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Ukip 'Most Favourably Regarded Party'

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claig · 18/01/2014 23:08

Is there a quiet revolution going on despite the insults aimed at UKIP and their voters by some people in other parties who refer to good people as nutters, fruitcakes and racists?

How has this happened, how has UKIP become so popular despite the wishes of the great and the good and the TV propaganda of the paid-for media puppets?

I am bafffled and Confused

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/18/ukip-most-favourably-regarded_n_4623876.html

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TheHammaconda · 16/02/2014 10:06

Isitmebut

IF UKIP won a majority in the House of Commons and they put exit from the EU in their election manifesto the Salisbury Convention would apply. The Lords will not block anything that the public have voted on. IF UKIP won the UK would exit the EU.

They wouldn't need to win 326 seats given the number of Eurosceptic Tories, abstentions and Sinn Fein MPs.

UKIP have three Lords, BTW, not two.

Isitmebut · 16/02/2014 01:34

A Ukip majority in the lower house of commons in Westminster, whats that 326 seats, versus your current zero seats, and necks, totally out of it?

To be then passed into law by the upper chamber, by your current two Lords?

What year are you pencilling this all in by, 2035? lol

Stop the nonsense, for the sake of the country rather than Ukip money men and political power wannabees, take Dave's offer to be allowed to vote Conservative - so we can vote on the EU by 2017, rather than wait for Ukip to get it's purple pooh together, some time after 2035.

Spinflight · 15/02/2014 15:55

Claig,

I only fed the troll a few minutes ago on a different thread. Let him enjoy himself, he's been taking quite a battering...

The only way the UK will ever get out of the EU is by electing a majority UKIP government.

Liblabcon are up to their necks in it.

claig · 15/02/2014 15:26

There is no point bringing up Alan Skid. Things move on and change. Skid is gone and Farage is leader now. When Cameron took over the Tory Party there were about 300,000 members, now half of them have left. Gorn in 60 seconds.

Old leaders often have views that clash with those of a new leadership.

There was a leader of the Tories who didn't think highly of Thatcher, but the public preferred Thatcher to Heath, and I suspect the public prefer Farage to Skid.

Skid's gone from UKIP, the leadership has changed. But one thing remains the same - The Tory Party is on the skids.

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Isitmebut · 15/02/2014 15:18

Spin….so you are saying that as the Conservative Party is THE only party that can bring the UK people a vote of the EU, but failed to get a parliamentary majority in 2010 because of just 26,000 Ukip votes across 20 or so key marginals - FOR THE GOOD OF THIS COUNTRY, Ukip should follow their EU principals - rather than try and lie their way to Westminster parliamentary seats?

I’d suggest THAT is the hand that the very polite Mr Cameron is offering you; vote Conservative to ensure an EU Referendum, rather than keep lying to your self and the voters that Ukip have it in their power to bring the Uk out of the EU.

Poor dave doesn't know what I know, Ukip members and voters don't care about any policies, or that Ukip is powerless to bring the Uk out of the EU - but Ukip's founder Alan Sked has your number, doesn't he? lol

Spinflight · 15/02/2014 14:25

And the big businesses are the biggest gainers of all.

Nothing better than to threaten your workforce with desperate peeps if they stubbornly refuse to tug their forelock.

The neo-liberal agenda for open borders only really benefits a small number of people who can sell their labour to the highest bidder anywhere in the world, or EU.

It certainly isn't a recipe for a happy family life.

Saying that if you're rich and your nanny, builder, plumber and Mercedes are cheaper then you'd be a big fan...

PlainBrownEnvelope · 15/02/2014 10:10

I think there's an odd link in the mind of people where anti-immigration= right wing= Tory, whereas actually the way to look at it is anti-immigration= protectionist= left wing, at least economically. Immigration is a very capitalist construct- gives supply and demand free reign in impacting wages, housing, education etc. The people most impacted by that are the low waged- Labours typical supporters. Rich people benefit from immigration more than they suffer.

Spinflight · 15/02/2014 05:51

That's certainly my experience PlainBrownEnvelope.

People forget that Old labour was in favour of exiting the EU, and that Blairism was something put up with rather than welcomed. Heath of course was a tory and thatcher campaigned to remain in the EU.

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukipwatch/100256765/meet-ukip-britains-most-working-class-party/

For some reason however the tories are utterly obsessed with UKIP, as though they alone have a right to our vote.

It's not a matter of too late Dave, it was never thus.... Frankly they are becoming delusional.

PlainBrownEnvelope · 15/02/2014 05:36

Interestingly, most UKIP voters defect from Labour, not the Conservatives.

Spinflight · 15/02/2014 05:29

Yep, they're definitely rattled...

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10637931/Wythenshawe-by-election-Cameron-promises-to-listen-to-Ukip.html

Why on earth would he want to listen to fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists?

Spinflight · 15/02/2014 05:22

They certainly are rattled in tory HQ then!

