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Nigel vs the Lunatic Mainstream (2014)
Steyn Online ^ | 22 March 2014 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 03/22/2016 2:17:33 PM PDT by Lorianne

Today Britain goes to the polls to vote in the European elections. Nigel Farage has had a rough ride, to the point where a casual observer might easily assume the election was being fought between Farage's UKIP and a Tory-Labour-Liberal-Media coalition. That's apparently not the case. There are four main choices for voters, notwithstanding the media's wish to make it a referendum on Farage's "racism". According to some of the public polling, that may have done some last-minute damage. According to the internal polling, maybe not:

Labour and Conservative polling is showing that attacks claiming Nigel Farage is a racist have backfired since voters do not regard him as such and see the assaults as a sign members of the political establishment are ganging up to undermine him. It's all but impossible to launch a new political party under America's electoral arrangements, and extremely easy to do so under Continental proportional representation. The Westminster first-past-the-post system puts the task somewhere in between: tough, but not entirely the realm of fantasy. The Labour party came into being at the dawn of the 20th century, and formed its first government in 1924. The United Kingdom Independence party was born in 1993 and now, a mere two decades later, is on the brink of . . . well, okay, not forming its first government, but it did do eerily well in May's local elections. The Liberals were reduced to their all-time lowest share of the vote, the Tories to their lowest since 1982, and for the first time ever, none of the three "mainstream" parties cracked 30 percent: Labour had a good night with 29, the Conservatives came second at 25, and nipping at their heels was the United Kingdom Independence party with 23 percent.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; US: New York; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; angelamerkel; belgium; brussels; cologne; election2016; europeanunion; germany; marksteyn; nato; newyork; nigelfarage; pegida; trump; ukelection; ukip; unitedkingdom; waronterror

1 posted on 03/22/2016 2:17:33 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Reminds me of someone!

And today’s horror doesn’t help Nigel’s opposition, I think.


2 posted on 03/22/2016 2:22:53 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: Lorianne

Nigel Farage’s populist nationalist party has performed respectably in Little England.

UKIP speaks for the same kind of people the Donald Trump coalition represents in America.

Upon which the elites look with a mixture of horror, morbid fascination and utter contempt.

Elites used to laugh at the unwashed masses. Today, they’re no longer laughing.


3 posted on 03/22/2016 2:31:39 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Lorianne

is this vote going on AFTER the Brussels terrorist attack?

that would be a HUGE boost for Nigel.


4 posted on 03/22/2016 2:45:27 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Lorianne
This op-ed is from May 22, 2014, not 2016.

5 posted on 03/22/2016 3:33:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

ooops thanks
I’ll let the moderators know


6 posted on 03/22/2016 3:34:54 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: SunkenCiv

ooops thanks
I’ll let the moderators know


7 posted on 03/22/2016 3:34:58 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: SunkenCiv

ooops thanks
I’ll let the moderators know


8 posted on 03/22/2016 3:35:06 PM PDT by Lorianne
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