[wtd]

A clearer picture of (UKIP) Nigel Farage, Who are you?, an hour long UK Channel4 video documentary reveals more about UKIP/Farage in an attempt to destroy them. Some feature points:

• 71% of UKIP supporters are independent minded 50+ years of age 28:33 Farage: "Every pub is a parliament" where hard working, taxpaying responsible adults congregate and discuss politics. The the local pub patrons consider
• the state is too big, too bossy, too greedy and
• voters want/need to lift the shackles of taxation & regulation,
• responsible voters borrow money, take risks because wealth isn't created by governments, it is created people.
• The common sense of a saloon bar believes saving is better than borrowing and we should live within our means.
• UKIP stands for freedom and self reliance, rejects political correctness

• 35:00 discusses immigration issues, described by political opponents as LI>36:20 Farage is another Hitler, or as David Cameron describes Farage's supporters as lunatics, fruitcakes &/or secret racists.

• 38:00 Future immigrants will need a work visa. They will have to support themselves and their families for five years before becoming eligible for welfare benefits, free health care & free education.

• 38:28 Farage: "We as a party are not opposed to immigration. We are not opposed to immigrants - BUT - What we do say is there are a lot of jobs being done in this country by people, mostly from Europe, that frankly, should be being done by our own people."

• 44:52 discusses the question of a potential electoral pact between Tory EU Skeptics & UKIP. . .Farage's answer: absolutely no.

• 45:15 illustrates how political opposition threats are disposed of by incumbents temporary, election-serving embrace of the issues making the opposition popular.

  Especially gratifying, and worth playing the video again to locate the following quote, was the alarm expressed by “The Independent” Columnist, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, from which I quote (ff 49:56)

  “Everything they say, A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E-L-Y..... E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G ..... T-H-E-Y..... S-A-Y ..... I-S ..... C-O-N-T-E-M-P-T-A-B-L-E..... T-O..... M-E!

  worthy a hearty chuckle . . .

  Then ff50:55 to continue:

  “What has to happen between now and the elections that are coming up is that the media has to be kind of controlled in terms of how often Farage gets to the airwaves. I think we should be very, very worried.”

  Censorship – “The Independent” way.

  UK's Labour/Tory/msm are frightened by UKIP's popularity and are working overtime/doubletime to prevent their success in the coming election cycle.

[Marie]

“we need to do more to keep drugs out of our prisons.”

This statement floors me. It’s a serious problem. Prison is the most regulated environment known to man and they STILL can’t control drugs?! Our drug warriors still think they can control drugs in a free society? In Saudi Arabia, they behead drug dealers. And every year, they still have more to behead. The strongest public punishment, and they *still* can’t stop the flow of drugs.

How about we legalize it, tax it, regulate the harsh stuff to addicts only, and put the drug dealers out of business?

Oh, and stop stripping innocent Americans of their civil liberties as well?

[Moltke]

I am just watching this.

From the smarmy (what else?) dubbed narrative (with reference to the older age group that supports UKIP):

"The ideas that Farage champions - like freedom and self-reliance - are old-fashioned values. UKIP represents the noble ideas of another era." (emphasis on "old-fashioned" with a condescending downturn on "another era".) @29:30

As if it were centuries ago and not mere decades. Well, DUH! That generation still remembers the fight against the previous European fascism - unlike the young hipsters who think it will all turn out well because multi-culturalism is such a great thing...