Britain’s most pro-EU party heading for disaster in May

EU Observer ^ | 18.02.14 @ 09:19 | Tim Black

[Olog-hai]

Ahead of May’s European Parliament election, with issues such as the economy and immigration to the fore, none of Britain’s three main parties are stealing a march on their rivals.

The co-governing, right-of-center Conservative Party, also known as the Tories, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, is struggling. What remains of its traditional support base, including some MPs, often seems opposed to the modernizing, socially-liberal direction of its leadership. […]

But viewing the UK's party-political landscape solely in terms of the traditional duopoly (plus the Lib Dems) misses the big political story, and what is likely to be the major theme of the EU elections: the rise of UKIP.

Established in 1993, this nominally right-wing party of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”, as Cameron described it in 2006, has now become the party the others seem to fear the most. This has long been the case for the Conservative Party, the body on which UKIP has long been feasting, sucking up those disaffected by Cameron’s modernizing leadership. …

[Bayard]

Problems with tories seem just lie our own GOPe establishment.

You tell me there is no corruption in politics...Traditional conservatism is being bought and sold to the highest bidder.

[Viennacon]

Good. Cameron is a traitor.

[dsrtsage]

Nigel Farange for president

[ConservativeDude]

Farage is the Ted Cruz of the UK

[Ohioan]

Cameron just does not get it. Mrs. Thatcher demonstrated that the "Conservatives" could actually be conservative, and win back long lost support, while improving the lot of British subjects, but the lesson did not sink in for Cameron.

I do not want to be insulting; but Cameron acts like he is taking advice from Karl Rove--or a similar dysfunctional adviser. If so, the saying that there will "always be an England," comes certainly into doubt.

Truly a sad phenomenon.

William Flax

[AlanGreenSpam]

If you want to see someone who is eminently ARTICULATE, check out Nigel Farage’s speeches against the socialist cronies in the EU.

We need guys like him who could dance circles around Barf Obama’s B.S here in the USA:

Wooohooo for the UK’s UKIP party (UK’s essential equivalent to Tea Party-Libertarians)!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGNoZfvRoA

Nigel nails the EU President on Libya:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvqePqEVVkg

Nigel schools Merkl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gm9q8uabTs

This guy is the new Thatcher or the new Reagan. I wish we had someone here in the US as aggressively articulate for liberty as he is.

Another great one. At 1:34, notice who he’s flanked by (Schiff and Ron Paul).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZap5n3zGZ8

(PASS THESE VIDEOS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS!)

[PapaBear3625]

Nigel being a one-man-show is fine, for the short-term. He needs to cultivate a junior-varsity if UKIP is going to really take off. Mostly I see just him as the face of UKIP.

[Olog-hai]

He also has to drop the BNP infiltrators as quickly as they come in. Farage already had to disown UKIP’s 2010 manifesto (IIRC, it included “proportional response” type language with respect to Israel, among other bad things).

[lentulusgracchus]

Problems with tories seem just lie our own GOPe establishment.

I'm in the mood for a good journalistic whodunit that shows, historically and citably, who is behind, and what is behind, the Bushoid wussification of the two great (more-) conservative parties in the U.K. and U.S. since the departure of Baroness Thatcher and President Reagan.

Their "elite" wings boiled down into the same puddinglike goo, and stand for the same aimless, enrichessez-vous pseudocapitalism that has repeatedly elected their passionate enemies in both countries. And yet their respective party leadership crowds persist in putting forward formless, clueless people like Cameron and Romney.

[PapaBear3625]

Their "elite" wings boiled down into the same puddinglike goo, and stand for the same aimless, enrichessez-vous pseudocapitalism that has repeatedly elected their passionate enemies in both countries. And yet their respective party leadership crowds persist in putting forward formless, clueless people like Cameron and Romney.

The elites have decided that "crony capitalism", where you make your fortunes by being "connected" to the right people in government, is easier and more profitable than competing under true capitalism. The strategy is to control both major parties, so that whoever wins, the same people behind the scenes stay in charge.

[Winniesboy]

You’ve put your finger on the problem, which shows no sign of being resolved. Until it is, UKIP will remain the resort of a protest vote (albeit a much enlarged protest vote) rather than a party with a realistic hope of government.

[lentulusgracchus]

I would say that that is a very succinct summing-up.