Wow, this is a blistering analysis from a top journalist, Leo Mckinstry, who once, a long time ago, was a Labour councillor and a parliamentary aide to Harriet Harman.
"A Ukip victory will transform the landscape of British politics
THE political establishment is quaking with fear.
Its cosy cartel is coming to an end, broken by its contempt for the British people and for Britain’s national interests."
www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/leo-mckinstry/536154/Ukip-victory-will-transform-landscape-british-politics
I could almost have written this myself. So true. They have contempt for us and now we have contempt for them too.
"Such a result will cause dismay within Westminster."
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"Yesterday their campaign plumbed new depths with a laughable attack on Ukip by the former premier John Major, the hollow man of Maastricht and the Cones Hotline.
Brimming with a deluded sense of his own wisdom, the arch mediocrity who presided over Black Wednesday and the biggest Tory electoral defeat since 1906 was wheeled out to denounce Ukip as “profoundly unBritish”.
As usual, Major was talking bilge.
To accuse Ukip of being unpatriotic because of the party’s refusal to follow the fashionable orthodoxy on open borders, foreign aid and surrender to Brussels is a trick adopted by that other loser Nick Clegg.
But the criticism is absurd.
There is nothing remotely unpatriotic about wanting to keep our democracy, sovereignty and heritage.
If we remain in the EU there will ultimately be no Britain.
If we maintain uncontrolled immigration, there will be no British identity.
Sir John’s assault just illustrates how badly rattled the political establishment really is.
The mainstream politicians have no answer to Ukip’s claim that they have fundamentally betrayed this country.
So they just fall back on childish abuse and empty slogans.
But the public has seen through deceitful, bullying propaganda.
That is why Ukip surges in the polls while the two main parties see their ratings plummet."
Couldn't have put it better myself
"Nor is their candidate, Naushabah Khan, a convincing local champion against Westminster rule, for all her blather about fighting for the NHS.
A 28-year-old lobbyist, she is the embodiment of the progressive metropolitan elite, having previously worked as a policy aide in the Commons, the European Parliament and the Department of Education.
If Reckless wins, the turmoil in the two main parties will intensify.
There is now speculation that at least five more Conservative backbenchers are ready to defect.
Those who remain will be now be even more fearful of the onward advance of Nigel Farage’s party.
Recent victories at Rochester and Clacton would show that vast numbers of suburban, southern English Tory seats are at risk, especially in Kent and Essex."
"There has been nothing like it since the 1920s, when the rise of Labour transformed the Liberals from a party of government into an irrelevant fringe group.
This time both main parties could suffer a permanent, catastrophic decline in support, which would be no more than they deserve after the way they have misgoverned Britain."
Devastating stuff.
Everywhere you go, people are doing a thumbs up for UKIP, people are saying we are voting UKIP. All you hear is people saying and sometimes whispering outside of the earshot of the metropolitan elite
"Vote UKIP, get UKIP"
and the panic in elite circles is at catastrophic levels. This is a climate of catastrophe for the politically corret spinners. Everyone and their dog has passed the "tipping point".