Posted on 05/23/2014 10:21:35 AM PDT by mandaladon
The crazy bastards only went and did it. Despite a concerted slur campaign against it, the UK Independence Party has triumphed at the local council elections, stealing dozens of seats from the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats. Once all the votes are counted, it's unlikely Ukip will control a single council, but its surge in support still represents a dramatic shift in the political landscape.
Suffice to say, the major parties are furious – primarily with the selfish ingrates who voted against the status quo. For the past twenty years, the political elite has peddled a narrative which says that our society is comprised of assorted victim groups – the poor, the oppressed, ethnic minorities, and the sexually different – whose welfare can only be assured by an Olympian council of politicos and their advice-ready supporters.
Watching the laws and listening to the noises that pour from this elite, one might think that hardly anyone remains who wants to be left alone to work hard, respect the law, or observe traditional values. The result of yesterday’s elections suggests otherwise.
The Tories will be particularly angry, because Ukip has split the conservative vote, and increased the likelihood of a Labour victory at the next general election. As far as many are concerned, Ukippers are just hidebound fogeys, who have failed to get with the programme.
While they were trimming their hedges and swapping racist jokes, the world turned, and their obsessions with national sovereignty and small government ended up in the dustbin of history, alongside poorhouses and slavery. If they knew what was good for them, they would ditch their outmoded ideals and get aboard the Big State bandwagon.
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They would be wise to hire some of the UKIP’s consultants...They’ve actually developed a pretty good ground game.
It says that UKIP split the Tory vote. But, if you add UKIP and Tory, aren’t they greater than Labor (in terms of overall support)?
Maybe, but under the first past the post system that will be used for the General election next year, any vote cast for a losing candidate in any given constituency is a losing vote, and so a vote for UKIP that takes enough votes away from a Conservative candidate will increase the chances of the Labour candidate getting in. I think many people will have used these Euro elections to vote UKIP and put the willies up the Tories to force them to be more conservative to win their core voters back. That is how I see the role of UKIP.
Yes in many respects it is.
Elites the world over have more in common with one another, despite language/ethnic/social differences, than they do with their own people. Bureaucrats the same.
George Wallace? Americans have no room for bigotry, at least not in any party I’d vote for.
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