add to the baggage that UKIP has attracted that has largely lost them the core vote from genuine EUroSceptics and has so damaged the EUroRealist movement such that if they continue to pretend to represent those opposed to membership of The EU that there is a danger that in the next year or two they will manage to lock Britain into membership and vassal status in the EU.
Astonishingly after 21 years UKIP still has absolutely no viable Exit & Survival Atrategy and clearly have very little understanding of just how the EU works, its foundations or its aims. UKIP has failed to explain just how Britain would be better off out of The EU or how it could be achieved – nor of the bigger picture and whilst they have a line of denigratory & childish rhetoric they would seem to have absoluitely no strategy or tactics that encompass the facts – just ya boo rhetoric.
UKIP quite clearly has no understanding of the background of the EU and their actions in placing their impramature on the negotiated edicts of The WHO, CODEX, Davos and other International bodies that oil the wheels of International trade and relations – The EU instigates almost nothing of consequence merely taking our place at the negotiating tables seeking a one size fits all concept making no allowances for the needs, aspirations and values of many of the constituent Nation States.
UKIP has displayed its ineptitude and lack of gravitas on a seriak basis – many may adulate them but few respect them whilst a clear majority despise their cheap style and fundamental lack of any candidates of note in any serious terms.UKIP lacked even the competence to put forward an entry for the BrExit Prize, clearly having no one of competence to research and write such a paper – though I concede that with 20/20 hindsight we now know that the BrExit Prize devolved into farce due to the corrupt management by The IEA and the ineptitude of the judges, which must have been disapointing for the 15 year old, who unlike UKIP, was actually able to present an entry for judgement.
Clearly UKIP is hugely out of its depth – it is not just Nigel Farage ducking out on attending meetings and being unable to cope with hard/combative interview by a well versed interviewer, as shown by James O’Brien on LBC CLICK HERE One need only read through their list of largely low life and nobodies they have fielded as candidate to represent them (for they sure won’t represent me and millions of others like me who seek competence) there really isn’t a single individual of competence, gravitas and integrity amongst their 60 or so candidates.
Then look at their candidates for the 4,000 local Council seats as they lurch from idiocy to irelevance as they are clearly such low grade – I look at my own Council and even in comparison with Labour who I have zero affinity with and the Lib.Dims. I have little but contempt for or even Tory who are so smugly inept UKIP are little more than an embarrassment – as shown by the publicity they have attracted as they follow in the footsteps of general failure of those who went before them.
UKIP may well have polled well for the EU election where we can expect 30% or less participation although it is clear the mask is slipping as the public see through the facade and UKIP has clearly peaked too early and they face every danger of a collapse in their vote, though the low turnout favours minority parties, there is still a chance they will come a close second with around 25 MEP seats but the danger they may only manage to hang onto a close third witha dozen seats only, which becomes ever more likely day on day and were it a further two weeks to the election they might do even worse.
Of the 4,000 local government seats up for election I very much doubt UKIP will top 200 and the number is also falling as the days pass and UKIP’s low grad candidates lurch from bad publicity to offensive behaviour!
Little wonder that Nigel Farage has to lay claim to his crass comments being due to being tired – let us not forget that interogators use sleep deprivation as a means to expose the truth! That Farage is living in 3 different Countries staying either in hotels or The East India Club rarely visiting his alleged home where he has been paying his ‘wife’ some £30K a year of public money – presumably either as hush money or to keep the house aired we know not though we do know for certain that to originally get himself onto the gravy train he promised never to employ family members!
Perhaps he no longer considers Kirsten to be a relation in the light of the clear estrangement of their relationship!