And so they should be, UKIP is the most favourably regarded party. Even those who disagree with us entirely tend to respect our motives.

UKIP is just ordinary people who have realised that if they don't do something to fix the country then no-one is going to do it for them. Eventually we will take back power from the subreptile political classes. We are a party of plebs, who want our representatives to be plebs and act in the pleb's interests.

Regarding the floods though it was EU, and by extension tory, ibdem and labour policy to allow the Somerset levels to flood....

www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=84683

twitter.com/IshtarsGate/status/434127550776754176/photo/1

In the second link the huge red and beige area is that where..

"Take action to INCREASE flood risks strategically"
"Continue with existing actions but accept increased flood risks over time"

Apparently the ever so green Mr Cameron prefers his molluscs and welks to the people who live in the local areas. The bird sanctuary wasn't an accident of expenditure, the whole area was deemed to be best left to wetlands to increase biodiversity... Probably so that London people who like birds and molluscs didn't have to travel too far...

Compare the area I noted in the second link to this before and after shot...

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-weather-somerset-levels-satellite-3142174

And it worked. The environment agency have been following this policy under all three of the liblabcons, indeed they threatened to put a limpet mine on all of the pumping stations to make it happen.

I guess Mr Cameron can be proud of that... Not that it would be any different under Miliband.

Isitmebut · 14/02/2014 12:40

Ironmaiden…OF COURSE I’m serious about one-legged tattooed lesbians, someone has to stand up for them, why not the UK rainbow party who will say anything for a vote?

Look don’t take my Ukip criticisms personally, if the Monster Looney Party enjoyed Ukip supporters attempts at political mistruths and had success due to it, and/or influenced the outcome of an election’s results like in 2010, I’d be equally mad at them as I find it both dishonest and destructive – especially if the Conservative’s THEN get blamed by Ukip’s minions for following more liberal policies.

I understand politicians and their party’s exaggerate their remedies for UK prosperity, but the 2010 election was crucial to the future of this country and therefore a time for ‘state of the State’ (and remedy) honesty to enlarge the policy debate, NOT stifle it, waiting for after the general election to implement policies.

So as we approach 2015 it concerns me that political spin doctors, with snake oil remedies, are currently influencing political debates and probably the 2015 outcome – and while it seems a game to them, I am worried for the sake of the county, of the outcome, including coalitions of any kind.

I may not agree with them, but I respect any political party’s polices, as that tells me what the party and the person stands for. So while you might call the tearing up a manifesto your party gained those votes on, (influencing a general an European elections in the process), as “honesty” – I could not disagree more with you on that, and it tells me a lot about the character of both the party and leader

Isitmebut · 14/02/2014 12:38

Claig…of course people affected are angry, but even the majority of them know inside that Cameron can not stop the sea crashing on all the coasts and/or 250- year record rainfall would have got them wet anyway.

Again what was Ukip’s policy on this??????

Huge problems in this country, that Labour ideologically would NEVER have been allowed to fix so left them alone prior to 2010, ARE being fixed, and results are now starting to be seen and a £158 billion annual Labour overspend, is now £100 billion and still limiting spending options.

I know it don’t suit your mistruth peddling agenda, but as more and more results come through that the only other party that will form an administration in 2015 COULDN’T do – the more Ukip’s critical prattling looks both opportunist and stupid.

claig · 14/02/2014 12:10

In that case, I appear to have used the wrong analogy.

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ohmymimi · 14/02/2014 12:08

You're Pickles/rottweiler analogy is spot on - the breed is large, dense, has a loud and annoying bark, a viscious and destructive bite and produces huge amounts of noxious crap.

Viviennemary · 14/02/2014 11:59

A lot of people are totally disillusioned with all parties. Lib dems - waste of time. Milliband a total pain in the neck. Cameron is better but would I vote for him possibly but probably not. I know we don't vote for PM's here but the leader of the party is so important. Labour get rid of Miliband or else they will lose the election but they won't because he will have to lose the election before they can get rid of him. So I'm told.

claig · 14/02/2014 11:27

' especially acts of god'

It is no use blaming acts of God or 'climate catastrophe'. It won't wash with the public. Thank God they have belatedly called in the great Dutch engineers to install the best pumping system in the world. But why didn't they do it sooner?

It was the great Dutch engineers who built the protection for the Somerset Levels hundreds of years ago, and it is the great Dutch engineers who are helping us now.

'spend a bit more time scanning the press for what HAS been achieved (much of it long overdue) rather than what wasn’t'

Of course good things have been achieved, but lots of crap has been done too, and apparently it is claimed that Cameron has even said that we should "cut the green crap", but will he follow through?

Several years ago, UKIP got fewer votes than the BNP in some constituencies and now they are above the Tories and competing directly with Labour in some constituencies. Why?

Their policies haven't changed dramatically, they haven't changed their values and what they stand for. The reason is that now the people are listening and it is because they are fed up with the entire political class because they are almost indistinguishable in many ways.

