More Farage fabulousness

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I couldn't believe it when he said yesterday he was late for a UKIP event – standing up dozens of supporters who had paid £25 for tickets to see him – because immigration was to blame for heavy traffic on the M4.

On top of the breastfeeding fandango, does anyone else think he is taking the piss? It's like he has started to notice that however outrageously reactionary and nonsensical he is, he just gets more support so he's just seeing how far he can push it?

Then one day he will just say "Actually I was just having you on heh heh! You all went for it! I'm actually a comedian."

i'm beginning to think that a lot of the votes for UKIP will come from a sense of the whole bloody system being rotten and fucked so why not just throw in a hand grenade.

it's so corrupt and who you vote for makes so little difference given it's all one big political elite class driven by big business and most particularly the financial services industry.

where someone might have not bothered voting they may vote ukip instead.

i dare say if they finally bloody acceded to, as has been campaigned for for as long as i can remember, a 'none of the above' box on the ballet paper UKIP would likely get less votes. in the absence of the none of the above actually existing many may use the UKIP box to the same effect.

and i'm inclined to agree actually that you could probably elect a circus troop of clowns and it would make no real difference as they don't run the country anyway in any meaningful way just throw around policies.

the 'real' politicians who've been in this time have allowed a clown like IDS to waste BILLIONS on his universal credit pet project that has been so utterly incompetently managed that it really might as well have been governed by crusty the clown.

the whole thing is now so utterly farcical i don't actually believe UKIP could be any worse.

and honestly anyone in teaching will tell you that even a 7yo couldn't have fucked up education any more than gove managed in a few short years.

Yes, that is it, people have had enough and they are past caring any more. They just want the whole lot of these spinners out and some non-establishment people in power (even if they are "fruitcakes") because it can't be any worse and might be better.

The problem is, is UKIP for real? I don't know, I'm not sure. Will they implode due to idiots inside and also due to idiots inside who have been planted in UKIP by the Establishment? There will be a huge number of plots and dirty tricks happening in the next 5 months because if UKIP is for real then the Establishment will do everything they can to finish UKIP off.

trouble for me is that ukip aren't non establishment to my mind - they're the far right of the tory party and have massive conservative views. but i can see why people will vote for them.

i can't see abolishing inheritance tax as anti establishment - it's the opposite, allowing for constant reinforcement and compounding of established wealth. nor does 'lower taxes' mean anything to the working poor who frequently don't even earn enough to pay tax anyway. essentially the policies will benefit the wealthiest much as tory policies do. they're essentially 'super tories'.

but again i'm not even sure what difference it makes any more - there's no such thing as a left wing party now, and the alleged centre is actually what would have been called the right wing when i was growing up and frankly none of these bastards give a damn about the country or people. it's a pantomime of spoilt little rich boys

i would vote for the guy fawkes party now personally.

and the immigration issues i don't see being discussed by any of them are the changes that have come for british people whereby we've lost a load of rights of our 'nationality' and presumably this i a strategy across europe to make people nationless fluid labour units. so for example the laws have been changed in such a way that if i go off and work abroad for a year upon returning i'm treated like an immigrant just the same as if i was latvian or french or whatever entering the country. a friend moved back to the uk recently after a year away and was not entitled to any benefits or help in any way shape or form for 3months. the exact same conditions as any immigrant coming in from the EU.

my concern with the immigration situation is that it's basically just the establishment creating a bigger factory farm and being able to move cattle around according to need to effect the cheapest labour and not have to owe any of those cattle any real nationality rights.

re: a british woman fleeing domestic violence with the husband she followed to france for his work returns to the uk and has no right to assistance and is treated just hte same as if she was a greek man entering the country as a financial migrant.

it's like people are so caught up in the divide and rules strategies of arguing about what is racist and who is them and who is us that they miss the reality of what is actually happening to all of us down here beneath the superwealthy ceiling.

You're right. That has been going on for years and yet none of the press highlight it and bring it to public attention so that it can be changed.