Ukip scraps ‘carnival’ to prove it’s not racist after steel band refuses to play in front of ‘Love Colour’ sign and Farage stays away
Members of the steel band say they are ‘embarrassed‘ to be there – and leave
Ukip planned ‘bold and vibrant’ event in Croydon to dispel racism claims
Steel band told to set up in front of a shop window with ‘Love Colour’ sign
Party members clashed with angry protesters as police looked on
Croydon council candidate Winston McKenzie brands the town ‘a dump’
Nigel Farage pulled out of attending the event amid security concerns
Published: 18:45, 20 May 2014 | Updated: 18:45, 20 May 2014
Nigel Farage was forced to pull the plug on his latest attempt to prove Ukip is not racist, after a steel band refused to play at a bizarre ‘Carnival’ in Croydon.
The Ukip leader hoped it would be a ‘bold and vibrant’ event to defy his critics, but organisers were confronted with protesters likening the party to Nazis.
Mr Farage abandoned plans to attend after opponents clashed with party members, the steel band walked out and a Ukip candidate branded Croydon a ‘dump’.
Ukip supporters clash with opponents in Croydon town centre where their leader Nigel Farage was due to speak, but didn’t turn up
A steel band booked to play at the event instead packed up before Mr Farage had arrived
Band members said they were ’embarrassed’ to be there, and packed up before Ukip leader Nigel Farage arrived
Ukip yesterday paid for a full-page advert in a national newspaper insisting it was not racist.
Today’s event, staged in front of a shop window with the slogan ‘Love Colour’ was a follow-up to a rally Mr Farage held featuring candidates and members from ethnic minorities.
In an apparent admission that the party had to do more to prove it was not racist, the street rally was organised in Croydon.
But Ukip candidates and supporters clashed with protesters and campaigners. Romanians carrying banners about Nazis argued with party members about Nigel Farage’s remarks last week about Romanian neighbours.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage, who sparked controversy with comments about Romanians during an interview on LBC last week, was forced to abandon plans to visit Croydon
The event was supposed to draw a line under recent controversies over comments made by Ukip candidates
Instead the ‘carnival’ descended into a stand-off between protesters and Ukip members, with journalists looking on
Organisers seemed unprepared for the number of protesters accusing Ukip of being Nazis
Ukip strategists cancelled Mr Farage’s visit at the last moment, claiming there was a security threat
Ukip are expected to top the European Parliament elections on Thursday, which Mr Farage says will trigger a political earthquake
See the highlights of Nigel Farage’s car crash interview on LBC
Winston McKenzie, a black Ukip candidate in Thursday’s election, clashed with black teenagers in a debate over whether he was a leader of the community while also being in the party.
He used a megaphone to make a speech urging people to make Britain great again. Mr Farage was due to attend the event, dubbed a carnival or street party, on Croydon High Street.
In his speech, Mr McKenzie said: ‘I want to thank all of the patriotic people in this country who are fed up, let down by the situation.
‘I’m sick to death… of hearing the same rhetoric come from the same stale political parties.
‘It’s time people woke up and realised this country is being disenfranchised.’
Protesters waved placards branding Ukip the ‘modern Nazi party’ as they disrupted the street event
Ukip officials struggled to maintain control and eventually cancelled Mr Farage’s vist
Ukip council candidate Winston McKenzie tried to shout down opponents on Croydon High Street
Mr McKenzie said Mr Farage would not be attending because as a family man and party leader ‘certain situations you have to avoid’
Mr McKenzie said there was no choice but to cancel the event, adding: ‘Croydon is unsafe and a dump’
Police officers watched over the peaceful but heated clashes outside the Whitgift Shopping Centre.
The Endurance Steel band, which included black members, told reporters they were ’embarrassed’ to be there because they did not think that people should vote for Ukip.
Winston McKenzie, a Ukip council candidate in Croydon, tried to silence critics using a megaphone. Standing in front of a Ukip battlebus he addressed a small group of party members.
But as he was shouted down by opponents, it emerged that Mr Farage had cancelled a visit to the town. Mr McKenzie confirmed Mr Farage would not be attending, citing security concerns.
He told reporters: ‘He’s a responsible family man and political party leader. Certain situations you have to avoid.’