Most of the quangos are headed up by ex New Labour types, the same faces as under Blair. Many of the so-called "tsars" and many of the so-called "charities" are headed up by ex New Labour types, the same faces as under Blair. Nobody criticises anybody except in a pantomime PMQ. Pickles is not allowed off his chain in case he starts to apportion blame and criticise anyone.

The Tory slogan "vote blue, go green" really seems to be "vote blue, get Blair".

People want change, they want people who can make a difference, they want ideologies such as Thatcher's or Bob Crow's; they don't want more of the same, with the same old 'tsars' and the same old windmills and the same old "Depressed River Mussels".

There are huge problems in the country and people want them fixed.

The good work that the Tories have done in fixing some of them and creating a recovering economy may end up being overshadowed by their failures and their lack of courage to "cut the crap" and differentiate themselves from the other parties.

Pickles could do it, but no one has the courage to let him off his chain. The 'modernisers' prefer pussycats to rottweilers like Pickles, and that is why they may end up losing the election.

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Isitmebut · 14/02/2014 11:07

Claig…I know any politician taking responsibility by apologising for ANYTHING on their watch has been alien to the English electorate for many years now, but that is how it should be when politicians take responsibility.

But much of the point of forming all the hundreds of extra Quangos under Labour was to expensively devolve responsibility and think up PC and buzz word ideas were to make themselves look useful and worth 6-figure salaries/pensions at the top.

And rumour has it the coalition have both had to concentrate and have acted on far more pressing policies to ensure the whole UK didn’t get flushed down the Swanee River, whether we had unexpected 250-year high rainful or not.

I know ‘objective’ isn’t in your vocab, but spend a bit more time scanning the press for what HAS been achieved (much of it long overdue) rather than what wasn’t, especially acts of god – and you’ll save a lot of angry bunching of your shorts.

claig · 14/02/2014 11:06
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nonmifairidere · 14/02/2014 11:05

claig the only thing Pickles had ever got to the bottom of was a chip bag.

ohmymimi · 14/02/2014 10:58

Oi, claig, leave that River Mussel alone, it's already depressed. You'll push it over the edge with your threats of an unleashed Pickles dredging it's sludgy haven.

claig · 14/02/2014 10:45

nonmifairidere, we need people like Pickles to shake things up and ask serious questions. He doesn't follow all the niceties and Eton manners. He is like a bull in a china shop, but sometimes when disasters happen, people like him are necessary in order to get to the bottom of the reasons why.

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nonmifairidere · 14/02/2014 10:41

I was about to say Pickles serves as neither use nor ornament, but there must be somewhere he could be stuffed to hold back rising waters. About time the slopey shouldered windbag did something of use.

claig · 14/02/2014 10:22

What would Thatcher have said about the "Depressed River Mussel" and the "IUCN Red List" and the "Biodiversity Action Plan" when people's homes and businesses were at any risk?

She would have said what Farage would probably say too.

You can quote facts and figures all you like, but everybody can see that something is wrong in the "state of Denmark" when the "Depressed River Mussel" has such a high priority and when dredging did not have a high enough priority.

Who is overseeing things?
Who regulates the financial regulators on whose watch the banks crashed our economy and who regulates how much is spent on windmills and what priority is given to the "Depressed River Mussel" when dredging has been de-prioritised?

Maybe Pickles could find out if they let him off his chain.

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claig · 14/02/2014 10:03

' you listen to the expert advice of those in charge of rivers and flood plains, until seen to have been wrong'

'Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Pickles apologised on behalf of the government while continuing to pin blame on the EA. He said: "We made a mistake, there's no doubt about that and we perhaps relied too much on the Environment Agency's advice."

Asked if the prime minister should also apologise, Pickles said: "I'll apologise. I'll apologise unreservedly.

"I am really sorry that we took the advice … we thought we were dealing with experts."

www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/09/eric-pickles-apologises-floods-environment-agency-somerset

The agency’s report said: ‘A number of protected and threatened species are known to be present in the waters of the Lower Thames, including the Depressed River Mussel, which is a UK Biodiversity Action Plan species, and on the IUCN Red List as near-threatened.

‘This poses a constraint on any works to be undertaken within the River Thames itself, especially activities such as dredging.’

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2558087/So-wasnt-Thames-dredged-In-case-rare-mollusc-disturbed-despite-region-described-one-undefended-flood-plains-England.html

Why don't the 'modernisers' have the courage to let Eric Pickles off his chain and go for it? They won't do it, they probably won't sack anyone and they probably won't hold a public inquiry into the mistakes that must have been foreseen by many people and which have caused enormous costs to people and businesses.

You seem to think everything is going swimmingly. Well the rivers are certainly flooding. Pundits are saying that if these floods happen again next year, just months before an election, then Tory chances of victory may be swept away with the flood.

What people want is preparation, not excuses. What they want is action and courage, not windmills. Let Pickles off his chain!

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