Mr McKenzie added: ‘Croydon is unsafe and a dump.’
Protesters told Ukip to ‘f*** off’ and challenged them over remarks by one council candidate who said comedian and actor Lenny Henry should emigrate to a ‘black country’.
At an event on May 7 Mr Farage posed with black and Asian supporters to insist: ‘Don’t call us racist’
Amjad Bashir, the party’s small and medium size business spokesman, is pictured shaking Mr Farage’s hand after telling the rally: ‘Take a look at all the faces and skin colours represented on this stage and tell me Ukip is a racist party’
It came after Mr Farage was condemned by politicians from the three main parties after declaring in a radio interview last week that everyone knows ‘the difference’ between Romanians and Germans. Mr Farage’s second wife Kirsten is German.
The Ukip leader yesterday attempted to backtrack, saying the vast majority of Romanians were ‘good people’.
‘If I gave the impression… that I was discriminating against Romanians then I apologise certainly for that,’ the Ukip leader said on a campaign visit to Ramsgate. He said people would – rather than should – be concerned about Romanian neighbours.
He added: ‘Can we just have an honest appraisal of what has happened to post-communist Romania? Across the whole of the European Union, amongst all 28 member states, 7 per cent of all crime is committed by 240 Romanian gangs.’
UKIP Discovers: When You Depend On Stunts Await A Falling Star! As their conference star Sanya-Jeet Thandi has proved.
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as one Asian woman said when she quit UKIP:
“Ukip is exploiting the stupidity of ignorant anti-immigrant voters for electoral gain, While the party deliberately attracts the racist vote I refuse to be associated with them.”
Ukip’s ‘rising star’ is rising no more; she’s quit in disgust
Ukip ‘rising star’ says party is ‘exploiting the stupidity of ignorant anti-immigrant voters’
Back in November 2011, Ukip posted a video on YouTube in which Nigel Farage tried to knock on the head the notion that Ukip was a “whites only” party – propagated, he said, by The Independent and The Guardian – which was peopled by “very angry old men.” As evidence, he produced an 18-year-old named Sanya-Jeet Thandi, who had taken that autumn’s Ukip conference by storm. “A rising star of the party,” he called her.
As such, she was on Channel 4 only this month defending Ukip’s immigration policies, on the grounds that Ukip would give equal treatment to all would-be immigrants while the EU favours EU citizens.
But Sanya-Jeet Thandi is a rising star of Ukip no more. She has quit in disgust at the anti-immigrant campaign Ukip is now running. “Ukip is exploiting the stupidity of ignorant anti-immigrant voters for electoral gain,” she wrote. “While the party deliberately attracts the racist vote I refuse to be associated with them.”
Ukip’s garagistes
The events of the past couple of days have also raised questions about how much certain members of Ukip value free speech. Janice Atkinson, who chairs the party in the South-east, thinks protesters who shout “fascist” at Ukip members should be arrested. And an unidentified councillor:
sent for the police because he objected to a tweet posted by a Green blogger, Michael Abberton, lampooning Ukip policy.
Finally, the Camden New Journal recorded a Ukip candidate in West Hampstead, Magnus Neilsen:
reflecting that the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1888, which extended the vote to working-class men, may have been a mistake.
But there is a group of Ukip activists who value free expression – their own, if no one else’s. Protesting against the treatment of “hard-working, right-thinking, garage-owning Brits”, they have been busy in Cambridge decorating the doors of a row of garages with large black vinyl letters spelling out the words “Farage garage” – which they presumably pronounce so that the two words rhyme, though some of us make Farage rhyme with barrage and garage with carriage.
The letters were easily removed without damage to the doors, but when Cambridge News asked Ukip’s Cambridge branch chairman, Peter Burkinshaw, what he thought of this stunt, he replied: “I hate graffiti of all kinds. I think these messages should be illegal.” Spoken like a true Ukipper.
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Posted: 21/05/2014 12:23 BST